From my personal experience: carnivore may not work for everyone, and it most certainly did not work for me. I was on carnivore for 15 months and, by the end, looked like hell…and felt much worse. I gained 25 pounds, was heavier than ever before in my life, bloated with terrible digestion, and was nearly immobilized by fatigue and chronic joint pain. I then stumbled onto Dr. Peter D’Adamo’s Blood Type Diet. Bottom line up front: we’re not all the same (shock!). The Blood Type Diet accounts for our distinct differences in a way I had not encountered before. What I learned to my chagrin is that, as a Blood Type A, carnivore is catastrophic to my metabolism…and my experience validated that in spades. By switching to a more “plant forward” diet appropriate to my blood type, I experienced near-immediate, profound improvements in my health. I’ve been on Blood Type Diet for six months, have lost 30 pounds (the first 20 in four weeks), my BMI dropped from 25.6 to 22.0, at 68-years old I’m able to move again and I can do a daily 30-minute workout, as well as walk briskly three-to-five miles daily, and—most importantly—I feel SO much better. For the record, I sincerely believe that carnivore can and does work…if you are Blood Type O. See D’Adamo for more.
Interesting. I know of one person who consumes nothing but beef and water and proclaims this as her way to health. I have read Weston Price, but it did not strike me, that he promoted an all-meat diet. What I understood was, that we should eat what our ancestors ate. For 100+ years my ancestors ate potatoes and vegetables grown in their own yard, with very little meat, usually some bacon, bought raw, and cooked until tender. Grandfather spread the fat on bread. Of course this was before the boom of fattening products for pigs. I remember how different the bacon piece looked from what is now sold in stores. Hormones, vaccines, and recently GMO pigs from Canada, now allowed to be sold in the US.
As to the medical Mafia, they exactly remember what helps, and they forbid it!
Forty-three doctors. Nine years. No relief. 125 years later, the medical mafia would claim she didn't have enough big pharma drugs in her body. That's their take-it-to-the-grave answer.
Humans are omnivores and our stomachs are a less acidic than our pets, who definitely thrive on a carnivore diet, even a cooked one. Her method of cooking intrigued me as it sounds very similar to sous vide without the silicon bag from which to suspend the meat. Cooking this way starts the process of digestion so the spleen and stomach do less work.
This just shows you that the one size fits all approach doesn't work. My ancestors thrived on lightly cooked meat and plant matter, with more plants than animals. She thrived on a meat diet. Others thrive on vegetarian diets (not vegan). Yet others still thrive on vegan raw diets (some recipes use a dehydrator). Eat what feels right and most often it will be what your ancestors ate cooked in a traditional way (your grandmother's recipes).
We let philosophy get in the way of dietary choices and some of these dietary choices lead to poorer health outcomes. I know we all feel for inhumanely treated cattle that are raised specifically for food and that has driven a rise to vegetarian, even vegan diets. What about humanely raised animals? Their vibrations are a lot higher and the vibration present at death is what you absorb when you eat the animal. And yes there are humane ways of killing the animal. Talk to some local farmers who advertise humane treatment of their animals, usually 100% pasture raised, free roaming and if asked they will tell you how they kill their animals. One that particularly intrigued me was being shot in the head until I realized the brain feels no pain.
I typically forget the the health advocate's name who I read about 50+ years ago. The main idea that rang true and has stayed with me is his notion that there are three basic contributions for optimizing one's health. Of these three, third in importance is one's dietary/nutritional (or lack thereof) input. Second is one's energetic inputs, examples being things like movement/exercise, breathing, exposure to sun, grounding, rest/sleep. First and foremost in importance is ATTITUDE: clarity of mind, purity of heart, honesty, sincerity, humility, HUMOR, and a conviction and alignment with: "everyone and everything is worthy of being loved."
The more things change, the more things stay the same. The odds still favor the patient who becomes their own doctor, over a doctor who is taught only to recognize billable procedures...
Research on the mechanism and benefits of carnivore doesn’t explain why many people can still thrive on a variety of foods.
