Another new way to think about: if you keep eating something you don't like, your body starts to think that there's nothing else available, and to survive it helps you adapt to the taste to be able to keep eating it. But it doesn't mean you like it, or should keep eating it .
I eat fruit on carnivore, the fruit being queen olives, about three to four a day for a week or so and then none for a month or so. I wouldn't consider eating any fruit containing fructose which, some say, is worse than sucrose, and some fruits are high in fructose.
When I go off the diet, I usually go for the non-sweet fruits. Pumpkin, Zucchini, Avocado, Bell Pepper, Salt-Pickles and Tomato. (remove skin and seeds then cook it)
Proper human diet... Mostly ruminant meat, other whole meat, only certain veggies from the garden a couple months per year and occasionally fruit from the forest, when ripen.
I have some of those natural bananas and they indeed are full of seeds. My rule for Rick's Heart Attack Diet was to eat as much meat and fat is possible. As for plants I say no leaves, stems, roots or seeds. Fruit in season is acceptable. Fermentation can make some veggies edible. I have challenged my vegan friends to eat whole vegetables raw and unseasoned. None ever do.
@@williampeterson2952 Red meat tastes great raw. Sometimes when i cut my flank steak, i eat a part raw before grilling it. But maybe that's just my personnal taste.
Actually, I have never been vegan but I love raw unseasoned veggies. One of my biggest cravings on the Carnivore diet has been for raw cabbage, peas, carrots and cauliflower. I have severe digestive issues so cannot digest raw veggies. I have no choice but to resist them or risk feeling like a belly full of rocks.☹️
I eat carnivore at home, it’s delicious I never get sick of it, but when I go away for holidays or out with friends it’s impossible to eat carnivore so I go with the flow, but every time my digestion gives me pain and problems. On holiday I end up having two Paracetamols every day just to ease the pain in my belly. I love holidays but carnivore is just not acceptable anywhere, unlike vegetarian or vegan which is always offered in every restaurant. Time restaurants started catching up!
I was doing great until I hit the 4 month mark. Stress levels were high from financial challenges and I ate a teaspoon of raspberry jam in some high fat yoghurt. ☹️ My body went into some kind of hyper reaction and the pain in all my joints for the next 5 days was incredible. Was only 10 carbs but I am beginning to believe that I might be allergic to sugar. I also tried a week ago, 1 teaspoon of honey and no inflammatory reaction.
I consider myself more a ketovore person. In season I like blueberries and raspberries all locally grown, I like macadamia nuts once in a while, and I need onions with my liver. and I love my green tea.
Avocados, blueberries, raspberries and strawberries from time to time, as a topping for some creamcheese or yogurt. Kalamaata olives with feta and olive oil. honey on yogurt sometimes. some nuts occassionally.
I'm about to find out how it feels to go off, it's Mother's Day weekend and my kids are coming. Navajo tacos have been requested, so that's what I'm making. I'm going to cook plenty of delicious food and enjoy it this weekend. If I feel like crap next week..so be it! I feel like I need a break from all the meat and eggs anyway..
Sometimes it would just look silly if you with a group of people and just want to eat your own diet and be like the vegans that must announce to everyone what you eat. But when you back in n your home. Eat normal again.
@@max.german it was a great weekend, my tummy didn't particularly like the dietary change though. I'm back on the wagon again now. thanks for asking :)
On keto, for breakfast and evening meal I have 100g mixed fruit which is strawberries, blackberries, redcurrants and blackcurrants. With that I have 30g of seed/nut muesli which is sunflower seeds, flaxseed, pumpkin seed, chia seed, flaked coconut, macadamia nuts and walnuts. I add to that 30g heavy cream and 1 scoop of vanilla protein powder. For lunch I have beef, butter, eggs, sometimes with brussel sprouts 80g or a few lettuce leaves. Blood ketones are always decent, never out of ketosis. Very lean, well muscled etc. 153lbs at 5ft 7". Did carnivore strict for 6 months but feel better on current diet.
Thats interesting you feel better on current diet. Could it be due to you consuming more calories. If you ate the same amount of calories on strict carnivore do you think you would have felt better? especially being so ripped.
@@max.german I arrived at carnivore not for myself, but for my wife. I suggested she tried it as she's had fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome for years. I started carnivore with her just to make mealtimes easier and to give support. From a personal standpoint I noticed a lot of mental clarity after just a few days of starting carnivore. I have a medical diagnosis of autism and adhd and carnivore fixed the adhd probably 9o%. On carnivore I ate 3 meals per day of various meats, had eggs at most meals, butter etc. So calories weren't lacking, I actually gained weight but it was mainly bodyfat rather than muscle. I train in my garage gym daily, stationary bike 30 mins per day. Did that for years before carnivore, during 6 months of carnivore and also now on keto. On keto I'm getting back to pre carnivore levels of leanness, trimmed a couple of inches off my waistline which is predominantly where I store fat the easiest. On carnivore I'd occasionally make ice cream from heavy cream and eggs. On those days my ketones would get quite elevated and mentally I felt even better. So I've drifted more towards keto than strict carnivore. Before keto/carnivore I was still low carb wholefood, but maybe averaged 80g to 100g carbs per day. Got down to around 12% bodyfat on that but that amount of carbs is poor for my adhd, find it hard to concentrate or sit still for long. On keto I'm at 30g net carbs per day and concentration is great. I'm maybe 7lbs away from being back at 12% bodyfat. Lost near 5lbs in the last few weeks after switching to keto.
Thank you for the ebook. Not long after watching this, I was watching Real Time with Bill Maher season 22 episode 15 If you can watch his 1st guest. Eric Schlosser. He talks about the process foods.
Fermenting plants significantly reduces anti nutrients and increases probiotics and vit k2. Just make sure it's raw and organic but only eat it if you truly want to and are able to tolerate it. I'm guessing you're talking about sauerkraut, I used to eat it for a while but I realized I don't like it so now I don't bother. High quality raw animal foods are the best.
