Tag: Hadza

  • What a Hunter-Gatherer Diet Did to a Man’s Gut Bacteria in Just Three Days

    What a Hunter-Gatherer Diet Did to a Man’s Gut Bacteria in Just Three Days

    After just three days of living and eating with the Hadza gatherer-hunters, the gut flora of a relatively healthy British professor were transformed for the better. Tim Spector, a genetic epidemiology professor at King’s College London, has been studying the “major influence” gut bacteria (and other microbes) have on our immune system, metabolism, mood and […]

  • The Hadza: Freest People on Earth Face Extinction

    The Hadza: Freest People on Earth Face Extinction

    Agriculture is wiping out the world’s oldest hunter-gatherers The Hadza have been living peacefully, happily and sustainably in the Great Rift Valley of East Africa for at least 100,000 years. Their home, around Lake Eyasi, in Tanzania, has been called “the cradle of mankind.” A Harvard anthropologist calls them “the strongest link” we have to […]