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Doctor: So, based on the guidelines and the WHO stuff, I’d recommend cutting back on the red meat—especially the processed stuff like bacon and sausage. It’s linked to higher risk of heart disease and some cancers.

Patient: Linked how? From actual trials, or just those big observational studies?
Doctor: Mostly the cohort studies. People who eat more red meat show higher rates of cardiovascular events and certain cancers. Usually something like a 10–20% relative risk bump at the high end.

Patient: Those are just associations though, right? The people eating more red meat also tend to smoke more, sit around more, drink more, and eat more junk overall. How cleanly can you separate that? And has any real randomized trial shown that cutting red meat actually prevents heart attacks, strokes, or death?

Doctor: The trials are pretty thin. Most of them just look at cholesterol or blood pressure, not the hard outcomes. The Women’s Health Initiative cut red meat a bit as part of a low-fat diet and basically saw no clear benefit on mortality.

Patient: Right—so the one big trial that actually reduced red meat didn’t move the needle on dying from heart disease or overall mortality? And the shorter trials on lipids and blood pressure are mostly neutral depending on what you’re comparing it to?
Doctor: Yeah. Versus plant proteins you sometimes get a small LDL difference. Versus other animal proteins it’s often a wash.

Patient: And that IARC thing that put processed meat in the same category as cigarettes? One of the actual panelists—a USDA scientist—said it was the most frustrating experience of his career. Weak observational data, ignored trials that didn’t support it, and a lot of people who already had their minds made up.

Doctor: That process has gotten a lot of criticism. The risks were modest and the data weren’t consistent.

Patient: So if I’m eating steak a few times a week, staying active, not smoking, and not living on ultra-processed food… is there solid evidence that cutting back more is going to meaningfully lower my chance of dying from heart disease or cancer?

Doctor: You know what, screw it—eat as much steak as you want. The evidence to avoid it is paper thin, but I have to tell you to avoid it so I can keep my job. Think I’m gonna have steak tonight too!



Mike
 
In 1928 a Chicago paediatrician let babies choose their own dinner from 34 foods, and for six years not one of them chose the way the pamphlet says.

Clara Davis took fifteen infants just weaned, and put a tray in front of them at every meal.

Beef, lamb, chicken, liver, kidney, brains, bone marrow, fish, eggs, milk, bananas, oats, carrots, peas, cabbage, salt. Nothing processed. No sugar.

Nobody steered. The nurse held the spoon, the baby pointed.

One boy ate seven eggs a day for a stretch. Another lived on bananas for a fortnight and then would not look at one.

They chewed bone marrow. They drank the beef juice. They pushed the greens round the tray.

One baby arrived with rickets. She put cod liver oil on the tray and left it there. He drank it, unprompted, until the rickets healed, and then never touched it again.

Six years. Not one case of stomach trouble. Not one deficiency. Visitors said they had never seen healthier children.

The doctors who examined them wrote it up as the wisdom of the body.

Nobody had taught these children that the yolk was bad or the marrow was rich or the cabbage was the healthy part.

Left alone with the food, a one-year-old built itself a diet heavy in the animal and ate the plants as a side when the mood took it.

The experiment is almost a century old. The pamphlet is still telling his mother to start with the carrot.



Mike
 
Every compound sold to you as the health benefit of a plant is a weapon the plant built to make an animal stop eating it.

Broccoli keeps two chemicals in separate compartments and mixes them only when a leaf is bitten, releasing a mustard oil to drive the caterpillar off. It is sold as sulforaphane.

The chilli makes capsaicin so a mammal's mouth burns and it leaves the fruit for the birds, who cannot feel it. It is sold as a metabolism booster.

The coffee bush makes caffeine to paralyse the insects chewing its leaves. It is sold as an antioxidant.

The grapevine makes resveratrol to fight off fungus. It was sold as the French secret and an anti-ageing pill, and the trials came back flat.

The red kidney bean makes a lectin so potent that four or five raw beans will empty you from both ends. It is sold as fibre and protein.

The potato makes solanine to poison whatever digs it up. In 1979 it made 78 schoolboys in south London ill.

The clover makes oestrogen-like compounds, and in the 1940s grazing on it left whole flocks of Western Australian ewes unable to lamb. The same family of compounds is in your soya.

The cassava root makes cyanide, and where it is eaten badly prepared, children are paralysed by a disease called konzo. It is sold as gluten-free flour.

