5 Ways We Just Didn’t Evolve for This (Mismatch Diseases)
Ever feel like “Dammit, I just didn’t evolve for this!”? Yah, don’t worry, I get that way too. The modern world is not our native …
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Ever feel like “Dammit, I just didn’t evolve for this!”? Yah, don’t worry, I get that way too. The modern world is not our native …
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Depression is largely a mismatch disease. Our brains expect us to be chilling with a tight-knit tribe, socialising, hunting and dancing around a fire. Instead, we are stuck in artificially lit rooms surrounded by people we’re not particularly close to, staring at screens in the same seated position all day. Depression is a signal that our life isn’t what our brain expects.
My teeth are so messed up I feel bad for my dentist
Doesn't this imply the heretability of acquired traits?
I think you really missed a chance to point out how pregnancy and childbirth are alsop dangerous to women. It might reduce the chance of ovarian cancer, but pregnancy and child birth are HUGE killers of women and even healthy routine pregnancies can lead to long term negative health outcomes. Yes it might reduce overall lifetime ovarian cancer, but going through additional pregnancies and risk in your 20s and 30s for a disease that has a median age at diagnosis of 63 seems like a terrible swap. Also, I think using some forms of contraception and breast feeding can also reduce the risk
wait so i can keep my wisdom teeth because i was always ignoring my teacher and chewing gum in class as a kid? i love that for me
This will sound odd, but where did you bought your green t-shirt?
Maybe we need chewing toys for kids. I'm serious here.
Basically, we didn't evolve to spend all day immured indoors and sitting. We evolved to spend the majority of our waking hours out of doors doing manual labor and exercising.
I didn't have wisdom teeth maybe I'm the ultra master race
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So how did we not get skin cancer before we invented sunscreen? Honest question.
Awesome video! If anyones interested in how even our modern moralities evolved I highly reccomend "Moral Tribes" by Joshua Greene. Changed my life. Cheers!
Good video but you didn't explain why if we evolved with the sun out there, it's now dangerous for us.
Your third point on myopia is actually quite misleading. Presbyopia, what you mean, is a normal part of the aging process. There may be exercises you can do to delay the progression but, presbyopia is caused by the loss of elasticity of the lens. Put simply, the lens is stretched by muscles to focus on far objects, while it relaxes to a more spherical shape for close up objects. You lose the ability for your lense to rebound to that shape as you get older. The closet analogy to this is the loss of collagen in tissues leading to increased wrinkles in skin as you age
Typo at 5:51, you say "David" while the book says "Daniel"
this dude is criminally underated
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Myopia is also reversible. Yes, both near-induced transient myopia (AKA pseudomyopia) and lens-induced myopia. Myopia isn’t a disease; it’s a refractory state, a healthy eye’s natural response to stimulus. For more details, science, and how to reverse it, see endmyopia.org.
I disagree with you on teeth and bone density. For the first look up the Weston A. Price foundation. It's the modern nutrition that's lacking in vital animal fats that leads to dental malformation and too narrow faces. The low bone density can't be explained with lack of strenuous activities. It's too much oxalate in our too plant heavy diet that prevent the absorption of calcium and lack of animal protein in our diet. Look up Sally K. Norton…
Schools and other places do not permit kids to chew gum, and never have. This is also why we are not even beginning to grow wings, because would-be rule makers would never allow us to stretch them.
Its not miopia its hypermetropia i guess which causes by watching utube on phone bcz i cant see away but clearly sharply see pixxels of my 1080p 401ppi screen
As an indian i am not gonna remove my wisdom teeth bcz like every other indian its gonna fit in my jaw perfectly
I have my wisdom teeth. I don't know if it has to do with my food choices or what but I regularly eat sushi and rare meat.
Hm, … That's some interesting, non-scientific ideas you have there.
1) We're chewing meat today much more than ever.
2) Osteoporosis is mainly caused by high dairy consumption nowadays.
3) Myopia is caused mainly by putting kids in school and in front of a lot of books too early, when their eyes are mainly developed for outside activities. So we train the kids to be couch potatoes systematically.
4) Prevent cancer: Stop smoking, drinking & eating meat. Eat a lot of vegetables, drink enough water & sleep enough. Cancer prevented.
And overall: Evolution itself is a non-scientific, more religous idea. None of it's basic mechanisms have ever been scientifically proven.
And it could only be developed because a lot of today's scientific knowledge didn't exist back then. Like the knowledge of the high complexity of cells.
You make learning so fun!! Thank you kurtis :))
I feel like you would look good bald..lol
I thought you were going to say that more and more people intercourse with pixels in a screen
Another mismatch is how eating animals onsets so many diseases. Stop eating animals, and the diseases are unheard of. If people do stupid things like eat animals, then they deserve those diseases and cancers.