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Most diet books tell you what to eat. Systems of Nourishment teaches you how to understand food. Written for independent, thoughtful, and motivated readers, this book approaches diet through the systems that actually determine human nourishment: physiology, evolution, metabolism, nutrient quality, food processing, and biological response. Rather than asking readers to follow another trend, rule, guru, or dietary ideology, Luke Comer examines what happens after food enters the body. How does the body use nutrients? Why do different cultures thrive on different foods? What did human beings evolve to eat? Are modern dietary recommendations aligned with human physiology? And how did modern food become so disconnected from the biological needs it is supposed to serve? Systems of Nourishment is not another diet plan. It is a framework for understanding diet itself. Through a systems-based lens, Comer explores protein, fats, carbohydrates, micronutrients, food quality, nutrient density, modern chronic disease, and the evolutionary relationship between humans and food. The result is a clear, rigorous, and practical explanation of nourishment for readers who want to make their own decisions rather than outsource their diet to trends or authorities. If you want to stop guessing, stop blindly following, and start understanding what food does in the body, Systems of Nourishment offers a deeper way to think about nutrition.

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Luke Comer is the founder and principal author of the project, ""On the Origin of Being: Understanding Scientific Evolution to enhance the Quality of your Life."" He is also the founder of ""The First Supper: how evolution designed you to eat,"" as well as the CEO of Sapient Stews-which implements the ideas in his writing. He quit high school early to attend Oberlin Collge where he studied broadly. About twenty years ago while pursuing other word, he started all the projects mentioned above, as well as this book, but only started releasing them in the past couple of years. Through all those years, he developed his own way of applying system science to human evolution and well-being. He lives in Boulder, CO and Cabarete, Dominican Republic and in his spare time pursues outdoor sports and dancing.

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