Love this. I started on Carnivore 30 days ago at 52. Down 20+lbs and feel great. Had absolutely no gas after the 2nd week. I told a buddy I hadn't farted in two weeks - and he recommended fiber. I told him there was no constipation - and I'm sending him this video. Power to the people! :-) Thanks for all the great material doc!
If you are serious about zero fibre - how long do you think it is going to be before your gut muscles turn to jelly? 1 year, 2? 30 days is nothing. Muscles that are not in constant use atrophy.
@@chazwyman8951 You could also say the same about fiber causing some people excessive gas causing chronic and acute inflammation in the gut leading to another pathway leading to intestinal permeability. Chronic inflammation causes atrophy in many parts of the body. Fiber isn't even necessary to heal the enterocyte. That is butyrate's job. Can get that from other sources than just the microbiome. Yes, we don't know the consequences of long-term carnivore, but we do know what happens from antibiotics now, and I have a feeling that people who need the carnivore diet often have a lot of antibiotic exposure form their parents and their childhood. Also, I think there are other ways to produce butyrate outside of fiber. Polyphenols are one example. The problem is, it's probably not possible to get 30 grams of polyphenols like it is with fiber. I personally try to consume some fiber as tolerated, but it's not possible for some people to function when they have extremely painful bloating and brain fog (Likely from the intestinal permeability) that cannot be relieved with farts or using the bathroom. My main concern is how this will affect future generations. Microbiomes are passed down, similar to epigenetics. I imagine it can't be worse than our previous wide-spread use of antibiotics, but who knows.
@@chazwyman8951 Do you think the gut is a waterslide? The muscles are still in use, heck if anything this video showed us a study that showed that eliminating fibre in people with constipation let them pass stool every day, that's amazing doesn't that mean they are using their muscles more? Also evidence shows us that just using muscles at all is enough to maintain them, just because muscles don't have a massive load to work on doesn't equal atrophy.
Your comments fall into line with my Keto experience. I’m into month 2 and @61 I’ve lost 7.6kgs & now feel 30 years of age again. You wouldn’t know I have 2 arthritic knees that were due to be replaced (not anymore, for now anyway), I wouldn’t know I have bad feet (Plantar fasciitis), no bloat, no flatulence, crape skin is gone, dermatitis is gone, cravings for carbs or sugar is gone, lethargy is gone, sleep 30% less than I used to, wake up totally refreshed & alert, body is stronger, smarter (at least I feel that way), the list goes on.... Thing is my 91 year old mum is on it too, hasn’t helped her bad knee as it’s just too far gone, nor has it helped her hearing! But, she is saying she feels terrific & her rings now keep falling off her fingers as she has lost a few kgs. As with most (if not all) who do the Keto diet I thought I couldn’t live without my carbs (pasta, rice, bread, cereal, potatoes), my fresh fruit (pawpaw, mango, mangosteen, lychee), my veggies & salads? But guess what when in ketosis your brain tells your body, “You don’t need that shit, you’ve got plenty of body fat to convert to ketones & it I starts running short eat more meat & fats. Wow, that’s bazaar for me to just say that. Doing my 2nd set of full bloods in another 3 weeks to compare those I took beforehand which were sensational. Keep you posted!
1. most vegan people not like meat but like sex because of attractive meat-skin :D 2. most vegan people care much about animals but still hate mosquites etc. ;) and 3. sometimes not care for or hate, friends and even family members. :D 4. some vegan people still "believe", govern-ment(al area. see 5. ) is right about co2-climate-warming. ;) - 5. god means creat-or ( make babies /life ), so all people in world, are or could be god. ( 5.2 one or some gods, even if not lovely, would help, because god-s see, most people not can help itself, anymore, and get more confused. 5.3 with tele- kineses, pathie and see future, all needed creator-abilites can be trained, by feeling. (Y) 6. vegan di-at, weakens body and so limits life /happiness, so cruality reducation meaning of vegans is confused.
Dr. Paul Mason's presentation was not only entertaining and informative, it exemplifies something that all scientific minded people should be willing to do - slaughter sacred cows when those sacred cows are lacking evidence. Dr. Mason does just that with the much touted benefits of fiber, which has been an enduring sacred cow within nutrition circles for decades. Thank you for uploading this presentation, because it made me rethink my ideas about fiber. That is what good science should do.
If you read Samuel Pepys diary, you will see that doctors have been recommending fibre for constipation for the best part of 400 years. [It doesn't really seem to have worked for Pepys, who supplemented it with monthly colonic irrigations & aperients.]
I've been on meds for severe constipation for over a decade. I used to take a massive amount of laxitives once a week to "clean out". My wife said you need more fiber. I obliged and increased my fiber to 50-60 grams a day. It did not help with the constipation but it did give me incredible amount of gas. fast forward years later, I started keto eating very little fiber and no more constipation for months. After about 5 months my body adapted and now I just need a little help occasionally. I've found a tbsp or two a day of EVOO aliviates everything.
@datsuntoyy Very helpful comment. I am 78. I have to take Swiss Kriss every day along with a large dose of generic Colace just to get by. That was before I started a carnivore diet three weeks ago. Now nothing works. I started Ox Bile two days ago. Don’t know yet if that will help. Today I started EVOO as per your remark. It can’t hurt. I really feel that I have a “bug” in my gut. My problem disappeared for a year after taking a strong antibiotic for sinus infection. Were you ever tested for a GI infection? Results? Still struggling. Gary 🇺🇸
Most are deficient in magneisum. Farming practices has depleted it from plants and in turn meat sources. Magnesium citrate is one of the most bioavailable forms but it also has a side effect of helping in other means. So if you cant do 0 fibre just take more mag those days. Normally take 200mg or so and if its time ill bump it to 400mg and it'll take action the very next day in most cases. Just adjust dosage based on your personal results.
