Aug 30, 20182 min read

Dr. Shawn Baker on Human Evolution, Meat, and Healing Yourself Through Diet

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For many this man needs no intro, he’s the savage carnivore orthopedic surgeon who deadlifts 700 something pounds. He’s lighting up Instagram and twitter these days as the unofficial president of the carnivore movement that I’ve just named him. Anyway, he’s a great guy and shares a lot of wisdom in this episode. And no, he doesn't think everyone should be a carnivore and either do I. We need to look at all sides of nutrition and I have Denise Minger coming on soon who I highly respect and has a very opposite view of things… and it’s not veganism…

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Show notes

Caught him for the film interview when he was in town for Joe Rogan’s podcast
Toxins are dose-dependent, yet this is not consistent with eating meat
Epidemiology in nutrition is very flawed
Shawn is sort of the ringleader in the carnivore world and is collecting thousands of success stories from around the world.
People treating their diseases by just eating meat
Younger and younger people are getting metabolic disease these days
Modern carnivore diet is based on millions of years of humans eating meat. It’s actually one of the only foods no humans have an intolerance for. People start it as an elimination diet - if you’re having problems you take away everything but meat and the add foods back in to see how they affect you. Some people never add the foods back in…
Until you experiment you don’t know if you could be living much more optimally
What’s up with us thinking we need tons of fiber?
Your body absorbs basically all of the nutrition from meat… not so much from plants
What Doc Baker eats on an average day
Eating should be simple and satisfying
We’ve created a food system based on endless options and engineered flavors
Human skeletons and brains shrank when we invented agriculture and started eating a larger portion of grains in our diet
Can too much protein cause a blood sugar rise due to gluconeogenesis?
Dealing with vegan hate
Vegans are confused on how the circle of life works
The vegan diet supports Monsanto and monocropping which ruins the environment.
We’re going to start a movement!
People need to be more in touch with how food is grown
Mixed farming as we’ve done in the past that is sustainable
Gabe Brown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfTZ0rnowcc
Lab grown meat
His blood work and labs after eating only meat for 18 months
His experience with the medical system as an orthopedic surgeon
What can we do?