Doing carnivore / ketovore for over 9 months now. All my health issues I've had for decades went away as a result -- gut issues, ibs symptoms, sinus issues, allergies to cats & dogs, watery/dry eyes, post nasal drip, and more. I can also donate blood again. Absolutely incredible. I had no idea food affected me so much. I commented this before on another video but I figure it's worth sharing again! Thanks for your great work & research!
I've had the same issues corrected and even a few others. I was really surprised my life long airborne allergies ate gone. I've gone through the weekly shot treatments for years twice with little help. Donating blood would put me down for days after so I stopped donating. Now I'll have to give it a try again to see if I can. Ty
I am 84 super fit and active Keto 3 years 90% carnivore 1 year Lost 30 kg lost all aches and pains Off all medication My whole life has gone backwards 50 years to a younger me
I encouraged my parents to go carnivore for years -- my father scoffed at the idea -- after he died, my mother embraced carnivore and now at 84 is healthier than she has been in decades confounding her old doctors. I still struggle with my carb addictions, but she is my carnivore success story.
I am an 83 year old F carnivore. Food cravings gone, binge eating gone bp down to young fit adult levels, sleep improved.. Never too late to change habits.
So sorry that you lost your dad, but thrilled that your mom learned from his mistake. It's amazing that a simple dietary change like going Carnivore can have such profoundly positive effects, even in the elderly.
Carb cravings might indicate a need to improve the strength/function of the stomach or gallbladder. Stomach is easy; you take betaine HCL (preferably without enzymes so you can take more) with meals for awhile. If it's the gallbladder, you gotta study up for that; it's more complicated. Carb cravings could also indicate that you are not in ketosis and need more fat; but that also could be due to the gallbladder not digesting fat well.
80 lbs lost. Fibromyalgia and bowel issues gone. No more meds. Even if the people trying to debunk the carnivore diet results are correct and it shortens my life, I'd rather live a shorter life that feels happy and healthy instead of obese and bedridden until I'm in my 80s
To be clear people, I don't think it will shorten my life either I am just saying on the off chance that they are right I just don't care. They are not right though. But either way I'm not worried.
Thanks again for this wonderful video. I am a 67 yr old carnivore female. I still run every morning, weighs 52 kilo"s. I was a vegan before doing the carnivore. I started this lifestyle because I just got sicker and sicker and saw the carnivore as the last road to walk on. And what a surprise. My interstetial cystitis immediately improved and after using antibiotics constantly, I am healed. My cholestrol is high (300+), triglycerides very very low. Thank you so much for all your help. You will never know how much your videos mean to my health.
Same here, people have problems understanding that many of us are not doing it because of a trend or a caprice, we suffered from DECADES of disease, meds, treatments and surgeries that mutilated our bodies. And all of that was avoidable with a carnivore or at least a keto diet variation (in my case i can´t eat many of the keto accepted carbs). And yes, i also tried and did for years vegan and vegetarian diets in the most perfect ways only for my downfall to get worse and worse..
this is such a strange comment......; veganism is not a diet, but an ethical stance against the exploitation and commodification of animals (animals are not objects, they are individual sentient beings with the same desire for life and bodily autonomy as humans; they are not things to be used and abused). if you eat plants for health benefits that doesn't make you a vegan, because you are doing it for health reasons, not for ethical reasons. you can be healthy as a vegan or unhealthy (coca cola and oreos are both vegan). but to make it sound like veganism got you sick is such an unfair and questionable statement, because we don't know what you ate. it is no accident that the largest organization of food and nutrition professionals (ada) states that you can be healthy on a balanced plant based diet at any stage in your life, but there is zero evidence (anecdotal claims are not evidence) that a carnivore diet proves to be healthy in the long term. i've been vegan - for the animals - for 18 years and as healthy as anyone could wish for.......it's absurd, if you can get all the necessary nutrients from plants, to then go and breed, exploit and abuse other animals and cause suffering and death to these beautiful innocent sentient beings. there are so many professionell nutritionists that specialize in plant based diets that can help you to get everything you need in order to be healthy.
@@keeshea6718 hahaha, plants doesn't have life? , it's even more innocent than animals basically animals can run fight back can kill you toobut plants can't move, no shout because it's dump
I recently came accross the statement: Mamals are fat burners! And I was like: Really? Then why does everyone say that carbs are the preferred fuel source for the body? After some research I found out that the body prioritizes glucose not because it prefers it, but because it must clear excess glucose quickly to avoid toxicity. It’s a survival mechanism, not a sign of metabolic preference. Fat is the default and most stable fuel. The body only shifts to glucose burning when necessary-like after carb consumption or during high-intensity activity-because uncontrolled high blood sugar is dangerous. The body burns glucose first TO AVOID TOXICITY! It is a SURVIVAL MECHANISM! Glucose can be toxic and storage capacity is limited to about 400 grams. Fat is not toxic and storage capacity is practically unlimited. All this you can find in the medical literature. But nutritional literature wants to make you believe that the opposite is true.
And the purpose of carbs is to gain adipose fat for survival in low food situations, like a harsh winter, so that we have FAT for our bodies to consume. That's how much are bodies prefer fat over glucose.
I have Follicular Lymphoma, I was stage 4 twice in 2 years, spent 3yrs in chemo, which cooked me inside out. I have been in remission 10yrs now on a high fat keto, now carnivore 3yrs. now zero meds, and fit again.
God bless you sir. You are thriving and carnivore is a blessing from the one true almighty God. I know and believe that rejuvenation and vitality will flow through you like a golden river.
@@kimpeterson8090 How did you discover you had this lymphoma? Any insights would be appreciated. Ive had swollen lymph nodes all through out my body for years ever since I took the C19 vaccine. Ive done more than ten scans of all kinds including one PET scan. Ive also done a needle guided biopsy of one lymph node. For all the time, money and mental bandwidth everything has been non conclusive. Currently stuck as to what to do. Thank you and God bless. I know and I believe that God can heal all that ales us. ❤
@ It sounds like your swollen nodes are nothing to be concerned about at this time. My swollen nodes I could see were under my chin I had been sick so I was not concerned for a few months. Went to doc they did ultrasound and then sent me on to a biopsy (I was still clueless that this could be cancer) that biopsy said you have CLL/SLL and then all the scans and tests began. I have SLL I have never been sick from it I am on a protocol because all your chromosomes tell them lots of things about you and of all the bad things one could have I had the motherload. I am doing great and am very healthy with blood cancer! I thank Jesus for my good health!
After being carnivore for 6 months my cardiologist started reducing my heart medications. After 12 months totally eliminated them. I had been on them for about 23 years.
When on a carnivore-ish diet, my "junk food" is a dark chocolate, some berries, nuts, green tea, maybe an apple and similar. Before, my junk food would be pizza, chips, cakes, ice creams, sodas etc. Even if not kept strictly, it gives you some better boundaries.
But when you cheat on carnivore like that, you cheat yourself out of ketosis. I agree, what you describe is "less bad," and the lesser of 2 evils is just that, less evil, but... no ketones!
Also carnivorish, keep all my meals carnivore. On weekends will have home made cream cake, and about once a month pizza and red wine/ champagne. Feel great.
This is the truth. Carnivore is just one of A LOT of changes to eating patterns that provides excellent results. It’s not carnivore, it’s dropping the high processed crap for real food. If carnivore works for you, great. Lots of other real food eating patterns work for others and that’s great. Just gotta get back to eating real food. The end
@@joe1071 Eating real food surely plays one of the main roles, however, its much easier to do it on animal based diet, for me. When I tried vegetarianism or even less strict keto diet, I still had cravings for the worst junk full of sugar and seed oils. The simplicity of the carnivore diet can be one of the reasons - you do not need to plan or cook or think about the food too much. I was also unable to heal my gut from various IBS problems with the plant based real food.
I'm 70; carnivore 3.5 years now. I'm off all meds after 20 years of pain management for arthritis. IBS and gastritis are GONE. And after 25 years as a low fat, whole foods, organic locally grown vegetarian, I got TWO primary cancers. Two. I feel better than I did in my 40s. I'm astounded at all the benefits I'm enjoying. I love animals, but nothing - nothing at all - has ever helped me as much as eating a carnivore diet.
I encouraged my parents to go carnivore for years -- my father scoffed at the idea -- after he died, my mother embraced carnivore and now at 84 is healthier than she has been in decades confounding her old doctors. I still struggle with my carb addictions, but she is my carnivore success story.
Stopped fiber decades ago. Low carb for decades. Keto for 7-8 years. CARNIVORE for 25 months. NEVER felt better, been leaner, been stronger, looked better, or gotten hit on as much by both sexes as today. My N of 1 assessment: Carnivore is ABSOLUTELY the optimum eating practice for my global wellbeing and health (and I suspect for all human beings). I dare anyone to try carnivore for 6 months, long enough to be fully fat-adapted regardless of their starting point, and SEE if they don't improve every aspect of their health. My contribution to humanity for today. Cheers! :)
omg, same here. i'm so hot that even asexuals hit on me. but Tom Brady is 80% Plant-Based. as the High Priestess of the Church of Carnitology, i dare you to dare him to "try Carnivore for 6 months" to see if "every aspect of his health improves."
Beautifuloverwhelminggirl can you share what was that fiber diet decades ago, and the diet before the carnivore one. Cause either the diets were causing issues because they weren't optimal, so obviously there's improvement going off them, or they were perfect then it's very interesting.
Was dealing with chronic pain at the age of 43 after being a tradesmen for 25 years, went carnivore 18mths ago and I feel like I'm in my early 20's again, the most life changing thing I've ever done
Retired doctor here. I followed high fibre until I developed a perforated diverticular abscess in my sigmoid colon, aged 45. I needed a stoma for 4 months, and off work 6. Post stoma reversal, I went on an ever high fibre diet. Basically I was troubled by pain and bloating, and it was only when I reduced my fibre to 1/3 of my pre abscess diet did my symptoms disappear. I now have no diverticulosis symptoms.
