Hello everyone.
Let me introduce myself, I am Mehdi Saada, 27 years old, with a bachelor's degree in biology and another one in history. I have been eating raw for 7-8 years, and work along the Culture-Nature University, featuring researchs inspired by instinctotherapy (raw food, instinctive, unmixed and directed by smell and taste) and metapsychoanalysis, a fundamental overhaul of psychology, taking into account the influence of denatured molecules in the regulation of the nervous system, the notion of instinctive program of Konrad Lorrentz, and the extrasensory function of love as described by Plato and present in many ancient civilizations.
My particular vocation lies more in anthropology, biology in general and genetics especially. The implications of Mr Burger's (authors of these theories inspiring me) discoveries, in all areas of the humanities, are profound, often fascinating, at times terrible and unbearable. It always takes an iron will and great honesty to welcome change. After all, nature does not care about our apriorisms and fixations: be them sexual, diet-related or ideological... I will therefore speak mostly about what concerns me foremost, a revised and corrected version (with the required methodological doubt) of evolution theory, in particular as it relates to our – not so singular, I’ll come back to it - human species, including the direct effect of culinary molecular pollution and indirect effect ,through disruption of physiological mechanisms and instinctive behaviors linked to reproduction. Other sources and authors besides GCB have contributed what I would like to share with you.
It will be about Lamarckism and natural selection, Neanderthals and multiregionalist theory, some very old secrets concerning our life expectancy.
Lamarckism refers to a very controversial set of concepts about the nature of "mutations". According to the general point of view in our society, life is a purely material phenomenon and without "goal" or deep finality, having appeared by chance, and whose hazards depend only on natural or sexual selection, therefore on the possibility of staying alive to leave offspring, and genetic drift, which is the accumulation of so-called "neutral" mutations (most of them) that is to say not influencing - in theory - not enough the chances of reproduce, and therefore beyond the control of predators, mortality or other factors. This is referred to as a neutralist theory (of Kimura), concluding that most of the polymorphism (of the differences) that makes up our diversity is purely random! We will develop each of these points, by showing their theoretical weakness or by citing the works opposing them an experimental contradiction. The opposite view is that these changes observed from one generation to the next are not "meaningless", but on the contrary obey an intrinsic logic of the organism. Thus the principle of natural selection - contact with the environment determining the ecological viability of random mutations that have already appeared previously - without being completely invalid, would be relegated to a secondary role. Lamarckism would like it to be above all the environment, via certain genetic feedback mechanisms specific to each species, the appearance of mutations directly related to an improvement in the survival ("fitness") of the individual and especially of his offspring. Life would therefore be "intelligent" enough - after billions of years anyway - to change its code with a certain degree of "self-understanding". The consequences of this difference in point of view are immeasurable, the findings today giving little cause for doubt.
The Neanderthals issue ("cousins" we supposedly "replaced"), will surprise many. To call these considerations "contested" would be a ridiculous understatement, but I feel morally obliged to speak about it, and to honor the inventor of this theory, whether she appreciates the homage or not ... Heil to you, Marie.
If we are right in any significant measure, cooking might have, for tens of thousands of years, caused an accumulation of deleterious mutations so drastic, it would shake on its fondation everything we think we know about the “human condition”, our origin, history, the lifestyles, societies and cultural norms we deem “natural” to us, and our evolutionary future. More than evolution, "devolution" might fit more ... or as I prefer, "culinary degeneration".
I question the official "Out of Africa" theory of the origin of the human species in favor of a revolutionary multiregionalist theory, much more consistent with scientific data. All these notions, including considerations on life expectancy, are inextricably interconnected. Yet I will still try to treat them independently, referring readers to other videos or documents as needed. GCB will accompany us at times in this journey towards the truth, or what feels at least more like it.
