As a 63 year old brain tumor survivor, red meat has been conducive to my recovery. I had to relearn how to read, write, talk and walk all over again. Nutrition plays a vital role in my ability to bounce back from such an invasive and intrusive procedure 💜🧠🥩
I've been watching your videos since the kimchi video about sodium. Thanks for making great content and for putting in the work to research these topics! I just used your meat video sources for a college nutrition course.
Everyone (except complete fools) knows your anti vegan crusade is being funded by the animal industries. You even admit your bogus videos are paid promotion. Your job is to fool people.
I first heard of the cat study in a book that you might find interesting- Allergies: Disease in Disguise by Dr. Carolyn Bateson-Koch. I think that you might be underrating the value of raw food in a healthy diet. Not raw meat as you say, but raw fruits and vegetables. Personally I got rid of crippling life long allergies by adapting to a diet of primarily raw foods, as recommended in Dr. Bateson-Koch's book.
I'd say the problem with Veganism is the processed foods that make up the majority of many vegan's' diets. Most do not incorporate lots of fruit into a diet because nearly every health pillar argues that too much fruit is bad because of it having too much sugar (even Dr. Bateson-Koch makes this argument, in an off-hand, unexplained way.) Dr. Robert Morse is a good resource on Fruitarianism if that interests you.
Realistically, I think that developing humans wouldn't have had a consistent diet. They were hunter gatherers as you say, and you can only hunt and gather what is available to you in season. There would have been times where they ate a lot of meat, times where they ate mostly fruits and vegetables, times where they ate nuts, fungus, tubers, etc.
I think that nutrition dogma is harmful in any diet. Personally, I've found that eating high quality whole foods, including lots of raw fruit, cutting processed foods out of my diet, and practicing proper food combining has made all of the difference.
Great video, as always. I'll definitely be using this as a resource in future conversations.
I know the carnivore stuff is a bit of a side topic, but I would like to challenge your emphasis on vitamin C a bit:
Muscle meat has more than enough vitamin C to reach optimal levels on its own. In the past, fresh meat was known to be an effective cure for scurvy, documented in Lancet volume 123.
Optimal intake of vitamin C seems to be around 10 mg/day. Even the lowest C meats have around 16 mg/kg, so around 600 gram (1.3 lbs) a day should meet that level, and that's cherry-picking the lowest value.
And there's reason to suspect C needs would be lower in a carnivore context. A main use of vitamin C is carnitine synthesis. As the name suggests, meat is the best source for that, so needs for synthesis would be declined. Vitamin C competes with glucose for uptake, so it's also likely that any low carb context will reduce C needs relative to the high carb context that 10mg number was found within.
Got even more interested in studying the possible benefits of adding raw meat to a carnivore diet. And even fresh kill raw meat, several substances decompose after hours of the kill, like liver and muscle glycogen.
Maybe you'd want to make a video/post about this Joseph, like the 900 eggs experiment.
As a 63 year old brain tumor survivor, red meat has been conducive to my recovery. I had to relearn how to read, write, talk and walk all over again. Nutrition plays a vital role in my ability to bounce back from such an invasive and intrusive procedure 💜🧠🥩
I've been watching your videos since the kimchi video about sodium. Thanks for making great content and for putting in the work to research these topics! I just used your meat video sources for a college nutrition course.
I have followed your work on YT for some time, happy to discover your substack. And again, the incredible work you do and bring it to us. Thanks!
Everyone (except complete fools) knows your anti vegan crusade is being funded by the animal industries. You even admit your bogus videos are paid promotion. Your job is to fool people.
I first heard of the cat study in a book that you might find interesting- Allergies: Disease in Disguise by Dr. Carolyn Bateson-Koch. I think that you might be underrating the value of raw food in a healthy diet. Not raw meat as you say, but raw fruits and vegetables. Personally I got rid of crippling life long allergies by adapting to a diet of primarily raw foods, as recommended in Dr. Bateson-Koch's book.
I'd say the problem with Veganism is the processed foods that make up the majority of many vegan's' diets. Most do not incorporate lots of fruit into a diet because nearly every health pillar argues that too much fruit is bad because of it having too much sugar (even Dr. Bateson-Koch makes this argument, in an off-hand, unexplained way.) Dr. Robert Morse is a good resource on Fruitarianism if that interests you.
Realistically, I think that developing humans wouldn't have had a consistent diet. They were hunter gatherers as you say, and you can only hunt and gather what is available to you in season. There would have been times where they ate a lot of meat, times where they ate mostly fruits and vegetables, times where they ate nuts, fungus, tubers, etc.
I think that nutrition dogma is harmful in any diet. Personally, I've found that eating high quality whole foods, including lots of raw fruit, cutting processed foods out of my diet, and practicing proper food combining has made all of the difference.
Great video, as always. I'll definitely be using this as a resource in future conversations.
I know the carnivore stuff is a bit of a side topic, but I would like to challenge your emphasis on vitamin C a bit:
Muscle meat has more than enough vitamin C to reach optimal levels on its own. In the past, fresh meat was known to be an effective cure for scurvy, documented in Lancet volume 123.
Optimal intake of vitamin C seems to be around 10 mg/day. Even the lowest C meats have around 16 mg/kg, so around 600 gram (1.3 lbs) a day should meet that level, and that's cherry-picking the lowest value.
And there's reason to suspect C needs would be lower in a carnivore context. A main use of vitamin C is carnitine synthesis. As the name suggests, meat is the best source for that, so needs for synthesis would be declined. Vitamin C competes with glucose for uptake, so it's also likely that any low carb context will reduce C needs relative to the high carb context that 10mg number was found within.
Amber O'Hearn has a pretty great article on the topic: https://www.mostly-fat.com/empirica/2017/02/c-is-for-carnivore/
Got even more interested in studying the possible benefits of adding raw meat to a carnivore diet. And even fresh kill raw meat, several substances decompose after hours of the kill, like liver and muscle glycogen.
Maybe you'd want to make a video/post about this Joseph, like the 900 eggs experiment.