I went down to one meal/day out of convenience and cost. It works. I'm honestly starting to believe that the notion of "three square meals a day" was just one enormous marketing ploy.
The whole Food Pyramid, that was crammed down our throats, was nothing but one big marketing ploy. The longer you're around, the more you realize that the line between science, and marketing, just doesn't exist.
Do you track your calories? Because one meal a day sounds convenient but I’m just wondering how it would work for someone who’s very athletic for example.
@@mathiastyseng9208 I dont think you're right that it was made by farmers strictly. It is largely tied to the war effort in the 1940s where the US government created grants to ensure the populace had enough food to endure a famine or shortage. This rolled on in the 1960s during the 'Red scare' and nuclear threats. The technology that was developed in this time saw food shelf lifespan increase tenfold. So it was enabled by the government and acted out by the farmers and scientific fields. We are seeing the detrimental effects now these developments have had on our health. The food pyramid I feel was one of the main culprits. A culmination of marketing, sketchy science and grain surpluses.
My son has a rare form of epilepsy called Doose Syndrome. He used to have HUNDREDS of seizures a day, falling, then getting back up a few seconds later. He fractured his skull twice last year even with a helmet. I had to create a special backpack to soften the blows. Medications don't work unless it is rescue medication which isn't good for long-term use. Keto helped a little but we weren't getting the results we wanted. So we've been on carnivore for 2 weeks. He has done amazing as long as there are no slip ups. The other day he only had one seizure (this is a huge deal to us) and he's started speaking more. I noticed that if someone let's him have even a "little bite" of something else his seizures come right back with a vengeance for the next 24 hours. It's incredible what this diet has done for us as a family. I might watch my son grow up one day, both physically and mentally.
I'm on day 10 of Carnivore after having done Keto for a few months and it's amazing because I am rarely hungry and I feel like I no longer am constantly thinking about food. I grew up eating sugar my whole life from when I was a young kid having cinnamon toast crunch, honey comb, pop tarts etc and it set me up for failure. In my 30s I started having insulin resistance which made me very fatigued and had constant crashes. Now on Carnivore I basically have energy all day.
all diets have their benefits. scientist and doctors are studying that canivore, vegaterian, keto, and a bunch of other diets can beat different types of cancerous. including fasting on and off with different diets. some diets with different meds. no 1 diet is the answer to everything. we dont know enough about it yet. every diet can be good though for different things. they will figure it out over the next 200 years. we are still just learning about it.
I recently started this too and it’s amazing how quickly you start feeling better physically and mentally. progressively day after day you feel a little better. And it seems to be mostly in the west where they push this idea that you should be eating 3 meals a day and that snacking some won’t hurt you that much. It’s all a marketing ploy
@@hsmd4533 im sure it has benefits but i dont believe in it for life. i dont believe in keto for life either only short term. fattys telling me they lost weight doesnt count. what matters it proper nutrition for a person body that is already at a good size. fattys losing weight will never matter to me cause fattys will lose weight on any calorie deficit. fat people shouldnt tell us whats good cause they lost weight. you can lose weight on any diet. what matters is whats best for our organs and muscles when your already a good size.
@@hsmd4533Few weeks in and as long as you’re eating enough fats there’s no constipation. Also almost no gas and much less frequent bowel movements because your body uses something like 97-98% of what you eat so there’s less waste to have to move out of your body.
The best things Jordan Peterson ever did for me he was getting me on the carnivore diet. I heard him talking about it on the Rogan show one day and I decided to try it. That was a year and a half ago and I lost 50 lb that I had been putting on gradually over the years. The irritable bowel syndrome that I've suffered from my whole life just vanished. I just feel better, at 64 years old, than I felt in forty years. I don't try to push it on anybody, I think a lot of our bodies are different and respond differently to different nutrition, but the carnivore diet has sure been working great for me. I'll be on it untill I die.
I had exactly the same experience Ralph. Heard Jorden on Joe Rogan over 3 years ago, tried it and never looked back. The best thing I have ever done health wise. I'm 55 now and stronger and fitter than when I was in my 20s. I move furniture and spas for people by myself in my truck. I will never go back to plants and carbs. Meat only mostly beef with occasional lamb or pork when they're discounted and cheap. One meal a day.
@扯淡财经 yes, though some on carnivore can tolerate other animal products like dairy. There could be many factors for your friend's aged look- not getting enough fat or protein or the right ratio for his needs (likely cannot do carnivore in a healthy way eating primarily chicken) , not eating enough in general, he could have something wrong that limits absorption, etc. Plus, it's also not to say that one diet fits all.
22 years old. Carnivore for two months. No gut discomfort, regular bowels, no bloating, 6 pack, muscle gain. Feeling like an absolute beast. Never looking back🥩 Thanks to everyone spreading the word about this diet.
ya but you take vitamins otherwise your teeth fall out. A real carnivore makes their own vitamin C in their body. Supplementing it reverts your status back to omnivore. BUT thats ok - you can still look at yourself in the mirror every morning and roar like a lion - no one can take that away from you. BTW 15-25 all humans are fully healthy if they are normal.
I started on Carnivore on November 27, 2023. My blood glucose constantly exceeded 18.3. Today, December 28, 2023, it tested at just 5.6!! 🥩 2:50 am. OMAD followed naturally, I just don't want to eat for a day after a small steak or leg of lamb chop. I also lost >5kg over this month. Feel healthy again. Beautiful yellow morning urine. I sleep well, no leg cramps, no restless legs. No insomnia.
I'm 28 now but since the age of 18 I have been actively figuring out which combinations of both diet and exercise worked best for me. I have played rugby, practised mixed martial arts, long distance winter swimming, wall climbing and weight lifting to name a few. I have been as adventurous in my diet with low fat, high protein, high carb, low carb, calorie surpluses and deficits, macro counting and intermittent fasting you name it. The carnivore 'diet' or method of eating (MoE) I feel has been the missing piece of the puzzle. Within 3 days my eyes were opened. I couldnt believe and still cant believe that it was in plain sight all along. It makes the most evolutionary and anthropological sense. And my body knows it. I have never felt better, recovered faster or performed better across so many facets in my life. The best part is I dont have to think about 'Diet' anymore. I simply eat a load of steak and eggs every day until Im full. Thats it.
@@Doctor-Stoppage Great question. I get my micronutrients from the most nutrient dense food on the planet. Muscle and organ meat. To my comment above, I also eat liver or other types of offal throughout the week but there's no regular cadence to that. There are amino acids, protein peptides and other micronutrients which can be found in meat that can't be found in another other vegetable. That's a known fact. Caveat however to this method of eating is that our water supply does not have the same quantity of minerals and salts found in spring water or natural water sources that our ancestors drank. So I do supplement electrolyte salts. Now you can eat fruit as a means to do this as well. However the fructose sugars (although beneficial) give me food cravings. I'm Irish and my ancestors wouldn't have had a consistent access to fruit as other southern hemisphere people do. So I might eat berries in the summer but I cull that in the winter months.
A massive point has to be made here, in relation to the pathogen Candida Albicans, a fungal yeast infection, that is very widespread and common, and systemic, causing multiple health conditions, often unrecognised, as many people have lived with the infection nearly their entire lives, they do not actually understand what it is like to be functionally rid of the infection, and their native state of being in health and beauty, which may only eventually be discovered through absence of the insideous candida albicans pathogen. Usually it is fostered by a high carbohydrate diet, especially sugar, and an obvious problem for alcoholics, and even smokers where tar is also a concentrated sugar. A high protein diet is a remedy, as can be fasting, essentially starving the pathogen of carbohydrate fuel it needs. I wonder that people focusing on this carnivore diet, are in actuality benefitting by the elimination of this pathogen out of their system, rather than than the purported pluses of carnivore alone... if this could be considered ??. it is common for a herxheimer reaction to happen in elimination, so perserverance is needed, as is hydration. Carbohydrate cravings, inflammation, weight gain, flatulence, digestive complaints, skin issues, brain fog, cancer, tumours etc, etc all associated with Candida. Cancer in particular is often always with the co-infection of candida, so much so that it has to be questioned if candida is a cause of cancer, as some valid speculation that cancer is also a fungal disease. Please take care, recognise, record and reflect on symptoms and health history, and put a balanced veiw to all things dietry.
@8th account it depends how serious they are about elimination of candida, which for some is out of control and the cause of significant health issues. For what I know, maybe whiskey and water in small doses is ok, but obviously mixers are a no no, and beer and wine are yeasty so no
One of the biggest causes of candida overgrowth is antibiotics coupled with a high carb sugar diet. Unless you are about to die avoid antibiotics at all cost.
You are spot on and I have wondered why fungus/yeast/candida is not addressed more in the carnivore community. Babies born with thrush and fungal scalp from the mother's womb, dandruff, jock itch, toenail fungus, diabetes, cancer, psoriasis, eczema, and many other minor and major symptoms related to fungus in the body and yes, the fungus is only there because there is sugar/plant cellulose going in since that is what fungus thrives on (mushrooms/fungus decompose cellulose by eating it) and fungi's natural behavior is to colonize. So many dots connected for me about this once I made the connection in my own health journey. The carnivore switch for me was half the win but the other half was killing all of the stubborn rooted fungus that can survive for a long time. Think about how mushrooms grow in the forest, the mushroom is just the fruiting body of a strong and vast rooted network underground (polyps and skin tags look very similar to mushrooms and have roots beneath the skin). This was also the cause of my fibromyalgia, arthritis, depression, anxiety and systemic inflammation. Took me 6 months to get it out of my body on strict carnivore and an antifungal essential oils protocol using thyme, oregano, wormwood and clove oil mixed with beef fat. The die off symptoms and things my body excreted were horrifying. I will not consume any yeast, fungus, fermented products again. The push for people to take probiotics, fermented foods and the new cordyceps for brain congnition is highly suspicious too. Almost like we put all the fungus in our body ourselves via beer, wine, ferments, mushrooms, etc. and then feed it with plants so of corse it colonizes. The connection to cancer is very obvious.
@@DoctorRevers My parents are both italian immigrants so my diet was pretty carb heavy most of my life. I work in a very physical environment but was mostly overweight by about 40-50 lbs my whole life. If I really dedicated myself I was always able to lose weight and build muscle, but would gain weight right back. Also, my lower back pain and left shoulder pain are about 90% removed since going carnivore
@@Don_Venti first month was about 15-20 lbs. to be honest, losing weight is just a small part of it. I actually feel amazing, skin is great, sleep is amazing, never feel deprived. I actually made a discovery this holiday season. I ate some regular foods and can’t believe how bad I felt for a few days. I don’t see myself ever going back. I’m carnivore over a year now.
My theory is this: 1. When you consume high amounts of protein your muscles burn off more calories, or the thermogenic effect. 2 you don't eat as much, you feel fuller longer. 3. It's easy to follow. 4. You aren't eating processed foods nearly as much or at all. All the diets that show this all come to a conclusion, and it's that a whole foods diet is what humans ate. They ate it without anything added to it. Just as it was. The 1950s fucked everything up with processing. Taking out vital nutrients. This is why juicing isn't as healthy as eating food in it's purest, freshest form. The true form of the Mediterranean diet is from the earth. Made fresh. Same in Japan. Plus if you read about the french paradox, they usually eat 3 meals a day. They don't eat huge portions, they eat until satisfied, not sick. They eat the fat, as well. They also savor their food. Americans are the exact opposite. That's my theory.