Every one of those plants is trying to get you to leave, and the health shop has bottled the eviction notice.



Mike
 
A diet that stopped children's seizures was found at the Mayo Clinic in 1921, and it took the director of Airplane! to drag it back out of the textbook seventy years later.

Doctors had noticed for centuries that fasting quietened epilepsy.

Russell Wilder at the Mayo Clinic worked out why. A body without food runs on ketones, made from fat. So he built a diet that kept the body there while still feeding it. Mostly fat, some protein, almost no carbohydrate.

He called it the ketogenic diet, and for years it was a standard treatment for children with epilepsy.

Then the anti-seizure drugs arrived, and the diet was quietly dropped. It took work to run and nobody sold it.

1993. Jim Abrahams, who made Airplane!, has a baby son called Charlie having seizures every day. The drugs fail one after another.

Abrahams finds the diet in a library book and gets Charlie to Johns Hopkins, one of the few hospitals still using it.

Within days the seizures stop.

Abrahams set up a foundation, made a film about it starring Meryl Streep, and spent the rest of his life asking why nobody had told him.

In 2008 a trial in London finally tested it on children whose epilepsy no drug could control. Four in ten on the diet had their seizures cut by more than half. On usual care, six in a hundred.

A plate of fat beat the pharmacy on the hardest cases in children's medicine.

It is still offered only after at least two drugs have failed.





Mike
 
Women have been handed the plant version of every nutrient for fifty years and then told the tiredness is just being a woman.

Told to eat spinach for iron. Spinach iron absorbs at about 2%. The iron in a steak absorbs at up to 35%.

Told to take flax for the omega-3. The body turns a few percent of it into the fat the brain actually uses. A mackerel arrives with it done.

Told to swap the milk for oat. The milk was where the iodine was, and the thyroid runs on iodine.

Told to get B12 from nutritional yeast. Yeast has none until a factory sprays it on.

Told to get protein from tofu, which has half what a lamb chop carries and none of the fat to use it.

Told to cut the yolk for the cholesterol. The yolk was the choline, and the choline was the baby's brain.

Told to go low fat in 1985 and to count calories in 1995, and the hunger that followed got a diagnosis of its own.

Three women in ten on earth are anaemic. The advice for all three has been a leaf.

Every substitution on that list took the animal off her plate and handed her the deficiency, and then handed her a label for the deficiency.

Hashimoto's. Fibromyalgia. Chronic fatigue. Low mood. Perimenopause, arriving at thirty-eight.

She was never short of a plant. She was short of a cow.

Fifty years of being told to eat like a rabbit, and the fatigue filed under hormones.



Mike
 
Every food a child has ever been bribed to eat is a plant, and every bribe has been an animal or a sugar.

No child has ever been bribed to eat butter.

No child has ever been bribed to eat bacon.

No child has ever been bribed to eat the crackling.

No child has ever been bribed to eat a sausage, a chip fried in dripping, or the skin off the roast chicken.

No child has ever been bribed to drink full-fat milk.

Every child has been bribed to eat broccoli.

Every child has been bribed to eat the sprouts, the cabbage, the spinach, the peas, the swede and whatever that was on the side of the plate on Sundays.

Nobody has ever hidden steak inside a vegetable to get it into a child.

Entire cookbooks exist for hiding vegetables inside cheese.

Three more bites. Finish your greens. No pudding until the plate is clear.

The deal in every kitchen is the same: eat the plant and you may have the thing you actually wanted.

Children have been making this trade for a hundred years and losing every time, because the thing they wanted was the nutrition and the thing they were forced through was the ballast.

No parent has ever said finish your steak and you can have a sprout.



Mike
 
University debate: "Obesity is simply people eating too much and moving too little."

Cardiologist: "Your grandfather walked to work and dug the garden. We sat the species down and handed it a delivery app. It isn't complicated."

Anthropologist: "Have you measured it?"

Cardiologist: "Measured what?"

Anthropologist: "Movement. There's a method. You drink water with heavy atoms in it and the rate they leave tells you what you burned that week. It's been run on thousands of people since the early eighties."

Cardiologist: "And?"

Anthropologist: "Flat. We burn the same moving about as we did in 1980. Same as a hunter in Tanzania who walks all day, as it happens."

Cardiologist: "My patients can't get up the stairs."

Anthropologist: "They're carrying six extra stone up them. That costs more, not less."

Cardiologist: "Then it's intake. Movement flat, weight up, the fork did it. You've proved my motion."

