The Apology of a Carnivore - FULL COLOR PSYCHO

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The Zero-carb carnivore diet – Why it works

In getting started here, I ask you to suspend your judgment until the end and prepare to receive this information with an open mind.

With that in mind, let me share some very interesting information that could very well benefit you or someone you know. This information is not unfounded and is backed with scientific knowledge, if you value science and logic then you will surely see how this information will make sense.

With this episode I will break down Carnivorism and why it is the best natural diet for humans

This information is what most modern people might consider ‘unconventional’. I’d wager that 95% of people who will read this will completely deny it and shout that it is heresy. I can assure you from personal experience, that it is is not

Of the 5% remaining, even fewer (probably 1-2%) of those people will be able to make use of this information for their benefit

This information will do one of two things most likely:

It will rock your world and your eyes will be opened
It will upset you to think that I (and many others) are ignorant and you will have an emotional reaction

Number 2 is usually the response

For those of you in group number 2 let’s get this out of the way right now.

THIS INFORMATION IS NOT FOR YOU

I do not present this information with the intention of having any argument, and in fact I will not have an argument with anyone over it.

I will answer any questions from any person genuinely interested in pursuing this path.

I’m writing this with the intention of sharing the information and my experience with those with an open mind who want it. This is not the forum for any debate, it is purely a resource.

If you do not agree or merely want to argue over this, please don’t waste anyone’s time and just leave, forget about this information, and move on with your life.

Alright, with that out of the way let’s dive in.

The Human Being

To understand why we should eat this way we must first understand the human being We must understand how we work and how we came to work this way

The Early Days

We know very very little about human history. Even somewhat ‘modern’ history is tainted due to the writers of history omitting and changing the facts, but this post is not about that so I digress.

All we know about older humans (pre-documented history) is what we can find on archaeological digs that are able to derive information from their remnants.

What we do know, and is proven, is that humans switched to agriculture maybe as early as 23 thousand years ago in small pockets of the world.

Before that we used animal husbandry (started roughly 15 thousand years ago).

And before that we started using fire (estimated to have started roughly 1.4 million years ago).

And before that we were hunter-gatherers (started 1.8 million years ago).

With the earliest evidence found (so far) of stone tool manufacture at 2.5 million years ago.

With the earliest evidence found (so far) of stone tool (naturally sharp stones, not manufactured ones) use, to use on animals, being at least 3.4 million years ago (supported by evidence of cut marks on bones found in Ethiopia)

With this information we have (so far) on our past we can already make a case and statements about the carnivorous habits of us and our ancestors

From the records of all archeological digs so far we know that

Even if our oldest ancestors (anything past Australopithecus afarensis) rarely ate meat (no finds or indications to really know what they ate), this is likely where it started based on the clues from the past
Meat consumption started at least 3.4 million years ago and only increased since then
The inclusion of meat in our ancestors diet corresponds with our brain size increasing and our stomach/intestinal size decreasing
- As we began getting the food rich in nutrients and energy we adapted away from insects and plants.
  - Herbivores have long digestive tracts because it takes a long time to absorb nutrients from plant material. They also have special bacteria in their gut to break down indigestible plant matter
  - Carnivores have shorter digestive tracts as they can obtain nutrients from the meat they consume more quickly. Carnivores can only extract nutrients from the plant cells that are crushed while chewing (or cooking if you’re a human)
- You need a lot of brain power to hunt prey, likewise you need a lot of energy for the brain power required, thus the eating of nutrient dense meat
No paleolithic archeological dig has ever revealed any evidence of vegetables in their everyday lives
- IF our ancestors ate seasonal fruits (possible) they ate them at the source and didn’t bring them home
We have been evolving as (or into) meat eaters over at least 3.4 million years and didn’t become an agricultural society until maybe, at most, 24 thousand years ago
- We have been eating plants equally/primarily for 1/142 of the time we have been eating primarily meat

Even just from those little details it makes sense that we are carnivores, but let’s dive deeper.

Human Evolution and the Dissension From Apes

Let’s start with human evolution (starting way back and going forward), which I touched on a bit in the previous chunk.

Most people know and agree we evolved from some ancient ape

Our evolutionary path deviated from apes (not the great ape) about four million years ago. These ape ancestors of ours were insectivores, most of the apes sticking around are as well.

One can not compare modern day humans to any ape as we deviated from them about five million years ago. Any comparison would be invalid as we are along a totally different evolutionary path than all other primates.

There have been other humanoid offshoots we spawned along the way that tried to subsist on plant matter but, as they are not around today, they have largely failed.

