573: Carnivore Diet Controversy with Lucas Rockwood
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Lucas Rockwood
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🗓️ 22 June 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The carnivore diet is one of the most requested and controversial topics on the podcast in the past year, and I’ve had a number of guests on including a medical doctor and heart surgeon. While I do not eat nor plan to eat this way myself, I’m alway open to learn about new approaches for weight loss and optimal health. While this extreme approach raises some very real concerns, there are some very interesting benefits too making it well with a discussion.
Listen and learn:
- What we can learn from the inuit and yupik people who traditional at an animal-centric diet
- Why elimination diets can be powerful short term for illnesses and disease but why they are almost never sustainable
- The big cholesterol gamble from a cow-centric diet
- How to separate signal from noise in the diet industry
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Lucas Rockwood show. If you're new here, I am a yoga teacher and trainer, |
| 0:06.6 | a serial entrepreneur. I'm the father of three kids. But firstly, I'm a student and I use this |
| 0:12.4 | podcast as a research tool to meet medical doctors, authors, experts, yoga teachers, meditation |
| 0:17.7 | experts, bring their best work here on the show. So hopefully we can live more informed, |
| 0:22.4 | more inspired lives. Typical show I have guests. This week is a departure from that. It's a solo |
| 0:28.2 | I'd like to address some of the questions, excitement, pushback, criticisms I've gotten |
| 0:33.4 | in and around the carnivore diet, which is not something I've followed. But I have had a number |
| 0:38.2 | of experts in the past year on the podcast who are advocates, writers, authors, in some cases, |
| 0:44.3 | well, in one case, even a medical doctor advocating for a meat heavy or a meat-only |
| 0:50.1 | diet. And this has gotten people listeners so emotional. I thought, hey, let me do a podcast |
| 0:56.5 | on this to share, first of all, why I have people on this show, even though I don't advocate this |
| 1:01.0 | way of eating, why I will continue to have different, in some cases, dissenting voices on the podcast. |
| 1:06.6 | And most importantly, how you might think critically about this diet and all of the different |
| 1:10.8 | diets that might come up from me or any of my guests or anyone out there in the health, |
| 1:16.7 | pop health sphere. Carnivore diet is not a new concept. It's been around for thousands of years. |
| 1:22.5 | In fact, before grains, humans were largely Paleolithic, Neolithic, man was largely carnivore, |
| 1:30.0 | simply because of the foods that were accessed with limited, with no agriculture in terms of growing |
| 1:36.9 | grains and plants, foods were largely coming from animals. However, we're in a very different time |
| 1:43.3 | in a place. The idea that we haven't evolved at all is definitely a misnomer. There's no question |
| 1:48.2 | that if we were to compare a Neolithic or Paleolithic man to our modern selves, just looking in the |
| 1:54.5 | mirror, there would be very noticeable differences. Now, evolution might have slowed because we don't |
| 2:00.9 | have as much survival of the fittest going on, someone with very poor vision, someone who is |
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