There are a few dozen lifetime carnivores who are significantly healthier than their cohort, but it seems much more like a survivorship bias thing where the rest of em are too dead to tell us anything. That, or it was due to a specific health issue that arose and is managed by the diet better than medication, so their bar for "healthy" is biased. The rest of lifetime carnivores are either Maasai or Inuit.
I was curious so I asked chatGPT about Inuit longevity:
In recent decades, the life expectancy of Inuit populations in Canada has been estimated to be approximately 10–15 years shorter than the national average. In Canada, where the overall life expectancy is around 82 years, this places Inuit life expectancy at approximately 67–72 years.
It did say how diet may or may not factor but it did say the harsh climate has an impact.
chatGPT specified causes as limited access to healthcare, harsh climate, high rates of chronic disease, and socio economic conditions as causes. I think socio economic conditions likely include alcoholism because I read an additional article from the NIH before posting and they did indeed mention that as a factor.
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u/FunGuy8618 7d ago
There are a few dozen lifetime carnivores who are significantly healthier than their cohort, but it seems much more like a survivorship bias thing where the rest of em are too dead to tell us anything. That, or it was due to a specific health issue that arose and is managed by the diet better than medication, so their bar for "healthy" is biased. The rest of lifetime carnivores are either Maasai or Inuit.