| Happy Sunday, everyone. Since the start of 2022, Joe Rogan has been eating a carnivore + fruit diet. Basically meat, fruit, and honey. Many of you have asked what I think about it. I love it. Take a look at Joe’s lifestyle. His daily routine. He works a ton. He works out a ton. He goes hard in the gym with both weights and martial arts, throws hundreds of kicks a day. He carries a lot of muscle mass, moves very quickly and agilely for a man of his size and age, and he’s also very active in the mental realm. Maybe it’s just because I’m on the introverted side, but the idea of doing three hours podcasts several times a week is daunting to me. That’s probably the most impressive aspect of Joe’s regimen. In other words, Joe can use the carbohydrates from fruit. Fruit is easy to digest, contains vitamin C (one of the nutrients that is most likely to be lacking on carnivore diets). This is a “diet” I’ve recommended in the past to parents who want their kids eating an ancestral Primal diet free of grains and the like but don’t necessarily want them to be low carb. Kids don’t need to be keto, or even low-carb, especially if they’re allowed to be kids and given free rein to roam and play and run and stay as active as every child inherently desires. The studies show that when medically indicated a ketogenic diet can really work for kids, but it’s not a necessity. Or even optimal. Every kid loves fruit. Every adult who hasn’t corrupted their taste buds with intense blasts of concentrated refined sugar loves fruit. I mean, a juicy nectarine on a warm summer day? A few slices of pineapple after a hard workout? A big slice of watermelon sprinkled with sea salt in the dead of August? A handful of blueberries plucked from the bush? There’s nothing quite like that. Fruit wants to be eaten. Grains, seeds, even nuts? They don’t really “want” to be eaten. They employ chemical defenses to render their consumption potentially deleterious. Now, we have developed processing methods and inborn defenses to deal with some of those plant toxins, which can make them safe and even beneficial to some people, but the fact remains that these foods don’t want to be eaten. Fruits must be eaten for the plant to prosper and spread. If you’re using the carbs, I don’t see any reason why fruit and meat couldn’t form the basis of a healthy diet. With some dairy, too, of course. Have you ever tried a fruit plus meat diet? Or fruit plus meat plus dairy? How’d that go? No new New and Noteworthy this week, but let me know in the comments section of last week's. Take care, everyone. | 
