Exactly. Humans can manufacture carbs from protein. The nutrient part is tricky for the Eskimos. Some of their diet is raw which is why they don’t get into trouble with certain essential vitamins.
Caveat - eating raw (or undercooked) wild meat can be deadly if you don’t know what you’re doing
“Exactly. Humans can manufacture carbs from protein. The nutrient part is tricky for the Eskimos. Some of their diet is raw which is why they don’t get into trouble with certain essential vitamins.
Caveat - eating raw (or undercooked) wild meat can be deadly if you don’t know what you’re doing”
Excellent points, and good for all to keep in mind.
They are going to be knocking off 1100 or so sea lions a year in the Columbia River soon. Cull & cook keto diet.
The Eskimo Diet is unnatural, and tends to produce osetoporosis.
A very-high protein diet is excessively acid-forming systemically. The body must buffer the blood moment to moment within a very narrow pH range. Leeching the calcium from the bones is the way it keeps the blood livable when it is continually subjected to the acidic by-products of an acid-forming diet.
It is also hard on the kidneys and liver.
The human body is adaptive, but not all adaptations are without negative consequences.