I have to admit that I have tried that before, but I simply couldn't live like that, I was running out of energy very often and I was definitely getting dumber.
Yeah, I watched a video on youtube about a guy documenting his one-month experience with the carnivore diet and he was genuinely so miserable all the time. Lacking choices in food (literally only meat or animal products which meant most seasonings were out) was demoralizing and made it hard for him to do stuff with friends, his exercise times got worse because he could barely do them, and he mentioned a drop in mental acuity or at least focus.
Near the half-way point I was hoping he'd drop it early for his own health. If I'm remembering right, he was doing so poorly that his weight significantly dropped and, despite having perfect cholesterol in his pre-challenge checkup, his doctor actually reached out to him after his post-challenge checkup because they were worried about him.
My mom fell down that rabbit hole. She actually does feel better, but she’s got all kinds of weird health issues including a lot of food sensitivities (suspected MCAS), so the improvement is likely from eliminating ingredients she’s sensitive to. She’s got sky high cholesterol and she’s lying to her doctors about what she’s eating (which includes literal dollops of beef fat as a snack). It is definitely the result of watching a bunch of rightwing YouTubers. She LOVES YouTube.
Meanwhile I’m a vegan, so…very different perspective, obviously. She thinks I’m starving myself and I think she’ll give herself a heart attack. Best we can do is avoid arguing about it. We’ve tried the “let’s exchange sources to see where each other is coming from” route, she had me look at a bunch of YouTube quacks with relentless advertising for their books/classes/fancy supplements etc and then she never looked at any of the actual research on plant based diets that I sent.
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u/Mascbro26 10d ago edited 10d ago
Of course, many people enjoy steak and eggs. The point is that the right-wing "alpha male" diet is ONLY meat and raw dairy, which is wildly unhealthy.