I want to thank everyone in the comments that shared their past health experiences and how going Keto/carnivore has changed their lives and health for the better. It will help others that are suffering with chronic inflammation, weird symptoms and disease.
I would do more research. Take a look at "Dr. Davis Infinite Health", youtube channel. I just started carnivore and saw this. Been studying functional medicine for 4-5 years and saw incredible results from a period on a keto diet, but there has been something gnawing at me and I kept looking until I saw this (just this week). I have no bias except the evidence of actual results for myself and people around me. I am still open to whatever works best at my long term health and that of my loved ones. Blessing on your journey and please post your progress.
The carnivore diet has almost completely healed my health issues in just six months, and even healed me of about a dozen minor health issues that I didn't really even know could ever be fixed. My Gardens and small orchard will become a chicken coop and possibly a goat pen. Veggies and fruit are utterly useless to me now.
@@terrancewilson5035 If you have livestock, much of what you grow in a garden can add to their diet -- cattle used to be fed chopped pumpkins in winter, before grain feeding was common. Even a carnivore can eat garden products, squash, strawberries, etc in small amounts -- just graze a little while you water. Even hunter gatherers do that 😄 90% meat is still carnivore !
I was a vegan/vegetarian many of my adult years. Now, at 77 and carnivore for 15 months, life is becoming great again! I just started a 3-5 mile walk before dawn routine, along with squats and balance practice. Honestly, I feel better than at my so-called prime!
My wife and I have made a similar conversion with our garden over the past 2 years due to changing over to Keto and now mostly Carnivore. We expanded our chicken flock and feed our garden greens, corn and winter squash to them. We’re also freeze drying stuff like tomato sauce, fruit and sweet potatoes. We’ve managed to find a couple of local sources willing to trade eggs and veg for meat. Pete, if I had your acreage I’d take a shot at raising my own meat.
This is what I was going to say. Looks like there's enough land there to support at least some small livestock; the garden produce can go to feed them, or trade for what they can't raise themselves. We have ducks, meat rabbits, and some meat goats on our two and a half acres.
❤❤❤ You are right, but I am only able to eat my chicken's eggs. Chicken are so funny, I could never kill and eat them... Ik started some meat again, thanking the animal for his life and meat, but it is hard...
@@johannevanderghote7577 No big deal! My husband and I are close to the 5 year mark on Carnivore and even though we had access to clean, high EFA chicken, we don't really want it anymore. We still eat eggs!
I had so many similar symptoms pains all over my body, bleeding gums, joint pain, headache, blurred vision, snoring, depression, anger, anxiety, fears of doomsday, low energy, unhappiness, constant hunger, foggy brain ALL GONE!
I believe the oxalates effect us all differently..as we all are different. My own personal story, for years I bought into the green smoothie craze. Spinach & kale etc. Then came the constant burning bladder. I saw multiple specialists and had countless tests, the cystoscopes were the worst. Never any infections. They had no answers for me and now that I look back, none of them were even remotely interested in my diet. I credit my brother for finding my answer. I was in a dark moment of despair and I said I just can’t take it anymore, it’s wearing me out…what can I take for this? He said, maybe it’s what you should stop taking. So I stopped the green shakes and at that time I had no idea what oxalates even were! Within a week my burning slowly subsided, and it’s now gone. I got my life back. I also found Sally Norton, and found much info on line. I had no idea. Thanks for making your video.
I've had IC since 2006. I learned about oxalates in 2010. It also causes kidney stones. I never agreed to do a cystoscopy. THey do it because 10% turn out to be cancer. I ate mostly whole foods so I figured I didn't have cancer. My burning is finally calming some after 2.5 mons carnivore.
I had the same thing! Was vegan and had huge green smoothies every day ate soooo many leafy greens thinking it was healthy. Was diagnosed with Interstitial cystitis (aka: painful bladder disease) and it was so painful and had me up 10+ times a night to pee, had cystoscopies and bladder distension under general anaesthetic, medication, but nothing helped. Went on for 10 years and was ruining my life. In absolute desperation I switched to carnivore and apart from the initial oxalate dumping I've had no more bladder problems ever since!
I'm thrilled to see other's success stories. I had so much inflammation in my knees I knew if I went to a specialist I'd be shoved into knee replacement surgery. I vowed to exhaust all options before surgery. I began eliminating foods and improving. I kept eliminating until I was down to almost nothing but meat. Within 2 yrs I was walking twice a day to total 2.25 mi per day for several yrs. Over a year ago I had the "flu" which ruined my lungs. After 15 months I can feel my lung function coming around. I'm walking again - starting with 1/2 mile. I can tell I'll be able to improve quickly back to 2+ mi per day. I eat beef, brats and liver. Zero chicken because of the lectin. Life is so simple now that I don't need to have a variety of veg around. I do eat strawberries and blueberries occasionally.
Pete, I'm right there with you on this journey. At 54, I switched to a carnivore diet this January and haven't looked back. Like you, I've ditched the garden-turns out raising my own beef is not only fulfilling but it's really all I need now. The difference in how I feel is night and day, with so much less pain and a clearer mind. It's funny, isn’t it? No one batted an eye when my diet was pizzas, crackers, chips, etc... but switch to steaks and organ meats, and suddenly everyone's warning about cholesterol and health risks. The irony kicked in when my doc put me on statins and that pushed me into tons of research-decided no statins for me. Here’s to living in a world where no one looks out for your own health...except you! follow the money with doctors and rx drugs. Keep thriving on your path!
@@FourDRanch absolutely correct 💯% taking responsibility for their own health though for most people isn't what they want, they want to eat junk and get drugs to fix things when it just doesn't work that way. Doctors and surgeons are all on the gravy train. Look up Dr O'Mara he's a Carnivore doctor I follow him quite a bit. And you can do fermented foods to give you even better gut health. Seriously worth researching.
I know ~ people look @ you like you said you eat nothing but donuts & candy bars ! When I had to have my yearly Medicare check up the physician had a fit because my cholesterol was even higher than last year . She said , " I know how you feel about statin drugs , & other drugs , but you are ripe for a sudden heart attack or stroke ! " She did say mine was not related to my diet , but was genetic . ( I had gone carnivore a few weeks before that ) I still refused ! I am 75 & never felt better !!!
I can relate with you, I too had a garden and bought a freeze dryer. I thought I was eating healthy and I couldn't understand why my body wasn't healing. I did keto for two years and lost weight and felt better, but I had heard from some doctors who became carnivore, how their arthritis and diabetes went away. Then I after researching for a year, I decided to go on an elimination diet for 3 months, no veggies, just red meat eggs and bacon and salt and sardines once or twice a week. I couldn't believe the wonderful benefits that happened when did this. Like you within weeks my triglycerides went down from 300 to 90 and my knees got stronger. I had broken my leg the year before and now the muscles and my meniscus in my knee was healing. Diabetes numbers started going down. A1C. I am now 7 months in and I plan to continue. My doctor isn't happy, but she sees the results. No anxiety, hormones are balancing out. My tennis elbow is gone. My energy levels are getting better. I am a 71yr old female. My skin is looking younger. No skin tags. Yes I still have some more healing to go, but something positive is happening to my body. Doctor says you need any pills for pain depression...no doctor I feel so much better. She is scratching her head as she wanted me on statin drugs and other things. I hope this is the right direction for you and me. Keep up the good work. Dr. Ken Berry book "The Proper Human diet," Dr. Elizabeth Bright on hormones need cholesterol since they need cholesterol for building hormones, Dr. Ovidas a heart doctor journey research and such, Dr. Chaffee. Well the list of doctors is growing.
Awesome comment. You have additionally inspired me. Yet, carnivore is probably the only thing I haven't tried. I will research a bit more but I'm feeling like this is the right path for me also.
@@charleeghee7195carnivore here for over one year and healed autoimmune issues the medical community could not heal. It’s all about the standard American diet and lies we were told about eating meat. It heals.
@@margaretrosin7853 Yes, I'm quite familiar with all the lies having been researching health for many years. I have been hesitant to go carnivore due to concerns like it didn't seem natural that our ancestors would refrain from eating plants and my understanding is that in order for it to be truly healthy all parts of the animals should be eaten and last but not least I'm not sure what the cost of just eating quality (as in grass fed etc) meat would have on my current budget. I guess that's something I'll just have to figure out. 😁
@@kellynottellin4002 Yes, I have rethought the expense question I had and I thought about all the tiring gardening I've been doing, the expense of the garden plus the expense of all the specialty food items plus the organic ones I purchased. I didn't have a problem with letting produce go bad but all those other expense plus a ton of supplements are really starting to add up in my head!
I am subscribing following the arguments with someone that said he's unsubscribing your channel because you are going carnivore. I felt the need to replace his subscription with mine and to follow your channel because you have something to share.
I’m so happy for your family. I am going on two years carnivore! The best thing I’ve ever done for my health. I was disabled and now at 70 years old am in excellent health! I needed a knee replacement and that problem is completely gone. Other health concerns that I never imagined that my diet had anything to do with it, are completely gone. You will not regret your decision to adopt a carnivore way of life despite the drastic changes you are making to your lifestyle. I’ll be subscribing
I'm going through this EXACT same thing. Started carnivore and health is finally improving. I think I'll still garden but limit it to things I can ferment and things I can feed to animals. Using fermented foods as a small garnish might work for me. Don't know yet. What a great revelation!! I love gardening. Maybe flowers and herbs for soap and lotion.
I've been carnivore now for 3 months!!! Ill never go back...if possible...i understood this world is turning into a hell. Loved this video..helps to see others who are healing their bodies but realize we will need to survive... God bless us all❤❤❤❤
I used to love my vegetable garden. I had a salad every day, I thought I was healthy. Then, one day, as an experiment, I decided to try the carnivore diet for two weeks. I got curious after watching a bunch of TH-camrs so excited about their diet. That was almost two years ago. I’m so glad to have indulged my curiosity. Those two weeks transformed my life. I feel so good, I feel blessed to have stumbled upon this way of life.
Totally agree with you! I started eating carnivore last July. I’m now my high school weight (at age 66). We have been lied to! Good for you for sharing your experience!
I'm in the same boat with my garden, but I discovered a whole new world of textiles! I started growing cotton with the goal of learning to spin and make yarn/fabric. I'm growing gourds to learn other useful bowl making or even bird houses. That's a whole world in itself. Flowers, for polenators. Millet, corn and sunflowers to make feed for my birds and animals. I have some bamboo, and I have yet to make a textile from that. OH, and what about all the tons of herbs for salves, soaps, and shampoos!! Oh I could go on and on about the many things you can still grow in the garden... OH what about beets and carrots for natural dyes!!? Yeah. Lovely!
YES!!! I am SO GLAD to see someone posting on this VERY topic! We just moved to the country side after years of wanting to get out here and get our gardens going, and 6 months ago after feeling the call to make a first brief run at carnivore (SAME positive results, went off, but getting into position to make a longer-term commitment), I thought I was going to have an existential crisis regarding how to put together our permaculture design for our property- and that was exactly what we've been having to re-thinking now - growing instead to feed the chickens, and diversify in other ways to be able to then focus more on chickens/eggs, and other things to grow/sell in order to then in turn support other local organic meat growers to assure a diverse keto-vore/carnivore diet, etc--- all just at the beginning stages- a definite paradigm shifter, and so grateful to see others on the cutting edge sharing their similar experiences! Many thanks! 🙏🌷
I've been re-designing my garden as well by removing veggies and replacing with native plants to my area in San Diego. Already a massive increase in wildlife just in the past few months. Also, with all this extra energy, I ripped out a big area and I am hand digging a pond! After a veg diet for nearly 30 years and getting sicker once I started eating more from my own garden, my life has completely flipped a 180 just by doing a mostly meat diet. I feel better than I have in years! Sally Nortons book is great - I also recommend one called The Big Fat Lie - absolutely mind blowing how much they have lied and manipulated us.