You can't heal a traffic jam by increasing the number of cars on the road. Since going carnivore I have never felt as much as a little bloat or spasm in my bowels. It wasn't a big problem before but you suddenly realise that after you put food in your mouth you can forget about your digestive system completely until you need to eject the little waste you have.
And I had the opposite occur. I had my gallbladder out in 2007 due to a blocked tube. Then horrible IBS and diverticula developed. For 7 years I never had normal BM. That is a very long time. Then I started eating one slice of bread a day and fixed the issue. BUT….. it isn’t bread made from store bought flour or even store bought bread. I bought my own wheatberries, ground it into flour and made bread fresh from the wheat. The flour is different. It is not bleached and is fresh, not rancid. It also has all the nutrients and fiber in it (like how our grandparents or great grandparents used to eat). Within 2 days, I had regular morning BMs that were “perfect”. SORRY…… TMI but after 7 years of suffering, I share this information with people in case it could help them. As long as you are not gluten sensitive or insulin resistant, the fiber rich natural bread feeds the microbiome and makes a healthy gut for most people. It fixed me.❤
@sheila7814 that's so true and valuable. millions of people who think are allergic to gluten are just allergic to dead toxic flours being sold in capitalist societies!!!❤️❤️❤️.
Carnivore diet broke my sugar addiction, and binge eating habits. Ive been a sugar addict since i was a little girl, I ate lots of fast food during my college years and early 20s. Pandemic made me gain 12kg and a wosw than ever eating habit. I discovered keto on 2023, tried it, yoyo-d, lost weight, but cravings for dessert was still there due to keto desserts. Fell off the wagon at the end of 2023, and got frustrated, and found carnivore.. i thought the diet would suit me to help with my carb addiction. Feb 2024 i started carnivore cold turkey, and stuck strict for months, lost all the weight, got amazing energy, eczema controlled, sugar cravings gone. Diet got ruined at family vacay around july, and fell off again. Decided to get back up around the end off november, and stuck with it since. Never going back. I just turned 31. I have a lot of things to say about the carnivore diet. And i think given my relationship with food, i cant afford to go back.
After I started carnivore few months and then later Lions diet a months ago, I finally lost 15 kg, have no permanent appetite, no pain when walking, no concentration problems and lost almost all my hashimotos and leaky gut symptoms... I feel like I've been replaced and my fear of being unable to work soon has disappeared :) Just a few months and such crazy changes.
I have struggled with obesity my entire 30 years of life. Ive tried everything from exercise/gym, dieting, a combination of both.. Eating what i thought was "healthy" foods.. I was introduced to the Carnivore diet late 2023 early 2024 when i saw my brother embark on that journey and lose over 100 pounds (he's lost 120 on carnivore and is now bulking trying to gain weight in the gym LOL). On march 27th, 2024 i began my journey with the carnivore diet. The results are just unbelievable. Literally unbelievable. I started out at 288 (though a few months prior i was 294-296, so pushing 300 pounds. Ill note that during this journey ive only exercised maybe a total of 3 months, so majority of weight loss has been my diet change and fasting as well. The other day on my 10 month anniversary, i scaled at 198. Writing this i am still in awe. I have not been below 200 pounds in 15+ years - since i was a freshman in highschool. This has been a life changer. Carnivore has saved my life. Ive completely changed my relationship with food and have listened to some of the 🐐's such as Berry, Chaffee, Saladino, Baker.. and more recently Nick here. Learning everything that i have (things that go against what i have previously learned) and applying it to my everyday life has caused a complete 360° turn around in my life. I truly hope anyone that reads this and is thinking about starting Carnivore is inspired. The best time to start is TODAY.
@@6.0hhh wow, talk about emotions getting in the way of logic. I stated facts that can't be debated, Saladino promotes eating way too many carbs. He's a trained psychiatrist, not even a nutritionist or dietitian. He has NO right to tell anyone what to eat.
This was a very meaty topic, Dr. Nick. For four years, I've been completely fat-adapted thanks to carnivore. I run up to 100 miles a week on ruminants, water & salt. Last November, I ran a fasted 5x5: five marathons in five days while fasting. BTW, I'm 62 y.o. and fit your LMHR phenotype. Cheers, Dr. Nick. 🍖 🥓 🥩
Another point that could explain the lower vitamin C needs during a carnivorous diet is the fact that since we eat a lot of collagen and therefore hydroxyproline and hydroxylysine we have less need to use vitamin C to produce the hydroxylated forms of these amino acids. Let us remember that scurvy results from the difficulty in producing collagen because of the lack of vitamin C which is a cofactor in the production of the hydroxylated forms of these amino acids.
Carnivore for 3 months (low carb high fiber plants before that) and finally my joint pain is gone within 3 weeks of dropping all plants/carbs. ALL pain. Receding gums have healed and so many other positives. I’m still working through my GI issues that I’ve had for 2 years but feeling very hopeful! 🥩 Edit to add…I still feed my family some fruits, veg and carbs bc I am not sure this way of eating is for everyone but for me, right now, it’s so healing
I went Carnivore about 5 years ago and its THE single best thing I've ever done for my health. I lost 51 pounds the first 6 months while actually increasing my overall calories significantly. (from 3,500 per day to 4,800 per day) Inflammation way down, brain fog gone, no more stomach issues, no gas at all, and I feel fantastic.
Just over a year on the Carnivore Diet and my Crohn's Disease is gone, my GERD is gone, my migraines are gone. This might only be anecdotal according to scientists, but it means the whole world for me! I recommend to everyone just to give it a go for a month, and see how they feel.
This is an absolutely amazing video! It is immensely encouraging to find that there is someone as intelligent as Nick on the side of balanced research into low-carb alternatives. In a world where big food & big pharma are constantly destroying lifes, Nick is a breath of fresh air.
currently a 3rd year nutrition science student, and I gotta say that I love your content. Individuality in my opinion is the future of nutrition, and in contrast to what is being taught here, love how the things said in your videos are never inclusive about the "best diet", never a one-fits-all solution. Keep bringing science based info and case studies like these up, it really does make a difference and helps keep curiosity alive. thank you!
@@Happyheartamit start with this (there are 3 in the series) - Human Nutrition Science 101 - Lecture #01 : "Do You Even Exist"? th-cam.com/video/N9vQOPqWHTM/w-d-xo.html
107 lbs lost. GERD and Sleep Apnea gone. Blood pressure normalized. Cardiac A-Fib vanished. My mood is better, and I have enough energy to chase my kids around.
This was a very thorough "well done" video Nick. Videos like this are rare. And a prime example of choice in diet. Wagyu think is it healthy or not? Kobe yes, Kobe no
Wagu has perfect fat to protein ratio! When I eat it I don’t have to eat 2-3 tablespoons of butter with the meal. I went off carnivore after 3.5 years of strict carnivore after 2 years of Keto. Now I have no problems with carbs. Eating 1/2 pizza with a couple peanut butter cups and my blood sugar is under 120 at 2 hours post meal. I really noticed my orthorexea and got back to normal. 5000 hours of research and I am eating carbs but not fruit or vegetables. Still believe they are toxic!
I don’t have any of the serious health problems some are correcting with a carnivore diet, so as a prescriptive measure I can see not saying it’s best for everyone. But My main interest is to prevent metabolic disease in my older age and keto or carnivore seems the best way to do that.
That's me in a nutshell! I don't have any particular disease to cure but I do feel much better on a carnivore diet. I'm sticking to my weight without ever feeling hungry - something impossible to do on a more conventional diet. My hope is that as I retire later this year, I will be in my best health possible. It's to ward off the usual metabolic diseases: diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer and dementia amongst others.
How do you come to the conclusion that carnivore is the best way to not have metabolic health problems in older age. The science actually has good evidence for whole food plant based or plant dominant diets, good weight management and physical activity to be a good way of getting there. And as you say you do not have any problem that would require carnivore as an intervention to manage it. My personal bias is that the people who don't have to rely on animal sources should feel in some way obliged to eat plant based or at least plant dominant for ethical and environmental reasons. Why would you choose an extremely restrictive, ethically questionable diet if you don't need to.
@, eating meat is not ethically questionable. Maybe for you it is, but certainly not for me and a large part of the world population. I do not agree that the science supports a plant based diet as best.
I've been on the carnivore diet for a year now. Don't plan on coming off. I've tried, keto (and multiple variations), IF, vertical diet, moderate carb whole food based, paleo, iifym, etc. This is by far the best I've felt and it has cleared all health issues and also pains from college soccer and my scoliosis. One of the best things to come from it is not ingesting any fiber which gives me perfect bowel movements and no pain. I also don't go number 2 about 3-5 times a day like I used to. My mother went on this diet and got her yearly blood test. After 8 months strict her blood test results were basically perfect. She's lost 40lbs. All health issues cleared up. Her triglycerides were some of the lowest the doctor has seen. Compared to here past several yearly blood tests she looks like a new human, even though she was considered fairly healthy prior from her blood tests.
Great explanation! I've been on this woe for about 5 years, it put my rhumatoid arthritis in remission with minimal medication (no need for chemotherapy). I gave me back my life. Thanks for explaning it that well!
agrarianism is the trend. carnivore is our speciation. crops were a stopgap measure to stabilize our population after the Younger Dryas megafauna extinction. now that we've mastered livestock, dairy and egg production, crops have served their purpose and should be done away with for the health of the planet and our species.
For my part I went from the standard diet to keto, I would have stayed keto but I still had problems with inflammation, arthritic pain and high blood pressure, only the carnivore diet solved those problems.
The chemicals used on plants and the chemicals in the plants itself caused inflammation. I cut out all plants out of my eating and I feel so much better. I had swelling back and shoulder pain for a long time and within mere weeks, I no longer feel pain. Trying my best to keep it that way.
Please describe what that keto diet. Either the improvements are due to an unoptimized keto diet, or there truly are benefits as opposed to proper plant based diets.
Excellent messages on differences in individual's responses and the body's ability to adapt. Thank you. Straying from popular nutritional guidance comes with some anxiety but better understanding and good personal results give confidence.
Thank you so much, Nic! As a carnivore curious sort of person, this video has put my mind at rest as to both the efficacy and safety of the carnivore diet!
