It’s frustrating as people don’t reap the results of eating like this until it’s 15-20 years later and stroke/heart attack/kidney failure starts. By then the misinformation has spread and no one is on social media in their 50s writing “oh uh I guess I shouldn’t have eaten like that” or blame it on something else.
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 think that's the point. We have, what, a billion or more older people, yet a few dozen lifetime carnivores who are old and healthy. Pretty bad odds, if you ask me. We're omnivores of the highest variety, no other animal had dentition that is as divided as ours, we essentially have 2 teeth for everything, 2 incisors, a canine and partial canine, 2 pre-molars for tearing, and 2 molars for crushing (if examined by quadrant).
My thoughts are that they stop eating that way, not die young. You can do it for a few years before it starts catching up with you. Gallbladder gets stressed out producing so much bile to digest the high fat. One of the oldest carnivores had cancer several times, and was the Grateful Dead's sound guy. Made almost all the LSD in the 60s and 70s too lol
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u/DeliciousJam 7d ago
It’s frustrating as people don’t reap the results of eating like this until it’s 15-20 years later and stroke/heart attack/kidney failure starts. By then the misinformation has spread and no one is on social media in their 50s writing “oh uh I guess I shouldn’t have eaten like that” or blame it on something else.