Why You Can't Beat Meat: The Ultimate Carnivore Diet Guide W/ Dr. Paul Saladino 296

Aug 4, 2020

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There are a lot of diets out there — a LOT — and most of them inevitably disappear into obscurity after a few months or years because they are just coordinated marketing efforts capitalizing on a fad.

So, how do we truly find what kind of diet works best for our bodies, as individuals and a species? I like to look to our biology and our history for clues.

That’s why I sat down with Dr. Paul Saladino, who is the leading authority on the science and application of the carnivore diet. He’s also the host of the popular Fundamental Health podcast and author of the best-selling book “The Carnivore Code: Unlocking the Secrets to Optimal Health by Returning to Our Ancestral Die.”

He’s used this diet to reverse auto-immune issues, chronic inflammation, and mental health issues in hundreds of patients, many of whom were told their conditions were untreatable. He’s a fantastic wealth of information and everything he shares in this episode — as outlandish or contradictory to “conventional wisdom” as some of it might sound — is backed up by science.

I know this is going to be controversial for some people, but I urge you to listen and do a little research before you react.

09:22 — “The Carnivore Code” & what humans should be eating for optimal health

Why we have to evaluate the relative value of plant and animal foods
What are the most valuable foods for humans?
What do we consider being healthy that is not very healthy?
Debunking the myths around red meat

13:54 — Moving from a plant-based diet to a predominately animal-based diet

We don’t need to identify who we are by what we eat
You have the freedom to make the diet choices that are best for your health
The need for meat is written into our genes
Food is the biggest lever for manipulating your health; food is medicine
Understanding the root cause of health issues
The psychological benefits of an all-meat diet
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26:53 — Has there ever been a truly vegan population of humans on the planet in our history?

There has not been a vegan population as far as we know
We have also not had a fully carnivorous population, but many have been much closer
There are nutrients found in animal foods that do not exist in plants—but the inverse is not true
Why meat should have labels sharing their benefits

32:35 — Debunking myths around meat

Why the “blue zones” hypothesis is shoddy science
What gets left out of this research
How longevity is based on genetics
The religious bias in this research
How companies seek to “chemically castrate” us by cutting off our access to testosterone-producing foods.
The correlation between blue zones and abstinence from tobacco and alcohol
Lower motility and sperm quality amongst vegans and vegetarians—even in blue zones

49:16 — Why plants suck for your health

Animal foods are incorrectly and unjustly vilified based on crappy science
Plants don’t want to be eaten, and they develop toxins to defend against that
Eliminating the most toxic plants for optimal health
There’s a broader spectrum of factors affecting humans than we are aware of and it’s important to consider that when looking at your health
Why seeds are harmful to humans
Polyphenols are not native to the human body… so why would those be good for us?
Taking redundant plant molecules while ignoring the side effects
Differentiating between molecular hormesis and environmental hormesis (also, what’s hormesis?)
Why Paul doesn’t eat black pepper
How you can get all of the benefits from plant-based foods without any of the side effects
Why fruit is so much better for the human body than vegetables
The top 10 most inflammatory or problematic plants

01:30:07 — Foods to avoid and foods to supplement on an all-meat diet

Eliminating all polyunsaturated vegetable oils from your diet
For or against omega-3’s and fish oil
Getting enough Vitamin C
Eating rare or medium-rare meat and raw organs

01:47:57 — Eating the animal “nose to tail”

The values of eating animal organs
Eating or using the entire animal nose-to-tail out of respect
If you are not eating liver or heart, you are going to be riboflavin-deficient
The peptides available in organs
Getting organ benefits from supplements
Adjusting your palate to the taste of organ meat
Taking liver shooters

01:58:44 —The difference between land-raised animals and seafood

Grass-fed beef liver vs. oysters
The heavy metal density of seafood
Comparing water quality to smog level
The arguments against fish
Fish should not be the mainstay of your diet

02:05:24 — The environmental impact of animal farms compared to vegetable farms

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The interest in regenerative agriculture
Why the quality of soil is paramount
Putting animals back on the same land as plants regenerates the soil
Scaling regenerative farming
Cows are carbon-negative, so how do they contribute to greenhouse gases?
Soil carbon could be the single differentiator whether humans are on this planet in a thousand years

02:13:22 —Lightning Round Q&A

If you have severe acid reflux, what meats are usually best?
Which plant foods are least harmful should you run out of meat while traveling?
What do you think of “high meat,” rotten, fermented meat?
Does coffee do anything to your mouth’s microbiome while on a carnivore diet to make it too acidic?
How do you lose weight on the carnivore diet?
Would you do a podcast with Danny Roddy about Ray Peat’s work?
Your thoughts on kombucha?
What do you use for soap and moisturizer?
Does carnivore resolve depression for everyone?

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