Millions of years back man may have been an opportunist (eating what’s available) and this could potentially explain why we can handle some vegetation.

There is also evidence of our ancestor deviations mixing so that could potentially explain it as well.

Let’s jump ahead to the paleo period since that’s the closest ‘mainstream’ diet .

Nobody knows just what prehistoric people ate and our only insight is from what was left behind by them such as animal bones, skins, their own bones, and things like tools, etc.

No seeds of edible plants, fire residue, stone tools, or bones discovered so far have indicated the consumption of vegetation and IF there was any- it made up a very very tiny portion of their diet (5% or less).

In fact, bone composition shows a mineral content with the exact composition as true carnivores (as little as 5% of vegetation will show up in the analysis) such as the African lion. That composition is not that of an omnivore (Dr. Earnest A. Hooton studies the bones of meat eaters at the Peabody Museum of Harvard University where it was found that meat eaters had been liberally supplied with calcium).

To anyone that follows the modern ‘balanced diet’ this may sound unbelievable, but the bone composition tests do not lie. Neither does the evidence from the traditional inuit and aboriginal peoples.

On Human Biology and Food

More evidence to support this lifestyle can be found by taking a closer at the biology and function of the modern day human

I’m going to go over this in a more forest view rather than doing the individual trees, we won’t go too deep into the biological processes unless it is requested as it is not required to understand that deeply

The fact that we have the organs and teeth of an omnivore is FALSE

Let’s start with the teeth and the differences between the different kinds

Our mouth evolved for two purposes: eating and speech (with speech being the more important of the two since we started as a group hunting animal)

This explains our mouth shape and teeth perfectly well

Carnivore teeth have very distinctive traits

Continuous thin enamel coat
Sharp
They erupt once and do not grow or get replaced
Some carnivores have shearing teeth

Whereas herbivore/omnivore teeth:

Flat as they are intended for grinding
They continuously grow or get replaced throughout life (to counteract the degradation/wearing down from their foods (the fiber and whatnot)
Has enamel that is meant to wear (grows continuously and is shaped in rolls separated by dentine)

And are teeth are different still:

We are descended from primates and 5~ million years ago they were insectivorous and our teeth came from that origin
Continuous enamel coat
They have no grinding molars
- Ours are the crushing type of molars, not the grinding type
They have unsealed grooves making them susceptible to bacteria on a carb diet
- As our teeth do not grow or get replaced (baby teeth are lost once to be replaced since they were damaged from mother’s milk), a carb (sugar and starch) diet, a diet that damages teeth is incorrect
  - Enamel meant to wear off grows in rolls and layers (ours does not)
  - We are the only animal that loses our teeth due to our diet

Our teeth have no similarities (structure or durability) to the teeth of herbivores and omnivores like rats. They’re just not made for that

Just compare our teeth to any other animal who doesn’t go to the dentist like we do. All animals live a full life with no huge issues with their teeth. Eat the right and proper diet and you shouldn’t need to go to the dentist (teeth are exceptionally important, you should go anyway) for your whole life. Theoretically you don’t need to brush or floss either but unless you’re a fan of bad breath, do it anyway

Again, we became total hunters 5ish millions of years ago and went from animal husbandry to hunter-gatherers to agriculture a mere 23 thousand years ago. You cannot reverse evolution, our bodies aren’t well equipped to live with our modern mixed diet.

Did you know that they use cats for dissection in human anatomy classes?

Why do they do this?

Mostly cost, but more importantly it’s because the internal organs of a cat (a natural pure carnivore) are nearly IDENTICAL to a human in size and shape, relative length, stomach type, kidneys, liver, and the rest. Our intestines’ length and structure is not that of an omnivore/herbivore, thus why do they not use these types of animals

In other words.. We have the guts of a carnivore

Modern Evidence for the Carnivore Way

There’s even more evidence for the carnivore way but it is largely hidden from modern knowledge

There was a Anthropologist named Viljamur Steffansson who was intrigued at the Inuit peoples lifestyle and diet

Steffansson went and lived with these peoples for right around ten years. Living with and like them, hunting with and like them, and eating with and like them

The Inuit peoples (until white people introduced new foods to them) subsisted on a diet of only the meat and fat from fish, seals, walruses, caribou, and the like

Now one might think that these people must have been extraordinarily unhealthy by eating like savages. You’re probably thinking they were plagued by scurvy and malnutrition

One only has to read Steffansson’s first hand account in his book Not by Bread Alone to see that the Inuits had no health problems whatsoever. No tooth decay/cavities, no obesity, no scurvy, and no malnutrition