I am 2.6 years meat foundation paleo with low glycemic vegs and fruit. At the two year mark i added back root vegetables, fruit and legumes and dropped the fat content of my diet dramatically. 6 months later i had put back on 15 lbs. i have never had a problem with low glycemic vegs like asperagus, cabbage, peppers, onions, brocolli, fruit like avocado, olives, tomatoes, when not eating high glycemic. When eating high glycemic it creates gas because of fermentation. So April 1 i went back to the low glycemic vegs and fruit with higher fat and lost back 11 of the 15 in a little over a month. I primarily eat all kinds of meat, fish, eggs and the low glycemic vegs, fruit and fungus. I use to eat a fair amount of nuts but they are to damn addictive.
I eat a whole raw lemon once a week, skin, peel, seeds and all.. Its the only non carnivore food I ever eat as I am otherwise very strict and only ever eat eggs, fatty rib eye and salt for over a year without a single slip up. Virtually no carbs or sugar and weirdly I really like them.
The only non Carnivore food I would eat would be berries picked fresh, locally. Grocery store produce is just processed food without the box. Thank you for the video!!!
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As you suggested, I watched your video on why people shouldn’t eat plants but it doesn’t explain our teeth. We do not have the jaw of a carnivore. We have more grinding teeth than flesh tearing teeth. Also, during the ice ages people migrated to where they could find animals and plants to eat. Very few animals hung out on the “arctic” tundra. Very few animals still hang out on the arctic tundra. What are the grazing animals, which are humans’ primary animal protein source, supposed to be grazing on to feed themselves? There are valid reasons to reduce the amount of plant material we eat but you still haven’t explained our teeth not to mention our lengthy small intestine.
Humans could never attack their pray directly by biting like a lion, we always used tools. Spears/bows & arrows act as our 'canines/incisors'. Before these were invented we scavenged on carcasses left by big predatory animals but also ate fish at coastal regions. The human digestive tract is enzymatic in nature and does not employ fermentation. Fermentation is required to break down plant matter and this is done in the extended cecum in herbivorous animals whereas humans have a small cecum in comparison. Meat is broken down through enzymes very efficiently but our enzymes cannot break down plant fibers. There is a chap on youtube called Kent Carnivore who had colectomy surgery to have his colon removed. He has an external bag which collects food which has passed through the digestive tract and he can see exactly what gets digested and what does not. He has made a video on this below. Spoiler : plant foods don't get digested ruclips.net/video/lDP2x7XqCvU/видео.html
@@Dirk_van_Tonderthis is exactly correct. Our tools are our surrogate claws and fangs. I listened to a talk by Amber O'Hearn and she described humans as "lipovores" - early hominins using the simplest tool, a rock, to harvest the fatty bone marrow and brains that most carnivores can't access. This fatty diet leads to massive brain development at the expense of the gut (expensive tissue hypothesis) which means that we can figure out what to do with the sharp stone flakes that come about while we are crushing all those bones and skulls. Chimps use stones like this to get at nuts but despite millions of years of opportunity haven't figured out what to do with the sharp shards yet. I like the idea of being a lipovore.
Raw vegetable I like is cucumber, tomato, peas, celery, carrot, red raddish and capsicum. Dont need them cooked. Will taste better with salt xD nevertheless, 2 months strictly carnivore. Had headaches, so I get banana with fat greek yoghurt once per three days. Headaches stopped. Otherwise braised chuck roast, or minced beef patties, or rump steaks, bacon, eggs, sometimes cheese, always butter.
Just discovered your channel and liking what I see. I've been keto genic since 2018 with a heavy emphasis on meat, which has gradually morphed into higher carnivor content. I have noticed since the early days a sweetish odor 1 hour after eating or when I am getting hungry again. To me, it smells like babies skin. Do you think it might be ketone oozing out of my skin.
My only cheat is sourdough pancakes that I eat very rarely, maybe once every other month. We make them with spelt wheat since it has much less antinutrient content than modern wheat and so far it has not made me feel bad.
Please do a video about olives and olive oil on the carnivore diet. Please include specifics for those with high sensitivity. Olive oil was one of the last things to go on the Peterson's transition to the lion diet. I react to olive oil but not olives and would like to understand why. Olive oil is a keto fruit juice. Olive oil is revered as one of the top longevity foods. Id appreciate your research on this.
What’s interesting is that there aren’t enough olives in the world to produce as much olive oil that is being made. Most olive oils are laced with other oils. That could be why. I’m not a fan of olives as they are high in lineoilic acid like other plant fat.
The thing about not wanting to eat veggies raw is that we don’t eat meat raw either. We wouldn’t like it raw, and it would probably harm us if consumed that way. So I don’t see how that argument strengthens the case for carnivore. I agree that meat is nutritionally better- I am a carnivore. Just want to be consistent in our points.
Hello from England UK. Advice please. Male, aged 60, 5ft 9in, 21st 2lbs. Started Carnivore 2 days ago. I eat as follows, please advise if OK. 1pm: Beef Mince 500g (20% fat), 3 Organic Eggs, cooked in grass fed Kerrygold Butter, Maldons Salt Flakes. 7pm: Rump Steak 700g, 2 Organic Eggs, cooked in grass fed Kerrygold Butter, Maldons Salt Flakes. I drink 3.5 litres of Filtered Water daily. Is this ok? My Goal is to reach 13 Stone.
Definitely a good start. Carnivore is amazing for our health. Enjoy the success and research so you understand the initial challenges and the fat adaptation phase.