I cannot get enough of Dr Mason. I really want to meet him and hear him in-person. I have learned hell lot from him on TH-cam and Twitter already and feel like I know better than usual docs. If at all I am in Sydney, that will be one of my to-do list :)
You don’t need fiber for motility. The intestine is a muscle that moves food by itself. AND, everything in your intestines is liquid expect fiber. Tell me how adding wood to a river helps it flow better.
^^^There are some foods that exacerbate constipation. Cheese and dairy are big ones for some people. Start by eliminating dairy and make sure you drink a lot of water or tea, even when you aren't thirsty but don't drink water with your meals. It dilutes your stomach acids that begin the digestion process. Chew the hell out of your food.
I just got off a very high fiber diet. I didn’t have constipation, actually I would go sometimes several times a day. But I had horrible bloating and gas every day.
Low fodmap diet, for my IBS and divertucular disease, from too much blasted fibre, led to ponder why have grains at all! Which led me to low carb. Much happier and metabolically healthier now.
Thank you. After poo poohing keto for years, I embraced it earlier this year out of desperation to lose weight V v happy. Slow but steady loss, not hungry at all, easy to manage meals at home and when eating out. The surprise was my digestion. After struggling for most of my life with bloating gas, constipation, you name it, I have no issues. Amazing. I've watched a lot of your videos. Thank you for your research and your presentations. V much appreciate it.
It doesn't mean we all should drink juices and stop eating whole veggies and fruit. No matter how much fiber i have on keto - no bloating, no constipation, no gas. It takes place if I eat frequently and do have grains and beans and bread and sugar (among which bread is the most problematic)
This video changed my LIFE! I've been on and off Keto and Carnivore for 4 years with great success, however, I've also suffered from debilitating medical issues and emotional overeating and too much wine. After my hernia surgery 3 years ago, suffering from horrible bloating and gas and thought it was from dairy. Fast forward to 2023 and back on track, quit drinking, lowered carb intake again, but didn't help gas and bloating. Watched this video in preparation to go back on Carnivore, but not motivated enough, until I saw this. Spent a week researching everything(again) and because my PC is of 0 help...so had to research Metabolic Syndrome, Insulin Resistance, Hypothyroidism, etc. and now I feel more confident to be disciplined and stick to it, especially since I discovered I'm Fructans Intolerant. Thank you, Dr. Mason!
@@joc8092 you really have to look at who's funding those so-called studies. Remember when low fat was the thing? Now they've discovered that's a myth period do you know why that is? That is because Dr kellogg, who was a Seventh-Day Adventist didn't believe in eating meat. Plus, he wanted to sell his breakfast cereal. Look at how much illness was created after everybody stopped eating the nice breakfast of eggs and went to sugarcoated cereals.
Mostly a carnivore, I kept adding veggies and some fruit in response to the continuous admonitions on TH-cam from 'informed' sources that neglecting to do so meant cutting years off your life. Inspite of stomach aches at night with carbs, I couldn't get clarity. Along comes the brilliant master logician, Dr. Mason, and the conflict is gone. (along with the carbs) When brilliance, integrity and lightheartedness come together, genuine good is the happy result. Spiritually uplifting, definitive, cutting edge info. My gratitude!
I found this in a 2017 publication and will just include the conclusion: "CONCLUSIONS There remains much misinformation in the literature about the physical effects of fiber in the gut. In the small bowel, fiber-related health benefits are dependent on the viscosity of soluble fibers. High viscosity fibers (eg, gel-forming b-glucan, psyllium, and raw guar gum) can have a significant beneficial effect on both cholesterol and glycemic control. In contrast, low viscosity/nonviscous fibers (eg, low-molecular-weight b-glucan, methylcellulose, inulin, wheat dextrin) and insoluble fiber (eg, wheat bran and cellulose) have no significant effect on cholesterol concentrations or glycemic control, and can be used as a placebo. In the large bowel, there are two mechanisms that drive a regularity/laxative benefit: insoluble fiber mechanically irritates the gut mucosa to stimulate mucous/ water secretion, and soluble gel-forming fiber that retains a high-water holding capacity that resists dehydration. To exert a regularity benefit or laxative effect, a fiber must resist fermentation to remain intact and present throughout the large bowel (be present in stool), and significantly increase stool water content. The increase in stool water content provides bulky/soft/easy-to-pass stools. The plastic effect of insoluble fiber (eg, wheat bran) is dependent on particle size/coarseness: large/coarse particles have a significant laxative effect; small/smooth particles can have a constipating effect (add only to the dry mass of stool, decreasing percent water content/hardening stools). The high waterholding capacity of a nonfermented gel-forming fiber (eg, psyllium) can provide a dichotomous stool normalizing effect; that is, soften hard stool in constipation and firm-up loose/ liquid stools in diarrhea, and normalizing stool form in patients with irritable bowel syndrome. In contrast, the lack of water-holding capacity for fine insoluble fiber (eg, fine wheat bran) and fermentable soluble fiber (eg, wheat dextrin) can lead to a constipating effect, resulting in a decrease in stool water content/harder stools. It is therefore essential to recognize which fibers possess specific health-promoting properties, and which fiber supplements have consistent, rigorous evidence of clinically meaningful health benefits at the doses commonly available in the market place (Table 3)." "Understanding the Physics of Functional Fibers in the Gastrointestinal Tract: An Evidence-Based Approach to Resolving Enduring Misconceptions about Insoluble and Soluble Fiber Johnson W. McRorie, Jr, PhD; Nicola M. McKeown, PhD"
My experience with psyllium was not particularly good. While I did have more frequent BMs than before consuming it, I never felt so bloated (and gassed) my whole life.