You might think the Inuits had some sort of biological advantage, but Steffansson (a white man) and other white men were able to thrive on this diet after they were adjusted to it

Furthermore, in all the bones studied of the Inuit peoples there was never any sign of tooth decay. That is until grains and carbohydrates were introduced. Once that happened they also fell prey to cavities and tooth decay, so there’s no biological advantage to be seen there either

Many people were intrigued by Steffansson and how he managed to subsist on that diet. A diet deemed unfit and against everything everyone knew at the time

Years later, Stefansson returned to the Arctic with a colleague, Dr. Karsten Anderson, to carry out research for the American Museum of Natural History. They were supplied with everything they would need including a year’s supply of ‘civilised’ food. They declined the food, and decided to live off the land

The project, originally scheduled to be one year turned into four. Four years of Stefansson and Anderson subsisting only on meat. There was no negative effect of this after doing it for four years. This is prime evidence that the body could have great health and function perfectly on just meat alone.

Of course nobody in the civilized world believed this. For proof, Stefansson and Anderson both participated in a study where they subsisted on meat alone for one year (while dairy and eggs theoretically fit the diet, they omitted them so people couldn’t say “Milk and eggs saved you on the diet of only meat! You couldn’t have done it otherwise!”)

To make certain Stefansson and Anderson ate a 100% meat diet, they were both watched very closely in a lab for the first several weeks and then by paid participants for the rest of the year who followed them everywhere to ensure they ate nothing but meat and fat

There were a couple of fallbacks. For one at one point Anderson had developed glycosuria (usually untreated diabetes). But what was unusual was that the glucosuria was present in Anderson for 4 days and was due to him being given 100 gm of glucose for a tolerance test and with the first 3 days of his pneumonia, where he received fluids and a diet rich in carbohydrate. The glucosuria disappeared once back on the carnivore diet

The other fallback was that Stefansson was asked to eat lean meat only at first. You cannot subsist on that amount of protein without fat so Stefansson developed nausea and diarrhea on the third day at Bellevue. After eating fatty meat, he fully recovered in two days.

You know what the scientists found under this study?

There were no deficiency problems

Both Stefansson and Anderson were perfectly healthy; their bowels remained normal, except that their stools were smaller and did not smell. Stefansson’s gingivitis disappeared by the end of the experiment

Oh and I shouldn’t have to mention it, but both men didn’t develop scurvy

What Happens on the Carnivore Way

A common misconception is that the carnivore way is a high protein diet

The carnivore way is a high FAT diet, ideally the proportions will be 60% fat and 40% protein. If you don’t get enough fat it can be deadly (protein poisoning/rabbit starvation).

If the body could create glucose from protein, why is an all protein diet so deadly? To avoid this poisoning you have to add carbs or fat to your diet

While we’re on the subject of fat..

There are basically three types of fatty acids (all of them contain omega-3’s)

Saturated
- The primary type of fat in the human body and the type of fat your body makes
- The best type of fuel for your body, we are optimized to burn it
Monosaturated
- found in macadamia nut oil and olive oil
- Good and have health benefits
Polysaturated
- Found in vegetable oil
- Dangerous due to their double bonds in the carbon chain which oxidize to form organic peroxides (aka free radicals)

In nature, these fats are combined with glycerine to from triglycerides but the type of fat in your body is saturated because that is what your body synthesizes

One thing to know about our bodies is that it cannot store dietary fat because there is no way for it to get across the adipose cell wall

The body also cannot burn carbs (which in large amounts are toxic). Your body actually converts dietary carbs into glucose and then into body fat

Your body actually has a limit to the amount of fat you can eat and digest at one time, any more than that natural limit and the extra is released via poop

Humans have the capability to live exceptionally on just meat with the right amount of fat, it’s a fact

On Ketosis

The carnivore way does not cause ketosis

When eating the carnivore way the body adapts quickly (within a month typically) to consume ketones from fat metabolism

Ketosis is when ketones are excreted in urine. It takes place within a few hours of blood glucose stabilizing and no glucose entering from the diet

Many places in the body require glucose (brain, cartilage, tendons). When the body is in ketosis these structures will not take up the ketone byproducts produced of fat metabolism so the extra ketones are excreted and the body gets the glucose it needs from glycerol and liver glycogen

A body on keto (past ketosis) uses the ketones and does not excrete them in the urine because ketone bodies (ketones the body can use) are substituted for glucose where it is used

If carbs continue to be consumed while in this state your body will continue to be in ketosis

A person in permanent ketosis will have reduced energy which is the main reason people re-introduce carbs back into their diet

However, if you stop carbs then our bodies will adapt to use ketones as a food source a.k.a. Keto-adaptation.