Dear Max. How to improve digestion? Been carnivore for about year, still struggling with constipation and food sitting in stomach feeling uncomfortably full, cannot eat alot in one meal and loosing too much wait on 2 meals a day. I'm pretty thin already so not doing this for weight loss but to heal my stomach and colon. Cannot have dairy or eggs either. Everyone says eat more fat but the more fat I eat the more uncomfortable I feel and more constipated. I'm so confused 😕
Food sitting in stomach feeling and constipation can be due to low stomach acid. Do a bit of research on that. Apparently, many people are misdiagnosed as having too much stomach acid when in reality it's the opposite. Good luck!
Yes, like @anjaradic9750 says, maybe not enough acid. I had this once and fixed it within a couple of days with a tablespoon of ACV in fizzy water 4 times a day.
I find that when I eat enough fatty meat, or for a snack I love frozen slices of butter, that I have no problem with constipation! Also, I have no gallbladder, and yet I have no problem with animal fats!! Best of luck to you!! ❤
For me I allow my self 1 piece of something a day. Now if that means that eating a piece of home made cake with my child having a birthday, then so be it. Now I would like to put my children on carnivore diet, but my wife is not for it. :) ... in her family lots of her relatives live/d for 90..100 years and for her it's always.. eat everyting in a small dose and don't feed yours self until your are completely full... moderation.
The difference is that the food wasn’t as poisoned back then. The poison in the food nowadays even in small doses is poison. All of these diseases did not exist until we started eating this stuff. The more meat a population eats the healthier, taller and smarter they are. But I do understand your wife’s perspective kids to some degree need to be kids.
@@max.german Luckily in Slovenia we still have lots of small farms producing food without any pesticides whatsoever. And at least here bio food is getting more popular. And as you normally buy directly from the farms the price is similar to what's in the store, where quality is in a completelly differen ballpark. I've stopped shoping in the stores as they simply sell garbage. So if it can be non-pasturized goat stuff, grass fed beef,... slowly gettng my issues under control.
Excellent video!,, Max would talk about caster oil Ytube raves about it healing properties Another clip say no, it’s unscientific and a veg oil What say u please? 🇳🇿
The most defended part of a plant (bean, which is a seed, which is the plants offspring). Not a fan of any fats from plants. Very high in lineolic acid. Aswell as many defense chemicals. If our ancestors didnt eat it, we don't have the adpatations to break it down. Since our ancestors ate no plants i'm not a fan of any of them.
Yes indeed penut butter is as bad as the processed seed oils because they add processed hydrogenated seed oils to the penut butter to prevent sepparation.
I'm a Type 1 diabetic if my blood sugar drop too Far for my body to take care of it self I eat a couple bites of melon. It aperently is super low in oxalates. But just enough to get me back to normal. I know I could drink milk but i get congested if I do..
what do you think of lemons for the first weeks of the carnivore diet. Could it be useful to help with the carnivore flu before you start the ketosis? And what do you think of lemons and apple cider vinegar use from time to time?
I would be interested to hear Max thoughts , but I think it is a good idea since meat is acidic. Lemons and ACV are alkalizing. I have not heard carnivore channels advocate for lemons however.
I have and it's absolutely fine. If anything, it is bland compared with cooked, but still easy to digest and does not cause any issues. Many vegetables you cannot (should not) eat raw.
What about honey? And where does the red face come from that some strict carnivores have (even Dr. Baker)? Is it salt? Dr. Chaffee doesn't eat salt and also doesn't have a red face. Leaving away gluten, alcohol and processed foods completely was my first big step. Lots of improvement there. Another huge benefit for me was avoiding caffeine completely and even decaf. By starting carnivore I got rid of my remaining psoriasis on my elbows. I try fruits occasionally but I can't make up my mind. Without them my heart beat gets strong and with them I feel like my back pain gets worse. 🤷♂🤔
I don't fully understand why processed food is worse than raw plants. My main reasoning is that if you process, especially ultra-process, plants you're going to reduce/destroy many of their defense chemicals. So even if you end up adding a bunch of man-made horror chemicals into it, those surely have to be less bad than the ones that came with the plant. If this wasn't the case, you couldn't do it by law. An obvious example: almonds contain cyanide, but you can't add cyanide to processed food. You can keep it in if you put almond into a product, but surely ultra-processing almonds will get rid of some of that cyanide.
Ultra-processed typically means additions like high fructose corn syrup and oxidized seed oils. Those foods might also often include both high carbs and fats from oil; a bad mix. Some of the man-made additions are likely much worse that the original plants. Some countries put additives into foods that are even banned in other countries. Processed foods can mean anything. Butter made with cream and optionally salt is a processed food. Cassava (tapioca starch) is processed to remove cyanide, but that processing means fermenting, drying, and cooking. Nothing is added. It is not ultra-processed. It is also nutritionally devoid of anything except energy from carbs.
I do believe carnivore is best, but to say "no one really likes veggies, especially raw"....that's just not true for all. I love raw zucchini, raw. purple broccoli (eat it straight off the plant in the garden) are they healthy, maybe not, but please don't say no one actually likes them. :-) NOT true! They are awesome!
@@max.german yes, I cook in the fat of the meat 🍖. Anyone using lean meats does not benefit from the fat, I would say a HUGE part of doing a carnivore lifestyle!!!!
fruits that are low in sugar and come with skin on are best. The skin reduces the amount of pesticides you are consuming as long as you don’t eat it obviously.
@@max.german Thank you! I just discovered you and watched all of your videos-they are all awesome!!! Would love to hear your thoughts on histamine and carnivore diet and any suggestions you might have! Maybe make a video about it; also about organs. 😊Many thanks-keep up the good work!!!
@@barongough9615 No worries. I personally eat about 1.5kg of lean meat and around 200-250g of fat when I am maintaining weight. But I’m very active. Just keep the fat to protein in that ratio 500g lean: 70-100g fat.
Dried veg tastes stronger, no salt or browning so it's just the veg you're tasting. If you like it, it might be acquired or it might be good for you. What do you think about our historic access to mushrooms then, both fresh and dried? I think they were just like today, unlike the fruit. Also wheat bran, does it have anything good and is the TMG it has useful?