I do love the puns! Another great video with a balanced approach backed by science and tempered with what we don't know (yet). May we all keep on learning and growing in our knowledge!
I have suffered from IBS for years. The embarrassment alone was debilitating. I can not even drink the HLTH code shake or keto chow because my body reacts to the fiber. So I agree with you. Do what works for your body and dont judge others diets. Were all grown ups. Advocate for your health and keep your focus on your own plate. Love your content.
LDL is not cholesterol. It's a vehicle for carrying cholesterol and cholesterol is not a cause of heart disease. You cannot be healthy long-term on a vegan diet, it is lacking in numerous essential nutrients that can only be found in animal foods.
He knows that too but sometimes they like to pander to vegans to not alienate them. We have many stories of people going from vegan to carnivore when their health begins to suffer dramatically from lack of nourishment.
It's probably possible to add enough supplements to a vegan diet to be healthy, at least for some people. Certainly there are people who seem to be healthy and who claim to have been long-term vegans. I suspect it's hard enough to get right, though, that it's really rare.
Position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: Vegetarian Diets - It is the position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics that appropriately planned vegetarian, including vegan, diets are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits for the prevention and treatment of certain diseases. These diets are appropriate for all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, adolescence, older adulthood, and for athletes. Plant-based diets are more environmentally sustainable than diets rich in animal products because they use fewer natural resources and are associated with much less environmental damage. Vegetarians and vegans are at reduced risk of certain health conditions, including ischemic heart disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, certain types of cancer, and obesity. Low intake of saturated fat and high intakes of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, soy products, nuts, and seeds (all rich in fiber and phytochemicals) are characteristics of vegetarian and vegan diets that produce lower total and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels and better serum glucose control. These factors contribute to the reduction of chronic disease.
@@Zenithx3 Glyphosate sprayed over all those veggies? WAY more environmental damage than a bunch of cows ever would be.... Your argument is literally bullshit.
As a Nutrition student in Honduras 🇭🇳 from Nicaragua 🇳🇮 I am so blessed by your content, I’m digging a LOT about carnivore and all keto because of mental health issues, the days that I follow it to a 70-90% (I do struggle because I get lots of craving during the night), I do feel lot better, improves mood, no digestive issues even when I have lactose intolerance, somehow I can eat cheese as long as there is no sugar involved. I’m also loving my healthy dinners now and saving money by preparing most of the food home. Thank you! I want to help people but specially I want to help myself to inspire family and friends and maybe help my future patients become more healthy and happy! ❤ God bless 🙏🏻
As always, an informative video. I already knew most of these myths to be “busted” from personal experience. My takeaway: Metabolic health and science are not immune to politics, economics, and ideology.
“Metabolic health” - ie, nutrition policy - is the MOST politically fractious science topic. The gap between basic research and government policy is filled with creative narratives, lies, huge financial incentives to twist the truth, ego incentives to ignore new findings, political power plays, and plain ol errors.
11 months in, i was totally disabled by long-COVID for 2 years, over weight, so fatigued I was often bed-bound for months at a time. 3 days into carnivore my mental clarity came back, 4 months in I'd lost 43lbs and at 9 months i was back doing heavy compound lifting and trail running
Your vids are high quality, Nick! A cut above. You’ve really raised the steaks. No lion! I predict a day will come when you’ll say, “Turns out that carnivore actually is optimal for everyone”. Maybe not soon, but one day…
Thank you so much, for your research, and everything that you do!!! It has really improved my life and I believe strongly in what you’re doing and what you’re saying!
Four weeks into carnivore and it's great. Didn't solve all my problems, but so much have gotten better. Recommend it for at least 90 days for everyone.
Be patient. It took 10 months of carnivore to get rid of my hip joint pain. But it will work. You took years to get sick, so getting well takes time too.🙂
Some so called heath care professionals doesn't have problems with junk foods, extreme carbs junks , alcohols , multiple medicines but they have issues with carnivore diet.
Really well put together video - agree on all fronts. On the exercise front, did you look at the very low carb literature and resistance training performance? I have some vague memory of some studies indicating that in certain programs, it can reduce performance. Other than that, I've found the same as you across the board.
More recent studies are pointing to the initial adaptation period being of longer times and being the probable explanation for the impairment in performance.
I seem to often feel like one side says 'This is how it is, accept and don't argue' while another says 'it seems like this, let's talk and learn more'. Great video.
Thank you - I love to keep hearing that "one size does NOT fit all". Would be great if other specific diet advocates would add this statement to their "diet-tribes"
Excellent video... very well done. Went keto in 1998, high fiber eventually took its toll on my guts, went almost carnivore 2020.... feel 1000 times better and stronger... 68 years old, still athletic and lean... all injuries from organophosphate poisoning in remission except the tinnitus and deafness in one ear...
The only thing i know is that we generally eat an excess of carbs. Maybe, for most people, the best dietary change is lowering the carbs and eat enough protein.
TOTALLY agree with what you are saying. It does not have to be strict carnivore. I do more mediterranean eating with more more meat and do fine. Each person is so different. The only problem I have with the carnivore community is that they are so rigid and not really open to any individualistic thinking. Seems like a drink the koolaid thing to me.
"What normal (eating patterns) is nowadays could themselves reflect a form of eating disorder" - I love this! If only more people realized that the reason they crave sugar is because they keep eating sugar.
Very happy to see nuanced informed reporting and clinical application of those new tools. You as dr Shawn Baker and others are representing the options and rationale at now present of a useful tool when well utilised. …and very happy that we correct excesses plus propaganda much faster then in recent past.
It's important to know what the participants' previous diet was like. If you're going from eating a bunch of processed foods to eating whole meats, then you'll probably see a lot of improvement just from the switch to whole foods.
great video AND I loved reading the many "success stories" in the comments = very inspiring! I've been carnivore 1.5 years and am healing "incurable" autoimmune issues. thank god!
Will I'll say this I did not want any part of the Carnavor Diet but did it because my wife wanted to try it. So fast forward four months and we are both down 35 pounds and were both off all of our medications. Are DR. is checking are blood and is happy with what's going on. I never thought I would be in my 50's and not on a signal drug I have been on high blood pressure meds since I was in my 30's I'm also no longer pre Diabetic. The first month was a little bumpy but man oh man do I feel awesome today.
I am keto and the carnivore diet is a subset of a ketogenic diet. I eat less than 20 total carbs a day, not net carbs but total so as you can imagine I’m pretty close to carnivore. I lost 88 pounds., got my blood pressure under control. Got my irritable, bowel syndrome under control., and I have a lot more energy. However, I do have very high LDL and I haven’t made my mind up on how big a deal this is.. also my fasting blood sugar is low and so is my insulin, I have them measured. I still occasionally., maybe once every three weeks have one bowel movement that is explosive diarrhea. Can’t find a pattern what causes it. But before I went keto, it was basically every day so you can see how improved my health is…Oh, my sleep has improved and before I went keto and lost weight I was starting to get some tingling in my hands and legs, and that has went away. It’s hard to say if it’s all keto or it’s my weight loss or my exercise routine because I do exercise now I didn’t originally .
Been mostly on carnivore diet since May 2024, dropped 30kg in 4+ months (combining with IF/ADF) and been keeping it off ever since. Pain in my back and knee gone - regular headaches gone, "pot belly" gone. Sugar cravings, which was horrible ( tub of ice-cream(often 2 in a day), full bar of chocolate in 1 sitting) completely gone. I do eat fruits and one-off veggies time to time( which is mostly pickles ) and sometimes honey. Regular in the gym, stronger than ever and feeling 5-10 years younger again ( in the bed I feel like I'm 20 again! ). Eating mostly meat ( duck, chicken, beef, pork ) cooking only with butter, and about 30 eggs per week in various forms. Cheese, milk and diary no problem and I still do drink coffee with milk (no syrups or sugar). Most importantly: I feel like I can continue like this without much sacrifice & even saving money eating like this.
As a diabetic, what else is there what will reverse my diabetes?? Carbs?? 😂😂 those got me there. I really don’t care that most people see it odd that I don’t eat my steak with potatoes and my eggs with bread. Truly don’t care at all. Not their problem This diet is the only one that doesn’t raise my blood sugar levels = being healthy and not fearing blindness or further kidney damage
Exactly, haven’t touched pasta in 17 months and probably never will again. It used to be a favourite dish, funny enough, I don’t miss it at all… Puzzling. I thought i would crave bread, beans, lentils pasta rice pizza, cake… nope. 🙂↔️ I turned carnivore overnight cold turkey out of desperation (gerd, ibs, endometriosis) and never thought i would stick to it - i was actually quite scared when i started because i thought it was complete madness - but i was ridden with pains so i said “let’s try!”. 17 months, no plants no complex carbs, no fibres, … very restrictive diet but yep, it works!!
I believe there are carnivore versions of lasagne!! I would definitely enjoy a lasagne, even if it was the traditional recipe- I would just eat the beef, and bechamel sauce and cheese, and scrape the pasta sheets clean, but leave them! 😅
@@reginamemoriesforever-vc8ql Kudos on embracing our ancestral dietary heritage! It's important to recognize that many modern fruits and vegetables have undergone significant alterations through selective breeding, rendering them more palatable and less toxic, but also potentially more addictive and less nutritious. +glyphosate
I’m one of those people who’s ldl, and cholesterol levels went way up. My hdl and triglycerides were great. I made the doctor do other tests… scans were all good, apob was high, lpa was high and bilirubin was high. Blood pressure was great, heart rate was good. Glucose was good, insulin was good, inflammation wasn’t present… doctor has insisted that I start a statin. I told him there’s no way. I added carbs back in and eased up on the saturated fats and my worrisome numbers are going down.
All of us eating keto and carnivore for the last few years should get CAC and CIMT scans. It would be pretty interesting to have data that shut down the CVD risk story.
@@alanj9978 The power of 'file drawer research' has led to a troubling realization: unwittingly, we've been subjected to a grand experiment, serving as both the sheep and the guinea pigs, with our health and well being hanging in the balance.