I am a fellow homesteader turned carnivore I simply gave everything for gardening away and turning the garden area in to a aviary for chickens ducks geese and quail Geese are great as they can thrive on just grass and that reduces your feed cost I also have goats and in the future i will have sheep as well I am in Alaska
Can I ask how you learned killing the animals? This is the biggest concern for me as a former veggie grower. I am not sure where to learn it, how hard it will be, how to do it the least harmful way. Even where to talk about it.
Almost 5 years ago my husband and I started keto so I could reverse t2d. We changed our garden to keto veggies. 2 years ago we went carnivore. Now we garden flowers. We raise plants that repel bugs and sell them at the farmers market. ❤ love Carnivore and the good health we have. ❤
I’m so happy for your family. I am going on two years carnivore! The best thing I’ve ever done for my health. I was disabled and now at 70 years old am in excellent health! I needed a knee replacement and that problem is completely gone. Other health concerns that I never imagined that my diet had anything to do with it, are completely gone. You will not regret your decision to adopt a carnivore way of life despite the drastic changes you are making to your lifestyle.
Carnivore for 13 months.....feel amazing at 56.lost 130lbs....reversed type 2 ,A1c 9.5 to 5.4, arthritis gone,kidney stones gone,vision improved..adult acne gone...brain fog gone to many to list...off all medications first 3 months,can stay in sun for hours without burning ..first walked the dog for exercise then added resistance training now I'm sprinting 300yrs 3 sets 3 days aweek, my God never thought I would run again....
Pete! I have been ketovore for several years, which seemed to have helped my horrible joint pain, until it didn’t. I watched your last video, then a couple days later made a big pot of collard greens for supper. The next morning I was in excruciating pain, and it clicked. I’ve cut out all high and moderate oxalate veggies and have seen improvement. Thank you so much for putting this out, I hadn’t heard of it and have researched a lot since.
@@greyfox243. It's not the gluten per se. It's the huge amount of glyphosate they spray on GMO crops (which have glyphosate spliced into crops' DNA), and even on veggies and fruits. People have been eating grains for thousands of years without issues. It's only in the last 70 years or so, since the development of unnatural GMO crops and excessive use of glyphosate in agriculture, that people have been getting sicker and sicker with chronic gut issues, which lead to all sorts of other chronic health issues. Big Agro blames gluten to deflect suspicion away from glyphosate. But gluten is not the culprit.
I am 81 and I fractured my hip last October and I made a good recovery and my surgeon said that was because of my garden and the strength that I had. He said to be sure to have a garden again this year. I decided to go carnivore on May 11 in the midst of planting my garden so I decided to just work hard in it and plant the usual things and put the produce in the clubhouse in my mobile home park for other people. Win-win. I don’t really like to give them things that will hurt them however they need food and they will buy the things anyway. Inflation has hit seniors hard. The hard part is that I had just replanted my strawberry bed and they are my favorite food in the world. I allow myself two small strawberries a day and that helps keep the oxalate dumping from getting out of hand according to Sally K Norton.
Now that the strawberries are coming in I get max 5-10 a week so I'm eating them and sharing them so not enough to cause any symptoms. Lately I've been reading that some people are wanting to modify the carnivore diet to eat more normally and having a hard time adding foods back in. I don't want any diet protocol to make me a slave to it so a few strawberries or some onions, garlic in my crock pot with the meat doesn't seem to be a problem and makes me feel like I could modify my diet without suffering if I add a few low oxalate low carb fruits like zucchini or fermented things back in from time to time.
@@puggirl415 cooking and adding fat and/or vinegar is the traditional way to eat most greens and vegetables. I think carnivore diet is to heal but then adding seasonal fruit and vegetables and even the correct portion of traditional grains...rice, barley, wheat, rye and corn if you can find non-gmo will produce optimum longevity and health and enjoyment. We just eat WAY too much and too often now. Even in the carnivore circles...why eat 6 eggs or a whopping size ribeye?
I'm an avid gardener and love gardening and heirloom seed saving. And though carnivore now, I continue to grow fruit and veg every year just as I have in the past, using it as supplemental feed for my poultry and stock. Had a bumper crop of blackberries this season, and earlier this week I saw that my turkey poults have eaten them all. Those berry-filled turkeys will be extra tasty come winter. 🙂
This is excellent to see! I was an avid gardener, but since giving up veggies and most fruits, my garden is just weeds! Now I see the wisdom in getting chickens and building a chicken coop inside my fenced in garden area!
If you are going to go carnivore, you need to look at locally produced livestock. Cattle, sheep, and goats Find someone you know who raises the animal, buy them live, finish feeding them out, process them yourself or carry them to the processor. You get a MUCH better product, and you know it is safely raised and fed. Hey Pete, how is your solar working out?
I've been carnivore since 2018. I'm presently 71 years old and I've been preaching this to my friends for years. They don't believe this stuff at all. I've even bought them the Sally Norton book and still they don't budge. Love this video because I feel like I could have written that script, word for word myself. Thankyou.
If you have livestock, feed these vegetables to them. They can get the max nutrition out of them better than we can. So, when we eat their meat and organs those nutrients are methylated for us to absorb to the max. I am carnivore too. 5 years now. Had multiple autoimmune disorders and thyroid nodules with a litany of symptoms and inflammation that I take 2 different immunosuppressives for. Hoping to reverse it. Had lots of problems with health that did resolve with meat heavy keto, low oxalate veg, no nightshades and not much veg at all really. Just a tiny bit to flavor my food now like a little garlic and onion. You’re doing the right thing mister. Keep at it.
Look up Elliot Overton here on TH-cam. I could not heal completely on Carnivore. My immune system crashed when I was 2 years into the diet. It took time to get oriented to the Thiamine therapy. Elliot is a Carnivore nutritionist. I am thriving thenks to him. I will be 5 years Carnivore, this Thanksgiving.
I eat mostly carnivore but also am a fruit tree hobbyist and I strongly believe there is something powerful about citrus and berries as well as other fruits picked ripe from the tree. I definitely have my times where I am completely in ketosis from meat and feel great but other times I’ll eat my fruit and feel good too. I have nothing against this guy and his decision as plants can cause issues with people. We have a 1” secum and chimps have a 4’ long secum for digesting fiber. It’s funny reading people comments unsubbing. Don’t knock it till you try it. That’s my advice
Omg you just solved my mystery! I had weird spots when I started carnivore too, & had no idea what it was about! The doctor prescribed antihistamines.. I’m about 60 days in now and feeling great ! I too am changing my garden.. I’ve mulched and manured the beds, covered with wet cardboard and covered that with plastic..the worms that come will be chook food! got to change and adapt. Wish I’d known about carnivore 30 years ago. New sub 🎉
I’m a new subscriber. I went to carnivore four months ago because I had kidney damage and bladder damage also a prolapsed bladder. I have reversed all of these symptoms. I had no idea. It was the vegetables that I was eating daily that was causing all of these issues. I showed that video of you talking about Sally Norton’s book to my husband, and he was very inspired by your transformation and then he showed it to his best friend and he was very inspired. Now they both have turned to carnivore.. oxalate dumping can be very painful for some people. I know it has been for me, but I’m going to fight through it because I feel amazing now that I am gone carnivore the dumping doesn’t last long usually three days for me. I usually drink a cup of hot tea when I start to feel the dumping coming on and I believe that it’s been helping. Good luck on your journey. Keep moving forward and find what works for you and your wife.
I've had all those symptoms!! So hard to go complete carnivore for me. Had some eggplant last night. Ug woke up itchy. I've decided to grow herbs flowers and food for my chickens and ducks. Good video my friend. Ty
Happy for you Pete! We are keto and have never jumped to strictly carnivore. There is a definite difference in the way you feel. Aches and pains went away, energy is off the wall, I feel like I did 20 years ago. A lot of what you are experiencing is what I did. Keep it up Pete.
I can relate to your story. Went vegetarian years ago and I started having a lot of health issues that few doctors could help me with. I incorporated meat again, Went gluten free, cut out all milk except for butter and ghee, and it helped but didn’t solve everything. Went Paleo and seemed to help up to a point, but still experiencing a lot of issues still. Discovered animal-based (not full carnivore but include some fruit and honey like Dr, Paul Saladino talks about), removed oxalate-heavy plant foods, and include organs, and amazingly feel a night and day difference. The word is getting out there how plants are not as amazing for us as many people have been lead to believe. That’s great you’re seeing such good results from your dietary changes. Eventually more and more will catch onto this.
Very recent subscriber here. I too am on a healing journey and am enjoying your channel. Cant wait to watch this channel blow up as others discover you! Hope yall do some cooking and share recipies and techniques. I have lots of canned veg and fruit stored for emergencies but am transitioning to mostly meat. Will be a watching and learning. Thank you for sharing your journey!
My Gardens have switched mostly to food production for The Animals. Things that are easy to grow, easy to store Winter/off-season. And that will feed animals. There's 3 acres of Garden that are now pasture and food plot for the animals. I've gone carnivore .. but my choice of meats is not typical. Carnivore enthusiasts seem bent on a beef preference. If not beef, more generally ruminants. I can't do that without acquiring outside dependencies on meat supply that I do not want. My flavor of Carnivore consists of the small livestock I can raise and feed on my own, as well as what we hunt here on The Homestead - Chicken (both meat birds and egg layers), Musvovy/Duck (including wild/native Mallard we hunt as well as the Meat breeds we raise) Deer, Goose (both native Canada and we raise American Buff) Turkey (we raise Bourbon Red) , Meat Rabbit, Wild Cottontail, Bass and Catfish. The occasional Hog/Pig but we don't do that every year. Beef is a rare treat that we have to buy in as we don't have the land base to support cattle. Carnivore doesnt necessarily mean Cow, folks. We're seeing all the same benefits without it.
@annellacannella5674 LOLWut? What does being ruminant have to do with the price of tea in China. Cows are farking ruminant. Doesnt mean I can feed 'em on my plot. Ditto Sheep.
Just subscribed to your channel. I love what you have to say. I started two years ago at 68. I have been struggling for a few months now to stay carnivore. Alot of stress in my life. I needed more encouragement.
Meat heals dogs and cats too. I did rescue work for years and an all meat diet for debilitated dogs and cats heals VERY QUICKLY. Also after spay/neuter, they bounce back after surgery like I’d never seen before.
It just doesn't make any sense till you switch. Then a light comes on, and you get it. All the lies we've been taught to believe about health. I've been carnivore for almost 7 months, and at 54 years old, I've lost over 60 lbs and feel twenty years younger and can deal with stress on a whole different level. Joint pain and the ability to stretch and focus are so much better. I have been shopping for a living for the past four years as an instacart shopper and spending hours every day watching people pushing carts full of garbage to their cars all day long . It breaks my heart watching it, knowing what I know . I share my experience as many times as I can. 99% of people are going look at you like your nuts for even suggesting such a thing. It doesn't stop me from sharing. I'm very happy for you and yours.
Hey Pete, I'm an old fart from North Texas, life long gardener and strict carnivore coming up on a year. Not everyone who choses carnivore is trying to lose weight, many of us just want to stop the poison. The side benefits are wonderful. As they say, "You ain't seen nothin yet" Your health, your strength, your gums, your hair, wow! BTW, check out our neighbors Parker County Beef Company. They're my whole grocery store lol
I can't believe I came across your video. I have the same situation in Hawaii. I'm a 70 male and I have over 15 years of establishing a tropical fruit orchard and organic farm of vegetables and green houses. I raised composting worms and spray vericulture tea. Over two years ago I decided to go carnivore after having many green and fruit smoothies. I froze tons of fruits and veggies, including bananas, coconut water, pineapple, lilikoi , dragon fruit, etc. I gave it all away and filled my freezers with meat. I still eat some of the Mac. Nuts and avocados. I feel incredible now that I cut out the smoothies. Thanks for sharing.
