Are Humans Carnivores? @Max German

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0:00 Hey guys, what's up? I'm going to be reviewing a video called Humans are carnivores. This evidence proves it.

[video] 0:08 A carnivore is an animal that primarily eats meat, and no matter what... That's actually not even true.

0:13 In every biology book you can read that a carnivore is an animal that eats at least 20% raw meat. It wouldn't matter if the rest are plants.

[video] 0:23 And the difference is that carnivores categorize a species for which at least 20% of the energy content of the diet comes from meat. And that's really important because people say humans are not carnivores because we eat things other than meat. Well, that's true. But as long as you're eating 20% of the diet from meat, you are classified as a carnivore. People say the evidence is very clear. Humans are carnivores. In this video, I'll break the evidence.

0:46 Humans are carnivores, it's just that that's not the biological definition. Not that the definition matters, it's just a man-made definition, but that's how humans have always defined it in biology.

[video] 0:58 It's down into six main parts, so that by the end you're left with zero doubt that humans are designed to be carnivores. In fact, not only are we designed to be carnivores, but by ignoring this evidence, it has had some serious consequences. Consequences that have led to today's horrifying statistics. One in four people will have...

1:13 I do for sure agree that humans in nature do eat primarily raw meat, but it's just that that's not the actual definition of what a carnivore is. That's it. That's why the carnivore diet also doesn't make any sense.

[video] 1:28 Have a stroke. More than one in three people will develop diabetes, and nearly one in two people will be diagnosed with cancer.

1:34 Yes, exactly. That's all because we eat processed seeds, vegetable oils, seed oils. Again, the seeds are the problem. It's something that humans never ate before in history.

[video] 1:48 You've been told that vegetables are incredibly good for you. They're the healthiest food on the planet.

1:53 Vegetables, besides seeds, are the worst food on earth because it's not even human food. You can't even eat it in the raw form. You could technically, but it's incredibly hard to swallow it, to chew it. And people usually just put tons of sauces and cheese over it because of how much they hate it.

[video] 2:15 But this is far from true. There is something you're not being told.

[video] 2:22 Imagine you got lost in a forest and an animal tried to attack you. What would you do? Perhaps you would run, or perhaps you'd fight back. You might kick them, you might punch them, or if it came down to it, you might bite them.

2:32 But one thing- No, of course you would never kick or punch an animal, some wild animal. Nobody would do that. Yes, some guy who lives in a city and then is somehow lost in the wild would try to do that. And then they would right away realize that it's pointless. You would do a lot of other stuff, which I'm not even going to mention on YouTube, but nobody kicks or punches in nature in general, even if it's a fight between humans versus humans. That's just never even been recorded that any natural tribe has done that. It's something completely modern. Punching and kicking is the same as...

[video] 3:13 eating vegetables and seeds it's something that humans started doing now in the last 100 years before that there's no records of humans ever doing it we do know is that you wouldn't just stand there defenseless and let the animal attack you of course you wouldn't and that's what every single animal on the planet does they physically defend themselves one way or another they want to survive but plants don't have this luxury to fight back They are stationary. They can't move. They can't do anything. This means they have no way to defend themselves, right? Wrong. The way plants defend themselves is actually much more deadly. Plants are certainly not defenseless. Like every other living organism, they want to survive and reproduce. To defend themselves, plants aim to deter and potentially kill anything or anyone that tries to attack them. And yes, that still includes us as humans. Plants are trying to kill you. They defend themselves with something known as biowarfare. In fact, every single plant...

4:04 Yeah, I've got tons of videos about this. Oxalates, kidney stones, tendons, gut irritators, protein inhibitors. It's all there. The flavonoids, which the vegans always promote. They believe that they are healthy. Yeah, obviously, he's completely right about all of this.

