Chronic Reactive Hyperinsulinemia
(Too much insulin in the blood stream)

To get an understanding of CRH we’ll have to venture back in history, in fact we’ll need to look back a very long ways. For approximately six million years our ancient ancestors wandered this planet in search of something to eat. Like the animals, they too were forced to spend most of their time and energy in pursuit of their next meal.

What did they eat? They obviously didn’t all eat the very same things way back then. Primitive man had to survive on anything he could find so I’m sure different groups located in different climates consumed diets that varied widely.

This is born out by observing tribes that today live in the more undeveloped areas of Africa, Asia and South America. Though they consume diets that vary in their animal and plant content, most of these peoples are healthy and thriving in spite of their widely dissimilar diets.

If our ancient relatives resided in a more temperate latitude they almost certainly consumed substantial quantities of the fruits and vegetables that were no doubt in abundant supply.

But those hardy souls who lived in colder climates had to survive through long, snowy winters. They were no doubt forced to rely heavily on small game to make it through to the next spring.

These days we can find an example of this kind of primitive animal-based diet in the east African nation of Kenya. There the Mesai tribe keeps animals and lives on a largely animal-based diet. Not only do they consume almost all of their animal’s various body parts, they even occasionally drink cow’s blood with their meals! 

The Mesai are by any measure an extremely healthy group. Now that they’ve been inoculated against the infectious diseases that used to plague them, they’re today living long and healthy lives.

While Over in the Far East…

If you travel to the other side of the world and examine the dietary habits of the people of Okinawa, you’ll find their dinner table looks very different. They’re not big on eating animals. Instead they consume a diet that’s almost exclusively vegetarian.

To be fair the Okinawans do use small bits of pork or chicken in some of their dishes for appearance and to add flavor, they seldom if ever sink their teeth into large portions of animal flesh and never put meat at the center of their meals. They too are extremely healthy.

So the message here is – there is no single optimal primitive diet. Different groups thrive on very different kinds of foods. The bottom line is we humans are an opportunistic, omnivorous lot who can adapt our food consumption to whatever is handy.

While the big cats eat only flesh and the cows graze only on grass, we’re much more flexible. Unlike many other animals we can survive on almost anything. This flexibility helps explain how we were able to survive for so long through such incredibly difficult circumstances.

Despite the difference in these various diets, one thing is certainly true - our ancient cousins did not have access to the modern foods we consume so much of these days. 

Back then they certainly did not consume refined white flour, refined white sugar, high fructose corn syrup nor did they have access to dairy products. Instead they survived on a raw, natural diet. They surely consumed some combination of nuts, roots, leaves, fruits, grass, insects, small game and occasionally each other.

For all those years, through all those thousands of generations they consumed only natural foods and through all those centuries their bodies slowly adapted to those particular kinds of foods.  

The Time Line

So let’s put this time line in perspective. Our ancestors have been around for approximately six million years and for over 99.99% of that time they consumed a diet of completely natural foods. Now suddenly over the past two centuries we’ve suddenly and dramatically altered our diet.

Today we consume much more carbohydrate than our ancient ancestors and the nature of the carbohydrates we’re now consuming has radically changed also.

For evolutionary purposes these dietary changes have occurred far too quickly. Two centuries may seem like a long time but when it’s viewed against the backdrop of six million years of history – it’s a tiny fraction of one percent.

It’s important to note that the process of evolutionary adaption progresses at a snail’s pace. From an evolutionary viewpoint the span of a few centuries is but a mere blink of an eye, far too brief a period to even begin to allow our bodies time to adapt to our radically new way of eating. 

By consuming these new refined carbohydrates we’re in effect throwing a monkey wrench into a finely tuned metabolic system. And this disruption damages our health in a host of different ways.

If you purchased a shiny new luxury car – what kind of fuel would you use? Would you fill your tank with turpentine - or how about some lighter fluid or perhaps some cheap vodka?

No, of course you wouldn’t do that. Instead you’d read the owner’s manual and use the fuel listed there. After all, that’s the fuel the engineers designed the car to burn. If you used anything else it would certainly damage or destroy the engine.

Your body is in a similar situation. It’s evolved over 60,000 centuries to digest and metabolize natural foods and now we’re forcing it to run on something very different. Use the right fuel in your car and consume the right food for your body and both will give good, reliable service for many years. ■