Yep. I'm not a dummy myself, but I definitely believed that most of the standard nutritional advice (limit or avoid red meat and saturated fat, eat lots of fiber and fruits and veggies).

Why did I believe it? Just the overwhelming amount of "information" that "proves" that it's true. With no personal evidence to the contrary, I believed it as well.

Why did I change my mind? People I respect (bitcoiners such as Saifedean Ammous) were vocal about the benefits of the carnivore diet. He had Nina Teicholtz on his podcast (she wrote the book The Big Fat Surprise, I wrote about the book here.

Anyway, that book was eye-opening. I don't think I would have been so affected by it had I not known that people that I highly respected did NOT believe the standard narrative. Once I had details about the problems with the standard nutrition narrative, I was open to new information.

And now that I've had personal experience with the carnivore diet, I'm seeing dramatic benefits, benefits that I'm never going to give up. They will pry the meat out of my cold dead hands!