@nomad Your theories are quite good; one thing I can back; 12 years ago went to the South of France. Shopped, cooked, beached. Couldn't find bacon anywhere. And any Pork I did fid was through the roof. Portions were perfect drank Vodka every night but lost about five pounds. Had to do the Pulp Fiction thing Royale with Cheese best god dam Mcdonald's ever. the frys and soda were kid portioned. No supersize me crap. Having to go back to Britain and see all the fat slugs was depressing. I love Fort Lauderdale for a reason Bikini season year round. Gonna give this diet a shot February 1st. All three of my kids loved France. Check it out.
It's funny I live outside US, I'm vegetarian and the only times I feel blown with carbs its when I'm in the US. There's something wrong with food there.
I always noticed that I was most active and aware during Ramadan when we were fasting for 29 or 30 days straight. I started doing OMAD in 2019 after Ramadan because all I saw was great results from fasting. That's the way I want to continue living and feeling great physically, mentally, and emotionally.
Ramadan is so misleading. You fast during the sunlight hours and then gorge yourselves at night... It's not a 30 day fast, it's 30 days of haughty gluttony.
I'm on day 16 of carnivore. I'm not hungry all day, and I don't have the tired afternoon slump anymore. My pants are fitting a lot looser, and a ganglion cyst I've had on top my wrist appears to be shrinking.
@@cornstar1253 this is the case that our bodies do convert the starch in foods such as veggies to glucose raising our blood sugar levels when we eat starchy veggies although there are many very low starch veggies that have a very low glycemic index. Most who fast for atophagy are aware of this
I wonder if the main benefits are what isn't eaten rather than what is. Cutting out all the processed food alone should help. I find it hard to understand how the diet is OK without fruit and veg, but I'm impressed with all the testimonies.
It's takes me a few days of not feeling optimal every time I go back to only meat/fish/eggs/dairy. But after not having had any fruit or veg for a bit I feel so much more energised and mentally present. Not to mention my lifelong sinus issues all but vanish! Pretty weird but worth trying a while.
@@ascendtoaesthetics No chance. I eat a huge variety of cooked vegetables each day and I feel way better with them than without. But cooking them is key. I had a great aunt who died because she only ate raw vegetables
@@zachzeurcher6450 So happy you mentioned cooking the vegetables. Vegetables have their own toxins or natural pesticides that can only be reduced by cooking. Tomatoes are the perfect example, there's a "doctor" out there trying to use the natural insecticides as a reason to buy his probiotics but all you need to do is cook them... I'm sure you know this but just sharing with anyone else who comes along
@@eps3943 Having raw vegetables in small quantities per day isn't going to kill you. There are supposedly "carcinogens" in milk too, but the quantity in there is so small it has no effect. You need to eat large amounts of raw vegetables over a long period of time for that to affect you. But cooking them allows you to actually eat a good quantity of vegetables to where they are highly beneficial. Cooking gets rid of the bad parts and also breaks down the fibrous materials allowing better access to the nutrients.
I dislike breakfast and lunch because I tend to feel noticeably more focused when I avoid eating. Thanks for the video, now I can use it to validate my bias.
I'm glad you said that because that's evolutionary, we would hunt all day without food to capture food so we needed focus in order for us to catch the prey and than after we do catch it we eat it and it usually is night by than we weat around the fire feast and just chill and that's why we don't need focus at night we rrst
Since June 11 this year I have eaten no more than four meals a week on carnivore. I am never hungry and I feel better, fitter and sharper than I have for the past 40 years. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays are food-free days and I hardly even notice that I'm not eating on those days.
free-food days meaning you are free to not eat, free from foods:) i like that! i have not done that yet but I hardly feel hungry so I might do OMAD some days. I mostly do 2MAD.
@@victoriar9728 I've not eaten more than two meals a day for the past 40 years, I've not eaten breakfast since I'm never hungry in a morning. I started OMAD two years ago but I was still eating the odd small portion of veg and the occasional small dessert. Since going on the carnivore diet I (like the Amazonian tribes) am always sated and never hungry. Eating one meal, every other day, comes naturally and I enjoy how much fitter and sharper I've become.
@@IbtissemGarram No. I start each day with half a pint of lukewarm water into which I put a quarter of a teaspoonful (2g) of bicarbonate of soda and a tablespoonful (15ml) of apple cider vinegar. This sets me up for the day and cleanses my system. I get all my other nutrition from my diet.
I've done one month of carnivore before it has produced great results. I felt more energy more mental clarity, which is great for me because I have ADHD, and I can go for prolonged periods working when everyone else around me at the end of the day is winding down. It also helps me to look younger but I genetically already look younger than I really am so it's an extreme plus!
Yes! I’ve been eating carnivore for two weeks and I cut out 25mg XR Adderall for ADHD at the same time. I absolutely cannot believe it, but I feel AMAZING.
I’m in on carnivorish for 5 weeks, I’ve lost 16/17 pounds, sleep better, have more energy, down to 2 meals per day and find that I prefer to eat at home than to dine out. Eating out made me horribly sick , lazy , had inflammation , IBS flare ups , constant fatigue and the worst ever mental fog. I lost weight and gained clarity! I love this way of eating!!
It's pretty simple. Eat the way our ancient ancestors ate. That's what we as a species have evolved to eat. Meat, fruit, raw dairy, and a little bit of raw honey. I've been eating this diet for about 4 months now, and I've lost 38 pounds. I also only eat once a day, and I can't believe how much energy I have and the mental clarity is just ridiculous.
@@JTST1234 My ability to focus has improved substantially, along with my memory. I just feel great. I'm sure a lot of that is from losing a substantial amount of weight, but I'm definitely a believer in the ancestral diet.
@@tyrrian2520evolution takes a long time, so when someone says anserstors they mean the ones that shaped our species over hundreds of thousands of years in Africa. Even minor mutations like a lighter skin color would take thousands of years.
Not everyone needs to go full carnivore, but I think everyone could benefit from more red meat. Red meat has been unfairly demonized, and it's a powerhouse of bioavailable nutrients like B vitamins, zinc, iron, amino acids and beneficial fatty acids.
I don't suggest going full-on carnivore. I personally did it for over 10 months and reeked of body odor, had random sweats and feelings of needing to pass out, and despite being 43 my face was as oily and acne-ridden as a 14 year-old.
@@Travybear1989 That's the exact opposite of most peoples experience. I literally stopped wearing deodorant and washing my face with anything but water.
@@ienjoyapples Yeah, my co-worker has no problems on the diet but it just didn't work well for me for some reason. I even copied his meal plans that he printed off for me. He didn't understand it either but like I said, must be genetics or something. My grandfather lived on meat and potatoes and made it to 73 but he was type-O, I am type-A so that must be it.
@@Travybear1989I'm coming to realize that copying anyone's meal plan blindly is almost never a great idea. For example, some of the fastest marathon runners on the planet eat an ancestral diet that's in the neighbourhood of 80% carbohydrate. You'd never blindly encourage someone to eat like that. It's sure not in my DNA, as a white lady whose ancestors hail from Ukraine, Britain, and Germany. There's no way in hell my ancestors were eating much sweet fruit at all, for example. I think the same applies for any extreme - we're all going to have different sensitivities and intolerances based on our genetics, lifestyle, and microbiome.
Yes, high protein and fat diet works wonders. In fact we should all learn how our body adapts and works from what we eat. The trouble with following a diet is that it can be restrictive. We are the lab, we are in charge of our diets. Medical experts know nothing about diets, doctors aren’t taught. The one surgeon and specialist in the microbiome made a dire prediction that doesn’t apply. He said there would be problems after 6 months but Peterson has on,y gotten stronger. For himself, he has found something that works.
I'd take anything he says with a grain of salt these days - he seems to be obsessed with trying to find ways to rationalize his carb addition. He was talking about drinking milk mixed with honey the other day for instance - long gone are the days when he used to be advocating for meat only.
@@notyourdad Yes, actually what I like about him. He is willing to change his mind given the evidence for it. He's not dogmatic and it's refreshing to see in this space.
@@star-warsien Except he's bending over backwards attempting to justify what he's doing instead of letting the evidence guide his way. When and where throughout evolution would human beings have been able to find a daily source of honey for instance, which seem to be one of his food staples now? Nowhere is the answer to that one. Where would we have gotten our hands on endless supplies of modern fruit? Nowhere. Fruit has always been seasonal and in most of the world you can only get it for about a month or two each year and it hasn't historically been the big and hyper-sweet fruit we have today either. He claims he bases his views and what he preaches on evidence, and on being evolutionarily consistent, but that is just blatantly false. Changing your mind and opinions is all fine and dandy, but when you make baseless claims that don't make any logical sense and have no evidence to back it up and you instruct other people to follow your lead is when it gets dangerous. He's pulling up studies and attempts to justify his new views with papers and complicated explanations through metabolic pathways and things most people don't understand, and I don't claim to understand, but that is exactly what people have been doing for decades to justify our modern diets - that's exactly what plant-based advocates are doing. Look at the actual hard evidence that exists, such as stable isotope studies. Think about what foods would've been available to us throughout evolution and what foods would've sustained us - the answer isn't modern fruit and honey.
Early in the conversation they're talking about, "Autophagy". Autophagy is the natural, conserved degradation of the cell that removes unnecessary or dysfunctional components through a lysosome-dependent regulated mechanism. It allows the orderly degradation and recycling of cellular components au·toph·a·gy /ôˈtäfəjē/ Noun Biology: consumption of the body’s own tissue as a metabolic process occurring in starvation and certain diseases. "the process of starvation-induced autophagy was recently the focus of extensive research" destruction of damaged or redundant cellular components occurring in vacuoles within the cell.
That's what Osho talked about. Channelising your energy eaten up by root habits like digestion into meditation. It feels very difficult cause we haven't felt that much energy ever. And that's why we anxiously try to break fasting or eat a lot once in a while.
One thing that gives me pause is that humans foraged fruits/berries/veggies as a source of nutrition along with hunting animals and fishing. So to remove that other aspect of nutrition seems unnatural. Unless there's evidence early humans were indeed carnivores, which I'd doubt since we didn't know how to cook right away. And the human digestive system doesn't seem as equipped to process raw meat vs cooked meat. Also the very shapes of our teeth hint at an omnivore history.
And you forget about lectines, oxolates, Phytates (phytic acid) , Saponins, Tannins, and the rest of antinutrients that are present on grains, vegtables and fruits, not to mention fructose, I don't mean to offend you but you really need to research deeper to get to the truth. I tried vegan for years because doctors told me so. Most of my health issues that I had for more than 10 years, went away after some weeks on a high fat, low carb sugar diet, including severe constipation, so no, my diestion is way better now that I only eat meat, my brother experienced the same.
Strange, I was mostly on a carnivore diet for most of my younger life. I just preferred to eat meat and didn't like eating vegetables and carbs. When in my thought I was 20. I stopped eating this way, because of all the information saying you need a balanced diet. I got chronically sick, have various health issues including sleep apnea, obesity, brain fog, etc and suddenly aged really fast. So now I look my age and this happened in such a short time.
I'm two years into a carnivore diet myself. Sixty years old. I won't bore you with the long list of health benefits I've experienced (literally from head to toe). I'm just not hearing any downsides to eating this way. Lifechanging.
