Tipton, KS | cfdr - 1/1/2026 08:51
Going a bit farther into that thread led to this about the Mongols:
Genghis Khan lived into his 60s, but much lower for the troops/rulers. With Eskimos, it was said that "men and women who appeared to be 60 or over were rare."
Also, "Eating raw meat indirectly provided Eskimos with enough carbohydrates in the form of glycogen (found in the muscles and liver of animals) to meet their necessary nutrient requirements and keep them out of a starvation condition called ketosis."
Tidbits via
“Dietary Decadence and Dynastic Decline in the Mongol Empire,”
by John Masson Smith, Jr., Journal of Asian History, vol. 34, no. 1, 2000
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The Middle Eastern Mongol dynasty had further problems: high infant mortality and infertility. Ann Lambton considers that “the possibility cannot be ruled out that once the Mongols settled in Persia, they ceased to be good breeders.”1
I suggest that the Mongols’ difficulties stemmed in large part from dietary inadequacies and improprieties.
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Interestingly, poor Mongols probably benefited from a better-balanced diet. After Chinggis’ father died, most of his family’s herds were stolen, so that his mother had to feed her children edible plants: wild pears, bird cherries, garden burnet root, cinquefoil root, wild onion, shallot, lily root, and garlic chives. Despite this diet of what the Mongols considered second-rate foods, Chinggis and the other boys “grew up into fine men” in the words of the Secret History.
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The Mongols, as mentioned, had (and have) a great liking for mare’s milk. Not on account of richness of the milk, which, by comparison with the milks of other domesticated animals, is virtually a diet drink at only 214 kcal/lb, but because mare’s milk (qumis) becomes alcoholic with fermentation. 9 Not very alcoholic, however, ranging from 3.25% down to 1.65. Since, as Plano Carpini noted “Drunkenness is considered an honorable thing by [the Mongols],”10 they had to
develop high-volume drinking habits and customs to offset its weakness.
https://afe.easia.columbia.edu/mongols/pastoral/masson_smith.pdf
Sidebar
RE: Drunkenness is considered an honorable thing
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Keith Richards, 79, says he has mostly given up alcohol, drugs, and cigarettes
“The cigarettes I gave up in 2019 … I haven’t touched them since. I gave up heroin in 1978. I gave up cocaine in 2006. I still like a drink occasionally – because I’m not going to heaven any time soon – but apart from that, I’m trying to enjoy being straight. It’s a unique experience for me.”
https://www.facebook.com/WoodstockElders1969/posts/keith-richards-79...
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