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I read an interview once with a guy who, due to various intolerances and circumstances, ended with a raw meat diet. He has some source of getting good meat, lik
by forgotmypw17 6y ago
I read an interview once with a guy who, due to various intolerances and circumstances, ended with a raw meat diet. He has some source of getting good meat, like a farm which also lets him take the animal straight to the butcher, stores it frozen, and eats it just like that, IIRC.
He said that in the beginning, he had trouble digesting it, until he let some meat get to borderline rotting and then ate that. Somehow that colonized his gut with a biome which could digest it, and he was golden after that.
Something to think about in this context...
Personally, I find most milk to be difficult to digest, but cheese and yogurt and such goes over quite well.
Edit: https://archive.is/cX98n https://archive.is/cX98n https://www.vice.com/en/article/nnqw3q/this-guy-has-eaten-nothing-but-raw-meat-for-five-years https://www.vice.com/en/article/nnqw3q/this-guy-has-eaten-no...
- nanagojo 6y agoI think humans in general can eat raw meat. It just doesn't give as much calories compared to cooked meat, plus more chance of diseases which would've been sorted out by the heat if it was cooked.
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- duxup 6y agoIt also takes more work to digest.
- viklove 6y agoThat's why it "doesn't give as much calories." It actually gives the same amount of calories, we just expend more calories digesting raw meat. Cooking the meat is also referred to as "freeing up" calories.
- scottisbrave84 6y agoUm. E=mc^2 and reducing a piece of meat with heat does not increase calories.
- kolinko 6y agoBeef tartare is quite awesome - raw beef, onion, raw egg yolk. In Poland it is quite common in restaurants. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steak_tartare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steak_tartare
- mc32 6y agoWonder if dry aging meat and poultry/game[1] would work for this? It's not cooked. [1]https://montagne-hautlanguedoc.com/recettes-de-cuisine-traditionnelle-de-france/recettes-de-gibiers/faisandage/ https://montagne-hautlanguedoc.com/recettes-de-cuisine-tradi...
- voldacar 6y agoThat's a really intresting story, but does the body actually get enough nutrients from just raw meat? No deficiencies in any vitamins or minerals? no risk of scurvy for instance?
- forgotmypw17 6y agoThe article I linked goes into that. Apparently, fresh meat contains enough vitamin C to keep him going, especially the organs. At the time of the interview, he'd been doing it for several years, and was healthier than ever: > The organ meat of the animal actually contains vitamin C. And the thing about vitamin C is that you need more of it in a high-carbohydrate diet, but if you're eating carnivorously, there's enough in the animal flesh. So I just eat the organ meat and the connective tissue and everything else. (Sheep is the animal he is referring to.)
- voldacar 6y agoAh that makes a lot of sense. I assumed he wasn't eating the offal, civilization has made me weak ;)