I ended up turning my razed garden beds into a flower garden. Absolutely love it. I loved gardening,so I find growing different flowers witch keeps me relaxed and pleased.
7 years ago, I decided to go whole foods, plant-based, after reading of Dr. John McDougal's books. He and his colleagues convinced me it was the way to go. He listed testimonials in his books and his website - people were healing and losing weight. So, I bought the idea. Fast forward to the end of the 7th year. My hair was falling out. I could not grow fingernails; they would break, peel and splinter. My vision was going to pot. Then I heard about Paleo, Keto, Carnivore, and the Lion Diet. And I started reading and watching as many videos as I could and all the doctors that were promoting eating meat. So. I tried it. And it is amazing how quickly your body begins to heal. My nails are stronger now than ever. My dry eye has improved. My hair is still falling out, but not quite as much. It's still a struggle, a big culture changed - but I keep working at it.
I got sucked into that too! "The fat you eat, is the fat you wear" and Clint Paddison who has the Paddison program for Rheumatoid arthritis (which I had; bad!) But you know what convinced me to switch to carnivore? The glaringly obvious vibrant health of the carnivores on TH-cam compared to the sallow, pale, early ageing, hollow Eyed look of all those vegan promoters.😂
@@lisawanderess For Real. I hear you. I'm embarrassed now, to all the friends & family I preached to, to go whole food plant-based. And, I no longer eat that anymore. But I say, do your own research. We are our own guinea pig.
I had all the McDougal books and felt like crap. Got rid of them a couple of years ago, but didn’t find carnivore until this year. A struggle, but I’ll get there.
Congratulations on your journey to be a Carnivore. I’m on ketovore now. I was a Vegetarian for many years, went low carb then keto, now combination of keto and carnivore, working towards carnivore. I’m 77 years old. I lost a good Friend who was a vegan. He passed from stomach Cancer. I also know of 2 other Vegans that are fighting Cancer.
Happy and proud of your discovery of health. It’s really awesome. We are waking up and we are tired of being ill due to a prescribed diet of weakness. Keep it up fellow east texas brother. You may just be around 25 more with this change. Man if we figured this out in our teens. I did convince my teens to start this and they lost acne, lost fat and are beginning to see what thriving is really about. Blessings and all the best to you and yours.
Please would you consider leaving fruit trees, flowers with pollen growing for birds, bees, etc? The fruit trees would be great for anymore chickens you might consider having!❤
Thanks Pete, subscribed to your channel this morning. Like you, I was always active and very strong physically. Raised on a mixed farm and stayed with that until my mid 30's. Then went into carpentry, and am still operating my home renovation business at age 68. After 66 years of eating a heavy carb diet I suffered a heart attack and have been struggling with chronic fatigue (air hunger?) ever since. Apparently there is no medical cure for this condition. This led me to search for diet changes that will help me. I've been searching You tube for about a week now and am very interested in Carnivore. Lots of information out there, but after watching your video I will definitely be moving towards Carnivore. Thanks again, I will keep you posted with regards to my improving condition.
Pete B, good on ya bud. I'm 63 and have been CARNAVORE-ish about 6months now. Lost about 25# and gone from size 42 waist to 38. Started working out at home and about to join a gym again. Don't give up. There's always some food pyramid nut out there gonna say your wrong. Good luck brother!
Remember too, before we knew how to preserve food or had the means to transport from all over the world, we ate fruits, berries & some veg only a short time each year when you came across them. Very different from eating them year round with heavy processing or industrial "cleaning" with chemicals.
Yes, exactly. I wonder if anyone has explored a "sesonal" diet, where you eat the fruit and veggies when they are available in your area from the farmers, and then in the winter resort to a strictly meat based diet. It would give the body the chance to cleanse.
The body is best without them, and does not require even a bite of vegetation. Wild plants were mainly used to avoid starvation, a few berries & wild onions were used in season, for flavoring. Otherwise, they knew how to process each wild green they ate, otherwise, they would experience suffering. Wild greens and gmo beans must be highly processed to remove their toxins.
@@Nikotromus My friend told me about a book she read about that very thing: Eating in season. Don't recall the title, but it should be easy enough to find.
@@l.l.2463 yes everything God created for man to enjoy was supposed to be eaten when in their season naturally only in their region of the world. This whole thing about shipping/exporting food immaturely all over the globe that are sprayed with chemical preservatives is adding to more chaos in so many strange diceases adding more and more confusion and corruption in the causes of global warming etc. World governments need to wake up and see the root cause of cross contamination affecting all kinds LIFE on earth especially the SOIL! Man manipulation in agriculture = Poor mineral depleted Soil = Deceases = No LIFE.
Loved this video. Lots of good information. (I agree about where the world is headed. Not good.) Impressed with all the changes that you've had with your health and the health of your dogs. Good stuff.
Great plan and congrats to you and your wife on making the switch. I'm in my second year and the healing continues to amaze me. It's such a paradigm shift that it's hard to not sound fanatical to those who haven't experienced it yet. This is my second gardening season since my full transition to carnivore and I still enjoy the garden but am just maintaining and protecting my soil, keeping my perennial crops tended and growing flowers. I've had the same thought that you expressed -- I wish I could share how good I feel. Aging in reverse to a ridiculous degree and the best decision I ever made.
So many questions from a long time subscriber. Are you going to raise any livestock? What do you think of Benny Johnson’s quest to slow down aging (he’s vegan)? What will you do with the extra time previously consumed by all your gardening? Gonna move to another country? In some way I’m sad as you had such passion in your veggie garden but happy your feeling so well now, anyway do what you enjoy. Cheers
Lost 42lbs since February, feel great eat at noon and 5:00pm coffee for breakfast feel full between meals, it's working out great for me. We raise our own beef you need to meet a producer in your area
Congratulations. I’ve been carnivore for 1 year. You have a great property. I would look at meat growing. Increase the chickens and maybe some sheep or pigs. You have a great opportunity.
I just started the carnivore diet. I was a veg and vegan for years. I now have degenerative disk disease and need surgery and another knee replacement. My skin issues are clearing up and starting to get a little energy back. I can't exercise currently but I have high hopes. I'll be changing my garden plans as well and adding meat rabbits and kahki campbell ducks for meat production. I don't have enough land for larger animals. I would love to raise lamb if I had the space. Good luck Pete.
Great video! Your story is like my story. Prepping, gardening, planting trees etc. The changes carnivore has done for me in just four months has been remarkable.
Tried carnivore with bacon. I ended up with tons of bacon grease. Added it to dog's kibble (not rich enough to feed dogs meat). Old dog got full of spunk, coat shiny and now he keeps up with the 1 year old pup. That is just adding bacon grease to kibble! Do what you can.
Oh goodness I feel your pain with taking a productive homesteading life style and making such a radical change and turning your back on all that work. So mentally hard but the science and physical change in our bodies can't be denied. Wow what a hard change but we have to do this to have the quality of life we want. Thank you for sharing your plans for your homestead. We will be sending bushels of fruit from the orchard to our neighborhood. Good luck on your new journey.
I’m glad you’ve addressed the issue of being a longtime gardener and proponent of preparation and now eating only meat. I was a lifelong gardener but have been on the carnivore diet (90% of the time) for a year now and feel fabulous at 69. I’ve started to freeze dry my freezer contents, which is mostly vegetables and fruits and now doing some meats, too. Just recently, I started to experience oxalate dumping with the itchy red bumps. It’s a real thing! I’m reading Sally’s book now. Thanks for sharing your story!! Subscribed.
Hey man I appreciate you putting out content like this. I left the city about 14 years ago and started gardening and have a flock of 30 chickens. I have roughly the same amount of garden space as you maybe 20% less. About 7 years ago after monkeying around with many different diet philosophies to heal myself I finally deduced the facts down to a high quality animal based food diet and maybe some seasonal fruit. I've had so much cognitive dissonance trying to regroup and adjust my philosophy on homesteading and basic needs production. I've relapsed a few times because I struggled with alcohol before but I have healed so much. It's been quite the journey. I think one of the most interesting things was the first year I ate purely beef, salt water and a bit of fish and shellfish hear and there I fit into jeans at 260 lbs that normally only fit at about 235 to 240 lbs lol and I didn't even work out AT ALL for that whole year because I needed to rest and heal. I just did normal chores and walking and seasonal firewood. The muscle fiber density created eating our species specific diet is far superior and was shocking the first time I was struggling to understand the scale differences HA! Anyway I subscribed. Good luck on your journey Pete. You guys are on the right track and I hope more people in the homesteading community will wake up to this. It's difficult to switch gears mentally when you've invested so much of your time into a different ideal. On the bright side when you work with plants and animals a lot you start to notice trends and patterns in the ecosystem. That's partly what I attribute my awakening to other than just being desperate to understand certain autoimmune system issues I have and how to restore organ health.
I'm an all in type, Aussie female 56yrs old, dove in to the Carnivore diet 19mths ago and never going back to a SAD (standard American/Australian diet). Fixed the arthritis and so much more. Best feeling
I learned a lot about high oxalate foods from Sally K Norton's book Toxic Superfoods. She provides a list of plant foods that are either high or low in oxalate (high oxalate foods like swiss chard, spinach, almonds are super high in oxalate). One reason why carnivore is so successful is that it's a very low oxalate diet. I recommend her book. I think that keto carnivore eaten with some low or very low oxalate foods is a good plan. The author also has a TH-cam channel. What I like about her book is that she backs it up with science and studies. NICE LOOKING GARDEN!
I find combining red light therapy with carnivore takes me to the next level. If I overdo it, because I feel so good, a 10 minute treatment resets me. It’s sooo wild that life can be so simple, and cheap! Meat and red light and I feel like a teenager again
I have been on carnivore for 9 months. I have gone from 229 to 159. I grow for my chickens too. But I did try some yellow squash yesterday and oh man did it bother me last night and this morning. And I have been getting the red bumps too. Boy, do they inch at times. The only thing I have found that doesn't bother me is when I make my own tortillas. Using the unbleached flour. Carnivore is amazing what it has done for me is amazing as well. I am so happy for you and your wife. I am trying different things to see how they make me feel because when the stuff does hit the fan, I want to know which ones don't affect me as much because if I cannot get meat, I want something that won't be so hard on me and let me tell you some things are harder than others.
Beautiful homestead. So well cared for. I know how energized and calm I am on carnivore. This WOE has thought me a lot about myself and I wish everyone could feel the way that I feel on Carnivore!
good job! carnivore is not a fad diet but the proper Human diet...we've been eating meat throughout history. For those who question, watch a few of Dr Ken Berry's videos....and read the comments. The pharmaceutical companies run our "healthcare system ". Meat, particularly ruminants, along with some sunshine and good sleep cures just about every chronic disease. My husband suffered Rheumatoid arthritis and had 1 hip replacement and was about to have the other done until we went carnivore. Beef. butter, bacon and eggs.
Our story is similar to yours. Grew most all of our food, and the plants made us ill. Went carnivore 17 mo. ago, and will never go back to eating plants. We grow food to feed the chickens, ducks, family and friends. Wish we could raise our own beef. How about a saltwater hot tub in your green house for the winter and a cold plunge for the summer?
You have the most beautiful garden!!! Yes, grow to feed your chickens. We can only keep chickens as long as we can feed them. Maybe consider getting other animals that you can feed that will feed you eventually
Fantastic testimony to carnivore. I, too have moved away from vegetable gardening and seeking to raise quail for eggs and meat on my little 1/8 acre backyard. My dog too is 16 years old and is healthy and slim living on carnivore too.