I need carnivore so I get it… but Blue zone folks eat beans all day and live to be 100 without chronic illness. Folks in Central America eat fruit all day without ever seeing a doctor.
I personally think as interesting as this research is, it leaves out the emotional trauma side of why some people’s bodies struggle to process carbs, and quite a few don’t.
There is a reason others are recommending Dr. Price's Nutrition and Physical Degeneracy. You should read it. There is not just one diet that works. He covers mulriple traditional diets, all different yet all leading to perfect teeth and health.
A question I have is: the meat in the store is full of all sorts of horrible stuff. It is very hard to find a local, humanely raised source of meat. And, it is very expensive, too. All of the people eating carnivore diets, are they eating supermarket products or locally sourced? I cannot imagine that ingesting meat from animals that are vaccinated, pumped full of hormones, fed all sorts of crap, including Halloween candy and GMO corn, live in atrocious environments are killed in extremely inhumane ways can be good for you. Unfortunately, I read some literature on factory farms, and since then, I cannot bear to look at supermarket meat. I have to buy meat products for my pets, but as for me, I cannot get away from the feeling of death when I eat meat, even the locally sourced, humanely raised stuff. Also, I always feel sick after eating meat.
I am on a mostly carnivore diet (I also eat some raw fruit), and it consists almost entirely of supermarket products from the meat department. I do not buy processed or pre-cooked meats. I'd prefer other sources but they are very costly. Despite the source, the diet has produced many health benefits, and has not given me any regrets in 2 years of being on it. My diet also includes a lot of sea salt in my diet, mixed into my drinking water, as an integral part. While better-sourced meat may have greater nutritional value, each animal filters out toxins to one degree or another, as do our own bodies, leading me to believe that poorly-sourced cattle is still better than even the most pristine spaghetti. Just like carnivore advocates avoid talking about factory farming, advocates of vegetarianism avoid talking about the horrors of factory farming, pesticides, preservatives, and how private organic certifications were hijacked by legislation. The stories are out there, but you have to look for them.
What about the spiritual aspect of eating factory farmed animals? Do you think that matters? How much do you know; how much have you read, seen about factory farms? Just curious. I am guilty of participating insofar as I feed my dogs, and my parrot chicken. Absolutely the certification process has been hijacked. Look into Alexandre dairy farms. It is appalling that they are getting away with what they are doing. It seems all you need to do is bribe your local certifier and bingo, you can be organic, too. But, vegetarians absolutely talk about factory farms and certification fraud. I try to buy local, but I live in an area with farms—Oregon has lots of farms (although the news laws for climate and data centers will push most of them out of business, which is also why I support them). Also, my city legalized backyard chickens, so I can get eggs in my neighborhood, which I do, and I get my milk from a nearby farm where the cows wander in grass and are fed grass and split peas—no grains. I recently found raw milk cheese from an Amish farm in Lancaster, PA at the local Mennonite store. It is hard. I have an aversion to the taste of meat, though. And I am prediabetic, too. I don’t eat sugar, only local raw honey, no processed food (nothing in a box) no cookies, cakes, candies or chocolate, yet my A1C came out exactly the same as it was two years ago, when I did indulge in chocolate and an occasional Mexican coke. I know two doctors who have reversed type II diabetes, one with meat diet, one with vegan diet. I think I am going to look into the vegan one, because I feel better after eating produce than I do after eating meat.
What about the spiritual aspect of eating factory farmed animals? Do you think that matters? How much do you know; how much have you read, seen about factory farms? Just curious. I am guilty of participating insofar as I feed my dogs, and my parrot chicken. Absolutely the certification process has been hijacked. Look into Alexandre dairy farms. It is appalling that they are getting away with what they are doing. It seems all you need to do is bribe your local certifier and bingo, you can be organic, too. But, vegetarians absolutely talk about factory farms and certification fraud. I try to buy local, but I live in an area with farms—Oregon has lots of farms (although the news laws for climate and data centers will push most of them out of business, which is also why I support them). Also, my city legalized backyard chickens, so I can get eggs in my neighborhood, which I do, and I get my milk from a nearby farm where the cows wander in grass and are fed grass and split peas—no grains. I recently found raw milk cheese from an Amish farm in Lancaster, PA at the local Mennonite store. It is hard. I have an aversion to the taste of meat, though. And I am prediabetic, too. I don’t eat sugar, only local raw honey, no processed food (nothing in a box) no cookies, cakes, candies or chocolate, yet my A1C came out exactly the same as it was two years ago, when I did indulge in chocolate and an occasional Mexican coke. I know two doctors who have reversed type II diabetes, one with meat diet, one with vegan diet. I think I am going to look into the vegan one, because I feel better after eating produce than I do after eating meat.