Carbs of any kind, glucose or glycogen are not used to do work by the muscles. Until you’re carb free long enough to keto-adapt (3-6 weeks), you will have lower energy. One must be vigilant in their will though as any carb intake, no matter how brief, will derail adaption

Once the body starts running the glucose-dependent parts on ketones and becomes keto-adapted there are many benefits:

Increased energy
No hunger pangs
Increased endurance
Increased strength
Well-being
Rapid fat loss

It will take your body time to keto-adapt, it will be hard but will be well worth it in the end

Why You Don’t Need Carbs

Somewhere along the line things got reversed and now everyone believes that carbs are an energy food. This is untrue.

Since carbs aren’t required for energy, or anything else, they function only to raise blood sugar, which causes the body to turn the carbs into body fat. Most people become very tired and sleepy when they ingest carbs, which is actually the reverse of ‘energy’. Whether you eat carbs or not all of your energy comes only from burning fat

People who cannot tolerate any carbs are typically ‘obese’. Since there seems to be an ever increasing emergence of people with this problem (the rising popularity of being gluten free and the increase of obesity) it can be said that carb-sensitivity is not an uncommon condition so being efficient in storing carbs as body fat may have had some survival value in the past when food was much more difficult to get (hunting)

It may have stemmed from the feeling of insulin rushes. Insulin is very stimulating, it feels like energy to someone who has just eaten carbs

Because there’s an addiction to the insulin rush that’s like a junky getting their fix. After eating carbs you fall asleep/get tired, people are addicted to the results of the fix, not the carbs

What insulin actually does is stimulate all the fat storage cells in your body and they all work overtime to remove the extra glucose from the blood as fast as possible because, while the brain needs a little glucose to run, glucose is toxic at higher levels (Diabetic coma)

And ALL carbs are identical in that they become glucose in the body

Carbs -> Glucose -> Insulin -> Body Damage

There is no excuse to eat carbs so they are a no-go at all times, why eat poison?

The Case Against Vegetables

All modern vegetables have been modified by selective breeding to reduce or eliminate toxins (plant method to defend against being eaten) to allow us to eat more (and they still require cooking). This is also why plants require pesticides and chemicals to keep them safe from bugs and the like

Everyone knows someone who suffers allergies to toxic plant matter (peanuts, whole wheat, rhubarb, spinach) and all of these things are poisonous and hard to digest. Rhubarb and spinach contain oxalic acid (blood poison)

All vegetation contains some degree of poison, it’s how the vegetable world can limit the damage done by herbivores. All vegetables are poison but the real damage is from the carbs they contain- to a carnivore

All vegetable carbs other than cellulose (all convert to glucose), are absorbable by the human gut after being processed or cooked. What’s left of the indigestible vegetable protein and any unabsorbed carbs feed bacteria in the large intestines and the bacteria may excrete toxins that enter your bloodstream

When ingested, vegetation triggers the production of certain enzymes in the stomach that are not quickly made or turned on/off. Vegetation is out of the stomach in 3-4 hours and is never fully digested

The residue from vegetables is a rough fiber material that scratches the sensitive lining of your intestines and causes a ‘callous’ (scar) to form over time as a defense reaction. Onced ‘calloused’ (scarred), the effectiveness of the intestines reduces their effectiveness at absorbing nutrients

For the most part, vegetables are mostly indigestible cellulose-refuse. There are no ‘exotic carbs’ in vegetables, only abrasives, acids, sugars, starches. All of which damage our teeth. Especially fruits with citrus as the most damaging

No vegetable is ‘good for digestion’ and all are difficult for the human gut to process. We have the guts of a carnivore and you simply cannot eat wild, raw plants and live on it, without digestive problems

We evolved and still have some pre-hominid primate digestive equipment (small ability for enzyme production in the stomach and an appendix) to be able to partially eat like an omnivore. When considering all elements this seems to be strictly a survival mechanism for when there was no prey available

If you cook plants it breaks down the cellulose of the cell wall and sets the nutrients free, which can be absorbed however the remaining fiber and cellulose has to also pass through. Cooking also doesn’t damage carbs (why they can sub as food in an emergency)

Is this a good and complete source of nutrition? No

Can some people survive for awhile like this? Yes- though (imho) at a very low level of subsistence

All vegetables are also low in nutrients and vitamins when compared to meat and there are no unique nutrients required for humans that can be found in vegetables. Some vitamins (vit A) aren’t in vegetables at all

While some vegetables may be ‘nutrient dense’ compared to others, no vegetable is nutrient dense like meat. Veggies are two magnitudes less dense than meat and the nutrients are mostly not useful to the human body (soybeans are 23% protein but less than 2.5% can be used by your body). It is a fact that plant proteins cannot make new proteins for basic body functions because they are incomplete.

