Two days ago I ran out of money for beef, so I'm back to eating mostly carbs (and grains), and within 36 hours my depression and skin problems are back. It's amazing, like an on/off switch for my well being.
Red (mammal) meat contains a particular glycan (Neu5Gc) that accumulates in our bodies when we eat it. Some studies have argued that this particular glycan causes cancer and inflammation: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4299224/
Nuts, avocados vegetables, leafy greens, mushrooms, berries. Coconut and olive oils.
Most of the time this manifests as:
- Salad with nuts in it. Dressing is chopped cilantro, lime juice, salt and olive oil, which seems to go really well with leafy greens. I can eat this salad for one meal everyday.
- Some kind of a curry or stir fry or soup with vegetables and mushrooms.
- Frozen berries for dessert.
- Salted pistachios for snaking.
It is easy to follow but it does get boring. So, when I crave something else like dessert or bread or fish or whatever then I indulge. That makes it easy to follow the regular diet the rest of the time.
Were you grilling steak, how else can you prepare straight beef?
The adaptation period was very rough (about 2 weeks). 3-4 weeks in I began to feel amazing. I started with steak, switched to mincemeat (cheaper, and more fat -- you need a lot of fat if you cut out carbs), and now switched to veganism due to being broke.
I use my body's response to beef (complete well-being) as the gold standard with which I judge all other foods, and sadly (because I cannot afford beef) nothing else even comes close.