Firstly this isn't me hating or anything so please no one gets annoyed. I'm curious as to the long term effects of all this. My partner has a master's in human nutrition and is doing her PhD in cardiovascular disease. Now all her studying and her own experiments show that red meat is intrinsically linked to increases in diabetes, cancers, heart disease and numerous other illnesses. Her research also shows the Mediterranean diet is seemingly the "best" (loose term considering we are all different). There's the flip side to vegans who claim how amazing they feel. Then there is the general teachings and nutritional benefits of vegetables and how vital they are in our body. So I guess what I'm asking is this. Is it just the fact that vegans and carnivores and then the Mediterranean diet at large have restricted/eliminated processed foods, or is one intrinsically better than the other?
I lived on organ meat for 10 months and developed severe body odor that made me smell like rotting beef ravioli's lol! It got to the point I had to quit because my wife wouldn't sleep with me.
In my 50s, down 40lbs...no more acid reflux, blood pressure back to normal, no more bleeding gums, no more brittle/discolored finger nails and toe nails...feel more rested after sleeping. Feel better over all since being on carnivore.
I hadn't heard of a couple of those yet! Though, I'd say I also get a lot from others who share what they've experienced and learned, aren't doctors or professors but sometimes interview some great resources as well.
Paul Saladino is also a good source for animal based eating. He leans more on the electrolyte balance through fruit and honey. Thats where he mainly deviates from the more hardline carnivores.
I've been dieting a few months now- vegetarian, and I've lost some weight but I'm extremely exhausted, have gotten insomnia and also noticed I'm a bit off- just a mental fog and not myself, out of sorts. I even scaled back from social media afraid I might say something out of character for me, as well as joint pain, digestive issues and skin problems I never had before so I'm going to stop the diet. I'll try this a little at a time combined with fasting, to see how my body reacts.
You get energy from either fat or carbs, or both. If you cut out both, you’ll always be exhausted. Either increase healthy fats significantly or introduce some more healthier carbs.
Search for dr. McDougal if you want to learn about the right kind of foods. Basically include the good starches/carbs, some beans/legumes and veggies and you'll be fine 🙂
The carnivore diet has been falsely described as a "fad diet" by mainstream sources. A "fad" is defined as a trend that comes in for a short period of time and then goes away. But considering that throughout history and across cultures, animals have made up the bulk of the human diet, there is no way in which the carnivore diet fits the definition of a "fad". The true "fad" diet is the FDA approved food pyramid with a base of processed carbohydrates and a call to limit our consumption of meat and eggs. This came about in the 1970's as a response to a heart disease epidemic when some spurious correlational studies falsely claimed that cholesterol and saturated fat were bad for us.
your taste changes later on. At first I just wanted to eat greens and I even ate some iceberg lettuce after a week on carni, but after a couple of weeks that craving goes away. It's like a phantom limb, which is itching from time to time. Now I drink fat like "mmmm yummy", which I never did before
Your post is the one I've been looking for. I eat a pound of spinach a week salads every night loaded with everything Avocados, tomato's, cucumber, all different kinds of nuts Almonds, Pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds. Thinking this is gonna be impossible. Love meat wings steak chicken so its just the first couple weeks. Thanks.
You will never have more energy. I was on this in the 70s with Atkins. They still call him a kook. But he's still selling books. I eat ribeye steak almost every meal. A bit pricey at the moment.
Jordan mentioned the "hunter mode" when doing the carnivore diet and it makes sense. If you need meat, you need to be hyper aware because getting it could be quite the dangerous prospect. Versus carbs which would normally not entail major danger.
The carnivore protocol is awesome.... for 30 days. I needed to transition into a clean keto/paleo type diet after that, which was good coming from a S.A.D.
Fasting for sure is a great thing, all of the regular cultural things we learn like crashing during the day at work, getting tired etc etc. goes away when you’re on a fast. When I fast I’m not tired and when I eat, which is at night it puts me in the mode to be ready to sleep.
Here is a fun fact for all you new-fangled Keto-Carnivores out there. The great singer Maria Callas grew up fat, about 200 lbs. In 1953 at the age of 29, Maria ------ whose entire life and career were characterised by ferocious discipline and will power --- simply decided to lose 80 pounds, which she did. And she never gained any back the rest of her life, becoming one of the most glamorous women on stage. Her self-invented diet was.......steak and salad. While living in Italy. In 1953. Take that, Atkins.
Since I only eat red meat, blue fish and vegetables my stomacal problems have disappeared and i lost 30kg. I just only eat small quantities of potatoes on my breakfast. I was always doing exercise.
On the cool I’ve been trying it for almost a week now ( mind you my discipline is shaky) but I have less stomach aches more focus and clarity at work, I felt and intense shift in my sleeping where I was waking up in the middle of the night with like maximum energy but that’s since regulated into me getting up at 5am and working out(still a bit of a battle to go from eyes closed to standing but it’s definitely easier) and when I do eat sugar my stomach pains kick in near instantly. My best days are when I have steak with guac pico and onions once pretty much when I get home from work then I feel like refreshed to the point that I’ve been doing chores and studying before bed and it’s not like i have to fight myself to do it.
All I know is I eat 1 full meal a day and that’s dinner. In the am before work I eat 2 avocados and a banana. At lunch I have a granola bar and blueberries organic from the farm. I eat fish from the butcher fresh daily 3 times a week for dinner some farm chicken and steak and gotta have pizza once a week. I labor at my job. Lots of manual labor meaning exercise 10-11 hr days for years. Stay in complete shape with no body fat none zilch cut to the core at age 50. I look 30. I have been active all my life sports traveling as in hiking miles and climbing. Just being physically active is a big benefit for you as well as your eating habits. You are what cha eat.
agree! you can try it out yourself! i tried everything! I am trying carnivore and it is working for me. so i do it! I see results. i will stop and do something else if its not working anymore. 😄
I’m feeling much better on a more-meat, no sugar diet, and I’m inclined to continue, but I’ve just been told my cholesterol is high. I’d like to ignore this, but I want to know what actually causes clogged arteries.
I started my all beef diet a week ago to try to combat an autoimmune disorder myasthenia gravis. I pray that I see some symptom improvements but I will say I have much better even energy throughout the day and great mental clarity already.
@@MCJOHNSON95 I have personally seen some improvement in my symptoms but not where I would like it to be. My condition is not really related to inflammation like the rheumatoid arthritis that Jordan’s daughter faced, but I will still say it was the best decision of my life. I feel so much better in every way, I wake up earlier, have steady energy throughout the day, my mental clarity is much better, I’ve lost a bunch of stubborn belly fat, my motivation and mood are way better. The only negative is my bowel movements are not very solid, I have not added fiber yet.
@@julianlange8132 It was going great, unfortunately it did not help with my condition but I did feel much better overall. I have faltered quite a bit but I would recommend to basically anyone.
When someone says to me is that all you can eat? I respond and say No, I can eat anything I want to eat, I just don't want to eat any of that. The less food you eat the better health you will be in.
Perhaps, due to your all beef diet allows you to more quickly enter autophagy, and that process is healing you. Fasting and improving my diet (more whole foods, less sugar and less carbs) has had a lot of the same health benefits that you describe. Our gut biome is also a huge factor!!
@@alexanderwindh4830 Dr Anthony Chaffee and Shawn Baker, Dr Paul Mason. Scientists have known for some time that fasting can prevent seizures. But it can also cause death if it's prolonged. So they developed a diet that mimics fasting as closely as possible and that was a ketogenic diet. Fat is very critical to the brain. And so even a high fat keto diet mimics the fasting state as long as carbs are down and protein is moderate. The same effect is reached with a carnivore diet and I'm quoting Dr Anthony Chaffee. He gives that as a reason why we do not need to fast on a carnivore diet and he the reason he doesn't fast. But a carnivore diet because of It's satiation leads to times of restricted eating typically. Jason Fung probably the guy that most led to the fasting craze himself is not carnivorous.
I love beef, but I eat it with caution. I have a real question for you carnivore guys: Isn't beef responsible for cluttered arteries and heart attacks? This is a real question, not trying to mock anyone.
If you check studies in details you will understand it was all propaganda and fake, not sure why, but it wasnt legit and not scientific studies. Newer research shows meat is best, I tried all diets, felt best on carnivore
I remember back in the 70s my grandmother would make me a steak on the skillet and then insist that I have a piece of Roman meal wheat bread to go along with it to sop up the grease in my stomach
I have veen trying to be carnivore for years now and always fail due to carbohydrate addiction. Quitting all sugar is crazy hard... You will dream about eating sweets. It will be best if parents did everything on their power to keep their kids away from any carbohydrates.
I would like to know what kind of meat he consumed? Grass fed , prime, choice? If advocating for this diet which almost everyone loves, what was it? Knowing Jordan for a long time. I’ll appreciate a straight answer and not and answer with another question.
I am 3 1/2 months into carnivore. My arthritis has improved the mucus. I always had difficulty with coughing spitting up is gone I do not smoke although I did 40 years ago and I’ve just been diagnosed with lung cancer if I stick religiously to this food plan just have meat, salt and water which is a lion will that help to slow down or maybe even heal the cancer I am at goal weight I do liver once a week I do mostly beef although I do chicken and fish on occasion
Awe, I've waited for this beautifully intelligent Lex Friedman to talk with this deeply brilliant, darkness seeking within us all-Jordan Peterson for so long, and here it is. How are you both so brave in this world of ours?? ♡♡♡♡
He travels first class most likely, so he can easily eat steak on a plane. He could do omad during traveling and just eat something at an airport lounge or restaurant or have room service.
Non-aged beef? Interesting. I wonder what that's about. I know that I suffer from depression and tiredness. When I eat hunted meat (elk, venison) I get a huge burst of energy and well-being. I always chalked it up to the iron and B-12 content but maybe there's more to fresh meat than just macros and micros.
I have to say I have done carnivore, paleo, ketovore, and everything in between. I have actually felt the best and had the best energy on fatty meat + fruit. No lie. Basically I combined carnivore and fruitovore and I'm doing better than when I was just carnivore. WTF? According to both vegans and carnivores, my diet is essentially the worst of both worlds (combining high fat diet with a high sugar diet), yet this works. I even throw in veggies pretty regularly, avoiding beans and legumes, but consuming various starchy veggies like carrots. And still, no problems. I keep hearing more stories like mine. It makes me think there's a psychosomatic element to the woes of JP and his family. But, they swear that even a little veggie or fruit kills them, so...
Honestly Im highly sceptic about this. Sure, a protein-heavy diet does have its advantages. However I can't imagine that eating 100% meat without serious supplementation long term can be good for your body, I think quite the opposite.
The Kosher diet is probably the oldest diet It is 6000 years old and uses only 10 percent animal products. Its mind boggling how far and myopic some can be in trying to reinvent the wheel.
@Bob Robertson I heard that when John Wayne died he had 25 pounds of matter lodged in his intestines and died from toxicity. I heard it was undigested meat. What these people dont tell you about what happens in the long run also Dr. Atkins had a history of heart trouble before he died from a fall later on. again hide the truth.no long term studies are out on this look it up yourself. Then the Inuit. die young in their natural environment.but dont tell them.