Not a fan of any plants to tell you the truth. Most mushrooms species will kill someone or give a very "exotic" experience. I don't think they would have been eaten very often due to people being concerned after seeing what happened to others when they ate them. Aswell as the ice age which lasted 2 million years which would have covered most of them making it difficult for us to find.
I’m a carnivore and I do eat random shit like raw honey and-berries in season in my area it’s abundant but no to veggies they taste like shit. And make me sick. Recently I was on vacation and had a bowl of ice cream I felt like shit for 2 days then back to feeling like super man.
That’s a great diet in my opinion. Good for you hear you feel amazing bro. It’s unbelievable the difference. People who eat the standard American diet don’t realize that they are missing out on feeling superhuman. It’s incredible.
I reckon raw meat tastes amazing😂 I do always sear it though as I’m not sure how it was handled. Could have been on the same boards used to cut chicken etc.
"The seed is defended so animals don't get to it before it's planted". Not intirely accurate. Plants want animals to eat them so they can poop them out in a big pile of fertilizer.
Yes but they are so defended to the point that we can’t break many of them down. Which is why they pass through our bodies without being absorbed. The plant needs the seed to stay intact. So when the seed gets broken down as in we chew it the plant has essentially failed to reproduce. Which makes it incredibly defended.
I eat frozen wild blueberries basically every night (zero carb isnt for me long term)and I like some macadamia nuts as they are the least toxic nut along with pecans
@@Fast-e-Learning I've never noticed any issues with macadamias, which are the only nut I eat. I believe they are one of the best nuts. Low lectins and oxalates with a better fat profile.
Not an advocate for much of the plant food people eat today but our bodies were designed to eat some plants. Human beings are omnivores. Please explain our teeth if, as you insist, we should not eat plants.
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I try to always run my vegetables through an animal before consumption.
This is the best way to process vegetables no doubt.
Absolutely, it’s the only way to make them taste nice without putting so much sauce or butter on them that you can no longer taste them aha
The most highly concentrated purveyor of information on the carnivore diet! Much appreciated Max!!
Thank you very much. Glad you find my videos helpful :)
Another new way to think about: if you keep eating something you don't like, your body starts to think that there's nothing else available, and to survive it helps you adapt to the taste to be able to keep eating it. But it doesn't mean you like it, or should keep eating it .
For me is Raspberries for fruit, Sauerkraut and Kimchi for vegetables since they are fermented. all of them on a very occasional basis.
I eat fruit on carnivore, the fruit being queen olives, about three to four a day for a week or so and then none for a month or so. I wouldn't consider eating any fruit containing fructose which, some say, is worse than sucrose, and some fruits are high in fructose.
When I go off the diet, I usually go for the non-sweet fruits. Pumpkin, Zucchini, Avocado, Bell Pepper, Salt-Pickles and Tomato. (remove skin and seeds then cook it)
Proper human diet... Mostly ruminant meat, other whole meat, only certain veggies from the garden a couple months per year and occasionally fruit from the forest, when ripen.
I have some of those natural bananas and they indeed are full of seeds. My rule for Rick's Heart Attack Diet was to eat as much meat and fat is possible. As for plants I say no leaves, stems, roots or seeds. Fruit in season is acceptable. Fermentation can make some veggies edible. I have challenged my vegan friends to eat whole vegetables raw and unseasoned. None ever do.
Yup, we always have to drown veggies in sauce to be able to eat it on a regular basis.
Unseasoned, raw meat probably doesn’t taste very good either
@@williampeterson2952 Red meat tastes great raw. Sometimes when i cut my flank steak, i eat a part raw before grilling it. But maybe that's just my personnal taste.
Actually, I have never been vegan but I love raw unseasoned veggies. One of my biggest cravings on the Carnivore diet has been for raw cabbage, peas, carrots and cauliflower. I have severe digestive issues so cannot digest raw veggies. I have no choice but to resist them or risk feeling like a belly full of rocks.☹️
@@williampeterson2952 It's fine in my opinion!
watery fruíts like a cucumber or melon and sauerkraut (since its pre-digested) are my gotos
Sounds reasonable. I would be worried about the fructose in melons though.
I eat carnivore at home, it’s delicious I never get sick of it, but when I go away for holidays or out with friends it’s impossible to eat carnivore so I go with the flow, but every time my digestion gives me pain and problems. On holiday I end up having two Paracetamols every day just to ease the pain in my belly. I love holidays but carnivore is just not acceptable anywhere, unlike vegetarian or vegan which is always offered in every restaurant. Time restaurants started catching up!
I was doing great until I hit the 4 month mark. Stress levels were high from financial challenges and I ate a teaspoon of raspberry jam in some high fat yoghurt. ☹️
My body went into some kind of hyper reaction and the pain in all my joints for the next 5 days was incredible. Was only 10 carbs but I am beginning to believe that I might be allergic to sugar.
I also tried a week ago, 1 teaspoon of honey and no inflammatory reaction.
Thats interesting. Could be that. When you don't eat it for a while it can make you more sensitive to it.
I consider myself more a ketovore person. In season I like blueberries and raspberries all locally grown, I like macadamia nuts once in a while, and I need onions with my liver. and I love my green tea.
That's what I try to aim for... Meat, berries, and mate.
Avocados, blueberries, raspberries and strawberries from time to time, as a topping for some creamcheese or yogurt. Kalamaata olives with feta and olive oil. honey on yogurt sometimes. some nuts occassionally.
I'm about to find out how it feels to go off, it's Mother's Day weekend and my kids are coming. Navajo tacos have been requested, so that's what I'm making. I'm going to cook plenty of delicious food and enjoy it this weekend. If I feel like crap next week..so be it! I feel like I need a break from all the meat and eggs anyway..
Are the Navajo tacos made with fry bread?