Do you feed your dog raw or cooked meats? Any veg or eggs included at all? I'm transitioning mine to homemade food and it's mostly meat but I add some organic zucchini and oats and cage free eggs to the mix, then slow bake at 250* for a few hours. Wondering if 100% meat (beef, lamb & turkey) would just be better?
@@susangray4409 No but they do eat the green tripe innards of the animals they hunt and kill. (And those animals often do eat plants) That's what I feed my dog along with meat. It's not bad for animals to have some vegetable matter if they aren't getting innards from animals. If you can get the green tripe then feed it. It's great for them.
I’ve got the red bumps just like you. I’m glad you showed a picture because that’s exactly what my back looks like. About three months ago I got red swollen bumps on my eyelids and Sally Norton said that was also oxalate dumping. I only got three and have not had any more since.
One of the cattle ranchers says they grow turnips for their cattle. Maybe a local rancher would like to have some of your veggies for their cattle, goats, pigs, chickens....
As someone whose dabbled in carnivore and also has grown huge gardens and ate for free most summers, I’ve surrendered to the fact that I will mostly eat my garden in summer and eat mostly meats in the off season. I can’t part with my garden, gardening is therapy for me
You could plant flowers, I have recently went carivore I have had bad skin for 4 years Doctor told me I had Alpha Gal, so no red meat whitch was my only defense but I didnt know at the time. With no red meat my skin got worse and worse I was keeping to the Ahpha Gal diet but I kept getting worse. I have been on Predizone 4 times and this time I decided to only eat red meat. Its only been 4 days but Im not itching like crazyand I can tell Im healing. Doctor was wrong but Im not going to tell him I am carnivore right now as I have to go see the results of bloodwork. BUT I am not allergic to beef I dont have Alpha Gal. Thank you very much for your videos. My tomato plants never grow good but this year they are perfect cause they know Im not going to eat them Lol
Great to find you. We pretty much have the same story. After starting my tomato plants and peppers indoors, we started carnivore diet. I was wondering the same thing. I figured I’d just give most of it away or can it for prep, no probs. All of our preps may come in handy and we’ll eat them if we have to. We bought a half cow and a whole pig this spring and have a whole lamb coming next week. Buying in bulk has been a very positive experience. Can’t beat $4-$6 a # for meat, yes even the steaks. I can meat, it’s not only fun, but for prep. (We’re 60 & 68). Look forward to seeing more from your channel. Love from East TN.
The canned chicken and pork shoulder I canned for prep before and during the pandemic has come in handy doing the carnivore diet. I can all the broth from my braises too. Slowly but surely giving away all the beans and sweet jellies I've put by.
That's great that you're going to be freeze drying your fruits and vegetables for the future. One thing I wanted to bring up is that our ancestors fermented their fruits and vegetables. It reduced the oxalates in the vegetables to make them more digestible and bioavailable nutrient wise. We've lost our skills. That being said you'll have lots of salt in storage to ferment your homegrown vegetables in the future if need be. I am also carnivore - but know that vegetables that are properly prepared are healthy.
Thank you for sharing, I live a lowcarb lifestyle, but I'm working my way towards ketovore and, if affordable, later to carnivore. Heavy times are coming, God bless each and everyone of us.
My parents (Italian) had a huge garden- both lived a long life. Maybe you can donate to those who will appreciate fresh veggies. When you said ca-cootz for Italian squash my heart dropped! I never knew what zucchini was! Only ca-cootz I’m carnivore - 3 months. I’ll never go back unless I have to! Beautiful garden!!
You can grow food for your Animals, and use your land for grazing animals, we have a chicken coop enjoying fresh eggs, growing sunflowers for the beauty and the seeds for the chickens. I have Oxalate Poisoning as well and cannot even eat spices without causing me pain and feeling sick.
I am still eating my veggies from my garden, being I am ketovore. I eat the low-carb veggies. My husband and daughter are still eating the SAD. But I am doing the cooking, so I am pushing more healthy optins.
make sure you include saturated fats into the cooking, more meat for them, at least every day. If they eat breakfeasts bacon and eggs only... I am just giving Ideas
OMG! We have a country cottage with a vegetable garden, (kale, carrots, onions, zucchini , green beans, peas, pumpkin, lettuces, cucumbers)and lots of potatoes, grapes, apple and English walnut trees but much smaller than yours!!! I started carnivore 6 months ago and not coming back to eat vegetables, but my husband is not carnivore, so I cook some for him and give some vegetables for my Neighbors. I still enjoy sowing , growing rotating plants but at the same time know how they harmed me with oxalates and other toxins for years. From vegetarian I changed to Paleo, but ate many almonds, beets that overload my body with oxalates. Being now a carnivore is the greatest and most dramatic thing that has happened to me in 70 years. Not only losing my belly fat and 25 pounds (I was not overly overweight) but changing my mind set , long life illness conditions and many others that I didn’t know I had! Thank you for sharing your video and how you feel with carnivore life style! Very inspiring!
@@susanbernier9399 Start at Genesis 9 and keep reading through Leviticus where we receive detailed instructions of which animals are good for people food and which have a different purpose (scavengers, etc.)
Also, set up special worm farms for your chickens or let them free range during the day in your enclosed garden patch. Your chickens willl do well having all the extra protein too. After all, worms are what chickens would naturally be eating. People don't seem to realize that they don't have to go down to a tractor store to buy big bags of grain. Our cattle (6) grazed free range during the day and we trained them to come in to a barn at night by giving them crushed corn (from our farm) I remember my dad saying that "to them, (steers) it is like having sugar candy."
Feels like all the homesteaders will slowly become carnivore and change the world! You all have large audiences, just think of what you can do to educate the world! Very good!!
I have a similar set up. I've gardened for decades and now eating carnivore. I wondered what to do with my garden as well. Last fall, I bought sheep and let them loose in there for fall clean up which they did amazingly well. This year I planted a lot more flowers and very few vegetables. I have a pen beside the garden that has had at various times, ducks, pigs, chickens and now sheep. I plan to do meat birds again. They are also great at cleaning up a garden. My experience with carnivore is similar too with the heart palpitations, bloat, joint pain etc. Stuff I've dealt with for 20+ years. When I'm strict with carnivore all of that goes away. It's truly amazing.
New subscriber, happy to replace one of the judgmental folks who left! I'm a carnivore and I personally hope you continue to garden if it makes you happy (it's nice to have a hobby that gets you out in the beautiful sun!) and if you won't eat your produce, I can assure you that food banks or even your neighbors would love home grown produce! My husband is also carnivore and has fruit bushes he enjoys caring for so there's nothing wrong with keeping your plants around to share the bounty with the people around you that may enjoy them 😊
I love gardening, it's so healing and beautiful. I kept growing herbs, fruit, and veggies after I became carnivore and then gave the produce away to my neighbors who loved it. We have a book sharing box, and I also put my produce in there for anyone passing by who wants it. It's always gone in less than a day. My goal is to get a piece of property where I can have chickens & pigs so I can give it to them!!!! Love the idea of freeze drying for emergency back up.
I had a similar setup as you and went carnivore 11 months ago without looking back. My wife has not bought into the carnivore lifestyle completely so she still eats peas beans tomatoes and the rest of the garden is for the chickens.
Oh boy are you taking the heat for this. Lol. I’m glad that you found a path to health that works for you. I’m eating mostly meat but have now included berries, kefir and other dairy. I still eat some other foods but stick mostly to meat. I have neglected my garden because of this but I think I’ll take a cue from you and keep the beds healthy JIC. Thanks for the thought.
I'm in the same boat. I have garden beds full of winter/spring vegetables being winter here in NZ currently. I came across carnivore a couple of months ago (via Dr Anthony Chaffee) and was truly gutted about the gardening situation but, I've always had a passion for flowers and having vases in the house filled with pretty flowers so that's what I'm going to do now. The carnivore lifestyle has too many benefits not to take notice. I wish I had found it years ago but, better late than never. Thanks for your video ☺️
I'm thankful for this thoughtful talk, so many are in the same dilemma. Gardening is fulfilling and important, as a way to produce more organic fruits and vegetables, as a means of preparation for hard and uncertain times and as a way to supplement the high cost of groceries. I haven't managed to go completely carnivore, even though I do feel better when I manage to go a week or so, but then the tomatoes are ripe or the lettuce or mangos and I fall off again. So the conflict is real, I guess then low carb is more my reality. I love the conclusions you've come to and many of the commenters here as well. Having such lovely land and a productive garden is a blessing, I'm so glad you're taking a measured approach.
I want to thank everyone in the comments that shared their past health experiences and how going Keto/carnivore has changed their lives and health for the better. It will help others that are suffering with chronic inflammation, weird symptoms and disease.
I would do more research. Take a look at "Dr. Davis Infinite Health", youtube channel. I just started carnivore and saw this. Been studying functional medicine for 4-5 years and saw incredible results from a period on a keto diet, but there has been something gnawing at me and I kept looking until I saw this (just this week). I have no bias except the evidence of actual results for myself and people around me. I am still open to whatever works best at my long term health and that of my loved ones. Blessing on your journey and please post your progress.
The carnivore diet has almost completely healed my health issues in just six months, and even healed me of about a dozen minor health issues that I didn't really even know could ever be fixed. My Gardens and small orchard will become a chicken coop and possibly a goat pen. Veggies and fruit are utterly useless to me now.
You can also raise organic fruits and vegetables and sell them to people who do want to eat them
Everyone should practice growing a garden, even Carnivores!
I have gardened all my life but I am a heavy meat eater. Full blown carnivore diet will be hard for me. Any advice appreciated. Thanks
especially if you grow things that attract animals you can kill and eat...
@@johnmartinsen963that true !
@@terrancewilson5035 If you have livestock, much of what you grow in a garden can add to their diet -- cattle used to be fed chopped pumpkins in winter, before grain feeding was common. Even a carnivore can eat garden products, squash, strawberries, etc in small amounts -- just graze a little while you water. Even hunter gatherers do that 😄 90% meat is still carnivore !
I would turn that ochard into a cattle, goat even a chook farm.
I was a vegan/vegetarian many of my adult years. Now, at 77 and carnivore for 15 months, life is becoming great again! I just started a 3-5 mile walk before dawn routine, along with squats and balance practice. Honestly, I feel better than at my so-called prime!
Ditto at 67😊
Please contact Dave from NoCarLife channel, would love to hear your testimonial❤. I am 16months carnivore and so many love his channel.
That's incredibly impressive and inspirational. Do you do the 3-5 mile walk most days of the week or every other day?
Why don't you trade your veggies for meat. Barder
That's fantastic! Since I started 26 months ago I feel alive again.
My wife and I have made a similar conversion with our garden over the past 2 years due to changing over to Keto and now mostly Carnivore. We expanded our chicken flock and feed our garden greens, corn and winter squash to them. We’re also freeze drying stuff like tomato sauce, fruit and sweet potatoes. We’ve managed to find a couple of local sources willing to trade eggs and veg for meat.
Pete, if I had your acreage I’d take a shot at raising my own meat.
This is what I was going to say. Looks like there's enough land there to support at least some small livestock; the garden produce can go to feed them, or trade for what they can't raise themselves. We have ducks, meat rabbits, and some meat goats on our two and a half acres.
Completely agree with you.
This is an excellent topic! People used to grow to feed their animals, if they were so blessed! (I know many still do.)
❤❤❤ You are right, but I am only able to eat my chicken's eggs. Chicken are so funny, I could never kill and eat them...
Ik started some meat again, thanking the animal for his life and meat, but it is hard...
@@johannevanderghote7577 No big deal! My husband and I are close to the 5 year mark on Carnivore and even though we had access to clean, high EFA chicken, we don't really want it anymore. We still eat eggs!
