Daniel Vitalis is the host of WildFed. For ten years he lectured around North America and abroad, offering workshops that helped others lead healthier, more nature-integrated lives. A successful entrepreneur, he founded the nutrition company SurThri…

Daniel Vitalis is the host of WildFed. For ten years he lectured around North America and abroad, offering workshops that helped others lead healthier, more nature-integrated lives. A successful entrepreneur, he founded the nutrition company SurThrival.com in 2008. Most recently, he hosted the popular podcast ReWild Yourself. He’s a Registered Maine Guide, writer, public speaker, interviewer, and lifestyle pioneer who’s especially interested in helping people reconnect with wildness, both inside and outside of themselves. After learning to hunt, fish, and forage as an adult, Daniel created WildFed to inspire others to start a wild-food journey of their own.

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.

 

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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 with the environment that we’ve created for ourselves

  • Busting some historical food myths

  • The historical eating and farming practices of some indigenous tribes

  • Lichen (and other things you’d normally never think of as food)

  • Why it’s hard for most of us to define the “natural humans diet”

  • Why littering is part of human nature but litter itself is a byproduct of industrialization

  • Alcohol’s role in our problematic environments and civilization

  • The many, many, many societal problems that come as a byproduct of agriculture

  • The physiological benefits of foraging vs. farming

  • The very specific definition of “civilization”

01:09:03 — The societal problems that can be traced back domestication

01:20:00 — Have some of us ruined our bodies beyond repair through domesticated foods?

01:36:50 — Living WildFed

  • Use code LUKE15 for 15% off WildFed Season 1 + Director's Cuts at vimeo.com/ondemand/wildfeds1dc

  • I’m not much of a foodie, but what they make at the end of each episode always looks incredible

  • We need to talk more about what we’ve done to ourselves through domestication

  • Where do we really want our society to go?

  • Treating the root cause vs. relieving symptoms

  • You have more ownership over wild animals and foraged food than you might think

01:48:30 — Two critical elements that most people are missing in their diet

  • What are vitamins K2 and D3?

  • Where you can find them naturally

  • Use the code STYLE10 for 10% off at SurThrival.com/lukestorey

  • What’s good for one person can be too much for another

  • Chaga and reishi mushroom extraction methods + the benefits of both

  • A few reasons why cancer is more prevalent today than it used to be

01:57:45 — Pine Pollen Extract: Why this is something you definitely want to know about

  • The sexual potency of pine pollen extract, which can be used to increase your testosterone

  • Use the code STYLE10 for 10% off Pine Pollen Gold

  • Why I like it so much

02:24:25 — The amazing immune power of bovine colostrum

  • I put this in my morning elixir every day

  • As an added bonus, it tastes good

  • There’s more scientific research into colostrum than just about any other supplement

  • How much is too much?

02:35:08 — Why I love Daniel’s latest product: Taboo

  • This is an aphrodisiac unlike any you’ve had before

  • How it works

  • Why it works for anyone, regardless of gender

  • What it tastes like

02:38:20 — Elk Antler Tonic: what you need to know

  • How Elk Antler tonic is made and why it’s such a powerful substance for the human body

  • The first people who turned antlers into medicine

  • Humans aren’t good at regrowing or regenerating things, but this helps

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