Fun fact part two: Through my question of the “why,” I’ve ..

Fun fact part two: Through my question of the “why,” I’ve been interested in finding the optimal diet for humans, one that rids us of disease and suffering. Because if we’re here to do fulfill a certain purpose, well, we have to be healthy enough to go about life. There are three mainstream diets/lifestyles floating around right now that claim to be the best, most optimal diet for humans living in 2020. Well, four, if you include the Standard American Diet (SAD) but y’all know that’s not good for you, right? So, veganism. Let’s start here. Veganism is a way of living which seeks to exclude, as far as possible and practicable, all forms of exploitations of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing, and any other purpose. This definition has literally nothing to do with the person. Everything else about it being the healthiest diet is actually just an ad hoc edition to the definition. It’s very divorced from the individual. Im not saying it’s totally crazy that someone would feel great going fro SAD to veganism, like I understand why someone would feel better on low fat. But it’s not about the person’s health. It’s about ethics. Not health. The next category is the keto diet or zero carb diet. The carnivore or zero-carb diet entails eating mostly fat for every meal, everyday. That means low or moderate protein, a lot of fat, and almost zero carbs. You do not need any supplements of any kind This definition has more to do with the person than veganism but it’s still lacking in some areas. This way of eating doesnt get to the essence of what creates health. Is it just eating only animal products and therefore you are healthy? Is it only excluding plant/s anti nutrients, and therefor you are healthy? It’s not an all all encompassing view. If all these diets and ways of eating were paintings, it wouldn’t include most of what makes art, art. It doesn’t answer the big questions of health. What is life and how does nutrition integrate with this question? My struggles with veganism and keto have lead to a new way of dieting and looking at life. It’s called the “bioenergyic model.” The bioenergetic model states, “the organizing power of energy flow is hypothesized to be the organ of biological complexity and it’s decline the basis of diseases and aging. This definition is a little bit better than “don’t eat carbs, you should feel better.” This is very different from the philosophical question of not wanting to do any harm to animals and THEN trying to say it’s healthy. Keto and veganism, through my research, seem to tired to Raymen Pearl’s Rate of Living Theory which states that organisms with faster metabolic rates have shorter life spans while those with faster metabolic rates have longer life spans. When you’re on a vegan/veggie/keto diet, your metabolism slows way down. But on this bioenergetic view, we eat for energy. Our metabolic rates are quite high, we are warm, our pulses are high, and our thyroid function is high. This is responsible for repair!!! If we slow ourselves down over time, you will break down over time! I’ll go into what this bioenergetic model entails food-wise in an upcoming post, but please if you don’t take anything else from this entry, please know that you cannot trust what you see. Do your own your research. The diet that claims to be the best might not be what’s best FOR YOU. Do your own research. I guess the most important aspect of diet culture is to be aware of what you consume. And to understand that we’ve been ingesting poisons our entire lives that have damaged our inner mitochondrial membranes to the point of intense, sped up aging. You were told saturated fat is really, really bad for you. That has now shifted, aggressively. You were also told, during this low fat era, to consume vegetable oil over animal fat (more on this later.) All of the things you were led to believe were super damaging so with whatever you consume, take it into your own hands and do your research. I’m on the hunt to figure out how to fix this damage. How to reverse it and make it better for the upcoming generations. I’ll mess up a lot like I messed up with carnivore (although I still use many principles from carnivore today!!) but im going to figure this out. I think every week I'm closer and closer to finding what true health means to me. 🤍