I enjoy hearing content that isn't in a tribal mentality and very open to everything and agree with you fully. Everyone wants 1 way of eating for all and that is usually what they are doing at the time. Thx as always for your videos and everyone should do some n=1 experiments.
My story so far. Over three months into the carnivore diet with daily intermittent fasting, and the results are life-changing! Here are my numbers: * Weight: Down 36 pounds * Blood Pressure: Improved from 139/90 to 117/73 * Fasting Glucose Levels: Dropped from 123 mg/dL to 79-86 mg/dL on average. * Ketones: Now at 2.7 mmol/L * GKI (Glucose Ketone Index): 1.7 This combination has truly transformed my health and my life!
@@nicknorwitzPhD i just meant people without any issues like IBS, auto-immune or so. Aside of getting fat, i had zero issues eating crap, and im 40yo. I used carnivore as elemination diet to lose weight, and now do clean keto with some veggies and berries.
I'm ending 8 months of carnivore today and transitioning to a more typical keto. Just ordered your book, The New Mediterranean Diet. I was diagnosed with UC pancolitis in 2012 and used prednisone then. Since then the only pharmaceutical I've used is mesalamine (which I'm okay with). I flared last May (I was eating a normal diet then) and started the carnivore diet soon after. Fecal calprotectin went from 529 ug/g -> 3160 -> 1250 -> 360 -> 145 -> 62 (on Jan 22). It took a while but I'm in remission again (and my symptoms were pretty well controlled since June despite FCP remaining high). I did escalate mesalamine dosage, but did not use steroids. I've done a number of dietary interventions from the very beginning (starting with the specific carbohydrate diet). Looking at how consistently I've seen results, i find it pretty hard to explain away as coincidence.
No denying that keto and carnivore diet is absolute medicine for some. For me personally, I have tried both carnivore and keto. I have never felt worse.. mood, strength and sleep all fell in quality. I am metabolically healthy.. normal weight, normal BP, normal blood glucose and normal cholesterol levels. Eating balanced macros is the best way for me to stay healthy and have optimal functioning all around. We're all different. Food is our best medicine, find what works for you!
"I am metabolically healthy.. normal weight, normal BP, normal blood glucose and normal cholesterol levels." You could perfectly have already develop insulin resistance and still have normal blood glucose. What are your TG/HDL and your fasting insulin? If you don't know at least one of these 2 markers don't even pretend you are metabolically healthy. And are you sure your brain is perfectly fine and will still be ok in a few years? The more I read/watch people like Georgia Ede, Chris Palmer, Albert Danan or the Dufournet couple (Boris & Florence) the more I think our brain needs ketones to stay healthy. If evolution made our brain prefer ketones I seriously doubt that eating "balanced macros" should be the way to go. We're all different but we also are all from the same species.
Nic, Myth 5: Heart Attack is THE key factor that keeps the carnivore diet out of the mainstream. The notion that red meat causes heart attacks is firmly fixed in every mind in America. I hope your research team finds a way to provide some compelling data to either debunk or finally prove this long running assertion.
I love how the "Heart Attack Diet" I started in 1983 is not an alternative diet for healing.,Nick is intelligent, attractive and articulate. Far better than the original carnivore quack!
Just finished the whole video. Great job. I'm really into nutrition science and have read countless books on the subject. Many promoting Keto and many promoting plant based. In addition, I watch or listen to podcasts on the subjects of both. I love your unbiased approach. The fact that you mix science and scientific studies with anecdotal evidence. It takes both to represent nutrition facts. Just say'n.
For people who transitioned to carnivore, can you specify your previous diet if it was a proper plant based whole foods diet (not extreme like vegan), and if you saw differences from that perfect plant based diet. Because its obviously expected that people will do better when going off poorly diversified plant based diets or diets containing processed foods. Important to note, blue zones with the most centenarians consist in plant based whole foods at 95%, the best athlete in history Novak Djokovic is on a no gluten, no dairy, low inflammation plant based diet (with some animal products). And a goofy millionaire Bryan Johnson is trying to reverse aging who spends millions has also concluded on a plant based diet. So when it comes to longevity at least, and even performance, theres some serious competition for yall carnivore bros.
Pre carnivore I ate a balanced plant based, lots of home grown veg, lots of cheese- I realise now my past cheese addiction was my body craving fat and protein, meat/ chicken/ fish about twice a week. about one loaf of sourdough over the week. I started to feel awful as I added more plant protein. Didn’t connect it at the time until I shifted to more meat for a while then went back to pulses and chick peas. Lots of sore stomach and bloating. Now I eat all my meals as carnivore- mostly steak with some cream and cheese, bacon some mornings, occasionally chicken and pork. On weekends I will have cake/ ice cream. Once a month end up having pizza and wine- and really enjoy that but if I have it te nights I feel crap. Lots weight, sleep well, no menopause symptoms, 57 f.
I spent a year without ultra-processed foods and focusing on whole foods. Now, I follow a seasonal diet, carnivore in winter and foraging for fruits in summer ….it's a treat I look forward to while out fishing and camping.
I have tried 2x strict carnivore, for more than 1.5 month each time, and had serious constipation...yeah....yeah I eat enough fat.... Now I have introduced 1 orange a day and for me was a game changer.
I got onto the carnivore diet to treat my digestive condition, but it has alleviated so many other issues for me. My skin hasn't been this clear since I was a child and I no longer experience back or joint paint. This is also the first time I've eliminated my insomnia in twenty years. Though I'm on disability with psych issues, as I've stayed in ketosis for several years, I've noticed significant improvements in my mental state - making me reevaluate my understanding of mental health.
Right? And u see those comments everywhere! I’m doing keto/carnivore with occasional carb fiesta. Lost 30kg, feel much better overall and I never go back to standard diet
Doing carnivore / ketovore for over 9 months now. All my health issues I've had for decades went away as a result -- gut issues, ibs symptoms, sinus issues, allergies to cats & dogs, watery/dry eyes, post nasal drip, and more. I can also donate blood again. Absolutely incredible. I had no idea food affected me so much. I commented this before on another video but I figure it's worth sharing again! Thanks for your great work & research!
I've had the same issues corrected and even a few others. I was really surprised my life long airborne allergies ate gone. I've gone through the weekly shot treatments for years twice with little help. Donating blood would put me down for days after so I stopped donating. Now I'll have to give it a try again to see if I can. Ty
Get a coronary calcium score scan done. It’s possible the diet helps some things but hurts cardiovascular health.
@@kbkesq someone made a comment and said, I paraphrase, I would rather die sooner with quality of life than live sick and bedridden to my 80s
@@kbkesq Ridiculous
I sespect this is because of keto. I got a lot of advantages you mention on keto vegan.
I am 84 super fit and active
Keto 3 years 90% carnivore 1 year
Lost 30 kg lost all aches and pains
Off all medication
My whole life has gone backwards 50 years to a younger me
That’s awesome! 👏
It's so great to hear. Very good!!🎉❤
🎉🎉❤ thanks for sharing!😊
I encouraged my parents to go carnivore for years -- my father scoffed at the idea -- after he died, my mother embraced carnivore and now at 84 is healthier than she has been in decades confounding her old doctors. I still struggle with my carb addictions, but she is my carnivore success story.
I am an 83 year old F carnivore. Food cravings gone, binge eating gone bp down to young fit adult levels, sleep improved.. Never too late to change habits.
So sorry that you lost your dad, but thrilled that your mom learned from his mistake. It's amazing that a simple dietary change like going Carnivore can have such profoundly positive effects, even in the elderly.
I’m sorry you lost your father. I think steak and butter girl (on TH-cam) says to eat a pat of butter when a carb craving hits.
Super well done bud! Thx! Very watchable. Thank you for the good pacing and everything too
Carb cravings might indicate a need to improve the strength/function of the stomach or gallbladder. Stomach is easy; you take betaine HCL (preferably without enzymes so you can take more) with meals for awhile. If it's the gallbladder, you gotta study up for that; it's more complicated. Carb cravings could also indicate that you are not in ketosis and need more fat; but that also could be due to the gallbladder not digesting fat well.
80 lbs lost. Fibromyalgia and bowel issues gone. No more meds. Even if the people trying to debunk the carnivore diet results are correct and it shortens my life, I'd rather live a shorter life that feels happy and healthy instead of obese and bedridden until I'm in my 80s
If it solves all the problems makes no sense that it shortens your life
@@AlphaOmega1025exactly
100 years is relatively recent?
It does not shorten life!
To be clear people, I don't think it will shorten my life either I am just saying on the off chance that they are right I just don't care. They are not right though. But either way I'm not worried.
Thanks again for this wonderful video. I am a 67 yr old carnivore female. I still run every morning, weighs 52 kilo"s. I was a vegan before doing the carnivore. I started this lifestyle because I just got sicker and sicker and saw the carnivore as the last road to walk on. And what a surprise. My interstetial cystitis immediately improved and after using antibiotics constantly, I am healed. My cholestrol is high (300+), triglycerides very very low. Thank you so much for all your help. You will never know how much your videos mean to my health.
Same here, people have problems understanding that many of us are not doing it because of a trend or a caprice, we suffered from DECADES of disease, meds, treatments and surgeries that mutilated our bodies. And all of that was avoidable with a carnivore or at least a keto diet variation (in my case i can´t eat many of the keto accepted carbs).
And yes, i also tried and did for years vegan and vegetarian diets in the most perfect ways only for my downfall to get worse and worse..
this is such a strange comment......; veganism is not a diet, but an ethical stance against the exploitation and commodification of animals (animals are not objects, they are individual sentient beings with the same desire for life and bodily autonomy as humans; they are not things to be used and abused). if you eat plants for health benefits that doesn't make you a vegan, because you are doing it for health reasons, not for ethical reasons. you can be healthy as a vegan or unhealthy (coca cola and oreos are both vegan). but to make it sound like veganism got you sick is such an unfair and questionable statement, because we don't know what you ate.
it is no accident that the largest organization of food and nutrition professionals (ada) states that you can be healthy on a balanced plant based diet at any stage in your life, but there is zero evidence (anecdotal claims are not evidence) that a carnivore diet proves to be healthy in the long term.
i've been vegan - for the animals - for 18 years and as healthy as anyone could wish for.......it's absurd, if you can get all the necessary nutrients from plants, to then go and breed, exploit and abuse other animals and cause suffering and death to these beautiful innocent sentient beings. there are so many professionell nutritionists that specialize in plant based diets that can help you to get everything you need in order to be healthy.
