The carnivore diet did not begin with Joe Rogan. It began with the people who built every empire worth reading about. Here’s the historical record.
Modern nutritional science has existed for roughly a hundred years. Human beings eating primarily animal products have existed for several million. The ancestral record, the historical record, and the anthropological record all tell a consistent story: one that the dietary guidelines of the last half-century have done their best to obscure. These articles tell that story.
The history of carnivore eating
People Of History Who Ate A Carnivore Diet
A tribute to the notable carnivores of history: the conquerors, philosophers, and explorers who stayed true to steak, shunned carbs, and thrived.
The Forgotten History Of Carnivore Nutrition
The explorers, undertakers, and doctors who practised and preached carnivore before it had a name, and what they found when they did.
The Carnivores Of History: How Meat Built Empires
The legendary and forgotten cultures that thrived on animal-based diets. Rome, the Mongols, the Masai: the consistent thread running through the most formidable civilisations in the historical record.
Ancestral eating and evolution
4 Things Everyone Gets Wrong About Palaeolithic Hunter Gatherers
The answer to the optimal human diet lies in the palaeolithic, and most attempts to reconstruct it have been landing significantly wide of the mark.
Why Humans Evolved To Need Fat
Humans aren’t just wired to like fat. We are built to need it. The evolutionary case for why dietary fat was critical to human survival and cognitive development.
The Forgotten History Of Rabbit Starvation
How the hunters and explorers of the pre-industrial era understood that lean protein alone could kill you, and why that knowledge was subsequently lost.
The corruption of modern nutrition
The Corrupt History Of The Dietary Guidelines
How modern nutritional science and the dietary guidelines were bought and paid for, and what the trail of evidence looks like when you follow the money.
The Modern ‘Healthy Diet’ Is The Same One They Fed Slaves
The dietary guidelines bear a striking and uncomfortable resemblance to the subsistence diets of historical slave populations. The comparison is not flattering.
Why Nutritional Science Is A Waste Of Time
The nutritional guidelines stand on a mountain of epidemiological junk that should never have been used as the basis for public health advice. The methodological case against it.
The livestock that made it all possible
The Animals That Built The World
The goat, the sheep, the cow, and the pig: ten thousand years of domesticated livestock history, and why the animals now being blamed for destroying the planet are the same ones that built it.
The other guides
Each guide collects the articles worth reading on one subject. Start wherever the problem is.
- Start Here: where to begin, in the order that makes sense.
- Carnivore Foundations: what to eat, what to avoid, and how to run the first weeks.
- Carnivore Fat Loss: how the fat comes off without counting anything.
- Carnivore And Building Muscle: protein, training, and the pairing that always worked.
- Carnivore And Health: cholesterol, gut, hormones, and the honest evidence.
- The Case Against Plants: what the vegetables were promising, and whether they deliver.
- Seed Oils: how an industrial waste product ended up in your kitchen.
- The Animals That Built The World: the goat, the sheep, the cow and the pig.
- The British Table: dripping, offal, and what this country ate before it got sick.
- Carnivore Recipes: the cooking, with the fat ratio kept where it belongs.
