Thread by @KetoAurelius

Game changers is a heinous, cherry picked attack on the healthiest food in the world.

At its core, it's a corrupt assault on masculinity.

It's complete propaganda masquerading as science.

And now, I will debunk each of its main claims.

Read on.

CLAIM: Eating meat isn't manly.

TRUTH: Vegan and vegetarian diets are associated with lower testosterone levels and sperm counts.

Disturbingly, this was the original explicit goal of veganism from the seventh day Adventists. It has worked

Eat meat. Be a man

CLAIM: Plant protein is just as effective as animal protein

TRUTH: Some vegetables have as many total grams of protein. But they have much lower protein quality.

Plant foods have less of almost every amino acid. You need MUCH more calories to gain muscle with plants.

This study even showed that vegetarians LOST muscle mass when working out.

That's like going to school, working your butt off and getting dumber...

CLAIM: Gladiators, the strongest men, didn't eat meat

TRUTH: Gladiators ate a high carb diet because they were treated like slaves and because they wanted to fatten up for protection.

Unless you need a coat of fatty body armor, I suggest not doing the same.

CLAIM: Strong pro athletes don't eat red meat

TRUTH: The only reason pro athletes went pro in the first place is because their mother and they ate meat their whole life.

Even Nate Diaz said he eats eggs and seafood

And most of the vegan athletes have gotten hurt

CLAIM: Cows are just the middlemen...

TRUTH: That's like saying planes are just middlemen. You can't get many places without them.

Cows transform human inedible, fibrous plants into highly nutritious protein dense food for humans.

Pigs turn grass into bacon. MAGIC.

They're able to take 0.8g of nutrient deficient protein and turn it into 1g of the most nutritious beef protein.

They're ADDING nutrients to the human food supply...so if you're really concerned about "sustainability" you should be praising them.

And no, beef isn't sucking up the entire world's water supply.

Most of the water is from rainfall. The best estimates suggest beef uses 50 to 100 gallons of new water whereas rice and almonds use over 400.

CLAIM: Plants have crucial antioxidants

TRUTH: The phytochemicals in plants are actually toxins that irritate you.

This study shows no antioxidant benefit from plants. Meanwhile, they have MANY negative side effects from all the toxins they produce and Glyphosate on them.

Additionally, your body produces more POTENT antioxidants than anything you can find in food. Things like

Superoxide Dismutase
CoQ10
Glutathione

All of these increase on the ketogenic diet.

If you really want antioxidants, go keto.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26661201

Lastly, a big reason the carnivore diet works so well is because it cuts out all these supposedly beneficial phytochemicals, which are really toxic and damaging people.

They are toxins that POISON the predators that eat them

CLAIM: Vegetables are nutrient dense superfoods

TRUTH: Meat has more of every single nutrient than plants, other than vitamin c. And a vegan diet is absent or deficient in many nutrients including:

- B12
- Retinol
- Heme iron
- Zinc
- DHA
- Taurine
- Choline
- Glycine
- K2

Beef liver has more of almost every nutrient than spinach

In the cases where plants and animals have two different forms of the same nutrient, the animal form is ALWAYS the one you need:

- Retinol vs carotene
- D3 vs D2
- Heme iron vs non heme
- Pyridoxal vs Pyridoxine

CLAIM: Eating meat didn't make us human

TRUTH: More science continues to emerge that human brain size didn't explode until we started eating fat, marrow and brains.

In fact, our vegan ancestors are still in the trees throwing poop at each other

CLAIM: Eating meat makes your blood cloudy

TRUTH: This is another dishonest trick from Game Changers.

(1) @NathanEqualsOne reproduced this and actually determined red meat didnt make his blood cloudy

(2) Even if it was cloudy it would be normal to traffic fat after you eat it

CLAIM: Eating meat destroys the environment

TRUTH: Animal based agriculture generates 4% of GHG. Plant based generates 5%...all for less nutrient rich food.

Regenerative agriculture can also REDUCE the carbon in the atmosphere

Whereas monocrop agriculture decimates soil

CLAIM: Eating meat is unethical

TRUTH: 25 times more animals die to produce an equal weight of wheat protein and beef protein.

Yes, feedlot agriculture is horrific.

But pasture raised cows live happy lives. And carnivores can live off of just 1-2 a year.