It's not that none of them do, it's just that less people overall discuss the issue. But your comment started with discussion about how animal feed and treatment have strayed far from what is natural. I just wanted to point out the same could be said for agricultural products.
Pretty much everyone knows supermarket produce is GMO and sprayed with lots of toxins. And it is commonly known that 70% of organic produce is not organic. But I don’t consider spraying or genetically engineering produce to be on the same level as the diabolical treatment of factory farmed animals. The two are very different issues, in my opinion. And, of course, people start saying that plants feel pain like animals do, etc. to minimize the crimes against life that are factory/conventional animal farming, and that argument doesn’t hold in my mind. If you eat supermarket meat, so be it, but it is unrelated to the issue of eating supermarket produce.
When the gut is dysfunctional, it also means the body's immune system is deficient. 70% of immune system function is found in the gut. Medicine boys ignore the role of the immune system in maintaining good health. I wonder why.
From my personal experience: carnivore may not work for everyone, and it most certainly did not work for me. I was on carnivore for 15 months and, by the end, looked like hell…and felt much worse. I gained 25 pounds, was heavier than ever before in my life, bloated with terrible digestion, and was nearly immobilized by fatigue and chronic joint pain. I then stumbled onto Dr. Peter D’Adamo’s Blood Type Diet. Bottom line up front: we’re not all the same (shock!). The Blood Type Diet accounts for our distinct differences in a way I had not encountered before. What I learned to my chagrin is that, as a Blood Type A, carnivore is catastrophic to my metabolism…and my experience validated that in spades. By switching to a more “plant forward” diet appropriate to my blood type, I experienced near-immediate, profound improvements in my health. I’ve been on Blood Type Diet for six months, have lost 30 pounds (the first 20 in four weeks), my BMI dropped from 25.6 to 22.0, at 68-years old I’m able to move again and I can do a daily 30-minute workout, as well as walk briskly three-to-five miles daily, and—most importantly—I feel SO much better. For the record, I sincerely believe that carnivore can and does work…if you are Blood Type O. See D’Adamo for more.
Interesting. I know of one person who consumes nothing but beef and water and proclaims this as her way to health. I have read Weston Price, but it did not strike me, that he promoted an all-meat diet. What I understood was, that we should eat what our ancestors ate. For 100+ years my ancestors ate potatoes and vegetables grown in their own yard, with very little meat, usually some bacon, bought raw, and cooked until tender. Grandfather spread the fat on bread. Of course this was before the boom of fattening products for pigs. I remember how different the bacon piece looked from what is now sold in stores. Hormones, vaccines, and recently GMO pigs from Canada, now allowed to be sold in the US.
As to the medical Mafia, they exactly remember what helps, and they forbid it!
Forty-three doctors. Nine years. No relief. 125 years later, the medical mafia would claim she didn't have enough big pharma drugs in her body. That's their take-it-to-the-grave answer.
Thanks for the download.
To be fair, doctors then were often big pharma of era but having patients ingest often far worse chemicals.
Your content is amazing - and your subscription price is so reasonable in comparison. This post reminded me to renew my support. Well done!
For doctors never to ask, then or now, about one's diet reveals their longstanding ignorance and agenda.
To hell with them. Thanks for the report, Unbekoming.
Super information - thank you. Have you checked out the work of Weston Price? It is a revelation and then some.
Humans are omnivores and our stomachs are a less acidic than our pets, who definitely thrive on a carnivore diet, even a cooked one. Her method of cooking intrigued me as it sounds very similar to sous vide without the silicon bag from which to suspend the meat. Cooking this way starts the process of digestion so the spleen and stomach do less work.
