The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson,

and is narrated by Tina Lehman.

How much meat is too much?

I've discussed and countered many misconceptions people hold to be true about the primal lifestyle,

that we wear loin cloths and shun modern medicine.

I only do one of these.

Eat so low-carb all the time that running our urine through a coffee filter produces valuable

ketone esters.

Stay tuned for the supplement,

and avoid cardio to the point of scolding ourselves if we have to run to catch the train,

only if we jog rather than sprint. One in particular has stuck, that we're meat-obsessed.

This one isn't totally unfounded. We do enjoy our bacon, our steaks, our lettuce-wrapped

burgers, our leg of lamb, our roast chickens. Personally, I emphasize the animal foods,

which include meat, for two reasons. They're extremely nutrient-dense, and they've gotten

a terrible wrap for decades. We should be eating them on a regular

basis, but by and large, people are scared to. There's always that voice in your head,

repeating back to you the scary red meat will give you cancer, or meat consumption linked to

diabetes, headlines that pop up every few weeks.

I consider it my job to remove the stigma of healthy animal foods, to highlight the importance

and vitality of meat in the human diet. But that doesn't mean it's a free-for-all. There

are upper limits on meat intake, just as there are upper limits on everything. Let's ignore

the outliers, the folks who really do

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