So those diets are better FOR THEM, not for everyone. But the same could hold true for you or me. I know it is true for me because I have Saami heritage and the diet cures my hyperlipidemia.
And Taurine, omega 3, calcium, and vitamin D are not the only thing in the fish. There is a synergy that humans could never find with logic.
> There is a synergy that humans could never find with logic.
Perhaps, but there is no science that demonstrates that.
It sounds like you are looking at this research and coming to stronger and more general conclusions than they claim. Again, most of it seems to be of the form "we took some people who were deficient in [some nutrient that is found in fish], gave them fish, and found that they did better than a control group who weren't given fish". Eg, the paper you link to shows that Greenland Inuits are genetically adapted to higher levels of PUFAs in their diet. It doesn't make any claims that those PUFAs have to come from fish. The paper that that one cites as showing that "fish oil supplementation is associated with increased concentrations of plasma insulin-like growth factor–1" (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22337227/) does indeed show that association, but it doesn't show that non-fish oil sources of DHA (eg, algae-sourced DHA) don't also produce the same effect because they didn't test that.
That you've found a diet that cures your hyperlipidemia doesn't mean that that's the only diet that could achieve that or even that it's the best one.
Your previous comment:
> And for those who say “you don’t have to eat the animal to get the health benefits”, please tell that to any Inuit or Saami people. They lived on his diet for generations and it’s affected their genome as a result.
Actually sounds like an argument against a meat/fish heavy diet. If eating it for generations results in genetic changes that produce problems like hyperlipidemia, maybe it's not something that we should recommend or promote.
(An aside, as someone who's also of partial Sámi descent (Northern Sweden, represent!), I do want to point out that the Sámi diet was/is not strictly carnivore; it also traditionally includes a lot of flatbreads, berries, and foraged plants like mountain sorrel and wild celery).
I agree with you on the Saami diet, I was generalizing for the Sake of brevity in the comments. I am in no way any kind of carnivore or Paleo freak. I only have general guidelines and loose interpretations about what I should eat.
You’re right though, I have no scientific Evidence for synergy. But it is our arrogance to think we know everything that is in food And how it affects our bodies. This could never be tested scientifically.
But you’ve mistaken my argument as well. The genetic changes of the Inuit make them more susceptible to disease only when they are on a western diet. when they are on their ancestral diet they have no problems. Eating that much seafood makes them dependent on eating seafood. Do you understand that better?
Just like living in Africa change the color of people skin it actually makes them more dependent on getting sunlight. Does a sunlamp replace the sun? Hard to say.
When they do not adhere to these diets they have worse outcomes.
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/349/6254/1343
So those diets are better FOR THEM, not for everyone. But the same could hold true for you or me. I know it is true for me because I have Saami heritage and the diet cures my hyperlipidemia.
And Taurine, omega 3, calcium, and vitamin D are not the only thing in the fish. There is a synergy that humans could never find with logic.