SAMA HOOLE: Human dietary history: Inuit--Seal, whale, caribou. Three foods. Zero deficiencies. Maasai--Blood, milk, meat. Three foods. Perfect health. Mongols--Mutton, fermented dairy. Two foods. Conquered half the world.

Nutritional adequacy comes from eating the right foods, not the most foods. --Sama Hoole

"You need a balanced diet with lots of variety!"

Human dietary history:

Inuit: Seal, whale, caribou. Three foods. Zero deficiencies.

Maasai: Blood, milk, meat. Three foods. Perfect health.

Mongols: Mutton, fermented dairy. Two foods. Conquered half the world.

Modern human:…

— Sama Hoole (@SamaHoole) November 25, 2025

"You need a balanced diet with lots of variety!"

Human dietary history: Inuit: Seal, whale, caribou. Three foods. Zero deficiencies. Maasai: Blood, milk, meat. Three foods. Perfect health. Mongols: Mutton, fermented dairy. Two foods. Conquered half the world. Modern human: 35 different foods per week including quinoa, chia seeds, açaí berries, and spirulina. Deficient in everything. Needs supplements. Variety is how food companies sell you more products. Nutritional adequacy comes from eating the right foods, not the most foods. Your ancestors didn't have "variety." They had nutrient density. One of these approaches worked.

SAMA HOOLE: Pitsik meant lean meat, the stuff that was merely eaten, tolerated, functional. Uqsuq meant seal blubber, the fuel for life, the thing that kept you alive when the Arctic tried to kill you.

The Inuit had two words you need to understand.

Pitsik meant lean meat, the stuff that was merely eaten, tolerated, functional.

Uqsuq meant seal blubber, the fuel for life, the thing that kept you alive when the Arctic tried to kill you.

They had separate vocabulary to… pic.twitter.com/jQpRHvicRd

— Sama Hoole (@SamaHoole) November 2, 2025

Sama adds that

Worth reading Vilhajalmur Stefansson's book,  Fat of the Land.

The OG carnivore book, that goes in deep into the diet of the Inuits.

I'm guessing many of you are still on the Mediterranean Diet, am I right?  Do you know who came up with the Mediterranean Diet?  Ancel Keys and his wife, Margaret Keys.

So it's the same guy who said that saturated fat would kill you because 

Oh, so it's a diet to keep you from dying?  How's that working out for ya?

These foods were categorised as "red meat" in Harvard's diabetes study.

This is why nutritional epidemiology is junk science. pic.twitter.com/wgDksMOP55

— Sama Hoole (@SamaHoole) January 28, 2024