Anthony Chaffee Needs a Reality Check 🥩🍖 @Anthony Chaffee MD

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0:00 Hi, as requested, I'm going to be reviewing the video called Eating Raw Meat Every Day on Carnivore, Safe or Stupid, by Anthony Chaffee.

[video] 0:12 What looks better, the red juicy meat, which is the meat in its natural state, or...

0:24 the dry, cooked, and destroyed meat. The question is basically what is better for you, natural or unnatural food?

0:38 They should rename this diet because there are no carnivores that eat cooked meat.

[video] 0:45 Only true carnivore diet is a raw carnivore diet because carnivores in the wild don't cook meat. The problem with that is that carnivores have actually been cooking meat for nearly 2 million years and they're called humans. And so you look at homo- Proof, please.

1:01 I would love to see any kind of evidence for that, but how will you prove something that supposedly happened 2 million years ago?

[video] 1:11 homo habilis, homo erectus, homo hydeborealis, homo neanderthalis and homo sapiens and everything in between, you actually see that we and our ancestors and those earlier forms of humans actually were cooking meat. We have pretty good evidence of that.

1:24 How can we see that? Here comes the evidence. this going back at least 1.6 million years really 1.6 exactly and how will you prove that well i read something online it showed these symbols 1.6 and That's why I'm telling you that. Can I actually prove that? No. I just religiously believe that.

[video] 1:51 And likely before that as well. So seeing as that we've been cooking meat for at least one point... What do you mean?

1:58 Why do you say seeing as when you didn't prove anything? Was that proof? You just said something that's the very opposite of proof, that's hearsay.

[video] 2:09 Six million years, that is a long time for evolution to adapt to the...

2:14 Okay, from my research, we have actually really only been cooking meat since a few hundred years, and really actively actually since the last 100 years. From all of my research, this is what I found out.

[video] 2:30 ...changes that we would see in cooked versus raw meat. We even have evidence going back 800,000 years of people... 800,000 years.

2:41 Just making up some numbers. And when somebody is gullible and naive, they will eat it up. In this case, kind of literally, you will eat the cooked dry meat because... guys like this are good at brainwashing i guess using rudimentary ovens because they've seen perfectly even heat distributions across bones that have been cooked and eaten by early humans that's not proof of somebody cooking meat 800 000 years ago or 1.6 million years ago firstly you cannot prove that anyway but let's just say that you could you want to believe in this

3:23 evidence would that prove that people actively cooked meat and always said cooked meat or would that simply prove that some animal was burned alive in that time and i see even heat distribution over the entire bone meaning that they really would have been able to do that only with an oven or some sort of

[video] 3:45 Rock formation that would have acted like an oven as opposed to direct heat over the fire.

3:50 Yes, but this is not evidence This is you speculating and that's all fine But don't talk about it as if you have any proof for your religious beliefs Right now what you're saying has as much proof as what's written in the Bible And by that, I mean zero.

[video] 4:09 Because you'd have different hotspots that would heat one area more than the other. It's also important to realize that if the bone is evenly heated and cooked throughout, that means the meat around it was cooked all the way through and the heat penetrated into the bone. So that means this thing was baked for a long time. That means that meat was well done, not just roasted on the outside.

4:26 Why would it be well done? Why would somebody do that? Why do we still have people who eat raw meat? in 2026, Siberians, the Japanese, Ethiopians. Why? If we cooked meat a million years ago, then everybody should be cooking meat. Why did most people still not cook meat 100 years ago? I researched this topic a lot. In Germany, 100 years ago, ground meat with raw eggs was as normal as cereal with pasteurized milk today. That was a normal breakfast. Why? If we cooked meat 1 million years ago already, explain that.

[video] 5:11 and rare on the inside because the bone would still be raw at that point as well. We also have evidence of cooking the marrow bones in order to crack them and break them, make them more brittle.

5:21 Even today, none of the tribes cook the marrow bones. They cut them open and then they suck out the raw bone marrow. Whatever, man, this guy is delusional.

[video] 5:33 Oh, so we can access the marrow as well.

5:36 This is going... Why would you need to cook it to access it? That makes no sense. It's super juicy, soft, jelly-like. You cut the bone and you suck it out. Have you never eaten raw bone marrow or what? Back hundreds of thousands of years, if not longer, that we've been using... You're just throwing out some numbers. You cannot prove this. You're speculating.

