Typical questions and random facts

“But your muscles will be soft as they will be depleted in glycogen”! This is true, the muscles will contain much less glycogen and will be softer. But I will have more muscles, more testosterone, more everything-that-is-good, and mainly, less insulin.

“But your muscles run on carbs”! I don’t have the evidence for it, but it seems that muscles run very well on fats bound to carnitine.

“But you won’t get all the great antioxidants from fruits and veggies”! Meat is very high in some important antioxidants that seem to reverse aging, such as carnitine and carnosine, in amounts comparable to what you get with a normal dose of capsules of these, plus meat has a very small amount of alpha-lipoic acid. Meat is also high in zinc and selenium, and proteins of course, which are required by our immune system. It has all the good stuff to make our best natural antioxidant, glutathione. Eggs are particularly high in NAC, a glutathione precursor.

Insulin and all the carb-eating might be at the root of the high oxidative stress.

“Study of the stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen in fossil bone indicates the source of Neanderthal dietary protein, and fossils from western Europe to Uzbekistan reveal a similar pattern - in quantity of meat consumption, Neanderthals compare with hyaenas. For a Neanderthal it was meat for breakfast, lunch and tea - mind you, modern human diet of the period was hardly any different .»

Plants are full of toxins! : http://wisewitch.blogspot.com/

On a carnivore diet, after a while, you never feel the hunger pangs.

Children inherit their taste for meat and fish but when it comes to vegetables and desserts it's more nurture than nature, according to a study on Wednesday.
http://digg.com/general_sciences/Study_shows_taste_for_meat_and_fish_inherited

I don’t eat pork. First because I never liked it, second because I’m not sure it’s really healthy. It seems to have too many parasites, it’s scary. They’re too much like us maybe. I will allow rendered leaf fat. Once rendered, it's not much more than just fat.

Great website about that kind of eating: http://www.second-opinions.co.uk . There is even one page about the diet for athletes: http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/athletic_diet.html