Well, well, well. Researchers from Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet — one of the most prestigious medical institutions on the planet, the same folks who hand out the Nobel Prize in Medicine — just published a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association confirming what every red-blooded American who’s ever fired up a Weber grill already knew in their bones: eating meat is good for your brain.
Somebody get Bill Gates on the phone. We need to see his face right now.
Here’s what the researchers found: roughly 25% of the population carries a gene called APOE4, which is the single biggest genetic risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease. These carriers account for the *majority* of Alzheimer’s cases. But — and this is the part that’s going to make every vegan food blogger choke on their kale smoothie — when APOE4 carriers ate more unprocessed red meat (we’re talking steak, ground beef, the stuff your grandpa ate every night), their dementia risk dropped. Dropped so far, in fact, that it brought their Alzheimer’s risk down to the same level as people who don’t carry the gene at all.
Read that again. A ribeye might literally be medicine for a quarter of the population.
Dr. Jakob Norgren, one of the lead researchers, explained why this makes perfect sense from an evolutionary standpoint. The APOE4 gene is the *oldest* version of the APOE gene — it’s been with us for millions of years. “APOE4 is the oldest genotype,” Norgren said, noting that our ancestors who carried it “consumed a more animal-based diet.” In other words, the gene evolved when humans were eating mammoth steaks and buffalo ribs, not sipping oat milk lattes and nibbling on Beyond Burgers.
So the gene that makes you vulnerable to Alzheimer’s today was perfectly fine when paired with the diet it evolved alongside. Take away the meat, feed people industrial seed oils and ultra-processed plant garbage instead, and — surprise! — the brain starts breaking down. Who could have predicted this? (Everyone with common sense. That’s who.)
Now here’s where it gets fun. Dr. Sara Garcia-Ptacek, the other lead researcher, had the audacity to say out loud what the entire nutrition establishment has been terrified to admit: “Brain health needs to be considered when we’re writing dietary guidelines.”
Oh, you mean the dietary guidelines that the federal government has been using for decades to tell Americans to cut red meat, eat more “whole grains,” and basically follow a diet that would make a rabbit proud? Those guidelines? The ones that were *never actually based on solid science* but somehow became gospel because a handful of bureaucrats and their friends in the soybean industry decided they knew better than a million years of human evolution?
Yeah. Those guidelines.
We’ve been told for years that meat is bad. Bad for you, bad for the planet, bad for the cows’ feelings — whatever excuse they could dream up. The World Economic Forum crowd wants us eating bugs and lab-grown “protein” manufactured in a warehouse somewhere. Bill Gates has been buying up farmland like a Bond villain while simultaneously investing millions in synthetic beef alternatives. The Biden administration’s old USDA dietary committee tried to push Americans further toward plant-based diets. And every blue-haired nutrition influencer on Instagram has been screaming that red meat gives you cancer, heart disease, and probably racism.
Turns out, for millions of Americans, skipping the steak might actually be rotting their brains.
This is the problem with one-size-fits-all government “science.” The same bureaucrats who can’t deliver your mail on time have been telling you what to eat for breakfast. They took a wildly complex biological reality — the fact that different people with different genetics respond differently to different foods — and flattened it into a food pyramid that was basically designed by grain lobbyists.
And the MAHA movement has been saying this for months. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. didn’t get confirmed as HHS Secretary by promising to keep doing the same thing. He got confirmed because millions of Americans looked at the dietary guidelines, looked at the obesity and dementia epidemics, and said, “Something doesn’t add up here.” This Swedish study is one more receipt in a growing pile.
The researchers were careful to note this was a relatively small cohort — because that’s what honest scientists do, they tell you the limitations. But the direction of the findings is unmistakable, and it’s published in JAMA, not some fringe blog. This is the medical establishment’s own journal confirming that the anti-meat crusade may be *causing* the very diseases it claims to prevent.
So tonight, do yourself a favor. Fire up the grill. Throw on a nice thick ribeye — medium rare, the way God intended. Season it with salt, pepper, and the quiet satisfaction of knowing that every sizzle is a tiny act of rebellion against the “eat the bugs” crowd.
Your brain will thank you. And somewhere, a World Economic Forum intern is crying into his cricket protein bar.
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