Ethanol wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 10:41 pm
Kafkaesque wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 10:23 pm
Wow! I'm intrigued by it, but not going there until "results" are in.
I think I've listened to that podcast episode before. IIRC, she's a fan of getting a varied (unprocessed food) diet, but gets hooked up on managing every little micronutrient because she's worried about missing something. Is it the podcast where she talks about avoiding plastic baby bottles for her baby? Correct me if I'm wrong.
That's the one, yeah. And correct, she certainly seems to be suffering from health FOMO. Her taking some insane level of fish oil stuck with me and left me with exactly that same impression as yours.
Ethanol wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 10:41 pm
Think about a cow: it's a mammal. As a mammal, it requires all the nutrients we do. However they may be obtained, those nutrients have to be stored in its body. Then we eat its body; thus we get all the nutrients the cow had. And thus we get every nutrient we need.
That's a, frankly, obscene simplification. Just both being mammals equals the same nutrient needs? A dolphin, a rat, a cow and a human being are nutritianally the same? At a stretch, I'll grant that it might, maybe, could be that it'll do for what we need, but as optimal nutrition.....get the f*** out
A cow has four stomachs and digest markedly differently to us, and you're pitching that they by definition hold the nutrients, we need, on the sole basis of being a mammal. Get the f*** out
Not to mention that our brain is a completely different, as it were, animal and likely requires other nutrients.
Ethanol wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 10:41 pm
And even though meat is practically carb-free, carbohydrates are the only non-essential macronutrient, as we can make the little amount of glucose that we do need in the liver.
The topic is huge, and I cannot possibly go into it on here. I suggest checking out Paul Saladino's work and podcast if you like all the sciency stuff:
https://carnivoremd.com/
And if you haven't already, I'd suggest following Shawn Baker on YouTube. He's worth watching for, if nothing else, his anti-vegan musings:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5apkK ... DbqSalG8CQ
Like I wrote, I'm intrigued, and I've already delved deep into it. I'm seeing no proof of anything substanstial. I'm seeing a ton positive anecdotes, stories, and personal developments. But pointedly from people who're, nearly, all making a bunch of other positive life choices. Healthy people in good shape, working out, not eating junk and being all the better for it.
Again, good for you, and I very honestly wish you all the best with it. No need to "sell" the lifestyle though, which seems to be creeping in (in general, not you). With no evidence beyond personal - short term! - results. It puts the lifestyle right alongside vegan activism.
