Eating raw food and meat and having a good physique and the like, although good things, do not make one into an alpha. If you know dogs you know this. Sometimes the tiniest weakest looking dog will the be the alpha and alphas are not aggressive. They are calm and assertive. They walk into the room and you feel their energy. When you meet an alpha you feel calm, like they have things under control, like there is someone you know you can depend on present. They rarely have to growl, bark, yell, fight - usually they don't even make a sound or do anything and you know. The dogs that are aggressive are the ones that are forced into an alpha role when they are not innately meant for it, the same goes for humans.
Granted, if you are sick and unable to stand up straight and put forth who you are innately inside, that will get in the way.
Another thing is, just because you are exposed to an idea, doesn't necessarily mean that you have the inner strength and ability to follow what you know is right when it is against what everyone in society is telling you is right or - just what everyone else wants to do - especially when it comes to something as addicting and as social as food is. In a sense, you would need to be a leader just to be willing to stand that far out of the crowd at a time of life when fitting in feels so important to so many. Humans are very tribal. We live and work in groups and it is very important for one person not to challenge the tribe too much or we could end up on our own in the wilderness. There is safety in numbers so it is not an easy thing to go against your entire tribe - no matter how strongly you feel what you are doing is right for you. Most people only get into eating a natural diet because they are really sick and feel like they have no choice.
So, if you could do this at an early age not because you were sick it would mean most likely that you were already an alpha or had parents that were strong alphas. What very lucky children those are. They would feel truly safe and cared for and get real nutrition to become whoever they are - whether alpha or not. Every member of the group is important.
Alphas btw in wolf packs tend to die the youngest. They have so much responsibility. Be careful what you wish for.
I was the only person I had met that was into eating raw foods for the last 30 years before just recently and did it because it made sense and felt right to me. I did not care if I fit in. I did not do drugs when every single other person in my high school did. In our society, the alphas are not necessarily the ones who really know, have things straight, are the most in touch or are worth listening to.....sadly. There was no place for a shaman in the tribe where I grew up. A shaman is someone who listens deeply to their inner voice no matter what anyone says and has healing powers because of it. A shaman will go the way they are guided from the inside even if they have to go it totally on their own, because it is harder for a shaman to ignore the inner calling than the calling of the tribe.
If it makes any difference though my diet has allowed me to be more naturally who I am so I have achieved every goal I had for myself in this lifetime quite a while back and I made some outrageous goals for myself very early on. I'm making some new goals now, but they are the just for fun kind, not the life-purpose ones.
If you are 16 and find your natural diet and know it is what will make you strong - my suggestion would be NOT to try to be an alpha - but use it to allow the power of who you really are shine through. Whether or not you are an alpha it will be so much easier if you can convince or find others to also eat in ways that are healthy. If you are an alpha you can lead people into it effortlessly as they will just want to follow you naturally. If you are not an alpha or a shaman the good thing is that there is now the internet where you can find an alpha to guide you. Alpha does not mean better or more important - just a different role. The alpha role is very stressful and unnatural and bad for those that are not alphas to force on themselves.
If we all were raised more naturally so we didn't have to be an alpha or beta that wishes to fight to be alpha or a weirdo shaman or really sick to make us want to eat raw food against all the forces of our tribe/society, my guess is that all that would happen is that we would be subject to the other influences of our tribe instead - but perhaps also able to be more in touch with our innate proclivities.
Ours is one of the first societies where individualism is an attribute that is honored and appreciated. Eating a paleo diet in modern society.... these could be very interesting times ahead indeed.