This just shows you that the one size fits all approach doesn't work. My ancestors thrived on lightly cooked meat and plant matter, with more plants than animals. She thrived on a meat diet. Others thrive on vegetarian diets (not vegan). Yet others still thrive on vegan raw diets (some recipes use a dehydrator). Eat what feels right and most often it will be what your ancestors ate cooked in a traditional way (your grandmother's recipes).
We let philosophy get in the way of dietary choices and some of these dietary choices lead to poorer health outcomes. I know we all feel for inhumanely treated cattle that are raised specifically for food and that has driven a rise to vegetarian, even vegan diets. What about humanely raised animals? Their vibrations are a lot higher and the vibration present at death is what you absorb when you eat the animal. And yes there are humane ways of killing the animal. Talk to some local farmers who advertise humane treatment of their animals, usually 100% pasture raised, free roaming and if asked they will tell you how they kill their animals. One that particularly intrigued me was being shot in the head until I realized the brain feels no pain.
I typically forget the the health advocate's name who I read about 50+ years ago. The main idea that rang true and has stayed with me is his notion that there are three basic contributions for optimizing one's health. Of these three, third in importance is one's dietary/nutritional (or lack thereof) input. Second is one's energetic inputs, examples being things like movement/exercise, breathing, exposure to sun, grounding, rest/sleep. First and foremost in importance is ATTITUDE: clarity of mind, purity of heart, honesty, sincerity, humility, HUMOR, and a conviction and alignment with: "everyone and everything is worthy of being loved."
As should be. Thank you.
AMAZING
"The doctor does not cure."
Amen, sister!
The more things change, the more things stay the same. The odds still favor the patient who becomes their own doctor, over a doctor who is taught only to recognize billable procedures...
Research on the mechanism and benefits of carnivore doesn’t explain why many people can still thrive on a variety of foods.
I need carnivore so I get it… but Blue zone folks eat beans all day and live to be 100 without chronic illness. Folks in Central America eat fruit all day without ever seeing a doctor.
I personally think as interesting as this research is, it leaves out the emotional trauma side of why some people’s bodies struggle to process carbs, and quite a few don’t.
There is a reason others are recommending Dr. Price's Nutrition and Physical Degeneracy. You should read it. There is not just one diet that works. He covers mulriple traditional diets, all different yet all leading to perfect teeth and health.
Forty-three doctors… and not one asked what she was eating.
That alone should stop people in their tracks.
She didn’t get saved by a breakthrough drug or a specialist—she changed the inputs and let the body do what it’s designed to do.
That’s the uncomfortable part. Because if the lever is that simple, then a lot of “incurable” starts to look… mismanaged.
Worth a read. There’s something here people aren’t being told.
—Lone Wolf
Good shit.
The popular bed rest for anything that ailed patients should also be recognized as unhelpful. Ben Franklin had it right, fresh air and exercise.
A question I have is: the meat in the store is full of all sorts of horrible stuff. It is very hard to find a local, humanely raised source of meat. And, it is very expensive, too. All of the people eating carnivore diets, are they eating supermarket products or locally sourced? I cannot imagine that ingesting meat from animals that are vaccinated, pumped full of hormones, fed all sorts of crap, including Halloween candy and GMO corn, live in atrocious environments are killed in extremely inhumane ways can be good for you. Unfortunately, I read some literature on factory farms, and since then, I cannot bear to look at supermarket meat. I have to buy meat products for my pets, but as for me, I cannot get away from the feeling of death when I eat meat, even the locally sourced, humanely raised stuff. Also, I always feel sick after eating meat.
I am on a mostly carnivore diet (I also eat some raw fruit), and it consists almost entirely of supermarket products from the meat department. I do not buy processed or pre-cooked meats. I'd prefer other sources but they are very costly. Despite the source, the diet has produced many health benefits, and has not given me any regrets in 2 years of being on it. My diet also includes a lot of sea salt in my diet, mixed into my drinking water, as an integral part. While better-sourced meat may have greater nutritional value, each animal filters out toxins to one degree or another, as do our own bodies, leading me to believe that poorly-sourced cattle is still better than even the most pristine spaghetti. Just like carnivore advocates avoid talking about factory farming, advocates of vegetarianism avoid talking about the horrors of factory farming, pesticides, preservatives, and how private organic certifications were hijacked by legislation. The stories are out there, but you have to look for them.
