also, just to mention, zinc is related to vitamin C in not just the health of the lungs but also the skin, it is part of the complex of enzymes that synthesise collagen and both organs (skin and lungs) depend on the ability to regenerate the tissue when it is put under stress, which ... anyway, i talked about the fats/vegan diet and how it accelerates the aging of the skin, it also affects the lungs and makes people more vulnerable to cold and flu viruses

zinc helps with this too, and nuts are a key source of zinc

so, yeah, for me this is putting nails in the carnivore diet theory a lot more

i think that humans are primarily adapted to various kinds of diets, we are able to tolerate everything from high starch wheat/rice based diets to carnivore (eskimos and siberians) and root/leaf based diets that you see more in the equatorial regions where these foods are more available

or in other words, humans have adaptations for all three patterns of diet, both grain, meat, and nut/leaf based diets, in various mixtures, but every single individual's health is based on respecting this natural tendency and not imposing some other culture's fucking diet on us

is this some kind of extreme racial purity idea, idk, idc, fuck it this is what my body needs, and it is very clearly basically what would have been available to my great grandfather in the papua highlands lol