Omnivore Diets and Procuring Wild Food with Daniel Vitalis from WildFed
Daniel Vitalis is an entrepreneur, health lecturer with a focus on living a nature-integrated life, founder of SurThrival, a registered Maine guide, and the host of WildFed, a show, podcast, and lifestyle brand that integrates hunting, fishing, foraging, and ecology with nutrition, cooking, community, and outdoor adventure. Daniel talks about hunting, fishing, the often underrepresented world of forging, his work with SurThrival and WildFed, omnivore diets, the importance of knowing the story of your food, and the benefits of procuring wild food. Episode Highlights: Host Blake Bowman introduces Daniel Vitalis. Daniel Vitalis talks about his motivations for his health and nutrition work. How does the health diet world mirror the political divide? He summarizes the different educational elements of outdoor segments. Omnivore diets are anthropologically sound. Why is procurement of wild meat, planets, herbs, mushrooms, and water important to Daniel Vitalis? Daniel talks about hunting and serving a black bear. What is the importance of knowing the origins of the food you eat? What are the additional benefits of procuring wild food? Bears have built their muscular bodies largely from forging. Which light bulbs aren’t being made anymore? Why is it important to spend more time outside? What are the nutritional values between wild foods and commercially farmed foods? Forging is an unregulated behavior in the United States and Canada compared to hunting and fishing. Humans principal job in the environment is engineering habitat. Daniel and Blake talk about harvesting leaves. What are the benefits of having friends that hunt, fish, and forge? Daniel shares stories about morels. Does Daniel have any criticisms of the hunting and forging worlds? Why does Daniel feel that Americans are addicted to ‘survival porn?’ We are interconnected and we need each other. 3 Key Points: Daniel Vitalis believes that in the same way, birds have a left-wing and a right-wing to fly, people should have the same balance of ‘left-wing’ and ‘right-wing’ beliefs. We as human beings were never just meat-eaters. The process of procuring wild food is therapeutic because doing it barefoot gives the grounding effect, in the woods you breathe in airmatic chemicals that trees release that modulate your immune system, you are getting Vitamin D from the sun, and inhaling fresh oxygen. Tweetable Quotes: “How can we through hunting, fishing, and forging, forge a diet that replicates the one of our past, but also starts to heal a lot of imbalances that aren’t just nutritional?” - Daniel Vitalis “It’s just this weird time because people have never been more disconnected from their actual environment. But they’ve never professed to care about the environment more than they do right now.” - Daniel Vitalis “There is no hope of so-called saving the environment if people don’t start with the environment where they live. If it is always distant places, we’re doomed.” - Daniel Vitalis “We are the first people in history to live divorced from knowledge of the origin of our food and its story and I don’t think we even know yet the full implications of that.” - Daniel Vitalis (Indoors) “We are missing phenology, in other words, the movement and the changes of the season and all the things that come with it. So, in our house, it is always one temperature. In our house, it is always one light level.” - Daniel Vitalis “If you don’t have access to clean wild food, then the top of your hierarchy might be the organically-produced local produce from your farmer’s market.” - Daniel Vitalis Resources Mentioned: GuerrillaZen.com Guerrilla Zen Fitness YouTube: YouTube Daniel Vitalis: danielvitalis.com Daniel Vitalis Social Media: Instagram YouTube Facebook WildFed: wild-fed.com