Great information! I had been on a ketogenic diet (and Intermittent fasting) by which I reversed my insulin issues, lowered inflammation markers, improved all lipid markers, improved hormones, especially thryroid (lowered daily dose) and lost 43 pounds in 9 months. But I was left with extremely bothersome IBS symptoms that didn't get better while all the other things were improving. Just recently, five weeks ago, I decided to try the carnivore diet: no plants in the diet at all. In this short amount of time, and having gone through the expected adjustment period, I am thrilled to share that I am not in the bathroom with watery diarrhea anymore after my meals! It used to be that when I ate salads with so-called salad greens, and lots fiber (to feed the microbiome) and my protein and fatty dressing, I prepared myself for several hours of agony and torture, as the watery diarrhea could last several hours even at times overnight till next morning :( But now, I have all animal products, including hard cheeses, butter and cream, eggs, and meats and have no issues at all. I have bowel movements everyday without any problems. At this point, I see no point in adding plants to my diet, as it is a matter of personal preference and I am preferring to stay not bloated, not to have watery diarrhea, no headaches from weakness, no skin rashes and no inflammation.
Me too. I feel great on carnivore. No bloating. No rashes on face. No tiredness. But my thyroid is getting affected on carnivore. So iam taking carbs again and it helps my thyroid. Any advice to help my thyroid on carnivore diet itself
@@NagaRaj-fi5py look into Biohackers Lab videos, he's done a fair amount on carnivore, he might have something on it, or you could post a question there and someone will suggest something you can investigate and maybe try.
@@NagaRaj-fi5py Iodine is necessary for a healthy thyroid. If you are on a carnivore diet you could add some iodised salt, get a supplement or worst case eat seaweed.
I love veggies, nuts, spices, and seeds in keto and have been doing it for 4 years and staying in a healthy weight range after 40+ pounds weight loss, that said, lately I have been bloating. It started after 3 day fasting. In fact each time I fast my belly goes flat and then the first thing I eat puffs it like a balloon. This has happened before, but it goes back to normal in time, but why would I want that! I prayed and now had this and a pre and pro-biotic video in my feed. I think I am going to do a 3 day Carnivore fast (liver, eggs, broth, & bacon) and bring back in veg after with a focus on pre and pro-biotic. I think for fasting I am going to try breaking fasts with carnivore so I am not hit with all the foods at once.
13:08 Rabbits - What Dr. Mason does not show is that rabbits also aid their digestion, like most all true herbivore mammals, by eating their food more than once. This is because, even with the help of microbes, plants are difficult to digest. In fact, no animal can do it; it actually the mircobes they host that digest the plant material they eat. Ruminants, including cattle, sheep, deer, wildebeast, antelope, yaks, etc bring up the food they have already eaten back into their mouths, re-chew and re-swallow it. They spend most of their day either eating or re-eating their food. Hindgut fermenters, like rabbits and gorillas, eat the food that has already gone all the way through their digestive tracts. Yup, that is exactly what it sounds like.
I'm full carnivore and have no more constipation or poor digestion after a suffering most of my adult life. I ate a "healthy" all organic varied diet and yet continued to become more ill. All my symptoms are resolving after only 10 weeks. I eat no plant foods whatsoever.
In answer to Peter Faber, a carnivore diet with no plants is the only diet that contains all the nutrients that the human body needs. I have been eating this way for over a year, after fibre caused appendicitis, peritonitis and a near death experience! I am now wonderfully healthy!
Why would a non carnivore eat a carnivore diet. We are nothing like carnivores our jaw movement our teeth structure the amylase are mouth produces are intestinal tract length... I could go on and on.. our anatomy is far closer to a herbivore than a carnivore. I don't even know why that would be a debatable point. Put a raw piece of meat in front of a child and put an apple in front of a child which one do you think he will go for first. Ridiculous.
sorry to disappoint you. The Okinawans had an excellent health on meat from pigs before world war II and not on sweet potatoes. That was their diet of starvation after the Americans had invaded the area and most of their pig staple was distroyed along with most of the young population. I can imagine that the rest of the blue zone diets may have had animal foods in them as well.We have no means of control, do we?
@@jowoo7237 So you're having several stomachs like a cow. What's common to herbivores is that the bugs ferment their food BEFORE it gets digested. In our case the bacteria ferment the food AFTER it was digested. They'll get the rest so to speak. We are definitely omnivores that is why we can basically eat whatever food we want - hence the amylase. But the body can always adapt. If a child is really hungry it will grab a good looking steak and then the apple. Besides apples are full of sugar we can get addicted to it so easily. Why don't you let the child decide between a brocolli and meat? The answer will be very clear, I'm guessing.