There is no reason for vegetables other than to fight off starvation

But don’t we need fiber?

No one has investigated a diet totally lacking in not only fiber, but all vegetation. Maybe you need fiber in a mixed diet and maybe it has other benefits in some mysterious way but without a proper study, the claims that it is not needed still stand

If we came from or were herbivores (early ancestors were insectivores) we would be as intelligent as herbivores

Well we sure are smarter than a cow now aren’t we?

The development of a large brain and high intelligence is very energy intensive and you cannot get the required energy from vegetables

All those negatives aside, vegetation (especially extracts and concentrates) can still be useful as it is the source of most medicine. Again, medicine, not food

In fact, the only truly ‘safe’ medicines appear to come from plants, as synthetics are toxic with side effects

This is the gift given to us from the plant kingdom (medicines and psychic activators) not food. Plants just aren’t food in the same way that meat is

The Ethics of Eating

But what about the ethics of eating meat?

It is my firmly held belief that eating anything is just the circle of life. We don’t get upset when animals eat other animals for sustenance, why should we be upset when we do it? Yes, there may be places with ‘inhumane’ farming practices, and these places should be frowned upon, however eating meat on it’s own isn’t evil

Whether an animal eats animals or plants, it is the way organic creatures exist. We are what evolution made us

All food comes from living things. There is definitely a compassionate value in the quick death an animal experiences vs the way people treat plants

The main argument most vegetarian/vegan proponents stick to is that it is unethical to eat animals due to their consciousness

Well, interestingly enough, plants are likely more conscious to us due to their lack of ego and are amazingly more aware than one might think

The truth is ALL forms of life are conscious

It is just that we as animals aren’t able to communicate or ‘hear’ plants

Plants though seem like they’re able to communicate with plants and animals in amazing ways

For example, there is an orchid that looks AND smells like a female bee. This is how this plant breeds. Male bees come along and try to mate with the flower (getting pollen on them) and when it fails, they fly away and move on to the next plant (pollinating it)

Since a plant can’t see or smell (or can it?) how did this come about?

By hooking up plants to galvanic instruments a scientist, James Backster, found that plants are able to respond to threat, thoughts, and music

More recently, a device as been invented that measures and makes music from the biosignals from plants and one can easily see the different responses from outside stimuli

Vegetarians/Vegans are also starving and crave meat so much they have to try to fool their bodies. They are also unable to grasp the reality of life and living things. They go against the humane killing of animals for food, but are willing to kill the more openly conscious plants in cruel ways. Like eating the plants next generation (seeds and fruit)

Some words on the environmental impact

(it is the author’s opinion that meat should be sourced from local self-sufficient farms and away from factory farms like the majority of our food comes from today.)

Meat

We are the eater of cows, we must not eat their foods

Meat is the only practical source of vitamins, the meat-exclusive diet has an abundance of all of them whereas there are virtually no sources of any vitamins in vegetation (why do you think all vitamins are synthetic?)

All vitamins are found in abundance in meat and animal fat

Vitamin A – animal liver
Vitamin B complex – 30g of fresh red meat has more vitamin B than what can be extracted from 100kg of yeast concentrate
Vitamin C – not the only anti-sourbic substance (a diet of red meat prevents scurvy)
Vitamin E
Omega 3’s
Zinc – Beef is very rich in zinc
Selenium
Iron – Found in high amounts in beef

No external supplementation is needed when eating an all meat diet, you are likely to have a vitamin overdose

An all meat diet is actually a low protein diet. It is high in fat, not protein. High protein diets are bad for your body (Rabbit Starvation)

It is possible to live for months on fat alone vs all protein and all carbs (in a shortage of dietary protein the body conserves amino acids and recycles them)

The key is to eat enough fat, which is best determined while eating each meal. Eat the fat first, until you lose interest and then eat the lean. Your body will stop naturally so eat as much as you want, there is no concrete method to this

Your body has a built-in fat level it will maintain (varies, but is about 11-15% in men and 18-23% in women)

If you are overweight and begin this way of life you will quickly drop down to the proper fat percentage all by itself. Only dropping lower than that due to a caloric deficit

The benefits of meat continue when you realize that meat is fully absorbed and is actually a zero-residue food. Meat is dissolved by the acid in your stomach (which is produced efficiently and is easy to start/stop) and contrary to what is said nowadays does not take a long time to digest (nothing takes 12 hrs to digest and if it did why would you need to eat every 3-4 hrs?)

