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I have found a dramatic increase in my quality of life doing the exact opposite of authoritative health guidelines.

- More red meat - Less to zero carbs - More salt - Zero vegetables

n=1 I know, but when will they start to get this right? It feels like with every published recommendation, we move further from our evolutionary diet.

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At what point of our evolution do you think we ate primarily salted red meat, no carbs and no vegetables?

I’m willing to be further educated, but before agriculture was prominent we really had not many other options aside from seafood (which for the record I consume in similar amounts to red meat). A majority of non farmed or cross-bred vegetables and plants in the wild would have been toxic as they are today (try eat anything in a random forest that looks like lettuce - you won’t have a good time), and modern day fruits look nothing like they used to. Carbohydrates would have been far less dense in fruits and more fibrous. The carb exception being honey which is essentially pure sugar, but I don’t know the percentage of early humans that would have consumed it or how often. I see the example of the inuits and hunter gatherer tribes of Australia being key examples of low carb, high fat and protein civilisations which I would say would have been the norm up until around 25,000 years ago.

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