12:46: " 'low biologically available glucose diet' - because we can’t say low-carb diet in a diabetes journal?" LOL We're starting to see more and more backsliding language, as prestigious journals, organizations, and universities figure out an elegant way to reverse position without upsetting Agriculture. Look to see the phrase "Medical Nutrition Therapy" thrown about related to low-carb diets. For example the American Diabetes Association’s new Consensus Report of April 18, 2019: "This moves a low carbohydrate eating pattern and a very low carbohydrate (ketogenic) eating pattern from the realm of a popular lifestyle choice to Medical Nutrition Therapy for the purpose of disease management." :-) I suppose those of us not yet diagnosed are supposed to keep stuffing ourselves with so-called "heart-healthy grains" until a doctor says stop.
Can someone please direct me to (or share a link for) the study on 0 fiber intake that reduced symptoms to 0%? I've tried looking but can't find any that eliminate fiber altogether. Only studies that reduce it.
An amazingly credible doctor and researcher talks about controversial evidence based medicine that goes against the establishment. My favorite, supporting his thesis by all my stamina and means because I lived the miracles in my life, on cutting back all inflammatory foods.
Great to know because I can't cope with fiber it rips my gut right up. The only veg I eat has to be well cooked or stewed. It has worried me for a while that I just don't get enough roughage but hearing this has put my mind at ease.
I was always thought I was never getting enough of these healthy plant foods and the moment I tried to up the intake slowly I started suffering immensely. Then I saw a video about how 2 fruit 5 veg really isn't all that true for most people. I stopped eating it through the day and left it for only for dinner and felt so much better.
Always a pleasure to listen to. Dr. Mason's appearance on HPO podcast was a huge treat and packed with fascinating info (check it out if you haven't). His lovely aussie accent is just icing on the cake.
it would be so good if you include the links of the research that dr mason talked about in the description... dont get me wrong, i am into keto. just want to have the data for my study purposes
Some people may need to up their intake of water to ensure they don’t get hard painful stools. I had that problem when starting keto, it was like passing rocks, painful.The solution was to drink more water. Lack of water causes other problems as well so keep well hydrated.
Bless you. When I first came to Switzerland, I was baffled as to how I suddenly began to have vastly different and yet much better bowel movements than where I had lived previously. The confusion came from the fact that I was eating significantly more meat and cheese while at the same time, lower amounts of Fiber.
As I understand it, rural Africans eat huge amounts of fibre but don’t suffer from haemorrhoids, diverticulitis, etc, and their stools are huge. I grew up eating a low carb diet but was always constipated. This talk overthrows everything I’ve ever believed about the importance of fibre!
That is primarily down to taste.. otherwise yea.. ice cream and candy. If you feed them vegetables from a young enough age with variety, and don't slack on it.. and don't feed them sweet sugar at a young age... they often never stop eating vegetables.
Keto since June 2019 with good result after listening to all the keto gurus on TH-cam. Very happy. Not going back, after having suffered bloating and gut pain for decades on food pyramid diet. But I do enjoy risotto using 250gm cauliflower rice, garlic, onion, white wine, cream with Parmesan and prawns. Delicious. No bloat or gut pain as suggested by Paul. Why?
At 11:11, read the study from which he took the image of those charts. On the animal based diet, there was a significant increase in bile and harmful bacteria like Bilophila. The researchers concluded that the study supports the link that these animal diet induced increases of bile and Bilophila trigger inflammatory bowel disease. Quote from the study- “Finally, increases in the abundance and activity of Bilophila wadsworthia on the animal-based diet support a link between dietary fat, bile acids and the outgrowth of microorganisms capable of triggering inflammatory bowel disease.” This was the opposite for the plant based diet. The reduced the bile and bacteria which trigger IBD. Malicious misinformation on from this presenter. Additionally, his earlier suggestions about ketones, rather than scfas being able to reduce inflammation were hypothetical at best. He mentions a study of intravenous ketones reducing inflammation but fails to name the study. I ran ketones and inflammation through the medical database search engine and got no results for it. Please provide the study. Based on his explanation of the study he shows at 11:11, I cannot trust him to accurately relay the results of a study.
I allready had the intuïtive feeling that he tends to cherry-pick things from studies that fit to his beliefs. He is the Low Carb Down Under guy, so he seems to be talking in a way that makes his story sell... So, yes, you made a interesting point here.
I should just let this go, but I can’t: Dr. Mason is making a scientific presentation to colleagues, who are expected to know the literature, read the articles, etc. In such presentations, one always highlights the findings that one thinks is most important to make one’s points. People who watch these presentations, are certainly allowed to disagree, or bring up points that they think he had overlooked. There is nothing nefarious about his choices. If he highlights the findings of one study when there are other data from that study that may work against his assertions, presumably he has enough information from other studies that he feels justified in making his conclusion. Just because we may disagree does not mean that he is being disingenuous or deceptive. This is how science works. If you disagree, just keep reading and studying and find the data to support *your* point, and please don’t attribute evil motives to him. It’s not helpful. Personally, I don’t see where we would benefit from these alleged evil intentions. No one we listen to is going to 100% right all the time-and I’m sure Dr. Mason would be the first to admit to that. People asserting what they believe does not make them evil.
So after 30 days of eating meat, fish and dairy I have gone from having a bowel movement every 2 days to now having a bowel movement every 4 days. When I ate Meat + Fruit, the stools are soft and break up in the toilet. Only meat (like I've been doing for the past 30 days) makes the stools hard and I nearly plug the toilet every time I poop. When Dr. Mason talks about no fibre groups having 1 bowel movement a day after no fibre, then I think about my personal experience, I get confused.
