I have to admit my favorite foods are very highly processed plants. The plants are shredded, moistened and then fermented. The fermented slurry is then ground and finally broken down further in acid. Then, in a biochemical process I must admit I don't fully understand, it is broken down and then transformed into protein and fat, which in addition to being nutritious, is truly delicious. It does sound pretty yucky, but it is actually completely natural and 100% organic. The complex mechanical and chemical "factory" that makes this 100% plant based food is called Bos Taurus, although most people just call it "cow."
My thinking about healthy food started a few years ago and was triggered by two things: I purchased a new kitten and I was diagnosed with DT2. In my search for good food for the kitten, I read that cats are pure carnivores, but looking at the labels in catfood I found that a big part of this industrial catfood was made out of plant material. That rang a bell and was the start of my own A1C dropping from 7 to 5 and the rest of beneficial aspects. My cat eats only fresh grassfed meat. I do the same with about 10% of other plant-based foods added. We are both feeling healthy as lions.
I was talking about the amount of carbs in pet food to a rep. I got the standard company reply. The stomach of the animals they eat is full of carbs. I thought it was bs but didn't know enough to argue.
YES... Your BODY will seldom (if ever) LIE to you about what makes you healthy - But CORPORATE FOOD MANUFACTURES LIE often whether they are pedaling human or pet (processed) "FOODS" -StayWell : )
@@pneulab Sounds like typical BS Company marketing spin.. They focus on the possible contents of the pray animal's stomach to avoid the fact that the predator/carnivore actually ATE THE WHOLE ANIMAL, not just the relatively TINY Stomach... LOL x MAX...!!! -StayWell... : )
After my gallbladder was removed I started having severe bloating eating raw fruits and vegetables.. Instantly after it was Avacado, broccoli, and watermelon. One bite and within 15 minutes I bloated so bad I could barely breathe. As the years have passed the list has grown to pretty much all raw friuts and vegetables and raw nuts! Meat never hurts...high fat never causes any digestive issues...but raw plants cause a lot pain
Such a great video ! I simply never want plants anymore ! I am not against them , but I have not a craving for veggies or fruit for almost 2 years ! I will eat some occasionally when I am at an event or out… but it’s so strange, living on salad and veggies all my adult life , and I care less now ….and I also realized I obviously had a plant fiber intolerance because I always tended to lean towards constipation . I don’t have any issues eating animal based ! Thank you for guiding me these last years ! 57 and never felt or looked better !
I never had issue eating animal based foods in general (processed with nitrates or not). Dairy based food, no issue either (just some lactose problem, but not severe, don't get any effects from full-fat, but low-fat I get a mild reaction). Plant based? I do well on avocados and olives. Berries, and many soft fruits, no issues. Starchy tubers like potato, sweet potato, yams, carrots, beets, no issues either. Most nuts and seeds, legumes, above ground vegetable (especially kale), and raw hard fruits like apple and most grains (expect white rice, I do well on that, just a starch). Is it me, or do they really cause gut issue? When I eat such foods, and its mostly vegetable, grains (especially the whole kind), nuts and seeds, and legumes, I have gut issues. Most junk food even causes me issues cause most of them are grain-based and seed oil based. No issue so far having a soft drink, fruit juices, sport drinks, occasional ice cream and flavored yogurt, chocolate bar that isn't filled with seed oil.
Most grains and nuts are addictive. To bring this home, I point out that grains were hybridized and domesticated at noon, and alcohol was derived from them at 12:01 on the historical timepiece. Animals are for food, thriving and companionship, plants are for drugs, surviving and poisons.
Almost all plant foods, including vegetables, fruits, grains, nuts and legumes are hybridized, their origins from just a couple hundred years ago, they either never existed or totally inedible. Fantastic video to share with friends !!
IF by "a couple hundred years" ago your mean 10k years, I suppose you are right. The early people were called "hunter gatherer" for a reason: they didn't eat just meat.
@@GilmerJohn I'm just talking about our plant foods today, those when compared to couple hundred years ago. We can see drawings and old photos of these foods looking shockingly different. Also the uncovered iceman had almost all meat in his system.
@@GilmerJohn ya someone decided to call them hunter gather. I think there was a video talking about how collecting shellfish and insects was included in the gathering category along with seasonal nuts and fruit. So shrugs?
It is pleasant to hear someone share common sense. After going carnivore a few years ago literally saving my life, I started asking myself similar questions. Even in school, well in my time at school, we were taught man was a hunter gather. Should have been a red flag then a out all the plants and processed foods, but like most still today we just trusted that the FDA always acted in our best interests. Most people I have talked to about it generally think our degree of modern farming has been around for thousands of years. Now I see plant based diets as starvation food. Just enough nutrition to greatly reduce the rate of death from starvation but still creating so many other health issues.
You are EXTREMELY right! Our species became carnivore millions of years ago and with the discovery of fire, we started to increase our utilization of that meat and grew our brains. It wasn’t until maybe 10,000 years ago did we start to grow grains. Unfortunately, we changed our grains in the 60’s & 70’s through genetic engineering to produce a more toxic wheat plant. I’m a T1 diabetic and can still remember leaning carb counting, now I’m carnivore and say I don’t eat carb’s so why count them. It’s too late for the consequences of 26 years uncontrolled but I’m now better than ever.
I’m T1 too but ketovore so still count my carbs to make sure I eat max of 15 total not net. I eat very little lettuces except when I want a “sandwich” or when I go to restaurants which is rare. I LOVE veggies and will not give up my stir fried ones once a week.
As parents we spend so much time trying to get our kids to eat their veg because that's what we are told is healthy for them, battling against their protestations that they don't like them. But perhaps they have a natural aversion to them because they don't need them?
Just as an aside, as someone who has done Atkins, then juice fasting, then all cruciferous juicing, to and now to carnivore, I am amazed at how truly SIMPLE a carnivore diet is!
You’re a hoot ! Only a doc or nurse would say screw it and d/c their IV and sign themselves out 🤣. Learn so much from you so thank you for all the great info.
It should be a red flag to people that the plant based diet that is being pushed as healthy is such a poor source of nutrition that you have to “eat the rainbow” and do it every 3hrs. I can slam a 12 oz steak for breakfast and be so nourished that I don’t need food for 8hrs. No bloating, no cramping and none of the gastric distress that comes with eating plants.
I lost 40 pounds and came off 2 blood pressure meds no more acid reflux, skin tags , I don’t have any body Oder and I am not playing I used to stink when I was eating sugar , grains , processed so called foods just trash anyways thank you so much dr Cywes you are amazing
Brilliant! I wish msm could stop the push for vegetables as theonly health food. I truly believed a person to be eating unhealthily unless they ate at least 5 portions a day and followed that for years whilst getting myself sicker and sicker All changed now I realise fruit/veg/seeds were hurting me. Thank you doctor xx
It's amazing just how few plant foods are edible beyond fruits. Nearly everything in the grocery store was bred and enhanced over centuries. A handful of grains existed in very limited geographic areas, some tubers, some leafy plants like cabbage. Many things didn't exist in Africa, Europe, or Asia until they were brought back during colonial times, such as corn, potatoes, etc. Try looking up what vegetables (not grains) medieval peasant grew in Europe...maybe five things. A kind of carrot, turnips, peas, tiny onions, not much else.
