Protein First: What Archaeology and Evolution Reveal About the Human Diet,
The Perfect Human Diet
As national conversations re-emerge about rethinking the food pyramid, this webinar looks past politics and back to human biology.
What if we’ve been taught to eat upside down?
Join filmmaker CJ Hunt and nutritional anthropologist Nora Gedgaudas for a lively, eye-opening conversation that challenges the modern food pyramid and re-centers the human diet around what our biology actually evolved to eat. Drawing on Paleolithic science and archaeological evidence, they explore why a protein-first approach may be closer to our ancestral roots—and why the familiar grain-heavy model deserves a second look.
Together, CJ and Nora unpack isotopic data from ancient human remains around the world, sharing evidence that has remained consistent for decades and tells a clear story about what humans actually ate before agriculture reshaped the food landscape. They also revisit how little this science has shifted since the mid-2000s, even as nutrition advice continues to swing with trends and headlines.
And just for fun (and perspective), they look to nature itself: even carnivorous plants can’t survive on substitute foods, raising an important question about what happens when biology is fed ideology instead of nourishment.
📚 In this webinar, you’ll learn:
Why the “new pyramid” puts protein first and why the old pyramid may have it backwards
What ancient bones reveal about the real human diet, before and after grains
Why this evidence hasn’t changed, even though nutrition advice keeps shifting
A surprising lesson from meat-eating plants about the limits of “plant-strong” thinking
How to think more clearly and calmly about food in a noisy nutrition landscape