Eat primal diet ! When you cook meat, it gets dry and is much harder to digest. At best cooked meat gives you 20% of its nutritional value. Raw cow’s milk can cause hard stools, and the cause it mainly that your bowels are too dry, and not enough of fat. Learn from Aajonus Vonderplanitz, and follow Sv3rige. I’m on the raw primal diet since a year now, and have only seen health benefits, wrinkles disappear, etc…. All meat should be fresh, pasture raised. When drinking raw milk, before I do I always eat some fresh butter to add fat which is not only good for the body, but helps preventing constipation. On a raw primal diet, you won’t have gas, no bloated belly, stool has absolutely no smell at all. Dr.Maon has good info, yet his hair is turning grey. It’s caused by either high sugar (starch convert to sugar, and hybrid veggies contain starch). Another huge source of grey hair formation are avocado’s, which are gmo. We can’t eat the real avocado, since it has a huge pit and very thin layer of green pulp. Avocado’s are toxic, due to their extremely high toxic copper. Once the liver is saturated with this toxic copper, the person eating this will turn grey very rapidly. Think about it… which other animal cooks their food? Eat primal diet, you’ll thank me later
@@johanpeeters4188 Good info but there is a problem in your mention about copper. If the person cannot bind copper, that will cause toxicity, which goes for any of the metals. Not that it is "toxic", but that the rest of the bodily processes have to be working in order for the copper to bind and not collect in organs, specifically the liver.
@@sandrastein7276 i think so too, i think the fat makes a difference here, I’m certainly benefitting much better from carnivore than from having veggies & fruits & fiber
@@johanpeeters4188 Gorillas, for example, don't cook their food. They also have a completely different stomach than us. They can eat every part of their fruits, including the outer casing that we don't eat such as bananas and oranges. They get a lot of protein that way. We cannot utilize this. My point is, I'm not sure you can compare us to animals.
Ty Dr Mason 🧡💯👌, I was doing so poorly on plant based and am now ketovore, as my immunity suffered a lot recently with the plants and I am healing slowly .. I have a feeling my gut was being affected by the plants. btw - a chiropractor I know eat only meats and fruit ! 😝 I also have chronic low Hb levels
Why is there not more with this guy on youtube? I find like 3 videos all from this conference, and they are all brilliant - I would really like to hear more from this guy!
@@davidhenderson5051 Are you even healthy? I know what's pushed, but I also know what works. Pushed and best are not the same thing. Are you prideful? Did you even watch the video? What are you a med student that just finished your 20 needed hours on food where they teach everyone to love what your nation grows based off 70-year-old unethically done studies? I have seen a common theme in 2021/2022 peoples fear and pride can be manipulated into them rejecting reality and growing in hate of the other "side." Let me guess, you take pride in the fact that your "side" trusts the doctors and scientists who have 1 in 200 in their care dying because THEY follow "the science." You mock those "conspiracy theorists" scientists and doctors who are "dangerous" with over 2000 treated, each, but without a single loss. WAKE UP. Your pride is causing harm, and not just to yourself. My hospital won't give doctor prescribed treatments, due to policy influenced by gov. but then the same hospital will spend days dehydrating those same patients while they are drugged out of their minds as deemed "safest" care option, "comfort care," not drugs or vitamins successfully used by millions. WAKE UP!!! Most people are up, we just don't have a say. Maybe that brings you comfort, doctors and scientists are told what science and treatment is allowed. You have peace with that? Fine if your doctor knew how to save Grandma but wasn't allowed to? Good. Enjoy your 11 servings of grain a day and run to the hospital next time you cough so they can immobilize you in a bed for a few months without human contact unless they are willing to be put on death row comfort care. Enjoy! It's "the science." Find peace in being part of those who mock and gag others from feeling they can share the truth.
i did zero fiber on keto once. for two weeks straight. it was the worst constipation i ever had in my life. maybe it helps a lot of people, but there still will be some exceptions to the rule. from this day i add flaxseed to my diet, just to be on the safe side.
Being vegan for so long 2011 - 2022 caused me bad symptoms and I believe it caused diverticulitis switched over to clean keto andIF and I am feeling so much better I lost 83 lbs and I'm almost 50 and feel like I'm in my late 20s . Fiber hurts me I know good fats and real whole food is healing
The two videos I've watched featuring Dr. Mason have been very interesting and almost vindicating for my decision a month ago to embark on a Carnivore Lifestyle. Prior to changing my lifestyle, I would eat most things but had become aware that the onion family was extremely upsetting to my system, that bread was almost as bad and sugar was my nemesis. After almost 4 weeks of my new lifestyle I feel much better generally, I don't have the bloat, unpleasant bowl movements or tiredness. However, if I'm being totally transparent, I have still to quit coffee, which I can't have without a little milk and half a teaspoon of sugar. I'm also eating a small amount of fruit in the morning, Pawpaw, Pear, Grapes and Blue Berries. And every second day I'm having a glass of Pear juice to keep things moving. I was certain that I needed the fruit to help me, but now I'm not so sure. Great info, thanks for posting.
That study seems almost impossible. In this experiment of one, I was eating a high fiber diet for a year and a half and I felt like I finally understood how things were supposed to move through my bowels. It was glorious. I had more than one bowel movement a day with no straining. Because of some blood glucose issues, I have gone to a low-carb diet and I am back to the little hard tough pebbles of my childhood. I’m not willing to go back to eating a lot of foods that spike my blood glucose but I’m not happy with this change at all. I’m surprised that he says that there is no proof because when I read up on keto diet used in the early 20th century for children with epilepsy, constipation was routinely reported. I actually wasn’t aware until I listen to this that anybody is claiming that the average person can have weight loss from changing their gut biome. That was not my motivation at all. But I sure liked the way things moved on a high fiber diet!