[video] 4:29 When your gut is inflamed, it's unable to function properly, and therefore it creates a lot less of these hormones. Lectins and oxalates are just two of thousands of different defense compounds that we've identified. Now, I'm sure you're sitting there and thinking to yourself, this bloke, he's got a terrible haircut, maybe a terrible mustache too. However, what he is saying does kind of make sense.

4:46 But if these defense compounds are so... Actually, what is this trend nowadays of young guys only having mustaches? It's weird. It usually doesn't look good.

[video] 4:56 toxic why is it that herbivore species such as gorillas cows and goats can live exclusively on plants without getting sick well there's a very interesting reason why animals can do this because here's the thing if us humans ate the food that they ate we simply would not survive here's why

[video] 5:15 The concept of a species-appropriate diet is the most important concept in nutrition and overall health. Any species who does not follow this concept will quickly become very fat and very sick. This is very clear amongst wild animals. Wild animals do not get our human-like diseases. But if they switch diets, they get very sick. For example, wild dogs have very little disease. But when we domesticate these dogs and change their diet from a carnivorous diet to a diet of dog foods such as kibble, they then begin to get very sick. In fact, the average lifespan of a golden retriever has gone from 17 years old in the 1980s to 10 years old currently. This is a direct consequence of the way we feed them.

5:50 Yeah, it's crazy how brainwashed people are that they even feed their dogs the wrong food. And that's how lost people are. They don't know what to eat themselves. And that's why they also feed kibble to their dogs. It makes zero sense to do that.

[video] 6:04 Zookeepers, they certainly know about this. If you go to any zoo, you will see large signs saying please do not feed the animals. They know that when their animals eat human food, they get sick and they get fat. But how does a species appropriate diet work? And how does this affect us as humans? Every animal is designed to eat a very specific food. If an animal eats something for a very long time, it will begin to develop adaptations that are suited to break down that food. The diet of a goat is very high in grasses and leaves. In these grasses, there is a defense compound called tannins. Tannins work quite similar to oxalates. They also bind to cells and cause inflammation. However, in the example of goats, they have an enzyme in their saliva called tannis. When a goat eats a plant with tannins present, tannis will break it.

6:43 Yeah, exactly. I've talked about this also in my videos. Squirrels, for example, have phytase, which helps you with phytic acid. And people who argue that we should be eating plants don't understand that there's animals out there who have these specific chemicals which they themselves produce, which help them to eat seeds and plants, grass, even flowers, all of which humans cannot eat and break down. That's it. There's nothing magical about it. It's just purely nature. These animals are created to eat plants and seeds. And because we do not create these chemicals, we are not created to eat plants and seeds. That's it. You really don't need to know anything else. It's just that most people are unaware about this. Good that he included it in the video.

[video] 7:35 down so it doesn't affect them however when humans consume tannins we have no way to break it down and therefore it causes a lot of inflammation goats are also a type of animal known as a ruminant all ruminant animals whether it be cows sheep or goats have a stomach with four chambers this allows fermentation of plants during this process the structure of the plant material changes drastically in fact it changes so drastically that fiber is turned into short chain fatty acids a gram of fiber counts as two calories for goats

7:59 Exactly, that's what I've also talked about a lot many years ago already. I was actually one of the first guys on YouTube who even talked about these topics. And that's exactly why it's funny that vegans, for example, will say that you shouldn't eat saturated fat, when in reality these Animals they are trying to protect, they eat the fiber and turn it into saturated animal fat. That's why they have the fat that we then eat.

[video] 8:31 But for us as humans, we essentially have no ability to ferment fiber. So when we consume fiber, it goes straight through us and counts as zero calories. Shortly, I'll break down why this energy extraction process is so important. But not only does this process allow them to extract energy, it also allows them to break down the defense compounds present in the foods that they eat. Humans try to mimic fermentation with methods such as...

8:51 Yeah, and the people used to do this when they were starving, during famines. But of course, you can't actually break it down, even if you ferment it. It's slightly easier on your gut, but the reality is that if you eat a plant-based diet, you will still have a lot of gut discomfort, you will produce a lot of gas, your gut will be inflamed, as he said in this video. Everybody knows this. That's why we're just not supposed to be eating seeds and vegetables. And that's why those animals can do it without any real problems.

