Tag: carnivore

The story of how Keith inadvertently brought the apocalypse by being the first domesticated livestock.

How seed oils went from industrial waste product to government-endorsed health food: the full history from Crisco to the dietary guidelines, and the biblical price humanity has paid for the upgrade.

Why sunburn is a diet problem, not a sunlight problem. How seed oils replaced the stable saturated fats in your cell membranes and made your skin chemically vulnerable to UV radiation, and what to do about it.

The legendary cultures of history who thrived on animal-based diets: Rome, the Mongols, the Masai, the Scythians, and the forgotten civilisations that built empires on meat and fat.

How lean protein alone can kill you: the history of rabbit starvation, why pre-industrial hunters and explorers understood it instinctively, and why modern nutrition has fatefully abandoned this wisdom.

The explorers, undertakers, and doctors who practised and preached carnivore before it had a name: Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, Weston Price, and the clinical evidence that predated the modern trend by a century.

Why government RDIs for micronutrients don’t apply on a carnivore diet: the different metabolic rules at play, and why hitting 100% of the recommended daily intake for every nutrient isn’t the goal you think it is.

The abject history of how modern nutritional science and the dietary guidelines were bought and paid for: from Ancel Keys and the Seven Countries Study to the sugar industry’s funding of anti-fat research.

People in the fabled blue zones are not living to 100 because of sweet potatoes. A rigorous look at what the longevity data actually shows, and what’s been left out of the plant-based narrative.