ANCESTRAL WISDOM IS SCIENCE

Your grandmother vs. you.

Same genes. Different food. One generation apart.

She wore necklaces and earrings made of real copper or brass.

Your necklace is made of plastic.

She rendered beef tallow.

You buy a vegetable oil with dimethylpolysiloxane listed among the ingredients.

She boiled bones for eight hours.

You buy a collagen sachet with a picture of someone doing yoga on it.

She ate the egg yolk.

You bought the low-fat version that quietly removed it.

She fermented food because preservation required it.

You buy a probiotic because sterilised packaging no longer contains what fermented food once did naturally.

She went outside because life required it.

You have a vitamin D capsule and a SAD lamp for the low mood that arrived when the outdoors disappeared from daily life.

She put tallow on dry skin.

You have a seventeen-step skincare routine and a ceramide serum.

She sat at a table with other people.

You have a delivery app and a government minister for loneliness.

She was hungry and ate.

You have a calorie tracker with haptic feedback.

She had none of the products.

She had none of the deficiencies those products now claim to address.

The deficiencies arrived with the products.

The products arrived after the advice removed what she had.

This is not an argument against all modern medicine or technology. It is a reminder that many of the problems we are trying to solve today were far less common when food was minimally processed, meals were nutrient-dense, movement was built into life, communities were stronger, and people remained connected to nature.

Perhaps the future of health is not found in creating more products.

Perhaps it is found in remembering what worked before the products existed.

Ancestral wisdom is not the opposite of science.

Increasingly, science is rediscovering ancestral wisdom.

Be Well,

Cherinyit®

Ancestral Healing & Ketogenic Diet Practitioner

Keto Diet Champions & Wellness Centre