Why I eat fruit

[VaughnCheezy]

A thing to remember here. If you’re eating NO processed foods whatsoever and ONLY fruits, vegetables, grains, meats, etc.. and still experiencing issues, then this makes sense.
I think it’s a more realistic step to first remove junk food, candy, chocolate, chips, etc.
Then refine your packaged foods to try to avoid added sugars and seed oils.
Then eat a whole foods diet, all whole foods.
Lastly, try to remove starchy and non starchy vegetables.

If you’re still eating junk food, processes food and packaged food regularly & I think the plant defence chemicals in vegetables and grains are the least of your worries starting out.
Baby steps people. Cheers!

[ashdgee]

I find Paul's carnivore diet approach much more relaxed and adds variety.Love it

[Podclipcentralize]

If Peter crouch and lewandowski had a son…

[amazingautumn]

I eat carnivore, plus berries and fruits. Totally healthy, optimal weight and shape, even in menopause ❤

[yvind]

Ahhh, yes. After a long day at work i love me some Steak and a sourcream baked banana

[John-vxfq]

I skipped out on veggies and ate fruit for 2 weeks instead. Skin and dry scalp cleared up almost overnight. Went back to veggies and my face started breaking out yet again. There's definitely truth to this.

[PeaceIsYeshua]

Such a great synopsis!!! 🎉 After 6 months on carnivore and feeling worse and worse, I’m now ready to try adding in fruit and honey! 🍯 🍊 🍌

[DoritoWorldOrder]

I love Paul and regard him as one of the best heterodox thinkers out there in nutrition, but I'm still struggling to wrap my head around the fruit/fructose thing. Especially when he gets onto fruit JUICE as if it's interchangeable with whole fruit. High quality white rice is also a great source of carbohydrates that's very low in plant toxins, and it's 100% glucose so it doesn't have any of the metabolic downsides of fructose. Fruits have more micronutrients, sure, but they're far from free of plant toxins. Some are full of oxalates, some are full of lectins, and some are full of defense chemicals aimed at dissuading certain species from eating them so that the plant can have its seeds moved around by the animals of its own preference. Setting aside the liver metabolism of fructose, it's a dose-dependent AMPK blocker which halts fatty acid oxidation in the mitochondria, and it increases uric acid load which further signals to the body on multiple levels to down-regulate energy expenditure and pack on fat mass. In evolutionary terms, outside of a tropical setting, the availability of large amounts of ripe fruit was rare and seasonal, and was something humans would gorge themselves on during a brief window of availability providing a huge bolus of fructose that needed to be stored for survival through the coming cold season — so, not surprisingly, we have a bunch of different biological signaling pathways built up specifically around fructose that increase appetite, reduce resting energy expenditure and will to motion, and upregulate fat deposition. If a tribe of nomadic hunter gatherers stumbled upon a small grove of wild trees bearing ripe fruit, they would have pitched camp there and gorged themselves on all the fruit they could manage to eat for days or until all the fruit was gone, the rare signal of sweet, ripe, juicy fruit in a world otherwise devoid of sweet tastes driving their appetite to maximally exploit that source of calories which far exceeded their daily caloric needs and store it in their adipose tissue for later. We now have year-round access to a huge variety of ripe fruit that's larger, even more palatable, and ~5-10x sweeter and higher in fructose. It seems silly to me to think that we can just eat unlimited fruit 365d/yr (or even concentrate it into fiberless juices) and expect that those evolved signaling pathways around fructose just won't have any relevance or negative metabolic trade-offs.

[nolo]

Actually makes giant sense. Fruit trees want their seeds to be spread via animal poop.

[chloecigarroa]

Meat is the "cleanest" food, therefore best crutch-diet. I found the wisdom from Wise Traditions diet explained why we have to stay away from the other foods and how to eat them. You can have grains, etc, just need to process the crap outta 'em first. I like my fruit ripe, my grains broken down, my dairy raw or fermented, and my veggies pickled.

[patriciafuller]

I wish they would not wrap our meat in PLASTIC !!! ALL THE BEEF WE BUY IS IN PLASTIC!

[eokxdkf]

This is the best advice. It works for me if I don’t slip and buy cookies and danish. He’s right. I just wish I could do the diet full on. It’s easy to slip.

[baloosd]

The best carb is lactose, and it has zero defense chemicals.

[Rosie_Apple_Delight]

Yes but modern day fruit has so much more sugar than we evolved to eat. I 100% understand and agree with your rational regarding avoiding plant toxins but I’m very concerned about spiking glucose. My concern is for neurological reasons. What about the effect that glucose / insulin peaks have on the brain? Today i had a very green banana and wild blueberries, kefir, egg yolks, and liver with mushrooms. I’m learning from you and I thank you!

[peterwhittington]

I’ve been eating 6 eggs 2 beef burger patty’s raw salmon and 3 banna a day and a bottle of raw cows milk a day 500ml lost 20 pounds and I feel super healthy bp from 150/90 to 125/75 rh from 78 to 56 and I feel alive again and I came off Trt my skin my hair everything is amazing again 👌

[dallasball]

Fruit loops give me everything I need to stay competitive in Ironman competitions.

[batmanbudi]

That's why we dont eat potats raw. You cook the most of the things like rice etc. Because that's makes it digestible.

[sohaibm]

I like bananas but sometimes they give me bellyache from the amount of potassium it has

[EsseQuamVideriSeen]

I tried 18 months of pure carnivore but, like Paul, I was having terrible cramping and constant heart palpitations.

I really wanted pure carnivore to work! But I added in fruit and for the last 8 months and I have been great.

I work out 4-5 times a week and play sports so I'm pretty physically active and I think this physical strain was part of the problem. I needed some carbs to help replace muscle glycogen and electrolytes.

[CHARLESSBRONSON]

when I have bananas my stomach starts going wild.