Fats and Energy: The Fundamentals
“Humanity built itself on fats; it collapsed on sugar.”
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• Natural fats are the body’s stable fuel: they nourish energy, the brain, hormones, and inner clarity, far from the chaos caused by modern carbohydrates.
• Their demonization was never scientific: it arose from economic interests that replaced living fats with oxidized industrial oils.
• Humans have weakened since the massive introduction of grains, then metabolically collapsed with the explosion of sugar and vegetable oils.
• Returning to pure fats means returning to biological common sense, restoring a stable inner fire, and breaking free from carbohydrate dependence.
• It is also an act of sovereignty: consciously choosing the fuel that supports your body, your mind, and your vitality.
✨Returning to fats is returning to the ancestral language of the living.
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Restoring Meaning to What You Consume
For decades, fats have been accused, feared, erased from public consciousness. Yet human biology tells a very different story: your body functions best on fats. They stabilize your energy, support hormonal balance, and nourish your brain. Conversely, carbohydrates and modern vegetable oils have introduced deep metabolic instability, silent inflammation, and unstable energy patterns now seen in every family and every generation.
Understanding fats means understanding how to reclaim a stable inner fire — the one that nourishes clarity, longevity, and sovereignty.
Where Are the Real Good Fats Found?
While you were told to avoid fat, the industry filled the shelves with unstable vegetable oils, hydrogenated margarines, refined oils, and processed products that were already oxidized before they even reached your kitchen.
The confusion is total: many believe they are eating “healthy” by using canola, sunflower, or margarine, when these products are at the heart of modern inflammation.
Natural fats, on the other hand, have nearly disappeared from the plate: ghee, butter, artisanal lard, goose or duck fat, tallow… all have been replaced by lifeless industrial imitations.
It is time to restore clarity where there has been disinformation.
Why Fats Were Demonized
The attack on fats was never scientific.
It was economic.
In the 1960s–1970s, the sugar and agri-food industry funded misleading studies to divert attention from sugar and blame saturated fats. Result: for 50 years, the public feared butter — and consumed cereals, refined oils, and processed products.
This reversal created a biological terrain of chronic inflammation, obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disorders, while enriching the industries that imposed this narrative and the pharmaceutical industries.
What Anthropology Reveals: Humans Are Not Made for Grains
Grains: 10,000 Years of Biological Decline (What Human Bones Really Reveal)
When Grains Weakened the Human Body: A Story the Bones Never Forgot
When humans left the nomadic life and turned to grain-based agriculture, a monumental shift occurred: dietary diversity collapsed. Animal proteins, natural fats, varied plants, and abundant micronutrients were replaced by a monotonous base of wheat, barley, millet, rice, or corn.
And the bones immediately recorded the consequences.
The major paleopathology syntheses conducted since the 1980s — particularly those by Mark Nathan Cohen and George Armelagos (Paleopathology at the Origins of Agriculture, 1984) — show that the arrival of grains did not improve human health but weakened it. Clark Spencer Larsen demonstrated the same thing on a global scale: from the adoption of grains, bodies became smaller, less robust, less dense. Average stature dropped, bone strength deteriorated, and signs of deficiencies multiplied. (Larsen, 2013)
Teeth tell an identical story. Among hunter-gatherers, cavities remained rare. With grains, they exploded: multiple cavities, early tooth loss, enamel hypoplasias — those striations that physiologically mark periods of famine, fever, or intense stress during childhood. Oral microbes changed: an acidifying flora took hold, fed by starch. The mouth became agriculture’s first battlefield.
Grains brought another silent burden: antinutrients. Phytates, lectins, and certain tannins block the absorption of iron, zinc, magnesium, and calcium. Bone analyses show the direct effect: a massive increase in mineral deficiencies, iron-deficiency anemias, and generalized skeletal fragility. (Work by Armelagos; Cohen; repeated osteological analyses on Neolithic sites in the Near East and Europe)
This is no detail: the phytates in whole wheat, celebrated today as “healthy,” were precisely responsible for a large portion of these documented deficiencies.