There was a soldier in Napoleon’s army who had a severe cut on his stomach. He recovered but his gut didn’t heal properly and his stomach fused to the outside of his cut. Rather than fixing this, the doctors used the opportunity to put all manner of things into this man’s stomach to observe digestion. All animal products are liquified within one hour. All vegetables put into his stomach took 3-4 hours to digest and didn’t digest fully

Another window to the stomach was opened in 1822 when Canadian fur-trapper Alexis St. Martin was shot (accidentally) almost point-blank in the stomach. The bullet went straight through and again a stomach healed to the edge of the wound. William Beaumont, the fort Dr, then studied this man, his stomach acid, and the digestive process. Again, finding that all animal products liquified quickly and completely whereas vegetation did not. His study survives and can be read here

Liquids don’t cause abrasion. The mixed diet has indigestible roughage. The way to eliminate callusing (scarring) of the intestines is to completely eliminate plant matter from the diet

Dairy

Milk from anywhere is not good for humans (beyond the early ages), especially the low fat varieties (farmers would rather give their pigs skim milk because they will eat more than they would on cream/whole milk because they don’t get satisfied as quickly)

Children have milk-specific enzyme systems in the stomach until about the age of six. Adults do not

The only good dairy for a carnivore is butter, cheese, and cream

Fun fact: Lactose tolerance is actually a mutation, humans being lactose intolerant is natural

So, if all this is true, why isn’t the carnivore/zero-carb diet widely known about and accepted?

This boils down to two reasons: human acculturation and pushback from the medical and agricultural communities

Human Acculturation

The best and true human diet isn’t about what tastes good

Once a human is habituated to the taste of vegetables it’s difficult to break from this. It has nothing to do with what is right, good, or nutritious for you.

When a human child is born there are only two foods they can digest: liquified raw meat and their mother’s milk

Anything beyond that is learned and taught to us (babies/children reject vegetables when they are first introduced). To overcome this their mothers persist in teaching them to ‘eat right’ and get a ‘balanced diet’

Understand that we only have the most basic animal instincts at birth and our early cultural training is fixed so strongly that it overrides our instincts- the eating of veggies is learned and ingrained in us long before speech

It’s unlikely for any person to maintain this diet long term, or any diet that’s drastically different from what you were brought up with.

Diet is a learned behavior like language and dress, it is socialized into your core

There was a study in 1944 by Charles E Lund (Acting Chief of the Foodstuffs Unit of the Department of Commerce) and in the first paragraph he makes the, very important, point of saying that people with small incomes (and those saving money) will buy cheaper foods [I actually have been sitting on this article for a few years now and neglected to link this study and now I can’t find it. Oops. Here is a study that essentially explains the same thing.]

Starches and sugars are cheaper than fats, this can be easily seen with a leisurely walk through any grocery store and even though fat is twice as nourishing as sugar or starch (which many people don’t know) their wallet will still motivate them to buy these less nourishing and damaging foods

It’s important to notice that the study basically said people like what they’re used to

Whether it be low income or the desire to save money that made one’s parents buy and feed them on veggies/carbs/sugars, that is what they grew up on and the individual is the victim of these established food habits that make one like cheap things because they grew up on them

Someone who grew up like this will have a strongly ingrained emotional bias in favor of these food which they consider, in their opinion, proper/good

It requires a strong will to change, most people will not be able to resist their cravings. Unless you are prepared to make this diet a way of life (why I call it the carnivore path/way) you will probably drift back into eating other foods

Females are even less likely to succeed in this way of eating because it seems the female hormones cause these cravings since the human female isn’t fertile without a layer of fat. They are quicker to adopt socialization than males and traditionally women teach the rules of behavior.

Again, understand that we only have the most basic animalistic instincts at birth and our early cultural training is fixed so strongly into us that it overrides our instincts. If we fail to learn the cultural ways we are shunned

Never underestimate the incredible power of the human societal culture and early human training, it’s what makes us human. Religions are also taught to the young so the illogic of religion is buried so deeply that even learning science (conflicts with every faith) has little to no effect.

Do not play down the power of acculturation to override logic and intelligence

On Science, Medicine, and Agricultural Industries

You do not need science or research to understand this diet works, just try it and find out. The more that you experience that something works, the more likely it is to be right, with or without research. All the research in the world isn’t gonna change what is true and what isn’t

Why dietary studies are bunk for the carnivore

People like to pull up all sorts of articles, studies, and pretty much any information that supports their beliefs when they discuss the carnivore diet

While there may be some substance to their information, the majority of this literature (that they often quote or reference without reading) is null and void on the carnivore diet.