He's actually talking about a low fibre diet not a low carb keto diet which can be very high in fibre especially if you listen to people like eric berg, a zero fibre diet is actually a carnivore diet, eating only animal products and no plant products will fix your constipation, and remember going less isn't a problem its only if its causing discomfort, animal products are very nutrient dense so the body absorbs most of it, fibre cannot be absorbed so comes out as it went in and I would say going more than once a day is probably too much and a sign the food is not being used
I never had that problem on keto. You could try flax seeds. Theyre really good for digestion no matter the diet. My mum is no longer on blood pressure tablets since having flax seeds too. Easy way to eat them is to grind a spoonful and put it in yoghurt. They're easy to eat that way.
I believe everyone is different. Meat gives me constipation or diarrhea, especially if its fatty. Never goes through me smoothly. Going keto would make it way worse. Low fat and fiberous foods would make me feel perfect. But again everyone is different, what works for me may not work for someone else.
I find it very had to believe that the average person in the "high fiber" group only had a bowel movement every 6.8 days. If you actually take in even a couple of spoon fulls of a fiber supplement you'll know that's not how it works. Those people must have had some very significant digestion problems.
Amen! Humans aren't designed to process so much grains... especially GMOs. How do you make homemade glue? Use water and a starch! If you're not eating starches, you don't need fiber to push it on through!
My thyroid went low on carnivore diet. I had to take carbs to keep my thyroid healthy but it bloats me. I can tiredness in my face right after 2 hours of eating veggies. Carbs are killing me but carbs helps my thyroid. Any advice pls
And the Big Pollutors want to blame it on the cows.... and it could actually be the vegans! Seriously, they totally ignoring the fat that deer, antelope, caribou, musk oxen, llamas, alpacas, bighorn sheep, bison, elk, chamois, reindeer, yaks, wildebeast, giraffes, Cape buffalo, camels, water buffalo, etc and domestic sheep and goats are all ruminants, too - and have the same kind of digestive system as domestic cattle. And that numbers and total mass of ruminant herbivores worldwide are at a fraction of what they were at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Or that healthy pasture absorbs as much methane/natural gas as about 200 cows can produce- and cattle are typically stocked at acres per head, not the other way around. Or course it is actually the anaerobic microbes in the rumen of thee animals that actually produces the methane. And in the cecum of the hindgut fermenters - rabbits, gorillas, horses, elephants, donkeys, zebras... And in rice paddies. And cesspools and sewage. And natural wetlands. herbivores don't damage the land or plants either - so long as they are allowed to fill their ecological roles. Then the soil life, plant communities, and animals all benefit each other. It's called an ecosystem, and no intact, functional ecosystem is without herbivore animals.
I'd like this guy more if he said something reasonable like: "Yes it is possible to thrive without fiber, but of course for many people that is not the case". but instead he asserts that fiber is bad in a hundred ways and the only enlightened path is to go without fiber. Well I must not be human because after trying several diets for 4 months at a time over the last three years (including fiberless keto), its obvious that the best diet for me is LCHF, about 50g-70g of vegetable based carbs a day, the fiber that's included in those veggies, moderate protein, TRF schedule. The fact that the good doctor asserts that one unique extreme diet is the only correct diet is ridiculous. While tearing down the monolithic paradigms of the past is a good thing, erecting new ones based on one or two studies is simply premature.
We speak about the general as if it's the only. If he got up and said "well some people will do good without fibre" then he may as well have not spoken. There may be some people under some conditions that don't do better on the diet he proclaims, but the implication of the findings is that it'll work for the vast majority.
It would be great to see the correlation of this and internal health. Bowel health and condition? Instance of cancers etc with zero fiber vs a high fiber diet. Also what was the other components of their diets? Did any indulge in processed foods or include refined sugars? Were they equal diets among each participant? A ton of variables to consider.
good questions. I know the bacteria, Akkermansia muciniphila, that prevents many diseases, thrives on pommegranate. and [SIBO small intestinal bacterial overload, with it's related bloating] is not the fault of healthy fiber, but the fault of a faulty ileocecal valve and good bacteria backing up into the small intestine. that bacteria starts to ferment all the fiber and sugars you eat.
@@blissbrain what is the solution? I agree that it's not the fibre as I've had 2 decades of ibs and constipation. I find fats are what make my issues worse not fibre. Carnivore made it worse.
We are tune to believe to poo every day, if you are on carnivore diet, you do not have to poo everyday, and people will tell, if you are on carnivore you will have constipation. I got minimum problem with constipation ever since i am on a carnivore diet.