Comments section belike : i died last Monday, turned carnivore on Wednesday, now i am Wolverine from X-Men 😂😂😂 . Muricans dumbening year after year with such great consistency
Elimination diets will lack certain nutrients so you will have to supplement accordingly. I'm assuming the lack of fiber long term on a carnivore diet could be an issue.
Protein diets have a serious cost to them but it takes time before the system takes damage. Then again, carbohydrate diets a lot of people stick to are not better. I personally stick to low GI diets without sacrificing complex carbohydrates (as long is enough fiber and protein keeps the uptake down all is good).
@8th account The basic issues are bad breath, headache and constipation caused by a lack of fiber and turmoil in nutrient absorption but it does take some time before these issues become "stable" as in constant. Late stage damage can be more dangerous, common is kidney damage. Different people react differently, but only a few people have evolved to sustain themselves on mostly fat and meat (such as Eskimos) and most others will have these issues. The human body has evolved as omnivore and seemingly does best when it has regular intake of low GI food. Meat and fish is low GI, but it has little to no fiber. If fiber is added to a carnivorous diet that might assist the intestines but finding fiber naturally in such a diet might be difficult. I am sure people who support this diet have solutions, but I would still be careful. When we believe in something we tend to get serious blind spots.
@@GnosticAtheist , when we do this evolution? And, how long did it take? We were carnivores for tens of thousands of years, and then, what, the Food Pyramid gets published and we evolve to omnivores in a couple of hundred years. Seems pretty unlikely.
@@ralphholiman7401 Like all apes we consumed high amounts of fruit. Some apes are closer to herbivores than carnivores. It is grain that is a new staple of our diet.
@@ralphholiman7401 I do not understand. All apes eat fruit. The timetable for nutrients is relatively clear. No ape is a grass feeder as that takes herbivore digestion. Omnivores can digest fructose, some starch and need fiber for that ingestion to be slowed down. I do not "think" I evolved into a herbivore because humans are not herbivores, nor do I go with what "makes sense" to suit my personal preferences. Science is trying to find the facts, not fit ideology.
It strange my buddy started around 6 months ago and he swear by it and now by seeing him it’s incredible. He looks fantastic. I been thinking to myself we were lied too .
There’s nothing wrong with a well balanced diet either. What most people miss is, our portion size has gotten a lot larger. If you get a calorie counter app, or just journal your diet for 5 days(but add everything), you’ll see. Then simply reduce that by 500 calories…you’ll lose weight. That’s what these elimination diets do…eliminate the extra 500 calories
But with carnivore you can eat as much as you want . Don't need to count any calories , and you lose weight . It's well documented in the serious studies , just not the propaganda to push carbs and the food industry .
@@drewdabrew4745 meh…I’m approaching this from a body building point of view. I love meat, and I’m predominantly carnivorous. But when I did the carnivore diet, I lost muscle and fat. I don’t want to lose muscle. It turns out that carbohydrates stores water in your muscle, and muscles are 70% water…so makes sense. To be fair, I’ve done it before, and had better results so not sure what I did wrong. Still, if you just go in a caloric deficit, you’ll still lose fat. So I’m giving it a shot.
@@drewdabrew4745 yes, but when you say lose weight…you have to be careful..I was weighing less going carnivore, but I want composition as well. A person weight 185lbs with fat, can weight the same with muscle. That’s the end goal to me, also, I have to believe if the metabolism is working efficiently, it will be healthy.
@@BigstickNick yeah but to be healthy you have to be very careful what carbs and how many . Whereas what I'm saying is you don't have to worry at all or at least nearly as much with only meat .
Does eating excess carbs for long periods cause our brains to be in “hunting mode” like Dr. Peterson put it? How I think about it is, back in the day, if we ate mainly carbs over a long period of time, it signals to our bodies that we don’t have meat and need to go get it. So carbs make us more alert to go hunt (which should be a short period performed multiple times a day), and fat and protein make us more satisfied and relaxed.
I've seen people getting hamburger meat from fast food places, and unseasoned fish from restaurants.... Does the use of canola or vegetable oil from restaurants ruin the carnivore diet? Because i camt cook at home when i work 20 plus hours often
Quick question, how do you guys combine this diet ( or 1 meal a day) with your day job? Do you skip breakfast and lunch and only eat diner? Or do you have a small breakfast in the morning?
For most ppl food is an addiction . I bet if you switch to just meat (fat/protein) you won't be hungry in the morning at all . And even just when you intermittent fast your hungry less , you won't be hungry in the morning . Think about it , when you first wake up you haven't expended any real energy yet , why would you be so hungry? When we were cavemen we didn't have the ability to wake up and eat till we're full , we had to work for it first .
Carnivore saved my life. Last week I cut out the dairy and lost the last ten pounds in seven days. 😳 Meat only isn’t for sissies. It’s for people who want to feel good and are intent on an amazing life.
@@weststaronsoundcloud4490 reread his comment. He wrote " meat only isn't for sissies". Meaning it is a tough long-term mental and physical challenge requiring serious willpower, discipline and comittment.He did not say" meat isn't only for sissies", which it appears is what you imagine he stated and you are passive aggressively responding to. Maybe if you change your own diet you will be a little less irritable and more focused and thoughtful and detail oriented and accurate LOL
It all sounds good, but one thing that bothers me is that I watched his interview with Joe Rogan from 6 years ago and I compared how he looked in that video with how he looks in this video (5 years difference) and he looks much much older in this video (not 5 year older, but maybe 10-15 years older). Especially, he has very noticeable wrinkles on the forehead, which he almost didn't have 5 years ago, plus he has much more grey hair than he had 5 years ago. What do you think? Is it long term effect of meat only diet or is it something different?
If one restricts their diet to just whole, basically unprocessed, natural foods they experience great health benefits vs an almost anything goes diet. Often times they will eat predominately meat or plant based and they will attribute the benefits to vegetarianism or carnivorism but I think the reality is they just cut way back on calories and replaced junk food with natural, quality food. You can hear these miraculous health stories equally from raw food vegans to strict carnivores. Strict diets and fasts do deliver and it is in the strictness that they deliver, not in meat or plant based.
That's my problem. I know I don't need vegetables or beer, but they both sure taste good, and I fall off the wagon for a day every once in a while. And, my stomach is hurting almost immediately and I remember why I stopped eating them.
Overall, you end up eating less. There is no sugar crash like with carbs. Fat ends up being your energy source, and it's a much slower burn. Lean meat won't be enough.
I do 3-4 pounds of beef per day. With redmond sea salt and water. Beef makes me feel the best. 60-80 percent of your calories should be from fat and the rest should be from protein. If your stool is too soft you need less fat, if it is dry you need more fat
I went down to one meal/day out of convenience and cost. It works. I'm honestly starting to believe that the notion of "three square meals a day" was just one enormous marketing ploy.
its know, three meals a day is purely cultural and not scientific. The food triangle was also made by farmers not dieticians
The whole Food Pyramid, that was crammed down our throats, was nothing but one big marketing ploy. The longer you're around, the more you realize that the line between science, and marketing, just doesn't exist.
The food triangle was made up by the food industry to make you think you need to eat more meat milk and cheese
Do you track your calories? Because one meal a day sounds convenient but I’m just wondering how it would work for someone who’s very athletic for example.
@@mathiastyseng9208 I dont think you're right that it was made by farmers strictly. It is largely tied to the war effort in the 1940s where the US government created grants to ensure the populace had enough food to endure a famine or shortage. This rolled on in the 1960s during the 'Red scare' and nuclear threats. The technology that was developed in this time saw food shelf lifespan increase tenfold. So it was enabled by the government and acted out by the farmers and scientific fields. We are seeing the detrimental effects now these developments have had on our health. The food pyramid I feel was one of the main culprits. A culmination of marketing, sketchy science and grain surpluses.
My son has a rare form of epilepsy called Doose Syndrome. He used to have HUNDREDS of seizures a day, falling, then getting back up a few seconds later. He fractured his skull twice last year even with a helmet. I had to create a special backpack to soften the blows. Medications don't work unless it is rescue medication which isn't good for long-term use.
Keto helped a little but we weren't getting the results we wanted. So we've been on carnivore for 2 weeks. He has done amazing as long as there are no slip ups. The other day he only had one seizure (this is a huge deal to us) and he's started speaking more. I noticed that if someone let's him have even a "little bite" of something else his seizures come right back with a vengeance for the next 24 hours. It's incredible what this diet has done for us as a family. I might watch my son grow up one day, both physically and mentally.
Nice. Hope it all works out :)
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You realize that a human will die on a meat only diet right ? and a child would be malnourished. so hardly a cure.
I'm on day 10 of Carnivore after having done Keto for a few months and it's amazing because I am rarely hungry and I feel like I no longer am constantly thinking about food. I grew up eating sugar my whole life from when I was a young kid having cinnamon toast crunch, honey comb, pop tarts etc and it set me up for failure. In my 30s I started having insulin resistance which made me very fatigued and had constant crashes. Now on Carnivore I basically have energy all day.
all diets have their benefits. scientist and doctors are studying that canivore, vegaterian, keto, and a bunch of other diets can beat different types of cancerous. including fasting on and off with different diets. some diets with different meds. no 1 diet is the answer to everything. we dont know enough about it yet. every diet can be good though for different things. they will figure it out over the next 200 years. we are still just learning about it.
I recently started this too and it’s amazing how quickly you start feeling better physically and mentally. progressively day after day you feel a little better. And it seems to be mostly in the west where they push this idea that you should be eating 3 meals a day and that snacking some won’t hurt you that much. It’s all a marketing ploy
How does your system work without fiber? Do you get constipated?
@@hsmd4533 im sure it has benefits but i dont believe in it for life. i dont believe in keto for life either only short term. fattys telling me they lost weight doesnt count. what matters it proper nutrition for a person body that is already at a good size. fattys losing weight will never matter to me cause fattys will lose weight on any calorie deficit. fat people shouldnt tell us whats good cause they lost weight. you can lose weight on any diet. what matters is whats best for our organs and muscles when your already a good size.
@@hsmd4533Few weeks in and as long as you’re eating enough fats there’s no constipation. Also almost no gas and much less frequent bowel movements because your body uses something like 97-98% of what you eat so there’s less waste to have to move out of your body.
The best things Jordan Peterson ever did for me he was getting me on the carnivore diet. I heard him talking about it on the Rogan show one day and I decided to try it. That was a year and a half ago and I lost 50 lb that I had been putting on gradually over the years. The irritable bowel syndrome that I've suffered from my whole life just vanished. I just feel better, at 64 years old, than I felt in forty years. I don't try to push it on anybody, I think a lot of our bodies are different and respond differently to different nutrition, but the carnivore diet has sure been working great for me. I'll be on it untill I die.
its nice that it works for you, but that isnt a diet forever. until you die might be not that long on this diet imo
I had exactly the same experience Ralph. Heard Jorden on Joe Rogan over 3 years ago, tried it and never looked back. The best thing I have ever done health wise. I'm 55 now and stronger and fitter than when I was in my 20s. I move furniture and spas for people by myself in my truck. I will never go back to plants and carbs. Meat only mostly beef with occasional lamb or pork when they're discounted and cheap. One meal a day.