Thinking back to my childhood, being made to sit at the table until I finished my meal. It was always something green that I refused to eat. Could you imagine any animal treating their young like that?
I have wondered for a while now why humans, as descendants of apes, whose main diet is plants, why would humans completely stop using plants as their main food source? Plants don’t run away nor do they threaten to eat you. Plants must have been the main staple of human food
While most of the plants one finds in a grocery store have been heavily hybridized, there are still plenty of wild edible plants out there. The black walnuts, hickory and acorns are still there. Wild blueberries, blackberries, strawberries and service berries. That, and a number of things we call "weeds" are actually edible like dandelions and chickory. Omnivorous animals like bear and bore consume as much mast as possible to fatten up before winter. However, i can't think of any wild grains.
THANKS, a Very Interesting Video. : ) P.S. As I see it, "Whole Wheat Goodness" is a marketing slogan used to disguise the fact that modern wheat is nothing more that a new hybridized form of the original GRASS SEED... originally used by early humans as a desperation-food... something to eat as a last resort to avoid hunger/starvation... -StayWell Evewrybody
I do want to know more about why our intestinal tract is so long … I hear many vegans say it’s because we need plants .. I don’t believe that but would love a good explanation !
Probably because we are descended from mostly plant eating animals. Way, way back, of course. But while our intestinal tract shrank considerably, as our diets changed...it may just have never shortened to the length of that of true carnivores like cats. I mean, we are omnivores, if arguably with a strong preference for animal foods. With rare exceptions, we have always eaten some amount of plant food - because we could and it helped us to survive. At certain times and in certain climates, tubers and fruits might even have been our main staples (think tropical climates). At other times and in other places, we would have eaten mainly meat. Evolution doesn't get rid of features, that help with survival. There's a difference between 'being able to digest (some) plants' and 'needing plants', though.
I haven't yet read the book, but I have heard Jason Fung talking about research that shows that some bowel cancers are evolutionary changes. Are our bodies trying to adapt to the higher plant based diet and "grow" our intestines?. I also heard in a podcast (I'm so sorry I can't remember which one) that there is evidence that our brains are starting to shrink. It's only a thought but I'm wondering if we would eventually become chimpanzees again if we carried on with our plant based obsession, especially as this is now being pushed on kids 🤔
@@nickarrizza If it makes sense and works for you, go for it and enjoy. For me, I used to believe the things you say, and believed myself healthy for many years until I realised I wasn't. Creeping weight gain, prediabetes, IBS, GORD,NAFLD. At the age of 58 I discovered the ketogenic diet and reversed all the above. Thanks to Dr Rob Cywes, Dr Jason Fung, Dr David Unwin, Dr Ken Berry and many others with no finacial interests, I am fit and well. It was the dietry advice of the 70s and 80s that led to the obesity and diabetes epidemic. Also who funded these studies. Many are funded by the processed food industries. Don't forget studies showed that cigarettes were good for people for 15 years after the cancer link was discovered. But, hey, we must all do our own research and decide what's best for us.
@@nickarrizza A lifetime of low fat foods, grains, bread, rice, pasta, the occassional treats but generally consistent with the healthy eating pyramid! Which isn't. To quote Gary Fettke, "if you eat by the food pyramid, you will die by the pyramid and along the way , you will look like the pyramid"!
I agree about modern plants on gras basis. But we always ate mushrooms, nuts and a whole lot of eatable plants out there. Evidence is shown in research on coprolytes. Maybe we ate the contend of animal intestines to waste nothing of a prey. I own no dog, but i like thinking while walking too. Greetings from germany.
Love your channel, Dr. Cywes - always thought provoking. Could you cover at some point, many keto experts discuss the importance of cycling in and out of keto; is this necessary? I love the way I feel when I limit carbs, but then I think maybe I need to have one day a week or 1 week every month of higher carbs (coming from starchy vegetables and whole grains). This practice is confusing as I am trying to keep my cravings in check. I am definitely a carb addict and recently gave up stevia because it set me down the path of wanting more carbs. I want to follow the correct healthy path. Would love your side of this. Thank you!
From other videos I've seen from him, I think he'd tell you that you need to "carb cycle" the same amount that an alcoholic needs to "booze cycle". :) Most intelligent people wouldn't tell a recovering alcoholic or drug addict that they should have a boozy/druggy day once a week, right? Treat sugar and carbs the same way. Carb cycling is for people who have never had an addiction problem. I think I heard him say something like - they tell us to look at how healthy people eat and eat like them, but we're addicts, not healthy people. Good luck.
You make some good points - I am getting so confused though as to what to eat as I listen to others as well. Maybe one day you could do a list of what you think are the best things to eat?
Seeds and nuts may have been fillers in our ancestral diet when tere was a lull in animal foods. It is the meaty part of a plant. Growing up on pasta and not as much meat because of cost, I used to crave nuts as a sustitute. Even peanuts which is a legume I'd crave and seemed to satisfy me.
I have always disliked most veggies and especially leaves, all my life everyone is constantly trying to push veggies and salads on me and blame my not eating them for my health issues, while handing me brownies and cakes and cookies and candy, lol nope my health problems were caused by modern processed high carb and seed oil foods that they addicted me to before I even reached puberty!
7:35 No we esixted mostly in flat plains, valleys and lowland coasts, because of oxygen abundance, and because most ruminants were there to be hunted, because both oxygen and the food is permitted by low altitude, sun and grass (grass patches produces much more oxygen than trees). DHA is not that useful btw, and is found in breastmilk and animal fats anyway.
The anti meat people say that the length of the human digestive tract is longer than the typical carnivore. They argue that meat is dangerous when digestion takes longer.
Priests don't preface their Sunday sermons with an apology to evolutionists; I don't know why medical doctors apologize for possibly offending creationists when discussing evolutionary evidence. Just present your evidence and move on. People will choose to be offended or not; big deal.
I was a vegetarian for 5-6 years - and when I became a carnivor again, my husband noticed that I became much more energetic! :-) ... Tor Nørretranders, a science journalist from Denmark, wrote in his "Menneskeføde" (Food for humans) that the farming of grains and cereal began because the seas were rising, leaving too little space for all to be hunters-gatheres. And that the said crops are one-year-plants and therefore had all the energy packed into their seed. (Nørretranders wrote the book because he became fat in spite of following the food-pyramid! :-D ) ... And then of course the feudal systems forbitting you to hunt anything on the nobility's land. Thank you for being here, Robert! Best regards from Denmark!
I hate salad leaves, always have. I eat it only to not offend my hosts. So thank you for this video 🤗 And I blame our bloody open plan homes! I am currently doing an extended fast and I HAVE to pass the kitchen all the time. My next home will have the kitchen way to the side as it’s own space.
My dog loves apple, pear, banana, plum, cherries, cucumber, tomato. She eats them in the garden when fallen on the ground. And ofcourse she loves meat, fish, eggs and rabbits that she catches also in the garden. She is an omnivore like foxes and badgers. Not pure carnivore.
