The Cooking Hypothesis
Fire has became a really important discovery in history. It’s so important that it has changed the way we eat food and how we live life. With fire we wouldn’t have to wait till morning for light. We wouldn’t have to eat any rare food. Life wouldn’t we the way or is now if there wasn’t fire. Even though fire is such an importance in life no one ever wondered how fire was first discovered. We also don’t really put much thought into fire. After reading this excerpt, I started to look at fire in a different way. Even if fire is unlimited we should really appreciate the fact that fire was discovered.
The Brain in Your Gut
I do think that we have a “brain” in our gut, it’s really surprising how much we know, and don’t know about the human body. I don’t necessarily agree with Watzke’s “coctivor” suggestion, humans don’t only eat cooked food, we are capable of eating uncooked foods just fine. I didn’t know that early humans had a stomach considerably larger than ours, up to 40% larger. Mankind’s ability to manipulate his food by means of cooking was a big stepping stone, it allowed us to eat a larger variety of foods, if we hadn’t been able to cook, we would have gone down a much more different and radical evolutionary path.
The Brain in Your Gut
It never crossed my mind that our gut is our “second brain.” Our guts gives reflexes that tells us when something is right to eat or not. They also digest food instead of the brain sending signals to our stomach to digest the food that we have consumed. When someone have a eating disorder the first thing that would come to our mind would be “oh there is something wrong with that person, their brain isn’t sending signals to make them eat or stop eating.” Which is wrong, because its our gut that sends signals telling the brain when we are hungry or when we are full. Now, I would agree to the saying “Listen to your guts” cause its scientifically prove to be right.
The Brain in your Gut
The speaker Heribert Watzke, in my opinion, was able to successfully convey the message that we are in fact Coctivors (People who eat cooked food) and that our most important evolutionary development was cooking and adapting to our environment. Also, he was able to persuade me into believing that our stomach does influence a lot of our food decisions. His use of the word “Digestive Comfort” actually makes sense to me because if my stomach is hungry I would be open to more types of food than if was not hungry. Overall, Watzke has many many valid points that proves his point that this is a “coctivors opportunity” and that we can discover the balance of taste and reward to satisfy ourselves and finally recognize that cooking is what made us.
“The Brain in Your Gut”
“The Brain in Your Gut” was very interesting to watch, but I have to disagree on one of Watzke’s viewpoints. Although most of the food I eat is cooked I don’t necessary think cooked food is the best option for a healthy diet. As far as I know some raw foods provide vital nutrients which otherwise be destroyed through the cooking process. I do agree that cooking is one of the best technologies we have since it’s entertaining and sparks creativity. I also agree that our gut steers us away from foods that don’t sit well in our stomachs and signals us when to eat and when to stop eating. One important fact we should not forget is that people were eating raw food long before fire was invented which is pretty ironic.
The Brain in Our Gut
It is in our anatomy, as humans, to cook what we eat which is true. In doing so, he coins the term coctivore and says it is our human potential to cook what we find and transform it. Generally speaking, we have 2 brains one in our head and one in our guts but we only pay attention to just one. However, our brains tell us when it comes to food, what we want to eat, what we feel like eating and what we should be eating. Our 2 “brains” work differently with our guts composed of the stomach, intestine and colon; they are made up of completely different structures. Maybe it has to do with food choice and choosing whats best for our body as whole instead of just what we think is good for the moment.
The Brain in your Gut
The video ”The Brain In Your Gut” is about the energy we get from what we eat. As Heribert Watzke says, we get our energy from cooked food. This reminds me of the phrase “You are what you eat” since it’s a similar idea. We get energy after food goes through the digestive system. Different types of food provide different types of energy. The brain, in particular, uses 25% of the energy we get from food. Dr. Watzke suggests that instead of carnivores we ought to call ourselves Coctivors because we cook our food. He says cooking is a very important technology because it allows us to get the energy we need from food. By cooking, humans have been able to enlarge the brain and shrink the gut. Watzke ends the video by saying, ”I cook, therefore I am”. I agree with him and I believe it is true that humans are intended to cook what is eaten.
The Brain In Your Gut
I’m sure many people have heard of the saying “trust your gut” plenty of times in their lives. But what most people don’t know is that the gut acts like a second brain, the brain sending cycles of waves to and from the gut. It’s basically interconnected with another.
The feeling you get when you have trouble deciding between two options. The blood rushing towards your head, making you feel suffocated in your own body. Your palms are starting to sweat, you clench your teeth together in frustration. You might even pace back and forth, going over the pros and cons. Your chest feels heavy and you take deep breaths. You are about to lose your mind! Your brain is about to explode from overthinking. Then, finally your gut gives in. Your gut is subconsciously telling you what you already had in mind. Strange as it might seem, but that’s just how it works. You “trust your gut”, but really its just your brain giving up.
The Brain in Your Gut
I just learned an interesting new word “coctivors”. Foods are one indispensable element of our life, and most of the foods we have are cooked. Our body cannot directly digest the raw food because some might contain terrible bacteria which will injure our body system. ”The brain in your gut” seems weird at the first time while I heard it. I was thinking that “Is that because our gut can “sing” when we are hungry so it had a brain ?!” Then when I watch the video I figure out that my idea is wrong, there is a brain on our gut. We have two brains that help us to avoid these bad problem to be happen. However, I still think it is weird to compare our gut to brain and I think I will like to learn some cookings.
The Brain In Your Gut
We can learn a lot about what we are supposed to eat by looking at our teeth. We do not have sharp pointed teeth for ripping up raw meat, nor do we have the teeth to grind up tough fibrous plants. Our teeth are meant to chew up cooked food. According to this video our bodies are designed to eat cooked food, this is good for a multitude of reasons. One reason is that it allows us to go almost anywhere because we can make food even if there is nothing edible we will make it edible. Another reason it is good is because we need to cook things to eat we have to create technology to cook, which can help with the advancement of technology. Heribert Watzke even goes so far as to say that we have a second brain that is our stomach. At first this struck me as crazy but then he explains it and it makes more sense. He says that our stomach tells us what we enjoy and what we don’t is based on what is good for us which is why we gag on things like rotten and spoiled food.
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