@@keeshea6718 hahaha, plants doesn't have life? , it's even more innocent than animals basically animals can run fight back can kill you toobut plants can't move, no shout because it's dump
I recently came accross the statement: Mamals are fat burners!
And I was like: Really? Then why does everyone say that carbs are the preferred fuel source for the body?
After some research I found out that the body prioritizes glucose not because it prefers it, but because it must clear excess glucose quickly to avoid toxicity. It’s a survival mechanism, not a sign of metabolic preference.
Fat is the default and most stable fuel. The body only shifts to glucose burning when necessary-like after carb consumption or during high-intensity activity-because uncontrolled high blood sugar is dangerous.
The body burns glucose first TO AVOID TOXICITY! It is a SURVIVAL MECHANISM!
Glucose can be toxic and storage capacity is limited to about 400 grams. Fat is not toxic and storage capacity is practically unlimited.
All this you can find in the medical literature. But nutritional literature wants to make you believe that the opposite is true.
You are 100% correct that the body burns carbohydrates first to avoid the oxidative damage that excess glucose does to the body.
@@Found-it-there It does that only when it's necessary. Not because it's preferred. That's the interesting bit.
And the purpose of carbs is to gain adipose fat for survival in low food situations, like a harsh winter, so that we have FAT for our bodies to consume. That's how much are bodies prefer fat over glucose.
Then why do fetuses acquire glucose through the placenta and newborns digest lactose out of breast milk?
@@VegetaPrinceOfSaiyansfetuses are in ketosis. Look it up.
I have Follicular Lymphoma, I was stage 4 twice in 2 years, spent 3yrs in chemo, which cooked me inside out. I have been in remission 10yrs now on a high fat keto, now carnivore 3yrs. now zero meds, and fit again.
awesome!!!!
Yay for you! Been carnivore 3 years 1 year ago diagnosed with Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma. I don’t even know I am ill ! I am healthy with a disease.
God bless you sir. You are thriving and carnivore is a blessing from the one true almighty God. I know and believe that rejuvenation and vitality will flow through you like a golden river.
@@kimpeterson8090 How did you discover you had this lymphoma? Any insights would be appreciated. Ive had swollen lymph nodes all through out my body for years ever since I took the C19 vaccine. Ive done more than ten scans of all kinds including one PET scan. Ive also done a needle guided biopsy of one lymph node. For all the time, money and mental bandwidth everything has been non conclusive. Currently stuck as to what to do.
Thank you and God bless. I know and I believe that God can heal all that ales us. ❤
@ It sounds like your swollen nodes are nothing to be concerned about at this time. My swollen nodes I could see were under my chin I had been sick so I was not concerned for a few months. Went to doc they did ultrasound and then sent me on to a biopsy (I was still clueless that this could be cancer) that biopsy said you have CLL/SLL and then all the scans and tests began. I have SLL I have never been sick from it I am on a protocol because all your chromosomes tell them lots of things about you and of all the bad things one could have I had the motherload. I am doing great and am very healthy with blood cancer! I thank Jesus for my good health!
After being carnivore for 6 months my cardiologist started reducing my heart medications. After 12 months totally eliminated them. I had been on them for about 23 years.
When on a carnivore-ish diet, my "junk food" is a dark chocolate, some berries, nuts, green tea, maybe an apple and similar. Before, my junk food would be pizza, chips, cakes, ice creams, sodas etc. Even if not kept strictly, it gives you some better boundaries.
I totally agree!! I also do a carnivore-ish way of eating. It’s far less bad than how I used to eat!😊
But when you cheat on carnivore like that, you cheat yourself out of ketosis. I agree, what you describe is "less bad," and the lesser of 2 evils is just that, less evil, but... no ketones!
Also carnivorish, keep all my meals carnivore. On weekends will have home made cream cake, and about once a month pizza and red wine/ champagne. Feel great.
This is the truth. Carnivore is just one of A LOT of changes to eating patterns that provides excellent results. It’s not carnivore, it’s dropping the high processed crap for real food. If carnivore works for you, great. Lots of other real food eating patterns work for others and that’s great. Just gotta get back to eating real food. The end
@@joe1071 Eating real food surely plays one of the main roles, however, its much easier to do it on animal based diet, for me. When I tried vegetarianism or even less strict keto diet, I still had cravings for the worst junk full of sugar and seed oils. The simplicity of the carnivore diet can be one of the reasons - you do not need to plan or cook or think about the food too much. I was also unable to heal my gut from various IBS problems with the plant based real food.
I'm 70; carnivore 3.5 years now. I'm off all meds after 20 years of pain management for arthritis. IBS and gastritis are GONE. And after 25 years as a low fat, whole foods, organic locally grown vegetarian, I got TWO primary cancers. Two.
I feel better than I did in my 40s. I'm astounded at all the benefits I'm enjoying. I love animals, but nothing - nothing at all - has ever helped me as much as eating a carnivore diet.
I encouraged my parents to go carnivore for years -- my father scoffed at the idea -- after he died, my mother embraced carnivore and now at 84 is healthier than she has been in decades confounding her old doctors. I still struggle with my carb addictions, but she is my carnivore success story.
Your story is appreciated...
Glad you are doing well it is surprising to feel this good eating this way, hope you keep the cancer far away
Alice you are not alone, I love animals too.
Fried, grilled, baked, sauteed, you name it! 😂❤
@@lootiecruss 💚
Stopped fiber decades ago. Low carb for decades. Keto for 7-8 years. CARNIVORE for 25 months. NEVER felt better, been leaner, been stronger, looked better, or gotten hit on as much by both sexes as today. My N of 1 assessment: Carnivore is ABSOLUTELY the optimum eating practice for my global wellbeing and health (and I suspect for all human beings). I dare anyone to try carnivore for 6 months, long enough to be fully fat-adapted regardless of their starting point, and SEE if they don't improve every aspect of their health. My contribution to humanity for today. Cheers! :)
Any chance of a date?
I've been doing keto on and off for years. I think I'll take you up for this challenge.. 👍
omg, same here. i'm so hot that even asexuals hit on me.
but Tom Brady is 80% Plant-Based. as the High Priestess of the Church of Carnitology, i dare you to dare him to "try Carnivore for 6 months" to see if "every aspect of his health improves."
Your enthusiasm is felt...
Beautifuloverwhelminggirl can you share what was that fiber diet decades ago, and the diet before the carnivore one.
Cause either the diets were causing issues because they weren't optimal, so obviously there's improvement going off them, or they were perfect then it's very interesting.
Who else just randomly found Nick Norwitz videos one day and have been watching ever since?! 🤷🤷🤷
Love ❤️
I used magic to find him.
I found Nick when he did the Oreo challenge 😅
Me, I randomly found him 21 minutes ago and have been watching him ever since.
@@nobodiesbusinessat1lol 😂 me too!
Was dealing with chronic pain at the age of 43 after being a tradesmen for 25 years, went carnivore 18mths ago and I feel like I'm in my early 20's again, the most life changing thing I've ever done
Retired doctor here. I followed high fibre until I developed a perforated diverticular abscess in my sigmoid colon, aged 45. I needed a stoma for 4 months, and off work 6.
Post stoma reversal, I went on an ever high fibre diet. Basically I was troubled by pain and bloating, and it was only when I reduced my fibre to 1/3 of my pre abscess diet did my symptoms disappear. I now have no diverticulosis symptoms.
You can't heal a traffic jam by increasing the number of cars on the road. Since going carnivore I have never felt as much as a little bloat or spasm in my bowels. It wasn't a big problem before but you suddenly realise that after you put food in your mouth you can forget about your digestive system completely until you need to eject the little waste you have.
@@Arcadia61That's a N=1 case. Millions of others plateaued in carnivore in less than 2 years. Even you can plateau eventually.
I pray you’re sharing this n of 1 study with all your physician friends!!!
And I had the opposite occur. I had my gallbladder out in 2007 due to a blocked tube. Then horrible IBS and diverticula developed. For 7 years I never had normal BM. That is a very long time. Then I started eating one slice of bread a day and fixed the issue. BUT….. it isn’t bread made from store bought flour or even store bought bread. I bought my own wheatberries, ground it into flour and made bread fresh from the wheat. The flour is different. It is not bleached and is fresh, not rancid. It also has all the nutrients and fiber in it (like how our grandparents or great grandparents used to eat). Within 2 days, I had regular morning BMs that were “perfect”. SORRY…… TMI but after 7 years of suffering, I share this information with people in case it could help them. As long as you are not gluten sensitive or insulin resistant, the fiber rich natural bread feeds the microbiome and makes a healthy gut for most people. It fixed me.❤
@sheila7814 that's so true and valuable. millions of people who think are allergic to gluten are just allergic to dead toxic flours being sold in capitalist societies!!!❤️❤️❤️.
Carnivore diet broke my sugar addiction, and binge eating habits. Ive been a sugar addict since i was a little girl, I ate lots of fast food during my college years and early 20s. Pandemic made me gain 12kg and a wosw than ever eating habit. I discovered keto on 2023, tried it, yoyo-d, lost weight, but cravings for dessert was still there due to keto desserts. Fell off the wagon at the end of 2023, and got frustrated, and found carnivore.. i thought the diet would suit me to help with my carb addiction. Feb 2024 i started carnivore cold turkey, and stuck strict for months, lost all the weight, got amazing energy, eczema controlled, sugar cravings gone. Diet got ruined at family vacay around july, and fell off again. Decided to get back up around the end off november, and stuck with it since. Never going back. I just turned 31. I have a lot of things to say about the carnivore diet. And i think given my relationship with food, i cant afford to go back.
