Been strict carnivore for 6 months, fighting cancer. I've lost all excess wieght at 3 months in. Prediabetes is gone, insulin at 3.6... but LDL is up from 200 to 346... HDL at 55, triglycerides at 113... my cardiologist is freaking out, screaming statins... I feel better than I have in decades, cancer is almost gone, due to carnivore and a couple supplements... I am not worried about the LDL, but everyone else is....like my wife... Ps. My urologist who prescribed carnivore, said there's no such thing as high cholesterol...
@jack14kd I am taking IP6 GOLD, daily, high dose. And yes I'm doing a round of ivermectin, every month... But, my PSA was dropping with just the carnivore...
@@LisaL-yl9zm I've been gently waging info-war every now and again on my father against his continued use of cholesterol-lowering drugs for well over a year now but so far he's been ignoring me. Doctor knows best. I've heard him talk about the existence of corruption and the role of money but never ever in any specific case. Yes it exists but only in abstract. In every case that come before him the media is correct, the government is correct, the doctor is correct. Actually the one time I've heard him applying that pseudo-understanding was something related to football (soccer). I think I even made the point that if it happens there then wouldn't it happen even more where there is even more to gain? Haven't heard him doubt official narratives yet on things that actually matter.
@@LisaL-yl9zm Big percentage of people have got to hear it from a figure an authority figure. If teacher says so they'll believe. A copy of Ovadia's, Berry's, Baker's or Georgia Ede's book might be more effective. They may still be dismissed but at least they've got the letters behind their name. That is the most important thing for many people.
It's funny ,..when your body starts operating right and you feel amazing you start questioning how you feel because you've never felt like this before🔥
For me it's the control it's given me and my gut has n e v e r felt as good as it does now, in my entire life. Edit: Also the crippling anxiety I use to face nearly every day. While I still feel it, it doesn't control me and I can still operate. Obviously a "diet" can't fix everything in your life and other issues but again it's helped me to maintain and control any type of emotion I feel at that time. Just the thought of being like that again is enough for me to never eat sugar/carbs for the rest of my life.
You are right about the waxy part but cholesterol is NOT a traditional alcohol. Traditional alcohols are typically hydrophilic (water-soluble) and contain hydroxyl (-OH) groups. Cholesterol, on the other hand, is a hydrophobic (water-insoluble) molecule with a steroid structure.
Good morning from South Florida.. I started watching your videos 9 months ago, and I have to say thank you, Doc.. I started my carnivore journey 28 weeks ago, and I'm down 77lbs. I'm on OMAD, I eat 2lbs. of ribeye every night and I treat myself to a pound of Prosciutto Di Parma every other week..I feel absolutely amazing, it took about a month before I started to feel the effects and they haven't stopped since. Everyone around me told me I was crazy for the first few months, and now all I get are questions regarding how hard is this diet, I tell them it's not a diet it's a key to life. I've got another 40lbs. to go before I get to my goal weight, only then will I start to incorporate a workout regime. Thank you Doc.. You put me on the track to success from day one.🙏 Starting weight was 322lbs. Goal is 210lbs. I'm 6 ft. 54 yrs. old..
@minniesgr1nd2r21 That’s interesting. Can I ask your age? I’m 65 and carnivore for 17 months. No fat loss unless I fast for 72 hours. Then it goes back on again. Haven’t tried Lion but wondered if that’s what I need.
You should see the comment section of Kelly Hogans newest video of a carnivore having a heart attack. All the carnivore haters are out in full force, as if no one gets heart attacks on any other diet 😂 Lady had CVD previously and CAC continued to increase for years after carnivore, unfortunately. Plenty of others have gone the other way on carnivore so it is curious what is causing it. No mention of mRNA vax status.
I don't know but my guess is she was doing Carnivore wrong..some people have high glucose on Carnivore that could be caused by dairy or overeating protein.
I'm one of these "lean mass hyper responders". I was already lean and fit when I turned to carnivore and my doctor was shocked about my sky-high LDL lol. He had never heard of the carnivore diet before but he was chill about it.
That's good to hear your doctor was okay with it! Hopefully he sees how much of a benefit it is for you and starts looking into it for himself and his other patients.
@@gale.p.5581 yes , like love the benefits but the downside I am fighting with is intense pulsations , waking up in the middle of the night that led me to poor sleep and yes I am drinking enough electrolytes . Would love to solve this issue . Is been a 8 days strictly carnivore.
I'm just watching a video from 2 years ago about Fibromyalgia and joint pain. You spoke of your injuries; have you researched Photobiomodulation for your injuries?
Hi Dr! You're a legend mate! Living in Oz and 27 years old. Just got told I have Rheumatoid Arthritis. I'm an active person and work as an Electrician. I am going to make the swap to a carnivore diet to hopefully destroy my symptoms. Do you have any tips for someone starting the diet but specifically with Rheumatoid Arthritis? Would love to hear back from you. 💪
Thank God for this meat head genius 🙏 I am in perfect health running up mountains doing hot Pilates. My weight is perfect with lean muscle mass. I’m 6’3 200 pounds at 47 running 10 miles no problem. My total cholesterol is 500. I just started doing research as to why as my physician is pushing statins on my. No thanks! I’ll be running in my 100s! Thank you Dr!
I'll be 60 in a couple of months. I recently had some ex-rays of my back for problems with my legs. The doctor told me yes, I have spine issues due to age, but also said I have aorta calcification. Will this diet help? Thanks.
