Yes, I am very familiar with the fact that there are facultative as well as obligate carnivores and have written extensively about it in this forum. I even referred to my diet as a "raw facultative carnivore" diet for some years until the evidence (my further inquiries into the scientific research, the reported experiences of others and my own experience) tilted my opinion toward "omnivore" or "adaptivore" being a more accurate descriptor of humans and a better direction for myself.
I didn't argue that facultative carnivores eating plant matter from time to time makes them omnivores, nor that people can sustain themselves healthfully eating "mostly carbs," nor that human and wolf digestive tracts and lifestyles do not have similarities. Thus, when it comes to me, they are irrelevant straw man arguments.
I still eat a relatively low carb diet myself. Anyone who has read my past posts knows that I haven't advocated for a high-carb diet (I have seen reports that some people, including whole tribes, have done well on >50% of calories as carbs, but my own carb tolerance is currently still too low to even bother contemplating such things much at present), and that my past leanings were actually towards facultative carnivory.
Humans are not only predators, but also gatherers. There are similarities between wolves and humans, but we are not wolves, we are humans (primates). I don't feel that a chronic "wolf diet" is ideal for me over the long term (nor a high carb diet, for that matter, at least not at present). You are free too eat what you wish, of course.
The difference between facultative carnivores and omnivores/adaptivores is a complex gray area, not that large, and prone to confusion. It's only a small logical step from one to the other. It may help avoid confusion to instead focus on the topics of getting enough of the right foods to feed one's beneficial microbiota, keep the GI tract (pH balance, tight junctions, butyrate level, etc.) healthy, and avoid problems of excessive chronic VLCing without greatly exceeding one's individual carb tolerance.
"Starch" is a dirty word for many VLCers (and thus the term "resistant starch" was a bit off-putting to me at first), so it may help to think more in other terms like prebiotics, butyrate (a fat), the Old Friends Hypothesis, the microbiome and such, to get around the starch stumbling block.
Good luck with your inquiries and with whatever course you chart, Colorles.
