The Path is Too Deep

If you grew up in the 1980s like I did, you remember the "Health Guidelines" vividly. We were told to trade our butter for margarine, our steak for pasta, and - most tragically - our eggs for sugary cereal. The egg was demonized. It was viewed as a cholesterol grenade, a "heart attack on a plate." So, as a man with five heart attacks on his medical chart, why do I consume eggs almost every single day? Because for 40 years, we were playing a "Shell Game" - a con where we were distracted by the wrong villain. The egg isn't the killer. It is quite possibly the most perfect nutritional capsule nature ever designed. Part 1: The "Cholesterol" Confusion (The Con) The logic seemed sound in 1985: Eggs contain cholesterol. Heart disease is caused by cholesterol. Therefore, don't eat eggs. It was simple. It was elegant. And it was wrong. Biology is not a simple bucket. It is a complex, adaptive system. We now know that Dietary Cholesterol (what y...

If you hang out in the low-carb corners of the internet long enough, the algorithm will eventually serve you a steak on a plate with absolutely nothing else. No broccoli. No avocado. Just meat, salt, and water. This is the Carnivore Diet (or, at an extreme, the " Lion Diet "). It is the ultimate elimination diet. Its proponents - many of whom are brilliant and incredibly healthy - argue that plants are full of "defense chemicals" (anti-nutrients) and that humans evolved to eat apex predators, not salads. Given that my daily OMAD is anchored by a 1.5 lb. ribeye, people often assume I’m one step away from going full Carnivore. But I haven't. And I won't. While I respect the Carnivore approach as a powerful therapeutic tool for autoimmune issues, it doesn't fit my clean keto lifestyle. My goal isn't just elimination ; it’s optimization . And for my specific goals - heart health, gut health, and sanity - I believe the right plants act as medicine, not p...