Happy Saturday!
My blog/rant for today is: (and don’t take it personally)
There are no “human” longevity experts. Period.
The human studies are all observational only.
The experts’ life extension studies are confined to fruit flies, worms, mice, rats, cats, dogs, etc.
With humans, it is purely observational.
While mice and rats are omnivores, both field and lab mice eat mainly seeds, nuts, and vegetables.
That is why you normally find rats and mice but no dogs, cats, foxes, or coyotes foraging for food in granaries or gardens. Take two cats and dogs, feed one cat and one dog nothing but vegetables, and feed one cat and one dog nothing meat. Which ones do you think are going to live the longest?
One of the cases against eating plants as food for carnivores is this: Animals fight, run, or hide for survival. Plants develop toxins, thorns, etc. for survival. Carnivores don’t like the toxins.
“Some plant foods evolve defense mechanisms to protect themselves from predators by producing inherent chemicals as secondary metabolites such as cyanogenic glycosides, glycoalkaloids, glucosinolates, pyrrolizidine alkaloids, and lectins. These metabolites are beneficial for the plant itself but toxic to other organisms, including human beings”
“Naturally Occurring Plant Food Toxicants and the Role of Food Processing Methods in Their Detoxification - PMC” Yeah, well it says raw vegies are not always better.
I have been on keto and low-carb Mediterranean diets for over two decades.
My experience is; the fewer carbs I eat, the better I feel.
Maybe it’s the Northern European ancestry, but grains and vegetables just don’t sit well in my gut.
Since the US government established the food pyramid we have become increasingly fatter and fatter.
I am not a conspiracy theorist, but I am a believer that most people are sheep and follow whatever the government and big pharma suggest. Though, even people with an agenda are occasionally right.
When the government and WHO start to push vegetarianism to help reduce climate change and countries like Ireland start killing cattle in the belief it is going to have any effect on climate change, I must go in the opposite direction.
I am a contrarian by nature.
So, if the masses are going vegan, then I am going carnivore.
As I have said, I have been on a relatively low-carb diet for decades and now I am going to try going carnivore for a while.
As long as it makes me feel good and my blood work looks good I will try to stay on the carnivore diet
My current bloodwork is very good for any age and I will see if going strictly carnivore will have any significant change.
The only difficulty I have with the carnivore diet is that it is a little monotonous. One advocate claims that if you only when you are hungry you will be fine. There is some truth in that.
I have had steak for my first meal of the day when I get hungry at about 1 o’clock and it tastes good. The one thing I can say is that so far my gut has never felt better. No carbs, no gas, or bloating.
I hope to see vegans and carnivores alike on the other side of 100.