From a fellow physician: I did not listen to all of your presentation…don’t know if you mention any of this: Butyrate biosynthesis and absorption in the large intestine and subsequent metabolism. Two pathways of endogenous butyrate production from butyryl-CoA in bacteria have been reported. The letter “A” indicates that butyryl-CoA is phosphorylated to butyryl-phosphate and converted to butyrate via butyrate kinase. The letter “B” shows that the CoA moiety of butyryl-CoA is transferred to external acetate via butyryl-CoA:acetate CoA transferase, leading to the formation of butyrate and acetyl-CoA. Several receptors for butyrate have been identified, including GPR41, GPR43, and GPR109A. GPR41 is found in adipose tissues and immune cells. The highest expression of GPR43 has been found in immune cells, whereas GPR109A is essential for butyrate-mediated induction of IL-18 in colonic epithelium. A small portion of butyrate is transported to the liver and metabolized to produce ATP. GPR, orphan G protein-coupled receptor. Absorption of Butyrate SCFAs are absorbed in both the small and large intestine by similar mechanisms (25, 26). Different mechanisms of absorbing SCFAs across the apical membrane of the colonocytes are reported, including diffusion of the undissociated form and active transport of the dissociated form by SCFA transporters (27). Two SCFA transporters exist, including monocarboxylate transporter (MCT) isoform 1 (MCT1), which is coupled to a transmembrane H+-gradient (28), and solute carrier (SLC) family 5 member 8 (SLC5A8), which is also known as sodium-coupled monocarboxylate transporter (SMCT) 1 (SMCT1) and is a Na+-coupled co-transporter (11). A carrier-mediated, HCO3− gradient-dependent anion-butyrate exchange system is present on the basolateral membrane (5). In humans, MCT3 is expressed in low concentrations in the ileum, whereas MCT4 and MCT5 are expressed abundantly in the distal colon (29). MCTs are also involved in butyrate transport on the apical membrane of colonocytes (30). Butyrate transportation with MCTs is saturated, coupled with H+, and inhibited by several monocarboxylates such as acetate, propionate, pyruvate, lactate, and α-ketobutyrate. The pH for the optimal activity of the colonic butyrate transporters appears to be ∼5.5. In addition, a second class of MCTs, called SMCTs, was identified (31), such as SLC5A8 (SMCT1) and SLC5A12 (SMCT2) (32). Different from MCTs, SMCT transport involves Na+ uptake by the transport cycle and also uses nicotinate and ketone bodies as substrates
Your theory seems right. I can see what you're saying. I understand about fruits, tubers, and nuts. But above ground vegetables? Hmm... who even likes kale to begin with? Not me. But I do like spinach tho.
Oh Doc, we are closer to ketovore, but this video just got me thinking that even my cauliflower and cabbage and pickles might have to go... Say it's not so!
I've tried being pure carnivor - it's not good for me. I need a little cauliflower and cabbage... We're not all the same :-) Dr. Berry thinks that if your ancestors came from the hotter areas, you need a bit of greens, if they came from the North, you might be better off as a pure carnivor.
Homo Carbasaurus! My vegetarian friend makes an exception for seafood. HCA! I’ll not discourage him. I’ve been keto/carnivore for 4 years and am putting carbs back in a very controlled way to keep my weight steady. Experimenting with with below the ground Sweet potatoes in modest amounts and carrots. And a very small amount of grain - 50g steel cut oats- no wheat which I find addictive. If I have a croissant I keep longing for them for a week.
In the GARDEN OF EDEN -- we were given EVERY HERB BEARING FRUIT FOR FOOD.. and allowed to eat all except the tree of knowledge.. and the ANIMAL eating started AFTER the fall-- when man was kicked out of the Garden of EDEN-- and the devil took over.
Huh? In every examination of primitive diets that I've ever seen (I'm most familiar with Weston Price's "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration") ALL primitive people eat the above-ground parts of plants. They also scavenge seaweed when it is available. Herbs, in particular, smell and taste great. There are plenty of vegetables that are delicious right off the vine - pea shoots, immature ramps, leeks, and other alliums, celery, mushrooms, and asparagus spears snapped off during the hungry gap of early spring. I can tell that you are not a gardener because a LOT of edible plants smell divine. Admittedly, these are hybridized varieties. Even 'heirloom' open-pollinated varieties are not untouched by man. The one that continues to astonish me is the artichoke. Whoever figured that was edible was one hungry S.O.B.! But even so, all of our closest hominid cousins eat vegetables. So, I don't think the question is, "When did we start eating plants?" I believe the question is, "When did we start making starch extracted from cereal seeds a primary component of our diet?" For that, we have clear archeological evidence: whenever wheat or rice became a staple in the diet and began supplying the bulk of the calories, people got shorter, there were higher rates of infant mortality, and dentition deteriorated. That much is clear in the archeological record.
@@robertcywes2966 Not always. For instance, ramps, stinging nettles, most watercress, and sorrel are not commercially cultivated. One harvests them from the wild. There are numerous fruits that fall in that category, as well, and I am unaware of any commercially hybridized seaweed. Nope. Every primitive people from the Amazonian rain forest to the Kalahari desert to the Laps above the arctic circle opportunistically harvest and eat wild fruits and vegetables. You only run into hyper-hybridized fruits and vegetables in supermarkets - you know, the place where they send bad vegetables to die. Again we have well-preserved food remains in the archeological record as proof that while some foods (corn and bananas are the prime examples) are unrecognizable in their primitive wild form, other foods have remained remarkably stable and are essentially wild plants (mangoes and peas are sterling examples). Even in grains, a natural wild crossbreed of goatgrass (Aegilops tauschii) and wheat (Triticum turgidum) produced the first ancient bread wheat. That wheat had 14 chromosomes. Modern wheat has 42 chromosomes - so, yeah. SOME plants have been hybridized to oblivion. But humans are pretty opportunistic. Many of the plants we eat now are not from then. But many of them are. Not all food plants have been humanized. Once again, I do not believe that we "started" to eat plants. We never left off eating them. The question should be: "When did we start to substitute starchy field crops for the bulk of our meat?" That question reflects a more accurate and nuanced understanding of agricultural history. There are numerous excellent reasons for adopting a carnivore diet; ancient precedence is not one of them
@Linda C Grace -- Thank you for your info & observations on plants in the ancients' diets. Tried Carnivore for 3 months & loved it - simply & tastey. But now have kidney & lower back PAIN - for weeks! Don't understand it & wanted it to work to heal some G.I. problems after 4 surgeries. IDK - my body just didn't thrive on carnivore as I'd hoped. Maybe some people need at least some fruits or veg to be healthy.
@@rocknawe7336 I have always thought that highly restrictive diets like carnivore, strict keto, strict raw vegan, etc., were excellent as healing interventions and not necessarily the best long-term dietary strategy. My very best wishes on your journey to health.
Interesting. I'll say this...if I'm out walking in the field somewhere and I see a cow, I won't think to myself "yummy, that looks tasty"! But if I see some berries or an orange, or a fig or banana, I will happily pluck and eat it. Not sure how I'd feel about greens like leaves or tubers - would probably pass on them. Maybe if I were a guy with a weapon of some sort I'd feel differently, I don't know. Perhaps that's why women were mostly gatherers while the men were hunters.
The biggest lie told to us by the conventional modern day diet and western medical perspective is that we must eat lots of vegetables and fruits in order to be healthy, which is wrong and in the last few decades, its alarming how politicized this push to promote plants while at the same time telling people animal based meat is bad for you, its literally the worst advice and absolutely incorrect from an evolutionary perspective, we thrived and relied on meat and animal based protein and added in fruit when it became available. This is a great video and very well explained and articulated by the doctor, he has a very intuitive way of thinking and approaching ways of eating and has alot of great facts to back up what he is saying, great stuff doc.
