Drareg
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Amylase is epigentically expressed in saliva based on the amount of starch been consumed.
When you lower starch ,the Amylase enzyme down regulates. There is different levels of expression.
When people claim they crave starch it may well be the synergy effect from taste in food has something missing, it should dissapear as amylase down regulates.
Many cultures have high expression,some have lower, this even applies in the same country/culture.
Many claim starches made us more intelligent as this enzyme was "naturally selected" to helps us digest starch therefore consume more calories.
This is open to interpretation, it is entirely plausible that ease of farming starches compared to fruit allowed more calories to be consumed,less competition also for starches in wildlife compared to fruit.
The question I would ask is, if the ancient cultures had access to more fruit without foraging effort required would they have preferred the fruit, the likely outcome is yes and we would have been smarter, potentially it may have down regulated the whole human sacrificing thing also.
To test the hypothesis we will crowdfund an experiment as follows:
find a tribe that is still foraging and not consuming starch ,no amylase expressed . Keep delivering "peaty" fruits to them for a generation and see how they develope, fruits will be delivered in a box to a location that requires slight exertion, a nice walk and then the weight lifting of said box back to village.
Any thoughts?
When you lower starch ,the Amylase enzyme down regulates. There is different levels of expression.
When people claim they crave starch it may well be the synergy effect from taste in food has something missing, it should dissapear as amylase down regulates.
Many cultures have high expression,some have lower, this even applies in the same country/culture.
Many claim starches made us more intelligent as this enzyme was "naturally selected" to helps us digest starch therefore consume more calories.
This is open to interpretation, it is entirely plausible that ease of farming starches compared to fruit allowed more calories to be consumed,less competition also for starches in wildlife compared to fruit.
The question I would ask is, if the ancient cultures had access to more fruit without foraging effort required would they have preferred the fruit, the likely outcome is yes and we would have been smarter, potentially it may have down regulated the whole human sacrificing thing also.
To test the hypothesis we will crowdfund an experiment as follows:
find a tribe that is still foraging and not consuming starch ,no amylase expressed . Keep delivering "peaty" fruits to them for a generation and see how they develope, fruits will be delivered in a box to a location that requires slight exertion, a nice walk and then the weight lifting of said box back to village.
Any thoughts?