SAMA HOOLE: Pitsik meant lean meat, the stuff that was merely eaten, tolerated, functional. Uqsuq meant seal blubber, the fuel for life, the thing that kept you alive when the Arctic tried to kill you.

The Inuit had two words you need to understand.

Pitsik meant lean meat, the stuff that was merely eaten, tolerated, functional.

Uqsuq meant seal blubber, the fuel for life, the thing that kept you alive when the Arctic tried to kill you.

They had separate vocabulary to… pic.twitter.com/jQpRHvicRd

— Sama Hoole (@SamaHoole) November 2, 2025

Sama adds that

Worth reading Vilhajalmur Stefansson's book,  Fat of the Land.

The OG carnivore book, that goes in deep into the diet of the Inuits.

I'm guessing many of you are still on the Mediterranean Diet, am I right?  Do you know who came up with the Mediterranean Diet?  Ancel Keys and his wife, Margaret Keys.

So it's the same guy who said that saturated fat would kill you because 

Oh, so it's a diet to keep you from dying?  How's that working out for ya?

These foods were categorised as "red meat" in Harvard's diabetes study.

This is why nutritional epidemiology is junk science. pic.twitter.com/wgDksMOP55

— Sama Hoole (@SamaHoole) January 28, 2024