Anthropologist: "A pound a year. Ten calories a day. One crisp. A body that balances a million calories to within one crisp isn't keeping a ledger. Something's telling it where to put them."

Cardiologist: "Nothing tells it. Surplus is stored. Thermodynamics."

Anthropologist: "Then why is the fat man hungry? He's carrying a year's food on his belt and he's starving by eleven."

Cardiologist: "Habit. Boredom. Portion creep."

Anthropologist: "Locked doors. His fat cells are full and won't open. Insulin's knocking and nothing answers, so the fuel goes in and can't come back out, and the rest of him runs on empty. He eats more because he's being starved by his own waistline."

Cardiologist: "Insulin resistance comes from being fat."

Anthropologist: "Or the other way round. Fat cells packed with seed oil don't behave like fat cells packed with dripping. The oil's fragile, it oxidises inside the cell, and the cell stops answering the door. Same breakfast, different lock."

Cardiologist: "That oil was recommended on the evidence of the day."

Anthropologist: "By you. You swapped his dripping for the stuff that jams the lock, then wrote 'lifestyle' on his file."

Cardiologist: "He could still eat less."

Anthropologist: "He can. He'll just be hungry doing it. You've not fixed the lock. You've told him to stand outside."



Mike
 
In de jaren 1930 gaf een tandarts uit Cleveland de armste kinderen in de stad één behoorlijke maaltijd per dag, veranderde niets anders aan hun leven, en hun tandbederf stopte.

Weston Price koos de kinderen zelf uit. Kinderen van fabrieksarbeiders uit een vervallen wijk, gekozen omdat hun monden het ergst waren die hij kon vinden.

Thuis leefden ze van wit brood, snoep en koffie volgeladen met suiker. Niemand raakte dat aan. Niemand deelde een tandenborstel uit.

In plaats daarvan liepen ze zes dagen per week rond het middaguur naar een kerkmissie en sloten ze aan in de rij voor een maaltijd.

Eerst een theelepel levertraanol gemengd met boter van koeien die graasden op jong voorjaarsgras.

Daarna een kom stoofpot gemaakt met mergpijpen en mals vlees. Sommige dagen vischowder, andere dagen orgaanvlees in plaats daarvan.

Broodjes van vers gemalen tarwe, dik met dezelfde gele boter. Een beetje sap, wat gestoofd fruit. En twee glazen volle melk.

Eén jongen was zo zwak aan het begin dat niemand zeker wist of hij de twee straten naar de missie wel aankon.

Binnen weken noteerde Price dat het bederf onder controle was gebracht bij elk kind in de groep. Tanden die waren afgebrokkeld, begonnen te verharden.

Toen kwamen de leraren naar hem toe. Twee van hen wilden afzonderlijk weten wat er was gedaan met één kind, dat was gegaan van een van de traagste in de klas naar een van de besten.

Eén maaltijd per dag. Merg, boter, vis, organen en volle melk, tegen een thuisdieet van suiker en wit brood.

Negentig jaar later krijgt een worstelend kind op een Britse school een gratis lunch van pasta, een portie groenten en een yoghurt met een cartoon op het deksel.
 
What people picture when they hear carnivore, and what it actually looks like.

What they picture:

- A red-faced man eating two kilos of steak at a table for one
- Gout by Christmas
- Scurvy by Easter
- A heart attack in the car park
- Constipated and proud of it
- A bodybuilder with a forum login
- A fridge full of raw liver
- Nothing green for the rest of his life, out of spite

What it is:

- A woman of fifty-four eating mince, eggs and butter, and sleeping through for the first time in a decade
- A pensioner whose knees stopped hurting and who no longer carries antacids
- A farmer eating what he grows, as his grandfather did
- A nurse who stopped being hungry at three o'clock on a twelve-hour shift
- A teenager whose skin cleared in a month and who does not know why
- A man who threw out four of his tablets with his doctor's shrug
- A bill at the butcher's and nothing at the pharmacy

The picture was drawn by people who never met one. The reality is standing behind them in the queue for mince.



Mike
 
Medusa zei:
In de jaren 1930 gaf een tandarts uit Cleveland de armste kinderen in de stad één behoorlijke maaltijd per dag, veranderde niets anders aan hun leven, en hun tandbederf stopte.

Weston Price koos de kinderen zelf uit. Kinderen van fabrieksarbeiders uit een vervallen wijk, gekozen omdat hun monden het ergst waren die hij kon vinden.

