#1020 Cara Ocobock: Can Women Hunt?

Hello, everyone, welcome to a new episode of the Decentre. I'm your host, as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Kara Okerbock. She is Associate Professor and Director of the Human Energetics Laboratory at the University of Notre Dame. And today we're talking mostly about human energetics and hunting in human society. So Doctor Rockabok, welcome to the show. It's a huge pleasure to everyone. Ricardo, thank you so much for having me on. I'm really excited about this today. Awesome. So let's get into it then. First of all

Just to introduce the first topic here. кудус вот human energetics is about i actually i've already interviewed many anthropologists on the show, but I don't remember ever having an interview. Perhaps we've touched a little bit on here uh on it here and there, but having an interview really Talking direct directly about human energetics, at least I can't remember having one of those. So what sorts of things do you study there? Yeah, that that's also a wonderful, you know, shout out to anthropology being such a broad field that you can study so many different things. So human energetics is basically looking at calories. How many calories individuals consume. That's one whole you think about the diet and what's actually be taking in and

where those calories are coming from. Uh I'm a bit more interested in where those calories are going. Uh, how do human bodies allocate calories to different tasks, whether they be tasks that you're aware of, like running around the block or the tasks of just keeping your body alive that are always going on in the background. And then how the body adjusts when there's a change, whether internally or externally a change. How does somebody's metabolism, uh, or energetic throughput alter in response to those kinds of changes. And so very broadly, that's what it is, and it can be used in any number of different contexts, whether it be anthropology or exercise physiology or medicine. Uh a lot of people are looking at this kind of thing across fields.

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