The problem with this presentation: when gut bacteria ferment fiber and resistant starches, the byproducts are short chain fatty acids, and one of most importance is, butyrate, which is the primary fuel source of epithelial cells lining the intestines. Within that cell structure are other cells called goblet cells the colonocytes (with the help of butyrate) stimulate to make mucus to coat and protect those cells from pathogens and gut bacteria. The mucus is primarily made of carbohydrates; it is a secondary fuel source for the gut bacteria should you not eat a fiber rich diet. Mucosal layers aren't made of ketones. If you deprive the gut bacteria of fiber, they begin feeding on the mucosal layer. If this feeding takes place long enough because of a lack of fiber, those gut bacteria and pathogens now start feeding on the epithelial lining of the gut, and this is the beginning of autoimmune diseases. You have 4 to 5 lbs. of bacteria in the gut. They thrive on fiber rich diets. If you starve them out with a constant low/no carb diet, they have to feed on something, and that something is your mucosal layer. Low carb and keto diets primarily rely on protein and fats, which are quickly digested by the small intestines and do not nourish the colon. Any these keto/low carb diets really starve out a lot of the beneficial gut flora. Some bacteria thrive on fats and proteins, while other thrive on carbs and fiber. A large diversity of microbes makes for a very healthy host. Study on low carb inducing ulcerative colitis: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4732800/
You're a real brainiac, aren't you? You might want to listen to theses Stanford Microbiome Researches, the Sonnenburg's, who discovered this, explain this to Dr. Rhonda Patrick. I'm pretty sure they're more studied in this field than you AND I. I just love loudmouth morons like you, that's why I didn't post this link earlier; I just KNEW some illiterate moron would have something to say and I could put my foot on his neck. It took a bit longer than I anticipated, but glad you finally showed up, lol. You win the dumba$$ of the year award, congratulations! th-cam.com/video/gOZcbNw7sng/w-d-xo.html
While there's some truth in what you write, the keto diet I'm on for 1.5+ yrs doesn't deprive me of all carbs, only reduced by elimination the simple carbs, such as white flour, wheat flour, pasta, sugar, potatoes, etc., for more complex ones found in vegetables. I got on it because I was severely pre-diabetic: following Dr Eric Berg, in 8 months my blood sugar went from 15 to 5.6; it's completely under control. To keep my GP happy I took some minimal meds: he's a very able clinician type and has helped people with long-standing problems. He's also my client the past 10 years and I don't want to lose him! He had me on the lowest dose of Metformin 3 times a day, but I stopped taking 3 when I went from 3 meals a day to 1; is 1 Metformin a day enough to make it effective? I'm just doing it for Larry! I also take a very moderate dose of Ramipril --I think 10 mg-- and the lowest dose of gliclazide, also 1/day. You should also know that I drink 1.5 liters of red wine a day, and will be 76 February 17th next. Larry says my kidneys are amazing: they're working at 120% efficiency. So far my weight's gone from 285 to 220; my goal is 185 on my 5'-10" frame. I still work as much as I can self-employed as a traditional Carpenter-contractor, as my pension is $1,500 a month, not enough to have a decent lifes in Victoria BC, even though I rent a house with 2 other men, our rent+utilities is $650 month. CONCLUSION: I love potatoes, and learned by growing them for chefs the Kennebec potato has the lowest glycemic index; it's the one you should treat yourself to, and ditto for sourdough bread, which you can have as a treat occasionally with lots of butter and garlic! I have full fat cheesecake 2X/month and would love lots of French vanilla ice cream, but it's loaded with sugar, so I had to give it up except as a once or twice a year treat. After I get my L knee replacement early next year, I'm going back five days/week to regain muscle mass I've been losing the last 8 years: to paraphrase the Greeks of 2000+ plus years ago, "Use it or lose it!" Joseph E Fasciani Esquimalt, BC
I bought bran flakes last week thinking I needed fiber. I ate only a small amount, yet it still caused constipation. I just threw out the bran flakes & I'll stick with the high (healthy) fat, moderate protein, & plenty of only the healthy carb (lots of lettuce) diet.
Great information. The only difference for me is that, when I'm eating a meat-based diet, I have *fewer* bowel movements per week. This makes sense when you consider that a meat-heavy diet is very nutrient-dense, and there is very little waste. On a standard high-carb, junk food diet, you're filling yourself with crap (literally!) and you have more bowel movements per week, to get rid of all the crap that your body doesn't need and can't process.
@Kaye Bonato Here here Ann Kleinman. Carnivore is the answer for me. Transitioned from keto. It helped but carni is better. I have type 2 diabetes Hashimotos, hyperparathyroidism hyponatraemia, hypertension and oboesity. Carnivore diet is healing me slowly but surely.
Hello to those following Dr. Mason’ lecture. A question: I did not catch what does he recommend we DO EAT to get the dietary replacement instead of fibers to keep our stools “normal”?
*The crowd says: Whoooooaaaaa!* when the doc says: 'Fiber is not necessary!' *Heresy!* Doesn't he know *what Saint Ancel Keys said* about: 'Six to ten servings of whole grains daily'! Brought down from on high from The Almighty!? Much obliged Doctor Mason! This may set me straight! Cheers!
Interesting. The Ho, K-S et al study only had 63 subjects and seems to have been conducted in Singapore, so I am wondering whether this is a large enough sample size and whether ethnicity played any role. It would have been useful had the researchers included what the no fibre group actually ate and how much fluids they consumed on an average day.
from what I can understand, keto is great. But blood cholesterol will raise dramatically some people say this should not be an issue with the low triglycerides and stable low blood sugar but it still worries me a little
Why? High cholesterol showed that increase life expectancy at least 5 years over those with "normal" and low rates. You should watch some videos from Bart Kay and Anthony Chafee
It's not about completely adding or removing from the diet, just eat how we have evolved. Our ancestors would have eaten meat and vegetables. Go outside study wild edibles and snaring and hunting. You will learn that food is not so easy to come by as people think, your not just gonna stumble across a large bowl of salad, nor will you will eating meat 6 times a day, or even per day. Natural life is about taking what you can get in the season it is abundant.
Other than me, I'm just wondering if anyone else has experienced a measurable improvement in their bone density while on the carnivore diet. The encouragement would be much appreciated!