I recommend everyone to find the book titled Unlocking Carnivore Potential ; it goes deep into all of this, and it changed my life
i found that eBook on your channel last month and buy. Thank you for sharing it
I have Primal Nutrition
I was a big gardener too. I turned my garden into a rose garden. I now garden for beauty instead of food.
Pete, IM 68 and trying hard to be a C BUT ALWAYS FALL BACK ON RICE BREAD CRACKERS ETC. PLS HELP ME AND SHARE ME WHATSOEVER YOU EAT, PLS
Try making the Carnivore Chefs recipes. Just watched one for pasta ❤ I know he has refied beans and even mashed potatoes!!
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
Yes a problem ..but I think I would like to grow for the animals..chickens, ( corn) pigs root crops,turnips, yams, and oats. Should be fun.
That’s what I’m thinking of doing too. That and maybe medicinal herbs, but maybe those aren’t needed either.
Over two months in carnivore, changing my homestead also. What an amazing Creator we serve.
Amen✝️✝️✝️🙏🙏🙏
This does not compute.
@@TinHatHappy Amazing n loving Creator indeed!
I had so many similar symptoms pains all over my body, bleeding gums, joint pain, headache, blurred vision, snoring, depression, anger, anxiety, fears of doomsday, low energy, unhappiness, constant hunger, foggy brain ALL GONE!
I believe the oxalates effect us all differently..as we all are different.
My own personal story, for years I bought into the green smoothie craze. Spinach & kale etc.
Then came the constant burning bladder. I saw multiple specialists and had countless tests, the cystoscopes were the worst. Never any infections. They had no answers for me and now that I look back, none of them were even remotely interested in my diet.
I credit my brother for finding my answer. I was in a dark moment of despair and I said I just can’t take it anymore, it’s wearing me out…what can I take for this?
He said, maybe it’s what you should stop taking. So I stopped the green shakes and at that time I had no idea what oxalates even were! Within a week my burning slowly subsided, and it’s now gone. I got my life back.
I also found Sally Norton, and found much info on line. I had no idea.
Thanks for making your video.
Love Sally Norton!
I've had IC since 2006. I learned about oxalates in 2010. It also causes kidney stones. I never agreed to do a cystoscopy. THey do it because 10% turn out to be cancer. I ate mostly whole foods so I figured I didn't have cancer. My burning is finally calming some after 2.5 mons carnivore.
I had the same thing! Was vegan and had huge green smoothies every day ate soooo many leafy greens thinking it was healthy. Was diagnosed with Interstitial cystitis (aka: painful bladder disease) and it was so painful and had me up 10+ times a night to pee, had cystoscopies and bladder distension under general anaesthetic, medication, but nothing helped. Went on for 10 years and was ruining my life. In absolute desperation I switched to carnivore and apart from the initial oxalate dumping I've had no more bladder problems ever since!
I'm thrilled to see other's success stories. I had so much inflammation in my knees I knew if I went to a specialist I'd be shoved into knee replacement surgery. I vowed to exhaust all options before surgery. I
began eliminating foods and improving. I kept eliminating until I was down to almost nothing but meat.
Within 2 yrs I was walking twice a day to total 2.25 mi per day for several yrs.
Over a year ago I had the "flu" which ruined my lungs. After 15 months I can feel my lung function coming around. I'm walking again - starting with 1/2 mile. I can tell I'll be able to improve quickly back to 2+ mi per day. I eat beef, brats and liver. Zero chicken because of the lectin. Life is so simple now that I don't need to have a variety of veg around. I do eat strawberries and blueberries occasionally.
Sally Norton gave us hope. I’m glad we bought her book and listened to her interviews. Lots of info.
Pete, I'm right there with you on this journey. At 54, I switched to a carnivore diet this January and haven't looked back. Like you, I've ditched the garden-turns out raising my own beef is not only fulfilling but it's really all I need now. The difference in how I feel is night and day, with so much less pain and a clearer mind. It's funny, isn’t it? No one batted an eye when my diet was pizzas, crackers, chips, etc... but switch to steaks and organ meats, and suddenly everyone's warning about cholesterol and health risks. The irony kicked in when my doc put me on statins and that pushed me into tons of research-decided no statins for me. Here’s to living in a world where no one looks out for your own health...except you! follow the money with doctors and rx drugs. Keep thriving on your path!
Basically my story. Congrats!
@@FourDRanch absolutely correct 💯% taking responsibility for their own health though for most people isn't what they want, they want to eat junk and get drugs to fix things when it just doesn't work that way. Doctors and surgeons are all on the gravy train. Look up Dr O'Mara he's a Carnivore doctor I follow him quite a bit. And you can do fermented foods to give you even better gut health. Seriously worth researching.
I know ~ people look @ you like you said you eat nothing but donuts & candy bars !
When I had to have my yearly Medicare check up the physician had a fit because my cholesterol was even higher than last year . She said , " I know how you feel about statin drugs , & other drugs , but you are ripe for a sudden heart attack or stroke ! " She did say mine was not related to my diet , but was genetic . ( I had gone carnivore a few weeks before that ) I still refused !
I am 75 & never felt better !!!
I can relate with you, I too had a garden and bought a freeze dryer. I thought I was eating healthy and I couldn't understand why my body wasn't healing. I did keto for two years and lost weight and felt better, but I had heard from some doctors who became carnivore, how their arthritis and diabetes went away. Then I after researching for a year, I decided to go on an elimination diet for 3 months, no veggies, just red meat eggs and bacon and salt and sardines once or twice a week. I couldn't believe the wonderful benefits that happened when did this. Like you within weeks my triglycerides went down from 300 to 90 and my knees got stronger. I had broken my leg the year before and now the muscles and my meniscus in my knee was healing. Diabetes numbers started going down. A1C. I am now 7 months in and I plan to continue. My doctor isn't happy, but she sees the results. No anxiety, hormones are balancing out. My tennis elbow is gone. My energy levels are getting better. I am a 71yr old female. My skin is looking younger. No skin tags. Yes I still have some more healing to go, but something positive is happening to my body. Doctor says you need any pills for pain depression...no doctor I feel so much better. She is scratching her head as she wanted me on statin drugs and other things. I hope this is the right direction for you and me. Keep up the good work. Dr. Ken Berry book "The Proper Human diet," Dr. Elizabeth Bright on hormones need cholesterol since they need cholesterol for building hormones, Dr. Ovidas a heart doctor journey research and such, Dr. Chaffee. Well the list of doctors is growing.
Awesome comment. You have additionally inspired me. Yet, carnivore is probably the only thing I haven't tried. I will research a bit more but I'm feeling like this is the right path for me also.
@@charleeghee7195carnivore here for over one year and healed autoimmune issues the medical community could not heal. It’s all about the standard American diet and lies we were told about eating meat. It heals.
@@margaretrosin7853 Yes, I'm quite familiar with all the lies having been researching health for many years. I have been hesitant to go carnivore due to concerns like it didn't seem natural that our ancestors would refrain from eating plants and my understanding is that in order for it to be truly healthy all parts of the animals should be eaten and last but not least I'm not sure what the cost of just eating quality (as in grass fed etc) meat would have on my current budget. I guess that's something I'll just have to figure out. 😁
@@charleeghee7195it's less bad than you might think, because we don't buy all the veggies, many of which I used to let go bad.
@@kellynottellin4002 Yes, I have rethought the expense question I had and I thought about all the tiring gardening I've been doing, the expense of the garden plus the expense of all the specialty food items plus the organic ones I purchased. I didn't have a problem with letting produce go bad but all those other expense plus a ton of supplements are really starting to add up in my head!
Pete, you should contact No Carb Life. Dave does amazing interviews and you being on his channel could help so many people.
Yes! He interviewed me and is doing great things sharing so many healing stories on carnivore!
I am subscribing following the arguments with someone that said he's unsubscribing your channel because you are going carnivore. I felt the need to replace his subscription with mine and to follow your channel because you have something to share.
I’m so happy for your family. I am going on two years carnivore! The best thing I’ve ever done for my health.
I was disabled and now at 70 years old am in excellent health! I needed a knee replacement and that problem is completely gone. Other health concerns that I never imagined that my diet had anything to do with it, are completely gone.
You will not regret your decision to adopt a carnivore way of life despite the drastic changes you are making to your lifestyle.
I’ll be subscribing
I was wondering about knees as I have knee pain and my muscles hurt so, now I am going closer to 100% meat.
I'm going through this EXACT same thing. Started carnivore and health is finally improving. I think I'll still garden but limit it to things I can ferment and things I can feed to animals. Using fermented foods as a small garnish might work for me. Don't know yet. What a great revelation!! I love gardening. Maybe flowers and herbs for soap and lotion.
Trade for eggs n milk etc!
Keep growing!
That’s 100% what I’m planning to do with my garden!
Get a few hens and Nigerian dwarf dairy goats🙂
Better off with animal fat as soap base of your already into that. Can rub tallow on your skin it’s great
I still grow tomatoes and some fruit. I peel the tomatoes and remove the seeds. I have been carnivore for a year and I feel like I can handle it.
I've been carnivore now for 3 months!!! Ill never go back...if possible...i understood this world is turning into a hell. Loved this video..helps to see others who are healing their bodies but realize we will need to survive... God bless us all❤❤❤❤
With God ALL things are possible, consider prepping a bit of tallow , canned meat, freeze dried meat. 🙏
I used to love my vegetable garden. I had a salad every day, I thought I was healthy. Then, one day, as an experiment, I decided to try the carnivore diet for two weeks. I got curious after watching a bunch of TH-camrs so excited about their diet.
That was almost two years ago. I’m so glad to have indulged my curiosity. Those two weeks transformed my life. I feel so good, I feel blessed to have stumbled upon this way of life.
Totally agree with you! I started eating carnivore last July. I’m now my high school weight (at age 66). We have been lied to! Good for you for sharing your experience!
Worked for you. And for another 100 it didn't work. Plus time shows if it's sustainable
@SaltyShaman or just didn't have a pancreas, stomach and gallbladder that could digest all that fat and protein
@@notaras1985 Says one who never tried it and who only wants to judge others.
@@istudios225 it's for insane people. Doesn't work for most humans. It's against your pancreas and gallbladder and your microbiome
I'm in the same boat with my garden, but I discovered a whole new world of textiles! I started growing cotton with the goal of learning to spin and make yarn/fabric. I'm growing gourds to learn other useful bowl making or even bird houses. That's a whole world in itself. Flowers, for polenators. Millet, corn and sunflowers to make feed for my birds and animals. I have some bamboo, and I have yet to make a textile from that. OH, and what about all the tons of herbs for salves, soaps, and shampoos!! Oh I could go on and on about the many things you can still grow in the garden... OH what about beets and carrots for natural dyes!!?
Yeah. Lovely!
Pete, find a local rancher that will sell you a side of beef. Much cheaper and better meat.
A half to a whole cow is so much better than store bought. We buy black Angus every yr
@@cougmom50a family of 4? How long live with one cow?
YES!!! I am SO GLAD to see someone posting on this VERY topic! We just moved to the country side after years of wanting to get out here and get our gardens going, and 6 months ago after feeling the call to make a first brief run at carnivore (SAME positive results, went off, but getting into position to make a longer-term commitment), I thought I was going to have an existential crisis regarding how to put together our permaculture design for our property- and that was exactly what we've been having to re-thinking now - growing instead to feed the chickens, and diversify in other ways to be able to then focus more on chickens/eggs, and other things to grow/sell in order to then in turn support other local organic meat growers to assure a diverse keto-vore/carnivore diet, etc--- all just at the beginning stages- a definite paradigm shifter, and so grateful to see others on the cutting edge sharing their similar experiences! Many thanks! 🙏🌷
@SaltyShaman LOVE that!!! Big hugs! xoxo
I've been re-designing my garden as well by removing veggies and replacing with native plants to my area in San Diego. Already a massive increase in wildlife just in the past few months. Also, with all this extra energy, I ripped out a big area and I am hand digging a pond! After a veg diet for nearly 30 years and getting sicker once I started eating more from my own garden, my life has completely flipped a 180 just by doing a mostly meat diet. I feel better than I have in years! Sally Nortons book is great - I also recommend one called The Big Fat Lie - absolutely mind blowing how much they have lied and manipulated us.