After I started carnivore few months and then later Lions diet a months ago, I finally lost 15 kg, have no permanent appetite, no pain when walking, no concentration problems and lost almost all my hashimotos and leaky gut symptoms... I feel like I've been replaced and my fear of being unable to work soon has disappeared :)
Just a few months and such crazy changes.
I have struggled with obesity my entire 30 years of life. Ive tried everything from exercise/gym, dieting, a combination of both.. Eating what i thought was "healthy" foods.. I was introduced to the Carnivore diet late 2023 early 2024 when i saw my brother embark on that journey and lose over 100 pounds (he's lost 120 on carnivore and is now bulking trying to gain weight in the gym LOL). On march 27th, 2024 i began my journey with the carnivore diet. The results are just unbelievable. Literally unbelievable. I started out at 288 (though a few months prior i was 294-296, so pushing 300 pounds. Ill note that during this journey ive only exercised maybe a total of 3 months, so majority of weight loss has been my diet change and fasting as well. The other day on my 10 month anniversary, i scaled at 198. Writing this i am still in awe. I have not been below 200 pounds in 15+ years - since i was a freshman in highschool. This has been a life changer. Carnivore has saved my life. Ive completely changed my relationship with food and have listened to some of the 🐐's such as Berry, Chaffee, Saladino, Baker.. and more recently Nick here. Learning everything that i have (things that go against what i have previously learned) and applying it to my everyday life has caused a complete 360° turn around in my life. I truly hope anyone that reads this and is thinking about starting Carnivore is inspired. The best time to start is TODAY.
Saladino can *not* be included with the others, he has left the path by promoting high carb consumption.
@w1975b lmao shut up yes he can be included with the others and absolutely is.
Oh don’t listen to Saladboi. He flip flops like a salmon.
@@6.0hhh Honey isn’t a healthy part of a carnivore diet son. He’ll flip flop again and be eating just spinach and kelp next.
@@6.0hhh wow, talk about emotions getting in the way of logic. I stated facts that can't be debated, Saladino promotes eating way too many carbs. He's a trained psychiatrist, not even a nutritionist or dietitian. He has NO right to tell anyone what to eat.
“The rules of nutrition change when you change metabolic states.” Yes!
A quote you liked so much you copied it into a comment twice ;)
This was a very meaty topic, Dr. Nick. For four years, I've been completely fat-adapted thanks to carnivore. I run up to 100 miles a week on ruminants, water & salt. Last November, I ran a fasted 5x5: five marathons in five days while fasting. BTW, I'm 62 y.o. and fit your LMHR phenotype. Cheers, Dr. Nick. 🍖 🥓 🥩
You do realize you get a certain amount of heartbeats out of that ticker, right?
@@jaymehatfield9540 Yup, 42 beats per minute.
Waow ! Thats impressive and inspiring!!!
@@Schmandgrab Thank you.
@@jaymehatfield9540 That's a falsehood in my opinion. I don't lack respect for your opinion though.
Another point that could explain the lower vitamin C needs during a carnivorous diet is the fact that since we eat a lot of collagen and therefore hydroxyproline and hydroxylysine we have less need to use vitamin C to produce the hydroxylated forms of these amino acids. Let us remember that scurvy results from the difficulty in producing collagen because of the lack of vitamin C which is a cofactor in the production of the hydroxylated forms of these amino acids.
You should watch the video on vitamin c on a channel called pottengers human.
Carnivore for 3 months (low carb high fiber plants before that) and finally my joint pain is gone within 3 weeks of dropping all plants/carbs. ALL pain. Receding gums have healed and so many other positives. I’m still working through my GI issues that I’ve had for 2 years but feeling very hopeful! 🥩
Edit to add…I still feed my family some fruits, veg and carbs bc I am not sure this way of eating is for everyone but for me, right now, it’s so healing
I went Carnivore about 5 years ago and its THE single best thing I've ever done for my health. I lost 51 pounds the first 6 months while actually increasing my overall calories significantly. (from 3,500 per day to 4,800 per day) Inflammation way down, brain fog gone, no more stomach issues, no gas at all, and I feel fantastic.
Love to hear it
Just over a year on the Carnivore Diet and my Crohn's Disease is gone, my GERD is gone, my migraines are gone. This might only be anecdotal according to scientists, but it means the whole world for me! I recommend to everyone just to give it a go for a month, and see how they feel.
This is an absolutely amazing video! It is immensely encouraging to find that there is someone as intelligent as Nick on the side of balanced research into low-carb alternatives. In a world where big food & big pharma are constantly destroying lifes, Nick is a breath of fresh air.
currently a 3rd year nutrition science student, and I gotta say that I love your content. Individuality in my opinion is the future of nutrition, and in contrast to what is being taught here, love how the things said in your videos are never inclusive about the "best diet", never a one-fits-all solution. Keep bringing science based info and case studies like these up, it really does make a difference and helps keep curiosity alive. thank you!
Have you watched any Professor Bart Kay videos?
@ don’t think so. Do you recommend watching?
@@Happyheartamit start with this (there are 3 in the series) -
Human Nutrition Science 101 - Lecture #01 : "Do You Even Exist"?
th-cam.com/video/N9vQOPqWHTM/w-d-xo.html
107 lbs lost. GERD and Sleep Apnea gone. Blood pressure normalized. Cardiac A-Fib vanished. My mood is better, and I have enough energy to chase my kids around.
Carnivore diet IS "one size fits all". And it's great. It's what we've evolved to eat throughout millions of years.
What about Alpha Gal?
This was a very thorough "well done" video Nick. Videos like this are rare. And a prime example of choice in diet. Wagyu think is it healthy or not? Kobe yes, Kobe no
😂 Where could you stick the word “medium”?
"Well done" 😂 I love a good pun!
@@ultramiddle4991"Videos like this are rare. TH-cam is a perfect medium to deliver a prime example..."
Wagu has perfect fat to protein ratio! When I eat it I don’t have to eat 2-3 tablespoons of butter with the meal.
I went off carnivore after 3.5 years of strict carnivore after 2 years of Keto. Now I have no problems with carbs. Eating 1/2 pizza with a couple peanut butter cups and my blood sugar is under 120 at 2 hours post meal. I really noticed my orthorexea and got back to normal. 5000 hours of research and I am eating carbs but not fruit or vegetables. Still believe they are toxic!
Stop encouraging him ffs...😂
I don’t have any of the serious health problems some are correcting with a carnivore diet, so as a prescriptive measure I can see not saying it’s best for everyone. But My main interest is to prevent metabolic disease in my older age and keto or carnivore seems the best way to do that.
That's me in a nutshell! I don't have any particular disease to cure but I do feel much better on a carnivore diet. I'm sticking to my weight without ever feeling hungry - something impossible to do on a more conventional diet. My hope is that as I retire later this year, I will be in my best health possible. It's to ward off the usual metabolic diseases: diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer and dementia amongst others.
Same thing for me!
Same here!@@Arcadia61
How do you come to the conclusion that carnivore is the best way to not have metabolic health problems in older age. The science actually has good evidence for whole food plant based or plant dominant diets, good weight management and physical activity to be a good way of getting there. And as you say you do not have any problem that would require carnivore as an intervention to manage it. My personal bias is that the people who don't have to rely on animal sources should feel in some way obliged to eat plant based or at least plant dominant for ethical and environmental reasons. Why would you choose an extremely restrictive, ethically questionable diet if you don't need to.
@, eating meat is not ethically questionable. Maybe for you it is, but certainly not for me and a large part of the world population. I do not agree that the science supports a plant based diet as best.
I've been on the carnivore diet for a year now. Don't plan on coming off. I've tried, keto (and multiple variations), IF, vertical diet, moderate carb whole food based, paleo, iifym, etc. This is by far the best I've felt and it has cleared all health issues and also pains from college soccer and my scoliosis. One of the best things to come from it is not ingesting any fiber which gives me perfect bowel movements and no pain. I also don't go number 2 about 3-5 times a day like I used to. My mother went on this diet and got her yearly blood test. After 8 months strict her blood test results were basically perfect. She's lost 40lbs. All health issues cleared up. Her triglycerides were some of the lowest the doctor has seen. Compared to here past several yearly blood tests she looks like a new human, even though she was considered fairly healthy prior from her blood tests.
Powerful N = 1... I'll post this to my IG story ;)
Great explanation! I've been on this woe for about 5 years, it put my rhumatoid arthritis in remission with minimal medication (no need for chemotherapy). I gave me back my life. Thanks for explaning it that well!
agrarianism is the trend. carnivore is our speciation.
crops were a stopgap measure to stabilize our population after the Younger Dryas megafauna extinction. now that we've mastered livestock, dairy and egg production, crops have served their purpose and should be done away with for the health of the planet and our species.
This is the winning comment
For my part I went from the standard diet to keto, I would have stayed keto but I still had problems with inflammation, arthritic pain and high blood pressure, only the carnivore diet solved those problems.
The chemicals used on plants and the chemicals in the plants itself caused inflammation. I cut out all plants out of my eating and I feel so much better. I had swelling back and shoulder pain for a long time and within mere weeks, I no longer feel pain. Trying my best to keep it that way.
I'm glad you found something that's working for you
Please describe what that keto diet.
Either the improvements are due to an unoptimized keto diet, or there truly are benefits as opposed to proper plant based diets.
This is very helpful information. Thank you so much for generously giving of your time to educate us!
Excellent messages on differences in individual's responses and the body's ability to adapt. Thank you. Straying from popular nutritional guidance comes with some anxiety but better understanding and good personal results give confidence.
Thank you so much, Nic! As a carnivore curious sort of person, this video has put my mind at rest as to both the efficacy and safety of the carnivore diet!
Are you going to check out the playlist for more nuances?
I do love the puns! Another great video with a balanced approach backed by science and tempered with what we don't know (yet). May we all keep on learning and growing in our knowledge!
I have suffered from IBS for years. The embarrassment alone was debilitating. I can not even drink the HLTH code shake or keto chow because my body reacts to the fiber. So I agree with you. Do what works for your body and dont judge others diets. Were all grown ups. Advocate for your health and keep your focus on your own plate. Love your content.