[video] 6:01 Using heat and fire in this way to extract more nutrients out of the meat and the bones and the... What more nutrients?

6:08 Another false belief. They always talk about this. When we cook the meat, we get more nutrients. Prove that. You can't. Can this guy prove anything that he's saying? So far, everything was a lie.

[video] 6:22 This likely acted as a survival mechanism or an advantage to those people that they cooked because it likely killed off the parasites that were in meat and protected people from parasites.

6:34 What parasites are there in meat? Yeah.

[video] 6:39 Parasitic infections, which can cause serious disease and harm. There's some people saying that getting parasites...

6:43 Proved it. Come on, show me one experiment that proves this. I'm not even talking about an experiment that follows scientific guidelines. I'm talking about a normal experiment. Nothing has been done to prove this.

[video] 7:04 Parasites are somehow beneficial. I would beg to differ with that and just look at the millions of people who die every year of malaria, among all the other sorts of things. And I've been in third world countries, I've worked in endemic areas, I've worked in Bangladesh in refugee camps. Parasites are a real thing and they cause very serious disease.

7:19 This is a whole different topic and this is again a correlation, but I'm not even going to get into that.

[video] 7:27 You only have to see one case of neurocysticosis where you have ova in the brain causing mass effect and seizures to realize that you do not want parasites in your body.

7:38 Nobody is saying that you cannot get sick in general, but you're trying to link this to raw meat. You cannot do that without evidence. Do the people who get sick eat raw meat? And if so, can you prove it? that it comes from raw meat? No, obviously not. The people eat grain sludge, they drink polluted water, they live in polluted places. especially your brain.

[video] 8:08 So by cooking meat, you can actually unlock some of the nutrients. You can actually make it more bioavailable, especially when you break down the collagen and make some of the proteins more bioavailable.

8:18 It also has... Again, can you prove any of this? He's lying to you. He may be ignorant about the topic, but whatever the case, he is not telling you the truth.

[video] 8:29 counter effect which is to make things denatured and so you lose things like glutamine or taurine and other heat sensitive nutrients fortunately because we've had millions of years of adaptation these are not essential nutrients that you of course exactly we have been doing it for one or two million years which is why we somehow got used to it but when you cannot prove this

8:55 then in reality you have no argument. You cannot say that we can simply eat cooked meat and be fine.

[video] 9:05 I have to have these are things that we tend to make. That being said, some people don't necessarily make enough of them. And if you're not on a carnivore diet or you're eating high fiber, maybe you have lower amounts of taurine because taurine can get sucked out of your body because you make it in your liver. That's expressed in your bile. And if you're eating a lot of fiber, that binds the bile and strips it out of your body and your stool. And that actually takes the taurine with it. So

9:23 I just really want to be clear that none of this can be proven. Nothing. He's talking absolute nonsense. I'm sure that he knows it, at least deep down.

10:02 Yeah, that's true, because they won't be doing any kind of experiments on humans, obviously, because this community is completely against eating naturally. But if you ask anybody who has tried a fake carnivore diet or whatever kind of diet, and if they started eating raw meat, then they will tell you that You don't even feel raw meat in your stomach, but you will feel cooked meat. Not as much as seeds and plants, but you will feel it and it will not feel good.

[video] 10:38 We just don't have any studies showing that, but we do have studies showing that even infants eating solid food for the first time in their life can absorb upwards of 98% of the cooked meat that they're fed. These are studies going back to the 1950s. How would you prove that?

10:54 The thing is that he just says something all the time. In this case, for example, he could have explained how they measured that, but he doesn't because maybe he doesn't understand it himself or he's lying to you, as I said.

[video] 11:12 You're already absorbing 98% of the meat that you're eating when you cook it. You're getting another percent, 2% maximum.

11:20 Totally makes no sense. If you eat cooked meat, then you destroy most of the meat, depending on how much you cook it. what would you be absorbing then? At the very best, his argument is that you would be absorbing 98% of the cooked meat. That means that you would still have way less meat compared to raw meat. seeing as most of the meat would be destroyed. It's a horrible argument, and there's no way that this is true anyway. There's no way that your body can digest unnatural food.