100 percent agree . Starch makes some sense in the need to travel from place to place in order to Hunt ! But only as a source of energy , hunting was very difficult and unreliable source of food .
Would love to know more about how nuts / legumes are processed by humans or if they are processed just as you describe in this video .. I ask because I lost and am maintaining 150 pound weight loss using ketovore. A few months ago, I started eating Macadamia nuts and peanuts. I really love them and love the crunch. They help keep me satisfied and on track. However, I just got kidney stones this week and I am assuming it's the nuts and I am bummed as they have been my treat. Would love to hear your thoughts.... thanks for awesome videos 😊
Macadamia nuts have the lowest amount of lectins, phytic acid and oxalate of all nuts due to their extremely hard shell. They also have a low amount of omega 6 and a high omega 3 amount
So should we not eat things like sunflower/pumpkin seeds? Or nuts even? These are recommended by most Keto advocates and nutritionists. I love the thinking here but it’s a very brave person who would ignore all the general advice from the medical profession. I think I may turn rodentarian based on this story😂👍
@@monicacollins8289 There are so many Keto advocates who promote eating seeds. There are countless Keto recipes which include them. I can’t really find any information which says they shouldn’t be eaten or that there are significant negative effects. Is there a video or link which explains the down side? I searched Ken Berry but couldn’t see anything about it. TIA?
When I google for ‘Chimpanzee humans genetic similarity’ I found multiple links stating that it’s in the ballpark of > 96%. Where do you get the 1% from? I would love if you would state the links to the resources of your reading to these videos.
I guess there must be a reason why people FORCE children to eat vegetables. They don’t like them because they are not meant to eat them ? Should a lion eat grass or carrots? No he eats what he needs and likes 👍🏻
I agree with you (there is a but) as Intry to eat low carb and my favourite subject is human evolution. We are evolved to eat meat (maybe not as much) as it is hard to get in the natural world. (See tv programme Surviving the Stone Age). Our common ancestor 10 million years ago gorged on fruit for a couple of hours and rested and repeated. The reduction in rainforest caused a common ancestor to leave the forest for food which led to an upright walking ability. Poor thing had to walk and walk just to dig up a root with a stick. My guess is that is when scavenging meat started eventually leading to the hero homo erectus being able to control fire and cooking which freed the species up relativelyas it was more nutritious. My but is why have I been advised to eat kale and spinach due to the beginnings of macular degeneration. I love kale and spinach so no problem and they apparently have the nutrients I need but I find the more you look into this subject the more of these discrepancies appear. I would be interested in your view. Good books for human evolution without getting too technical are “the story of the human body” Daniel Lieberman and evolution Alice Roberts which is more pictorial.
... when it comes to science, because it puts you on a well-informed starting hypothesis or foundation of understanding. Especially useful when understanding how the body works, and in astronomy and geology.. . Okay and biology.... Call, and anthropology and archeology.. . And the study of languages.... And botany and zoology
Ya, I loved this video and Amber O'Hearn video called Lipivore and Dr Michael Eades on Low Carb Down Under that did a Paleopathology lecture that were interesting also.
2.15 , ***u say that we humans have the longest small intestine in the mammalian kingdom ..** ??? I just looked up sheep and cattle ,both sheep and cattle have longer small intestines than humans .. please can u or anyone else explain this to me please?? BTW I'm a newbie carnivore, just over 2 months . I'm not medically trained at all , still trying to learn the basics . I've been a big fan of Dr Cywes , bit confused now ??
It’s so strange how vegans try to argue animals are a survival food out of necessity. In practicality both plants and animals are “survival food”. But plants were historically used a a crutch or fallback while animals were the (pun intended) prime rib
Yes you (and others) have made me think. Although I wish I had this knowledge when my girls were little and even pre-conception I can’t change the past. However now I give my baby granddaughter, my heart, all the meat she can eat. Good beef and lamb and we chomp on that together enjoying ourselves. Come her 1year birthday Amma will BBQ a tomahawk steak for her growing girl and that is her “smash cake”. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and way of thought process 🌹
Grasses are a certain type of plant family. Corn wheat, barley, rice, oats, etc. etc. are all grasses. Genesis 1:29 And God said, “Behold, I have given to you all grass of the seed that bears seed on the face of all the Earth, and every tree that has in itself the fruit of the tree, of its seed, bearing seed; you shall have it for food.
I have to admit my favorite foods are very highly processed plants. The plants are shredded, moistened and then fermented. The fermented slurry is then ground and finally broken down further in acid. Then, in a biochemical process I must admit I don't fully understand, it is broken down and then transformed into protein and fat, which in addition to being nutritious, is truly delicious. It does sound pretty yucky, but it is actually completely natural and 100% organic. The complex mechanical and chemical "factory" that makes this 100% plant based food is called Bos Taurus, although most people just call it "cow."
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My thinking about healthy food started a few years ago and was triggered by two things: I purchased a new kitten and I was diagnosed with DT2. In my search for good food for the kitten, I read that cats are pure carnivores, but looking at the labels in catfood I found that a big part of this industrial catfood was made out of plant material. That rang a bell and was the start of my own A1C dropping from 7 to 5 and the rest of beneficial aspects. My cat eats only fresh grassfed meat. I do the same with about 10% of other plant-based foods added. We are both feeling healthy as lions.
I was talking about the amount of carbs in pet food to a rep. I got the standard company reply. The stomach of the animals they eat is full of carbs. I thought it was bs but didn't know enough to argue.
YES... Your BODY will seldom (if ever) LIE to you about what makes you healthy - But CORPORATE FOOD MANUFACTURES LIE often whether they are pedaling human or pet (processed) "FOODS" -StayWell : )
@@pneulab Sounds like typical BS Company marketing spin.. They focus on the possible contents of the pray animal's stomach to avoid the fact that the predator/carnivore actually ATE THE WHOLE ANIMAL, not just the relatively TINY Stomach... LOL x MAX...!!! -StayWell... : )
Fantastic felines
Your cat will live 20 plus years.
After my gallbladder was removed I started having severe bloating eating raw fruits and vegetables.. Instantly after it was Avacado, broccoli, and watermelon. One bite and within 15 minutes I bloated so bad I could barely breathe. As the years have passed the list has grown to pretty much all raw friuts and vegetables and raw nuts! Meat never hurts...high fat never causes any digestive issues...but raw plants cause a lot pain
Such a great video ! I simply never want plants anymore ! I am not against them , but I have not a craving for veggies or fruit for almost 2 years ! I will eat some occasionally when I am at an event or out… but it’s so strange, living on salad and veggies all my adult life , and I care less now ….and I also realized I obviously had a plant fiber intolerance because I always tended to lean towards constipation . I don’t have any issues eating animal based ! Thank you for guiding me these last years ! 57 and never felt or looked better !
I never had issue eating animal based foods in general (processed with nitrates or not). Dairy based food, no issue either (just some lactose problem, but not severe, don't get any effects from full-fat, but low-fat I get a mild reaction). Plant based? I do well on avocados and olives. Berries, and many soft fruits, no issues. Starchy tubers like potato, sweet potato, yams, carrots, beets, no issues either.