Hey Dr Chaffee... I have been on Carnivore since February 12, 2024. I have a question that I haven't heard anyone speak on yet, not that I know of anyway. Is there a high chance of getting parasites with eating meat ? Especially pork and rare meat. Thank you
Dr. Chaffee , I have a xanthelasma on one upper eyelid. These are supposedly cholesterol deposits, I've been very low carb and mostly keto for a couple years now and this appeared in the last couple months. Could you just give me your general opinion on what could cause this if excess cholesterol isn't a problem.
That's quite a lengthy response for utube comments, I was wondering what, in general could cause this. Here's the pertinent info. 57 yrs old, male, never overweight, heart attack and 7 stents 13 years ago, also at that time I was diagnosed with emphysema.. I smoked until the day of my heart attack but quit cold Turkey that day. I also ate the SAD until that day. After my stents I did a brief tour of veganism and got way too thin. After that I researched and took myself off statins before it was fashionable. Since then I've gone lower and lower carb, and only ate real food. In 2021 I got the ' plague' and was in the hospital 4 days.ive never been quite rite since than.for awhile I had crushing fatigue and went thru all the typical tests and they found no problems other than my lungs. And then last year i started having digestive problems like reflux and gut pain and also got the plague again. Then my doc .checked my cholesterol ldl 435, triglycerides 70, hdl 50. So the doctor freaked out and thought I was gonna drop dead at any minute, but I knew it wasn't my heart. I passed stress test, had a very low calcium score and showed no problems on EKG with a really good ejection fraction of 65%. I've glossed over quite a bit since it would take forever to explain all the nuance. I believe I may have been dead years ago if I hadn't drastically reduced my carbs. The doc. Never did give me any worthwhile answer, and even suggested that anxiety medicine might help.which I laughed at. I currently take no meds except a trelegy maintenance inhaler and I take nattokinase for blood platelet aggregation, and a magnesium pill. I wasn't going to explain all this and just wanted to know what things I could look to for possibilities. Also, I never had the plague injection, but I dont doubt that the infections themself may have caused my problems. But the xanthelasma has appeared in the last couple months while nothing else really changed. There's not alot of info about this, but one common denominator seems to be very high ldl. I thank you for the inquiry.
Alarmist are referring to the aldehydes. This would be problematic with sugar based coatings that are burnt in the process. Also the claims are being made to demonize the market cause how long have humans cooked meat over a fire? We are contending with writers for hire like there are researchers for hire. The crap study mentioned in this video was funded about $600,000,000USD. Just the current US press secretary saying the economy is doing great 💩
Too high of heat or cooking in seed oils and even olive oil causes oxidization. I cook my roasts, lamb and beef in the oven at 325 and eat them bloody rare. Rare meat holds more nutrients. My steaks I will cook on the stove in my ribbed pan in beef or lamb fat but again my meat is bloody rare. And I don't worry about oxidization.
I have been doing carnivore for just over a year. I've always had high cholesterol, but it has went way up on carnivore. That doesn't worry me as much as the fact that my last blood work shows that my liver enzymes have shot WAY up. My doctor is going crazy wanting me on statins and she says the liver enzymes are because my cholesterol is so high. I've searched online and some say that high cholesterol can negatively affect the liver. Has anyone else had this problem? Or know of any information about it. I don't want to change my new way of eating, but I definitely don't want to start having liver issues.
Carnivore for 100 days. Down 42 lbs. Joint pain gone. Feeling good. Then I fell off scaffolding and broke a bunch of bones. At home healing. Any advice on diet to heal my bone? Currently eggs and bacon for breakfast. Ground beef and cheese for lunch. Beef, fish, or pork for dinner. Thanks in advance.
Pathology Investigations Serum lipid levels Serum HDL cholesterol level 1.8 mmol/L [1.0 - 3.0] Serum cholesterol level 8.2 mmol/L [1.5 - 5.51; Above high reference limit Serum triglyceride levels 3.18 mmol/L [0.5 - 2.01; Above high reference limit Serum cholesterol/HDL ratio 4.6 ratio Serum non high density lipoprotein cholesterol level 6.4 mmol/L Serum LDL cholesterol level 4.9 mmol/L My doc give me these and said get on low fat no explanation no nothing! Any help dr Chaffee or anyone else. Thank u
According to Dr. Leila Denmark who is in the Guinness World Record book you can have 1 egg per day or maybe 2 per day on occasion as long as you consume it with a high fiber food like whole grain wheat cereal or toast or oatmeal and whole fruit all in the same meal.
Please clarify are you living under the rock? Just Google Minnesota coronary experiment. First link is BMJ publication by professor Ramsden, to which Dr Chaffee referred
So is it what I think sitting correct with everyone else? 🤔 - That the so called nowadays bad cholesterol "Saturated Fat" is actually what is the best and only suitable type of cholesterol for human body?
