Including organ meats in the diet mimics ancestral eating patterns and provides nutrients without plant toxins.

“An animal-based diet is a species-appropriate diet for humans. The kind that was eaten by your ancestors for millions of years which focuses on animal organs and meat, and adds to this the least toxic plant foods depending on season and latitude.”

“Eat more toxin-free foods (animal organs and meat) and less toxin-full foods (plants) if you want to thrive.”

“A species-appropriate human diet includes animal organs and meat, contains zero seed oils, and attends to a spectrum of plant toxicity.”

“Mostly animal meat and organs with a smaller amount of the least toxic plant foods. Like plant-based, but actually healthy for humans and evolutionarily consistent!”

“I would say my opinion is that it is a carnivorous diet Now one of the things we did not talk about in this podcast that people can see at my social media is that I believe in eating nose-to-tail kind of like we were talking about I do not think about carnivorous diet as a meat only diet I think of it as meat and connective tissue and animal organs and animal fat and animal bones and omega-3s from fish you need a calcium source you know mega 3 source you need a fat source you need a muscle meat source you need to connect the tissue source you have to get all those things I would say that is the optimal human diet in terms of nutrient density and lack of toxins and I would say try that and tell me how much ass you kick”

“I think the more of these we include in our diets the more we mimic our ancestors and the more nutrients we were giving ourselves like obviously without any plant toxins which is my impression of the ideal diet for humans”

“so the the notion is clear here animal foods are the ultimate foods for humans if we want to eat plant foods for color variety texture fine but understand that you may not be great at detoxifying all those things”

“if your diet doesn't work in the wild it's probably not a viable diet for humans and i think this diet works very well in the wild”

“the way that humans can be healthy healthy yes thrive reclaim that ancestral birth right to radical health is by eating the majority of your diet as mean and organs and the least toxic plant foods that's the idea of an animal-based diet”

“suggesting to people that if they if they would like to include plant foods be aware of a spectrum of toxicity but i think that most of us will thrive and i've seen this over and over and over when we get the majority of our diet from animal foods with a lesser amount from plant foods just in terms of nutrient availability energetics fat content all the unique things that are in animal foods”

“and also within the book i outline kind of this idea that i think that for humans for many humans optimal health will be achieved if they think about where their nutrients are coming from include more organs in their diet include well-raised meat in their diet and consider plants on a spectrum of toxicity and appreciate the fact that if someone is reading the book and is not thriving is not achieving the health goals that they want that perhaps there is more to the conversation around plants than is discussed in the mainstream nutritional sphere which is from what i will tell what from what i've observed at a broad level that all plants are good the more plants you eat the better and that if you're not thriving it's because you're not eating enough so the book was meant to be a counterpoint to that and an examination of a different way of considering sort of the nutritional landscape”

“i think that it's going to be somewhat individual and there is some nuance here i generally feel that there are many lines of evidence paleoanthropological biochemical medical nutrition suggesting that animal organs and meat and fat are quite nutrient dense contain a variety of unique nutrients that are you widely health promoting and should be at the center of a a health promoting optimal human diet i think that the majority of people can add some degree of plant foods to that based on their individual genetic makeup probably their pre-existing conditions the context that we're working with in every individual and i think that those plant foods might be considered on a spectrum of toxicity that not all plant foods appear to be totally benign or health promoting for all individuals but that some individuals can eat a variety of plant foods without any apparent negative health consequences and i think that there is some there's a significant benefit from considering if given that seed oils refined sugars hyperpalatable processed foods have been eliminated from the diet and meat and organs are made the the centerpiece of the human diet i think there is a benefit to considering plants on a spectrum of toxicity and depending on an individual's health goals health existing pre-existing health conditions often the elimination of some plant foods can be beneficial for people who are not thriving”

“so the takeaway is this make meat and organs the center of your diet if you want to eat plant foods make the least toxic plant foods the next things you eat eat up on the hierarchy of toxicity”

“if you really want to thrive you need the micronutrients found especially in organs liver heart etc testicle whatever and the nutrients found in muscle meat and the nutrients found in connective tissue like scapula or trachea cartilage or the nutrients found in bone broth and you need to pair that with nutrients found in plant foods that are less toxic and i think that is the formula for long-term success for humans”