[video] 9:29 ...sour crap. But doing this only breaks down 50% of the defense compounds at most.

[video] 9:37 That's interesting, uh...

10:00 I think that I told this guy, because I reviewed another video of his about raw versus cooked meat, to look at my video about bacteria and parasites. Maybe he didn't watch it, maybe he didn't get it, or just doesn't believe it. But he should really look into it more, because I've never seen any evidence of harmful bacteria. Show it to me, I'm open to it. The whole germ theory. is very recent, very recent, and people never used to believe in it up until then. And it's still just some empty belief. We still actually haven't had any proof for it.

10:46 It's just something that people believe. They can't actually show it. happens when bacteria is not broken down properly so having a highly acidic stomach is essential for any kind of a species to break down this bacteria so it doesn't cause harm acidity yeah but again there's no proof for this the acidity is to break down the food and if there's any toxins poisons in the food then the acidity also helps why do you think if you get food poisoning You crave lemons, something very acidic. It's to neutralize and destroy the poisons, the toxins in your stomach. That's it. Everybody knows this. That's what food poisoning is about. That you want to break down some bacteria is something that you would have to prove, which you can't because there is no proof for it.

[video] 11:37 Measured by pH. How pH works is the more acidic something is, the lower the pH. Humans have a stomach pH of roughly 1.5, very similar to other carnivorous species.

11:47 Yes, exactly. Sometimes even measured at 1.3, it's very low or the acidity is very high.

[video] 11:56 ...such as lions and wolves. But what happens when a species is an omnivore, meaning they eat both meat and and plants, well, they have a higher pH. For herbivore species who only eat plants, they have an even higher stomach pH. Now when it's on a chart like this, it may not seem like there is a great difference in acidity between these species, but how pH works is that for every one increase in pH, it represents a 10 times increase in acidity. So a pH of one is 10 times as acidic as a pH of two. So as you can see, we have a much more acidic stomach than omnivore and herbivore species. To further illustrate how...

12:29 Yeah, exactly. I've also talked about this all. But it's good that he made this video for people who don't know this.

[video] 12:35 On top of our acidic stomachs, we can also look at our digestive system. For many species, when food is eaten, it follows this process. We first chew it, then it goes down our esophagus and into our stomach. After the stomach...

12:46 Why the meat and the plants? Why this illustration?

[video] 12:51 ...have done what they can, it then moves in to the intestines. But from here, digestion is very different for meat than it is to plants. They both go into our small intestine, but the small intestine is optimized for breaking down proteins and fats due to enzymes it contains, such as bile. So meat is essentially completely broken down and absorbed in the small intestine, but the small intestine does not have this capability for plants. In fact fibre, which in some plants makes up to 50% of the plant, cannot be broken down at all. So instead of being absorbed by the small intestine, plant material moves into the large intestine to be broken down. For this reason herbivore species have a high percentage of their intestine length as their large intestine, and for carnivores a high percentage of their intestine length as their small intestine. Humans large intestine is roughly 33% of total intestine length whereas for gorillas who are herbivores it's 77% of total intestine length. You can see this just by looking at humans and gorillas side by side. Humans have a small stomach and waist whereas gorillas have large waists with distended and bloated midsections. This bloat is due to their large intestines which are constantly bloated from breaking down fibre.

[video] 13:50 We also have this unique ability to throw objects. Humans are the only species who can effectively rotate their shoulder. This allows us to throw objects a long distance with a lot of power.

13:59 Hmm, that's interesting that he mentions that. Yeah, that's what I always say. Humans are throwers in the first place. That's how we hunt. And that's why you have sports, which are essentially just trying to imitate hunting.

