> What is the alternative to drugs?
Another one is lifestyle intervention. Gut problems for example may lead to depression, as gut is an important factor in neurotransmitter production. Metabolic problems will lead to lowered levels of energy. The chronic disease epidemic is real.
Depression may come for many different reasons, and the underlying factor should be looked for
That is a sporadic thing when I have no other food available. It's not pure zero-carb then and that's carnivorish not strict carnivore diet, however the impact of such very sporadic deviation is unsignificant.
Onion has 9.3g carbs per 100g [1]. I add few small slices, no more than 1/4 average onion, so that ~30g of onion and 3g of carbs. Absolutely meaningless. I add that just for the taste and it is an amount that does not have any serious effect. I ate small but significant amount of nuts before, but not now so that's also not a factor now.
You may consider that 99% carnivore diet and that's absolutely ok. Another thing is that carnivore diet is not vegan-like in its choice of food products. It's all about health benefits and adding minimal amounts of vegetables that someone has no problem with isn't a big deal.
On carbs on carnivore: Honey is also considered as an animal product by most carnivore people and it has a lot of carbs obviosly.
> One essentially removes food (in the enjoyment sense) from life
Absolutely false for me. Personally I enjoy no food more than a big
steak. Definitely there is more of the satiation factor than in
plant based meal, especially in something like steak with liver
mincemeat. Ton of nutriets.
> I'm curious also, how old are you and how long have you been following this diet.
6 month carnivorish keto with some nuts, 4 months pretty strict carnivore (garlic
and onion added to meat, sometimes coffee, that's it)
What do you consider a fair amount of carbs? From what I remember, endurance athletes could stay in ketosis with around 100g of carbs daily, however this is not relatable for an average person. Another important fact is that on zero-carb diet with protein intake on athletic level (2-2.5g/bw_kg) you are in a moderate ketosis because of gluconeogenesis, which is a good thing according to Paul Saladino.
On the impossibility of zero-carb in modern life I have to say that it is completely false. I am on a carnivore diet myself now and eat close to none carbohydrates and I find it much more easy and sustainable than doing clean omnivore diet. I just got into habit of preparing my food based on muscle and organ meat at home and bring it with myself to work or wherever I'm going. Even if I didn't I can get cheese or some nuts from the shop sporadically. Dramatically lowered hunger cravings and stable levels of energy help a lot.
One reason for such change I can think off is application of Goodharts law to estimates, when some managers base the programmers potential pay raise on how much faster than estimates the programmer was.
Unfortunately this will not change the situation if Africa that much. As the Malthusian Trap is still live there and the cause of the great divergence between the first worl and the third world.
Urbit stack is ~30k lines of code, that's low enough to be grasped by a single person. What's hard is learning form scratch completely new platform, but that's deliberate and is not such a problem if it manages to deliver what it promises.
Somehow I feel that accusations of being ideological come from people, who themselves are ideologically oposed to Yarvins work and fail to consider Urbits network protocol purely for its properties. Idea of giving network addresses value, cryptographic ownership and creating a hierarchy of addresses resembling functionality on the network (users, ISPs, etc.) seems perfectly resonable.
Depression may come for many different reasons, and the underlying factor should be looked for