Last of the modern cavemen

Pretty amazing, lived healthily until 93 without the aid of modern medicine. Really shows what the human body is capable of without all the unnecessary assets of modern society.
 
There's something to be said about living off the land, hard work, the bible, and eating natural all natural food that the land provides. So much for all the crap loads of "can't live without" medications they throw at us. Good for him living his way and doing what made him happy.
 
natural natural foods are way better what all the stuff we eat on a regular basis...
sometimes i try to cure myself with herbs before trying medicine...
 
Idaho is the place to be, the old guy's right. We have a hundful of these people that live in the backcountry and are rarely ever seen by modern society. I like Idaho that way. We have so much empty unrestricted land you can do just about anything you want outside of the eyes of people. We also had a guy kill two forest service rangers with a 22 rifle that were trying to arrest him for poaching varmint. He built a shack way back in the mountains on public land and grew a supplemental garden and lived on fish and rabbits. It's a hugely controversial issue in Idaho although I think most people side with the guy, he wound up escaping prison. You hear local stories in the north and west in small towns about some guy that lives out in the woods... Society is driving me nuts, maybe in a few years I'll be pulling an Alone in the Wilderness too.
 
there, but for my family, I'd end up.

Okay, I had to do some research due to an argument once, a long time ago, in an anthropology class, about the age of menarche. (the proposition I was arguing was that menarche traditionally started between 18 and 20 up until the post Victorian era. There was a LOT of cultural baggage involved in that proposition, but it was fun to pull up the records, papers, and demographics).

This, somehow, led me to really looking into life expectancy - and to a grain free lifestyle- 93 is a lot, and but not completely unheard of in a 'pre cereal agriculture' setting. Adult life expectancy actually dropped with the adoption of cereal agriculture almost everywhere.

From a strict survival poitn of view, if you make to age 15 with a hunting and foraging type of diet and active lifestyle, you can expect to get into your 60s without much trouble without medical care. With the basics- treatment of life threatening injuries and prevention of infections, you can do pretty well.
 
If you crank vitamin C and fluids consistantly you'll find you can stave off most infections after a few days of symptoms. This winter was the first year I never got really sick, usually I get pneumonia, mono, strep throat, something like that. It's also the first winter I was really concious about drinking orange juice, 2-3 cups a day.
 
If you crank vitamin C and fluids consistantly you'll find you can stave off most infections after a few days of symptoms. This winter was the first year I never got really sick, usually I get pneumonia, mono, strep throat, something like that. It's also the first winter I was really concious about drinking orange juice, 2-3 cups a day.

All good points-

I was really thinking more about septic infections in wounds, appendicitis, that sort of thing, in terms of prospective lifespan.
 
Aye there are some nonpreventable, completely unforseeable and treatable occurances that can happen that will kill you if you don't have access to professional medical help, although personally I'd risk it. Idaho is just that awesome. The Nez Perce natives ruled this area for hundreds and hundreds of years before white men ever set foot on the continent, and they lived a much more active lifestyle than we do. Bombing class 4 and 5 rapids in birchbark canoes was their main form of transportation and they still managed to thrive as a society. There's gotta be some very capable natural medicines even in the high desert to support active outdoors life... I'd love to get that in depth but unfortunately most of that culture is now gone.
 
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