Last Look Back
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Humanitarian
Mission
Since 2012, Last Look Back (LLB) has been working as respectful partners to Napo River Amazonian peoples, particularly Yasuni Wao Hunter-gatherers, to help conserve their cultures along with the rainforest ecosystem that defines them.
Kawymeno Wao Boy - Photo by JC Cuenca LLB Staff
The Research Mission
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The 2024 LLB
Hunter-Gatherer Diet Database
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This website contain's the world's most complete and detailed database of wild hunter-gatherer food and food systems known to exist.
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A decade of rain forest research collaboration - Wao hunter-gatherer wild food species have been carefully documented and categorized as a database for future researchers.
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Database and Ongoing Aid By Researchers from leading Academic Institutions
Native Amazon Waorani & Kichwa research associates ​
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Harvard Medical School
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​Arizona State University
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​Benedictine University
Kemo's Daughter - Photo D. London
Why is LLB Unique?
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LLB is unique from other organizations. We fight alongside our Wao and Kichwa friends for their survival. But in the process we realized we shared a vital key to prevent humanity from destroying itself not available to others on the planet.
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Wild food played a medicinal role in human survival for humanity for 99% of human history. Food is the original medicine that links us to every living thing in the ecosystem.
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Wao Woman - Photo D. London
What is Amazing?
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Remote wild diet Wao Hunter-gatherers are resistant to almost all chronic diseases and even disease from Strep and Staph microbes based disease found in all neighboring Amazon tribes.
Neighboring Wao natives consume a largely farmed diet with modern foods have cancer, diabetes and heart disease rates similar to US populations.
Wao Traditional Dancers - Photo D. London
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The Bottom Line
Understanding a million years human dietary heritage can potentially yield a hundred-fold more health benefit than billions of dollars invested in cancer research. Let us prove it! Another reason to donate to the former Harvard Medical School research scientists and others at LLB.
LISTEN to Wao singer discribing her rain forest people's history in the Wao language
Wao Blowgun Hunter - Photo by Jack Jarmillo
A New Era in Understanding Humanity's Dietary Connection to the Natural World
The Wild Wao diet is participative - connecting plants, animals and microbes existing within a rain forest. Human diet protected the ecosystem as much as human individuals through a vast, co-evolving dietary "phytochemical highway"within pristine rainforests.
Douglas London, PhD
Director of Last Look Back
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Photo Top - Dr. London Hunting with the Wao
Photo Bottom - Dr London with Wild Baby Jaguar.
What is the Phytochemical Highway?
Wild rain forest plant chemicals transferred to the Wao for the benefit of the plant not the human. But plants often protect humans medicinally for their own interests, for example antimicrobial “medicinal” dietary plant chemicals exert control over billions of microbes co-existing in humans bodies.
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Modern pharmacy uses existing human plant receptors to function
Reciprocally, the wild diet Wao only ate the fruit the plant offered not harming the plant by eating stems, leaves and roots.