[video] 14:14 in any Major League Baseball game, as well as by Aboriginal Australians, who have been reported to throw spears 100 yards or more at animals they intend to eat. We likely develop this as a result of throwing spears at animals. A trait like this would not develop from picking fruit from trees or picking plants out of the ground. Humans are the only species on the planet that have this trait. We are also the only species to throw spears Yeah, exactly. That's what people always used to tell me. What about our teeth? These animals don't use their teeth to chew.

14:57 It's not about that they use them to attack other animals. It's their weapons. Whereas we use different kind of weapons. Why would we need those kind of teeth if what we do is throw in the first place? Wouldn't make any sense.

[video] 15:14 the animal with their teeth but we have no need for massive sharp teeth because we use tools to hunt and cut up the animals we consumed we also used intellect such as the case with the blackfoot tribe in north america they would form strategic patterns to herd buffalo close to a cliff and once close would frighten them with fire and noise this caused them to panic but the thing with buffalo is they are herd animals so when they are frightened with only one direction to go as soon as one buffalo ran towards the cliff the rest would follow resulting in all the buffalo falling off

15:41 Yeah, exactly. We always used our intelligence and throwing as weapons. Those are our weapons, naturally. That's why almost every tribe on Earth made bows and arrows. It's just naturally in us to create weapons and tools. That's what our hands are for. People who argue against this ignore why we even have hands to create, why we have this brain. That's the whole purpose of it.

[video] 16:16 the cliff to their death, which left the hunters with an abundance of meat at the bottom, without having to use our teeth at all. In saying this however, our teeth are very different to herbivores. We have canine and incisor teeth, both are very sharp used for tearing and chewing items which are much tougher such as meat. Herbivore species do not have these teeth, but carnivores do have very similar ones. Also for herbivores their mouth goes side to side, which is optimal for grinding plant material, but humans have a rotating jaw which is better equipped to tear flesh. Earlier, we talked about how our old fossils showed that we were the most carnivorous species on the planet. As a result, we created many different plants. In fact, every plant...

16:49 This video is incredibly similar to my video called Human Apex Predator vs. Vegans. I'm gonna link it in the description if you haven't seen it. Almost too similar. I talked about basically all of this in that video.

17:11 And he did comment on my video. I wonder if he saw it and then took a lot of the ideas from it. But whatever, at least it's getting out there. It's super similar. And these images also. I don't think that it's a coincidence. we consume nowadays looks very different to what it did before we manipulated them so yes that's right every fruit and vegetable you see is technically speaking not natural through agriculture we were able to create a stable food supply not every but every that you can buy in a supermarket in europe canada and blah blah blah yeah yeah but there are still natural fruits out there at least some yeah i guess you can always argue that they have been cultivated at least a little bit

[video] 17:56 However, in doing so, we decimated our health. The fossils I talked about earlier, the ones we found from 12,000 years ago and prior, these fossils have very few lesions and markings on them. This is very important, as lesions and markings on a fossil are how we're able to tell if the individual that fossil came from had disease or not. No lesions and markings meant there was very little disease. But the fossils we've found in the last 12,000 years, these fossils, they do have lesions and markings on them. In this time, our brains have also shrunk 11%. I'll explain why this occurred But on top of that, we also got physically smaller in general. Our teeth started to become crooked.

18:29 Yes, exactly, because humans are degenerating. Very good that he mentions this.

[video] 18:34 Humans in the span of just 12,000 years got sicker, dumber, and shorter. This is what happens when a species does not eat what it's supposed to eat. Now, I know what you're thinking.

18:43 I wouldn't be surprised if all humans or even all of these stories about giants are true. We just used to be a lot bigger, wider, taller than we are now with much bigger skulls. They're just very different creatures now.

[video] 18:59 Our characteristics suggest we are carnivores, and since we have started agriculture, our health has gone seriously downhill. Of course, whole foods are better for you than processed food, which is literally a bunch of plants combined along with a bunch of chemical additives. But humans do best on an all-meat diet. At this point, millions of people are on the carnivore diet, and essentially every single time, the person doing it reverses all of their health conditions.

