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by OutOfHere 9 days ago
Even lab grown red meat will have major issues with inflammatory foreign sialic acid. That's unless a genetic strain is used that has only human-compatible sialic acid.

Red meat, meaning pork/beef/lamb/goat, independent of its source, contains human-incompatible sialic acid, which our immune system attacks. This foreign sialic acid even gets used up in our tissues, and then our immune system attacks our own tissues. It takes decades for this to become sufficiently inflammatory and destructive. Even cow milk is not spared. Only hydrolyzed collagen is likely to be very low in such foreign sialic acid.

To understand, these researched NotebookLM videos will explain:

https://youtu.be/PNg8370HN7k ⤷ Evolution and Legacy of Human Sialic Acids: Neu5Gc and Neu5Ac

https://youtu.be/wkmOKQZP_ak ⤷ Neu5Gc: Medical Mystery

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That’s a very unsettled and debated topic. Speculative harms are not going to override very real daily pleasures from meat meals.
It's not that speculative, considering it the reason why in tissue transplants derived from animals, the transplants are specially engineered to not have this reactive substance. There is just no arguing with the hard data that the substance is foreign, is incorporated into our tissues, and is attacked by our immune system. The only debate is about the extent of the resulting inflammation.

Inflammation is a bit like nuclear fission, in that when a lot of inflammatory sources come together, the resulting runaway outcome is very bad, like civil war in the body. Rheumatoid arthritis, hard atherosclerotic plaque, and colorectal cancer are the result.

A carnivore diet leads to ghoulish dreams of mass murder. There only pleasure from is on the way down.