Harvard Doctor Confirms that Human ‘Brains Need Meat’
Dr Georgia Ede, a Harvard-trained nutritional and metabolic psychiatrist, says eating meat is essential for good mental health.
It’s been a while since I did an update on the globalist “War on Meat.”
However, between President Donald Trump’s iconic shift at McDonald’s and a fascinating article I came across, I thought it was a good time to dish out some great news on the subject.
Dr. Georgia Ede is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist specializing in nutritional and metabolic psychiatry. She has spent 25 years researching the role of diet, particularly ketogenic and carnivore diets, in mental health and brain function, making her an expert on the subject.
According to her research and findings, “the brain needs meat.” She shared her views on a radio broadcast recently.
…[D]espite the health halo that vegan diets have been given over the last few years, she claims that giving up meat could be detrimental for mental health.
‘The brain needs meat,’ she told KIRO News Radio.
‘We’re used to hearing that meat is dangerous for our total health, including our brain health, and plants are really the best way to nourish and protect our brains.’
‘But the truth of the matter is that it’s actually — that’s upside down and backward.’
Ede has written a book on the subject: Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind. Chapters are dedicated to the impact of each food group on mental health, which are not promoted by insect-pushing globalists.
Apparently, meat is the only good that contains “every nutrient we need.”
While animal products like eggs, meat, cheese, and Greek yogurt are high in protein, it can also be found in vegan options like lentils and broccoli.
‘But many of the other essential nutrients are much more difficult if not in some cases impossible to obtain from plants,’ Dr Ede said.
She noted that meat is ‘the only food that contains every nutrient we need in its proper form and is also the safest food for our blood sugar and insulin levels.’
These nutrients include vitamin B12, omega-3 fatty acids, zinc, choline, iron, and iodine.
Vitamin B12, for example, helps with the formation of oxygen-rich red blood cells and DNA. However, it has also been linked to regulating mood-boosting serotonin, and low levels of serotonin have been linked to increased risks of depression and anxiety.
Meat is a complete protein source, containing all nine essential amino acids that the human body cannot produce on its own. These amino acids are vital for various physiological processes, including:
- Growth and development
- Immune function
- Cellular processes
- Cell structure maintenance
Meat provides a concentrated source of several essential nutrients that are often difficult to obtain from plant-based sources alone:
- Vitamin B12: Crucial for nervous system function and red blood cell formation.
- Iron: Heme iron from meat is more readily absorbed than non-heme iron from plant sources.
- Zinc: Important for immune function and wound healing.
- Iodine: Essential for thyroid hormone production
- Creatine: Supports muscle function and energy metabolism.
- Taurine: Plays a role in cardiovascular and neurological health
- Carnosine: Has antioxidant properties
The nutrients in meat are often more bioavailable than those in plant-based foods, meaning they are more easily absorbed and utilized by the body. This is particularly important for certain populations with increased nutritional needs, such as:
- Growing children and adolescents
- Pregnant and lactating women
- Elderly individuals
- Athletes and physically active people
I will simply conclude this piece by noting other “experts” have been pushing veganism and insects for many years, and the cases of mental illness have been increasing. The following assessment comes from SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration), and is the best chart I could locate identifying the percentage of mental health disorders over time.
- Serious mental health disorders are those with a rating of severe on a scale from mild, moderate, and severe.
- The biggest percentage increase in serious mental health disorders was with 18-25 year olds, increasing over 200% since 2008
- Serious mental illness disorders have increased to 11.3 million for adults in 2018, up from 8.3 million in 2008.
A systematic review of 18 studies in 2021 compared meat-eaters with non-meat-eaters, and the results were indicative about the important role of meat in maintaining good mental health.
The study involved 160,257 participants aged 11 to 96 (53% of whom were female), including 149,559 meat-eaters and 8,584 meat-avoiders.
Of these, 11 studies showed that meatless diets were associated with worsened mental health. One of these studies found that vegetarians had a 35.2% chance of developing major depression compared to 19.1% in meat-eaters.
Additionally, the likelihood of developing an anxiety disorder in vegetarians was 31.5% compared to 18.4% in meat-eaters.
It would certainly be interesting to plot the rates of mental illness against meat consumption, and might make an even stronger case for the Make America Healthy Again push that resonates with many today.
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And if there’s any doubt as to the veracity of her claim, consider how many of the leftist nutzos also happen to be hardcore vegan…. these people are truly mental.
Harvard finally comes up with something that makes sense. They are smarter than they look.
Meh. If there’s something you want said, you can always find one “expert” who is on the same page as you are, And finding that one at Harvard didn’t help.
(I love meat, so it isn’t that,)
Meat, chocolate, and beer. The true balanced diet.
And Biden Harris inflation affects the price of beer. And meat. And chocolate. I can’t understand why anyone would support them, other than mental instability caused by meat deprivation.
Jared Diamond published a ‘controversial’ book almost 30-years ago called, ‘Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies.’ In it, he goes some way towards explaining why western and some eastern societies flourished while other societies were centuries, or millennia behind. One of the reasons he keys is on is ready access to high-quality MEAT protein and how the domestication of animals played a huge part in it. Obviously, meat protein is a significant marker for advanced civilization as described by Daimond even if he didn’t have the full explanation of why it’s critical to the development of the human brain.