19:20 Yeah, of course, because even though you're eating cooked meat, which also has its problems, you're still eating very much closer to what you're naturally supposed to eat. When you look at what people eat today, they're cookies, bread and cakes. And then you switch to a carnivore diet, which is socially acceptable, sort of. Then, of course, a lot of these diseases will be resolved. Diabetes, insulin, gastrointestinal conditions, obviously, anyway.

19:52 Yeah. Yeah. dermatologic issues, autoimmune, cardiovascular issues. Of course, yeah, it all totally makes sense.

[video] 20:03 And as a whole, they feel so much better. If you're watching this video and thinking to yourself, but isn't meat bad for me? I've been told cholesterol and saturated fat are a big problem.

20:11 Yeah, but then you need to wonder who told you this and why did they tell you this? Who created the food pyramid? Who created the pasteurization of food? Look into all of that. And then you will realize what's going on.

20:30 It was a good video, even if he did get most of the information from my human apex predator video. The chances would be one in a million that he coincidentally talked about exactly the same topics that I did. And even showed the same photos. Still, people need to hear this, the ones who don't understand what we are naturally supposed to eat. That's why you will also understand why you feel automatically better when you switch to eating mostly meat. The carnivore diet essentially promotes eating zero carbs most of the time. Sometimes they eat dairy and sometimes even honey. But usually they say zero carbs or super low carb. But that's also not possible. I don't think that he talked about this in this video. You can do it, but you're not gonna be healthy long term. You're gonna have crazy carb cravings.

21:29 That's why you can see that every major so-called carnivore YouTuber is obsessed with carbohydrates. Sure, humans have always

21:41 tried eating mostly meat, if they couldn't, then they would find anything else they could eat. And even if they had tons of meat and they would find a fruit tree, then they would still eat the fruits. It's not as if all of the fruits

22:01 came out of nowhere and were just magically cultivated out of nothing. They have an origin. The origin had more seeds. These fruits were maybe not as sweet, although some are pretty sweet, even the wild ones. But that doesn't mean that we never ate fruits and all of them were inedible. It just means that the fruits that we have in supermarkets today are very mineral deficient, have very few seeds or no seeds. The skin is also very thin, whereas it used to be usually a lot thicker. There was a lot less fruit flesh, that's all true. But it doesn't mean that we just never ate carbohydrates. And the most important part is also that Depending on the animal, the liver can have a lot of carbohydrates. If it's fresh, the blood also, even the muscle meat.

22:54 That's the thing, we buy meat from supermarkets, it's already dry, then we cook it, it becomes even drier, the water leaves the meat, and then we eat this overcooked piece of meat, and it's only muscle meat anyway, compared to eating freshly killed animals with the blood, the glycogen in the muscle meat also, the organs, the liver and everything. It's a whole different experience, it tastes a lot better also. And if anything, it's actually closer to cooked meat compared to buying some frozen or dry meat than if you eat it raw from the supermarket, because it's very warm and a lot softer even. Even if you eat raw meat, which is a lot softer than cooked meat, still, when you buy it from a supermarket, it's gonna be drier, it's not the same anymore. It's just a whole different experience when you eat freshly killed animals.

23:52 Not only the eating itself, but the experience of hunting and everything just changes you as a human being. This is something that we don't experience at all anymore. Which is why, yes, the carnivore diet is good compared to what most people eat today, but people should actually go back to their actual natural roots.

24:14 Hunting or buying animals from a farm at least and slaughtering them yourself, butchering them yourself and eating the meat right away, drinking the blood freshly from the animal. That's what you really need to experience for your own health, the health of your family.

24:37 This overcooked zero-carb diet of cooked muscle meat is better, but it's by no means ideal. It's not even really close to ideal. The health differences between eating freshly killed animals raw and some cooked dry meat from the supermarket is very noticeable. You will right away see if you try it. Thanks for watching guys.