I need help figuring out if the carnivore diet can help my situation. I’m a 35 yr old female with some Alaskan native decent. Type O+ blood. My blood platelets always go low when I’m pregnant but within last 5 years it’s been going below 150 without being pregnant. But now I’m in my third trimester with baby #5 and my levels are 120. Dr said if it goes below 100 I cannot have the epidural for my own safety. I just don’t understand why I’ve been having this issue even when not pregnant! She said she believes it’s because I’m Alaskan native but I want to try and raise my levels naturally. She prescribed papaya leaf extract, seasame seed oil and nutritional yeast powder… nowhere does it say online the carnivore/keto diet will help and I’m stressing.. thanks for any input
@@fzleadventures173 You could certainly incorporate more red meat in your diet and see if that affects your levels of platelets, hematocrit and hemoglobin. We are all our own science experiment, so the only way to know if carnivore will help is to try it and get your blood drawn after some time on the diet, say four to eight weeks. Keep tweaking things to see how they affect you internally and eventually you'll find what works for you. I know it's not the answer your want to hear, but everything affects everyone differently. The only way to know for sure is to try something and measure the results.
Anthony you should address the Gaurdian article which dismisses you as a 'functional doctor' and subtly belittles carnivore. What else would you expect though.
Anthony, might be worth starting to incorporate menoapause and associated symptoms with the community as we're seeing a trend in lipid increase in our menopause community. Its not just about cessation or cycling or hot flushes. Dr Mary Clare Haver talks about the risk of heart disease in menopausal women who are progesterone, estrogen, and testosterone deficiencies.
To me, that woman seems to be pushing HRT and making it out like it's a medical necessity for all women and doctors should be ashamed for "denying care" blah blah. The real problem is people eating like crap, never moving, never seeing the sun. She's pushing for yet another bandaid you'll be chained to the pharmacy for instead of a real solution. Also the way she talks about menopause feels like the way certain people talk about kids going through puberty. Like it's some unnatural thing that women "shouldn't have to suffer through", even though it's a completely normal process that all women go through. It's concerning.
Elevated LDL Cholesterol with a Carbohydrate-Restricted Diet: Evidence for a "Lean Mass Hyper-Responder" Phenotype - Nicholas G Norwitz, David Feldman, Adrian Soto-Mota , Tro Kalayjian, David S Ludwig
Found it. Minnesota Coronary Experiment. Read it. Memorize it. This is irrefutable evidence that lowering saturated fats (meat fat) not only doesn't prevent heart disease, but rather reducing cholesterol causes harm. Any associative or epistemological study refuting this isn't even in the same league of this study, given how controlled this experiment was. BS surveys vs Randomized Controlled Trial. If anyone says what about your cholesterol, you show them this.
@@Kenshinbtt Think about an apple that has been cut in half. It will start browning. That's oxidation. Or rusting metal. Also oxidation. You absolutely don't want your LDL particles to be rusted or browning, because then it will damage your arterial walls. This isn't even debatable, that's why your typical Keto-Docs never talks about it.
Is this why heart disease prior to the mid 1940s was rare & continued to become worse as the rise of sugar increased?? 🤔 just a thought. Along with obesity & all these diseases they'll sell you drugs for. Whose in control?? Who wants you sick, dumb, & numb to control?,@@j.sch.8266
Imagine if one of the LDL transporters role was to transfer triglycerides for energy from lypolisis.. and the more you rely on fat for energy.. the more LDL transporters are required.... but thats a bad thing right??🤔 high LDL !!!!
Guys, I started my carnivour diet on August 8th, already 9 pounds down and doing great except itchy skin all over my body comes and goes, no redness, no rash, any clues?
My first instinct is to ask you what your kidney and liver blood markers are. Do you know your creatinine levels, Cystatin C , and liver blood markers?
@@verborgenewahrheit1594 thatnks for the reply, I did a blood test a couple months ago, it was all ok and within normal. I do blood tests and ultrasounds twice a year almost every year since I had my gallbladder removed 24 years ago, no serious issues with my liver or kidney
My total cholesterol is 400-500 eating this way, and I'm struggling to stay above 160lbs at 6 foot no matter how much I eat. What's going wrong here? Any advice? You and Baker got me into carnivore, and I love it, but I'm struggling to stay alive. Im 18 months in. Workouts, sleep, sex drive, and brain fog are all poor.
@HarrisonSchwichtenberg My wife had this exact issue on carnivore. She dropped 100 pounds. Just skin and bone. Went to a Naturopath who was happy with her strict carnivore diet, but said she also needed some carbs. Now she has about 5 tsp honey a day and one boiled potato. Gradually he would like to see her getting back to meat and 3 veg. This may be of some help to you. Obviously carnivore works very well for many people, but you have to remember we are not all the same.
@bradje12 I appreciate your insight. It seems like it's all or nothing nowadays, and you helped remind me that without balance, we can indeed become unbalanced.
@@HarrisonSchwichtenberg I forgot to mention too, that she was really struggling with constipation. It was causing extreme pain. Even though she was having a stick of butter a day it just came out as hard pellets all the time. So the Naturopath also put her on 4 Magnesium Citrate Tablets a day to make the stool soft. You can get them at the pharmacy or supermarket. He said this would be tapered off to maybe 0-1 tablets a day, but she obviously wasn't absorbing the nutrients from the meat and butter because her bowels were a solid mass! The stools need to be soft so that the food can be digested properly. It took about 3 days before the stools became soft. And after only 1 week she is feeling better and her energy is returning.
You seem so very certain that high LDL cholesterol can’t possibly be a component part of cardiovascular disease. Perhaps you should interview someone with Familial Hypercholesterolaemia?
@@andyc7747 I agree with all you say, but its the fact that he dismisses LDL as one “ingredient” of CVD that I find very irresponsible. I can’t understand why he does this.
