The transition to meat eating, increased pathogen pressure, and the constitutive and inducible use of pharmacological plants in Homo

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This is a neat read.

Our bodies seem to recognize that animal foods pose a pathogen threat -- they increase inflammatory responses -- whereas plant foods are often anti-inflammatory (perhaps because they are anti-infective

There are some amazing success stories with carnivore diets for people with auto-immune and inflammatory issues.

Final argument: how to defend the brain from increased zoonotic disease? Psychotropic drugs! They cross the blood-brain barrier, are toxic to many parasites, and can therefore treat infections of the CNS.

Fuck yeah! Get high for your health.