I am a fellow homesteader turned carnivore
I simply gave everything for gardening away and turning the garden area in to a aviary for chickens ducks geese and quail
Geese are great as they can thrive on just grass and that reduces your feed cost
I also have goats and in the future i will have sheep as well
I am in Alaska
Can I ask how large your property is? Just bought a couple of acres and hoping it's enough to do something similar
@SaltyShaman the ones I have don't seem picky but not sure on fox tails
@siaosanna little over 4 acres Total but not all used for livestock
That's great. Quail doesn't need much space...I wish I had a partner to do this with ❤❤
Can I ask how you learned killing the animals? This is the biggest concern for me as a former veggie grower. I am not sure where to learn it, how hard it will be, how to do it the least harmful way. Even where to talk about it.
Almost 5 years ago my husband and I started keto so I could reverse t2d. We changed our garden to keto veggies. 2 years ago we went carnivore. Now we garden flowers. We raise plants that repel bugs and sell them at the farmers market. ❤ love Carnivore and the good health we have. ❤
Could you elaborate on the plants that repel bugs?
I’m so happy for your family. I am going on two years carnivore! The best thing I’ve ever done for my health.
I was disabled and now at 70 years old am in excellent health! I needed a knee replacement and that problem is completely gone. Other health concerns that I never imagined that my diet had anything to do with it, are completely gone.
You will not regret your decision to adopt a carnivore way of life despite the drastic changes you are making to your lifestyle.
Awesome! So you don't miss all the drugs and medical appointments/lectures?
😂😂
Carnivore for 13 months.....feel amazing at 56.lost 130lbs....reversed type 2 ,A1c 9.5 to 5.4, arthritis gone,kidney stones gone,vision improved..adult acne gone...brain fog gone to many to list...off all medications first 3 months,can stay in sun for hours without burning ..first walked the dog for exercise then added resistance training now I'm sprinting 300yrs 3 sets 3 days aweek, my God never thought I would run again....
Pete! I have been ketovore for several years, which seemed to have helped my horrible joint pain, until it didn’t. I watched your last video, then a couple days later made a big pot of collard greens for supper. The next morning I was in excruciating pain, and it clicked. I’ve cut out all high and moderate oxalate veggies and have seen improvement.
Thank you so much for putting this out, I hadn’t heard of it and have researched a lot since.
Just getting rid of the gluten in our diet (X 10 years) has made a world of difference.
@@greyfox243. It's not the gluten per se. It's the huge amount of glyphosate they spray on GMO crops (which have glyphosate spliced into crops' DNA), and even on veggies and fruits. People have been eating grains for thousands of years without issues. It's only in the last 70 years or so, since the development of unnatural GMO crops and excessive use of glyphosate in agriculture, that people have been getting sicker and sicker with chronic gut issues, which lead to all sorts of other chronic health issues. Big Agro blames gluten to deflect suspicion away from glyphosate. But gluten is not the culprit.
I am 81 and I fractured my hip last October and I made a good recovery and my surgeon said that was because of my garden and the strength that I had. He said to be sure to have a garden again this year.
I decided to go carnivore on May 11 in the midst of planting my garden so I decided to just work hard in it and plant the usual things and put the produce in the clubhouse in my mobile home park for other people. Win-win. I don’t really like to give them things that will hurt them however they need food and they will buy the things anyway. Inflation has hit seniors hard.
The hard part is that I had just replanted my strawberry bed and they are my favorite food in the world. I allow myself two small strawberries a day and that helps keep the oxalate dumping from getting out of hand according to Sally K Norton.
Now that the strawberries are coming in I get max 5-10 a week so I'm eating them and sharing them so not enough to cause any symptoms. Lately I've been reading that some people are wanting to modify the carnivore diet to eat more normally and having a hard time adding foods back in. I don't want any diet protocol to make me a slave to it so a few strawberries or some onions, garlic in my crock pot with the meat doesn't seem to be a problem and makes me feel like I could modify my diet without suffering if I add a few low oxalate low carb fruits like zucchini or fermented things back in from time to time.
@@puggirl415 cooking and adding fat and/or vinegar is the traditional way to eat most greens and vegetables. I think carnivore diet is to heal but then adding seasonal fruit and vegetables and even the correct portion of traditional grains...rice, barley, wheat, rye and corn if you can find non-gmo will produce optimum longevity and health and enjoyment. We just eat WAY too much and too often now. Even in the carnivore circles...why eat 6 eggs or a whopping size ribeye?
I'm an avid gardener and love gardening and heirloom seed saving. And though carnivore now, I continue to grow fruit and veg every year just as I have in the past, using it as supplemental feed for my poultry and stock. Had a bumper crop of blackberries this season, and earlier this week I saw that my turkey poults have eaten them all. Those berry-filled turkeys will be extra tasty come winter. 🙂
This is excellent to see! I was an avid gardener, but since giving up veggies and most fruits, my garden is just weeds! Now I see the wisdom in getting chickens and building a chicken coop inside my fenced in garden area!
I plan on doing that but have ducks instead of chickens.
If you are going to go carnivore, you need to look at locally produced livestock. Cattle, sheep, and goats
Find someone you know who raises the animal, buy them live, finish feeding them out, process them yourself or carry them to the processor.
You get a MUCH better product, and you know it is safely raised and fed.
Hey Pete, how is your solar working out?
I wonder how much it takes to raise Pygmy goats? They are really small ruminants. And they can clear land really well! Or keep your lawn trim 😅!
I've been carnivore since 2018. I'm presently 71 years old and I've been preaching this to my friends for years. They don't believe this stuff at all. I've even bought them the Sally Norton book and still they don't budge. Love this video because I feel like I could have written that script, word for word myself. Thankyou.
If you have livestock, feed these vegetables to them. They can get the max nutrition out of them better than we can. So, when we eat their meat and organs those nutrients are methylated for us to absorb to the max. I am carnivore too. 5 years now. Had multiple autoimmune disorders and thyroid nodules with a litany of symptoms and inflammation that I take 2 different immunosuppressives for. Hoping to reverse it. Had lots of problems with health that did resolve with meat heavy keto, low oxalate veg, no nightshades and not much veg at all really. Just a tiny bit to flavor my food now like a little garlic and onion. You’re doing the right thing mister. Keep at it.
Look up Elliot Overton here on TH-cam. I could not heal completely on Carnivore. My immune system crashed when I was 2 years into the diet. It took time to get oriented to the Thiamine therapy. Elliot is a Carnivore nutritionist. I am thriving thenks to him. I will be 5 years Carnivore, this Thanksgiving.
I eat mostly carnivore but also am a fruit tree hobbyist and I strongly believe there is something powerful about citrus and berries as well as other fruits picked ripe from the tree. I definitely have my times where I am completely in ketosis from meat and feel great but other times I’ll eat my fruit and feel good too. I have nothing against this guy and his decision as plants can cause issues with people. We have a 1” secum and chimps have a 4’ long secum for digesting fiber. It’s funny reading people comments unsubbing. Don’t knock it till you try it. That’s my advice
I think there is room for metabolic flexibility especially with whole fruits and berries.
Omg you just solved my mystery! I had weird spots when I started carnivore too, & had no idea what it was about! The doctor prescribed antihistamines.. I’m about 60 days in now and feeling great ! I too am changing my garden.. I’ve mulched and manured the beds, covered with wet cardboard and covered that with plastic..the worms that come will be chook food! got to change and adapt. Wish I’d known about carnivore 30 years ago. New sub 🎉
I’m a new subscriber. I went to carnivore four months ago because I had kidney damage and bladder damage also a prolapsed bladder. I have reversed all of these symptoms. I had no idea. It was the vegetables that I was eating daily that was causing all of these issues. I showed that video of you talking about Sally Norton’s book to my husband, and he was very inspired by your transformation and then he showed it to his best friend and he was very inspired.
Now they both have turned to carnivore.. oxalate dumping can be very painful for some people. I know it has been for me, but I’m going to fight through it because I feel amazing now that I am gone carnivore the dumping doesn’t last long usually three days for me. I usually drink a cup of hot tea when I start to feel the dumping coming on and I believe that it’s been helping.
Good luck on your journey. Keep moving forward and find what works for you and your wife.
What stage was your kidney damage if you don't mind me asking. My husband is stage 4 and I'm trying to get him to be keto/ carnivore
@@sherriballard4781you definitely want to get Dr Sally Norton’s book “toxic superfoods” to help you do the process safely.
What kind of tea
I've had all those symptoms!! So hard to go complete carnivore for me. Had some eggplant last night. Ug woke up itchy. I've decided to grow herbs flowers and food for my chickens and ducks. Good video my friend. Ty
I love eggplant. But, it is a nightshade and isnt good for most of us.
@@hiswords777 agree
Happy for you Pete! We are keto and have never jumped to strictly carnivore. There is a definite difference in the way you feel. Aches and pains went away, energy is off the wall, I feel like I did 20 years ago.
A lot of what you are experiencing is what I did. Keep it up Pete.
I can relate to your story. Went vegetarian years ago and I started having a lot of health issues that few doctors could help me with. I incorporated meat again, Went gluten free, cut out all milk except for butter and ghee, and it helped but didn’t solve everything. Went Paleo and seemed to help up to a point, but still experiencing a lot of issues still. Discovered animal-based (not full carnivore but include some fruit and honey like Dr, Paul Saladino talks about), removed oxalate-heavy plant foods, and include organs, and amazingly feel a night and day difference. The word is getting out there how plants are not as amazing for us as many people have been lead to believe. That’s great you’re seeing such good results from your dietary changes. Eventually more and more will catch onto this.
Very recent subscriber here. I too am on a healing journey and am enjoying your channel. Cant wait to watch this channel blow up as others discover you! Hope yall do some cooking and share recipies and techniques. I have lots of canned veg and fruit stored for emergencies but am transitioning to mostly meat. Will be a watching and learning. Thank you for sharing your journey!
My Gardens have switched mostly to food production for The Animals. Things that are easy to grow, easy to store Winter/off-season. And that will feed animals.
There's 3 acres of Garden that are now pasture and food plot for the animals.
I've gone carnivore .. but my choice of meats is not typical. Carnivore enthusiasts seem bent on a beef preference. If not beef, more generally ruminants. I can't do that without acquiring outside dependencies on meat supply that I do not want.
My flavor of Carnivore consists of the small livestock I can raise and feed on my own, as well as what we hunt here on The Homestead - Chicken (both meat birds and egg layers), Musvovy/Duck (including wild/native Mallard we hunt as well as the Meat breeds we raise) Deer, Goose (both native Canada and we raise American Buff) Turkey (we raise Bourbon Red) , Meat Rabbit, Wild Cottontail, Bass and Catfish. The occasional Hog/Pig but we don't do that every year.
Beef is a rare treat that we have to buy in as we don't have the land base to support cattle.
Carnivore doesnt necessarily mean Cow, folks. We're seeing all the same benefits without it.
Sheep are ruminants. You can raise them on small acreage.
@annellacannella5674 LOLWut? What does being ruminant have to do with the price of tea in China.
Cows are farking ruminant. Doesnt mean I can feed 'em on my plot.
Ditto Sheep.
Just subscribed to your channel. I love what you have to say. I started two years ago at 68. I have been struggling for a few months now to stay carnivore. Alot of stress in my life. I needed more encouragement.