Virtually none of the studies regarding diet have taken place with the participants on an all carnivore diet. The scientific and medical communities just don’t accept that any person is able or willing to live on all meat

For any study or research to be worth its salt the presence or absence of a component in diet must be specifically measured and shown in isolation of other variables. So, if substance A is thought/found to be connected to a change, then unless the absence of that substance was also measured (in the same exact conditions) a scientist can’t say the absence will not give the same result because this hasn’t been tested

A common error in ‘staged’ studies is failing to set conditions that are neutral for all components other than the one under study so that there is only a single variable. Even when this is done the results are only valid for those exact conditions.

So if a study was in a certain mixed diet, then it only holds for that mixed diet, and no other. The study has to separate the causative agent from all other components. For all they know it could be not one component, but many

Why nutritional science and medicine are (mostly) bunk

The majority of ‘research’ done and published in recent times is suspect and a ton of it has been shown to be bunk, containing falsified data, massive editing, and restrictive and false fundamental assumptions in the basis of the studies.

Why? MONEY and FAME

The ideal in all science is to be objective. Studies should (in a perfect world) be done openly and done in a way that eliminates all variables except the one they are investigating. Sadly, research is expensive and there are very few scientific groups that are self-funded

Research in science and medicine depends upon grants, and while there are some grants given without restrictions they are few and far between

What actually tends to happen in research and studies is that a donor sponsors research/studies that will produce results in support of the donors agenda. AKA doing experiments/research/studies with a specific goal in mind from the onset (bad science)

No matter how impartial or virtuous the scientist, they only have two options

Do the sponsor funded research
Don’t do any research at all

Doesn’t take a genius to figure out what most people end up choosing

So there’s all this literature on the low-fat lifestyle and diet that is constantly being pushed on everyone. How did fat become the villain?

Well, easily

It’s all bad science done for money

A large body of research (by the agricultural communities) was funded with the intention to support the low fat diet and perpetuate the use of carbs ($$$)

Grants were provided by Big Ag to promote, you guessed it, grains, seed products, and sugar. Their money maker products

All of these products are low labor and low intensive foods that have high profit margins

Grains – bulk commodity (investment and initial costs are low)
Easy to bulk plant and harvest – one machine can take care of a whole field
No vet costs
No storage costs

Thus, there’s more reasoning to push these products since cereals are very lucrative

But if this was the case, wouldn’t Big Ag also be pushing the meat industries?

No, for the opposite reason they support grains, meat and dairy just aren’t as lucrative

High labor (requires many men to handle the animals), vet services, land use, transport, refrigeration
Feeding animals grains requires the altering of their stomach bacteria which is expensive
No advantages to producing meat

Seems pretty cut and dry to me

But what about ‘optimum nutrition’, standards, and statistics?

What is ‘optimum nutrition’? Who gets to define it? Nobody knows
Statistics and finding the ‘norm’ is done by looking at the preserved ‘norm’
- This is like saying 16-18 is the ‘normal dress size range’ for women because most of the population has been found to wear that size (true)
- As people change, statistics change and will continue to change
  - Charts are made up by statisticians to categorise and reduce the risk limits. These charts can’t deviate too far from the ‘norm’ or people will consider them useless.
  - For example, the ‘standard’ of healthy blood cholesterol now makes 90% of the population over the limit and now require medication/treatment ($$$ for big pharma)
  - Fun quote: ‘statistics don’t lie, but statisticians do’

The medical community does the same thing as Big Ag, they want to drive a profit

Let’s think a second on how the medical industry gets their money.. sick people

The medical profession does not profit from healthy people and as such there is no strong motive to support the truth

But, but, but… doctors are there to help people!

Well, I hate to break it to you, but doctors are people just like us

Ask yourself, why would anyone become a Dr? Ask yourself and the answer will come.

Doctors are motivated by money, status, fame, and then maybe their desire to help people

Why would they cure people when they can get people to keep giving them money??

