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[fatsnotbad]

Most people who tell me carnivore didn't work for them learned it from the first wave of meatfluencers, and that first wave couldn't have told you where the fat was on a cow.

They were busy with the organs. Nose to tail or you weren't serious. Raw liver eaten to camera like a dare. Heart, kidney, spleen, a bull's testicle for the thumbnail. And at the end of every sermon, the freeze-dried organ capsules, discount code in the description. Strange how the gospel always finished at a checkout.

Fat got a line, if it got anything.

That's the diet upside down. Take away the carbohydrate and fat is the fuel, the only fuel left. Protein builds you; it was never meant to run you. The trappers of the north had a name for living on lean meat alone: rabbit starvation. Pounds of it a day, and they wasted away with full stomachs.

So the beginners did exactly as they were shown. Sirloin with the white trimmed off. Chicken breast. A palmful of capsules and a glass of water.

By week three they were exhausted, blocked up, ravenous and dreaming about toast. Back to the bread they went, telling everyone carnivore had nearly killed them.

They never tried carnivore. They tried lean protein and pills, then blamed the cow.

That's the mess I spend most of my week cleaning up.

- Buy the cut with the most white on it.
- Treat butter as a food, not a garnish.
- Pour the fat from the pan back over the meat.
- Tip what's left in the pan into a mug and drink it.

Nobody in six years has ever quit carnivore because there was too much butter on the plate. They quit because there wasn't enough.



Mike

 

[fatsnotbad]

Everything alive on this planet turns towards the sun.

Flowers swing to face it through the day.

Trees grow crooked to reach it.

Lizards lie flat on the rock to soak it in.

Cattle leave the shed to graze in it.

Dogs find the one warm patch on the carpet and sleep in it.

Babies turn their faces to the window.

Our skin makes a hormone from it that no food can fully replace.

Our blood pressure drops the moment it touches us.

Our body clock runs on it, and sleep falls apart without it.

Two million years of humans worked, hunted and rested by it.

Then one species, on the advice of a leaflet, started slathering chemicals on its skin to keep it out.

The flowers never got the memo. Neither did your bones.



Mike

 

[fatsnotbad]

In 1797, a British Army surgeon called John Rollo had a diabetic officer passing sugar in his urine.

He put him on meat and fat. The sugar vanished. The officer recovered. Rollo wrote it up.

For the next hundred years, low-carbohydrate eating was the standard treatment for diabetes. In the textbooks, on the wards, in what doctors actually did.

In 1915, Frederick Allen opened a diabetes clinic at the Rockefeller Institute. There was no insulin. He kept patients alive on almost no carbohydrate at all, and some lived long enough to receive the first insulin in 1922.

The diet bought them years they had no other way of getting.

Then insulin arrived, and the diet became an inconvenience.

If a needle could handle the blood sugar, nobody needed to restrict the bread. The drug had a manufacturer. The diet had nobody.

In the 1950s, Elliott Joslin, the most influential diabetes doctor in America, began quietly loosening the carbohydrate limits that had defined his own field for 150 years.

In 1977, the McGovern guidelines told the entire American public to cut fat and eat more carbohydrate. Diabetics were not excused.

By the 1980s, the American Diabetes Association was recommending that 50 to 60% of a diabetic's calories come from carbohydrate.

Half of every meal from the one thing the disease is defined by being unable to handle.

The prescriptions went up. The insulin doses went up. The amputations went up. The pharmaceutical companies posted earnings that would embarrass a small country.

In 2008, the ADA conceded that low-carbohydrate diets could be appropriate. As an option. In a footnote. After thirty years of recommending the reverse.

In 2019, a two-year trial put type 2 diabetics on a low-carbohydrate diet, and more than half came off their medication with normal blood sugar. The same result Rollo wrote up in 1797.

In 2021, Diabetes UK quietly published guidance accepting low-carbohydrate eating as a valid option.

224 years after the case report.

Remarkable pace.



Mike