What about the spiritual aspect of eating factory farmed animals? Do you think that matters? How much do you know; how much have you read, seen about factory farms? Just curious. I am guilty of participating insofar as I feed my dogs, and my parrot chicken. Absolutely the certification process has been hijacked. Look into Alexandre dairy farms. It is appalling that they are getting away with what they are doing. It seems all you need to do is bribe your local certifier and bingo, you can be organic, too. But, vegetarians absolutely talk about factory farms and certification fraud. I try to buy local, but I live in an area with farms—Oregon has lots of farms (although the news laws for climate and data centers will push most of them out of business, which is also why I support them). Also, my city legalized backyard chickens, so I can get eggs in my neighborhood, which I do, and I get my milk from a nearby farm where the cows wander in grass and are fed grass and split peas—no grains. I recently found raw milk cheese from an Amish farm in Lancaster, PA at the local Mennonite store. It is hard. I have an aversion to the taste of meat, though. And I am prediabetic, too. I don’t eat sugar, only local raw honey, no processed food (nothing in a box) no cookies, cakes, candies or chocolate, yet my A1C came out exactly the same as it was two years ago, when I did indulge in chocolate and an occasional Mexican coke. I know two doctors who have reversed type II diabetes, one with meat diet, one with vegan diet. I think I am going to look into the vegan one, because I feel better after eating produce than I do after eating meat.
What about the spiritual aspect of eating factory farmed animals? Do you think that matters? How much do you know; how much have you read, seen about factory farms? Just curious. I am guilty of participating insofar as I feed my dogs, and my parrot chicken. Absolutely the certification process has been hijacked. Look into Alexandre dairy farms. It is appalling that they are getting away with what they are doing. It seems all you need to do is bribe your local certifier and bingo, you can be organic, too. But, vegetarians absolutely talk about factory farms and certification fraud. I try to buy local, but I live in an area with farms—Oregon has lots of farms (although the news laws for climate and data centers will push most of them out of business, which is also why I support them). Also, my city legalized backyard chickens, so I can get eggs in my neighborhood, which I do, and I get my milk from a nearby farm where the cows wander in grass and are fed grass and split peas—no grains. I recently found raw milk cheese from an Amish farm in Lancaster, PA at the local Mennonite store. It is hard. I have an aversion to the taste of meat, though. And I am prediabetic, too. I don’t eat sugar, only local raw honey, no processed food (nothing in a box) no cookies, cakes, candies or chocolate, yet my A1C came out exactly the same as it was two years ago, when I did indulge in chocolate and an occasional Mexican coke. I know two doctors who have reversed type II diabetes, one with meat diet, one with vegan diet. I think I am going to look into the vegan one, because I feel better after eating produce than I do after eating meat.
I am confused: vegetarians don’t talk about factory farming?
It's not that none of them do, it's just that less people overall discuss the issue. But your comment started with discussion about how animal feed and treatment have strayed far from what is natural. I just wanted to point out the same could be said for agricultural products.
Pretty much everyone knows supermarket produce is GMO and sprayed with lots of toxins. And it is commonly known that 70% of organic produce is not organic. But I don’t consider spraying or genetically engineering produce to be on the same level as the diabolical treatment of factory farmed animals. The two are very different issues, in my opinion. And, of course, people start saying that plants feel pain like animals do, etc. to minimize the crimes against life that are factory/conventional animal farming, and that argument doesn’t hold in my mind. If you eat supermarket meat, so be it, but it is unrelated to the issue of eating supermarket produce.
When the gut is dysfunctional, it also means the body's immune system is deficient. 70% of immune system function is found in the gut. Medicine boys ignore the role of the immune system in maintaining good health. I wonder why.
It's the SECRET THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW.