This is Eat or Die: Stories from the Human Table, from Renegade Health Group.

Today we're talking about beer. Which your doctor will probably tell you to drink less of. And by the end of this episode, you'll understand exactly why — and also why ten thousand years of human beings disagreed, and why they weren't entirely wrong.

This is a long one. Get comfortable. Maybe grab something to drink.

This is Eat or Die: Stories from the Human Table, fromRenegade Health Group.

Each episode, we take one ingredient — a nutrient, a food, a molecule — and we follow it. Through history. Through biology. Through your daily life.

Three episodes in, and we've covered the molecule that built your body and the seed that built civilization.

Today we're going smaller — down to a single mineral, invisible to the naked eye, tasteless, odorless, and almost certainly present in your body in quantities lower than they should be.

This is Eat or Die: Stories from the Human Table — a show from Renegade Health Group about the things we eat, the history behind them, and what the science actually says when the marketing gets out of the way.

Each episode, we take one ingredient — a nutrient, a food, a molecule — and we follow it. Through history. Through biology. Through your daily life.

Today we're talking about grains — the food that builthuman society.

We're going to cover what grains actually are, how they remade the human world multiple times over across ten thousand years of history, what The Professor has to say about what happens inside your body when you eat them, and — perhaps most importantly — why the grain you're probablyeating most is the one you'd be better off eating least.