I was wondering the other day while watching some people ruing through
brush and trees on the show ManTracker, if there was any benefit to
being whacked by a lot of bushes and small tree branches. Perhaps an
immune stimulating effect? Running through the thick and thin of things
while chasing food or being chased might have produced this effect
regularly.
I've always assumed that modern man has higher iron levels since Paleo
man probably lost a lot more blood from cuts, scrapes, parasites,
hunting injuries, etc so that giving blood might be a good thing since
it would lower iron levels (higher iron helps infectious bacteria to
reproduced) and force replacement of blood cells with more youthful
ones. Stimulating the skin from hunting/running might be something we
adapted too also benefit from.
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