Just googled and found a Reddit discussion on carnivore diet. Someone was discussing fermentation to feed the gut microbes of the Inuit. Here is something someone said....I should look it up:
"think gut bacteria may be an issue. I remember reading an article about a group of Inuit who fermented blubber by digging a hole and burying the food. Some do-gooders came in and brought them hygienic plastic buckets so their wouldn't be so much dirt in their food and the tribe got severely ill. This is because instead of being fermented by soil bacteria, the fat just rotted.
The Inuit traditionally had a bunch of strategies for increasing gut flora, which often included eating the uncooked stomach, intestines, and their contents after an animal kill.
The Hazda tribe similarly eats the raw stomach and colon of a fresh kill.
I have heard of other tribes with limited diets who find and eat bird poop out of their nest for the microbes.
In a western diet, we kill all the microbes on the meat, and we get all our microbes from plants."
Hmmmm...this is the one issue that has concerned me about going zero car....my gut microflora is a mess. I dont know that supplementation would do the same job as something dietary and daily, but without plants. However I dont plan on eating raw stomach and colon....just.can't.do. it! Haha!
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