Immune health was not spared. Early agricultural populations show more infectious lesions: more chronic infections, more osteomyelitis, more traces of prolonged inflammation in long bones. The skeletons literally bear the scars of an overworked, weakened organism exposed to high population density — coupled with less nutritious food.
Added to this is a major consequence rarely mentioned: maternal and infant fragility.
Bioarchaeological studies show a rise in infant mortality in early agricultural communities. Infants died more often, young children showed more nutritional stress, and women displayed more signs of anemia, deficiencies, and bone fragility — factors known today to increase risks during childbirth. Grain-based agriculture did not usher in a golden age: it introduced a deep biological vulnerability in both mothers and children. (Syntheses by Larsen; Cohen; Armelagos; data compiled in The Backbone of History, 2002)
And that’s not all. The dietary monotony caused by grains led to a decrease in metabolic flexibility. Hunter-gatherers naturally alternated between seasonal glucose and animal fats, regularly living in a state of physiological ketosis. The arrival of grains imposed a permanent carbohydrate metabolism, which prepared — over ten millennia — the fragile metabolic terrain onto which the explosion of modern sugar, industrial oils, and processed products recently grafted itself.
In other words: long before sodas, candies, and fast food, grain-based agriculture had already weakened human biology. Grains brought caloric security, yes — but at the cost of poorer, more fragile, and more deficient overall health.
What archaeology shows without ambiguity is this:
wheat, corn, or rice were never the natural fuel of the human species.
They were an economic and demographic compromise.
Not a biological foundation.
And when modern science claims that “grains are essential for health,” it places itself in direct contradiction with ten thousand years of osteological archives.
For SLAKE, this teaching is crucial.
It shows that today’s fragility — obesity, diabetes, chronic inflammation, loss of vitality — did not appear suddenly. It is part of a long trajectory in which humans have moved away, layer by layer, from their natural metabolism. Understanding this restores discernment: it is not in grains that our strength was built, but in the fats, proteins, and abundant nutrients that shaped our species for two million years.
The Modern Metabolic Crisis — An Organized Collapse
For millions of years, humans lived powered by lipid fuel: a stable, slow, sovereign fire. This natural metabolism shaped our species, our endurance, our intelligence, and our longevity. Nothing has ever been more biologically coherent than living on fats.
This stable, sovereign fire works thanks to ketone bodies. These molecules, produced by the liver from fats, are a pure fuel that nourishes without spikes, brings superior mental clarity, and frees the body from dependency. This is the original human metabolism, the one that has shaped our species since the beginning.
Then, in our latitudes, the introduction of agriculture gradually moved humans away from daily ketosis. Grains — which became the basis of the diet — reduced the natural periods of fat burning. This shift, slow but profound, very likely contributed to the early onset of metabolic fragilities, chronic inflammation, and a general weakening of health.
But the real tipping point, the one that overturned everything, occurred very recently: in less than a generation, the explosion of refined sugar, processed grains, and industrial oils cut humanity off from its natural fuel. From that point on, metabolic diseases skyrocketed, and the whole of human biology collapsed.
Between 1950 and 1977, the first official dietary guidelines reversed the roles:
fat was demonized — sugar and grains were glorified.
There was nothing scientific about this reversal. It was deliberate, orchestrated, funded.
And it triggered one of the greatest public health collapses in human history.
The data leave no room for doubt:
- Global obesity has tripled since 1975.
- Type 2 diabetes has increased 7-fold since the 1960s.
- Cardiovascular diseases account for 32% of global deaths.
- Chronic inflammation is becoming the new normal across the population.
- Obesity, diabetes, and inflammation now affect nearly every family, every generation, every industrialized country.
- Healthy life expectancy is declining: an unambiguous signal.
Researchers like Gary Taubes, Robert Lustig, Tim Noakes, David Ludwig, Benjamin Bikman, Jason Fung, and Nina Teicholz have dismantled this manipulation point by point.
