Alan Levinovitz

Because that kind of argument is sort of disallowed or is weaker than scientific arguments, they end up shifting to, well, look at this study that says natural births are better or something like that.

And I also see it in sports too, right?

So naturalness is a really important part of sports.

So I talk about that a lot.

And that actually makes a lot of sense.

We want our athletes to be natural.

Why?

Because otherwise people would be winning the sprint using a motorcycle.

So sports itself is actually built around a kind of messy but important conception of naturalness.

Those are two examples.

Carnivore diet.

People will often say that what humans should naturally eat, the natural ideal diet is all meat.

And they'll point to how indigenous Alaskans or something would, when given the choice, opt always for organ meat or marrow or something like that.

Or they will talk about how the low carb diet is

a natural diet.

And then what they do, what people do when they make these arguments is actually very religious.

They say, back in the day when people hadn't been corrupted by modernity, here's what they ate.

So they use semi-nomadic or nomadic hunter-gatherers as the stand-in for Eden.

And then

they take their diet, whether it's the carnivore diet or the vegetarian diet or whatever it is, they back fit it in general.