Thanks for sharing this! Here's an interesting fact: while marketing makes you think brown sugar is more natural than white sugar, the only difference is that brown sugar is turned to white sugar by adding phosphate! And when it comes to gut health, brown and white sugar have similar effects!
18:23 “High animal protein intake and low carbohydrates also affected the reduction of Bacteroides spp. while reducing the abundance of the butyrate producer Roseburia/Eubacterium rectale” Roseburia and Eubacterium are essential for butyrate… Article “Effect of Consumption of Animal Products on the Gut Microbiome Composition and Gut Health”
Do either of you eat fat? Fat like butter or oils like coconut oil makes food slide down the pipe. Water goes out of the digestive system, into the bloodsteam and out through the kidneys and bladder. Nowhere near your bowel.
My fiber intake is still high on keto diet from vegetables, nuts, seeds.. I have been thriving on this diet from many years. It is worth to mention that high longevity people from Blue zones are all on high fiber diet. Fiber may not be necessary in diet but I think it may be for someone on healthy and sustainable diet..
What I've found through experimenting is that it's not fiber that helps with constipation, but rather magnesium and potassium found in vegetables and fruits.
These ozzy doctors r pretty much on point and quite inventive.. I went to one in Melbourne for sinusitis.. he gave me prednisone and the next day I was fine
@ 04:42 he says zero fiber went once a day and high fiber went every 6 days. This is backwards from my actual experience and other Carnivore's experiences. It would make more sense to go more often when eating fiber.
This talk changed my life for the better, but not in the way you'd expect. I've been trying to find a way to contact Paul directly to thank him and and let him know about my experiment, inspired by his talk. Please pass my details on to him so that I can thank him directly and give him the inside information (pun intended).
A few of the broscience keto channels should be watching this because many of them recommend taking psyllium husk to avoid constipation. I took up Keto a couple of weeks ago to try and help with arthritic inflammation and have been taking a glass of water with psyllium husk every morning. I haven't had any bowel issues but I have had random minor pain in my tummy that I don't usually have. I should say never have as I pretty much have a cast iron stomach. Sounds like this might be the answer.
This doesn't mean you shouldn't eat vegetables. It just means that if you have problems, you can figure out which vegetables cause these problems. Also means that if the only way to be symptom free, is by eating no plants at all, you can still live healthy enough on a zero carb diet. Though I would be really fanatic on figuring out all the animal based foods required to have no deficiencies.
eat ruminants and eggs. and dont be afraid of eating things like liver, heart and such. you dont have to frantically search for eyes, brain, tongue, liver etc. a lot of zero carbers do just fine eating mostly beef, eggs and butter
there's being a lot of research done on the Carnivore diet. Give it a look. So far, there have been people on this diet bec/ of autoimmune disease and severe allergies who seem to have no deficiencies at all. It also seems to have a positive effect on mood, all but curing some of their depression. I was surprised by the lack of vitamin C. It seems, and they don't know why....yet. If you have a source of fresh meat, vitamin C is not needed. Its all very interesting.
Peter Faber True. There are too many factors and variations of microbial "fingerprints" to make a specific conclusion. People with dysbiosis are typically put on low FODMAP diets until their gut heals, and the foods can be slowly reintroduced back into their diet. All fiber isn't bad for everyone. I'm curious about microbial diversity when dietary fiber is removed for a long period of time.
you don't have any deficiencies if you eat grass-fed quality meat with lots of fats, dairy (preferably raw) and eggs. Bodybuilders stopped taking supplements completely because it covers all the nutrients we need. It's the plants that are foreign to us because of so many anti-nutrients. We can absorb them also very poorly vitamin-/mineralwise. We are not made to break plants/seeds/grains down - just the bacteria. Ex-vegans and autoimmune sufferers could reverse their health problems with carnivore or raw carnivore diet - with zero carbs.
I guess an animal diet based on wild animals and eggs might make sense. Of course, only if you eat the whole animals with all of their organs. But who regularly goes hunting these days?
Googled "Is fibre necessary? " First result is from Harvard, saying that "fiber helps regulate the body's use if sugar, helping to keep hunger and blood sugar in check". Seems to be the main motivation for fiber. What if you don't consume blood sugar spiking foods?
I was going through a number of years of bad constipation (not to mention other associated symptoms), after taking quantities of both soluble and insoluble fibre, from dietetics professional advice, yes it made matters worse. Funny enough, since I have gone into a low carb diet, defecating is a lot easier, like it used to be in my teen age years. The moral of this story, do not take what the medical profession is telling you the Gospel truth. You have to try it out yourself. If it does not work within two weeks, look for other solutions. And then apply the same principle.
My bowels move much easier with fiber than meat. I never been constipated going whole food plant based. I have plenty of times not just eating meat, but the higher the ratio my meat consumption was and the more often i ate meat the more often it occured. The problem with the more fiber vs meat volume, the stool is much softer with fiber. I had stools much smaller with meat, but the constipation occured becuase the stools were very hard. Like a gold ball hard.
Aria Invictus Agree. Large, regular healthy shits on plant based. But goodness, I farted ALL the time! And digestion seemed to require a lot of work. And as a low carber, I miss the ease of regularity and have to be particularly careful to not eat too much cheese. But my pancreas is simply unable to handle all the carbs anymore. Those were the days! Whole watermelons, lots of potatoes, dates at will. Life ain’t always at my wishing.
On low carb HF we don’t eat much fruit and no processed food such as flour, but it isn’t no carb. We eat lots of veg including some root veg, and squashes and some low fructose fruits. