After years of resisting it, I had to install Instagram at the last minute on my phone the other day to do an interview, Jim.
After the interview, I did what I guess you do when you have Instagram on your phone…
scroll.
It took me a few swipes to get to someone talking about how they’d been
healed of all their gut symptoms with the carnivore diet.
Was it something about
the meat in particular
that magically healed their gut?
I could be wrong, but in this context, does the carnivore diet seem like a
subset of the broader concept of an
elimination diet?
When your gut is so messed up that seemingly everything causes problems,
eliminate everything with any shred of fiber, plant defense compounds like lectins, phytates & oxalates,
sulfurous foods, etc.,
etc…
take all that away
so the inflammation goes down, so your
gut can have a chance to rest and
heal.
If so,
the fruitarians were talking about this LONG before the carnivores were…
and you can find entire websites, channels, etc. dedicated to showcasing the success of an all-fruit diet in healing gut issues, likely for the same reason.
While I philosophically resonate more with an all-fruit diet than an all-meat one,
I don’t know that either really
has a valid claim on the title of “the perfect human diet.”
One could do
either diet for quite some time and give a very messed-up gut a chance to calm down…
but, that
doesn’t mean either of them provides
all the nutrients needed to thrive in the long run.
And particularly, when you look at
the compounds that are the most “anti-cancer” in terms of the research, the vast majority of them
come from vegetables and herbs…
which aren’t included in either of those diets.
But then again, this is just me throwing things out there.
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The other thing about the term
“diet” in general, and
this might sound sacrilegious to people on both sides of the aisle…
but what you eat is indeed VERY important…
It's not the be-all and end-all when it comes to healing chronic conditions.
If anything, I think
this mantra of “you have to eat the perfect things, or all is lost” puts more stress on someone than anything else in a world with endless options of what to eat.
There are hundreds, if not
thousands, of stories of people healing just with a change of mindset alone, who didn’t change anything about the way they ate…
I just met one at a conference this last weekend.
And then
on the other end of the spectrum you have the
highest-end nutraceuticals, like
C60…
combined with agents to
keep your detox systems functioning properly, and those that will go in and
grab toxicants out of your body…
not to mention, those that will
give you all the minerals your body needs to do what it needs to do…
ALL of which are the
topics of TODAY’S (Wednesday) deep dive webinar with my good friend Dr. Darrell Wolfe going over some of my favorite foundational products of all time!
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