I have higher cholesterol and have an appointment with a cardiologist next month. Can you recommend something in particular I can show them to not have them freak out about carnivore being an option? 😅
My Dr said my cholesterol was way too high. I’m 75, carnivore 18 mths, had a coronary calcium score done and I had ZERO artery build up. Dr said ok then. He did not expect that outcome!
The most intelligent thing would be to cancel the stupid appointment. Ask yourself what benefit the cardiologist would deliver to you? None! You can derive some valley from diagnostic procedures though.
Saying that high cholesterol is a bad thing is like saying too much money in your bank account is a bad thing ! you should reduce it down to $200 a month
👊🏼🤔 *Well a Lady who has been on the Carnivore diet the last 5 years had a Cholesterol of 500 and had two heart attacks recently.* The title of the video is "My Carnivore Friend Nearly Died. Let's Talk About It."
@@andyc7747 🤔 Makes me wonder if her health be worse or better had she not seen youtube videos of when Baker started promoting this lifestyle, we can't ever know. But each time someone has a health issue the carnivore followers try to find out a reason. Maybe there is no reason and it was destined to happen or the diet did not help her.
@@SweepTheLeg2023Just because she had higher cholesterol than some does not indicate that it was causal. Associations cannot inform on causation. More information would have to be needed to find the probable aetiology.
She already had heart problems before going carnivore, and more importantly, Kelly said in the comments she didn't want her 💉 records to be discussed, which pretty obviously means she was experiencing some side effects.
My thoughts are... I wonder if she would still be here to talk about heart attacks if she had NOT changed her diet? Te whole story was too sketchy to make much from it. Especially since I have no qualifications. Sewing doubt into stuff where people are having pretty amazing results reminds me of the tobacco industry sewing doubt into the dangers or no dangers of smoking. That has always been the mntra of interested parties (tobacco, fossil fuel industries) "We don't have to prove anything, just sew doubt and the gullible public will give us a free pass" If carnivore works for people, let em do it. There are always going to be a few bad stories. But by what I have been watching over the past few weeks, it's convinced both me and my wife to give it a go. So we're hopefully buying our meat and electrolytes this Wednesday.
Been strict carnivore for 6 months, fighting cancer.
I've lost all excess wieght at 3 months in. Prediabetes is gone, insulin at 3.6... but LDL is up from 200 to 346...
HDL at 55, triglycerides at 113... my cardiologist is freaking out, screaming statins... I feel better than I have in decades, cancer is almost gone, due to carnivore and a couple supplements...
I am not worried about the LDL, but everyone else is....like my wife...
Ps. My urologist who prescribed carnivore, said there's no such thing as high cholesterol...
What supplements you takin.
Ivermectin?
@jack14kd
I am taking IP6 GOLD, daily, high dose. And yes I'm doing a round of ivermectin, every month...
But, my PSA was dropping with just the carnivore...
@@marksexton1340 well if it is any consolation my LDL is in the 550 range. Keep up the good fight.
What type of cancer? Prostate?
I agree with your Urologist! Run far and fast away from your Cardiologist... !
It's criminal how they blamed cholesterol for what carbs and sugar have done to many people in recent decades.
The amount of human suffering and loss of life downstream from that, if it indeed is as wrong and misguided as we suspect it to be, is staggering
It might literally be the biggest man-made disaster ever in the whole of human history considering the number of people affected
And when you try to tell family members get off meds - they say I'm crazy.
@@LisaL-yl9zm I've been gently waging info-war every now and again on my father against his continued use of cholesterol-lowering drugs for well over a year now but so far he's been ignoring me. Doctor knows best.
I've heard him talk about the existence of corruption and the role of money but never ever in any specific case. Yes it exists but only in abstract. In every case that come before him the media is correct, the government is correct, the doctor is correct.
Actually the one time I've heard him applying that pseudo-understanding was something related to football (soccer). I think I even made the point that if it happens there then wouldn't it happen even more where there is even more to gain? Haven't heard him doubt official narratives yet on things that actually matter.
@@LisaL-yl9zm Big percentage of people have got to hear it from a figure an authority figure. If teacher says so they'll believe.
A copy of Ovadia's, Berry's, Baker's or Georgia Ede's book might be more effective. They may still be dismissed but at least they've got the letters behind their name. That is the most important thing for many people.
It's funny ,..when your body starts operating right and you feel amazing you start questioning how you feel because you've never felt like this before🔥
For me it's the control it's given me and my gut has n e v e r felt as good as it does now, in my entire life.
Edit: Also the crippling anxiety I use to face nearly every day. While I still feel it, it doesn't control me and I can still operate. Obviously a "diet" can't fix everything in your life and other issues but again it's helped me to maintain and control any type of emotion I feel at that time. Just the thought of being like that again is enough for me to never eat sugar/carbs for the rest of my life.
cholesterol is a waxy alcohol and in fact your body makes cholesterol. People that have the highest amounts of cholesterol lived the longest.
Sure hope so! My LDL is 336. I’m also a LMHR and 60 years old
You are right about the waxy part but cholesterol is NOT a traditional alcohol. Traditional alcohols are typically hydrophilic (water-soluble) and contain hydroxyl (-OH) groups. Cholesterol, on the other hand, is a hydrophobic (water-insoluble) molecule with a steroid structure.
Why would your body produce cholesterol if it was dangerous for you?
Why would it produce insulin if it was bad for you? I'm on Team Cholesterol, but that isn't the best argument.
