During the ice age, humans had no option but to eat meat because, due to the sheer amount of ice and snow that was meters deep, there were no plants. This is obvious, isn’t it? I mean, Dr Chaffee (one of the well-known Carnivore doctors on YouTube) has made that statement many times in his videos and in interviews. But I have a serious question for Dr Chaffee – what did those huge woolly mammoths eat if there were no plants?
Did they eat other mammoths?
Let’s get into it and bust a few myths…
In the Beginning, There Were Vegan Myths
I remember when I first started eating a vegan diet thirty years ago (I was in my mid-thirties at the time), vegan influencers on YouTube were telling their viewers that it wasn’t natural for women to have a menstrual cycle. They said that our monthly cycle was due to women having such toxic bodies that the monthly bleeding was necessary as a way for our bodies to get rid of toxins.
We now know that women on vegan diets often have hormonal issues and lose their cycles due to nutritional deficiencies. But those vegan influencers back in the 1990’s were justifying that anomaly, which was an indicator of declining health, rather than admitting that their vegan diet might be lacking. And they were quite effective at convincing viewers at the time that vegan women were SO healthy they just didn’t need to bleed anymore. Crazy huh?
Well, today, I can’t help but notice similar stuff happening in the carnivore space.
When You Have Eyes To See
Thirty years ago, when I heard that stuff about vegan women and their periods, I knew it was nonsense – even though I was fully on board the vegan diet train at that time.
And over the past four years, while fully on the carnivore diet train, I’ve heard things being said in the carnivore diet space that I also knew were questionable. The bizarre thing is that some of this questionable content is being shared by carnivore doctor influencers and others with letters behind their names. So many people believe everything they say.
That was also me to some extent initially.
A wee note before we get started:
While I’m fully aware that this article won’t be popular in the carnivore space, these things need to be brought to light. It’s time to put pen to paper because, honestly, I’ve been thinking about this for a very long time – long before I reintroduced carbs to my diet. And I can’t keep listening to this nonsense without saying anything any longer!
If you’re new here and assuming that I’m now against the carnivore diet, I want to let you know that I ate a carnivore diet for three and a half years and that I’ll very likely go back to some form of carnivore diet at times in the future because I’m fully aware of the benefits! So this is NOT a carnivore diet hit piece. It’s more of a ‘stop exaggerating and making stuff up’ piece.
Now let’s get into it…