@扯淡财经 yes, though some on carnivore can tolerate other animal products like dairy. There could be many factors for your friend's aged look- not getting enough fat or protein or the right ratio for his needs (likely cannot do carnivore in a healthy way eating primarily chicken) , not eating enough in general, he could have something wrong that limits absorption, etc. Plus, it's also not to say that one diet fits all.
the human animal needs worming, just like any pet does.
@@wendyg8536 I've looked into this in the past and am curious about it again. What do you use?
22 years old. Carnivore for two months. No gut discomfort, regular bowels, no bloating, 6 pack, muscle gain. Feeling like an absolute beast. Never looking back🥩 Thanks to everyone spreading the word about this diet.
22 years have no gut what you talking about
22 year olds have no gut
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@@jonaGM4PUin America they do.
ya but you take vitamins otherwise your teeth fall out. A real carnivore makes their own vitamin C in their body. Supplementing it reverts your status back to omnivore. BUT thats ok - you can still look at yourself in the mirror every morning and roar like a lion - no one can take that away from you.
BTW 15-25 all humans are fully healthy if they are normal.
I started on Carnivore on November 27, 2023. My blood glucose constantly exceeded 18.3. Today, December 28, 2023, it tested at just 5.6!! 🥩 2:50 am. OMAD followed naturally, I just don't want to eat for a day after a small steak or leg of lamb chop. I also lost >5kg over this month. Feel healthy again. Beautiful yellow morning urine. I sleep well, no leg cramps, no restless legs. No insomnia.
Wow, really.
Can you drink milk?
I'm 28 now but since the age of 18 I have been actively figuring out which combinations of both diet and exercise worked best for me. I have played rugby, practised mixed martial arts, long distance winter swimming, wall climbing and weight lifting to name a few. I have been as adventurous in my diet with low fat, high protein, high carb, low carb, calorie surpluses and deficits, macro counting and intermittent fasting you name it. The carnivore 'diet' or method of eating (MoE) I feel has been the missing piece of the puzzle. Within 3 days my eyes were opened. I couldnt believe and still cant believe that it was in plain sight all along. It makes the most evolutionary and anthropological sense. And my body knows it. I have never felt better, recovered faster or performed better across so many facets in my life. The best part is I dont have to think about 'Diet' anymore. I simply eat a load of steak and eggs every day until Im full. Thats it.
Do you take vitamins or any supplements along with that? Or is it just eating meat?
Me too dude, I can't believe it's been there all along and feel so alive eating steak and eggs
@@Doctor-Stoppage Great question. I get my micronutrients from the most nutrient dense food on the planet. Muscle and organ meat. To my comment above, I also eat liver or other types of offal throughout the week but there's no regular cadence to that. There are amino acids, protein peptides and other micronutrients which can be found in meat that can't be found in another other vegetable. That's a known fact.
Caveat however to this method of eating is that our water supply does not have the same quantity of minerals and salts found in spring water or natural water sources that our ancestors drank. So I do supplement electrolyte salts. Now you can eat fruit as a means to do this as well. However the fructose sugars (although beneficial) give me food cravings. I'm Irish and my ancestors wouldn't have had a consistent access to fruit as other southern hemisphere people do. So I might eat berries in the summer but I cull that in the winter months.
Shawn Baker and Anthony Chaffee are both former rugby players (and MDs) who found the Carnivore Diet and have you Tube channels.
@@markmurphy3462 how many times do you eat per day? Do you count your calories, like do you at least try to hit a certain number?
A massive point has to be made here, in relation to the pathogen Candida Albicans, a fungal yeast infection, that is very widespread and common, and systemic, causing multiple health conditions, often unrecognised, as many people have lived with the infection nearly their entire lives, they do not actually understand what it is like to be functionally rid of the infection, and their native state of being in health and beauty, which may only eventually be discovered through absence of the insideous candida albicans pathogen.
Usually it is fostered by a high carbohydrate diet, especially sugar, and an obvious problem for alcoholics, and even smokers where tar is also a concentrated sugar.
A high protein diet is a remedy, as can be fasting, essentially starving the pathogen of carbohydrate fuel it needs.
I wonder that people focusing on this carnivore diet, are in actuality benefitting by the elimination of this pathogen out of their system, rather than than the purported pluses of carnivore alone... if this could be considered ??. it is common for a herxheimer reaction to happen in elimination, so perserverance is needed, as is hydration.
Carbohydrate cravings, inflammation, weight gain, flatulence, digestive complaints, skin issues, brain fog, cancer, tumours etc, etc all associated with Candida.
Cancer in particular is often always with the co-infection of candida, so much so that it has to be questioned if candida is a cause of cancer, as some valid speculation that cancer is also a fungal disease.
Please take care, recognise, record and reflect on symptoms and health history, and put a balanced veiw to all things dietry.
@8th account it depends how serious they are about elimination of candida, which for some is out of control and the cause of significant health issues. For what I know, maybe whiskey and water in small doses is ok, but obviously mixers are a no no, and beer and wine are yeasty so no
It's definitely both. There's tons of nutrition from carnivore n fats AND starving candida is a HUGE WIN.
One of the biggest causes of candida overgrowth is antibiotics coupled with a high carb sugar diet. Unless you are about to die avoid antibiotics at all cost.
You are spot on and I have wondered why fungus/yeast/candida is not addressed more in the carnivore community. Babies born with thrush and fungal scalp from the mother's womb, dandruff, jock itch, toenail fungus, diabetes, cancer, psoriasis, eczema, and many other minor and major symptoms related to fungus in the body and yes, the fungus is only there because there is sugar/plant cellulose going in since that is what fungus thrives on (mushrooms/fungus decompose cellulose by eating it) and fungi's natural behavior is to colonize. So many dots connected for me about this once I made the connection in my own health journey. The carnivore switch for me was half the win but the other half was killing all of the stubborn rooted fungus that can survive for a long time. Think about how mushrooms grow in the forest, the mushroom is just the fruiting body of a strong and vast rooted network underground (polyps and skin tags look very similar to mushrooms and have roots beneath the skin). This was also the cause of my fibromyalgia, arthritis, depression, anxiety and systemic inflammation. Took me 6 months to get it out of my body on strict carnivore and an antifungal essential oils protocol using thyme, oregano, wormwood and clove oil mixed with beef fat. The die off symptoms and things my body excreted were horrifying. I will not consume any yeast, fungus, fermented products again. The push for people to take probiotics, fermented foods and the new cordyceps for brain congnition is highly suspicious too. Almost like we put all the fungus in our body ourselves via beer, wine, ferments, mushrooms, etc. and then feed it with plants so of corse it colonizes. The connection to cancer is very obvious.
Most sane carnivore diet fan:
I’ve been carnivore for 1 year, 40 years old, seem to be getting younger every day. It’s amazing
What was your diet and lifestyle before the carnivore diet?
@@DoctorRevers My parents are both italian immigrants so my diet was pretty carb heavy most of my life. I work in a very physical environment but was mostly overweight by about 40-50 lbs my whole life. If I really dedicated myself I was always able to lose weight and build muscle, but would gain weight right back.
Also, my lower back pain and left shoulder pain are about 90% removed since going carnivore
@@Daveyboy28 great how much did you lose the first month?
@@Don_Venti first month was about 15-20 lbs. to be honest, losing weight is just a small part of it. I actually feel amazing, skin is great, sleep is amazing, never feel deprived.
I actually made a discovery this holiday season. I ate some regular foods and can’t believe how bad I felt for a few days. I don’t see myself ever going back. I’m carnivore over a year now.
@@Daveyboy28 wow thats amazing I got to try this soon. I'll test it for a week and let you know the results. Thanks.
My theory is this: 1. When you consume high amounts of protein your muscles burn off more calories, or the thermogenic effect. 2 you don't eat as much, you feel fuller longer. 3. It's easy to follow. 4. You aren't eating processed foods nearly as much or at all. All the diets that show this all come to a conclusion, and it's that a whole foods diet is what humans ate. They ate it without anything added to it. Just as it was. The 1950s fucked everything up with processing. Taking out vital nutrients. This is why juicing isn't as healthy as eating food in it's purest, freshest form. The true form of the Mediterranean diet is from the earth. Made fresh. Same in Japan. Plus if you read about the french paradox, they usually eat 3 meals a day. They don't eat huge portions, they eat until satisfied, not sick. They eat the fat, as well. They also savor their food. Americans are the exact opposite. That's my theory.
@nomad Your theories are quite good; one thing I can back; 12 years ago went to the South of France. Shopped, cooked, beached. Couldn't find bacon anywhere. And any Pork I did fid was through the roof. Portions were perfect drank Vodka every night but lost about five pounds. Had to do the Pulp Fiction thing Royale with Cheese best god dam Mcdonald's ever. the frys and soda were kid portioned. No supersize me crap. Having to go back to Britain and see all the fat slugs was depressing. I love Fort Lauderdale for a reason Bikini season year round. Gonna give this diet a shot February 1st. All three of my kids loved France. Check it out.
they also eat a fattier, richer diet in france. makes you feel fuller with less volume. so you eat less, and definitely less sugar and carbs.
@@aujax1 They also smoke while there eating.
@@mr.elastomeric1787 lmao
It's funny I live outside US, I'm vegetarian and the only times I feel blown with carbs its when I'm in the US. There's something wrong with food there.
I believe it!
I hear this so much it’s actually scary
I always noticed that I was most active and aware during Ramadan when we were fasting for 29 or 30 days straight. I started doing OMAD in 2019 after Ramadan because all I saw was great results from fasting. That's the way I want to continue living and feeling great physically, mentally, and emotionally.
Ramadan is so misleading. You fast during the sunlight hours and then gorge yourselves at night... It's not a 30 day fast, it's 30 days of haughty gluttony.
Ramadan isn't fasting, who would call gorging themselves twice a day with food as fasting???
I’m Christian, and I have fasted before. I can say that you are spot on. I’m always so clear and present while fasting.
Look at these guys getting Ramadan is a type of intermittent fasting. Gods sake man.
@@Y.A.V_music really??? Stuffing your face twice a day is intermittent fasting to you??? You're serious???
I'm on day 16 of carnivore. I'm not hungry all day, and I don't have the tired afternoon slump anymore. My pants are fitting a lot looser, and a ganglion cyst I've had on top my wrist appears to be shrinking.
I’m a 62 year old woman and I cut down from 3 meals to 1 with little to no snacks. It has helped me tremendously, but may not be for everyone.
Did the same thing and have lost 50 lbs so far and need to buy smaller clothes haha.
@@neurLOON I lost 40 lbs, same as you must buy some new clothes!
Keep up the good work! 👍
Same i went from 210 and currently at 160 but it doesnt feel healthy tbh
@@BonnChnd how's Monica bro?
Perhaps a great deal of the benefits are from eliminating sugars & carbs.
Vegetables are also made up of sugar molecules. Any plants job is to use UV and co2 to manufacture simple sugars via photosynthesis.
@@cornstar1253 this is the case that our bodies do convert the starch in foods such as veggies to glucose raising our blood sugar levels when we eat starchy veggies although there are many very low starch veggies that have a very low glycemic index. Most who fast for atophagy are aware of this
I wonder if the main benefits are what isn't eaten rather than what is. Cutting out all the processed food alone should help. I find it hard to understand how the diet is OK without fruit and veg, but I'm impressed with all the testimonies.
I eat mostly meat but I also include a large amount of vegetables and fruit. When I have all those combined I feel a lot better when I only eat meat.