@getalonghome insulin isn't bad for you so that isn't the best argument either.
To make this a better argument, it's necessary to point out that the body produces more cholesterol than is consumed, many times more.
@@ZekSanchez And without eating sugar it produces the exact amount of sugar it needs .
It's like, oh look, you have trouble breathing. Breathing uses oxygen. Let's reduce the oxygen so you don't have to struggle to breathe as hard
Good morning from South Florida.. I started watching your videos 9 months ago, and I have to say thank you, Doc.. I started my carnivore journey 28 weeks ago, and I'm down 77lbs. I'm on OMAD, I eat 2lbs. of ribeye every night and I treat myself to a pound of Prosciutto Di Parma every other week..I feel absolutely amazing, it took about a month before I started to feel the effects and they haven't stopped since. Everyone around me told me I was crazy for the first few months, and now all I get are questions regarding how hard is this diet, I tell them it's not a diet it's a key to life. I've got another 40lbs. to go before I get to my goal weight, only then will I start to incorporate a workout regime. Thank you Doc.. You put me on the track to success from day one.🙏 Starting weight was 322lbs. Goal is 210lbs. I'm 6 ft. 54 yrs. old..
I've lost 93 pounds and feel great on carnivore. I only lose weight on Lion diet, though.
@minniesgr1nd2r21
That’s interesting. Can I ask your age? I’m 65 and carnivore for 17 months. No fat loss unless I fast for 72 hours. Then it goes back on again. Haven’t tried Lion but wondered if that’s what I need.
I lose weight but need to fast when the weight loss stalls
You should see the comment section of Kelly Hogans newest video of a carnivore having a heart attack. All the carnivore haters are out in full force, as if no one gets heart attacks on any other diet 😂
Lady had CVD previously and CAC continued to increase for years after carnivore, unfortunately. Plenty of others have gone the other way on carnivore so it is curious what is causing it. No mention of mRNA vax status.
She was also 69 & only carnivore for 5 years.
@@VgVi13 Did she die?
@@VgVi13she didn’t die!
I don't know but my guess is she was doing Carnivore wrong..some people have high glucose on Carnivore that could be caused by dairy or overeating protein.
@@sheilahunt6817 Thanks, I missed that part. I'm so glad to hear that.
I'm one of these "lean mass hyper responders". I was already lean and fit when I turned to carnivore and my doctor was shocked about my sky-high LDL lol. He had never heard of the carnivore diet before but he was chill about it.
That's good to hear your doctor was okay with it! Hopefully he sees how much of a benefit it is for you and starts looking into it for himself and his other patients.
Day 4 for me, biggest thing I notice after I eat not hungry for a least 10 ours 1st meal steak 16 oz four eggs second 4 strips bacon 2eggs
Have you experience heart palpitations?
Eat once a day
@@Ronnie_Cruz no, no poop three days
@@Ronnie_CruzHabe you experienced them?
@@gale.p.5581 yes , like love the benefits but the downside I am fighting with is intense pulsations , waking up in the middle of the night that led me to poor sleep and yes I am drinking enough electrolytes . Would love to solve this issue . Is been a 8 days strictly carnivore.
how did humans survive before the CDC WHO FDA ???😅🤣😂
They didnt😂
They survived much better, actually.
Hello Dr. Being Perth based are you taking clients only in Perth or Australia wide?
I think when you go carnivore LDL is high because there's no inflammation to use it for
Interesting theory
I'm just watching a video from 2 years ago about Fibromyalgia and joint pain. You spoke of your injuries; have you researched Photobiomodulation for your injuries?
Great segment.
What I love about this video is how the YT medical ads constantly interrupt lol
yo dr chaffee, can you please post some link to all these studies?
"Science" doesn't do science anymore. It's inconvenient and you get to make up stories.
Dope content! Needed this!
Hi Dr!
You're a legend mate!
Living in Oz and 27 years old.
Just got told I have Rheumatoid Arthritis.
I'm an active person and work as an Electrician.
I am going to make the swap to a carnivore diet to hopefully destroy my symptoms.
Do you have any tips for someone starting the diet but specifically with Rheumatoid Arthritis?
Would love to hear back from you. 💪
My favourite carnivore channel 👍
Thank God for this meat head genius 🙏 I am in perfect health running up mountains doing hot Pilates. My weight is perfect with lean muscle mass. I’m 6’3 200 pounds at 47 running 10 miles no problem. My total cholesterol is 500.
I just started doing research as to why as my physician is pushing statins on my. No thanks! I’ll be running in my 100s! Thank you Dr!
..."a special kind of stupid" 😂 Gotta love Dr. Chaffee!
Great video thank you
There are twin ladies that remember every meal they ever had ..the Lyman twins....
I'll be 60 in a couple of months. I recently had some ex-rays of my back for problems with my legs. The doctor told me yes, I have spine issues due to age, but also said I have aorta calcification. Will this diet help? Thanks.
Started keto then transitioned to carnivore….never going back!!!
Hey Dr Chaffee... I have been on Carnivore since February 12, 2024.
I have a question that I haven't heard anyone speak on yet, not that I know of anyway.
Is there a high chance of getting parasites with eating meat ? Especially pork and rare meat.
Thank you
No
No
No
Dr. Chaffee , I have a xanthelasma on one upper eyelid. These are supposedly cholesterol deposits, I've been very low carb and mostly keto for a couple years now and this appeared in the last couple months.
