You don’t Need any amount of fiber in your diet.
It is Not an essential nutrient.
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When I went carnivore my gut suffered... Constipation of the rails. It was only adding fiber back that gut got back on track.
Anyway around this?
Any carnivore will tell you the obvious: you weren't eating enough fat. Try getting at least 300g of fat a day. This is well-known stuff.
That's what i like to hear Doc!
The Missus and I were just now talking about fiber. Shortly after going keto, my irregular system shaped right up.
Yep
You don't Need any amount of social engagement farming in your scroll. It is Not an essential nutrient.
Not a nutrient, but needed to stimulate gut motility.
Carnivores get a lot of bulk in their diet because they swallow e.g. fur and herbivore gut content. Humans don't.
There's no scientific evidence to support that. I haven't been eating fiber for more than a year and I'm completely fine.
There is plenty of research that says fiber is needed. What the quality of that research is idk and am not about to go dig into their research setup and methods.
Just like you, I go by personal experience. I fully accept that ppl are different and what works for one may not work for the next.
I consider veganism an irrational cult, but lately see similar traits in hard core carnivores.
When they say eating just meet is fine cause animals do, that is wrong because we don't eat like animals. We don't take in fur/feathers, guts and plenty of fresh blood while eating meet. All of these play an important role for true carnivores.
Humans have a digestive tract which is closest to that of the pig. We are omnivores. Which doesn't mean that someone out there can't thrive on a lion or vegetarian diet. What do I know there might even be someone out there feeling great as a vegan :D
The quality of that research is garbage. Epidemiological studies with questionaires, comparing people who eat processed junk with those who eat processed junk with fiber (where it does have the benefit of blocking the absorbtion of the junk).
The only interventional study so far proved the opposite - zero fiber = zero constipation. Further there are many people who hadn't eaten fiber for years with no problems, so at least it's not universally required.
Here's a great talk that goes more in depth and isn't even that long:
https://youtu.be/xqUO4P9ADI0?si=M5MHfddbLjHKESv-
I don't care that some people want to destroy their gut with fiber but claiming it's required or even healthy is just wrong given the data we have.
I am not convinced by this video, here is what I didn't like:
1) he says he only found one RCT study on constipation. I asked ChatGPT to list 10 anditt returned 3 RCT studies and another 7 non-RCT
2) He says water intake has no impact on stool consistency and constipation. My personal experience is the opposite.
3) He compares the gut and its content to a street with cars, suggesting that more bulk causes constipation. While funny that is misleading. Gut content is more or less liquid until it reaches the rectum, where water is absorbed. It generally gets problematically hard only if the person is badly dehidrated.
4) when he compared a rabbit's GI tract to a human's, he failed to also compare it to a carnivore's for context. We are somewhere in the middle, though admittedly closer to carnivores. He also failed to mention we cook our food, unlike rabbits.
May be I'll finish the video later but so far it feels like he's advertising his theory rather than making a scientific presentation.
I am sure an elimination diet can be very helpful diagnostically but struggle to believe a lion diet can be good in the long term.
I also think a lot of the problems with natural carbs (as opposed to highly processed ones) come from eating too much in general.
The bottoms need fiber because that’s how they clean their ass out before sex. 😂