[video] 11:56 The fact is that you won't be able to break down the tough connective tissue, so that will come out. And so I don't think the increase in absorption is going to be more than negligible. My other argument is that when you cook meat or burn meat in particular, burn anything for that matter, that it can produce different sorts of toxic compounds such as heterocyclic amines that have been shown in some animal studies to increase your relative risk association for cancer. However, there are major flaws with that argument because those studies that are being referred to Again, he's trying to say that we have been doing it for so long, he has zero evidence for that, and that's why we can do that.

12:40 But in reality, you simply have a body which is designed to eat natural food. And there is no way that a cow or any kind of animal will get adapted to eating barbecued grass or boiled grass. This is delusional, really, to believe that we can somehow get used to those black parts of the meat when you barbecue the meat. I'm not saying that it will make you incredibly sick, but it's obviously also not healthy to consume that. If you really... barbecue the meat and it's actually black on the outside, if you only eat the black parts, they do not taste good. They will taste bitter because they are toxic.

[video] 13:31 ...translatable to the human species because it's just a completely different evolutionary pathway in biology. Also, in those studies, they actually used sometimes tens of thousands of times the amount of burnt compounds than you would ever see in even a very burnt piece of meat. And they gave them to these mice and they said, oh, look, there's a tiny little increase cancer rates. So it's not translatable to humans and it's at tens of thousands of times the dose.

13:54 It's for sure translatable to humans or any other animals because we are talking about toxic compounds. But I do agree that they probably won't cause Super much damage.

[video] 14:08 This is not good science. This is what we call junk science.

14:12 You don't talk about anything scientific at all. In this video, so far, you haven't said anything that's even remotely scientific.

[video] 14:22 You really cannot say one way or the other this is going to increase your relative risk association for cancer. And all the other reasons that this would reduce your risk of cancer, such as mitochondrial functional improvement, may well counteract that. But either way, you can't actually take those steps.

14:35 way too many religious beliefs. His whole belief is based on blind beliefs. That's why he eats cooked meat, or at least that's why he promotes eating it to other people. All of this is Insanely unscientific. It's really the opposite of science, what he's talking about. Constantly spews nonsense, shares his religious blind beliefs about life. Studies say this will definitely cause harm.

[video] 15:11 Also, don't burn the meat. It's pretty simple. You can boil it or just lightly cook it. and not generate those compounds in the first place. Steaming works as well. And even ovens will often keep you from burning the outside as long as you're careful.

15:22 Boiled meat is disgusting. It's dry. It's completely dead. Careful with the heat.

[video] 15:28 Another argument is that when you're cooking meat, this creates advanced glycation end products, the AGEs that we talk about when...

15:35 Yeah, yeah, some 3D animations. This is all irrelevant.

[video] 15:40 Your blood sugar levels go up too high. You get an excess amount of glycation. So this is causing advanced glycation end products. So the glucose and other carbohydrates physically fuse to other molecules and permanently damage them. And this is called the Maillard reaction. So the browning in meat, that's actually also the Maillard reaction. So it's the same process that's happening.

15:55 Just to be clear, none of this can be proven.

[video] 15:57 Happening when you're cooking meat as when your blood sugar is getting above a normal level and your body's actually cooking from the inside and you're actually browning from the inside. I've talked about this before, but in neurosurgery, we see this in babies. You see the skull is just bleach white. And then as people get older, sort of an ivory sort of cream color. And then maybe older people, people that smoke or drank it and take care of their health might actually have a brown tint to it. And the bone is much softer and more mealy. And so you can actually drill through it a lot easier. That means that the integrity of the bone has been damaged from that mild reaction, from that glycation. Now, the confusion here comes from what those advanced glycation and products actually mean. Because the thing is, is if it's on the meat, when you eat them, you actually just digest them and break them down into their constituent amino acids and components. And you don't actually... internalize those advanced glycation end products. Also, it's not a problem that you just have advanced glycation end products floating around your body because they're not necessarily going around causing harm. It's just they're not functional.

16:35 They are not floating around in your body. They are floating around in your imagination. This whole segment is useless.