Could you just give me your general opinion on what could cause this if excess cholesterol isn't a problem.
How old are you? What was your diet before carnivore / keto? How long was it like this? And do you have pre-existing dis-eases or weaknesses?
That's quite a lengthy response for utube comments, I was wondering what, in general could cause this.
Here's the pertinent info.
57 yrs old, male, never overweight, heart attack and 7 stents 13 years ago, also at that time I was diagnosed with emphysema.. I smoked until the day of my heart attack but quit cold Turkey that day.
I also ate the SAD until that day.
After my stents I did a brief tour of veganism and got way too thin.
After that I researched and took myself off statins before it was fashionable.
Since then I've gone lower and lower carb, and only ate real food.
In 2021 I got the ' plague' and was in the hospital 4 days.ive never been quite rite since than.for awhile I had crushing fatigue and went thru all the typical tests and they found no problems other than my lungs.
And then last year i started having digestive problems like reflux and gut pain and also got the plague again. Then my doc .checked my cholesterol ldl 435, triglycerides 70, hdl 50. So the doctor freaked out and thought I was gonna drop dead at any minute, but I knew it wasn't my heart. I passed stress test, had a very low calcium score and showed no problems on EKG with a really good ejection fraction of 65%.
I've glossed over quite a bit since it would take forever to explain all the nuance.
I believe I may have been dead years ago if I hadn't drastically reduced my carbs.
The doc. Never did give me any worthwhile answer, and even suggested that anxiety medicine might help.which I laughed at.
I currently take no meds except a trelegy maintenance inhaler and I take nattokinase for blood platelet aggregation, and a magnesium pill.
I wasn't going to explain all this and just wanted to know what things I could look to for possibilities.
Also, I never had the plague injection, but I dont doubt that the infections themself may have caused my problems.
But the xanthelasma has appeared in the last couple months while nothing else really changed. There's not alot of info about this, but one common denominator seems to be very high ldl.
I thank you for the inquiry.
I'm curious what people think about...Grilling meat. I have two ribeyes a day and I grill both. I read something about high heat creating carcinogens?
Alarmist are referring to the aldehydes. This would be problematic with sugar based coatings that are burnt in the process. Also the claims are being made to demonize the market cause how long have humans cooked meat over a fire? We are contending with writers for hire like there are researchers for hire. The crap study mentioned in this video was funded about $600,000,000USD. Just the current US press secretary saying the economy is doing great 💩
Too high of heat or cooking in seed oils and even olive oil causes oxidization. I cook my roasts, lamb and beef in the oven at 325 and eat them bloody rare. Rare meat holds more nutrients. My steaks I will cook on the stove in my ribbed pan in beef or lamb fat but again my meat is bloody rare. And I don't worry about oxidization.
If you burn / sacrifice the meat, don’t eat it, go for medium rare, if you can’t do rare.
Simply avoid overcooking/burning, nothing to fret over
Don't burn the meat and you're fine. And remember burning is not the same as creating a good crust.
I have been doing carnivore for just over a year. I've always had high cholesterol, but it has went way up on carnivore. That doesn't worry me as much as the fact that my last blood work shows that my liver enzymes have shot WAY up. My doctor is going crazy wanting me on statins and she says the liver enzymes are because my cholesterol is so high. I've searched online and some say that high cholesterol can negatively affect the liver. Has anyone else had this problem? Or know of any information about it. I don't want to change my new way of eating, but I definitely don't want to start having liver issues.
Hey guys
If cholesterol isn't bad what is clogging arteries? I just had to have 2 stints installed because of a heart attack.
@@shereepittman4335 do your research.
High insulin levels, that's why diabetics always get heart disease
Carnivore for 100 days. Down 42 lbs. Joint pain gone. Feeling good. Then I fell off scaffolding and broke a bunch of bones. At home healing. Any advice on diet to heal my bone? Currently eggs and bacon for breakfast. Ground beef and cheese for lunch. Beef, fish, or pork for dinner. Thanks in advance.
Eat more fatty red ruminate meat
Pathology Investigations
Serum lipid levels
Serum HDL cholesterol level 1.8 mmol/L
[1.0 - 3.0]
Serum cholesterol level 8.2 mmol/L [1.5 -
5.51; Above high reference limit
Serum triglyceride levels 3.18 mmol/L [0.5
- 2.01; Above high reference limit
Serum cholesterol/HDL ratio 4.6 ratio
Serum non high density lipoprotein cholesterol level 6.4 mmol/L
Serum LDL cholesterol level 4.9 mmol/L
My doc give me these and said get on low fat no explanation no nothing!
Any help dr Chaffee or anyone else. Thank u
Don't listen to your doctor..he only wants you on low fat so you can get worse...eat the fat get better results.
Give your Dr. links to these videos. If he wont watch or try to learn, find a new Dr.
Hi Gary,
Please watch: Low Carb Down Under - Dr Paul Mason 'Blood tests on a ketogenic diet - what your cholesterol results mean'.
How many eggs can you eat a day?
According to Dr. Leila Denmark who is in the Guinness World Record book you can have 1 egg per day or maybe 2 per day on occasion as long as you consume it with a high fiber food like whole grain wheat cereal or toast or oatmeal and whole fruit all in the same meal.
Where can i find the study hes talking about?
