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Section 02 of 09 10 essays · Spring 2026

Physical Health.

The body, its diseases, the medicine, and the institutions around them.

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Priya Shah
The body is, properly understood, mostly other people's problem. We report on disease, medicine, public policy, and the long argument about what the body owes the world.
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May 17, 2026 · 9 min read

Conditions Helped by a Species-Appropriate Diet: Real People, Real Cases

Named individuals from the ZeroCarb, Chaffee, and Baker archives share how a species-appropriate diet affected their MS, mental health, dia…

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May 17, 2026 · 5 min read

Why High Insulin Prevents Your Body from Burning Stored Fat

Insulin is not just a storage hormone — it actively locks fat cells shut. Here is the mechanism species-appropriate diet practitioners use …

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May 17, 2026 · 9 min read

GLP-1 Drugs: What the Transcripts Say About the Side Effects

Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro are generating $28 billion a year. Here is what patients and practitioners actually say about the side effect…

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May 14, 2026 · 2 min read

Macular Degeneration & Species-Appropriate Diet: 3 Case Reports

Three interviewee accounts of macular degeneration halting or improving on a carnivore diet — including one person diagnosed simultaneously…

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May 14, 2026 · 2 min read

Glaucoma & Species-Appropriate Diet: 3 Case Reports

Three accounts of glaucoma resolving or halting on carnivore — including one case where glaucoma was 'gone within a few weeks,' and one des…

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May 14, 2026 · 1 min read

Cataracts & Species-Appropriate Diet: 3 Case Reports

Three accounts of cataracts stabilising or developing more slowly on carnivore — including a person diagnosed with both cataracts and macul…

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May 14, 2026 · 1 min read

Dry Eye & Species-Appropriate Diet: 2 Case Reports

Two compelling dry eye cases on carnivore — one lifelong sufferer whose eyes became fully moist for the first time, and one person who had …

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May 14, 2026 · 1 min read

Eye Floaters & Species-Appropriate Diet: 2 Case Reports

Two floater cases on carnivore — one resolving 90% and the person forgetting they'd ever had them, and one case where doctors explicitly sa…

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May 14, 2026 · 3 min read

Vision Improvement & Prescription Changes on Species-Appropriate Diet: 7 Case Reports

Seven accounts of vision sharpening and prescriptions weakening on carnivore — including 3 consecutive improving eye exams requiring new we…

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