@@2old4allthis yes, Mexican seasoned beans and pork over homemade fry bread with all the fixin's!
How did it go?
Sometimes it would just look silly if you with a group of people and just want to eat your own diet and be like the vegans that must announce to everyone what you eat. But when you back in n your home. Eat normal again.
@@max.german it was a great weekend, my tummy didn't particularly like the dietary change though. I'm back on the wagon again now. thanks for asking :)
On keto, for breakfast and evening meal I have 100g mixed fruit which is strawberries, blackberries, redcurrants and blackcurrants. With that I have 30g of seed/nut muesli which is sunflower seeds, flaxseed, pumpkin seed, chia seed, flaked coconut, macadamia nuts and walnuts. I add to that 30g heavy cream and 1 scoop of vanilla protein powder. For lunch I have beef, butter, eggs, sometimes with brussel sprouts 80g or a few lettuce leaves. Blood ketones are always decent, never out of ketosis. Very lean, well muscled etc. 153lbs at 5ft 7". Did carnivore strict for 6 months but feel better on current diet.
Thats interesting you feel better on current diet. Could it be due to you consuming more calories. If you ate the same amount of calories on strict carnivore do you think you would have felt better? especially being so ripped.
@@max.german I arrived at carnivore not for myself, but for my wife. I suggested she tried it as she's had fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome for years. I started carnivore with her just to make mealtimes easier and to give support. From a personal standpoint I noticed a lot of mental clarity after just a few days of starting carnivore. I have a medical diagnosis of autism and adhd and carnivore fixed the adhd probably 9o%. On carnivore I ate 3 meals per day of various meats, had eggs at most meals, butter etc. So calories weren't lacking, I actually gained weight but it was mainly bodyfat rather than muscle. I train in my garage gym daily, stationary bike 30 mins per day. Did that for years before carnivore, during 6 months of carnivore and also now on keto. On keto I'm getting back to pre carnivore levels of leanness, trimmed a couple of inches off my waistline which is predominantly where I store fat the easiest. On carnivore I'd occasionally make ice cream from heavy cream and eggs. On those days my ketones would get quite elevated and mentally I felt even better. So I've drifted more towards keto than strict carnivore. Before keto/carnivore I was still low carb wholefood, but maybe averaged 80g to 100g carbs per day. Got down to around 12% bodyfat on that but that amount of carbs is poor for my adhd, find it hard to concentrate or sit still for long. On keto I'm at 30g net carbs per day and concentration is great. I'm maybe 7lbs away from being back at 12% bodyfat. Lost near 5lbs in the last few weeks after switching to keto.
My cheat fruit on the occasion is pomegranate and pineapple
Thank you for the ebook. Not long after watching this, I was watching Real Time with Bill Maher season 22 episode 15
If you can watch his 1st guest. Eric Schlosser. He talks about the process foods.
No worries, I hope you enjoyed reading it
Sauerkraut
Whatabout fermented veggies ?
Fermenting plants significantly reduces anti nutrients and increases probiotics and vit k2. Just make sure it's raw and organic but only eat it if you truly want to and are able to tolerate it. I'm guessing you're talking about sauerkraut, I used to eat it for a while but I realized I don't like it so now I don't bother. High quality raw animal foods are the best.
Not a fan of any plants. Still contains alot of defense chemicals.
@@max.german Yeah, I suppose it's impossible to make veggies safe for humans.
I can’t do strict carnivore - mushrooms are my favorite add in
Very educational. 😊
I am 2.6 years meat foundation paleo with low glycemic vegs and fruit. At the two year mark i added back root vegetables, fruit and legumes and dropped the fat content of my diet dramatically. 6 months later i had put back on 15 lbs.
i have never had a problem with low glycemic vegs like asperagus, cabbage, peppers, onions, brocolli, fruit like avocado, olives, tomatoes, when not eating high glycemic. When eating high glycemic it creates gas because of fermentation. So April 1 i went back to the low glycemic vegs and fruit with higher fat and lost back 11 of the 15 in a little over a month.
I primarily eat all kinds of meat, fish, eggs and the low glycemic vegs, fruit and fungus. I use to eat a fair amount of nuts but they are to damn addictive.
I eat a whole raw lemon once a week, skin, peel, seeds and all.. Its the only non carnivore food I ever eat as I am otherwise very strict and only ever eat eggs, fatty rib eye and salt for over a year without a single slip up. Virtually no carbs or sugar and weirdly I really like them.
Great vid max .numbers are coming mate well done.👍🏻
Thanks Vaughan. Hope you are well.
Some sauerkraut on my beef dogs man
For me, I'll have 2 tablespoons of Redi-Whip as a cheat at a birthday party. It does not kick me out of ketosis, and tastes yummy.
You are getting kicked out of ketosis when you have high protein. Carnivores are not continuously in ketosis.
The only non Carnivore food I would eat would be berries picked fresh, locally. Grocery store produce is just processed food without the box.
Thank you for the video!!!
Yea I agree. Definitely the best option. Glad you enjoyed.
I went off carnivore for 10 days, on day 7 I woke up feeling hung over, and on day eight I got a migraine. What was I even thinking on days 9 & 10?
Thats very interesting. Atleast you are back on it now haha.
I've learned about access with in control I believe it's words of wisdom to live by diet is different for everyone just you have to learn what's best for you what works for you❤
As you suggested, I watched your video on why people shouldn’t eat plants but it doesn’t explain our teeth. We do not have the jaw of a carnivore. We have more grinding teeth than flesh tearing teeth. Also, during the ice ages people migrated to where they could find animals and plants to eat. Very few animals hung out on the “arctic” tundra. Very few animals still hang out on the arctic tundra. What are the grazing animals, which are humans’ primary animal protein source, supposed to be grazing on to feed themselves? There are valid reasons to reduce the amount of plant material we eat but you still haven’t explained our teeth not to mention our lengthy small intestine.
