Joe Rogan said on his podcast that the first time he ate only meat for 30 days he had more energy and explosive diarrhea. Now he's adding fruit.

I still don't understand where this carnivore diet came from? I don't think humans only ever ate just meat unless there is some history that I never learned about it.

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    3 years ago

    I'm reminded of the show "Alone", where the most efficient way to survive was simply to git gud at fishing. People who trapped rabbits or tried to scavenge off roots and berries inevitably experienced some kind of nutritional deficiency. Even a guy who brought down a deer ended up going back to fishing in short order, simply because the meat was too lean.

    There's this weird mythology around Hunter-Gatherer societies that just doesn't bare out particularly well in modern practice. Maybe because we spent the last thirty thousand years functionally exterminating all the mega-fauna, while reorienting our diet around farmed grains. Maybe because the institutional knowledge is long gone. Maybe because we just have no idea what to expect in a Neanderthal Diet, and people constantly shitting their asses out or going around chronically malnourished for whole seasons was normal. But there ain't no going back, regardless.

    • ClathrateG [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_poisoning

      Protein poisoning (also referred to colloquially as rabbit starvation, mal de caribou, or fat starvation) refers to an acute form of malnutrition caused by a diet deficient in fat, where almost all calories consumed come from lean meat.[1][2] The concept is discussed in the context of paleoanthropologial investigations into the diet of ancient humans, especially during the last glacial maximum and at high latitudes.[3][4]