Most nuts and seeds, legumes, above ground vegetable (especially kale), and raw hard fruits like apple and most grains (expect white rice, I do well on that, just a starch). Is it me, or do they really cause gut issue? When I eat such foods, and its mostly vegetable, grains (especially the whole kind), nuts and seeds, and legumes, I have gut issues. Most junk food even causes me issues cause most of them are grain-based and seed oil based.
No issue so far having a soft drink, fruit juices, sport drinks, occasional ice cream and flavored yogurt, chocolate bar that isn't filled with seed oil.
@Sunday Agbadu How did you go about curing ur herpes virus, did you just eat meat, how did this Dr help you in ur progress?
Most grains and nuts are addictive. To bring this home, I point out that grains were hybridized and domesticated at noon, and alcohol was derived from them at 12:01 on the historical timepiece. Animals are for food, thriving and companionship, plants are for drugs, surviving and poisons.
That may explain why I can go overboard on peanuts and almonds, but I pay the price in the bathroom, ouch.
Almost all plant foods, including vegetables, fruits, grains, nuts and legumes are hybridized, their origins from just a couple hundred years ago, they either never existed or totally inedible. Fantastic video to share with friends !!
IF by "a couple hundred years" ago your mean 10k years, I suppose you are right. The early people were called "hunter gatherer" for a reason: they didn't eat just meat.
@@GilmerJohn I'm just talking about our plant foods today, those when compared to couple hundred years ago. We can see drawings and old photos of these foods looking shockingly different.
Also the uncovered iceman had almost all meat in his system.
@@GilmerJohn ya someone decided to call them hunter gather. I think there was a video talking about how collecting shellfish and insects was included in the gathering category along with seasonal nuts and fruit. So shrugs?
It is pleasant to hear someone share common sense. After going carnivore a few years ago literally saving my life, I started asking myself similar questions. Even in school, well in my time at school, we were taught man was a hunter gather. Should have been a red flag then a out all the plants and processed foods, but like most still today we just trusted that the FDA always acted in our best interests. Most people I have talked to about it generally think our degree of modern farming has been around for thousands of years. Now I see plant based diets as starvation food. Just enough nutrition to greatly reduce the rate of death from starvation but still creating so many other health issues.
"FDA always acted in our best interests"
Carborsaurus, love it🤣
You are EXTREMELY right! Our species became carnivore millions of years ago and with the discovery of fire, we started to increase our utilization of that meat and grew our brains. It wasn’t until maybe 10,000 years ago did we start to grow grains. Unfortunately, we changed our grains in the 60’s & 70’s through genetic engineering to produce a more toxic wheat plant. I’m a T1 diabetic and can still remember leaning carb counting, now I’m carnivore and say I don’t eat carb’s so why count them. It’s too late for the consequences of 26 years uncontrolled but I’m now better than ever.
I’m T1 too but ketovore so still count my carbs to make sure I eat max of 15 total not net. I eat very little lettuces except when I want a “sandwich” or when I go to restaurants which is rare. I LOVE veggies and will not give up my stir fried ones once a week.
Before the use of fire I've heard. Shrugs
The Egyptians ate predominantly grains 5 - 10,000 years ago and suffered all the same diseases of modern times
As parents we spend so much time trying to get our kids to eat their veg because that's what we are told is healthy for them, battling against their protestations that they don't like them. But perhaps they have a natural aversion to them because they don't need them?
My son is 95% carnivore
Exactly! If God wanted you to eat Brussels sprouts, He would have made them EDIBLE!!!
Just as an aside, as someone who has done Atkins, then juice fasting, then all cruciferous juicing, to and now to carnivore, I am amazed at how truly SIMPLE a carnivore diet is!
@@MichaelTheophilus906
Try a bacon fast!
Mmmmmm! Mmmmm! Good!
You’re a hoot ! Only a doc or nurse would say screw it and d/c their IV and sign themselves out 🤣. Learn so much from you so thank you for all the great info.
It should be a red flag to people that the plant based diet that is being pushed as healthy is such a poor source of nutrition that you have to “eat the rainbow” and do it every 3hrs. I can slam a 12 oz steak for breakfast and be so nourished that I don’t need food for 8hrs. No bloating, no cramping and none of the gastric distress that comes with eating plants.
I lost 40 pounds and came off 2 blood pressure meds no more acid reflux, skin tags , I don’t have any body Oder and I am not playing I used to stink when I was eating sugar , grains , processed so called foods just trash anyways thank you so much dr Cywes you are amazing
way to go Donna!
So what was ur diet, you just ate meat?
@@alhavana9426 I eat mostly meat and eggs listen to dr Ken Berry utube
Brilliant! I wish msm could stop the push for vegetables as theonly health food. I truly believed a person to be eating unhealthily unless they ate at least 5 portions a day and followed that for years whilst getting myself sicker and sicker All changed now I realise fruit/veg/seeds were hurting me. Thank you doctor xx
It's amazing just how few plant foods are edible beyond fruits. Nearly everything in the grocery store was bred and enhanced over centuries. A handful of grains existed in very limited geographic areas, some tubers, some leafy plants like cabbage. Many things didn't exist in Africa, Europe, or Asia until they were brought back during colonial times, such as corn, potatoes, etc. Try looking up what vegetables (not grains) medieval peasant grew in Europe...maybe five things. A kind of carrot, turnips, peas, tiny onions, not much else.
This is so good but when I tell people this they think I’ve gone insane!
Thinking back to my childhood, being made to sit at the table until I finished my meal. It was always something green that I refused to eat. Could you imagine any animal treating their young like that?
There are a lot of people who are just mean. When you are gaging on a food a normal person would not force it on you.
well these are how humans been for the last 10000 years but we should change that.
I have wondered for a while now why humans, as descendants of apes, whose main diet is plants, why would humans completely stop using plants as their main food source? Plants don’t run away nor do they threaten to eat you. Plants must have been the main staple of human food
Nope. Plants then were not the plants of now. Watch the video again
While most of the plants one finds in a grocery store have been heavily hybridized, there are still plenty of wild edible plants out there. The black walnuts, hickory and acorns are still there. Wild blueberries, blackberries, strawberries and service berries. That, and a number of things we call "weeds" are actually edible like dandelions and chickory.
Omnivorous animals like bear and bore consume as much mast as possible to fatten up before winter.
However, i can't think of any wild grains.
Love your videos. Learning so much!!
Lots of old shell mounds here in Florida. Early Floridians ate a lot of shellfish and the shells were often piled very high…
Used to love Apalachicola oysters
'Lovely little battles because their brains fatigue so quickly.' 🤭 You Crack me up!!
Can't wait to see you in October!!
THANKS, a Very Interesting Video. : ) P.S. As I see it, "Whole Wheat Goodness" is a marketing slogan used to disguise the fact that modern wheat is nothing more that a new hybridized form of the original GRASS SEED... originally used by early humans as a desperation-food... something to eat as a last resort to avoid hunger/starvation... -StayWell Evewrybody
Your videos always are very informative. Thank you❤
I do want to know more about why our intestinal tract is so long … I hear many vegans say it’s because we need plants .. I don’t believe that but would love a good explanation !