Humans could never attack their pray directly by biting like a lion, we always used tools. Spears/bows & arrows act as our 'canines/incisors'. Before these were invented we scavenged on carcasses left by big predatory animals but also ate fish at coastal regions.
The human digestive tract is enzymatic in nature and does not employ fermentation. Fermentation is required to break down plant matter and this is done in the extended cecum in herbivorous animals whereas humans have a small cecum in comparison. Meat is broken down through enzymes very efficiently but our enzymes cannot break down plant fibers. There is a chap on youtube called Kent Carnivore who had colectomy surgery to have his colon removed. He has an external bag which collects food which has passed through the digestive tract and he can see exactly what gets digested and what does not. He has made a video on this below. Spoiler : plant foods don't get digested
ruclips.net/video/lDP2x7XqCvU/видео.html
@@Dirk_van_Tonderthis is exactly correct.
Our tools are our surrogate claws and fangs. I listened to a talk by Amber O'Hearn and she described humans as "lipovores" - early hominins using the simplest tool, a rock, to harvest the fatty bone marrow and brains that most carnivores can't access. This fatty diet leads to massive brain development at the expense of the gut (expensive tissue hypothesis) which means that we can figure out what to do with the sharp stone flakes that come about while we are crushing all those bones and skulls. Chimps use stones like this to get at nuts but despite millions of years of opportunity haven't figured out what to do with the sharp shards yet.
I like the idea of being a lipovore.
Good info Max. Kahnivore 4eva 🐺
Thank you very much
if you have cravings, eat bacon and maybe some cheese
Please do a video about matcha tea (1st baby spring leaves) vs green tea (larger older leaves with stems) on the carnivore diet.
I like raw mushrooms. Raw. 😊
I miss rice more than anything on the carnivore diet
Carb Craving
For how long?
Manuka honey has been essential medicine for me to treat severe drenching night sweats associated with menopause. Bee pollen seems to help too.
phenomonal video
Thank you very much
Thanks a lot for sharing!
No worries:)
Great vid! I think cucumbers are up there for being the safest plant food. Also I wonder how old are you bro?
Thank you very much, how old do you think I am?
@@max.german You seem to be in your early 20s, carnivore diet helps big time
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You forgot the third food group "Lasagna"
Raw vegetable I like is cucumber, tomato, peas, celery, carrot, red raddish and capsicum. Dont need them cooked. Will taste better with salt xD nevertheless, 2 months strictly carnivore. Had headaches, so I get banana with fat greek yoghurt once per three days. Headaches stopped. Otherwise braised chuck roast, or minced beef patties, or rump steaks, bacon, eggs, sometimes cheese, always butter.
Great video
Thank you very much.
Just discovered your channel and liking what I see. I've been keto genic since 2018 with a heavy emphasis on meat, which has gradually morphed into higher carnivor content. I have noticed since the early days a sweetish odor 1 hour after eating or when I am getting hungry again. To me, it smells like babies skin. Do you think it might be ketone oozing out of my skin.
My only cheat is sourdough pancakes that I eat very rarely, maybe once every other month. We make them with spelt wheat since it has much less antinutrient content than modern wheat and so far it has not made me feel bad.
I like the food by itself approach. If the food by itself bothers me then it’s not a good one
Yep that’s a great way to do it.
The cleanest cultivation is only the Biodynamics ones!
Please do a video about olives and olive oil on the carnivore diet. Please include specifics for those with high sensitivity. Olive oil was one of the last things to go on the Peterson's transition to the lion diet. I react to olive oil but not olives and would like to understand why. Olive oil is a keto fruit juice. Olive oil is revered as one of the top longevity foods. Id appreciate your research on this.
What’s interesting is that there aren’t enough olives in the world to produce as much olive oil that is being made. Most olive oils are laced with other oils. That could be why. I’m not a fan of olives as they are high in lineoilic acid like other plant fat.
@@max.german good point about the other oils!
No plans to cheat, but what do you think of olives?
The thing about not wanting to eat veggies raw is that we don’t eat meat raw either. We wouldn’t like it raw, and it would probably harm us if consumed that way. So I don’t see how that argument strengthens the case for carnivore. I agree that meat is nutritionally better- I am a carnivore. Just want to be consistent in our points.
Fair argument. I enjoy raw meat. I sear the outside for safety reasons (cross contamination) but to me it tastes amazing.
I have always liked capsicums raw without seasonings...
Hello from England UK.
Advice please.
Male, aged 60, 5ft 9in, 21st 2lbs.
Started Carnivore 2 days ago.
I eat as follows, please advise if OK.
1pm: Beef Mince 500g (20% fat), 3 Organic Eggs, cooked in grass fed Kerrygold Butter, Maldons Salt Flakes.
7pm: Rump Steak 700g, 2 Organic Eggs, cooked in grass fed Kerrygold Butter, Maldons Salt Flakes.
I drink 3.5 litres of Filtered Water daily.
Is this ok?
My Goal is to reach 13 Stone.
Definitely a good start. Carnivore is amazing for our health. Enjoy the success and research so you understand the initial challenges and the fat adaptation phase.
Sounds great mate. Keep at it and you will achieve your goals. Keep me updated with how it goes.
Have you got a video or an upcoming video about alcohol on the carnivore diet?
I had planned to and I do want to but I’m not sure how it works around RUclips’s guidelines. I’ll look into it.
Or vaping ... Or weed 😂
Keep in mind what the animals are fed with. Mostly their food is full of pesticides which ends up in the meat that we will eat
Ruminant animals are very good at breaking it down. Most of the time the grass they eat isn’t sprayed also. There is zero pesticides in ruminant meat.
What about saurkraut?
Not a fan of any plants. Even if some of the defense chemicals aren’t there. There will still be some.
I found sauerkraut helped gut feel good ,,small amount .
No, I don't like vegetables just raw without some kind of seasoning, but I don't like meat that way, either.
really? avocados bring down my inflammation.
