Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Ponjdering the Carnivore Diet

 Coming off some interviews of Jordan Peterson I got interested in the carnivore diet, because he's been on it for some time and says it's helped him with many medical problems, and also his daughter who has had serious medical problems since childhood, specficially rheumatoid arthritis from age two.  After trying many things and finally eliminating various foods she arrived at eating nothing but mea and found that it cleared up her problems.  then her father tried it and found the same thing.  Then I found other people online giving similarly dramatic stories about how they cured verious problems with nothing but meat.    Beef in particular but any kind of meat including chidken and fish and other kinds of seafood are included in this diet.  But nother other than meat and eggs, which is also a protein of course,  Meat and eggs with plenty of animal fat and salt and water and that's it in most of the cases though some people add some amounts of other things.  

I'm surious enough to want to give it a try but I don't think I can ever n afford the thirty day trial.  Meat is very expensive especially in these days of Biden inflation.  Nevertheless I'm trying to work out a way to do it.  Cheap meats of course, going to see what I can amanage.  Besides macular degeneration, which notoby is promising to cure with this though they think it can be stopped from egetting worse.  I don't know but I have other tinggs wrong with me I'd like to see cured.  I made a list of all my ailments and it came to sixteen.  There are probably more but that's what I'm aware of.  It insludes minor skin problems and other small things but also some problsmes that are more serious though not lethal.  

But some of these advocates say some pretty silly things.  The idea that plants are tring to kill you for instance.  They make toxins to kill you because they want to go on surviving and don't want to be eaten.  A pretty laughable verison of evolutionary thinking there.  Utter stupidity.  No, in fact I know of some people who have cured some pretty serious conditions with plant based eating.  I think it's possible that different people need dirfferent approaches to diet for different reasons.  My brother absolutely curfed cured his Meuniere's disease with a plant based diet that includes small amounts of chicken and fish.  Menier'es seems incurable and the idea that food could affect it that much is really hard to believe, but ti did.  He sufefered with it for years before he found a little book by a former sufferer that got him onto the diet and has nhad nomore dizzy spells since then.   Meniere's is a condition of the ear or balacnce related to the ear with tinnities and dizzy spells that make it nearly impossible to live your life since it can hit any time.  If you are driving you have to stop becaues of dizziness.  It's not a disease it's easy to live with at all.  So it was amazing that he was able to find a cure for it that involved food.  Nand not the carnivore diet.  

Wvewrybody mayay have eheard of Annette Larkins too, the lady in Florida swho looks forty years younger and is lean and trim in her mid eighteies, who gave up metat altogehter about forty years ago, started a garden in her yeard and eats almost entirely raw vegetables and fruits from that agardern.  She wasn't trying to cure any particular condition but she's a model of vigratn youtherful heatlth.    Not a carnivore.

Nevertheless I think the testimonies to this all meat regimen are pretty convincing, and since it seems to cure a great variety of medical problems it's the sort of thing I'd want to try.  I don't know if I caould stand it, eating just one food forgever just seems intolerable but they do it, or some p;eople do it so who knows.  


Speaking of evolutionary thinking gone berserk, it is annoying that people are always coming up with some evo type explanation for this or that reason to eat or not eat somethin or do or not do sometihng .  It's all made up of course because nobody knows anything, you can just fantasize to your heart's content with everything evolutionary because it's all made up.   Plants are given to us by God, so are grains so there's nothing poisonous about what or corn.  After the Flood God told Noah that they were now to start eating meat, meaning animal food, whereas before the flood both man and animal were vegetarians.  So animal food is also good for us.  


The way I think about all this is that we are living in a fallen world in which diseases of all kinds attack us, and it stand st to reas that this sort of thing would increase as time goes on, as for instance carriers of a disease on one allele would pair up with each other and then the disease would manifest in the offspring.  That's what happened in my family with macular degeneration.  A lot of that is going to be ahhappening so when people try to explain the fact that dsisesase of this sort are increasing I think this is the more likelyh reason than that it's something in our diets as I've heard sggested.  it's a genetic disease.

Genetic diseases are now occurring in the thousands.  Chrisitians at least sohould be thinking in terms of the Fall when we talk about these things but I don't hear any of that, all we hear is stupid evolutionary explanations for everything.  If you think in terms of the Fall then the increase in genetic diseases seems to me to go along with the fact that mutations are a disease, an aberration, a mistake.  Evolutionary thinkers try to make mutations into this evolved metchanism for evolutionj, but that flies in the face of the known fact that it's a mistake in replication of the DNA.  They know this and yet they go on fantasizing about how it's the cfcause of evolution.   I think it's far more likely it's the cause of all that Junk DNA.  Yes I think Junk DNA is a very likely result of the disease factors we face because of the Fall.

When it comes to diet it makes sense in a fallen world that different people might be genetically disposed to different dietary problems and need different kinds of solutions.  Overall we may all need to be strickter and more careful about what we eat because of our vulenerabilities due to the Fall.  It would help if the Fall were recognized so we'd stop thinking of our conditon as normal.