Thuis leefden ze van wit brood, snoep en koffie volgeladen met suiker. Niemand raakte dat aan. Niemand deelde een tandenborstel uit.

In plaats daarvan liepen ze zes dagen per week rond het middaguur naar een kerkmissie en sloten ze aan in de rij voor een maaltijd.

Eerst een theelepel levertraanol gemengd met boter van koeien die graasden op jong voorjaarsgras.

Daarna een kom stoofpot gemaakt met mergpijpen en mals vlees. Sommige dagen vischowder, andere dagen orgaanvlees in plaats daarvan.

Broodjes van vers gemalen tarwe, dik met dezelfde gele boter. Een beetje sap, wat gestoofd fruit. En twee glazen volle melk.

Eén jongen was zo zwak aan het begin dat niemand zeker wist of hij de twee straten naar de missie wel aankon.

Binnen weken noteerde Price dat het bederf onder controle was gebracht bij elk kind in de groep. Tanden die waren afgebrokkeld, begonnen te verharden.

Toen kwamen de leraren naar hem toe. Twee van hen wilden afzonderlijk weten wat er was gedaan met één kind, dat was gegaan van een van de traagste in de klas naar een van de besten.

Eén maaltijd per dag. Merg, boter, vis, organen en volle melk, tegen een thuisdieet van suiker en wit brood.

Negentig jaar later krijgt een worstelend kind op een Britse school een gratis lunch van pasta, een portie groenten en een yoghurt met een cartoon op het deksel.
Klik om te vergroten...

Weer Weston Price, yesss!

Mike
 
In Colorado, researchers gave breastfed babies puréed beef as their very first solid food instead of the iron-fortified cereal on every weaning chart, and the beef babies grew bigger heads.

Nancy Krebs took 88 babies, breastfed and four months old, and split them at random.

From five months, half were spoon-fed puréed beef. Half got the iron-fortified baby cereal American paediatricians had handed out as first food for generations.

The babies took to the beef just as happily as the cereal.

Between seven and twelve months, the heads of the beef babies grew faster. The amount of zinc and protein a baby took in predicted how much its head grew.

Her team kept going. Breastfed babies given more protein from meat grew longer, without putting on extra fat.

Then they took formula-fed babies and gave half of them meat purée and half of them yoghurt, cheese and whey from five months to a year.

The meat babies climbed up the growth charts for length. The dairy babies slipped down them, and got heavier for their height instead.

At two years old, the difference was still there.

The World Health Organization now says babies should have meat, fish or eggs every day from six months if they can.

The jar on the supermarket shelf still says baby rice.



Mike
 
Children with type 1 diabetes are taught to eat carbohydrate and cover it with insulin, and the families who quietly stopped feeding them carbohydrate got blood sugar their own doctors called almost too good to be true.

In type 1 the pancreas stops making insulin, usually in childhood, and never starts again.

The standard advice is to eat normally, count the carbohydrate, and inject insulin to match.

Only about one child in five hits the blood sugar target meant to protect them from blindness, kidney failure and amputation.

In 2018 Harvard researchers surveyed 316 people who had done something else. Children and adults with type 1, eating about 36 grams of carbohydrate a day, and meat, eggs, fish, fat and green vegetables for the rest. 131 of them were parents answering for their children.

Their average HbA1c was 5.67%, the range of someone without diabetes at all.

Almost all of them hit their target. They needed far less insulin.

Diabetes hospital admissions in the past year: 2%.

The lead author said their control seemed almost too good to be true, and nothing she usually saw in a type 1 clinic.

Before insulin existed, children with type 1 were kept alive for years on severe carbohydrate restriction.

Many children's diabetes clinics still warn families off it.

The parents found it in a Facebook group, because the clinic was still handing out the carbohydrate chart.



Mike
 
Neem één macronutriënt per keer weg en kijk wat je lichaam doet. Uiteindelijk blijkt slechts één van de drie optioneel te zijn.

Ga zonder eiwit.

- Je lichaam eet zijn eigen spieren op voor aminozuren.
- Daarna je organen, inclusief je hart.
- Je haar wordt dunner en je wonden blijven open.
- Je immuunsysteem hapert.
- Kinderen zwellen op door vocht. Dokters noemen het kwashiorkor.

Het lichaam breekt af.

Ga zonder vet.

