Last Look Back - Saving Hunter-Gatherer Cultures

01/16/2021

This Amazonian Hunter-gather group does not appear to get COVID-19. A startling possibility. Are the anti-viral properties of their native diet preventing COVID19 symptoms? Potential benefits could be for everyone at risk for the coronavirus.

01/07/2021

Apparently successful plant mixture prepared by Last Look Back participants - Mansoa alliacea - against COVID-19 invented and used by local Waorano hunter-gatherers and then passed to 51,000 Kichwa indigenous of our worksite region in Lower Napo River region of Amazonian Ecuador

12/22/2020

https://thepaleodiet.com/compelling-discoveries-about-the-diet-and-health-of-one-of-the-remaining-indigenous-hunter-gatherer-societies-on-earth

Compelling Discoveries About Diet and Health of One of the few remaining hunter-gather communities on Earth!

Interview with Dr. London on his work with Hunter-gatherers and his health findings on one example of a wild food "Paleo Diet" !!!

Dr. London spent an entire year living with one of the last true remaining indigenous hunter-gatherer societies. He discusses his remarkable findings.

12/18/2020

Dr. London of Last Look Back Project Drinks a Drop of Curare Hunting Poison! (Curarea tecunarum)

New Age or Science? Hunter-gatherer Diet is a Chemical Communication Link with the Entire Ecosystem Creating One Rain Forest Organism from Many Individual Food Web Inhabitants

Our 2-year research study indicates the Kawymeno hunter-gather diet is more than just a source of nutrition, the exchange of phytonutrients/chemicals (the less studied side of dietary plant content) across rain forest organisms is a biochemical communication link to the natural world & the plants in it. While our findings from traditional western, allopathic medicine theory, we believe the Kawymeno diet serves this 2nd purpose, a chemical collaboration with the entire ecosystem that facilitates co-evolution with most organisms in the food web. The Kawymeno identify wild rain forest food by phytochemical content using scent, smell & taste as evidenced by their extensive vocabulary discerning subtleties of phytochemical content of co-existing wild animal and wild fruit.

12/08/2020

11/17/2020

: https://thepaleodiet.com/hunt-with-the-amazonian-waorani-tribe

Hunt with a Amazonian Tribe
Hunting with my hunter-gatherer friends. We need to preserve their way of life before it is gone forever. The real paleo diet filmed live!

Watch an exclusive video of Waorani men hunt peccary in the rainforest from Dr. Douglas London’s Last Look Back Project.

11/12/2020

Paleo Diet Remedy - COVID-19 Virus

Here are the actual “paleo-diet” remedies emanating from a Waorani hunter-gatherer diet employed in the Napo River region against the COVID-19 virus. Part of the way to distinguish indigenous Kichwa farmer’s use of medicinal plants from Waorani hunter-gatherer’s use is hunter-gatherer remedies are, with few exceptions, made from a single plant species such as Mansoa alliacea (Ajo de Monte) and Grias neuberthii seeds used against COVID-19 virus. In contrast, agrarian “medicine men” such as Kichwa shamans often use mixtures of plants. Another way to discern the difference between Waorani hunter-gatherer and agrarian amazon plant use is hunter-gatherers typically use medicinal plants as part of the regular diet preventatively while indigenous agrarians use plants as medicine not food curatively. (photo: Anti-COVID-19 virus plant Mansoa alliacea near Waorani village of Kawymeno).

10/26/2020

Waorani Hunter-gatherers of the Napo region of the Amazon rainforest appeared to be having success in their battle against COVID-19 virus using their paleo diet derived natural medicines
There are no deaths or disease from COVID-19 reported from the remote full-time wild diet hunter-gather Waorani communities in Ecuador a contrast to the devastation of other parts of the amazon region. This would fit the pattern of the Waorani paleo diet, we have observed the Waorani wild diet appears to prevent almost all chronic and even many different types of infectious disease common in all the surrounding communities including the many Westernizing Waorani that have broken away from their ancestral diet and moved into oil company protectorates. There are many anti-viral properties found in all 83 of the wild fruits the Waorani hunter-gatherers consume in their hunter-gatherer living “paleo diet”.

10/19/2020

Last Look Back Project
Preserving Amazonian Hunter-Gatherer Cultures and a Living Paleo Diet for Humanity

Dear Friends and Supporters of Last Look Back Project,

The global coronavirus pandemic has revealed a startling possibility: Certain hunter-gatherer cultures may be less affected by the coronavirus than modern societies. Why? Perhaps because of their paleo diet and newly derived, native plant-based treatments. These are recent inventions of Waorani hunter-gatherer healers from Amazonian Ecuador. Native medicine has cured modern disease before and understanding how these fruit-based medicines work may help save lives.

But we need your help now to continue our research.

We urgently need your support for:

• staffing,
• a motorized canoe to get to these isolated communities
• COVID-19 testing supplies,
• other direct aid to help these hunter-gatherer communities.

