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It has nothing to do with any diet.
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Understood, but you dropped it in a thread relating to a diet that is focused on eating plant-based.<br />
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I also think that most of us would agree that a lot of natural things in the world are poisonous, including plants, mushrooms, licking a frog, monkey livers, slugs ...<br />
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This poor kid died eating a slug on a dare.<br />
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McCandless (from Into the Wild fame) died eating a wild potato. (Yes, plants are poisonous!!!)<br />
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So we understand the generic argument that plants have toxic defenses, including hormetics (cold showers, acupressure mats), but to extrapolate a generic truth to a plant-based diet is just the type of "slippery slope" BS that insults the intelligence of those who done their homework (and have been in both echo chambers), or better, were already card-carrying members of the keto/paleo/carnivore cult for years, and have had the obscene cholesterol numbers and bi-monthly doctor visits to prove it.<br />
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Bottomline, it is a popularized weak argument that attracts likes and "amens" from the congregation.<br />
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"Men eat meat" and him claiming that only eating red meat is the key to health really makes me roll my eyes.
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Again, criminal.<br />
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And it will be criminal for the men who take this advice in their 20's find themselves with limp dicks in their 30s. I'm sure ya will feel real "manly" then, eh?<br />
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But don't worry, the direct correlation between increased meat consumption and Viagra prescriptions is no correlation at all. It's just an anomaly you can ignore. <img src="/community/imgs/emoticons/em-rofl.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":rofl:" title="ROFL :rofl:" data-shortname=":rofl:" /><br />
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At least you can call "Hims" after you eat that steak; they'll get the dysfunction sorted out.</div>