Meat heals dogs and cats too. I did rescue work for years and an all meat diet for debilitated dogs and cats heals VERY QUICKLY. Also after spay/neuter, they bounce back after surgery like I’d never seen before.
It just doesn't make any sense till you switch. Then a light comes on, and you get it. All the lies we've been taught to believe about health. I've been carnivore for almost 7 months, and at 54 years old, I've lost over 60 lbs and feel twenty years younger and can deal with stress on a whole different level. Joint pain and the ability to stretch and focus are so much better. I have been shopping for a living for the past four years as an instacart shopper and spending hours every day watching people pushing carts full of garbage to their cars all day long . It breaks my heart watching it, knowing what I know . I share my experience as many times as I can. 99% of people are going look at you like your nuts for even suggesting such a thing. It doesn't stop me from sharing. I'm very happy for you and yours.
Hey Pete, I'm an old fart from North Texas, life long gardener and strict carnivore coming up on a year. Not everyone who choses carnivore is trying to lose weight, many of us just want to stop the poison. The side benefits are wonderful. As they say, "You ain't seen nothin yet" Your health, your strength, your gums, your hair, wow! BTW, check out our neighbors Parker County Beef Company. They're my whole grocery store lol
I can't believe I came across your video. I have the same situation in Hawaii. I'm a 70 male and I have over 15 years of establishing a tropical fruit orchard and organic farm of vegetables and green houses.
I raised composting worms and spray vericulture tea. Over two years ago I decided to go carnivore after having many green and fruit smoothies. I froze tons of fruits and veggies, including bananas, coconut water, pineapple, lilikoi , dragon fruit, etc.
I gave it all away and filled my freezers with meat. I still eat some of the Mac. Nuts and avocados. I feel incredible now that I cut out the smoothies.
Thanks for sharing.
I ended up turning my razed garden beds into a flower garden. Absolutely love it. I loved gardening,so I find growing different flowers witch keeps me relaxed and pleased.
That is exactly what I did with my vegetable garden! Flowers feed the soul!
Yes! Me too!
7 years ago, I decided to go whole foods, plant-based, after reading of Dr. John McDougal's books. He and his colleagues convinced me it was the way to go. He listed testimonials in his books and his website - people were healing and losing weight. So, I bought the idea. Fast forward to the end of the 7th year. My hair was falling out. I could not grow fingernails; they would break, peel and splinter. My vision was going to pot. Then I heard about Paleo, Keto, Carnivore, and the Lion Diet. And I started reading and watching as many videos as I could and all the doctors that were promoting eating meat. So. I tried it. And it is amazing how quickly your body begins to heal. My nails are stronger now than ever. My dry eye has improved. My hair is still falling out, but not quite as much. It's still a struggle, a big culture changed - but I keep working at it.
I got sucked into that too! "The fat you eat, is the fat you wear" and Clint Paddison who has the Paddison program for Rheumatoid arthritis (which I had; bad!) But you know what convinced me to switch to carnivore? The glaringly obvious vibrant health of the carnivores on TH-cam compared to the sallow, pale, early ageing, hollow Eyed look of all those vegan promoters.😂
@@lisawanderess For Real. I hear you. I'm embarrassed now, to all the friends & family I preached to, to go whole food plant-based. And, I no longer eat that anymore. But I say, do your own research. We are our own guinea pig.
I had all the McDougal books and felt like crap. Got rid of them a couple of years ago, but didn’t find carnivore until this year. A struggle, but I’ll get there.
Congratulations on your journey to be a Carnivore. I’m on ketovore now. I was a Vegetarian for many years, went low carb then keto, now combination of keto and carnivore, working towards carnivore. I’m 77 years old. I lost a good Friend who was a vegan. He passed from stomach Cancer. I also know of 2 other Vegans that are fighting Cancer.
Happy and proud of your discovery of health. It’s really awesome. We are waking up and we are tired of being ill due to a prescribed diet of weakness. Keep it up fellow east texas brother. You may just be around 25 more with this change. Man if we figured this out in our teens. I did convince my teens to start this and they lost acne, lost fat and are beginning to see what thriving is really about. Blessings and all the best to you and yours.
In my case (Big Garden vs Carnivore) I just grow food for my food. and fermenting stuff
Please would you consider leaving fruit trees, flowers with pollen growing for birds, bees, etc? The fruit trees would be great for anymore chickens you might consider having!❤
Fruit is a great draw for wild game, can be fermented into wine, and fed to livestock.
Thanks Pete, subscribed to your channel this morning. Like you, I was always active and very strong physically. Raised on a mixed farm and stayed with that until my mid 30's. Then went into carpentry, and am still operating my home renovation business at age 68. After 66 years of eating a heavy carb diet I suffered a heart attack and have been struggling with chronic fatigue (air hunger?) ever since. Apparently there is no medical cure for this condition. This led me to search for diet changes that will help me. I've been searching You tube for about a week now and am very interested in Carnivore. Lots of information out there, but after watching your video I will definitely be moving towards Carnivore. Thanks again, I will keep you posted with regards to my improving condition.
@@gardening-in-the-woods awesome thank you 👍
I need to investigate the oxalate dumping. I get “bites” that I thought no way could I have gotten bitten there! Thanks for mentioning that.
Pete B, good on ya bud. I'm 63 and have been CARNAVORE-ish about 6months now. Lost about 25# and gone from size 42 waist to 38. Started working out at home and about to join a gym again. Don't give up. There's always some food pyramid nut out there gonna say your wrong. Good luck brother!
Remember too, before we knew how to preserve food or had the means to transport from all over the world, we ate fruits, berries & some veg only a short time each year when you came across them. Very different from eating them year round with heavy processing or industrial "cleaning" with chemicals.
Yes, exactly. I wonder if anyone has explored a "sesonal" diet, where you eat the fruit and veggies when they are available in your area from the farmers, and then in the winter resort to a strictly meat based diet. It would give the body the chance to cleanse.
The body is best without them, and does not require even a bite of vegetation. Wild plants were mainly used to avoid starvation, a few berries & wild onions were used in season, for flavoring. Otherwise, they knew how to process each wild green they ate, otherwise, they would experience suffering. Wild greens and gmo beans must be highly processed to remove their toxins.
@@Nikotromus My friend told me about a book she read about that very thing: Eating in season. Don't recall the title, but it should be easy enough to find.
@@l.l.2463 yes everything God created for man to enjoy was supposed to be eaten when in their season naturally only in their region of the world. This whole thing about shipping/exporting food immaturely all over the globe that are sprayed with chemical preservatives is adding to more chaos in so many strange diceases adding more and more confusion and corruption in the causes of global warming etc. World governments need to wake up and see the root cause of cross contamination affecting all kinds LIFE on earth especially the SOIL! Man manipulation in agriculture = Poor mineral depleted Soil = Deceases = No LIFE.
Loved this video. Lots of good information. (I agree about where the world is headed. Not good.) Impressed with all the changes that you've had with your health and the health of your dogs. Good stuff.
Great plan and congrats to you and your wife on making the switch. I'm in my second year and the healing continues to amaze me. It's such a paradigm shift that it's hard to not sound fanatical to those who haven't experienced it yet. This is my second gardening season since my full transition to carnivore and I still enjoy the garden but am just maintaining and protecting my soil, keeping my perennial crops tended and growing flowers. I've had the same thought that you expressed -- I wish I could share how good I feel. Aging in reverse to a ridiculous degree and the best decision I ever made.
So many questions from a long time subscriber. Are you going to raise any livestock? What do you think of Benny Johnson’s quest to slow down aging (he’s vegan)? What will you do with the extra time previously consumed by all your gardening? Gonna move to another country? In some way I’m sad as you had such passion in your veggie garden but happy your feeling so well now, anyway do what you enjoy. Cheers
Lost 42lbs since February, feel great eat at noon and 5:00pm coffee for breakfast feel full between meals, it's working out great for me. We raise our own beef you need to meet a producer in your area
If you start smoking cigarettes you could probably cut out that noon meal.😊
@@mutiny_on_the_bountypls explain
@@videosight1
Cigs suppress your appetite. (It's a joke)
Not really though!
Congratulations. I’ve been carnivore for 1 year. You have a great property. I would look at meat growing. Increase the chickens and maybe some sheep or pigs. You have a great opportunity.
I just started the carnivore diet. I was a veg and vegan for years. I now have degenerative disk disease and need surgery and another knee replacement. My skin issues are clearing up and starting to get a little energy back. I can't exercise currently but I have high hopes. I'll be changing my garden plans as well and adding meat rabbits and kahki campbell ducks for meat production. I don't have enough land for larger animals. I would love to raise lamb if I had the space. Good luck Pete.
Great video! Your story is like my story. Prepping, gardening, planting trees etc. The changes carnivore has done for me in just four months has been remarkable.
Tried carnivore with bacon. I ended up with tons of bacon grease. Added it to dog's kibble (not rich enough to feed dogs meat). Old dog got full of spunk, coat shiny and now he keeps up with the 1 year old pup. That is just adding bacon grease to kibble! Do what you can.
Oh goodness I feel your pain with taking a productive homesteading life style and making such a radical change and turning your back on all that work. So mentally hard but the science and physical change in our bodies can't be denied. Wow what a hard change but we have to do this to have the quality of life we want. Thank you for sharing your plans for your homestead. We will be sending bushels of fruit from the orchard to our neighborhood. Good luck on your new journey.
I’m glad you’ve addressed the issue of being a longtime gardener and proponent of preparation and now eating only meat. I was a lifelong gardener but have been on the carnivore diet (90% of the time) for a year now and feel fabulous at 69. I’ve started to freeze dry my freezer contents, which is mostly vegetables and fruits and now doing some meats, too. Just recently, I started to experience oxalate dumping with the itchy red bumps. It’s a real thing! I’m reading Sally’s book now. Thanks for sharing your story!! Subscribed.
@@cindymcmurray9017 Thank you 👍
Hey man I appreciate you putting out content like this. I left the city about 14 years ago and started gardening and have a flock of 30 chickens. I have roughly the same amount of garden space as you maybe 20% less. About 7 years ago after monkeying around with many different diet philosophies to heal myself I finally deduced the facts down to a high quality animal based food diet and maybe some seasonal fruit.
I've had so much cognitive dissonance trying to regroup and adjust my philosophy on homesteading and basic needs production. I've relapsed a few times because I struggled with alcohol before but I have healed so much. It's been quite the journey. I think one of the most interesting things was the first year I ate purely beef, salt water and a bit of fish and shellfish hear and there I fit into jeans at 260 lbs that normally only fit at about 235 to 240 lbs lol and I didn't even work out AT ALL for that whole year because I needed to rest and heal. I just did normal chores and walking and seasonal firewood. The muscle fiber density created eating our species specific diet is far superior and was shocking the first time I was struggling to understand the scale differences HA!
Anyway I subscribed. Good luck on your journey Pete. You guys are on the right track and I hope more people in the homesteading community will wake up to this. It's difficult to switch gears mentally when you've invested so much of your time into a different ideal. On the bright side when you work with plants and animals a lot you start to notice trends and patterns in the ecosystem. That's partly what I attribute my awakening to other than just being desperate to understand certain autoimmune system issues I have and how to restore organ health.
Awesome 👍
I'm an all in type, Aussie female 56yrs old, dove in to the Carnivore diet 19mths ago and never going back to a SAD (standard American/Australian diet). Fixed the arthritis and so much more. Best feeling
I learned a lot about high oxalate foods from Sally K Norton's book Toxic Superfoods. She provides a list of plant foods that are either high or low in oxalate (high oxalate foods like swiss chard, spinach, almonds are super high in oxalate). One reason why carnivore is so successful is that it's a very low oxalate diet. I recommend her book. I think that keto carnivore eaten with some low or very low oxalate foods is a good plan. The author also has a TH-cam channel. What I like about her book is that she backs it up with science and studies. NICE LOOKING GARDEN!