Not everyone is driven by money, there are some truly caring medical professionals out there, but they are few and far between

On exercise

Of course diet isn’t the only reason for obesity, lack of exercise is also a big factor

We evolved are a group hunting animal so we have a high natural requirement for exercise and cannot be healthy without it

It is without question that regular, stress inducing exercises like running/biking plus lifting weights is absolutely imperative for optimum health. Low-stress activities like walking just don’t cut it

All carnivores must keep very fit, if they don’t they die (escaped prey)

Exercise myths and misinformation

Myth: You need to replenish the glycogen in your muscles after you exercise

The actual source of energy for muscles are the free fatty acids in a protein complex and the enzymes used in our muscles originate from the liver

Myth: Carbs fuel you and give you energy

People claim they get a boost from the insulin rush but this is unlikely

Muscles run on fat and will store the extra glucose as fat around the body till it is needed and this process for your body storing the glucose will drain your energy

The truth about exercise is that muscles never use carbs as fuel, only fat, so ‘burning’ carbs is just your body converting the carbs into fat which takes energy and puts a heavy load on the body when exercising. If you eliminate carbs your endurance will skyrocket

Rapid intense effort (anaerobic) uses ATP, which degrades with muscular contraction into ADP. ADP is then converted back to ATP with energy fueled by fatty acids complexed with n-acetyl carnitine. No carbs are involved. Aerobic exercises work the same

Why should a muscle, which is purely protein, need carbs to grow?

Spoiler alert: It doesn’t

Proper exercise

It’s important to know that the body is always constantly adapting and is very conservative with its resources. If you do not actively exercise you will lose muscle as the body determines it as unneeded. You must maintain the body’s activity for optimum results

If you want to gain quickly then you must limit workouts to less than 90 min including aerobics

Do aerobics for 20-30 min. You want to do it first to warm up your heart and lungs, warm up muscles to stretch, and to activate the liver to produce the enzymes needed to do hard work (these are not stored so you must trigger them)

Use the rest of the time to lift weights however you prefer. Make sure to lift heavy and increase weight/reps with each workout session or you will not see any gains past a point.

Again, muscles change and adapt based on the stimulus (training) they receive

Example: Low resistance aerobic exercise builds lungs, breath control, and circulation
You can train for endurance (aerobic – fast twitch) OR strength (anaerobic – slow twitch), but not both

You also need to get proper rest after intense exercise so that your muscles have the time to repair themselves properly and grow stronger. This means you need to rest at least one (two is a good number) day between intense workouts to allow your body the time for this. If you are younger you will require less recovery time though it will increase as you age so the best exercise method is brief and infrequent

And of course it’s worth noting that if you want to gain you must have a caloric surplus and eat more (don’t eat after a workout till after you cool down) and if you want to go below your body’s natural fat level you must have a caloric deficit and eat less

Conclusion

There are many walks of life, vegan, vegetarian, mixed, etc diets. You are free to pursue whichever way of life you like, that’s your business and if you are satisfied and unwilling to change then don’t. Nobody is forcing you to do anything

This information is for people who are genuinely interested in going down this path

It’s for people who are interested in:

Increased energy
No hunger pangs
Increased endurance
Increased strength
Well-being
Rapid fat loss

Again, the way of the carnivore is a simple one

Eat only from the animal kingdom. Avoid eating carby animal food, like lactose (dairy, but cheese, butter, and heavy cream are ok) and more than a very small, occasional, few ounces of liver.
Do not measure what you eat and do not worry about variety.
Do as little cooking of your food as you can tolerate.
Eat the fatty part preferentially in each meal first, then finish as much of the lean as you want. Leftovers will keep.
You do not need ‘recipes’ or ‘sample meals’ to follow.
When away from home, no matter if it is a restaurant, family or friends, or business meal, eat only from the animal kingdom, avoid the rest, practice doing this unassumingly and make pleasant, distracting comments if bailed up on it. Learn to politely refuse alcohol.

Try the way for at least 30 days (enough time for your body to adapt) and see the effects it has on you. Good luck~

ADDITIONAL SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

My top three resources:

The Bear’s Words of Wisdom– in my opinion, a literal genius, this guy is/was insanely smart. If you’d rather check him out first, here is a link to the essays that he’s written. Or if you want to see his original website, it’s thebear.org. I think his writings are the most interesting.

The Fat of the Land (this pdf kind of sucks, if you hate looking at it, I will buy you the digital or physical book. This book is a must read, so just say the word when you’re ready for it if you want me to buy it).

reddit.com/r/zerocarb (community with very active user base and a plethora of information, including discussion and first hand accounts of their experience on the diet)

Youtube Videos

Steak and Butter Gal – A woman who was previously vegan for 6 years and who has now been carnivore for 3 years.

My zerocarb life

Shawn Baker MD

Eating Less Meat Won’t Save the Planet, Here’s Why

Dr. Paul Mason – ‘From fibre to the microbiome: low carb gut health’

Studies

Use of Animal Fat as a Symbol of Health in Traditional societies Suggests Humans may be Well Adapted to its Consumption

Twelve Months Exclusive Meat Diet Study

More Books

Strong Medicine

The Stone Age Diet