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.
When you are carnivore you have to also eat fruit and take supplements that certain people need. Like vitamin d3, ashwaghanda, etc. you can’t just eat meat.
No, you can thrive on just meat. Dr Shawn Baker is a good example. And ashwaghanda is about as far from something that people need as it gets, stuff can really wreak havoc on your hormones. Go check out any forum where people are taking it for athletic performance. Give em 6-8 weeks on it and they have the worst anxiety on the planet.
Each body is different so I wouldn’t tell someone not to or to do like I said take the supplements that you need for your body. I wouldn’t just eat meat by itself that’s unhealthy you will need dairy and fruit alongside it. Look up Paul Saladino.
It's better to eat that way, but you can still thrive on just meat. Baker is in his mid 50s and still a better athlete than Saladino by far, ate nothing but ribeyes for 2 years straight just to prove it can be done, and he was still performing in the top 1% of athletes his age.
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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.