Dear Max. How to improve digestion? Been carnivore for about year, still struggling with constipation and food sitting in stomach feeling uncomfortably full, cannot eat alot in one meal and loosing too much wait on 2 meals a day. I'm pretty thin already so not doing this for weight loss but to heal my stomach and colon. Cannot have dairy or eggs either. Everyone says eat more fat but the more fat I eat the more uncomfortable I feel and more constipated. I'm so confused 😕
Thanks very interesting. Not 100% sure why that would be. How often do you consume plants. Medication coffee etc.
Food sitting in stomach feeling and constipation can be due to low stomach acid. Do a bit of research on that. Apparently, many people are misdiagnosed as having too much stomach acid when in reality it's the opposite. Good luck!
Yes, like @anjaradic9750 says, maybe not enough acid. I had this once and fixed it within a couple of days with a tablespoon of ACV in fizzy water 4 times a day.
I find that when I eat enough fatty meat, or for a snack I love frozen slices of butter, that I have no problem with constipation! Also, I have no gallbladder, and yet I have no problem with animal fats!! Best of luck to you!! ❤
For me I allow my self 1 piece of something a day. Now if that means that eating a piece of home made cake with my child having a birthday, then so be it.
Now I would like to put my children on carnivore diet, but my wife is not for it. :) ... in her family lots of her relatives live/d for 90..100 years and for her it's always.. eat everyting in a small dose and don't feed yours self until your are completely full... moderation.
The difference is that the food wasn’t as poisoned back then. The poison in the food nowadays even in small doses is poison. All of these diseases did not exist until we started eating this stuff. The more meat a population eats the healthier, taller and smarter they are. But I do understand your wife’s perspective kids to some degree need to be kids.
@@max.german Luckily in Slovenia we still have lots of small farms producing food without any pesticides whatsoever. And at least here bio food is getting more popular. And as you normally buy directly from the farms the price is similar to what's in the store, where quality is in a completelly differen ballpark. I've stopped shoping in the stores as they simply sell garbage.
So if it can be non-pasturized goat stuff, grass fed beef,... slowly gettng my issues under control.
Excellent video!,,
Max would talk about caster oil
Ytube raves about it healing properties
Another clip say no, it’s unscientific and a veg oil
What say u please?
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The most defended part of a plant (bean, which is a seed, which is the plants offspring). Not a fan of any fats from plants. Very high in lineolic acid. Aswell as many defense chemicals. If our ancestors didnt eat it, we don't have the adpatations to break it down. Since our ancestors ate no plants i'm not a fan of any of them.
Thanks so much
That’s all I needed to hear
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I’ve a strong intuition about honey. Bear diet or something
Onions
Probably very well cooked potatoes. Defo not grains. Defo not fruit
Grass fed or Dead
Yes indeed penut butter is as bad as the processed seed oils because they add processed hydrogenated seed oils to the penut butter to prevent sepparation.
Smuckers organic PB is just roasted peanuts 🥜 and salt
@@rodneypayne5124 . Enjoy your peanut butter.
I'm a Type 1 diabetic if my blood sugar drop too Far for my body to take care of it self I eat a couple bites of melon. It aperently is super low in oxalates. But just enough to get me back to normal. I know I could drink milk but i get congested if I do..
fruit, seeds, veg and nuts are for rats and mice, most humans are not rats, nor mice.
As an evolutionist(you)...I have to take your information tongue & cheek.....
Short of growing everything yourself,food will not be perfect....
what do you think of lemons for the first weeks of the carnivore diet. Could it be useful to help with the carnivore flu before you start the ketosis? And what do you think of lemons and apple cider vinegar use from time to time?
How would adding poison to your body be good for "flu" ???
I would be interested to hear Max thoughts , but I think it is a good idea since meat is acidic. Lemons and ACV are alkalizing. I have not heard carnivore channels advocate for lemons however.
I was surprised to learn that rice is technically a fruit.
What is it actually? Ahhahah
@@max.german en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caryopsis
also, vegetables aren't even real, botanically. it's a culinary term.
Not sure if the you only eat veggies because they are cooked and seasoned.
Ever try meat raw?
I have and it’s not tasty.
I have and it's absolutely fine. If anything, it is bland compared with cooked, but still easy to digest and does not cause any issues. Many vegetables you cannot (should not) eat raw.
What about honey?
And where does the red face come from that some strict carnivores have (even Dr. Baker)? Is it salt? Dr. Chaffee doesn't eat salt and also doesn't have a red face.
Leaving away gluten, alcohol and processed foods completely was my first big step. Lots of improvement there. Another huge benefit for me was avoiding caffeine completely and even decaf. By starting carnivore I got rid of my remaining psoriasis on my elbows. I try fruits occasionally but I can't make up my mind. Without them my heart beat gets strong and with them I feel like my back pain gets worse. 🤷♂🤔
Mine comes from the reflection of my computer screen aha. In normal lighting I don't have any redness aha.
I don't fully understand why processed food is worse than raw plants. My main reasoning is that if you process, especially ultra-process, plants you're going to reduce/destroy many of their defense chemicals. So even if you end up adding a bunch of man-made horror chemicals into it, those surely have to be less bad than the ones that came with the plant. If this wasn't the case, you couldn't do it by law. An obvious example: almonds contain cyanide, but you can't add cyanide to processed food. You can keep it in if you put almond into a product, but surely ultra-processing almonds will get rid of some of that cyanide.
Probably because those man made chemicals are way worse for us. In addition to ultra processed food being engineered to be as addictive as possible.
Processed is not the same as ultraprocessed
Ultra-processed typically means additions like high fructose corn syrup and oxidized seed oils. Those foods might also often include both high carbs and fats from oil; a bad mix. Some of the man-made additions are likely much worse that the original plants. Some countries put additives into foods that are even banned in other countries.
