Dr. Shawn Baker: How The Carnivore DIet Will Save The Planet

Dr. Shawn Baker is an elite-level athlete with multiple world records in rowing, and an orthopedic surgeon who served in the US Airforce as a nuclear weapons launch officer and as a combat trauma surgeon and chief of orthopedics while deployed to Afghanistan. Dr. Baker is also the author of "The Carnivore Diet," and the face an improbable health movement that just a few years ago would have seemed absurd, advocating for an all-meat diet, or a diet made up exclusively of animal products. He's the founder and CEO of MeatRx, an organization that educates and promotes the benefits of the Carnivore Diet, and Dr. Baker is also the co-host of the Human Performance Outliers podcast.

In this episode of The Alpha Human Podcast, Dr. Shawn Baker and Lawrence Rosenberg discuss how he became the leading voice of the Carnivore Movement, and how he has overcome an unprecedented level of resistance to an idea that is currently demonized by popular culture and environmental activists, through to health professionals and major health associations like the American Diabetes Foundation and the American Heart Association, that eating meat not just safe and healthy, but that it can actually help people thrive, prevent disease and save the planet.

Beyond his in-depth dispelling of the myths associated with meat consumption, he discusses the importance of animal protein for human longevity, the introduction of processed carbohydrates, seed oils, and high fructose corn syrup into the human diet as the true culprit behind the modern epidemic of chronic disease, and the stunning data which shows that if the United States were to convert 40% of its herd to regenerative grazing (from 5% currently), then we could completely offset all carbon emissions from every sector of the US economy!

Dr. Baker also shares his thoughts on the qualities he feels are most important in a good leader, as well as his approach to leadership, both as the face of the carnivore community, and as the founder of MeatRx, a company that offers carnivore based health, nutrition, and lifestyle coaching. He's fully committed to the idea of "walking the walk" and leading from the front by personally using the carnivore diet to continue to improve his health and performance, break world records and train as an athlete in his 50s in a way that most don't do in their 20s. He also makes note of the importance of surrounding yourself with passionate, happy people, pointing out that every person at his organization has experienced the diet and has had a life-altering positive change.

Of his long term vision, Dr. Baker describes how he is intent on saving a dying healthcare system by teaming up with ranchers and food producers to help educate and guide policy on the health benefits of meat and an animal protein-based diet along with its use as a powerful intervention for conditions as wide-ranging as autoimmune disease, diabetes, mental health disorders, and GI issues, and why it is more efficacious than the current medical standard of care at a fraction of the cost.
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Links:
www.alphahuman.org
The Alpha Human Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/alpha-human-podcast
Shawn Baker on YouTube - shorturl.at/ENZ34
Shawn Baker's website - https://shawn-baker.com/
Dr. Baker's medical clinic: https://www.revero.com/
How Americans Got Red Meat Wrong - https://bit.ly/3633vNL
The History of All-Meat Diets - https://bit.ly/2WWY92B
https://carnivore.diet/
Dr. Shawn Bakers book 'The Carnivore Diet': https://a.co/d/croIA2o