I recall seeing that the 2 animals with the closet stomach acid to ours was a Buzzard and Hyena, both carnivores.
Probably because we are descended from mostly plant eating animals. Way, way back, of course. But while our intestinal tract shrank considerably, as our diets changed...it may just have never shortened to the length of that of true carnivores like cats.
I mean, we are omnivores, if arguably with a strong preference for animal foods. With rare exceptions, we have always eaten some amount of plant food - because we could and it helped us to survive. At certain times and in certain climates, tubers and fruits might even have been our main staples (think tropical climates). At other times and in other places, we would have eaten mainly meat. Evolution doesn't get rid of features, that help with survival.
There's a difference between 'being able to digest (some) plants' and 'needing plants', though.
Enzymes instead of fermentation
I haven't yet read the book, but I have heard Jason Fung talking about research that shows that some bowel cancers are evolutionary changes. Are our bodies trying to adapt to the higher plant based diet and "grow" our intestines?. I also heard in a podcast (I'm so sorry I can't remember which one) that there is evidence that our brains are starting to shrink. It's only a thought but I'm wondering if we would eventually become chimpanzees again if we carried on with our plant based obsession, especially as this is now being pushed on kids 🤔
😂 funny theory...but very feasible given enough time...
@@nickarrizza If it makes sense and works for you, go for it and enjoy. For me, I used to believe the things you say, and believed myself healthy for many years until I realised I wasn't. Creeping weight gain, prediabetes, IBS, GORD,NAFLD. At the age of 58 I discovered the ketogenic diet and reversed all the above. Thanks to Dr Rob Cywes, Dr Jason Fung, Dr David Unwin, Dr Ken Berry and many others with no finacial interests, I am fit and well. It was the dietry advice of the 70s and 80s that led to the obesity and diabetes epidemic. Also who funded these studies. Many are funded by the processed food industries. Don't forget studies showed that cigarettes were good for people for 15 years after the cancer link was discovered.
But, hey, we must all do our own research and decide what's best for us.
@@nickarrizza A lifetime of low fat foods, grains, bread, rice, pasta, the occassional treats but generally consistent with the healthy eating pyramid! Which isn't. To quote Gary Fettke, "if you eat by the food pyramid, you will die by the pyramid and along the way , you will look like the pyramid"!
I agree about modern plants on gras basis. But we always ate mushrooms, nuts and a whole lot of eatable plants out there. Evidence is shown in research on coprolytes. Maybe we ate the contend of animal intestines to waste nothing of a prey.
I own no dog, but i like thinking while walking too. Greetings from germany.
Exactly
Love your channel, Dr. Cywes - always thought provoking. Could you cover at some point, many keto experts discuss the importance of cycling in and out of keto; is this necessary? I love the way I feel when I limit carbs, but then I think maybe I need to have one day a week or 1 week every month of higher carbs (coming from starchy vegetables and whole grains). This practice is confusing as I am trying to keep my cravings in check. I am definitely a carb addict and recently gave up stevia because it set me down the path of wanting more carbs. I want to follow the correct healthy path. Would love your side of this. Thank you!
From other videos I've seen from him, I think he'd tell you that you need to "carb cycle" the same amount that an alcoholic needs to "booze cycle". :) Most intelligent people wouldn't tell a recovering alcoholic or drug addict that they should have a boozy/druggy day once a week, right? Treat sugar and carbs the same way. Carb cycling is for people who have never had an addiction problem. I think I heard him say something like - they tell us to look at how healthy people eat and eat like them, but we're addicts, not healthy people. Good luck.
You make some good points - I am getting so confused though as to what to eat as I listen to others as well. Maybe one day you could do a list of what you think are the best things to eat?
I could listen to you for hours.
Your videos are always such fun AND so informative. Thank you!
Just discussing related topic this morning! Fun video.
Seeds and nuts may have been fillers in our ancestral diet when tere was a lull in animal foods. It is the meaty part of a plant. Growing up on pasta and not as much meat because of cost, I used to crave nuts as a sustitute. Even peanuts which is a legume I'd crave and seemed to satisfy me.
Just what I have been looking for, thanks!
I have always disliked most veggies and especially leaves, all my life everyone is constantly trying to push veggies and salads on me and blame my not eating them for my health issues, while handing me brownies and cakes and cookies and candy, lol nope my health problems were caused by modern processed high carb and seed oil foods that they addicted me to before I even reached puberty!
Another Eye 👁 Opener from the Doctor Who Cares About Our Health and Happiness ❤️ 🥩🥩🥩🥩Thank You Doc Cywes
7:35 No we esixted mostly in flat plains, valleys and lowland coasts, because of oxygen abundance, and because most ruminants were there to be hunted, because both oxygen and the food is permitted by low altitude, sun and grass (grass patches produces much more oxygen than trees). DHA is not that useful btw, and is found in breastmilk and animal fats anyway.
The anti meat people say that the length of the human digestive tract is longer than the typical carnivore. They argue that meat is dangerous when digestion takes longer.
I explained this subject to my friend yesterday.
Priests don't preface their Sunday sermons with an apology to evolutionists; I don't know why medical doctors apologize for possibly offending creationists when discussing evolutionary evidence. Just present your evidence and move on. People will choose to be offended or not; big deal.
Because he knows God created man, but is trying to tie in evolution also at the same time
Here we go Bronze Age thinking
I was a vegetarian for 5-6 years - and when I became a carnivor again, my husband noticed that I became much more energetic! :-) ... Tor Nørretranders, a science journalist from Denmark, wrote in his "Menneskeføde" (Food for humans) that the farming of grains and cereal began because the seas were rising, leaving too little space for all to be hunters-gatheres. And that the said crops are one-year-plants and therefore had all the energy packed into their seed. (Nørretranders wrote the book because he became fat in spite of following the food-pyramid! :-D ) ... And then of course the feudal systems forbitting you to hunt anything on the nobility's land. Thank you for being here, Robert! Best regards from Denmark!
Got to visit
Met one of your colleagues and he introduced me to your content! Thanks!
I hate salad leaves, always have. I eat it only to not offend my hosts. So thank you for this video 🤗
And I blame our bloody open plan homes! I am currently doing an extended fast and I HAVE to pass the kitchen all the time. My next home will have the kitchen way to the side as it’s own space.
My dog loves apple, pear, banana, plum, cherries, cucumber, tomato. She eats them in the garden when fallen on the ground. And ofcourse she loves meat, fish, eggs and rabbits that she catches also in the garden. She is an omnivore like foxes and badgers. Not pure carnivore.
Thanks for another great video!
From a fellow physician: I did not listen to all of your presentation…don’t know if you mention any of this: Butyrate biosynthesis and absorption in the large intestine and subsequent metabolism. Two pathways of endogenous butyrate production from butyryl-CoA in bacteria have been reported. The letter “A” indicates that butyryl-CoA is phosphorylated to butyryl-phosphate and converted to butyrate via butyrate kinase. The letter “B” shows that the CoA moiety of butyryl-CoA is transferred to external acetate via butyryl-CoA:acetate CoA transferase, leading to the formation of butyrate and acetyl-CoA. Several receptors for butyrate have been identified, including GPR41, GPR43, and GPR109A. GPR41 is found in adipose tissues and immune cells. The highest expression of GPR43 has been found in immune cells, whereas GPR109A is essential for butyrate-mediated induction of IL-18 in colonic epithelium. A small portion of butyrate is transported to the liver and metabolized to produce ATP. GPR, orphan G protein-coupled receptor.
