Food Theory: Liver King, The RAW Truth! (Carnivore Diet)

most cuts of beef, including USDA choice, ribeyes and filets, some of the most desired meats on the market. After all, these products are not even remotely affordable for the vast majority of people. For a solution that, according to him, will solve the world's mental health problems. No, it is simply not accessible to the vast majority of the world. So now the scores are tied: Liver King 2, us 2. It's not safe or economical to consume raw meat, but let's say those aren't factors. Would it be better for you nutritionally if you could eat the meat raw? The answer again is a resounding no.

The other main reason humans cook is: are you ready? Humans have evolved for this. You know, based on those ancestral inheritances that The Liver King keeps tal

king

about, do you want to be

king

of the planet like The Liver King? Cook your

food

. That's what our homosapiens grandparents did to get ahead of every other species out there. It is what differentiates us from all other animal species on the planet. Author Polly Shulman, writing for the American Museum of Natural History, puts it this way: Compared to chimpanzees, our closest living relatives, we have, quote, weak digestive systems.

We have smaller teeth, weaker chewing muscles, and a shorter gastrointestinal tract. Those shorter gastrointestinal tracts are very important, as that means fewer opportunities to extract nutrients from our

food

. And you see, that becomes a problem because, compared to the adult chimpanzee, the adult human needs about 400 more calories each day. This is because we have larger bodies and brains. How is it then that we humans, with our higher energy needs, can get away with weaker and shorter digestive systems? Well, it's because we predigest our foods using tools. Instead of relying on strong teeth and jaws to chew food.

Instead, we rely on our strong brain to digest that food before it enters our body. We use tools to crush, cut and grind food into smaller pieces before it enters our mouth. And the most important thing is that we cook our food. The proteins in raw meat have intermolecular bonds that are difficult to break because, if you think about it, raw meat is just whole muscle. It's something difficult. However, cooking meat denatures those proteins, changing them into a form that allows enzymes in our digestive system to reach the proteins and break them down so our bodies can use them.

We do not lose nutrients when we cook our meat. In fact, we make much more accessible to our bodies more easily. And what about all those valuable vitamins and minerals in organ meat? Well, they're still there when you cook it, too. The iron in the

liver

will not magically transform into another element just because you have heated it a little. You want concrete evidence of this. One of the reasons people don't like

liver

is that it's easy to overcook, meaning it dries out in the pan. The concentration of all minerals inside increases, which highlights the unpleasant "iron" taste, because there is a lot of it in a small piece of meat.

That said, cooking liver ahead of time means our digestive juices have to work less to extract nutrients from food, which is why we can get away with having smaller digestive systems compared to animals. Liver King likes to promote the ancestral lifestyle, but our human ancestors relied on fire for cooking and tools for cutting and grinding as a way to predigest food. Our ability to use tools is what sets us apart from other animals. This is why humans are weaker than chimpanzees when it comes to brute force. Ultimately, we beat the chimpanzees evolutionarily. Liver King seems to think that eating raw meat is paying homage to our human ancestors.

But it's our brains and our stove, not our biceps, that make us the winning species. So, eating raw meat, well, that's exactly the kind of "subprimal" behavior he mocks in front of his audience. And if that wasn't enough

theory

, A FOOD THEORY! Well, I'm pretty sure he knows all this. Like many Internet charlatans before him, he's selling an aspirational brand, not science. This is what he is selling: success. There is no science in that quote. There is confidence and wealth. And that's really what this is all about. For a guy whose tenants involve connecting with the land, he's very willing to fly on private jets.

And in fact, this quote redefines ancestral life as living faraway adventures, living in mansions, without exactly bringing Flintstones-level reality there. At the end of the day, the king of the liver for all the ancestral tenants of him does not actually live ancestrally. He projects a very specific image and then sells the feeling of being powerful and primitive to the mostly young men whom he identifies as depressed and lacking confidence. He is happy to charge them $48 for a two-month supply of supplements from a company he owns. While he flies around the world doing meat-related stunts because that's all they are stunts.

And while we've shown that he may be completely wrong about raw meat from a health perspective, nutrition perspective, and even a historical perspective. In the end, there is one thing, and only one, that will always remain king: science. Instead of following the private jets, huge pecs, and testicle stings, he follows the research and decides for yourself. But hey, that's just a

theory

. A THEORY OF FOOD! Enjoy. Speaking of dangerous food trends, he finds out the

truth

about NyQuil chicken. He has been very popular on social media lately. That video is on the left. Or if he just wants to keep pumping more iron into his system and doesn't feel like consuming liver, click on the video to the right to find out why he should eat chocolate and not spinach.

As always, my friends, see you next week.