Carnivore is such a life changer !!!
I find combining red light therapy with carnivore takes me to the next level. If I overdo it, because I feel so good, a 10 minute treatment resets me. It’s sooo wild that life can be so simple, and cheap! Meat and red light and I feel like a teenager again
I have been on carnivore for 9 months. I have gone from 229 to 159. I grow for my chickens too. But I did try some yellow squash yesterday and oh man did it bother me last night and this morning. And I have been getting the red bumps too. Boy, do they inch at times. The only thing I have found that doesn't bother me is when I make my own tortillas. Using the unbleached flour. Carnivore is amazing what it has done for me is amazing as well. I am so happy for you and your wife. I am trying different things to see how they make me feel because when the stuff does hit the fan, I want to know which ones don't affect me as much because if I cannot get meat, I want something that won't be so hard on me and let me tell you some things are harder than others.
Beautiful homestead. So well cared for. I know how energized and calm I am on carnivore. This WOE has thought me a lot about myself and I wish everyone could feel the way that I feel on Carnivore!
good job! carnivore is not a fad diet but the proper Human diet...we've been eating meat throughout history. For those who question, watch a few of Dr Ken Berry's videos....and read the comments. The pharmaceutical companies run our "healthcare system ". Meat, particularly ruminants, along with some sunshine and good sleep cures just about every chronic disease. My husband suffered Rheumatoid arthritis and had 1 hip replacement and was about to have the other done until we went carnivore. Beef. butter, bacon and eggs.
Our story is similar to yours. Grew most all of our food, and the plants made us ill. Went carnivore 17 mo. ago, and will never go back to eating plants. We grow food to feed the chickens, ducks, family and friends. Wish we could raise our own beef. How about a saltwater hot tub in your green house for the winter and a cold plunge for the summer?
You have the most beautiful garden!!! Yes, grow to feed your chickens. We can only keep chickens as long as we can feed them.
Maybe consider getting other animals that you can feed that will feed you eventually
Fantastic testimony to carnivore.
I, too have moved away from vegetable gardening and seeking to raise quail for eggs and meat on my little 1/8 acre backyard.
My dog too is 16 years old and is healthy and slim living on carnivore too.
Do you feed your dog raw or cooked meats? Any veg or eggs included at all? I'm transitioning mine to homemade food and it's mostly meat but I add some organic zucchini and oats and cage free eggs to the mix, then slow bake at 250* for a few hours. Wondering if 100% meat (beef, lamb & turkey) would just be better?
Just a quick question...do wolves eat zucchini and oats?
@@susangray4409 That's a great quick question. Noted....
@@susangray4409 No but they do eat the green tripe innards of the animals they hunt and kill. (And those animals often do eat plants) That's what I feed my dog along with meat. It's not bad for animals to have some vegetable matter if they aren't getting innards from animals. If you can get the green tripe then feed it. It's great for them.
Gardening still brings peace to mind. It’s a type of therapy for me
I’ve got the red bumps just like you. I’m glad you showed a picture because that’s exactly what my back looks like. About three months ago I got red swollen bumps on my eyelids and Sally Norton said that was also oxalate dumping. I only got three and have not had any more since.
Love carnivore!!! Changed our lives. Thanks for putting out these videos.
One of the cattle ranchers says they grow turnips for their cattle. Maybe a local rancher would like to have some of your veggies for their cattle, goats, pigs, chickens....
Or maybe the man should raise goats for milk and meat depending on his health, time and property size.
As someone whose dabbled in carnivore and also has grown huge gardens and ate for free most summers, I’ve surrendered to the fact that I will mostly eat my garden in summer and eat mostly meats in the off season. I can’t part with my garden, gardening is therapy for me
Great video! We are in the same process here also. Yay for more free, fresh chicken feed!
We swapped to sunflowers to feed birds… simply dry heads .. serve natural- flowers- pumpkins for Fall decorating.. less is more!!! Simplicity 🎉🥳
You could plant flowers, I have recently went carivore I have had bad skin for 4 years Doctor told me I had Alpha Gal, so no red meat whitch was my only defense but I didnt know at the time. With no red meat my skin got worse and worse I was keeping to the Ahpha Gal diet but I kept getting worse. I have been on Predizone 4 times and this time I decided to only eat red meat. Its only been 4 days but Im not itching like crazyand I can tell Im healing. Doctor was wrong but Im not going to tell him I am carnivore right now as I have to go see the results of bloodwork. BUT I am not allergic to beef I dont have Alpha Gal. Thank you very much for your videos. My tomato plants never grow good but this year they are perfect cause they know Im not going to eat them Lol
Great to find you. We pretty much have the same story. After starting my tomato plants and peppers indoors, we started carnivore diet. I was wondering the same thing. I figured I’d just give most of it away or can it for prep, no probs. All of our preps may come in handy and we’ll eat them if we have to. We bought a half cow and a whole pig this spring and have a whole lamb coming next week. Buying in bulk has been a very positive experience. Can’t beat $4-$6 a # for meat, yes even the steaks. I can meat, it’s not only fun, but for prep. (We’re 60 & 68). Look forward to seeing more from your channel. Love from East TN.
The canned chicken and pork shoulder I canned for prep before and during the pandemic has come in handy doing the carnivore diet. I can all the broth from my braises too. Slowly but surely giving away all the beans and sweet jellies I've put by.
That's great that you're going to be freeze drying your fruits and vegetables for the future.
One thing I wanted to bring up is that our ancestors fermented their fruits and vegetables. It reduced the oxalates in the vegetables to make them more digestible and bioavailable nutrient wise. We've lost our skills. That being said you'll have lots of salt in storage to ferment your homegrown vegetables in the future if need be. I am also carnivore - but know that vegetables that are properly prepared are healthy.
Thank you for sharing, I live a lowcarb lifestyle, but I'm working my way towards ketovore and, if affordable, later to carnivore. Heavy times are coming, God bless each and everyone of us.
5 yrs carnivore. 63.
6'2" lost 30lbs. In 2 months and held it. Now I'm 175lbs my weight at 18 yrs old.
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My parents (Italian) had a huge garden- both lived a long life. Maybe you can donate to those who will appreciate fresh veggies. When you said ca-cootz for Italian squash my heart dropped! I never knew what zucchini was! Only ca-cootz I’m carnivore - 3 months. I’ll never go back unless I have to! Beautiful garden!!
You can grow food for your Animals, and use your land for grazing animals, we have a chicken coop enjoying fresh eggs, growing sunflowers for the beauty and the seeds for the chickens. I have Oxalate Poisoning as well and cannot even eat spices without causing me pain and feeling sick.
I am still eating my veggies from my garden, being I am ketovore. I eat the low-carb veggies. My husband and daughter are still eating the SAD. But I am doing the cooking, so I am pushing more healthy optins.
make sure you include saturated fats into the cooking, more meat for them, at least every day. If they eat breakfeasts bacon and eggs only... I am just giving Ideas
OMG! We have a country cottage with a vegetable garden, (kale, carrots, onions, zucchini , green beans, peas, pumpkin, lettuces, cucumbers)and lots of potatoes, grapes, apple and English walnut trees but much smaller than yours!!! I started carnivore 6 months ago and not coming back to eat vegetables, but my husband is not carnivore, so I cook some for him and give some vegetables for my Neighbors. I still enjoy sowing , growing rotating plants but at the same time know how they harmed me with oxalates and other toxins for years. From vegetarian I changed to Paleo, but ate many almonds, beets that overload my body with oxalates. Being now a carnivore is the greatest and most dramatic thing that has happened to me in 70 years. Not only losing my belly fat and 25 pounds (I was not overly overweight) but changing my mind set , long life illness conditions and many others that I didn’t know I had! Thank you for sharing your video and how you feel with carnivore life style! Very inspiring!
Plants & veggies feed your meats!!!! It's biblical, even. Plants meant for medicine & animals, meat meant for us!! Give & receive!!
Scripture for “meat meant for us” please. 💕🇨🇦
@@susanbernier9399 Start at Genesis 9 and keep reading through Leviticus where we receive detailed instructions of which animals are good for people food and which have a different purpose (scavengers, etc.)
Also, set up special worm farms for your chickens or let them free range during the day in your enclosed garden patch. Your chickens willl do well having all the extra protein too. After all, worms are what chickens would naturally be eating. People don't seem to realize that they don't have to go down to a tractor store to buy big bags of grain. Our cattle (6) grazed free range during the day and we trained them to come in to a barn at night by giving them crushed corn (from our farm) I remember my dad saying that "to them, (steers) it is like having sugar candy."
My dad was born in 1929 in Europe. He would not eat pumpkin nor sweetcorn. He said that those were animal food.
Feels like all the homesteaders will slowly become carnivore and change the world! You all have large audiences, just think of what you can do to educate the world! Very good!!
I have a similar set up. I've gardened for decades and now eating carnivore. I wondered what to do with my garden as well. Last fall, I bought sheep and let them loose in there for fall clean up which they did amazingly well. This year I planted a lot more flowers and very few vegetables. I have a pen beside the garden that has had at various times, ducks, pigs, chickens and now sheep. I plan to do meat birds again. They are also great at cleaning up a garden. My experience with carnivore is similar too with the heart palpitations, bloat, joint pain etc. Stuff I've dealt with for 20+ years. When I'm strict with carnivore all of that goes away. It's truly amazing.
New subscriber, happy to replace one of the judgmental folks who left! I'm a carnivore and I personally hope you continue to garden if it makes you happy (it's nice to have a hobby that gets you out in the beautiful sun!) and if you won't eat your produce, I can assure you that food banks or even your neighbors would love home grown produce! My husband is also carnivore and has fruit bushes he enjoys caring for so there's nothing wrong with keeping your plants around to share the bounty with the people around you that may enjoy them 😊
I love gardening, it's so healing and beautiful. I kept growing herbs, fruit, and veggies after I became carnivore and then gave the produce away to my neighbors who loved it. We have a book sharing box, and I also put my produce in there for anyone passing by who wants it. It's always gone in less than a day. My goal is to get a piece of property where I can have chickens & pigs so I can give it to them!!!! Love the idea of freeze drying for emergency back up.
I had a similar setup as you and went carnivore 11 months ago without looking back. My wife has not bought into the carnivore lifestyle completely so she still eats peas beans tomatoes and the rest of the garden is for the chickens.
Oh boy are you taking the heat for this. Lol. I’m glad that you found a path to health that works for you. I’m eating mostly meat but have now included berries, kefir and other dairy. I still eat some other foods but stick mostly to meat. I have neglected my garden because of this but I think I’ll take a cue from you and keep the beds healthy JIC. Thanks for the thought.
I'm in the same boat. I have garden beds full of winter/spring vegetables being winter here in NZ currently. I came across carnivore a couple of months ago (via Dr Anthony Chaffee) and was truly gutted about the gardening situation but, I've always had a passion for flowers and having vases in the house filled with pretty flowers so that's what I'm going to do now. The carnivore lifestyle has too many benefits not to take notice. I wish I had found it years ago but, better late than never. Thanks for your video ☺️
I'm thankful for this thoughtful talk, so many are in the same dilemma. Gardening is fulfilling and important, as a way to produce more organic fruits and vegetables, as a means of preparation for hard and uncertain times and as a way to supplement the high cost of groceries. I haven't managed to go completely carnivore, even though I do feel better when I manage to go a week or so, but then the tomatoes are ripe or the lettuce or mangos and I fall off again. So the conflict is real, I guess then low carb is more my reality. I love the conclusions you've come to and many of the commenters here as well. Having such lovely land and a productive garden is a blessing, I'm so glad you're taking a measured approach.