Absorption of Butyrate
SCFAs are absorbed in both the small and large intestine by similar mechanisms (25, 26). Different mechanisms of absorbing SCFAs across the apical membrane of the colonocytes are reported, including diffusion of the undissociated form and active transport of the dissociated form by SCFA transporters (27). Two SCFA transporters exist, including monocarboxylate transporter (MCT) isoform 1 (MCT1), which is coupled to a transmembrane H+-gradient (28), and solute carrier (SLC) family 5 member 8 (SLC5A8), which is also known as sodium-coupled monocarboxylate transporter (SMCT) 1 (SMCT1) and is a Na+-coupled co-transporter (11).
A carrier-mediated, HCO3− gradient-dependent anion-butyrate exchange system is present on the basolateral membrane (5). In humans, MCT3 is expressed in low concentrations in the ileum, whereas MCT4 and MCT5 are expressed abundantly in the distal colon (29).
MCTs are also involved in butyrate transport on the apical membrane of colonocytes (30). Butyrate transportation with MCTs is saturated, coupled with H+, and inhibited by several monocarboxylates such as acetate, propionate, pyruvate, lactate, and α-ketobutyrate. The pH for the optimal activity of the colonic butyrate transporters appears to be ∼5.5. In addition, a second class of MCTs, called SMCTs, was identified (31), such as SLC5A8 (SMCT1) and SLC5A12 (SMCT2) (32). Different from MCTs, SMCT transport involves Na+ uptake by the transport cycle and also uses nicotinate and ketone bodies as substrates
"Earthmen are not proud of their ancestors, and never invite them round to dinner." THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
Your theory seems right. I can see what you're saying. I understand about fruits, tubers, and nuts. But above ground vegetables? Hmm... who even likes kale to begin with? Not me. But I do like spinach tho.
Great video, Dr. Cywes. I'm wondering what nutritional elements/benefits plants added to our diet that isn't available in animal products.
Oh Doc, we are closer to ketovore, but this video just got me thinking that even my cauliflower and cabbage and pickles might have to go... Say it's not so!
I've tried being pure carnivor - it's not good for me. I need a little cauliflower and cabbage... We're not all the same :-) Dr. Berry thinks that if your ancestors came from the hotter areas, you need a bit of greens, if they came from the North, you might be better off as a pure carnivor.
Theyre fine to eat if ur fine w them
Listen to your gut. You'll know if something disagrees with you or not. If not, just enjoy it as an additive to your diet.
yeah i've watched Cywes videos and i kinds don't like his opinions being hit or miss💀
Just found you doc, you echo all the things I've been considering for year
Homo Carbasaurus! My vegetarian friend makes an exception for seafood. HCA! I’ll not discourage him. I’ve been keto/carnivore for 4 years and am putting carbs back in a very controlled way to keep my weight steady. Experimenting with with below the ground Sweet potatoes in modest amounts and carrots. And a very small amount of grain - 50g steel cut oats- no wheat which I find addictive. If I have a croissant I keep longing for them for a week.
Prefer nongrains
Probably first humans ate whatever they could get their hands on.
We still do
@@robertcywes2966 good point Dr Cywes. 😃
Love the Gerbil story!
Great story and info, your hilarious. Thanks for the video
Couldn’t agree with you more! I just find it ironic that your favorite beverage is derived from a bean, which incidentally, is a seed. Lol
Thank you! Love your videos and it does make you really think about it.
In the GARDEN OF EDEN -- we were given EVERY HERB BEARING FRUIT FOR FOOD.. and allowed to eat all except the tree of knowledge.. and the ANIMAL eating started AFTER the fall-- when man was kicked out of the Garden of EDEN-- and the devil took over.
Makes reasonable sense to me. Thanks doc.
Yes totally agree. Carnivore 4 years wish I knew it 4 decades ago
Huh? In every examination of primitive diets that I've ever seen (I'm most familiar with Weston Price's "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration") ALL primitive people eat the above-ground parts of plants. They also scavenge seaweed when it is available. Herbs, in particular, smell and taste great. There are plenty of vegetables that are delicious right off the vine - pea shoots, immature ramps, leeks, and other alliums, celery, mushrooms, and asparagus spears snapped off during the hungry gap of early spring. I can tell that you are not a gardener because a LOT of edible plants smell divine. Admittedly, these are hybridized varieties. Even 'heirloom' open-pollinated varieties are not untouched by man. The one that continues to astonish me is the artichoke. Whoever figured that was edible was one hungry S.O.B.! But even so, all of our closest hominid cousins eat vegetables. So, I don't think the question is, "When did we start eating plants?" I believe the question is, "When did we start making starch extracted from cereal seeds a primary component of our diet?" For that, we have clear archeological evidence: whenever wheat or rice became a staple in the diet and began supplying the bulk of the calories, people got shorter, there were higher rates of infant mortality, and dentition deteriorated. That much is clear in the archeological record.
The plants we eat now are not the plants from then. Our plants are all humanized
@@robertcywes2966 Not always. For instance, ramps, stinging nettles, most watercress, and sorrel are not commercially cultivated. One harvests them from the wild. There are numerous fruits that fall in that category, as well, and I am unaware of any commercially hybridized seaweed. Nope. Every primitive people from the Amazonian rain forest to the Kalahari desert to the Laps above the arctic circle opportunistically harvest and eat wild fruits and vegetables. You only run into hyper-hybridized fruits and vegetables in supermarkets - you know, the place where they send bad vegetables to die. Again we have well-preserved food remains in the archeological record as proof that while some foods (corn and bananas are the prime examples) are unrecognizable in their primitive wild form, other foods have remained remarkably stable and are essentially wild plants (mangoes and peas are sterling examples). Even in grains, a natural wild crossbreed of goatgrass (Aegilops tauschii) and wheat (Triticum turgidum) produced the first ancient bread wheat. That wheat had 14 chromosomes. Modern wheat has 42 chromosomes - so, yeah. SOME plants have been hybridized to oblivion. But humans are pretty opportunistic. Many of the plants we eat now are not from then. But many of them are. Not all food plants have been humanized. Once again, I do not believe that we "started" to eat plants. We never left off eating them. The question should be: "When did we start to substitute starchy field crops for the bulk of our meat?" That question reflects a more accurate and nuanced understanding of agricultural history. There are numerous excellent reasons for adopting a carnivore diet; ancient precedence is not one of them
@@lindacgrace2973 Very valid points and excellent observations.
@Linda C Grace -- Thank you for your info & observations on plants in the ancients' diets. Tried Carnivore for 3 months & loved it - simply & tastey. But now have kidney & lower back PAIN - for weeks! Don't understand it & wanted it to work to heal some G.I. problems after 4 surgeries. IDK - my body just didn't thrive on carnivore as I'd hoped. Maybe some people need at least some fruits or veg to be healthy.
@@rocknawe7336 I have always thought that highly restrictive diets like carnivore, strict keto, strict raw vegan, etc., were excellent as healing interventions and not necessarily the best long-term dietary strategy. My very best wishes on your journey to health.
Love your channel
that was awesome, thanks!!