It's takes me a few days of not feeling optimal every time I go back to only meat/fish/eggs/dairy. But after not having had any fruit or veg for a bit I feel so much more energised and mentally present. Not to mention my lifelong sinus issues all but vanish! Pretty weird but worth trying a while.
try eating meat and fruit, exclude the vegetables.
@@ascendtoaesthetics No chance. I eat a huge variety of cooked vegetables each day and I feel way better with them than without. But cooking them is key. I had a great aunt who died because she only ate raw vegetables
@@zachzeurcher6450 So happy you mentioned cooking the vegetables. Vegetables have their own toxins or natural pesticides that can only be reduced by cooking. Tomatoes are the perfect example, there's a "doctor" out there trying to use the natural insecticides as a reason to buy his probiotics but all you need to do is cook them... I'm sure you know this but just sharing with anyone else who comes along
@@eps3943 Having raw vegetables in small quantities per day isn't going to kill you. There are supposedly "carcinogens" in milk too, but the quantity in there is so small it has no effect. You need to eat large amounts of raw vegetables over a long period of time for that to affect you. But cooking them allows you to actually eat a good quantity of vegetables to where they are highly beneficial. Cooking gets rid of the bad parts and also breaks down the fibrous materials allowing better access to the nutrients.
I dislike breakfast and lunch because I tend to feel noticeably more focused when I avoid eating. Thanks for the video, now I can use it to validate my bias.
I'm glad you said that because that's evolutionary, we would hunt all day without food to capture food so we needed focus in order for us to catch the prey and than after we do catch it we eat it and it usually is night by than we weat around the fire feast and just chill and that's why we don't need focus at night we rrst
In the army you exercise before you eat lol
Since June 11 this year I have eaten no more than four meals a week on carnivore. I am never hungry and I feel better, fitter and sharper than I have for the past 40 years. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays are food-free days and I hardly even notice that I'm not eating on those days.
free-food days meaning you are free to not eat, free from foods:) i like that! i have not done that yet but I hardly feel hungry so I might do OMAD some days. I mostly do 2MAD.
@@victoriar9728 I've not eaten more than two meals a day for the past 40 years, I've not eaten breakfast since I'm never hungry in a morning. I started OMAD two years ago but I was still eating the odd small portion of veg and the occasional small dessert. Since going on the carnivore diet I (like the Amazonian tribes) am always sated and never hungry. Eating one meal, every other day, comes naturally and I enjoy how much fitter and sharper I've become.
@@alangeorgebarstow Do you take electrolytes?
@@IbtissemGarram No. I start each day with half a pint of lukewarm water into which I put a quarter of a teaspoonful (2g) of bicarbonate of soda and a tablespoonful (15ml) of apple cider vinegar. This sets me up for the day and cleanses my system. I get all my other nutrition from my diet.
I've done one month of carnivore before it has produced great results. I felt more energy more mental clarity, which is great for me because I have ADHD, and I can go for prolonged periods working when everyone else around me at the end of the day is winding down. It also helps me to look younger but I genetically already look younger than I really am so it's an extreme plus!
Yes! I’ve been eating carnivore for two weeks and I cut out 25mg XR Adderall for ADHD at the same time. I absolutely cannot believe it, but I feel AMAZING.
If your ADHD is gone after going off sugar, I guess you can figure out what was the cause of it
Leangains method is hands down the best intermittent fasting book ever made. The father of the 16:8 method from Sweden. Highly recommend.
Agreed
Nutritional science is an appalling mess. The models and methods are simplistic and the entire field is corrupted by money from Food Inc.
I’m in on carnivorish for 5 weeks, I’ve lost 16/17 pounds, sleep better, have more energy, down to 2 meals per day and find that I prefer to eat at home than to dine out. Eating out made me horribly sick , lazy , had inflammation , IBS flare ups , constant fatigue and the worst ever mental fog. I lost weight and gained clarity! I love this way of eating!!
It's pretty simple. Eat the way our ancient ancestors ate. That's what we as a species have evolved to eat. Meat, fruit, raw dairy, and a little bit of raw honey. I've been eating this diet for about 4 months now, and I've lost 38 pounds. I also only eat once a day, and I can't believe how much energy I have and the mental clarity is just ridiculous.
Which ancestors? The Mediterranean ones, the South American ones? Or let’s go way back to Southern Africa and make sure we include the bugs in there.
What do you mean by mental clarity? Elaborate a bit pls
@@JTST1234 My ability to focus has improved substantially, along with my memory. I just feel great. I'm sure a lot of that is from losing a substantial amount of weight, but I'm definitely a believer in the ancestral diet.
@@mikewilliams9286 ok, thanks for the clarification!
@@tyrrian2520evolution takes a long time, so when someone says anserstors they mean the ones that shaped our species over hundreds of thousands of years in Africa. Even minor mutations like a lighter skin color would take thousands of years.
Not everyone needs to go full carnivore, but I think everyone could benefit from more red meat. Red meat has been unfairly demonized, and it's a powerhouse of bioavailable nutrients like B vitamins, zinc, iron, amino acids and beneficial fatty acids.
I don't suggest going full-on carnivore. I personally did it for over 10 months and reeked of body odor, had random sweats and feelings of needing to pass out, and despite being 43 my face was as oily and acne-ridden as a 14 year-old.
@@Travybear1989 That's the exact opposite of most peoples experience. I literally stopped wearing deodorant and washing my face with anything but water.
@@ienjoyapples Yeah, my co-worker has no problems on the diet but it just didn't work well for me for some reason. I even copied his meal plans that he printed off for me. He didn't understand it either but like I said, must be genetics or something.
My grandfather lived on meat and potatoes and made it to 73 but he was type-O, I am type-A so that must be it.
@@Travybear1989I'm coming to realize that copying anyone's meal plan blindly is almost never a great idea. For example, some of the fastest marathon runners on the planet eat an ancestral diet that's in the neighbourhood of 80% carbohydrate. You'd never blindly encourage someone to eat like that. It's sure not in my DNA, as a white lady whose ancestors hail from Ukraine, Britain, and Germany. There's no way in hell my ancestors were eating much sweet fruit at all, for example. I think the same applies for any extreme - we're all going to have different sensitivities and intolerances based on our genetics, lifestyle, and microbiome.
Yes, high protein and fat diet works wonders. In fact we should all learn how our body adapts and works from what we eat. The trouble with following a diet is that it can be restrictive. We are the lab, we are in charge of our diets. Medical experts know nothing about diets, doctors aren’t taught. The one surgeon and specialist in the microbiome made a dire prediction that doesn’t apply. He said there would be problems after 6 months but Peterson has on,y gotten stronger.
For himself, he has found something that works.
I'd love to see you talk to Dr. Paul Saladino on this. He does mention fasting can be beneficial but to not do it too often.
I'd take anything he says with a grain of salt these days - he seems to be obsessed with trying to find ways to rationalize his carb addition. He was talking about drinking milk mixed with honey the other day for instance - long gone are the days when he used to be advocating for meat only.
@@notyourdad Yes, actually what I like about him. He is willing to change his mind given the evidence for it. He's not dogmatic and it's refreshing to see in this space.
@@star-warsien Except he's bending over backwards attempting to justify what he's doing instead of letting the evidence guide his way.
When and where throughout evolution would human beings have been able to find a daily source of honey for instance, which seem to be one of his food staples now? Nowhere is the answer to that one.
Where would we have gotten our hands on endless supplies of modern fruit? Nowhere.
Fruit has always been seasonal and in most of the world you can only get it for about a month or two each year and it hasn't historically been the big and hyper-sweet fruit we have today either.
He claims he bases his views and what he preaches on evidence, and on being evolutionarily consistent, but that is just blatantly false.
Changing your mind and opinions is all fine and dandy, but when you make baseless claims that don't make any logical sense and have no evidence to back it up and you instruct other people to follow your lead is when it gets dangerous.
He's pulling up studies and attempts to justify his new views with papers and complicated explanations through metabolic pathways and things most people don't understand, and I don't claim to understand, but that is exactly what people have been doing for decades to justify our modern diets - that's exactly what plant-based advocates are doing.
Look at the actual hard evidence that exists, such as stable isotope studies. Think about what foods would've been available to us throughout evolution and what foods would've sustained us - the answer isn't modern fruit and honey.
Don't bother with him, he has started over the last year telling people to consume sugar and honey.
@@CallumTheCarnivore fruit and honey. I've felt a lot better since.
Early in the conversation they're talking about, "Autophagy".
Autophagy is the natural, conserved degradation of the cell that removes unnecessary or dysfunctional components through a lysosome-dependent regulated mechanism. It allows the orderly degradation and recycling of cellular components
au·toph·a·gy
/ôˈtäfəjē/
Noun Biology:
consumption of the body’s own tissue as a metabolic process occurring in starvation and certain diseases.
"the process of starvation-induced autophagy was recently the focus of extensive research"
destruction of damaged or redundant cellular components occurring in vacuoles within the cell.
That's what Osho talked about. Channelising your energy eaten up by root habits like digestion into meditation. It feels very difficult cause we haven't felt that much energy ever. And that's why we anxiously try to break fasting or eat a lot once in a while.
Fascinating, Osho is great!
Tried it, totally works. Unbelievable
One thing that gives me pause is that humans foraged fruits/berries/veggies as a source of nutrition along with hunting animals and fishing. So to remove that other aspect of nutrition seems unnatural. Unless there's evidence early humans were indeed carnivores, which I'd doubt since we didn't know how to cook right away. And the human digestive system doesn't seem as equipped to process raw meat vs cooked meat. Also the very shapes of our teeth hint at an omnivore history.
And you forget about lectines, oxolates, Phytates (phytic acid) , Saponins, Tannins, and the rest of antinutrients that are present on grains, vegtables and fruits, not to mention fructose, I don't mean to offend you but you really need to research deeper to get to the truth. I tried vegan for years because doctors told me so. Most of my health issues that I had for more than 10 years, went away after some weeks on a high fat, low carb sugar diet, including severe constipation, so no, my diestion is way better now that I only eat meat, my brother experienced the same.
The Inuits don't eat berries, fruits or veggies. Only meat and fat, and do just fine.
Yes, there is stress on the system with a lot of fasting- increased cortisol.
Same. Major mental clarity boost. Made me a useful person.
Strange, I was mostly on a carnivore diet for most of my younger life. I just preferred to eat meat and didn't like eating vegetables and carbs. When in my thought I was 20. I stopped eating this way, because of all the information saying you need a balanced diet. I got chronically sick, have various health issues including sleep apnea, obesity, brain fog, etc and suddenly aged really fast. So now I look my age and this happened in such a short time.
I'm two years into a carnivore diet myself. Sixty years old. I won't bore you with the long list of health benefits I've experienced (literally from head to toe). I'm just not hearing any downsides to eating this way. Lifechanging.
I'd be interested to hear of the health benefits you've experienced.
Firstly this isn't me hating or anything so please no one gets annoyed. I'm curious as to the long term effects of all this. My partner has a master's in human nutrition and is doing her PhD in cardiovascular disease. Now all her studying and her own experiments show that red meat is intrinsically linked to increases in diabetes, cancers, heart disease and numerous other illnesses. Her research also shows the Mediterranean diet is seemingly the "best" (loose term considering we are all different). There's the flip side to vegans who claim how amazing they feel. Then there is the general teachings and nutritional benefits of vegetables and how vital they are in our body. So I guess what I'm asking is this. Is it just the fact that vegans and carnivores and then the Mediterranean diet at large have restricted/eliminated processed foods, or is one intrinsically better than the other?
