There are about a million resources to start down this rabbit hole, but maybe the most entertaining and concise for just introducing the idea is the documentary “The Magic Pill.”
Watch it and then start exploring. The “normal” beliefs about nutrition are absolute nonsense.
Nutrition science is well understood. Saying “eating fat burns fat” is just bizarre and incorrect. Fat is just chemical energy, eating it doesn’t just magically cause you to burn fat and lose weight.
Vegetables do have nutrients, that’s also just a fact. They’re perfectly healthy to eat.
We do not have 5 stomachs, so we cannot efficiently make use of nutrients wrapped in cellulose. Plants also protect themselves by producing things that are toxic (oxalates, lectins, tannins, sapponins, etc).
Sugar & carb consumption produces an emergency hormone response that produces fat. We do not burn fat well while we are producing it. The subsequent hormonal shift back to a more sustainable state produces a crash & hangry cravings. Cravings are compounded by the lack of bioavailable nutrition in plant products.
Eating fat (without sugar & carbs) forces your body to use fat for energy (& produce the small amount of necessary glucose through gluconeogenesis). This puts your body in a hormonal state conducive to burning fat, and makes the transition from burning dietary fat to stored fat almost seemless without a crash or hangry cravings.
I lost almost 50 pounds after having my daughter by simply eating HFLC. Living proof.
before/after
Finally talked my mother (who is approaching 70) into a LCHF diet & she lost 50 or 60lbs too. And it really didn't take all that long. It's amazing how fast we can heal when we give ourselves the right fuel.
It took me 3.5-4 months. Truly. And honestly, it probably could have been faster. At first I limited myself to 100 carbs per day. At the end I dropped it down to 50. Once a week the last month I did a “fat fast” day. If I would have done this, the entire time, I would have lost more even faster. And honestly, fat satisfies you with less. Few things are better than scrambled eggs with whole cream, excessive butter, and a bit of cheese. 🤤
Ok I need to make breakfast now lol
we don't need 5 stomachs because we discovered fire and cooking
Cooking doesn't improve nutrient density, doesn't always eliminate oxalates & other troublesome things, & can also negatively impact nutritional value.
Plants are still poverty food & entirely suboptimal.
You don’t even need to cook vegetables to fully digest them. I’m not going to go into how to confirm somethings been digested but it should be p obvious.
"nutritional science is well understood" sure, by a healthcare system and government pushed nutritional regime that has produced the most disgustingly unhealthy and sickly population to literally *ever* walk the earth.
If you think you know something because its "normal" you've completely lost sight of reality. With respect.
The number of people who believe a thing never has & never will have any bearing on what is true.
If we judge by history actually, the more people who believe a thing is almost evidence that it's absolutely f*ckng wrong 🤣
The government and healthcare system isn’t forcing you to eat like a pig and not exercise. Those are decisions ppl make on their own.
And yes, we do understand how to optimise diets, it’s something professional athletes, body builders, etc do on a daily basis.
So Shawn Baker is in his mid 50s & keeps setting new world rowing records for his age group & he attributes this to his switch to carnivore diet.
Zach Bitter held the 100 mile world record for a time & attributes his success to low or zero carb training & recovery. He still uses carbs in the week or so prior to a race, but he goes zero carb after races & the difference in recovery isn't even close. He can run again by the end of the week, where previoisly he was laid up for most of a month.
There are clearly well funded interests promoting plant based eating & yet every major athlete who makes the switch seems to be more injury prone & to rather quickly fall out of their prime.
Mikaila Peterson put her extreme rheumatoid arthiritis into complete remission. People are putting MS into remission with an all meat diet. People are actually curing T2D. And it has certainly helped me with my gut issues among other things.
I think the evidence is very clear once you start looking & let go of your biases.
Just briefly looking into Shawn Baker, it appears he may be running a cult of personality scam like many personalities do.
He shills his book and carnivore diet monthly subscription service (lmao), and seems to have just straight up taken over $200,000 dollars from his followers on gofundme that was intended for a clinical study and instead used it as investment capital for his company Revero. It’s just a brief glance but it’s very sus imo.
Okay dude... I guess nevermind my personal experience which you jeep refusing to acknowledge at all. You can fuck off now.
I’m js maybe be cautious of ppl that are just trying to sell you something.
Yeah, I haven't bought anything from him & I've been following him (and many others) since way before he was selling anything. You have demonstrated an embarassing lack of intelligence during this convo & you should feel bad. Go away
You don’t have to get all rude and pissy with me just because you’ve been btfo, jeez. Anyway, enjoy the rest of your day.
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