HISTORY OF THE MEDICINAL USE OF TOBACCO/NICOTINE

[Ninurta]

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Surprising what you can learn by actually studying your problems that you learned you had from genetic apps. I knew from young that I was intolerant to breads...

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Have you tried researching your deep genetic ancestry to determine what they ate? By "deep" I don't mean 100 years ago, or even 200 years ago, but millennia ago. You won't have names for them, but you can find out where your genetic patterns came from most strongly.

I ask because back in the 1970's, I read a book by a doctor named Jethro Kloss. "Back to Eden" I think it was called. He was a doctor, but dabbled quite a bit in herbal medicine. He had a theory that your deep ancestry determined what food you were genetically predisposed to react well to. It sort of makes sense - back in those days, if they ate disagreeable stuff, they were more likely to die early and not pass on their genes, so the genes that got passed down to you were from the people who got along well with what they ate.

Sea peoples ate fish and seafood, pastoralists ate meat and milk and developed lactose tolerance to be passed on, etc. Some societies went heavier on greens, some went heavier on fruit, some went heavier on meat, and so forth, and those tolerances got passed on genetically.

As an example, my deep ancestors drank mostly water, mead, and beer. My metabolism, as it turns out, gets along pretty well with those things. They ate barley bannock, fish, maize, and red meat, and my constitution handles those pretty well, too. They DIDN'T eat fowl like chicken, and as it turns out, chicken, turkey, etc doesn't agree with me at all.

They also ate some stuff I'll never be able to even pronounce, much less ever be able to make.

Might be something to check into.

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