We don’t have data for long term implications.
What’s the link of processed carbs and sugar to heart diseases?
Concerning the carivore diet, I've been feeding strictly on kippers for the last year. The only negative is I smell like a fish.
is this true? 😅
I lived on organ meat for 10 months and developed severe body odor that made me smell like rotting beef ravioli's lol! It got to the point I had to quit because my wife wouldn't sleep with me.
@@Travybear1989 Got dam Rotting beef Ravioli's Cracks me up I use my feet stench like hot rancid goat milk.
I would be all for doing a fish-based variant of the carnivore diet if it weren’t for the mercury concentrations found in most species.
In my 50s, down 40lbs...no more acid reflux, blood pressure back to normal, no more bleeding gums, no more brittle/discolored finger nails and toe nails...feel more rested after sleeping. Feel better over all since being on carnivore.
Top 5 Carnivore resources:
- Dr. Anthony Chaffee
- Dr. Shawn Baker
- Prof. Bart Kay
- Dr. Ken Berry
- Dr. Kevin Stock
I hadn't heard of a couple of those yet! Though, I'd say I also get a lot from others who share what they've experienced and learned, aren't doctors or professors but sometimes interview some great resources as well.
Paul Saladino is also a good source for animal based eating. He leans more on the electrolyte balance through fruit and honey. Thats where he mainly deviates from the more hardline carnivores.
This is fucking gold folks.
Fasting stimulates cortisol, which is likely related to your "nervous focus" sensation.
I've been dieting a few months now- vegetarian, and I've lost some weight but I'm extremely exhausted, have gotten insomnia and also noticed I'm a bit off- just a mental fog and not myself, out of sorts. I even scaled back from social media afraid I might say something out of character for me, as well as joint pain, digestive issues and skin problems I never had before so I'm going to stop the diet. I'll try this a little at a time combined with fasting, to see how my body reacts.
You get energy from either fat or carbs, or both. If you cut out both, you’ll always be exhausted. Either increase healthy fats significantly or introduce some more healthier carbs.
Your experience is common and now there is a growing community of people on carnivore and a lot of great info to help. Good luck!
Search for dr. McDougal if you want to learn about the right kind of foods. Basically include the good starches/carbs, some beans/legumes and veggies and you'll be fine 🙂
oof, I wonder I'd change personally if I started consuming meat. I've been vegetarian since I was 11 and am now 18. Perhaps I give it a go?
Who was interviewing who? Fantastic chat
The carnivore diet has been falsely described as a "fad diet" by mainstream sources.
A "fad" is defined as a trend that comes in for a short period of time and then goes away. But considering that throughout history and across cultures, animals have made up the bulk of the human diet, there is no way in which the carnivore diet fits the definition of a "fad".
The true "fad" diet is the FDA approved food pyramid with a base of processed carbohydrates and a call to limit our consumption of meat and eggs. This came about in the 1970's as a response to a heart disease epidemic when some spurious correlational studies falsely claimed that cholesterol and saturated fat were bad for us.
your taste changes later on. At first I just wanted to eat greens and I even ate some iceberg lettuce after a week on carni, but after a couple of weeks that craving goes away. It's like a phantom limb, which is itching from time to time. Now I drink fat like "mmmm yummy", which I never did before
Your post is the one I've been looking for. I eat a pound of spinach a week salads every night loaded with everything Avocados, tomato's, cucumber, all different kinds of nuts Almonds, Pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds. Thinking this is gonna be impossible. Love meat wings steak chicken so its just the first couple weeks. Thanks.
You will never have more energy. I was on this in the 70s with Atkins. They still call him a kook. But he's still selling books. I eat ribeye steak almost every meal. A bit pricey at the moment.
Top Sirloin; my new favorite.
Jordan mentioned the "hunter mode" when doing the carnivore diet and it makes sense. If you need meat, you need to be hyper aware because getting it could be quite the dangerous prospect. Versus carbs which would normally not entail major danger.
i think it works for mostly bcuz it cuts out gluten and sugar
Yes
The carnivore protocol is awesome.... for 30 days.
I needed to transition into a clean keto/paleo type diet after that, which was good coming from a S.A.D.
What happened after 30 days?
After 30 days you just really start feeling the benefits, so I don't know what he means@@fangornthewise
Fasting for sure is a great thing, all of the regular cultural things we learn like crashing during the day at work, getting tired etc etc. goes away when you’re on a fast. When I fast I’m not tired and when I eat, which is at night it puts me in the mode to be ready to sleep.
Here is a fun fact for all you new-fangled Keto-Carnivores out there. The great singer Maria Callas grew up fat, about 200 lbs. In 1953 at the age of 29, Maria ------ whose entire life and career were characterised by ferocious discipline and will power --- simply decided to lose 80 pounds, which she did. And she never gained any back the rest of her life, becoming one of the most glamorous women on stage. Her self-invented diet was.......steak and salad. While living in Italy. In 1953. Take that, Atkins.
Since I only eat red meat, blue fish and vegetables my stomacal problems have disappeared and i lost 30kg. I just only eat small quantities of potatoes on my breakfast.
I was always doing exercise.
On the cool I’ve been trying it for almost a week now ( mind you my discipline is shaky) but I have less stomach aches more focus and clarity at work, I felt and intense shift in my sleeping where I was waking up in the middle of the night with like maximum energy but that’s since regulated into me getting up at 5am and working out(still a bit of a battle to go from eyes closed to standing but it’s definitely easier) and when I do eat sugar my stomach pains kick in near instantly. My best days are when I have steak with guac pico and onions once pretty much when I get home from work then I feel like refreshed to the point that I’ve been doing chores and studying before bed and it’s not like i have to fight myself to do it.
All I know is I eat 1 full meal a day and that’s dinner. In the am before work I eat 2 avocados and a banana. At lunch I have a granola bar and blueberries organic from the farm. I eat fish from the butcher fresh daily 3 times a week for dinner some farm chicken and steak and gotta have pizza once a week. I labor at my job. Lots of manual labor meaning exercise 10-11 hr days for years. Stay in complete shape with no body fat none zilch cut to the core at age 50. I look 30. I have been active all my life sports traveling as in hiking miles and climbing. Just being physically active is a big benefit for you as well as your eating habits. You are what cha eat.
What is the best diet? The one that works for you
agree! you can try it out yourself! i tried everything! I am trying carnivore and it is working for me. so i do it! I see results. i will stop and do something else if its not working anymore. 😄
I’m feeling much better on a more-meat, no sugar diet, and I’m inclined to continue, but I’ve just been told my cholesterol is high. I’d like to ignore this, but I want to know what actually causes clogged arteries.
I like lean cuts and adding my own fat whether it's butter on steak or cheese on hamburgers
I started my all beef diet a week ago to try to combat an autoimmune disorder myasthenia gravis. I pray that I see some symptom improvements but I will say I have much better even energy throughout the day and great mental clarity already.
Can you give us an update? I have an autoimmune disease and am about to start the carnivore
@@MCJOHNSON95 I have personally seen some improvement in my symptoms but not where I would like it to be. My condition is not really related to inflammation like the rheumatoid arthritis that Jordan’s daughter faced, but I will still say it was the best decision of my life. I feel so much better in every way, I wake up earlier, have steady energy throughout the day, my mental clarity is much better, I’ve lost a bunch of stubborn belly fat, my motivation and mood are way better. The only negative is my bowel movements are not very solid, I have not added fiber yet.
Hows it going now?@@RP.Warrior
@@julianlange8132 It was going great, unfortunately it did not help with my condition but I did feel much better overall. I have faltered quite a bit but I would recommend to basically anyone.
When someone says to me is that all you can eat? I respond and say No, I can eat anything I want to eat, I just don't want to eat any of that. The less food you eat the better health you will be in.
Perhaps, due to your all beef diet allows you to more quickly enter autophagy, and that process is healing you. Fasting and improving my diet (more whole foods, less sugar and less carbs) has had a lot of the same health benefits that you describe. Our gut biome is also a huge factor!!
Carnivore is a fasting mimicking diet so you don't really need to fast on a carnivore diet.
@@denisedecker7330 really??? Never heard of it. Where'd you get that from? 😊
@@alexanderwindh4830 Dr Anthony Chaffee and Shawn Baker, Dr Paul Mason.
Scientists have known for some time that fasting can prevent seizures. But it can also cause death if it's prolonged. So they developed a diet that mimics fasting as closely as possible and that was a ketogenic diet. Fat is very critical to the brain. And so even a high fat keto diet mimics the fasting state as long as carbs are down and protein is moderate. The same effect is reached with a carnivore diet and I'm quoting Dr Anthony Chaffee. He gives that as a reason why we do not need to fast on a carnivore diet and he the reason he doesn't fast.
But a carnivore diet because of It's satiation leads to times of restricted eating typically.
Jason Fung probably the guy that most led to the fasting craze himself is not carnivorous.
I love beef, but I eat it with caution. I have a real question for you carnivore guys: Isn't beef responsible for cluttered arteries and heart attacks?
This is a real question, not trying to mock anyone.
No
When you look at the actual blood work and results , you come to the conclusion it was all propaganda .
If you check studies in details you will understand it was all propaganda and fake, not sure why, but it wasnt legit and not scientific studies. Newer research shows meat is best, I tried all diets, felt best on carnivore
I remember back in the 70s my grandmother would make me a steak on the skillet and then insist that I have a piece of Roman meal wheat bread to go along with it to sop up the grease in my stomach
I have veen trying to be carnivore for years now and always fail due to carbohydrate addiction. Quitting all sugar is crazy hard... You will dream about eating sweets. It will be best if parents did everything on their power to keep their kids away from any carbohydrates.
I would like to know what kind of meat he consumed? Grass fed , prime, choice?
If advocating for this diet which almost everyone loves, what was it?
Knowing Jordan for a long time. I’ll appreciate a straight answer and not and answer with another question.
I recommend his daughter's videos. She talks a lot about carnivore diet
some of the carnivore facebook groups I belong to... suggest: eat the meat you can afford and eat enough.
I am 3 1/2 months into carnivore. My arthritis has improved the mucus. I always had difficulty with coughing spitting up is gone I do not smoke although I did 40 years ago and I’ve just been diagnosed with lung cancer if I stick religiously to this food plan just have meat, salt and water which is a lion will that help to slow down or maybe even heal the cancer I am at goal weight I do liver once a week I do mostly beef although I do chicken and fish on occasion
Awe, I've waited for this beautifully intelligent Lex Friedman to talk with this deeply brilliant, darkness seeking within us all-Jordan Peterson for so long, and here it is.
How are you both so brave in this world of ours?? ♡♡♡♡
THIS DIET SAVED MY LIFE, I WAS LITERALLY DYING! WHY THE FUCK THE MEDICAL
COMMUNITY DOES NOT MOVE A FINGER TO INVESTIGATE!!!!!!!!
What does he use to cook it??? Oil, butter, or just grill it ?
As you travel so much, how to you maintain a carnivore diet while traveling (planes) and being in foreign countries?