- Je huid wordt droog en schilferig.
- Vitamines A, D, E en K worden niet opgenomen.
- Je nachtzicht vervaagt en je botten verzachten.
- Je bloed stolt niet meer goed.
- Ontdekkingsreizigers die leefden van mager konijnvlees werden binnen een week ziek.

Het lichaam breekt af.

Ga zonder koolhydraten.

- Je lever maakt al de glucose die je nodig hebt.
- Insuline daalt en je vetvoorraden komen vrij.
- Je hersenen halen een groot deel van hun brandstof uit ketonen.
- Je bloedsuikerspiegel stopt met schommelen.
- De honger die elke drie uur knaagde, wordt stil.

Het lichaam past zich aan.

Zelfs het Amerikaanse Institute of Medicine geeft het schriftelijk toe: de laagste koolhydraatinname die verenigbaar is met het leven is blijkbaar nul.

De eerste twee weken voelen vlak terwijl je lichaam zich herstructureert van suiker naar vet. Breek erdoorheen, en binnen een paar weken is de machinerie opgebouwd.

Eiwit en vet kun je niet missen om te leven. Koolhydraten wel, en heel veel mensen leven er beter door.

Geef het drie maanden. Rundvlees, lamsvlees, eieren, boter, kaas. Geen suiker, geen brood, geen zaadolie.

Beslis dan of je die derde ooit echt nodig had.
 
Most people pass the beef in the supermarket and see a decent bit of protein with a guilty conscience attached. Something that mooed, took up space, and now has to be offset.

I see the most advanced piece of technology in the building.

Somewhere on a hill no plough has ever touched, a bullock walked out one morning and ate grass. Cellulose. You could eat a field of it and starve. Two million years of being the cleverest primate on the planet and we still cannot get a calorie out of a lawn.

He can. He carries a four-chambered fermentation plant about with him, forty gallons of warm broth seething with microbes no laboratory has managed to copy, and he turned a hedge into this.

Every amino acid your body needs, in the proportions it needs them. Iron in the one form your gut will actually take. Zinc. B12, which no plant on earth makes. Creatine, carnitine, taurine. Fat with the vitamins already dissolved in it.

All of it done standing in the rain, on land where nothing else edible will grow. No diesel, no nitrogen plant, no steel tanks. He maintains himself, repairs himself, breeds himself, and his exhaust goes back into the grass. Everyone who has tried to make meat without him has needed a bioreactor, a patent, a billion in venture money and a press officer.

Then somebody stops at the chiller and sees a tragedy, and swaps it for a block of pea paste that took twenty ingredients and a marketing team to taste a bit like him.

Rain and sunlight in. The most complete food a human can eat out. Ten thousand years, unpatented, still running.

The only thing that ever beat it was the story, and the people who wrote the story were selling the substitute.



Mike
 
The idea that eating cholesterol clogs your arteries was born in 1913, in a laboratory full of rabbits fed egg yolk dissolved in sunflower oil.

Nikolai Anitschkow, a young pathologist in St Petersburg, extracted cholesterol from egg yolks, dissolved it in sunflower oil, and fed it to rabbits.

Their arteries filled with fatty streaks and plaques.

The diet-heart idea had its founding experiment.

Rabbits eat grass. A wild rabbit never swallows a milligram of cholesterol in its life, and its body was never built to deal with a dose of it.

When researchers tried the same feeding on dogs, the dogs cleared it. Their arteries stayed clean until scientists suppressed their thyroids with drugs to force the result.

The meat eater shrugged the cholesterol off. The grass eater choked on it.

Almost nobody stopped to ask which of the two a human being resembles.

A century on, the cholesterol-fed rabbit is still a standard model in heart research, and the guidelines are still written as if you were one.



Mike
 
Modern medicine will test a healthy person until it finds something it can treat for life.

If your blood pressure is normal, they lower the line until it isn't.

If your cholesterol is normal, they run your age through a calculator and prescribe anyway.

If your sugar is normal, they lower that line too, and now you are prediabetic.

If your bones are normal for your age, they measure them against a thirty-year-old's.

If your kidneys are normal for your age, they call it chronic kidney disease.

If your weight is normal, they redraw the chart and you wake up overweight.

If your neck is normal, they scan it and find a nodule.

If your vitamin D is normal, they raise the bar until most of the country is short.

If your grief is normal, they give it two weeks and diagnose depression.

If your child is normal but the youngest in the class, they diagnose the birthday as ADHD.

If every test is normal, they sell you a scan of your whole body.