"Do what works for your body and don't judge others diets." -- THIS
LDL is not cholesterol. It's a vehicle for carrying cholesterol and cholesterol is not a cause of heart disease. You cannot be healthy long-term on a vegan diet, it is lacking in numerous essential nutrients that can only be found in animal foods.
He knows that too but sometimes they like to pander to vegans to not alienate them. We have many stories of people going from vegan to carnivore when their health begins to suffer dramatically from lack of nourishment.
It's probably possible to add enough supplements to a vegan diet to be healthy, at least for some people. Certainly there are people who seem to be healthy and who claim to have been long-term vegans. I suspect it's hard enough to get right, though, that it's really rare.
You can, but you must take some supplements.
Position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: Vegetarian Diets - It is the position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics that appropriately planned vegetarian, including vegan, diets are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits for the prevention and treatment of certain diseases. These diets are appropriate for all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, adolescence, older adulthood, and for athletes. Plant-based diets are more environmentally sustainable than diets rich in animal products because they use fewer natural resources and are associated with much less environmental damage. Vegetarians and vegans are at reduced risk of certain health conditions, including ischemic heart disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, certain types of cancer, and obesity. Low intake of saturated fat and high intakes of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, soy products, nuts, and seeds (all rich in fiber and phytochemicals) are characteristics of vegetarian and vegan diets that produce lower total and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels and better serum glucose control. These factors contribute to the reduction of chronic disease.
@@Zenithx3 Glyphosate sprayed over all those veggies? WAY more environmental damage than a bunch of cows ever would be.... Your argument is literally bullshit.
As a Nutrition student in Honduras 🇭🇳 from Nicaragua 🇳🇮 I am so blessed by your content, I’m digging a LOT about carnivore and all keto because of mental health issues, the days that I follow it to a 70-90% (I do struggle because I get lots of craving during the night), I do feel lot better, improves mood, no digestive issues even when I have lactose intolerance, somehow I can eat cheese as long as there is no sugar involved.
I’m also loving my healthy dinners now and saving money by preparing most of the food home.
Thank you! I want to help people but specially I want to help myself to inspire family and friends and maybe help my future patients become more healthy and happy! ❤ God bless 🙏🏻
Thank you for this! So weary of reassuring my adult children that I am not going to die by following carnivore for 6 years….
Hope not...!
Ha ha! Great wit.
Best video ever! Love your rhythm and attention to detail. Please keep up your amazing work!
Thanks! I'll do my best!
As always, an informative video. I already knew most of these myths to be “busted” from personal experience. My takeaway: Metabolic health and science are not immune to politics, economics, and ideology.
Your takeaway is correct
Food is extremely political. Watch "That Sugar Film" to see how.
“Metabolic health” - ie, nutrition policy - is the MOST politically fractious science topic. The gap between basic research and government policy is filled with creative narratives, lies, huge financial incentives to twist the truth, ego incentives to ignore new findings, political power plays, and plain ol errors.
11 months in, i was totally disabled by long-COVID for 2 years, over weight, so fatigued I was often bed-bound for months at a time. 3 days into carnivore my mental clarity came back, 4 months in I'd lost 43lbs and at 9 months i was back doing heavy compound lifting and trail running
Your vids are high quality, Nick! A cut above. You’ve really raised the steaks. No lion!
I predict a day will come when you’ll say, “Turns out that carnivore actually is optimal for everyone”. Maybe not soon, but one day…
Thank you so much, for your research, and everything that you do!!! It has really improved my life and I believe strongly in what you’re doing and what you’re saying!
Thanks Susie! That's very kind!
Nic, I'm 45 seconds in and you already have me cracking up over the PUNs. Well done and I'm looking forward to the next 20 minutes.
LMK what you think by the eye... I'll keep a rib-Eye out for your second comment
If anyone believe that it's not planned to promote unhealthy foods to make as much money as possible, you have to think again.
Four weeks into carnivore and it's great. Didn't solve all my problems, but so much have gotten better.
Recommend it for at least 90 days for everyone.
Be patient. It took 10 months of carnivore to get rid of my hip joint pain. But it will work. You took years to get sick, so getting well takes time too.🙂
Glad you're having a positive experience
I’m glad you and tens of thousands of people are having a positive experience doing this !
Eat meat -drink water -thrive 🎉
Some so called heath care professionals doesn't have problems with junk foods, extreme carbs junks , alcohols , multiple medicines but they have issues with carnivore diet.
PHD (Pretty Huge Disappointment)
Allopathic reductionism at its best!! So sad :(
@ProperHumanDiet101 yes.. so sad..its damaging peoples health.😥maximum are business minded , all they want is more and more money
Really well put together video - agree on all fronts. On the exercise front, did you look at the very low carb literature and resistance training performance? I have some vague memory of some studies indicating that in certain programs, it can reduce performance. Other than that, I've found the same as you across the board.
More recent studies are pointing to the initial adaptation period being of longer times and being the probable explanation for the impairment in performance.
"I can't eat carnivore bcs maybe my heart go bad"
Said some guy that smokes 2 packs a day and drinks 3 red bulls per day
I seem to often feel like one side says 'This is how it is, accept and don't argue' while another says 'it seems like this, let's talk and learn more'.
Great video.
I hope I'm the latter...
@@nicknorwitzPhD 100% and we're grateful for it!
You are brilliant, so enjoy your sense of humour, combined with your knowledge and wisdom for daily application of your knowledge.
Awe :)… thanks!
Thank you - I love to keep hearing that "one size does NOT fit all". Would be great if other specific diet advocates would add this statement to their "diet-tribes"
Excellent video... very well done. Went keto in 1998, high fiber eventually took its toll on my guts, went almost carnivore 2020.... feel 1000 times better and stronger... 68 years old, still athletic and lean... all injuries from organophosphate poisoning in remission except the tinnitus and deafness in one ear...
The only thing i know is that we generally eat an excess of carbs. Maybe, for most people, the best dietary change is lowering the carbs and eat enough protein.
too much sugar
TOTALLY agree with what you are saying. It does not have to be strict carnivore. I do more mediterranean eating with more more meat and do fine. Each person is so different. The only problem I have with the carnivore community is that they are so rigid and not really open to any individualistic thinking. Seems like a drink the koolaid thing to me.
In out current food and metabolic health environment ... I'd tend to agree
@Liam69400 Rigid, in what way? You got to back up claims - you know the Toulmin argument model, right?
Humans do not need exogenous carbohydrates! We can create all the glucose/glycogen/glycerol we need through gluconeogenesis ….
May be scurvy should be defined as "collagen deficiency" rather than "vit C deficiency"
"What normal (eating patterns) is nowadays could themselves reflect a form of eating disorder" - I love this!
If only more people realized that the reason they crave sugar is because they keep eating sugar.
Very happy to see nuanced informed reporting and clinical application of those new tools. You as dr Shawn Baker and others are representing the options and rationale at now present of a useful tool when well utilised.
…and very happy that we correct excesses plus propaganda much faster then in recent past.
If you are a human the carnivore diet is for you ......nutrition is simple, no dieticians are required
It's important to know what the participants' previous diet was like. If you're going from eating a bunch of processed foods to eating whole meats, then you'll probably see a lot of improvement just from the switch to whole foods.
Thank you Nick for another thoughtful and informative contribution to the human diet discussion. Much appreciated.
My pleasure!
Thank you for this excellent presentation. I have shared it with others who could benefit from it.
I'm living in the 'Matrix', the supermarket is full of sugar and garbage and everyone is fat. Except me.
Ha ha ha hee hee hee everyone's fat except lil ole me😂😂😂😂😂😂 good on ya
great video AND I loved reading the many "success stories" in the comments = very inspiring! I've been carnivore 1.5 years and am healing "incurable" autoimmune issues. thank god!
Will I'll say this I did not want any part of the Carnavor Diet but did it because my wife wanted to try it. So fast forward four months and we are both down 35 pounds and were both off all of our medications. Are DR. is checking are blood and is happy with what's going on. I never thought I would be in my 50's and not on a signal drug I have been on high blood pressure meds since I was in my 30's I'm also no longer pre Diabetic. The first month was a little bumpy but man oh man do I feel awesome today.
I am keto and the carnivore diet is a subset of a ketogenic diet. I eat less than 20 total carbs a day, not net carbs but total so as you can imagine I’m pretty close to carnivore. I lost 88 pounds., got my blood pressure under control. Got my irritable, bowel syndrome under control., and I have a lot more energy. However, I do have very high LDL and I haven’t made my mind up on how big a deal this is.. also my fasting blood sugar is low and so is my insulin, I have them measured. I still occasionally., maybe once every three weeks have one bowel movement that is explosive diarrhea. Can’t find a pattern what causes it. But before I went keto, it was basically every day so you can see how improved my health is…Oh, my sleep has improved and before I went keto and lost weight I was starting to get some tingling in my hands and legs, and that has went away.
It’s hard to say if it’s all keto or it’s my weight loss or my exercise routine because I do exercise now I didn’t originally .
Thanks Nick, I can feel your frustration through my computer. "High fat sucrose" 😂- Keep the faith and fighting the incredibly important fight!!!
Crazy right... I'll never forget 'reference 34'
Such a good video Nick! Thank you!
Welcome!
Been mostly on carnivore diet since May 2024, dropped 30kg in 4+ months (combining with IF/ADF) and been keeping it off ever since. Pain in my back and knee gone - regular headaches gone, "pot belly" gone. Sugar cravings, which was horrible ( tub of ice-cream(often 2 in a day), full bar of chocolate in 1 sitting) completely gone. I do eat fruits and one-off veggies time to time( which is mostly pickles ) and sometimes honey. Regular in the gym, stronger than ever and feeling 5-10 years younger again ( in the bed I feel like I'm 20 again! ).
Eating mostly meat ( duck, chicken, beef, pork ) cooking only with butter, and about 30 eggs per week in various forms. Cheese, milk and diary no problem and I still do drink coffee with milk (no syrups or sugar).
Most importantly: I feel like I can continue like this without much sacrifice & even saving money eating like this.
Best video on my diet there is atm, well done Nick!
