We hear or see it enough now sitting at the restaurant and knowing there’s a grass-fed beef option, but you ask… What’s so special about grass-fed? Is it really healthier for me? What are the real differences? Well, is it really healthier for me? There hasn’t been any study done that can definitively tell us […]
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Previously, I have discussed the fact that mammals across the spectrum get over 70% of their energy from fats. So in some sense, we could consider ourselves lipovores. Let us explore why that might be significant. Energy constraints Both the brain and the gut are very metabolically expensive tissues to operate. We traded in organ
I realize this is a huge leap for people to make, especially considering all the prominent messages around meat these days. Be it on our evolutionary physiology or the nutritional content of meat, hopefully with this article, I can clear up some misconceptions about meat. The knee-jerk reaction Why are people so vehemently opposed to
Plant based foods have for as long as I remember had a halo effect. We were always told that it is the healthiest type of food. To which I asked early on “why?” Eventually it was beaten into me enough times that I just believed it at face value. As I got older, I learned
Fiber is not essential or necessary. In fact it makes bowel movements/GI symptoms worse. This idea that fiber was good for the body was born out of religious zealots from the Seventh-Day Adventist church. The most notable being one John Harvey Kellogg, yes, the cereal Kellogg. Their belief was that a plant-based/vegan diet cured impure
In the previous post, it was demonstrated that across mammalian species, the energy composition was uniformly weighted towards fats. Here, we further explore other pieces of evidence that elucidate what exactly should we be eating. Areas we can investigate: The physiological metabolic constraints and stable isotope analysis of early ancestors. Expensive tissue hypothesis Kleiber’s law
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What are we supposed to eat? We’ve heard this debate over and over. We’re omnivores, no actually herbivores. We shouldn’t be eating meat, it’s carcinogenic. Look at our teeth. Does a baby want to hug a bunny or eat it? Herbivores vs. Carnivores vs. Humans It would be quite reasonable for anyone to think that
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Ketones are metabolites formed from the breakdown of fats. These are produced in the liver and only occurs when insulin levels are low enough. Consequently, many people use fasting as a means of getting into a state of ketosis, liberating energy from bodily fat stores. However, ketosis can also be achieved by eating a low-carb
Well if we’re going to stop eating sugar, then we have to replace it with fat. WAIT, AREN’T WE TRYING TO LOSE FAT? WHY WOULD WE WANT TO EAT MORE OF IT!? is what you might ask. Well, what is fat? It is the most energy efficient substrate and it plays an important part in
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Fructose – “fruit sugar” This is what is causing a large portion of our metabolic disease in this current day. It’s especially prevalent in our food supply because of all the corn subsidies that make HFCS(high fructose corn syrup) particularly cheap. Thus, food companies use HFCS as their go to sweetener. And you best believe
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