(04-22-2025, 11:27 PM)chivo Wrote: It would be very interesting to know, anyone on this thread that claims that without eating meat, health is compromised... Did you actually tried not eating meat for more than one day or two? And also, who here butchers their own meat?
I lack some enzymes to metabolize veggies. I can only eat certain ones and have a conditon called CSID disease according to my genetics. I only have one point seven percent of the male inuit genetics in me, but that much of that is in metabolism differences. I really like fish, but seals are too cute to eat so have never even considered it. My father and his brothers ate lots of fish and wild animals, I was brought up hunting and fishing. My one uncle and his wife used to make all their own breads...sourdough breads, more evidence that somehow without knowing it we adapted to more of an inuit diet. Plus I prefer sourdough rye over regular bread, regular bread blocks up my digestion.
With that inuit genetics, I also pee out lots of salt, salt fish was explained to me as a medicine for us by my father. Hyponatremia, hypoglycemia, and hypovolemia were always a problem for me. I also have tachychardia of unknown type, another inuit trait if you do not eat the proper diet. Everything seems to fit with my genetics which I got done and checked out with gene apps. Before the inuit genetics showed up on My Herritage I could not figure out how all these things I experience fit together.
I also had the inuit shovel teeth, but they are not as pronounced as some that have kept the diet more strictly over the last ten generations or more. My canines used to be long too till I broke them off, they came in handy around Halloween because I could hang them outside of my lips to appear like a vampire or werewolf.
Cooked veggies are less of a problem for me, and I can eat potatoes well, we had a farm when I was young and we grew many acres of potatoes. I can eat potatoes and carrots and also some berries and it is no surprise that on that farm we also grew lots of strawberries, and picked wild blueberries every year. Organic grass fed beef is what I usually buy, usually half a cow a year from some people we know. Plus I stock a lot of fish in the freezer every year, buying whole fish and processing them myself. I used to hunt deer and always processed the buck myself, they waste too much when you bring it to a processing place. I would share that buck with my brother and two uncles...fathers brothers...who would also have had that paternal genetics too.
But over the centuries there are still some differences between the diet of the inuit and the diet of my fathers male side, we adapted somewhat. I do not look like most inuit other than the teeth and a little darker complexion, so I start researching my DNA to find out what other kind of inuit there were that were white and not asian...checking my genetic data against other variations, evidently there was a far north hominid involved that bread not only with asians, they bread with Europeans too. Three percent of far northern European guys have that genetics...invaders probably killed most the males during the crusades and also Gangus, but twenty five percent of far northern European women have that inuit genetics to some degree. I guess those war mongers just killed the males and bred the women back then.
My ancestry genetics does not show the inuit, I guess they are interested in finding where Americans came from, but that data was used in MyHerritage and they are more interested in where the ancestors of Europeans came from. So science is interpretted by belief and also by desire.
I am not Inuit, I just share ancestors with them. I am not Finnish either, I am an American and even though I have relations to them, we are of different cultures...My grandfather came from Finland...that does not make me a true Finn, I am a Yooper Finn.