Episode Details

Daniel Vitalis has been on the show a few times before, but every time he comes back, I learn something new — and boy oh boy is there a lot to learn in this episode.

We discussed the first season of Daniel’s new TV show — “WildFed” — the last time he was on the show. But now it’s out, I’ve seen it, and it’s fantastic. This is a culinary adventure series where you follow Daniel to eight different, extreme locales to hunt, fish, and forage wild ingredients, turning them into delicious meals. It’s a lot of fun to watch, and there are also HUGE director’s cuts that offer in-depth, behind-the-scenes looks for each episode. And you can use code LUKE15 for 15% off WildFed Season 1 + Director's Cuts at vimeo.com/ondemand/wildfeds1dc!

A true hero of the wild world, and one of the few modern-day hunter-gatherers we have left, Daniel is the perfect guide for anyone who’s interested in getting a little wilder. Even if you’re not interested in learning to hunt, fish, and forage, Daniel can still help you live a modern life while staying connected to nature in a visceral way.

There are few people more thoughtful about the environment and their role in it than Daniel, but it’s something we could all stand to get a little (or a lot) better at.

11:45 — Mimicking the natural world in the modern-day

• Pretty much none of us live in the natural world, and that realization is why I dedicated myself to biohacking
• The natural world is more than the sum of its parts
• I’ll escape to space while Daniel stays here to clean up the planet

16:15 — Where is the food industry at in 2020?

• Episode 2: Daniel Vitalis: Farming and the Fall of Man
• Use the code STYLE10 for 10% off at SurThrival.com/lukestorey
• What does “supplement” even mean today?
• The things that are now considered supplements but used to be considered food
• Daniel isn’t a great marketer, but he makes good shit
• What most air filters get wrong and why it’s so hard to find a good one

30:30 — Wild Foods vs. Domestic Foods

• Why nutritional content and variety is often lacking from grocery store food
• Everything you eat isn’t necessarily food (or at least meant to be food)
• Creating a (flawed) diet through domestication
• A wild blueberry vs. the blueberry you find in a store
• The dangerous anti-nutrients in some vegetables that most people think are healthy
• Daniel has probably eaten more species in the last 12 months than the average US citizen will eat in 10 years
• The difference between nutritional variety and aesthetic variety
• Some of the vegetables sold to you as different products in the supermarket are literally from the same plant, and most of us don’t know it
• The problem with eating the same foods over and over, year-round
• The benefits of eating with the seasons
• Why cloned produce is so whack

48:30 — The “Natural Human Diet” and the problem wi