Few people I talk to in these communities know this, but animals several-thousand-pound in size used to roam the Earth. And not just wooly mammoths either: 8,000-lb sloths (Megatherium), armadillos “roughly the same size and weight as a Volkswagen Beetle” (Glyptodon), 7,000-lb marsupials (Diprotodon), and many more.
Suspiciously, the megafauna on each continent mostly went extinct every time humans got on that continent.[1][2] Personally, I suspect that humans largely evolved to hunt megafauna.
Note that megafauna meat is quite different than meat of smaller animals. It had a much larger amount (and percentage!) of fat.[3]
These days I eat 1-1.5lbs of lean beef per day, and I supplement 8-16oz of fat in the form of butter. I’ve been eating basically just this (also some seafood, rarely a potato, rarely some other things) for the last 3.5 years.
Few people I talk to in these communities know this, but animals several-thousand-pound in size used to roam the Earth. And not just wooly mammoths either: 8,000-lb sloths (Megatherium), armadillos “roughly the same size and weight as a Volkswagen Beetle” (Glyptodon), 7,000-lb marsupials (Diprotodon), and many more.
Suspiciously, the megafauna on each continent mostly went extinct every time humans got on that continent.[1][2] Personally, I suspect that humans largely evolved to hunt megafauna.
Note that megafauna meat is quite different than meat of smaller animals. It had a much larger amount (and percentage!) of fat.[3]
These days I eat 1-1.5lbs of lean beef per day, and I supplement 8-16oz of fat in the form of butter. I’ve been eating basically just this (also some seafood, rarely a potato, rarely some other things) for the last 3.5 years.
https://ourworldindata.org/quaternary-megafauna-extinction Every time humans got on a new continent, all of the megafauna died…
https://twitter.com/ChrisChipMonk/status/1780969841916342602
L. Amber O’Hearn - ‘The Lipivore: What is Fat for?’
Someone DM’d me asking for more information. See https://www.mostly-fat.com/eat-meat-not-too-little-mostly-fat/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOQCKEoflPc