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Good luck hitting the RDAs for the following using only the meats you described:
* Vitamin C
* Vitamin E
* Vitamin K
* Calcium
* Magnesium
I hope beef liver is in your daily diet, otherwise you're also going to come up short in a bunch of other micros. If you're also strength training you also need to go above the RDA for certain micros (e.g, Vit C, B vitamins, Calcium, ...) making it even harder.
RDAs are opinions, not science. They are guesses based on averages, which in many cases do not apply at all to any given individual.
The only way that RDAs are even remotely useful is if one is eating a standard diet where many vitamins and minerals are of lesser bioavailability as they are in the form of meat. In terms of vitamin C, there's a reason why meat eaters don't get scurvy, which is that meat contains other compounds that make the need for exogenous vitamin C much less necessary.
That is precisely why RDAs are mostly nonsense. Absolute values for micronutrients mean very little when you don't account for the food substrate, cofactors, an individual's overall health, what a person weighs, what their body composition is, etc.
Somehow, humans (the Homo genus, to be exact), got away without RDAs for millions of years. And they ate lots of meat.
> I hope beef liver is in your daily diet, otherwise you're also going to come up short in a bunch of other micros.
No, humans do not have to eat organ meat. There is no evidence for this. Skeletal muscle and fatty tissues, particularly that from large ruminant animals, provide everything that a human body needs to function optimally.
> If you're also strength training you also need to go above the RDA for certain micros (e.g, Vit C, B vitamins, Calcium, ...) making it even harder.
The human body does not contain an RDA meter. As I already discussed, RDA is an opinion that only makes sense when a certain set of vitamins and minerals are viewed in isolation. The RDA and RDI hypotheses fall apart when all the other variables of human diet and health come into play.
> This diet is pure pseudoscience.
Yeah... I guess stable isotope data is pseudoscience as well, but RDA is rock solid. Right.
My friend's dad was just diagnosed with stage 3 renal failure and his doctor is emphatic his diet is the culprit. He'd been an advocate of the keto diet for years.
Biology is complicated and different people will have different results. I'm glad it's working for you but please exercise caution before assuming it will help everyone. You also might want to get your kidneys tested.
If someone suggests something is a cure all for everyone, and a doctor says that cure all is killing someone, and there's medical research backing up the doctor - I'm going to trust the doctor.
My N=1 anecdote is a counterexample that has medical research to back it up. Or are you discrediting the person's anecdote about a carnivorous diet being healthy?
The hydration meme (drinking a gallon+ of fluids a day) is one the few fads that are actually sound.
Anyway, the long term effects are not that worrisome since virtually no one will stick to a diet this strict. I wouldn't also recommend strict keto or carnivore because without carbs most people will lack the oomph for a good workout.
I've read that each kidney has a seven fold overcapacity for what people need. So if the kidneys are damaged something majorly bad had to have happened.
Kidneys are also involved in blood production along with bones.
This always gets flamewar territory. My general answers are:
1. In every health thread we should post a picture of our body
2. Find a doctor that agrees with your opinion. Whatever it is you will find one.
3. I/we usually take harder things than the keto/carnivore thing (trust me)
4. Many things that we've been told our lives has been a lie. Maybe the keto/carnivore is also like that.
5. Please gather all your docs and start a thread on twitter with the "top" keto researchers (@nicknorwitz, @KetoCarnivore, @ChrisPalmerMD, @realDaveFeldman some that I follow)
6. High carb is killing the developed world. Please exercise caution.
I think CFS is also connected to the mind (don't remember correctly). You can see a presentation by the same guy: Dr. Chris Palmer - 'The Ketogenic Diet in Neurology and Psychiatry' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUtwr_6sFw4