Would like to know this as well.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5099084/
Please clarify are you living under the rock? Just Google Minnesota coronary experiment. First link is BMJ publication by professor Ramsden, to which Dr Chaffee referred
The Mediterranean Diet and the DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) are the most studied diets, not the Ketogenic Diet.
The MIC ( medical industrial complex) made trillions of statins !!!
So is it what I think sitting correct with everyone else? 🤔 - That the so called nowadays bad cholesterol "Saturated Fat" is actually what is the best and only suitable type of cholesterol for human body?
I need help figuring out if the carnivore diet can help my situation. I’m a 35 yr old female with some Alaskan native decent. Type O+ blood. My blood platelets always go low when I’m pregnant but within last 5 years it’s been going below 150 without being pregnant. But now I’m in my third trimester with baby #5 and my levels are 120. Dr said if it goes below 100 I cannot have the epidural for my own safety. I just don’t understand why I’ve been having this issue even when not pregnant! She said she believes it’s because I’m Alaskan native but I want to try and raise my levels naturally. She prescribed papaya leaf extract, seasame seed oil and nutritional yeast powder… nowhere does it say online the carnivore/keto diet will help and I’m stressing.. thanks for any input
Curious...what were/are your hemoglobin and hematocrit numbers?
@@robertingram5600 on the lower side of the normal range but still within normal.
@@fzleadventures173 You could certainly incorporate more red meat in your diet and see if that affects your levels of platelets, hematocrit and hemoglobin. We are all our own science experiment, so the only way to know if carnivore will help is to try it and get your blood drawn after some time on the diet, say four to eight weeks. Keep tweaking things to see how they affect you internally and eventually you'll find what works for you. I know it's not the answer your want to hear, but everything affects everyone differently. The only way to know for sure is to try something and measure the results.
Anthony you should address the Gaurdian article which dismisses you as a 'functional doctor' and subtly belittles carnivore. What else would you expect though.
No sources? Trying to find concrete evidence regarding LDL and heart disease.
Is this an older video or is dr. Chaffee getting younger?
Anthony, might be worth starting to incorporate menoapause and associated symptoms with the community as we're seeing a trend in lipid increase in our menopause community. Its not just about cessation or cycling or hot flushes. Dr Mary Clare Haver talks about the risk of heart disease in menopausal women who are progesterone, estrogen, and testosterone deficiencies.
To me, that woman seems to be pushing HRT and making it out like it's a medical necessity for all women and doctors should be ashamed for "denying care" blah blah. The real problem is people eating like crap, never moving, never seeing the sun. She's pushing for yet another bandaid you'll be chained to the pharmacy for instead of a real solution.
Also the way she talks about menopause feels like the way certain people talk about kids going through puberty. Like it's some unnatural thing that women "shouldn't have to suffer through", even though it's a completely normal process that all women go through. It's concerning.
Isn't LDL crucial to cell repair? If so, wouldn't that make sense that those who workout would have a higher LDL?
What was the name of the study?
Elevated LDL Cholesterol with a Carbohydrate-Restricted Diet: Evidence for a "Lean Mass Hyper-Responder" Phenotype - Nicholas G Norwitz, David Feldman, Adrian Soto-Mota , Tro Kalayjian, David S Ludwig
Found it. Minnesota Coronary Experiment. Read it. Memorize it. This is irrefutable evidence that lowering saturated fats (meat fat) not only doesn't prevent heart disease, but rather reducing cholesterol causes harm. Any associative or epistemological study refuting this isn't even in the same league of this study, given how controlled this experiment was. BS surveys vs Randomized Controlled Trial. If anyone says what about your cholesterol, you show them this.
Without having seen the video, I'd bet a fair amount of money that he doesn't mention oxidized LDL and what it does to the epithelium once.
I'm curious what does it do?
@@Kenshinbtt Think about an apple that has been cut in half. It will start browning. That's oxidation. Or rusting metal. Also oxidation. You absolutely don't want your LDL particles to be rusted or browning, because then it will damage your arterial walls. This isn't even debatable, that's why your typical Keto-Docs never talks about it.
Is this why heart disease prior to the mid 1940s was rare & continued to become worse as the rise of sugar increased?? 🤔 just a thought. Along with obesity & all these diseases they'll sell you drugs for. Whose in control?? Who wants you sick, dumb, & numb to control?,@@j.sch.8266
Imagine if one of the LDL transporters role was to transfer triglycerides for energy from lypolisis.. and the more you rely on fat for energy.. the more LDL transporters are required.... but thats a bad thing right??🤔 high LDL !!!!
Guys, I started my carnivour diet on August 8th, already 9 pounds down and doing great except itchy skin all over my body comes and goes, no redness, no rash, any clues?
My first instinct is to ask you what your kidney and liver blood markers are. Do you know your creatinine levels, Cystatin C , and liver blood markers?
@@verborgenewahrheit1594 thatnks for the reply, I did a blood test a couple months ago, it was all ok and within normal. I do blood tests and ultrasounds twice a year almost every year since I had my gallbladder removed 24 years ago, no serious issues with my liver or kidney
Btw, three years ago I went keto for almost six months and I had the same problem
What is an ideal triglycerides to ldl ratio?
There is none. HDL to triglycerides might be what you really are asking and 1 and under is the current theory, high HDL with low trigs.
Yes I did mean HDL. Thank you!
