You will not die by eating only meat:

Right now, keto or the ketogenic diet is the most popular. The first good news about keto is that it works. It is very effective at making you lose body fat, adipose tissue.

But, what I believe to be even more effective than the ketogenic diet is a carnivore diet. A diet which is 90% meat or flesh based, and 10% bitter herbs and greens, or fermented kimchi, etc.

How is a carnivore diet different than a ketogenic one?

Technically, the ketogenic diet is high fat, moderate protein. A carnivore diet is both high fat and high protein.

Also, the ketogenic diet has nonsensical notion‘s like “net carbs“, in which you subtract the number of carbohydrates from a certain food from its fiber count. The reason why I think this is nonsensical is that I think it’s just a way for corporations and individuals to try to game the system.

You don’t need to eat avocados

People forget that an avocado is a fruit. Also, people also don’t like to admit that avocados are actually quite sweet.

Similar speaking with almonds, almonds are actually very sweet, and actually have a lot of starch. If you eat a lot of almonds, it will make you fat.

So what can I and what should I eat?

Ground beef (preferably grass fed, Costco actually sells some good frozen 100% grass fed burger patties), steak, bone marrow, eggs (preferably pasture raised with deep amber yolks), fatty cuts of pork, pork belly, beef ribs, pork ribs.

Organ meats, like beef liver. Beef liver is a natural steroid, as it has one of the highest amount of cholesterol concentration per gram. The more cholesterol you consume, the better. Cholesterol a steroid.

Confusing foods

Things you do not need to eat: fish, chicken, dairy, nuts, carbs, fiber, starch, vegetables.

If you look at the ancient definition of meat, it means ”oozing with grease/fat”. A lot of traditional societies do not consider fish or even chicken as meat. For example, if you go to a lot of places in South Africa, and you tell people that you are vegetarian and do not eat meat, they will say that is okay, and give you chicken instead. Also, when you fast from meat during Catholic lent, fish is not considered meat. Therefore, this is why people love eating fish on Fridays, or this is why McDonald’s filet of fish sales go up during that time.

Technically you can survive on almost anything

For example, while I do often poke fun at veganism, technically, even if you’re a hard-core vegan, you won’t die. Same thing with being vegetarian, pescatarian, or any other diet. I’m sure if you ate nothing but beans and rice, while you might become very sickly, you probably wouldn’t die. Also, if you were even a raw vegan, where are you literally did not eat any cooked food, and subsisted only on vegetables and fruit, you probably wouldn’t die either.

But the question is, is our personal goal to not die, or is it to thrive?

I say it is to thrive.

Why eat bitter greens, herbs, and kimchi?

I find the pragmatic reason why I like to eat bitter greens like kale, cilantro, basil, and other green herbs and foods like kimchi is that it helps me eat more meat. If I eat nothing but pure meat, especially when I’m eating very fatty meats, the meat feels too rich. Eating bitter foods, or foods with fermented vinegar helps me digest my meat better.

Don’t be suckered by traditional food dogma

I say be very critical and wary of any dogma related to food, whether it be traditional, custom, societal, or what the doctor says. Also, be critical and judging of any food trends as well. Also, certainly be critical of me, meat, and the notion of the carnivore diet. But the only reason I share this is that it seems like it is the best thing that has worked for me, in terms of increasing my muscle mass, decreasing my body fat, and giving me more energy and power.

Should we care about the ethics of food?

Now this is the trillion dollar question: it is more about the ethics of food. Let us say that meat consumption was bad for the planet. If that were the case, the technical question then becomes, should I eat meat? And if I do, how much of it should I eat? And also, to what degree is it meat eating bad for the planet?

Or conversely, what if eating more plants were worse for the environment? The case of almond trees consuming tons of water. Or the case of Western quinoa consumption and the impoverishment of locals (ethical issue).

In in terms of environmental impact, the question is: does meat consumption cause earth death? If so, by how many years? For example if we all subisted only on soy, would it extend the duration of planet earth for another thousand years, hundred thousand years? 1 million years? 100 million years? 1 billion years? Certainly nobody knows.

Why people are afraid to eat meat

When people tell me that I eat so much meat I’m going to die from a heart attack. This is the general fear, that we’ve been indoctrinated that eating lots of saturated fat and cholesterol leads to heart disease, clog your arteries, and an eventual heart attack.

But a lot of modern scientific research has shown this is actually not the case. Ironically enough, the consumption of dietary cholesterol does not really increase your blood level cholesterol. And also it is my theory that it is actually sugar and carbs which causes heart disease and strokes, not really fat and meat.

Also let us consider the lexical issue: dietary fat and body fat is considered the same thing: this means, people are afraid that if you eat more fat, you will become more fat.

Let us also consider the superior and supreme Greeks of ancient old times — it seems that when they had the option, they were only subsist on delicious organ meats and fatty cuts of oxen.

Even if you consider how apex predators like wolves eat: when they kill an animal, the first thing they do is devour the organ meats, which is the highest nutrition. They then leave the other lean cuts of flesh for the vultures and scavengers. The reason why it is wise to study predators is that they have no notions of political correctness, or eco-consciousness. They simply consume that which has the highest nutritional value.

For my question becomes: do you desire to become an apex predator (Eagles, who often pick up a whole lamb with their talons), or a happy cow subsisting on corn, grass, and other fillers?

I say become the Predator.