They all show the same curve:
the rise of metabolic diseases perfectly follows the rise of sugar, refined grains, and oxidized vegetable oils.
The link is so visible it almost becomes caricatural.
Lifestyle, stress, and sedentary behavior are blamed. Pesticides, endocrine disruptors, and pollution are cited.
These factors exist, but the most massive, fastest, most visible, most perfectly correlated cause of the modern disaster is diet.
Carbohydrate fuel destroys what we are.
Lipid fuel carried us for millions of years.
The curves do not lie: humanity’s metabolic shift is the direct consequence of an industrial choice, not a physiological change.
Natural fat was replaced with fragile, rancid oils rich in omega-6, responsible for silent inflammation.
People were made to believe cholesterol was an enemy, when it is a repairer.
The absurd idea was imposed that sugar was “the energy of life,” when it is the spark that consumes life.
The most striking thing is that all of this was perfectly avoidable.
Metabolic diseases were rare. Today they are everywhere.
We already speak of a trajectory of metabolic collapse: a spiral already sweeping away a large part of the population.
Faced with this, one essential truth must be stated without detour: Taking back your sovereignty begins on the plate.
The body is the vehicle of the soul. Without it, nothing can manifest.
And that is precisely where our power lies
For a long time, we were voices crying in the wilderness. Today, the tide is finally turning. Even at the highest levels of institutions, the truths about the toxicity of sugar and industrial oils are coming to light. The omerta is cracking.
But make no mistake: the inertia of the system is immense. Between official awakenings and the reality of our supermarket shelves, a chasm will remain for years to come. The business of disease is still far too profitable to collapse overnight.
We do not have the time to wait for administrations to finish their transformation.
But we can change. It is an individual choice. It begins with each of us.
We can break free from this fuel that destroys us.
We can restore the steady flame of natural fats.
We can break free from the carbohydrate dependence that disrupts our hormones, our mind, and our energy.
This is a return to clarity.
A return to what is real.
A return to common sense.
A return to biology.
And for many, it is a chance to escape this trajectory of metabolic collapse that is already sweeping away a large portion of the population.
Which Fats to Prioritize Daily?
Saturated Fats: The Stable and Sovereign Fuel
Ghee, butter, tallow, goose or duck fat, coconut oil: these fats are stable, nourishing, and perfectly compatible with human biology. They withstand heat, do not oxidize easily, and support hormones, cell membranes, the brain, and immunity.
The only pitfall: quality.
Industrial lard, from unhealthy livestock and refined oils, is a catastrophe.
The only acceptable lard is artisanal, from naturally fed pigs — or homemade with quality fat.
Stable Plant Fats: The Exception Rather Than the Rule
Extra-virgin olive oil, first cold pressed, remains one of the few truly protective plant oils.
It should be used raw or gently heated, never for frying.
And above all: always fresh, never stored too long.
Fragile Plant Oils: A Source of Silent Inflammation
Canola, sunflower, soybean, corn: from the moment of pressing, these oils oxidize.
Even “cold-pressed,” they are already fragile, unstable, and often rancid before they reach your kitchen.
These oils — combined with sugar — are at the heart of the modern cardiovascular problem.
They generate inflammation, membrane rigidity, oxidative stress, and metabolic overload.
Furthermore, these oils are saturated with Omega-6, and their excessive consumption creates a major imbalance with Omega-3 (calming). This imbalance is the source of systemic inflammation that stiffens your tissues and fatigues your body.
Margarines and Hydrogenated Fats: To Be Absolutely Avoided
Margarines and hydrogenated fats have nothing living left in them.
They are industrial products created to imitate natural fat, but they profoundly disrupt cell membranes and nervous system balance.
They are among the most toxic fats on the market.
Regaining Mastery of Your Inner Fire
Choosing pure, stable, and natural fats means refusing industrial standardization.
It means nourishing your energy, your clarity, your emotions, and your sovereignty.
It means relearning what the body never forgot:
stable fire comes from fats, not from sugar.
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Last updated: February 24, 2026