https://briancates.substack.com/p/its-time-for-all-americans-to-wake
Brian has used the Carnivore Diet to lose significant weight and to improve his health, but he realizes that people are different and for some, a vegetarian or even vegan diet is preferable -- and that almost ANY diet that consists of REAL FOODS is better for one's health than the ultraprocessed, highly refined, GMO'd, heavily herbicide- and pesticide-drenched, sugar- and seed-oil-laden "food" that Americans and many others around the world have been consuming.
UNITY.
Not "unity with evil" but UNITY AMONG PEOPLE OF GOOD WILL and independent thinking. We are all the same (DNA makes us all literally brothers and sisters, if much removed, thus empathy is possible and certain human truths are real) yet each person is a unique individual, so differences in thought, metabolism, culture, and a million other things are inevitable.
An excerpt from near the end of the article:
I don't call this community the "Carnivore community" or the "Keto community" because this isn't about one particular diet or way of eating. I call it "The Real Food Community", and it has vegetarians in it. There is room for everyone in the Real Food Community.
Because in the end everyone must do what works for them.
I myself am a moderate Carnivore, but I recognize this is not really a one-size-fits-all solution when it comes to diet. The key thing is to get people to recognize they are living in a toxic fake food culture and to reject that to concentrate on eating Real Food instead.
Whether the real food they start eating is meat, dairy, or vegetables & fruits is beside the point as long as people ditch the toxic fake food.
There are many people who see their health dramatically improve once they ditch Fake Food for Real Food, even if all they are eating is fruits and vegetables.
I'm aware of the constant arguments and sniping between people who think Carnivore is The Only Answer and everyone should go Carnivore, vs the Militant Vegans, who fire back that everyone should go vegan etc., etc.
I think this kind of arguing has some merit as it forces people to examine their beliefs and the evidence, but far too much of it gets ugly, and it's not like we should be trying to win a competition here.
I view everybody in the Real Food community as being on the same side and trying to help people escape the American Toxic Fake Food Culture they find themselves trapped in.
So I want to be clear here: I am not advocating a particular diet to anyone; I am calling for people to abandon the American Toxic Fake Food Culture, and as long as they start eating Real Food every day, I don't particularly care which particular type of Real Food they are eating, meat or no meat, dairy or no dairy. Keto, Carnivore, or Vegan.
We have a common enemy. Let's not divide ourselves over things that don't matter, arguing about which kind of Real Food diet is 'best'.
These days a lot of people are waking up and looking for help. LET'S FOCUS ON HELPING THEM and not taking sides against each other while trying to get the newcomers to join our diet ‘team’ rather than that other one over there.
Good for Brian not being one of the annoying retard diet zealots who go around claiming their way is the only way and insulting those who don't follow it even if they're getting great results on another diet (usually with the "you'd lose even more if" type strawmen.) I think some of it is just due to marketing, they won't make money as a "diet coach" if people just do their own thing instead of following their specific program, but you also find zealots who simply go around acting annoyingly smug at anyone who isn't also on keto or a carnie or a fastnatic, etc.
I am a member of the real food community. I do this by growing food. Mostly from seeds and canning it as it comes in from the garden. I made a farmer friend and this year we will try meat birds and I have some growing space at his farm. We have to help him in exchange.
I did this by calling a former CSA subscription farm and just chatting with him. I went from renting a plot at $150 to a farm in exchange for labor. If I can do this maybe others can. I’ll give the farmer veggies and he will teach me about his animals so he can go away and leave me in charge.
Real food tastes better.
Needs more potassium ------ less sodium.
https://communities.win/c/Potassium
Sodium is not your enemy, it's a scapegoat like saturated fats from studies that were funded by the tobacco lobby to get the blame off of them for the rise in heart disease back then. As long as your keep your ratio of potassium higher than your sodium (2:1) you'll be fine, I still have a "high" sodium intake yet blood pressure is back down to normal from upping my potassium and magnesium intake.
Sodium is not your enemy IF you sweat like a race horse everyday.
Most people don't today ---- junkfood/fastfood is loaded with excessive sodium ---- not much potassium. The thin people in the 1960s ate a lot more potassium.
Browse through these articles.
https://communities.win/c/Potassium
You're talking to a guy who consumes at least 5g of potassium a day, I'm not the one you need to lecture at and those articles are nothing that I don't already know.
Regarding one of those articles: magnesium levels have a much bigger effect on testosterone production. Also the thin people of the 1960s were much more physically active than people in later decades, people didn't have multiple TVs in their homes and video games keeping them on their asses for most of their free time. There was also much more of a stigma against being a fat slob.
Excellent. Thank you.
As someone who's at one point been vegetarian (to support the choice for a clean, regenerative diet while a family member went through cancer), I can say experientially, there are some pros to that, however, my brain and body needed more protein in order to function, but I do recall how my body would glow, full of life, devoid of the toxins of processed food, which was also part of that diet. I felt clean....
Yes, food ....ever notice that "real" food doesn't have a coupon or ever go on sale? Yeah okay, the butcher might have a special on a certain cut that week, but by and large, the only things that have coupons or are heavily promoted are synthetic bullshit in a box (or bag...) All my groceries come from the outer most ring of the grocery store.
I believe, just like so many other "welfare programs", that the food thing is an absolutely massive money laundering scheme. I watch every month, minorities rolling heaping carts of packaged bullshit for the cost if swiping their EBT, SNAP or other card, out of the stores like a hoard of locusts. I'd really like to know what percentage of packaged slop sales are paid for with welfare, and if the "free money" went away, if it'd be enough to deincentivise companies to produce this poison.
Few have any clue, how it's nearly impossible to make any money on a small farm. The entire chain of middlemen, regulators, subsidies etc is completely f'd up. For instance, how is it that when I was a teenager, milk was just under $5/gal....gas was around 99 cents. Why isn't a gallon of milk like $20 right now? Eggs were around $1 a dozen for a LONG time... only since the boogaloo flu did we see any increase there, but also massive increases in feed costs. The whole system is jacked up....by design. Discourage new farmers from wanting to get into it, then buy up the land, and further control the food supply. It's sickening.