Carnivory
Two Carnivores, Tiakarete and Me
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By definition, I'm a hypercarnivore, which means I get more than 70% of my food as meat from animals. I realise that this is a choice I have made, however it is based on knowledge and data I've found which shows that humans do well on a meat-based diet and not so well on a plant-based one. This is mostly based on the largest observational study we have available to us - 2.5 million years long and comprising all of the human species, past and present.
It is my assertion that the move from eating fruit to eating meat was what enabled our brain to become larger and our gut to become smaller. More recent history has shown that our brains have become smaller and our gut is becoming larger. Most of the modern diseases of dental decay, diabetes, dementia, cancer and coronary, along with our waistline, are all increasing with our increased reliance on plants in our diet.
I've been recovering my health in my sixties by reducing plants in my diet from 2013 and going fully animal-based food only since April 2014.
It is my assertion that the move from eating fruit to eating meat was what enabled our brain to become larger and our gut to become smaller. More recent history has shown that our brains have become smaller and our gut is becoming larger. Most of the modern diseases of dental decay, diabetes, dementia, cancer and coronary, along with our waistline, are all increasing with our increased reliance on plants in our diet.
I've been recovering my health in my sixties by reducing plants in my diet from 2013 and going fully animal-based food only since April 2014.
Carnivores may alternatively be classified according to the percentage of meat in their diet. The diet of a hypercarnivore consists of more than 70% meat, that of a mesocarnivore 50–70%, and that of a hypocarnivoreless than 30%, with the balance consisting of non-animal foods such as fruits, other plant material, or fungi. (Wikipedia: Carnivore)
Cecum – to me this is the biggest nail in the coffin for anyone who thinks we should eat a lot of plants. The cecum is filled with bacteria and enzymes, that digest cellulose aka plant cell walls. It is a vital to herbivores and ranges in importance in Omnivores. Humans have a cecum, however it is now just an empty sac, basically just an extension of the large intestines and no further digestion takes part in the cecum. So we had a cecum that is vital for plant digestion, however we evolved to not use it. This is huge because humans probably have the greatest survival instinct ever, so to get rid of something that could have helped us survive shows how little we came value plants in our diet over millions of years. |
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Carnivore Diet: Why would it work? What about nutrients and fiber?
Great little video covering most people's questions about the 'maximal elimination diet'. Only 20 minutes - well worth the time. |
A couple of good Facebook communities specialising in carnivory
- Principia Carnivora - Closed group - you have to ask to join, but should have no problem. Just over 19,000 members as of August 2018
- 100% Carnivore and Beyond - Closed group - UK based, you require a broad sense of Brit-like humour if you wish to join and not be offended. Just over 4,000 members at August 2018.
A good little primer on carnivory
Carnivore Diet 101: My Experience + Q&A
Camille Julia
No, not omnivore... The "Carnivore Diet," aka: 100% animal-product diet. Goodbye chocolate, goodbye adaptogens, goodbye green vegetables.
Crazy? Kind of. But this extreme counter-diet to veganism is changing people's lives for the better across world, completely breaking our collective preconceived notions of what it means to be healthy. I am striving to live a long and thriving life, and always looking for ways to break my own beliefs in the name of a greater truth... so I lit up at the opportunity to share my own personal experience with such a mind-boggling trend. It goes against some of the core principles I believe personally when it comes to health, and so I can think of no better way to get to the bottom of this than to just try it myself!
Camille Julia
No, not omnivore... The "Carnivore Diet," aka: 100% animal-product diet. Goodbye chocolate, goodbye adaptogens, goodbye green vegetables.
Crazy? Kind of. But this extreme counter-diet to veganism is changing people's lives for the better across world, completely breaking our collective preconceived notions of what it means to be healthy. I am striving to live a long and thriving life, and always looking for ways to break my own beliefs in the name of a greater truth... so I lit up at the opportunity to share my own personal experience with such a mind-boggling trend. It goes against some of the core principles I believe personally when it comes to health, and so I can think of no better way to get to the bottom of this than to just try it myself!
Don't You Find Just Eating Meat Boring?
Phil Escott on the subject - British fisherman, family man, writer and drummer who cured himself of severe, debilitating autoimmune illness by changing to carnivore way of eating. His book - Arthritis; The best thing that ever happened to me.
Phil Escott on the subject - British fisherman, family man, writer and drummer who cured himself of severe, debilitating autoimmune illness by changing to carnivore way of eating. His book - Arthritis; The best thing that ever happened to me.
By means of some 90 models of Eskimo teeth, Dr. Adelbert Fernald, Curator of the Harvard Dental School Museum, has proved that eating a strictly meat diet is the ideal way in which to keep the human mouth in a healthy condition, and that it is due to the fact that civilized people do not eat enough meat that they as a rule have decayed teeth.
