For everyone still asking: who do you believe?
The Perfect Human Diet 2 is in pre-production. On Tuesday, December 1 — Giving Tuesday — I’m asking for one thing: help me make the next film. Join the Producers Circle
You made the first film, The Perfect Human Diet, the #1 documentary and the #1 independent film on iTunes, US and Canada, in January 2013. Six years later, in January 2019, it was still in the iTunes documentary top ten. The second film picks up where it left off. Watch the first one now on Apple TV.
Cited: The scientific report behind the 2025–2030 Dietary Guidelines cites the research of two scientists you meet in the first film. See the references.
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Founding Major Funder of
The Perfect Human Diet 2
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