Vegans blaming animal foods ✅
Ketards blaming carbohydrates ✅
Carnivores blaming plant foods ✅
The problem isn't coming from the foods in nature that can be hand harvested, minimally processed, and are generally well digested.
It's the seed oils, not the butter and tallow.
It's the seed oils, not the fruit and honey.
It's the seed oils, not the rice and potatoes.
Seed oils, and the other hyper industrial garbage that fill every grocery and every restaurant.
#Peatstr
I went carnivore and never got all the results that others did. I had stubborn weight that never went away.
That's because #Carnivore, which has been elevated to a religious level, actually presents real challenges to our biology:
1. High protein to moderate fat carnivore will not allow for weight loss. Folks need to reduce protein and increase fat. 80:20, or 90:10 should do it. This will convince the body to burn fat stores. Protein is extremly sating/taxing above bodily need, which has the effect of preventing this.
2. The kidney's rely on insulin signalling for mineral retention. This is why milk and orange juice are more hydrating than water. Carnivore folks need massive amounts of extra minerals because their body doesn't hold onto them well. Also why constipation is a common theme.
3. The thyroid requires sugar and cholesterol to and will not signal abundance to your body without them. A lack of either will act as a drag on sex hormones and elevate cortisol. Long term carnivore folks have chronically elevated cortisol, which makes it tricky to become lean, especially around the mid section. Also note the weathered, loose skin and balding in this camp.
4. Many resort to intermittent fasting to make up for the above, which unfortunately tends to be stressful when done chronically. This makes the above issue become more entrenched as the metabolism and energy production down regulates to adapt.
Unfortunately, while carnivore eliminates so many stressors of modern food stuffs, it also introduces stressors of it's own by denying the body sugar.
Ah, forgot an important one:
5. Our body expects us to balance the phosphate and methionone in muscle meat with calcium and collagen. Because diary often contains sugar, and because it's digestability has suffered due to modern industrialization, many do not get enough calcium. Also, steaks are really romanticized, so folks aren't getting enough collagen. This is very stressful and aging to the body.
Don't forget the HFCS along with those seed oils
Fructose good, HFCS bad bad bad.
HFCS is an industrial starch syrup, which acts very different than fructose. Oddly enough, HFCS doesnt contain much more fructose than cane sugar, so "high fructose" seems like a misnomer.
The big problem is the nutritionally unreported starches which delivers 4-5x the glycemic impact in the same amount of volume and sweetness. It's like drinking a rice smoothie alongside every soda.
Heavily subsidized, insanely industrialized, and unnatural. HFCS is often paired with seed oils and other additives in junk food.
Train wreck.