For diet sure, that absolutely shouldn’t be minimized. IMO what was more important to development of civilization was the availability and use of draft animals to help clear fields and plow them for large scale agriculture. Producing a surplus allows far more specialization and expertise to develop which spurs more innovation. Tough to have a period of ‘enlightenment’ in a hard scrabble, subsistence environment.
All human societies had access to animals that could, over time, become draft animals.
Some never grasped the idea of animal husbandry.
The original meaning of “vegetarian” is “lousy hunter.”
there was a case recently of a father in the UK who blamed his daughter’s suicide on her plant-diet-induced mental illness. I wonder if I can find that. It was recently, like in the last few months….
Brain size doesn’t grow on grains alone
This might explain why liberals, who generally like to avoid meat, are basically unbalanced. .
These findings shouldn’t surprise us. We evolved as meat eaters. That’s why we have canine teeth.
Exactly. This has been my position for many years. We have canine teeth, hence we evolved to eat meat. We also have grinding teeth, hence we should also eat plants. We don’t need so-called “experts” to tell us what to eat. The Ag Department.is one of the worst places to get nutritional information. I worked there once, a long time ago. Dismal. Full of idiots with a few exceptions. Another department that needs to be abolished.
I highly recommend the Wolfram Alpha app. Runs on everything and provides a portal to all kinds of information and calculations. Physics, mathematics, geography, weather and nutrition. And much more. One can enter any food in any amount and get a complete nutritional analysis. Years ago I entered: “top sirloin, 0.25 lbs” and was stunned at. how good a food beef is. Has everything as one can see from the comprehensive nutritional analysis. Yet we have many vegetarians, vegans and other nut cases, who seem to suffer brain damage from not eating right.
Of course my position would get attacked as “simplistic,” “not nuanced,” blah blah blah. FU.
Now let’s talk about the benefits of whole dairy on the brain and neurology.
She really seems to push the “Harvard Doctor” aspect in order to add validity to her hypothesis. From her bio., undergrad Carlton College, Med. School Univ. Vt., adult Psych residency at Cambridge Community hospital. I assume that Cambridge Hospital has a teaching affiliation with Harvard Med. No evidence of psychiatric or metabolic research associated with Harvard; maybe there is but not mentioned in brief search.
Whatever Leftists advocate, expect the truth to be the opposite of that.
It shows the value of my original edition of Carol J Adams “The Sexual Politics of Meat.” Who knew it would become a feminist course standard at the time. Many editions.
I personally verified the negative effect of B-12 deficiency resulting from living in a vegan household (while not being vegan myself). When I ended up in the ER because I couldn’t walk straight and kept banging into walls, my B-12 level was 180. I injected b-12 for 6 weeks, and then started taking the little pink pills. This raised my level to over 1,000, which is too high and might be responsible for VEGF in my right eye.
So now I eat meat every other day (away from home) and take a general B vitamin supplement.
Too much red meat can result in uric acid kidney stones for some people. People’s bodies are amazingly different and complex.
Everything in moderation.
That’s what my grandma used to say. Words to live by.
Carb crashing is real, and plant protein does not do as well as good ole beef!
I don’t think it’s possible to narrow the decline in mental health to lack of meat consumption. There are also the effects of hormonal birth control. not to mention the damage created by the sexual revolution. Let me not forget the effects of the “fear and outrage” business model of the news media.
Somebody needs to do a whopping big multivariate analysis.
Make mine medium rare if they’re taking study volunteers.
A not-unimportant aspect of meat diets vs plant diets is that the myelin sheath on the neurons in the brain is largely cholesterol
Alzheimer’s is a disease in which these sheaths are damaged.
It doesn’t help that cholesterol has been vilified for the past 50+ years, and the medical establishment has pushed all kinds of pills in misguided pursuit of lower cholesterol.
There have been some recently published studies which indicate that a total cholesterol level around 250 is best. Folks under 200 have higher rates for all causes of mortality, including cardiac, though you have to wonder if that is due just to the low cholesterol or to the statins they are probably taking to achieve that low total.
“[D]espite the health halo that vegan diets have been given over the last few years, she claims that giving up meat could be detrimental for mental health”
Explains a few things, don’t it!
Typo alert:
Apparently, meat is the only good that contains “every nutrient we need.”
Pretty sure that should be “Apparently, meat is the only food that contains…”
Auto correct is no substitute for an editor or proofreader.
Too many humans are not comfortable being on the top of the food chain. Continue to eat meat, only if you want to continue to walk erect.
Harvard Doctor Confirms that Human ‘Brains Need Meat’
It hasn’t seemed to help Harris any. (Yes, I went there.)
No shade on the author but it’s very hard to untangle the cause versus correlation given what little info is here-the classic chicken and egg problem. I strongly suspect that there is a mental orientation difference in the individual who embarks on a vegan diet and maintains it. That orientation difference could be more susceptible to depression and other maladies.
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