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The carnivore diet in a series of tweets:
Animal foods have always been a part of the human diet and were an essential part of massive brain growth that occurred over the last 2 million years...
Animal foods have always been a part of the human diet and were an essential part of massive brain growth that occurred over the last 2 million years...
Recent ideas villfying these foods are based on little more than misleading, cherry picked epidmemiology, with many ignored epi studies from Asia strongly contradicting those done in the West showing negative associations.
Furthermore, there is not ONE single interventional trial showing harm from unprocessed red meat in humans. And there are multiple interventional studies showing benefit (inflammatory markers, etc) with replacing carbohydrates with red meat.
Animal meat and organs also contain many nutrients (let’s call them zoonutrients) that are very difficult or impossible to obtain from plants: carnitine, choline, carnosine, anserine, taurine, B12, K2(the full spectrum of menaquinones), creatine, riboflavin and unique peptides.
To exclude animal foods from the human diet is a nutrtional catastrophe and completely evolutionary inconsistent.
With regard to plants, we must remember that they are rooted in the ground and have developed chemical defenses (and physicial defenses) out of necessity. We cannot ignore the vast array of these toxins or discount their potentially negative effects on humans.
Throughout human evolution, I believe that plants have been used by our ancestors as a "survival food" but not as a primary food source. There are myriad examples of this with clear preference for animal foods over plant foods from indigenous cultures around the globe.
ALL of the nutrients that humans need to thrive can be obtained by eating animals from nose to tail (as indigenous groups do), obviating the need for plants as a food source if ample animal foods are available.
In times of animal scarcity, our ancestors and indigenous people may use plants as "fallback" foods, but they do (have done) so with awareness of toxicity and often use methods like fermentation to detoxify these.
Lending further support to the notion of plants as fallback foods is the nutritional fact that many nutrients are much less bioavailable in plant foods (O3, beta-carotene, b vitamins, minerals due to the presence of phytates oxalates,etc.).
Thus, when faced with a choice of what to eat, animals foods are clearly a superior choice. Why eat survival foods when the optimal foods are available in abundance?
If your answer to that question is variety or entertainment, fine, but realize those plant foods add little to the nutritional adequacy or quality of your diet and could certainly be causing issues.
If your answer to that question is "the environment," I& #39;m very sad to say you& #39;ve been badly misled yet again (see a pattern here?) regarding the true impact of ruminant animals (especially those raised in a regenerative fashion) within grassland ecosystems.
If you don& #39;t think all cattle can be raised in a regenerative fashion you are again wrong, and should read @robbwolf & #39;s new book sacred cow, or listen to the podcast we& #39;ll release soon.
If you want the FULL story on the carnivore diet you should read my book, The Carnivore Code, which you can pre-order now http://www.thecarnivorecodebook.com"> http://www.thecarnivorecodebook.com . The second edition will be released August 4th, 2020.
