Forward--Introduction -- The Lost User Manual -- Beginnings -- The Second Time Around -- The Goal of This Book -- The Quality of Life Equation -- Section I -- Chapter 1: Our Beginnings -- Indiana Jones Stuff -- How Much Meat Were We Eating? -- Humans as Fat-Hunters -- Evolutionary Adaptations to Eating Meat -- The Cauldron of Fire in Your Belly -- Expensive Tissue -- Amylase Gene Duplications -- The Apex Predator -- Our Destiny -- Chapter 2: Our Worst Mistake -- How Healthy Are We Really Today? -- Hunter-Gatherer Life -- The Return of Indiana Jones -- Hunter-Gatherers or Just Hunters? -- Section II -- Chapter 3: Chemical Warfare -- A Case of Mistaken Identity -- Swords, Spears, and Axes -- Plant Pesticides -- Disparate Operating Systems -- Brace Yourself for a Chemistry Lesson -- Animals Eating Plants -- Chapter 4: Broccoli-Superhero or Supervillan? -- Damaging DNA -- Slow Damage -- How We've Been Led Astray -- Hormesis Re-Examined -- Living a Radical Life is Good Enough -- Types of Studies -- Avoiding the Booby Traps -- Chapter 5: Of Unicorns and Fairy Tales -- The Problem of Healthy User Bias -- The James Dean Type -- Turmeric Has a Dark Side -- Detoxification Pathways in the Liver -- Treating the Root Cause Rather Than Symptoms -- The Roots of Inflammation -- Avoid the Flavonoids -- Messing with Our Digestion -- Cell Division and Chromosomes -- Salicylates -- Even Asparagus and Coconut Can Harm Us -- The Promise of Supermodel Vampire Status -- Chapter 6: Attack of the Oxalates -- Oxalate Toxicity -- Needles Everywhere! -- Oxalate Kidney Stones -- Oxalate Detoxification -- Chapter 7: Of Kidney Beans and Parkinson's Disease -- The Toxic Lectin in Beans -- The Working of Our Gastrointestinal Tract -- How Lectins Damage the Gut -- Gluten and Other Lectins -- Could Lectins Play a Role in Parkinson's Disease? -- The Plinko Model of Autoimmune Disease -- Could Lectins Be Causing Us to Gain Weight? -- The Paradox of Plants -- Concluding Section II of Our Journey -- Section III -- Chapter 8: Myth I -- Plant Foods Are Superfoods -- Magical Nutrients in Animal Foods -- Creatine: Making Us Smart and Strong -- Choline -- Carnitine and Mental Health -- Carnosine -- Decline in Mental Health with Plant-Based Diets -- The Roots of Depression and Anxiety -- Vitamins and Minerals in Animal Foods vs. Plant Foods -- B Vitamins and Methylation -- Vitamin A -- Vitamin K -- Protein -- Omega-3 Fatty Acids -- Why Do Vegan Diets Help Some People? -- The Problem with the Notion of Bio-Individuality -- Our Brains Don't Lie -- Animal vs. Plant Foods -- Wrapping Up -- Chapter 9: Myth II -- Fiber is Necessary for a Healthy Gut -- Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO) -- Why You Don't Want a Weak Colon Wall -- Fiber and Colon Cancer -- Types of Fiber -- Fiber Continues to Strike Out -- Fiber for Fat Loss? -- The Jungle Inside of You -- Microbial Diversity -- Short-Chain Fatty Acids: More Than Just Butyrate -- Magical Mucus -- Wrapping Up Our Fiber-Debunking Adventures -- Chapter 10: Myth III -- Red Meat Will Shorten Your Life -- What Was Left Out of the IARC Report -- The Meat and Cancer Myth Debunked Once and for All -- Neu5Gc: Not a Cause for Concern -- mTOR: The Molecular Growth Switch -- Red Meat: Not the Foe of Bones, Kidneys, or Big Toes -- The Myth of the Blue Zones -- Won't I Get Scurvy Eating Only Animal Foods? -- Summing It Up -- Chapter 11: Myth IV -- Red Meat Causes the Heart to Explode -- The Basics of Lipoproteins and Cholesterol -- The Vital Role of LDL in Our Bodies -- Could More LDL Be Productive? -- LDL in Heart Disease: Criminal or Firefighter? -- Atherosclerosis -- It's All About the Stickiness! -- Further Down the LDL Rabbit Hole -- The Skinny (and Not so Skinny) on Insulin Resistance -- Other Causes of Insulin Resistance -- Why Does LDL Rise on the Ketogenic Diet? -- Should You Take a Statin for an Elevated LDL? -- TMAO: The Sheep in Wolf's Clothing -- Saturated Fat: Why Vegetable Oil Companies Say It's Bad -- The Edge of Zion -- Section IV -- Chapter 12: What to Eat on a Nose-to-Tail Carnivore Diet -- Is It Ethical to Eat Animals? -- How to Eat a Nose-to-Tail Carnivore Diet -- Tier 1: The Carnivore-ish Diet -- Artificial Sweeteners and Spices -- Didn't Our Ancestors Eat Fruit? -- Tubers and Berries -- What About Fungi? -- What to Drink on a Carnivore Diet -- What About Alcohol? -- When to Eat on a Carnivore Diet -- Tier 2: The Meat and Water Carnivore Diet -- Tier 3: The Freshman Carnivore Diet -- What About Seafood on a Carnivore Diet? -- What About Chicken, Turkey, and Other Birds? -- What About Pork? -- Tier 4: The Junior Varsity Carnivore Diet -- Liver Magic -- Is It Possible to Eat Too Much Liver? -- Why Methionine/Glycine Balance Matters -- Tier 5: The Varsity Carnivore Diet -- Other Organs -- How Much Organ Meat Should We Be Eating? -- How Much Protein and How Much Fat -- Bones Are Organ Meat, Too! -- What About Dairy? -- Boron -- The Often Overlooked But Crucial Mineral -- How to Live a Radical Life -- Clean Carnivore Reset (CCR) -- Case Studies and Testimonials with a Carnivore Diet -- Wrapping Up -- Chapter 13: Common Pitfalls When Starting a Carnivore Diet -- Disaster Pants -- Constipation -- The Keto "Flu" -- Fatigue -- Insomnia -- Muscle Cramps -- Histamine Intolerance -- Trouble Digesting Fat or Red Meat -- Why Gallbladder Stones Form and How to Avoid Them -- Lack of Variety -- Carnivore Diet with an APOE4 Polymorphism -- Carnivore Diet with an FTO Mutation -- Wrapping Up -- Chapter 14: The End of the Road and Beginning a New Way of Life -- The Environmental Impacts of Eating Meat -- Summing It All Up -- Final Thoughts -- Frequently Asked Questions -- Appendix -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- About the Author