Maggie's childhood and lifelong meat diet

• Maggie was 82 when filmed for the documentary Healing Humanity, after at least 65 years of carnivore eating; she was 83 at the time of this conversation. [1]
• She is an example of a person maintaining a "proper human diet" in modern society for nearly her entire life.
• As a child, she disliked vegetables, resisted eating them, and preferred meat; her parents permitted this because she was skinny and healthy.
• Her carnivore history may exceed 65 years because she ate predominantly or exclusively meat in childhood and stopped eating plants when independent.
• She enrolled in veterinary school but left because she wanted her own animals and did not want to care for other people's animals.
• She took a job on a remote ranch in Columbia, far from grocery stores, did not grow vegetables, ate the meat she raised or hunted, and raised her children similarly.

Ranch work and physical ability at 82

• At 82, Maggie was a very healthy working rancher, tending cattle from 5 a.m., four hours before the visitor arrived for breakfast.
• Her looks resembled those of someone no more than half her age, and her movement resembled that of a healthy 30-year-old.
• She moved continuously and handled objects quickly to complete the large amount of work on the ranch.
• On a small sailboat near her home, she climbed the mast and retrieved a line faster than the visitor could have.
• At 82, she jumped a five-foot fence to manage a large bull threatening another bull, crossing it before the visitor could open it.
• She moved the bull away from the other animal with speed and decisiveness unusual for someone in their 80s.
• This single case is an example of the level of health possible in a person in their 80s.

Plant toxins, telomeres, and aging

• Human genetics and telomere length determine a natural lifespan of about 120 years in the absence of chronic toxic exposure.
• Immediate survival after eating salads does not establish their safety, just as people survive tobacco, alcohol, cocaine, and heroin despite their harms.
• Plant toxins cause cumulative damage over decades and ultimately contribute to premature physical decline and death.
• Maggie avoided those toxins and retains the capacity for a full day of work without the frailty common in people in their 80s.
• With an expected natural lifespan of 120 years, Maggie in her 80s is middle-aged in functional terms.

Herodotus and the natural human lifespan

• The natural human lifespan is 120 years or more, and some native populations have reached these ages.
• In the Herodotus account, Persians ate bread and lived around 70 years; Ethiopians ate boiled meat, drank cattle milk and water, and lived at least 120 years. [2]
• The Ethiopian king equated bread with dirt, and the 120-year figure corresponds to the human lifespan set by genetics.
• Reaching 120 to 130 years requires physical health and activity during the 80s, 90s, and 100s, not prolonged frailty beginning around 70.
• Maggie is an example of a healthy and actively working person in their 80s whose functional age is middle age.
• Cumulative toxic exposure causes earlier physical deterioration and death in the 70s or 80s, not at 120 or 130.
• Maggie also used the words "I'm middle-aged" about herself.

References

1. [00:25] Healing Humanity: The Power of a Proper Human Diet — https://healinghumanity.movie/
2. [05:47] Herodotus, Histories, Book III, 3.22–3.23 — https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Herodotus/3a%2A.html