Thought for the Day, 5 September 2025

“We are messy biology. We are just meat that thinks. We live with the persistent delusion, however, that we are somehow more than meat.

“Additionally there is a tendency to believe that existing in the natural state of every person would mean their body functions perfectly. In reality the human body is a kluge, a series of evolutionary compromises that functions well enough to breed, and exists in a constant state of decay, barely staving off entropy for seven or eight decades until finally succumbing to the inevitable.”

The Clean Eating Delusion 

Posted by Steven Novella on January 20, 2016  

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