@@SV-ng8dv Generally half tri to hdl. Less the better supposedly
Triglycerides to HDL ratio goal is below 1.5
My total cholesterol is 400-500 eating this way, and I'm struggling to stay above 160lbs at 6 foot no matter how much I eat. What's going wrong here? Any advice? You and Baker got me into carnivore, and I love it, but I'm struggling to stay alive. Im 18 months in. Workouts, sleep, sex drive, and brain fog are all poor.
@HarrisonSchwichtenberg My wife had this exact issue on carnivore. She dropped 100 pounds. Just skin and bone. Went to a Naturopath who was happy with her strict carnivore diet, but said she also needed some carbs. Now she has about 5 tsp honey a day and one boiled potato. Gradually he would like to see her getting back to meat and 3 veg. This may be of some help to you.
Obviously carnivore works very well for many people, but you have to remember we are not all the same.
@bradje12 I appreciate your insight. It seems like it's all or nothing nowadays, and you helped remind me that without balance, we can indeed become unbalanced.
@@HarrisonSchwichtenberg I forgot to mention too, that she was really struggling with constipation. It was causing extreme pain. Even though she was having a stick of butter a day it just came out as hard pellets all the time. So the Naturopath also put her on 4 Magnesium Citrate Tablets a day to make the stool soft. You can get them at the pharmacy or supermarket. He said this would be tapered off to maybe 0-1 tablets a day, but she obviously wasn't absorbing the nutrients from the meat and butter because her bowels were a solid mass! The stools need to be soft so that the food can be digested properly. It took about 3 days before the stools became soft. And after only 1 week she is feeling better and her energy is returning.
@bradje12 That is a good idea since we don't naturally get magnesium in our diet nowadays.
Prescription cascade🤬
You seem so very certain that high LDL cholesterol can’t possibly be a component part of cardiovascular disease. Perhaps you should interview someone with Familial Hypercholesterolaemia?
Perhaps you should assess the incidence of myocardial infarction and strokes for those with this genetic condition who are metabolically healthy.
LDL itself does not present a possible issue unless it is damaged as a carrier by processes such as glycation and oxidation.
He's addressed that already. Watch his videos featuring Dr. David Diamond.
@@andyc7747 I agree with all you say, but its the fact that he dismisses LDL as one “ingredient” of CVD that I find very irresponsible. I can’t understand why he does this.
@@andyc7747 You sound convinced. Are you saying that as someone, or on behalf of someone, who has F.H.?
What about stroke
Fasting is crucial to lifestyle, regardless if you eat carnivore or not
I have higher cholesterol and have an appointment with a cardiologist next month. Can you recommend something in particular I can show them to not have them freak out about carnivore being an option? 😅
My Dr said my cholesterol was way too high. I’m 75, carnivore 18 mths, had a coronary calcium score done and I had ZERO artery build up. Dr said ok then. He did not expect that outcome!
The most intelligent thing would be to cancel the stupid appointment. Ask yourself what benefit the cardiologist would deliver to you? None! You can derive some valley from diagnostic procedures though.
Will getting drunk maybe once every week on clean whiskey kick me out of ketosis?
The better question is why does one need to get drunk once a week on whiskey?
yes it will
@@TheFlintStryker that is the question! Sounds like
@solberg has a problem that should be addressed!!!
@PaulB_864 plus it is bad for your health in every way!!
Don’t you mean 3x/wk?
Did unrawdog both of grin reaper's wives?
The gal that is always on Joe Rogan just put out a video clip showing that high LSD have heart attacks.
I have probably done LSD 1000 times in my youth 60's and 70's and still haven't had one heart attack. 😂
So? High LDL is also associated with those who go Keto/Carnivore and see reductions in CAC and myocardial infarction incidence.
I really don’t know what to eat at this point. My mate just had a heart attack and I don’t know who to believe.
Saying that high cholesterol is a bad thing is like saying too much money in your bank account is a bad thing ! you should reduce it down to $200 a month
👊🏼🤔 *Well a Lady who has been on the Carnivore diet the last 5 years had a Cholesterol of 500 and had two heart attacks recently.* The title of the video is "My Carnivore Friend Nearly Died. Let's Talk About It."
@@andyc7747 🤔 Makes me wonder if her health be worse or better had she not seen youtube videos of when Baker started promoting this lifestyle, we can't ever know. But each time someone has a health issue the carnivore followers try to find out a reason. Maybe there is no reason and it was destined to happen or the diet did not help her.
@@SweepTheLeg2023Just because she had higher cholesterol than some does not indicate that it was causal. Associations cannot inform on causation. More information would have to be needed to find the probable aetiology.
She already had heart problems before going carnivore, and more importantly, Kelly said in the comments she didn't want her 💉 records to be discussed, which pretty obviously means she was experiencing some side effects.
@@rosethorn0232 Seems to be the trend, when people have health issues with this diet "IT was pre existing..." Not suspicious.
My thoughts are... I wonder if she would still be here to talk about heart attacks if she had NOT changed her diet? Te whole story was too sketchy to make much from it. Especially since I have no qualifications.
Sewing doubt into stuff where people are having pretty amazing results reminds me of the tobacco industry sewing doubt into the dangers or no dangers of smoking.
That has always been the mntra of interested parties (tobacco, fossil fuel industries)
"We don't have to prove anything, just sew doubt and the gullible public will give us a free pass"
If carnivore works for people, let em do it. There are always going to be a few bad stories.
But by what I have been watching over the past few weeks, it's convinced both me and my wife to give it a go. So we're hopefully buying our meat and electrolytes this Wednesday.