How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
“And you shall take all the fat that covers the entrails, and the long lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, and burn them on the altar.”
Exodus 29:13
I have always been fascinated by the ancient sacrificial rules of the Israelites in the Bible. Time and time again it was required for them to sacrifice FIRST the kidney and suet (kidney fat) and the liver. It is quite clear that God and also the Israelites valued them highly and understood that burning them up was an enormous sacrifice.
Hunter-gatherer groups all across the globe still prize animal meat and organs above all else, and not a bit of the animal is wasted, but rather is eaten nose to tail. These people suffer from little chronic disease, have thriving health into old age and avoid most of the ails of our Western society.
Most Indigenous peoples center their nutrition around animal foods and consider plant foods as “survival foods” when meat is not available. They have developed ingenious ways of detoxifying plants such as fermentation, soaking, drying, souring or other methods to reduce anti-nutrients and render them more digestible. But when meat is available it is eaten happily, every last bite, with a feast and a celebration.
We would do well by learning from all these groups.
“Animal meat and organs have always been good for us. If we hope to reclaim our ancestral birthright to radical health, vitality, and strength, we must consume them frequently…The equation for optimal health is clear: Eat like your ancestors not your doctor.”
-The Carnivore Code Cookbook by Paul Saladino
It just makes sense. Remember my definition of FOOD:
FOOD is material you eat that your body recognizes as essential nutrition and efficiently and joyfully assimilates into itself in an effort to maintain life.
What type of material would our bodies most easily recognize as similar to its own and therefore quickly assimilate? That’s right, the creatures on earth that are the most similar to us - animals. All the vitamins and minerals and enzymes in animal foods are pretty much ready and waiting in the perfect forms that our bodies make and need themselves.
You hear many people waxing on about the vitamins in plants and how you “must eat your vegetables.” But think of plant vitamins as a totally different code than animal vitamins. Microsoft vs Apple. It is difficult for the two to communicate, and even harder to build one with the other.
Plus, you must consider the scenario where some parts of the plant (like leaves and stems) are actually NOT good for you, and contain toxic compounds designed to discourage eating. The most important part of the plant, the seed, is the most highly defended and will be full of compounds to discourage digestion. Read more about this in Paul’s book.
It can be very beneficial to eliminate these from your diet for a time and concentrate on animal foods to encourage your body to heal from any chronic disease or other symptoms. Your body is in a state of malnutrition and feeding it just what it needs to strengthen and repair itself will do wonders for your health. You will be eliminating any inflammatory compounds and giving your body a rest from over-defending itself.
You have to admit, Americans must be doing something wrong. As I have mentioned in previous posts, we are doing all the things that our “experts” have told us to do and yet we remain sick and fat.
“I strongly believe that the cause lies in a change in our diet that has subtly occurred over the last 100 years, right under our noses. Because this change has been championed by mainstream health authorities, most of us haven’t even considered that it might not be good for us. After following the mainstream dietary advice foisted upon us for the last 70 years, the sobering reality is that we are much less healthy than we were 100 years ago.” -Dr. Paul
And what was “foisted upon us”? I have written entire posts about it - seed oils. The evil eight: corn oil, canola oil, safflower oil, sunflower oil, soybean oil, cottonseed oil, rice bran oil, and grapeseed oil. And even others like peanut oil. All made from seeds, hidden in processed foods, and consumed in quantities that are completely unnatural and never encountered before the last 100 years.
Seed oil intake in the US in 1909: virtually none
Seed oil intake in the US in 2019: 15-20 metric tons a year!
Yes, it was our “experts” that encouraged Americans to replace tallow (beef fat made from the suet which surrounds the kidneys), lard (made from pork fat) and butter (made from raw cream) with “vegetable” oil (oil extracted from seeds).
It’s time to stop listening to them.
Eat an animal-based diet where beef, lamb, bison, venison and other ruminant animals are the main course, adding in pork, poultry and seafood when you can find great sources. Consume some organs every day, even if just in pill form, and cook your foods in plenty of saturated animal fats. This is the center of a nourishing diet where you will build a strong and healthy body and regenerate the life you were meant to live.
Here in the Western world, animal foods are abundant. Most every town has a local butcher where you can get bones, tendons, and organs for a very economical price. You can also order all these online and have them shipped to your door.
Our favorites:
When people ask me what type of multivitamin I take or give to my kids, I say “organs.” Get desiccated organs in pill form here.
For some incredible recipes and more on this topic, definitely get Paul Saladino’s new book, “The Carnivore Code Cookbook” here. And if you really want to dive deep and hear how 1000’s of his listeners have reclaimed their birthright to radical health, listen to his podcast.