I do low carb HDL is 130 ,I lost 25 pound (in 8 month ),ldl 135 , tg 52, I can feel physically better now .My bmi - 22.1.It is too high Hdl (130)
Interesting. I'll say this...if I'm out walking in the field somewhere and I see a cow, I won't think to myself "yummy, that looks tasty"! But if I see some berries or an orange, or a fig or banana, I will happily pluck and eat it. Not sure how I'd feel about greens like leaves or tubers - would probably pass on them. Maybe if I were a guy with a weapon of some sort I'd feel differently, I don't know. Perhaps that's why women were mostly gatherers while the men were hunters.
The biggest lie told to us by the conventional modern day diet and western medical perspective is that we must eat lots of vegetables and fruits in order to be healthy, which is wrong and in the last few decades, its alarming how politicized this push to promote plants while at the same time telling people animal based meat is bad for you, its literally the worst advice and absolutely incorrect from an evolutionary perspective, we thrived and relied on meat and animal based protein and added in fruit when it became available.
This is a great video and very well explained and articulated by the doctor, he has a very intuitive way of thinking and approaching ways of eating and has alot of great facts to back up what he is saying, great stuff doc.
100 percent agree . Starch makes some sense in the need to travel from place to place in order to Hunt ! But only as a source of energy , hunting was very difficult and unreliable source of food .
This is quite similar to what Dr. Paul Saladino says.
Paul is a little too into carbs imho
Would love to know more about how nuts / legumes are processed by humans or if they are processed just as you describe in this video
.. I ask because I lost and am maintaining 150 pound weight loss using ketovore. A few months ago, I started eating Macadamia nuts and peanuts. I really love them and love the crunch. They help keep me satisfied and on track. However, I just got kidney stones this week and I am assuming it's the nuts and I am bummed as they have been my treat. Would love to hear your thoughts.... thanks for awesome videos 😊
It was probably the peanuts. They are high in oxilates.
Macadamia nuts have the lowest amount of lectins, phytic acid and oxalate of all nuts due to their extremely hard shell. They also have a low amount of omega 6 and a high omega 3 amount
Check uric acid level
try carnivore if you don't wanna suffer
The truth will set you free. Thank you
My parents forced me to eat vegetables! I hated it, but now I crave some of it. I'm all messed up!
At times, it seems like you are searching for content. This submission is great!
Never need to search fir content. My head is filled w too many topics
@@robertcywes2966 Please keep it coming!
So should we not eat things like sunflower/pumpkin seeds? Or nuts even? These are recommended by most Keto advocates and nutritionists.
I love the thinking here but it’s a very brave person who would ignore all the general advice from the medical profession.
I think I may turn rodentarian based on this story😂👍
Seeds and nuts are the reproductive organs of plants and, while edible, not meant to be eaten by humans. See Dr. Ken Berry about this topic.
@@monicacollins8289 There are so many Keto advocates who promote eating seeds. There are countless Keto recipes which include them. I can’t really find any information which says they shouldn’t be eaten or that there are significant negative effects. Is there a video or link which explains the down side? I searched Ken Berry but couldn’t see anything about it. TIA?
When I google for ‘Chimpanzee humans genetic similarity’ I found multiple links stating that it’s in the ballpark of > 96%.
Where do you get the 1% from? I would love if you would state the links to the resources of your reading to these videos.
Good point
Awesome. The more I learn the better I feel. !
I guess there must be a reason why people FORCE children to eat vegetables. They don’t like them because they are not meant to eat them ? Should a lion eat grass or carrots? No he eats what he needs and likes 👍🏻
But I do appreciate Dr Cyves, his work comment is videos. Hes looking out for our health
I agree with you (there is a but) as Intry to eat low carb and my favourite subject is human evolution. We are evolved to eat meat (maybe not as much) as it is hard to get in the natural world. (See tv programme Surviving the Stone Age). Our common ancestor 10 million years ago gorged on fruit for a couple of hours and rested and repeated. The reduction in rainforest caused a common ancestor to leave the forest for food which led to an upright walking ability. Poor thing had to walk and walk just to dig up a root with a stick. My guess is that is when scavenging meat started eventually leading to the hero homo erectus being able to control fire and cooking which freed the species up relativelyas it was more nutritious. My but is why have I been advised to eat kale and spinach due to the beginnings of macular degeneration. I love kale and spinach so no problem and they apparently have the nutrients I need but I find the more you look into this subject the more of these discrepancies appear. I would be interested in your view. Good books for human evolution without getting too technical are “the story of the human body” Daniel Lieberman and evolution Alice Roberts which is more pictorial.
... when it comes to science, because it puts you on a well-informed starting hypothesis or foundation of understanding. Especially useful when understanding how the body works, and in astronomy and geology.. . Okay and biology.... Call, and anthropology and archeology.. . And the study of languages.... And botany and zoology
Ya, I loved this video and Amber O'Hearn video called Lipivore and Dr Michael Eades on Low Carb Down Under that did a Paleopathology lecture that were interesting also.
Entertaining and informative.
Can you do a video explaining why keto is recommended for people who have epilepsy or other types of seizures?
I knew I hated lettuce for a reason!
From the beginning.
Bravo 👏 Dr Sywes, you are so 👍
LMBO! Best 16 minutes I spend today. Thanks Dr. C.
Explains why kids don’t like vegetables
No absorbion happens in colon? 🤦🏼♂️, so you are saying that giving people medicine anally is ineffective? Really?
2.15 , ***u say that we humans have the longest small intestine in the mammalian kingdom ..** ???
I just looked up sheep and cattle ,both sheep and cattle have longer small intestines than humans .. please can u or anyone else explain this to me please??
BTW I'm a newbie carnivore, just over 2 months . I'm not medically trained at all , still trying to learn the basics .
I've been a big fan of Dr Cywes , bit confused now ??
It’s so strange how vegans try to argue animals are a survival food out of necessity. In practicality both plants and animals are “survival food”. But plants were historically used a a crutch or fallback while animals were the (pun intended) prime rib
I agree with the colon gerbils LOL
Carnivore is the best way for me!
Everything has improved 10 fold 👍🏻
Yes you (and others) have made me think. Although I wish I had this knowledge when my girls were little and even pre-conception I can’t change the past. However now I give my baby granddaughter, my heart, all the meat she can eat. Good beef and lamb and we chomp on that together enjoying ourselves. Come her 1year birthday Amma will BBQ a tomahawk steak for her growing girl and that is her “smash cake”. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and way of thought process 🌹
Grasses are a certain type of plant family. Corn wheat, barley, rice, oats, etc. etc. are all grasses.
Genesis 1:29
And God said, “Behold, I have given to you all grass of the seed that bears seed on the face of all the Earth, and every tree that has in itself the fruit of the tree, of its seed, bearing seed; you shall have it for food.
Like said...this shit started a few thousand years ago... a blink on the evolutionary scale...
Thanks Doc! 🙂
Dha = aquatic ape theory?
If I hear “plant-based” more than five times daily, I have to down half a bottle of tequila to remain sane.
Isn’t tequila plant based?
Please don’t ruin tekillya…
@@billtravis100 You are right. My sincere and humble apologies.
Think of it this way how did humans domesticate wolves with salad or steak?
No one has everything right. The deck is shuffled by society.