Despite spending millions of dollars a year on his health, Bryan Johnson has been diagnosed with autoimmune gastritis.
Low iron stores (ferritin) led to investigation and eventually a diagnosis.
Adding meat to his diet would materially improve his ferritin levels, and his overall nutrient status.
IMO, the first line of treatment for autoimmune conditions should be an elimination diet to look for triggering foods.
In multiple ways, his vegan diet appears to not be ideal for him, or to support his longevity. I hope he'll open his mind to including animal foods.
Every World Cup player will run 7 miles tonight on ATP.
ATP requires creatine, carnitine, and CoQ10.
All three peak in red meat.
The sports nutrition sponsor on the sideboard sells corn syrup.
The Bible mentions beef 133 times.
Lamb 98 times.
Fish 70 times.
Raw milk and butter 48 times.
Honey 56 times.
Vegetables, 10.
The fattened calf was killed for the prodigal son's return. Not the fattened lentil.
The promised land flowed with milk and honey. Not oat drink and agave nectar.
Abraham fed his angelic visitors veal, butter, and milk. Not a chickpea bowl.
The Passover meal centred on a roasted lamb. Not a roasted root vegetable.
Whoever drew up the modern food pyramid clearly didn't read the source material.
The average modern Indian diet:
- High in refined carbohydrates (white rice, chapati, parathas)
- Cooked in industrial seed oils (sunflower, soybean, palm)
- Low in animal protein, especially red meat
- Built around legumes and starchy vegetables
This is more or less the menu Western nutritionists have been pushing for 50 years. Plant-forward. Whole grains. Pulses. Minimal saturated fat.
India now has over 100 million diabetics. The rate has more than tripled in 30 years. Type 2 diabetes is appearing in children. Heart disease is striking a decade earlier than it does in the West, often at lower BMIs.
The dietary template that nutritionists hold up as the global ideal is the dietary template under which an entire subcontinent is metabolically collapsing.
Maybe the advice isn't working. Maybe the advice is the problem.
Otto Warburg won the Nobel Prize in 1931 for proving cancer cells run on glucose.
The average hospital meal tray for a chemo patient today contains 140g of carbohydrates.
That's not a gap in knowledge. That's a gap in incentive.
You can question a sitting president.
You can mock the Pope on live television.
But tell your doctor you stopped eating bread and watch the room go silent.
Dietary guidelines are the last untouchable doctrine in America.
Here's a farming practice you haven't been told about.
In North America and the UK, 80% of commercial oat crops are sprayed with glyphosate two to three weeks before harvest. Not to kill weeds. Not for pest control. To kill the oat plant itself.
When you spray a standing crop with herbicide, the plant dies uniformly. This is called desiccation. It means the entire field ripens simultaneously, which makes mechanical harvesting more efficient and profitable. The dying plant pulls all remaining moisture into the grain. Yields increase. Scheduling becomes predictable.
The consequence is that the grain is harvested shortly after being drenched in herbicide. The glyphosate residues are baked in.
The Environmental Working Group tested 61 oat-based products in 2019. Every single oat-based baby food tested contained detectable glyphosate. The majority of conventional products exceeded their benchmark for children's health.
The WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer classified glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen in 2015. Bayer, who bought Monsanto, has paid out $11 billion in legal settlements to farmers and consumers who developed non-Hodgkin lymphoma after exposure.
Your oat milk latte is pre-sprayed with a probable carcinogen to make harvesting 15% more cost-efficient.
The barista made a lovely leaf in it though.
Chicken breast is not ancestral food.
It's industrial anxiety packaged as protein.
For most of human history, chickens existed to lay eggs. You kept them alive because eggs were valuable.
Killing a chicken for meat was economically stupid unless it stopped laying.
When you did eat chicken, you ate the whole thing: Dark meat, skin, fat, organs.
Modern chicken breast culture exists because:
1. Ancel Keys demonized fat in the 1950s
Bodybuilding magazines needed to sell supplements (lean protein needs supplementation)
2. Industrial farming made chickens so cheap we could afford to throw away the nutritious parts
You're not eating "clean protein."
You're eating the least nutritious part of a bird we used to value primarily for eggs, seasoned with 70 years of fat phobia.
Congratulations.
Oxalate content comparison per 100g:
Spinach: 970mg
Almonds: 469mg
Swiss chard: 645mg
Beets: 675mg
Beef: 0mg
Oxalates bind calcium, form kidney stones, cause joint pain, and damage tissues.
Your morning "healthy" spinach smoothie contains more kidney stone material than a lifetime of eating beef.
But the beef gets the warning label while influencers are blending hidden death crystals into their breakfast and calling it wellness.
Same person panicking about "toxins in meat" while drinking 1,000mg of the worst of the plant toxins is peak nutritional literacy.
Anyone claiming humans are herbivores should explain our stomach acid.
Herbivores: pH 4-5, designed for plant digestion
Carnivores and scavengers: pH 1-2, designed for breaking down meat and bone
Humans: pH 1.5
That's the same as wolves and vultures.
We have scavenger-level stomach acid because we evolved eating carrion and meat, not because we were meant to ferment grass in our non-existent multiple stomachs.
Your biology is screaming the answer at you. You're just not listening.
"Consult your doctor before starting any new diet."
Translation: Consult someone with 9 minutes to spare and zero nutritional training who will tell you it's dangerous because it wasn't in their textbook from 1987.
Your doctor isn't qualified to give dietary advice. They're qualified to prescribe medications.
There's a difference.