[video] 16:42 To glycate your molecules, like HbA1c, that's a glycation end product of glucose and hemoglobin. That's just non-functional hemoglobin. There's a certain percentage of your hemoglobin that just doesn't work, and it doesn't do its job. And that's the problem with advanced glycation end products in your body, because it makes your body non-functional. If you just eat AGEs, that's not a problem. That doesn't then turn your body non-functional. It's basically, the problem is you're cooking your body from the inside out by having excessive amounts of carbohydrates. Not that you've just internalized advanced glycation end products. There's a very, very big difference in where you got the advanced glycation end products. And really, it comes down to turning your own body into advanced glycation end products. That's the problem, not just that advanced glycation end products exist. So what is the take-home here on whether or not you should eat raw or cooked meat? And the

17:12 do what you feel is best for you if you like cooking meat how can you say that it doesn't matter you're choosing between unnatural and natural food it matters a lot

[video] 17:23 Prove that germs cause any kind of diseases, food poisoning, if that's what you believe. Come on. No scientific or any kind of experiment has ever been done that proves this.

17:50 End of story. Now in 2026, we just have no proof whatsoever for this religious belief. And realistically, we will never have any proof because otherwise we would have had it 100 years ago when this nonsense became popular. They cannot prove it, obviously. You will get food poisoning if you eat. Yes, contaminated animals. If by that you mean toxic, unhealthy animals, that's true. It has nothing to do with some parasites or bacteria. If you eat cows, which are inside all day long, they eat some... glyphosate-ridden seeds and then they get injected with 10 different you-know-what, get all kinds of pills.

18:46 then sure, you will be eating unhealthy poisonous animals, and if you eat the fat or the organs, then you can get food poisoning. And you will already taste how bitter the liver is, for example. If you eat the lean muscle meat, it's possible that you won't even notice much. In restaurants nowadays, they simply use some grain-fed meat. It's nothing really special, but because they use these lean cuts without any fat, you won't get food poisoning from them.

[video] 19:25 do exist. Now, there's a terrain theory and a germ theory, where germ theory is just everything is about microbes, and terrain theory is, well, actually, it matters, you know, what the terrain is on, right? Because if you don't have fertile soil, then you can dump all the seed you want on it, they're not going to grow. So the thing is, is that if you have a health...

19:39 Both of those are not even theories by definition, maybe hypotheses. At best, not even really that. The terrain, if your body's healthy and you're doing a lot of things that can be healthy, you will... Just to be clear, in case you don't understand, a theory has to be based on something scientific, factual, but it's not based on that. Therefore, at best, it's a hypothesis.

[video] 20:08 Bite off a lot of infections and parasites very well. But that does not mean that germs don't exist. That does not mean that parasites don't exist. That does not mean that infections don't exist. We have an immune system for a reason. We have an immune system that attacks bacteria, viruses, parasites, and so on. It's there for a reason. We can track this. We see this under microscopes. We can show this and reproduce this.

20:25 Wait, wait, wait. What can you see under microscopes? Viruses? Really? Hmm, somehow they have never been able to actually show them to us. Then please, Anthony, show your microscopic evidence. Somehow viruses are visible under microscopes now, yeah? Really? Huh? What the fuck?

[video] 20:52 ...studies and take it from one individual, put it in another individual, and replicate that disease, and then... Never been done.

20:59 Never. And they have tried this. They have tried actually taking the snot of unhealthy animals, horses, for example, they put them over the heads of the animals, the healthy ones, and they couldn't make them sick. Ha ha. Ah, horrible. This debunks the whole video. It just shows you that he's ignorant.

[video] 21:26 What?

21:37 No. No, it hasn't. Why do you lie? Why do you lie throughout this whole video?

[video] 21:43 ...material and parasitic, and this causes huge burden of disease and huge damage, and you only have to see one person die of these sorts of things before you realize that, yes, They do exist, and it's not a fun thing to have or to die from.

21:55 I've even had people that I've spoken to and helped online that have decided they want... Nobody is saying that people cannot get sick, but you're trying to link it to something which hasn't been observed, yet you use the word exist.

[video] 22:11 They go down the wrong path, and I just said, look, just be careful, just make sure it's not... That's grain-fed meat.

22:17 You could get... some kind of slight poisoning from the fat.

[video] 22:25 Of course. They were doing fine for a long time, but then they were a bit lax with it. They left some meat unrefrigerated, thought it would be fine. They actually got extremely sick. They actually did get a bacterial infection, had to go to the hospital, and they were in the hospital for several days.

22:38 What you're saying is that people got sick, which nobody denies, because that we can observe, but you cannot prove that bacteria caused it. You would have to do a scientific experiment to prove that. And to this day, this hasn't been done.

