Paul Saladino· MD
ALL of the nutrients that humans need to thrive can be obtained by eating animals from nose to tail (as indigenous groups do), obviating the need for plants as a food source if ample animal foods are available.
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ALL of the nutrients that humans need to thrive can be obtained by eating animals from nose to tail (as indigenous groups do), obviating the need for plants as a food source if ample animal foods are available.
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the original premise of this video the original idea i really really reiterated is the idea that i don't believe humans are omnivores i think that's sort of a made-up concept i think that plants don't serve a unique role for humans at all if we can get everything we need from animals in the right proportions in the most bioavailable forms then um then if you're doing that then you don't need plants and you're actually a facultative carnivore carnivore for women
my hypothesis my thesis to the world to the carnivore community to the keto community to the medical world would be that humans are not actually omnivores because i think if you look at it if you look at human nutrition we can get everything we need in the most bioavailable forms from animals we can get everything we need from animals which is why i think the carnivorous diet is so fascinating
when we eat only plants we are definitely going to get nutrient deficiencies but if we eat an animal nose-to-tail we will get everything we need
the the really really strong clear case is that animal foods have all the things we need in more highly bioavailable forms than plant foods if you look at beta carotene which is a precursor of vitamin A well there's preformed vitamin A in animal foods which is the retinol form of vitamin A if you look at iron animal foods have so much more highly absorbable form of iron and heme iron than plant foods many people get anemic just eating plant foods this is the same thing with niacin it's nicotinic acid versus niacin amide and nicotinic acid is found in plants and it's not processed in the same way as niacinamide which is found in animal meats and again it's this operating system concept that plant foods have different forms of these vitamins minerals and cofactors they're different than what humans use and we are then tasked with an extra step we have to convert them into our usable form and some people don't do that well with certain polymorphisms with regard to beta carotene we know there are polymorphisms in BC mo it's just better to get the animal form it's more highly bioavailable so if you look at the nutrient content Wow animal foods are clearly the multivitamin there's a clear winner in all of these in all of these camps whether you're talking about B vitamins whether you're talking about you know minerals whether you're talking about other things it's it's just it's not even a question
if you look at an animal and you eat that entire animal that animal will provide animals do provide all of the nutrients that a human needs in the most bioavailable forms in the optimal ratios it's this incredible elegant sort of sort of paradigm that and the last part of the equation is that without any of the plant anti nutrients or toxins
if you really just look at the nutritional biochemistry I have never found any nutrient that's in plants that people can't get from nose to tail animal foods in a more bioavailable form in the right ratios
animal foods provide all of the nutria that human needs for optimal health in the most highly bioavailable forms without any of the anti nutrients or toxins found in plants
I think this is a really interesting and robust argument for eating animal foods for nutrient adequacy and that if you are eating animal foods and you're eating nose-to-tail from a well raised grass-fed grass-finished regenerative the graze animal I think it's much less likely that we are going to get nutrient deficiencies than if we are relying mostly on plants
as humans we are meant to consume animals period and i think when you reverse engineer these nutrients you that's very clear