Ancestor Test

If the answer to either question is no, you’re probably eating something your body wasn’t designed to process regularly. This isn’t about romanticizing the past—it’s a quick heuristic for identifying modern foods that exploit your biology. Your great-great-grandmother’s diet wasn’t perfect, but it didn’t include engineered products designed to override your satiety signals. This companion explores the logic of the test, what passes and what fails, the daily access question, the evolutionary mismatch, and what this doesn’t mean. (5 min read)

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