Processed foods can mean anything. Butter made with cream and optionally salt is a processed food.
Cassava (tapioca starch) is processed to remove cyanide, but that processing means fermenting, drying, and cooking. Nothing is added. It is not ultra-processed. It is also nutritionally devoid of anything except energy from carbs.
What about honey and bee pollen?
I have a video on this coming out soon.
You sound a bit nasal, are you struggling with histamine? I struggle with beef because of this.
I was slightly sick at the time of filming this. I wasn’t sleeping very much (had no time) and because I was sleep deprived I got a slight cold aha.
I do believe carnivore is best, but to say "no one really likes veggies, especially raw"....that's just not true for all. I love raw zucchini, raw. purple broccoli (eat it straight off the plant in the garden) are they healthy, maybe not, but please don't say no one actually likes them. :-) NOT true! They are awesome!
Hahahah I do apologize ma’am. 99.9% of people don’t like them I should say.
My biggest struggle with carnivore right now is missing my veggies!
No plants.
Agreed
Aww bugger, not my mushrooms.
Every oriental person in their countries or 1st generation in the USA love plain white rice, nothing on it.
How do you feel about Coconut oil ?
Not a fan of any plant to be honest
@@max.german yes, I cook in the fat of the meat 🍖. Anyone using lean meats does not benefit from the fat, I would say a HUGE part of doing a carnivore lifestyle!!!!
What fruits would you recommend if someone wants to have it occasionally? Thank you
fruits that are low in sugar and come with skin on are best. The skin reduces the amount of pesticides you are consuming as long as you don’t eat it obviously.
@@max.german Thank you! I just discovered you and watched all of your videos-they are all awesome!!! Would love to hear your thoughts on histamine and carnivore diet and any suggestions you might have! Maybe make a video about it; also about organs. 😊Many thanks-keep up the good work!!!
Organic berries, organic olives, organic avocado. Organic dill pickle. (Yes they are all fruits)
@@mom2artists Thank you!
Before I watch the video I think berries would be the best
Well I was close and technically correct 👍🏻
You were correct. I personally prefer fruits with skin however. As they will contain less pesticides assuming you don't eat the skin also.
How much fat should I have with my meat 🍖
500g of lean meat to 70-100g of fat is probably a good ratio long term
@@max.german cheers for replying 👍 would that be for the whole day
@@barongough9615 No worries. I personally eat about 1.5kg of lean meat and around 200-250g of fat when I am maintaining weight. But I’m very active. Just keep the fat to protein in that ratio 500g lean: 70-100g fat.
@max.german thanks alot m8
Dried veg tastes stronger, no salt or browning so it's just the veg you're tasting. If you like it, it might be acquired or it might be good for you.
What do you think about our historic access to mushrooms then, both fresh and dried? I think they were just like today, unlike the fruit.
Also wheat bran, does it have anything good and is the TMG it has useful?
Not a fan of any plants to tell you the truth. Most mushrooms species will kill someone or give a very "exotic" experience. I don't think they would have been eaten very often due to people being concerned after seeing what happened to others when they ate them. Aswell as the ice age which lasted 2 million years which would have covered most of them making it difficult for us to find.
mmmmmmm, 4.4lbs of almonds never sounded so good
Jesus loves you bro
Does soaking nuts remove the bad stuff?
Nope
I’m a carnivore and I do eat random shit like raw honey and-berries in season in my area it’s abundant but no to veggies they taste like shit. And make me sick. Recently I was on vacation and had a bowl of ice cream I felt like shit for 2 days then back to feeling like super man.
That’s a great diet in my opinion. Good for you hear you feel amazing bro. It’s unbelievable the difference. People who eat the standard American diet don’t realize that they are missing out on feeling superhuman. It’s incredible.
I mean I’m no vegetable enjoyer but the same statement could apply. I also don’t like any meat raw with no seasoning…both are nasty
I reckon raw meat tastes amazing😂 I do always sear it though as I’m not sure how it was handled. Could have been on the same boards used to cut chicken etc.
"The seed is defended so animals don't get to it before it's planted". Not intirely accurate. Plants want animals to eat them so they can poop them out in a big pile of fertilizer.
Yes but they are so defended to the point that we can’t break many of them down. Which is why they pass through our bodies without being absorbed. The plant needs the seed to stay intact. So when the seed gets broken down as in we chew it the plant has essentially failed to reproduce. Which makes it incredibly defended.
Great info. But you speak too fast.
Thank you. Noted, will slow down from now on.
This video had to be sped up 2x.
Nobody can speak that fast!
I'm not sure why I was speaking so fast in this one aha. Not sped up at all tho.
I eat frozen wild blueberries basically every night (zero carb isnt for me long term)and I like some macadamia nuts as they are the least toxic nut along with pecans
don't the nuts cause inflammation?
@@Fast-e-Learning not that I notice and I’m very sensitive but I only eat a handful
@@Fast-e-Learning I've never noticed any issues with macadamias, which are the only nut I eat. I believe they are one of the best nuts. Low lectins and oxalates with a better fat profile.
The meat isn't so great either. With it all shot up with antibiotics and growth hormone and whatnot.
That's not true for most parts of the world. Very illegal in many first world countries.
@@max.german Well it certainly is in America.
Marijuana
So no cookies?😢😢
No...
Not an advocate for much of the plant food people eat today but our bodies were designed to eat some plants. Human beings are omnivores. Please explain our teeth if, as you insist, we should not eat plants.
I have a video called why humans are meant to only eat meat where I break this down :)
Humans seem to be designed for fruit but thrive on meat. Almost as if we lived in a beautiful garden but were cast out and now life is in blood.
How did you come to the conclusion that vegetables taste terrible? Im sure there are a few billion people out there who love the taste of vegetables
What vegetable do you enjoy eating as it is without butter, salt and without being cooked?
so I cant eat anything cool
You can, I was just explaining the problems with each food.