Thanks... and I feel like you've seen them all, lol
Actually we don’t need fermented foods. Our body actually ferments the food we eat in our colons.
Thank you Nick. This was very helpful!❤
You blew my mind. "Milkshakes are not steak". I feel like an idiot now. haha Good video.
Glad you enjoyed it... don't send it to Dairy Queen.
As a diabetic, what else is there what will reverse my diabetes?? Carbs?? 😂😂 those got me there.
I really don’t care that most people see it odd that I don’t eat my steak with potatoes and my eggs with bread. Truly don’t care at all. Not their problem
This diet is the only one that doesn’t raise my blood sugar levels = being healthy and not fearing blindness or further kidney damage
Lasagna is a favorite "meat" dish of these studies. Heavy heavy carb dish. No keto or carnivore person would touch it...
Exactly, haven’t touched pasta in 17 months and probably never will again. It used to be a favourite dish, funny enough, I don’t miss it at all…
Puzzling. I thought i would crave bread, beans, lentils pasta rice pizza, cake… nope. 🙂↔️
I turned carnivore overnight cold turkey out of desperation (gerd, ibs, endometriosis) and never thought i would stick to it - i was actually quite scared when i started because i thought it was complete madness - but i was ridden with pains so i said “let’s try!”.
17 months, no plants no complex carbs, no fibres, … very restrictive diet but yep, it works!!
I believe there are carnivore versions of lasagne!! I would definitely enjoy a lasagne, even if it was the traditional recipe- I would just eat the beef, and bechamel sauce and cheese, and scrape the pasta sheets clean, but leave them! 😅
@@reginamemoriesforever-vc8ql Kudos on embracing our ancestral dietary heritage! It's important to recognize that many modern fruits and vegetables have undergone significant alterations through selective breeding, rendering them more palatable and less toxic, but also potentially more addictive and less nutritious. +glyphosate
Thank you , it was very good discussion and explanation ❤
Glad it was helpful!
I’m one of those people who’s ldl, and cholesterol levels went way up. My hdl and triglycerides were great. I made the doctor do other tests… scans were all good, apob was high, lpa was high and bilirubin was high. Blood pressure was great, heart rate was good. Glucose was good, insulin was good, inflammation wasn’t present… doctor has insisted that I start a statin. I told him there’s no way. I added carbs back in and eased up on the saturated fats and my worrisome numbers are going down.
LMHR? What's your BMI? What are your LDL, HDL and TG levels before and after -- if I may ask... of course on'y share if you'd like to do so.
😂😂 ❤ Your little puns threw out, your soo informative. Thanks for the education! You make it very interesting 😊
Welcome!
All of us eating keto and carnivore for the last few years should get CAC and CIMT scans. It would be pretty interesting to have data that shut down the CVD risk story.
They have the data from prior keto studies. They just don't publish those studies since they don't fit the narrative.
I'm an f 83 and my GP is horrified by my high cholesterol. CAC score 0.. I refuse statins 😊
@@alanj9978 The power of 'file drawer research' has led to a troubling realization: unwittingly, we've been subjected to a grand experiment, serving as both the sheep and the guinea pigs, with our health and well being hanging in the balance.
@@Helen-nv8el Kudos to you for standing firm on your beliefs, it takes courage and conviction!
Keep in mind that a CAC scan does not detect soft plaque
I enjoy hearing content that isn't in a tribal mentality and very open to everything and agree with you fully. Everyone wants 1 way of eating for all and that is usually what they are doing at the time. Thx as always for your videos and everyone should do some n=1 experiments.
My story so far. Over three months into the carnivore diet with daily intermittent fasting, and the results are life-changing! Here are my numbers:
* Weight: Down 36 pounds
* Blood Pressure: Improved from 139/90 to 117/73
* Fasting Glucose Levels: Dropped from 123 mg/dL to 79-86 mg/dL on average.
* Ketones: Now at 2.7 mmol/L
* GKI (Glucose Ketone Index): 1.7
This combination has truly transformed my health and my life!
Very clever host, excellent video. Thumbs up.
Thanks :)
Not eating processed garbage is the reason why carnivore works so good.
Plenty of us had an improvement going from whole foods to carnivore, it's not just that, specially if you have gut issues.
only part of the reason, the main reason being meat is best food for humans.
@@urpoukko different diets for different people
I think it's more complex. Some people go from 'clean' Whole Foods diets to carnivore and see improvements... just scroll the comments
@@nicknorwitzPhD i just meant people without any issues like IBS, auto-immune or so. Aside of getting fat, i had zero issues eating crap, and im 40yo. I used carnivore as elemination diet to lose weight, and now do clean keto with some veggies and berries.
I'm ending 8 months of carnivore today and transitioning to a more typical keto. Just ordered your book, The New Mediterranean Diet. I was diagnosed with UC pancolitis in 2012 and used prednisone then. Since then the only pharmaceutical I've used is mesalamine (which I'm okay with). I flared last May (I was eating a normal diet then) and started the carnivore diet soon after. Fecal calprotectin went from 529 ug/g -> 3160 -> 1250 -> 360 -> 145 -> 62 (on Jan 22). It took a while but I'm in remission again (and my symptoms were pretty well controlled since June despite FCP remaining high). I did escalate mesalamine dosage, but did not use steroids. I've done a number of dietary interventions from the very beginning (starting with the specific carbohydrate diet). Looking at how consistently I've seen results, i find it pretty hard to explain away as coincidence.
No denying that keto and carnivore diet is absolute medicine for some. For me personally, I have tried both carnivore and keto. I have never felt worse.. mood, strength and sleep all fell in quality. I am metabolically healthy.. normal weight, normal BP, normal blood glucose and normal cholesterol levels. Eating balanced macros is the best way for me to stay healthy and have optimal functioning all around. We're all different. Food is our best medicine, find what works for you!
"I am metabolically healthy.. normal weight, normal BP, normal blood glucose and normal cholesterol levels." You could perfectly have already develop insulin resistance and still have normal blood glucose. What are your TG/HDL and your fasting insulin? If you don't know at least one of these 2 markers don't even pretend you are metabolically healthy.
And are you sure your brain is perfectly fine and will still be ok in a few years?
The more I read/watch people like Georgia Ede, Chris Palmer, Albert Danan or the Dufournet couple (Boris & Florence) the more I think our brain needs ketones to stay healthy.
If evolution made our brain prefer ketones I seriously doubt that eating "balanced macros" should be the way to go. We're all different but we also are all from the same species.
How long have You tried? Just curious, no judgement.
20:06 “Together, stay curious and not dogmatic.”
Nic, Myth 5: Heart Attack is THE key factor that keeps the carnivore diet out of the mainstream. The notion that red meat causes heart attacks is firmly fixed in every mind in America. I hope your research team finds a way to provide some compelling data to either debunk or finally prove this long running assertion.
I love how the "Heart Attack Diet" I started in 1983 is not an alternative diet for healing.,Nick is intelligent, attractive and articulate. Far better than the original carnivore quack!
"Nick is intelligent, attractive and articulate" -- I'll focus on this and take it ;)
Excellent deep dive as always!
Glad you think so!
Thank you Nick.
Welcome!
3 years carnivore. Halted the progression of my atherosclerosis (verified test results), took 20 years off my biological age and tripled my strength.
Im so proud that i knew all the things you explained in the video.
Just finished the whole video. Great job. I'm really into nutrition science and have read countless books on the subject. Many promoting Keto and many promoting plant based. In addition, I watch or listen to podcasts on the subjects of both.
I love your unbiased approach. The fact that you mix science and scientific studies with anecdotal evidence. It takes both to represent nutrition facts. Just say'n.
Thank you!
Welcome!
For people who transitioned to carnivore,
can you specify your previous diet if it was a proper plant based whole foods diet (not extreme like vegan), and if you saw differences from that perfect plant based diet.
Because its obviously expected that people will do better when going off poorly diversified plant based diets or diets containing processed foods.
Important to note, blue zones with the most centenarians consist in plant based whole foods at 95%, the best athlete in history Novak Djokovic is on a no gluten, no dairy, low inflammation plant based diet (with some animal products).
And a goofy millionaire Bryan Johnson is trying to reverse aging who spends millions has also concluded on a plant based diet.
So when it comes to longevity at least, and even performance, theres some serious competition for yall carnivore bros.
Pre carnivore I ate a balanced plant based, lots of home grown veg, lots of cheese- I realise now my past cheese addiction was my body craving fat and protein, meat/ chicken/ fish about twice a week. about one loaf of sourdough over the week. I started to feel awful as I added more plant protein. Didn’t connect it at the time until I shifted to more meat for a while then went back to pulses and chick peas. Lots of sore stomach and bloating. Now I eat all my meals as carnivore- mostly steak with some cream and cheese, bacon some mornings, occasionally chicken and pork. On weekends I will have cake/ ice cream. Once a month end up having pizza and wine- and really enjoy that but if I have it te nights I feel crap. Lots weight, sleep well, no menopause symptoms, 57 f.
I spent a year without ultra-processed foods and focusing on whole foods. Now, I follow a seasonal diet, carnivore in winter and foraging for fruits in summer ….it's a treat I look forward to while out fishing and camping.
I have tried 2x strict carnivore, for more than 1.5 month each time, and had serious constipation...yeah....yeah I eat enough fat.... Now I have introduced 1 orange a day and for me was a game changer.
Something like this seems to be most practical.
18:08 well said Nick thanks so much!!!
You're welcome :)
I got onto the carnivore diet to treat my digestive condition, but it has alleviated so many other issues for me. My skin hasn't been this clear since I was a child and I no longer experience back or joint paint. This is also the first time I've eliminated my insomnia in twenty years. Though I'm on disability with psych issues, as I've stayed in ketosis for several years, I've noticed significant improvements in my mental state - making me reevaluate my understanding of mental health.
All I know is that I feel a hole lot better now.
Right? And u see those comments everywhere! I’m doing keto/carnivore with occasional carb fiesta. Lost 30kg, feel much better overall and I never go back to standard diet
@Mateuszyk that's awesome I've lost 95 pounds and my ulcerative colitis is gone.
that's a "W" ;)