Influenced to Death Episode #2: Carnivore Diet, Part 1
In part 1 of this “meaty” extravaganza 👀, Hannah and Victoria explore the history of the Carnivore diet and their biases.
Be sure to listen to part 2 for the full Carnivore story.
Full show notes:
Definition: A carnivore, or meat-eater, is an animal or plant whose food and energy requirements are met by the consumption of animal tissues whether through hunting or scavenging.
Likewise inspired by observations on an indigenous diet in St. Lucia, Dr. John Rollo in 1797 successfully treated 2 patients with diabetes with a diet consisting only of meat and fat. Rollo recommended the near-complete elimination of plant foods, a prescription that was widely adopted and empirically optimized to prolong the life of people with diabetes in the 19th century. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5112440/
Meatrition.com (hahaha): The Philosophy of the Stomach; or an Exclusively Animal Diet is the Most Wholesome and Fit for Man. By Bernard Moncriff, London 1856.
"The most wholesome diet is that which requires the least quantity of matter to be introduced into the digestive cavity for the support of the system."
“My face, from being rather shallow, became clear and youthful, my eyes serene and mirrors of happiness. It gave me unknown, or rather, forgotten pleasure, to jump over ditch and hedge, and to make those exercises which required muscular strength”.
"I have not felt the slightest disagreeableness arising from the bowels, either in the shape of eructations from the stomach, or obstruction, or dysentery, or of any denomination whatever. Indeed, it if was not from memory, and from books, I should not know that I had such things as a stomach and intestines. The evacuation of the bowels takes place with ease and regularity once every other day.”
Clinical calorimetry: XLV. Prolonged meat diets with a study of kidney function and ketosis - 1930 - “Two normal men volunteered to live solely on meat for one year.” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021925818768427
Inspired by Inuit people
Scurvy wasn’t present in native pop, but when it occurred in scientists it was cured by eating raw meat
After one year, gingivitis had disappeared in one of the men. The total acidity of the urine during the meat diet was increased to 2 or 3 times that of the acidity on mixed diets, and acetonuria was present throughout the periods of exclusive meat.
Meat diet contained less calcium, but study didn’t report a deficiency.
Dr. Shawn Baker “invented” the modern carnivore diet: https://carnivore.diet/dr-shawn-baker-md/ - surgeon, author, athlete, father
The Carnivore King, https://www.youtube.com/@ShawnBakerMD
Dr. Paul Saladino (psychiatrist)
(Google him if you must, we’re not giving him a backlink.)
“Learn which foods are b******t.”
Liver King: Brian Johnson - owns Heart and Soil supplement company with Paul Saladino.
“Whole Package” male hormonal support supplement is most eye-catching; contains beef testicles, liver, blood extract:
2023 article in The New Yorker by Manvir Singh titled Red Shift: Is an all meat diet what nature intended? quoting Raw Egg Nationalist (213K followers on X), who talks about soy globalism and how a low-fat veggie diet tanks testosterone.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/02/is-an-all-meat-diet-what-nature-intended
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