This is a story about humans—where we came from, and what diet (and lifestyle) we followed along the way.

Do you find nutrition complicated? Confusing? Here’s the simplest way to think about it.

Despite our technological prowess, the majority of modern humans are living in a perpetual state of ill-health. Approximately 1 in 3 people are dealing with more than five health problems at the same time. These are shocking statistics, as is our main strategy for dealing with it.

Health is not simply an absence of symptoms or disease. And yet, Western healthcare is fixated upon this idea. If we’ve learned anything over the past 100 years, it’s that health cannot be understood—or meaningfully created—by studying disease alone.

Water is a solvent—many things dissolve into it. Read on to see why your modern water supply needs scrutinising as much as your modern food supply does.