Thank you for this brilliant and thorough discussion! I'm a recent advocate of keto and carnivore, and feel blessed to have been enlightened on the right path! if only ore people could be exposed to this info!
Maybe plants are made more easily digestible by cooking, but I don't think that holds true for meat. There is a large community of raw carnivores online. And having eaten my meat raw for the last 6 months, I would anecdotally state that it is much more easily digested.
And to your scavenger point, I haven't been sick or suffered any infections... even after leaving the meat in the fridge, uncovered on a rack for up to a week. I've left it out on the counter loosely covered to warm up. By all modern standards, it should be covered in bacteria. Yet, I'm still alive and thriving. ;)
It would make sense if we retained the ability to eat fruit, but grains are sort of a recent "hack" of that system.
Would we expect some meat + maybe dairy (if that's your type) + fruit to be a good diet then?
And is there something lacking in grains as a major food source, or is it not merely a lack, but active anti-nutrients?
It always seems to me like "bioavailability" and "protein quality" aren't enough to explain the bad health of so many vegans. The protein "quality" is supposedly only about 20% lower. Even people who eat a little meat seem much healthier than those who eat no meat, although many micronutrients are allegedly very lacking in animal products, even if they're more available?
Humans and other apes are actually more sensitive to fructose than other mammals due to a loss-of-function mutation in the gene encoding the uricase enzyme (which breaks down uric acid). This mutation probably helped ancient apes survive starvation by boosting their ability to store energy as fat and glycogen from fructose.
Hm, "sensitive to fructose." Being unable to store fructose as fat actually kinda sounds like what the honey diet/peater types are doing. Of course it also seems to go more wrong than starches, in those who can't deal with it well.
Thank you for this brilliant and thorough discussion! I'm a recent advocate of keto and carnivore, and feel blessed to have been enlightened on the right path! if only ore people could be exposed to this info!
Thank you. I suspect you'll be interested in my upcoming podcast with the authors of this new study: https://x.com/trikomes/status/1864733327477084620
It will likely get posted next week.
Many thanks for that
Maybe plants are made more easily digestible by cooking, but I don't think that holds true for meat. There is a large community of raw carnivores online. And having eaten my meat raw for the last 6 months, I would anecdotally state that it is much more easily digested.
And to your scavenger point, I haven't been sick or suffered any infections... even after leaving the meat in the fridge, uncovered on a rack for up to a week. I've left it out on the counter loosely covered to warm up. By all modern standards, it should be covered in bacteria. Yet, I'm still alive and thriving. ;)
It would make sense if we retained the ability to eat fruit, but grains are sort of a recent "hack" of that system.
Would we expect some meat + maybe dairy (if that's your type) + fruit to be a good diet then?
And is there something lacking in grains as a major food source, or is it not merely a lack, but active anti-nutrients?
It always seems to me like "bioavailability" and "protein quality" aren't enough to explain the bad health of so many vegans. The protein "quality" is supposedly only about 20% lower. Even people who eat a little meat seem much healthier than those who eat no meat, although many micronutrients are allegedly very lacking in animal products, even if they're more available?
Humans and other apes are actually more sensitive to fructose than other mammals due to a loss-of-function mutation in the gene encoding the uricase enzyme (which breaks down uric acid). This mutation probably helped ancient apes survive starvation by boosting their ability to store energy as fat and glycogen from fructose.
Hm, "sensitive to fructose." Being unable to store fructose as fat actually kinda sounds like what the honey diet/peater types are doing. Of course it also seems to go more wrong than starches, in those who can't deal with it well.