Please DONATE NOW to support Last Look Back Project. Support our research and aid center by making a pledge now at - https://www.gofundme.com/last-look-back-saving-huntergatherer-cultures

Thanks for your help,

Douglas London, PhD, MS, BSN, BS
Lead Scientist of Last Look Back Project
[email protected]

Juan Carlos “Chuso” Vimos Cuenca
Research Coordinator for Ecuador and Peru

About the Last Look Back Project
Last Look Back Project is directed by our lead researcher, Dr. Douglas London, a medical anthropologist with a clinical and public health background. Since 2010, Dr. London has lived with remote hunter-gatherer groups to study their way of life and their modern paleo diet. Dr. London’s hunter-gatherer research is influenced by previous clinical experiences as director of health and nutrition projects dedicated to improving the nutrition of indigenous people in Latin American and Africa. Dr. London’s past supporters include Harvard Medical School and the United Nations.
For more information see attached letter and visit: https://www.facebook.com/LastLookBack

10/19/2020

This is a traditional hunter-gatherer song from a remote Amazonian Ecuador community 4 days into the Amazon interior about Waorani relationships and history of the Waorani. The song is in the language Wao, which is a language isolate meaning there are no imported words from any other language on earth. The Waorani diet has also be in isolation until very recently so it is a pristine hunter-gatherer diet compared to less isolate hunter-gatherers being researched around the world. Gifts like the chicken in the photo are made by visitors. For instance, the Kawymeno Waorani eat 79 types of fruit of which 96% are local wild fruit from the surrounding rain forest.

10/01/2020

EMERGENCY CRISIS RESEARCH ON COVID-19 SUCCESSFUL PLANT CURES IN USE NOW BY HUNTER-GATHERER GROUPS AGAINST PANDEMIC IN THE AMAZON - Real researcher heroes not a TV reality show. See our COVID-19 videos week to week on the Paleo Diet website.

Last Look Back teams are in the field now working with medical teams! Our present crisis research is to study the apparently effective native fruit-based treatments the Waorani hunter-gatherers and local Kichwa tribal groups have just invented for COVID 19 infections that have spread into Waorani and other indigenous communities in the Amazon. Scientific enquiry goes back to our ancestral hunter-gatherers. Our Last Look Back researcher Juan Carlos Cuenca is actually leading a team of 25 medical professionals into the rain forest to visit these remote groups and provide treatment as Last Look Back is the only outside organization familiar with all of the many villages scattered throughout this vast Amazonian region. This is not a fake reality TV show! Last Look Back team members are presenting great courage in the face of death. These are incredibly brave Last Look Back team members, real heroes with little equipment in the fight against Corina Virus.

It would be wonderful to find a native cure against COVID-19 as there are known powerful, active anti-viral plant chemicals in the remedies! It would not be the first time Western medicine has found a cure from native treatments (over 50% of modern drug treats have a plant origin)! The impact of corona virus appears to have been far less devastating with our Waorani and Kichwa indigenous villages than other native Amazionian groups in Brazil and elsewhere.

Most indigenous people are now taking the remedy throughout our Amazonian region. There are actually two treatments, one to prevent the disease and the other to treat severe cases where there is no hope of a clinic let alone hospital respiratory equipment. Most natives have never seen a doctor in their lives. We work with 46 remote communities communities with a combined population of more than 10,000 people. Many Friends around our team not taking the native remedies have died from COVID-19. Our team are all are taking the native treatments and have escaped death and even Western medical professionals on the team take the native treatment perhaps as an a leap of faith but also because it appears to have potential to work.

There are two native plant treatments just designed by the Waorani indigenous specifically against the Corona Virus. All components are already part of their native diet. SEE the VIDEO of Last Look Back Researcher Juan Carlos Cuenca in the Amazon now on the treatments. Please also say a prayer for our researcher Juan Carlos as he ventures into dangerous situations to save lives.

For a fraction of a few days of laboratory studies on COVID19. We need $10,000 to study the natural Waorani COVID-19 treatments biochemically for possible worldwide treatment and also design a survey to map actual efficacy of native plant treatments in the populations. Again as scientists we need to be critical but in the face of emergency we need to explore every promising option. We also want to get support for the medical team to get better preventative gear against the corona virus and a better canoe and motor to get to remote indigenous people suffering with the Corona Virus. We will also provide Last Look Back volunteer team members with funding to help continue their medical support in the battle for a treatment against the coronavirus in the last frontier of our planet, the amazon rainforest.

09/26/2020

Hunter-gatherer fishermen put modern fisherman to shame! See Last Look Back Project demonstrates how to fish modern Waorani hunter-gatherer style - bare underwater fishing in a murky river with no equipment . In a hunter-gather society with no money there are no rods, no reels, no lines, no masks, nothing except the rainforest and a modified bare hook. Witness underwater fishing hunter-gather style in a murky Amazon River with no equipment. Can a modern fisherman ever do this? We challenge any fisherman to fish like this! Watch and learn!