[video] 22:59 And they're still recovering from the issues that it caused in their gut. So this is something that you actually do have to pay attention to and don't just blindly eat raw meat and think that bacterial infections are something that happened to other people because they can definitely happen to you. So as long as you are careful about that and you're eating meat, from a source that you trust, like a USDA standard, etc., that has been having good food handling processes.

23:18 This doesn't make any sense. Why would the bacteria be different if the meat comes from a different place? He's indirectly admitting that it's all about what the animals get fed and also that other stuff.

[video] 23:36 You're being safe with it and you want to do that and you feel fine with that, that's your business. But just remember that you could get a contaminated batch and searing the outside is very good for that. I personally sear the outside of most of my meat and then have that rare inside, usually with beef.

23:49 You could easily do an experiment to prove this. You could feed people meat from the same place. You could feed them seared meat, raw meat, and then you would see if the searing actually does anything. But in reality, you will get food poisoning because of the toxins inside of the meat. And whether you eat it raw or not isn't going to help you if there's toxins inside. If you cook it really well done, then you may be able to destroy and neutralize the toxins, at least some of them. But if you simply sear it on the outside, because of the harmful bacteria, then if you would do an experiment, you would see that it doesn't make any difference.

[video] 24:34 And to cook chicken well done, but some people don't. I mean, there's chicken sashimi now, where they'll grill the outside of the chicken, just like seared ahi, and they'll cut away the cooked bits and then slice the inner and use that as sashimi. So that's something that is being done in certain restaurants. I wouldn't do that unless you knew what you were doing. But there are people that eat raw meat all the time. They do very... very well with it but just keep that in mind that contamination can happen and so it's very important just to be careful about that sort of thing. So I prefer things to be less cooked on the inside. I prefer that taste. Sometimes I do have things that are raw. I have sashimi, I have steak carpaccio, I have steak tartare. Sometimes I just get a bit anxious and I don't want to wait to cook a steak so I'll just eat some of the steak as it is raw that's been sort of drying in the refrigerator. But

[video] 25:19 i trust where that comes from and i'm careful with it that works well for me i know people that only want to eat meat that's very well done or medium well and they do well with that as well so at the end of the day just eat the meat that you prefer that tastes the best of you and makes you feel the best if you feel that there's something missing and you want to start eating less cooked meat and just sear the outside and that makes you feel better great for me i don't really feel too much of a difference i've had both gone back and forth from well done meat eating briskets and things like that to just eating seared meat or even raw meat and i feel great either way so i'm not too worried about it for myself if you want to try something and play around with it as long as you're careful then that's your business but hopefully that gives you a bit of information so you're not scared off one way or the other that you have to do cooked or you have to do raw i think you can do whatever the hell you want as long as you're careful about it and you're safe then you're an adult and you can make your an adult decision All right. Thanks, guys.

26:14 Good advice at the end. You should do whatever you want to do and you should do what feels best for you. And if you actually eat meat in its natural state, so-called raw meat, then you will see that you feel better when you eat raw meat compared to cooked meat. it will be way easier to digest because it is what your body is designed to eat. And it doesn't matter if another million years will go by. You cannot adapt to something unnatural. This is a religious belief. It cannot be proven. And still today in 2026, if you eat cooked meat, you will feel it in your stomach. It doesn't change.

27:01 If what Anthony Chaffee is saying would be correct, then you shouldn't feel the cooked meat in your stomach at all because after all of this time, we should be absolutely adapted to it. And when we eat raw meat, then we should feel it in our guts because we wouldn't be adapted to it anymore. But it's not the case because Raw meat is the animal in its purest form. And that's why when you ingest it, it will feel the best. This will not change no matter what you do. You should be promoting what is healthy for humans. You talk about what supposedly happened 1.6 million years ago. None of that can be proven, obviously. You talk about

27:56 the so-called nutrients that you can absorb better if you cook meat that can obviously not be proven. Then you talk about the scary bacteria, parasites. You try to link bacteria to some kind of diseases. Let's stick to reality. Throw away these religious beliefs which you cannot prove and stick to what's actually going on in this reality. Human beings crave raw meat for a reason. It's the natural state of the meat. Natural food is the best food for every animal. Thanks for watching.