“Meat will sit in your colon and gut and rot because it takes days to digest”.
This is something that you may have heard repeated by vegetarians, vegans, or large food producers with an incentive to turn you away from eating meat. Well, those who enjoy eating meat will be happy to hear that nothing could be further from the truth! Today I want to expose this myth that a lot of vegans are still repeating to this day.
The truth is meat gets completely digested and absorbed before it ever gets to the colon! Meat generally leaves the stomach in 2-3 hours and can be fully digested in 4-6 hours. This is because our stomachs are incredibly well designed to digest meat and utilize the wide range of nutrients it contains.
So where did this myth come from? One thing we do know about meat, and other proteins is that they are much more satisfying than starches and carbohydrates. The means that when you eat meat, you feel full for longer. While this feeling may give you the idea that meat sits in your digestive system for longer, it is simply not truly.
While meat may not rot in your colon, there are in fact certain foods that do go through decomposition in the colon. Let’s look at some of these foods.
The first food we will talk about is beans and that goes for all kinds of beans, beans are known for their tendency to resist digestion and absorption in your small intestine. They will make it to the colon and then bacteria and funguses cause them to rot in your colon.
Other culprits include wheat and oats, in which the fibre in wheat is not digested and absorbed in your small intestine or your stomach. It will make it to your colon, where it then rots as bacteria and fungi breaks it apart, because your stomach cannot do it.
Other foods such as onions and garlic, and foods we have been told for years are healthy for us like broccoli, cabbage, Brussel sprouts, cauliflower. All these foods are not as efficiently digested and traverse your digestive tract where they rot in your colon.
Now the question then becomes is this a bad thing that they rot in your colon?
Well, if cabbage is rotting in your fridge, do you consider that a good thing or a bad thing? Do you like the smell of rotting cabbage in your fridge, and would you consume rotting cabbage? Food rotting in your colon is infested with those same bacteria that produces pungent smells and as it rots it produces gas.
One side effect of going on the carnivore diet that many people did not know is that there is little or no smell when they pass gas! This side effect is because of the bodies incredibly ability to break down and digest meat and protein, On the carnivore diet, your food is completely digested and absorbed by your small intestine and in your stomach. Nothing is making it to your colon, this means no bad smell when you do pass gas, which is much healthier for us.
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