I think he lies...He might be primarily carnivore but he breaks it here and there, although he said " I never cheat"
He travels first class most likely, so he can easily eat steak on a plane. He could do omad during traveling and just eat something at an airport lounge or restaurant or have room service.
Non-aged beef? Interesting. I wonder what that's about. I know that I suffer from depression and tiredness. When I eat hunted meat (elk, venison) I get a huge burst of energy and well-being. I always chalked it up to the iron and B-12 content but maybe there's more to fresh meat than just macros and micros.
I have to say I have done carnivore, paleo, ketovore, and everything in between. I have actually felt the best and had the best energy on fatty meat + fruit. No lie. Basically I combined carnivore and fruitovore and I'm doing better than when I was just carnivore.
WTF? According to both vegans and carnivores, my diet is essentially the worst of both worlds (combining high fat diet with a high sugar diet), yet this works. I even throw in veggies pretty regularly, avoiding beans and legumes, but consuming various starchy veggies like carrots. And still, no problems.
I keep hearing more stories like mine. It makes me think there's a psychosomatic element to the woes of JP and his family. But, they swear that even a little veggie or fruit kills them, so...
Honestly Im highly sceptic about this. Sure, a protein-heavy diet does have its advantages. However I can't imagine that eating 100% meat without serious supplementation long term can be good for your body, I think quite the opposite.
It's the most nutritionally dense thing we eat
The Kosher diet is probably the oldest diet It is 6000 years old and uses only 10 percent animal products. Its mind boggling how far and myopic some can be in trying to reinvent the wheel.
If you include organ meats you get all the nutrients you need.
Before I started eating carnivore, I would said the same thing. I just found out I was wrong.
@Bob Robertson I heard that when John Wayne died he had 25 pounds of matter lodged in his intestines and died from toxicity. I heard it was undigested meat. What these people dont tell you about what happens in the long run also Dr. Atkins had a history of heart trouble before he died from a fall later on. again hide the truth.no long term studies are out on this look it up yourself. Then the Inuit. die young in their natural environment.but dont tell them.
Comments section belike : i died last Monday, turned carnivore on Wednesday, now i am Wolverine from X-Men 😂😂😂 . Muricans dumbening year after year with such great consistency
There are pros and cons to everything, what are the drawback of a carnivore diet?
It’s expensive
Elevated risk of heart disease, especially later in life.
Elimination diets will lack certain nutrients so you will have to supplement accordingly. I'm assuming the lack of fiber long term on a carnivore diet could be an issue.
increased risk of colon cancer, gastric cancer, and cardiovascular disease.
Mainly the costs, from what I've seen. It's expensive to eat healthy. Probably why so many poor people are grossly obese.
Protein diets have a serious cost to them but it takes time before the system takes damage. Then again, carbohydrate diets a lot of people stick to are not better. I personally stick to low GI diets without sacrificing complex carbohydrates (as long is enough fiber and protein keeps the uptake down all is good).
@8th account The basic issues are bad breath, headache and constipation caused by a lack of fiber and turmoil in nutrient absorption but it does take some time before these issues become "stable" as in constant. Late stage damage can be more dangerous, common is kidney damage. Different people react differently, but only a few people have evolved to sustain themselves on mostly fat and meat (such as Eskimos) and most others will have these issues. The human body has evolved as omnivore and seemingly does best when it has regular intake of low GI food. Meat and fish is low GI, but it has little to no fiber. If fiber is added to a carnivorous diet that might assist the intestines but finding fiber naturally in such a diet might be difficult. I am sure people who support this diet have solutions, but I would still be careful. When we believe in something we tend to get serious blind spots.
@@GnosticAtheist , when we do this evolution? And, how long did it take? We were carnivores for tens of thousands of years, and then, what, the Food Pyramid gets published and we evolve to omnivores in a couple of hundred years. Seems pretty unlikely.
@@ralphholiman7401 Like all apes we consumed high amounts of fruit. Some apes are closer to herbivores than carnivores. It is grain that is a new staple of our diet.
@@GnosticAtheist , You keep thinking that you evolved into a grass feeder. I'm going to go with what makes sense.
@@ralphholiman7401 I do not understand. All apes eat fruit. The timetable for nutrients is relatively clear. No ape is a grass feeder as that takes herbivore digestion. Omnivores can digest fructose, some starch and need fiber for that ingestion to be slowed down.
I do not "think" I evolved into a herbivore because humans are not herbivores, nor do I go with what "makes sense" to suit my personal preferences. Science is trying to find the facts, not fit ideology.
The reason you feel more alert is because of your stress hormones increasing due to hunger. The fight or flight feel.
Thank you doctor
Very interesting, thanks
Watched a documentary on the cattle industry in USA going back to the 20's. Wow!
What about butter or cheese
Can anyone tell me what effects this diet has on an enlarged prostrate?
I’m on a carnivore eating regime and never felt better ever . I think medicine has lied to us ?
It strange my buddy started around 6 months ago and he swear by it and now by seeing him it’s incredible. He looks fantastic. I been thinking to myself we were lied too .
3:45 what does Lex Fridman say?
A stress on the system
There’s nothing wrong with a well balanced diet either. What most people miss is, our portion size has gotten a lot larger. If you get a calorie counter app, or just journal your diet for 5 days(but add everything), you’ll see. Then simply reduce that by 500 calories…you’ll lose weight. That’s what these elimination diets do…eliminate the extra 500 calories
But with carnivore you can eat as much as you want . Don't need to count any calories , and you lose weight . It's well documented in the serious studies , just not the propaganda to push carbs and the food industry .
@@drewdabrew4745 meh…I’m approaching this from a body building point of view. I love meat, and I’m predominantly carnivorous. But when I did the carnivore diet, I lost muscle and fat. I don’t want to lose muscle. It turns out that carbohydrates stores water in your muscle, and muscles are 70% water…so makes sense.
To be fair, I’ve done it before, and had better results so not sure what I did wrong.
Still, if you just go in a caloric deficit, you’ll still lose fat. So I’m giving it a shot.
@@BigstickNick for bodybuilding I understand , but regardless what I said stands
@@drewdabrew4745 yes, but when you say lose weight…you have to be careful..I was weighing less going carnivore, but I want composition as well. A person weight 185lbs with fat, can weight the same with muscle. That’s the end goal to me, also, I have to believe if the metabolism is working efficiently, it will be healthy.
@@BigstickNick yeah but to be healthy you have to be very careful what carbs and how many . Whereas what I'm saying is you don't have to worry at all or at least nearly as much with only meat .
Does eating excess carbs for long periods cause our brains to be in “hunting mode” like Dr. Peterson put it? How I think about it is, back in the day, if we ate mainly carbs over a long period of time, it signals to our bodies that we don’t have meat and need to go get it. So carbs make us more alert to go hunt (which should be a short period performed multiple times a day), and fat and protein make us more satisfied and relaxed.
Meat and eggs saved my life 🙏🙏🙏
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I am trying the same diet but with beer.
What percentage of this diet should be protein and what percentage fat?
Just play around with it. Eat until you feel full, then stop. Eat slowly. The body will tell you what is working. Dr. Chafee has some good insights.
I've seen people getting hamburger meat from fast food places, and unseasoned fish from restaurants.... Does the use of canola or vegetable oil from restaurants ruin the carnivore diet? Because i camt cook at home when i work 20 plus hours often
Look into how bad “seed oils” are for you on RUclips
If you haven’t already
I have a feeling here the key is low carb and fasting not meat. Carbs and sugars make you feel sluggish
Quick question, how do you guys combine this diet ( or 1 meal a day) with your day job? Do you skip breakfast and lunch and only eat diner? Or do you have a small breakfast in the morning?
For most ppl food is an addiction . I bet if you switch to just meat (fat/protein) you won't be hungry in the morning at all . And even just when you intermittent fast your hungry less , you won't be hungry in the morning .
Think about it , when you first wake up you haven't expended any real energy yet , why would you be so hungry? When we were cavemen we didn't have the ability to wake up and eat till we're full , we had to work for it first .
@@drewdabrew4745 good point, so i guess i will try the diet and see from there. Hoping to see some great chances💪
@@BentW02 good luck Brethren hope it works well for u
eat OMAD. or breakfast and dinner.
Thank you 😊
what about beer? Can I still drink beer? How bout wine, can I drink wine 😉
Carnivore saved my life. Last week I cut out the dairy and lost the last ten pounds in seven days. 😳 Meat only isn’t for sissies. It’s for people who want to feel good and are intent on an amazing life.
Who says it’s for sissies and vegetables are for bad asses ? Genuinely curious
@@weststaronsoundcloud4490 reread his comment. He wrote " meat only isn't for sissies". Meaning it is a tough long-term mental and physical challenge requiring serious willpower, discipline and comittment.He did not say" meat isn't only for sissies", which it appears is what you imagine he stated and you are passive aggressively responding to. Maybe if you change your own diet you will be a little less irritable and more focused and thoughtful and detail oriented and accurate LOL
@@sonnylambert4893 well said.
It all sounds good, but one thing that bothers me is that I watched his interview with Joe Rogan from 6 years ago and I compared how he looked in that video with how he looks in this video (5 years difference) and he looks much much older in this video (not 5 year older, but maybe 10-15 years older). Especially, he has very noticeable wrinkles on the forehead, which he almost didn't have 5 years ago, plus he has much more grey hair than he had 5 years ago. What do you think? Is it long term effect of meat only diet or is it something different?
If one restricts their diet to just whole, basically unprocessed, natural foods they experience great health benefits vs an almost anything goes diet. Often times they will eat predominately meat or plant based and they will attribute the benefits to vegetarianism or carnivorism but I think the reality is they just cut way back on calories and replaced junk food with natural, quality food. You can hear these miraculous health stories equally from raw food vegans to strict carnivores. Strict diets and fasts do deliver and it is in the strictness that they deliver, not in meat or plant based.
thats why i eat a healthy carnivore and plantbased balanced diet lol
Does anyone know what greens he eats in his diet?
None
I eat basic. Biscuits, rice, some milk. Some meat, and green beans.
I love steaks, but a vegetable and a couple of beers is important!
That's my problem. I know I don't need vegetables or beer, but they both sure taste good, and I fall off the wagon for a day every once in a while. And, my stomach is hurting almost immediately and I remember why I stopped eating them.
I wonder why Lex avoids eye contact most of the times with his guests? Also if it makes his guest uncomfortable.
Could it be a kind of autism spectrum sign?
Ketovore cured my 3 decades of depression, anxiety, constant hunger and skin conditions.
What a living hell that would be.
Curious about the carnivore diet but what meats do you eat? and how much do you consume per day?
Great question.
I'm pretty sure Mikhaila only does steak.
Jordan probably somewhat more varied but cow meat is probably the majority of what he eats.
Watch Dr Shawn Baker, Dr Anthony chaffee,Dr Robert KILTZ, Dr Ken Berry, fattier cuts of beef is best and good quality pastured eggs
Overall, you end up eating less. There is no sugar crash like with carbs. Fat ends up being your energy source, and it's a much slower burn. Lean meat won't be enough.
I do 3-4 pounds of beef per day. With redmond sea salt and water. Beef makes me feel the best. 60-80 percent of your calories should be from fat and the rest should be from protein. If your stool is too soft you need less fat, if it is dry you need more fat