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nigger. it's in the 5. SAFETY part of the thread. readWhat you've done is conflate multiple different mechanisms into one absolutist conclusion. I already said cooking can reduce heat-sensitive nutrients, manipulate protein structures and reduce vitamins. Humans are not immune to Salmonella, campylobacter, E. coli, parasites... just because an animal is grass fed.
i do, i did physics. and we dont explode out food which is how calories are calculated. we break our food down biochemicallyYou also don't understand thermodynamics. Human metabolism still has to obey energy balance principles. Don't even attempt to go down this route with me, you will embarrass yourself child.
"you will embarrass yourself child" jfl
it's all in the threadThe discussion we should be having is:
pathogen risk
digestibility
nutrient retention
food quality
preparation method
long term sustainability
bioavailability is also in the thread. yes you need to cook starches wow this is a raw meat thread. are we forrel rn?Not you attempting to cherry pick and imply I claim "more calories" you're not just measuring calories inside of food.. How much energy can your body actually extract and absorb from it? Cooking breaks crystalline starch structures and increases enzyme access. It also dramatically increases glucose availability. Why do you think cooked potatoes and rice provide more usable energy than raw equivalents.
prove itThis is why humans evolved, smaller guts, larger brains compared to great apes.
burning your food and creating carcinogens doesnt make it more digestible i have a point in my thread on digestion and raw meat outperforms cooked meat by up to 2x. please read the threadCooking effectively externalizes part of digestion.
please read my methodology below the nutrient loss partThat still doesn't mean that cooking all food is healthier, or that all raw food is worse, or that nutrient loss doesn't matter, it just means that raw calories and absorbed useable calories are not the same concept.