If the scan is normal, they call it a baseline and book you in for next year.

Each time the definition widened, somebody was already standing by with the treatment.

When the cholesterol line came down, eight of the nine experts who moved it had been paid by statin makers.

When osteopenia arrived, the company selling the bone drug helped get the scanners into doctors' surgeries.

Nobody ever made a penny sending a healthy person home.



Mike
 
Colleague: "You must be missing something. There's stuff in plants you can't get from meat."

Me: "Name one."

Colleague: "Vitamin C."

Me: "Fresh meat's got it. Raw milk's got it. Nansen sat in a hole in the Arctic for nine months on bear and never lost a tooth."

Colleague: "Fibre."

Me: "Fibre's the bit you can't digest. You're listing the wrapper."

Colleague: "Antioxidants, then."

Me: "The main one's made in your own liver, out of the amino acids in last night's mutton. Nobody's ever been admitted to hospital short of blueberries."

Colleague: "Folate. That's in greens, it's named after them."

Me: "It's in egg yolk and cheese as well, and I had four of one and a slab of the other for breakfast. Named after a leaf, found in a hen."

Colleague: "Vitamin K."

Me: "The one your bones use is K2. Goat butter, cheese, yolk. The kale version mostly stays in the kale."

Colleague: "Beta-carotene."

Me: "Which you've got to convert into vitamin A, and a lot of people barely can. The yolk's already done it."

Colleague: "You're just saying egg for everything."

Me: "You're just saying leaf for everything. Mine works."

Colleague: "There has to be something only a plant makes."

Me: "There is. A chemical to stop you eating it. Every plant on earth makes one. The cow's the only one of us built to deal with them, which is why I let her go first."

Colleague: "So what's actually in your lunch?"

Me: "Mutton mince, butter, and all of the above. What's in yours?"

Colleague: "A wrap."

Me: "Then one of us is missing something."



Mike
 
In 1987 doctors at a New York hospital worked out why seven babies from careful, loving homes had stopped growing, and the answer was the heart-healthy diet.

The children were between 7 and 22 months old. They were falling off the charts for weight, and then for height.

They were not ill. They were not neglected. Their parents were attentive and devoted.

One little girl of 21 months had not gained weight in nearly six months.

When the paediatricians went through the food diaries, every child was getting between 60% and 94% of the calories a baby that age needs.

The parents had been restricting them on purpose. They were frightened their babies would grow up fat, get clogged arteries or get hooked on junk food.

So they fed them the way doctors were telling at-risk adults to eat. Low fat. Low cholesterol.

The doctors wrote that these were diets in line with health beliefs in vogue, and recommended by the medical community for adults at risk of heart disease.

The babies' bodies treated it as a famine.

When the restrictions were lifted, the babies ate far more and started growing again.

Two years later the same team reported on 40 children whose parents had put them on low-fat, low-cholesterol diets for high cholesterol. Eight had stopped growing properly. Three were so badly affected the doctors called it nutritional dwarfing.

The advice had been written for middle-aged men with bad hearts.

It was their children who stopped growing.



Mike
 
Humans carry the stomach acid of a vulture, and the scientists who measured it had filed us as omnivores.

In 2015 a team from North Carolina State gathered every reliable measurement of stomach acidity they could find, across 68 species of birds and mammals, and lined each one up against what the animal eats.

The pattern was clean.

Herbivores had the weakest acid. The most specialised plant-eaters went further and grew a separate fermenting chamber, kept alkaline so the microbes breaking down leaves could live in it. Among primates, only one family of leaf-eating monkeys ever built one.

Carnivores had stronger acid. Scavengers, the animals eating meat already crawling with bacteria, had the strongest of all. The white-backed vulture sits around pH 1.2.

Then humans. Around pH 1.5. Down with the carrion eaters.

Other primates sit at 3 or above. Because the scale is logarithmic, that makes the human stomach roughly thirty times more acidic than an ape's.

Acid that strong is expensive. The body burns energy making it and burns more protecting its own lining from it. Evolution does not keep paying a bill like that for nothing.

The study's verdict was that stomach acid is not there to digest food. It is a filter, a sterilising bath for whatever is coming down.

And the strongest filter goes to the animals whose food is most closely related to themselves, because a mammal's bacteria can infect another mammal far more easily than a plant's can.

Our acid was built for eating animals, the kind that had been dead a while.

Your stomach is set up for a carcass, and the breakfast advice is still porridge.



Mike
 
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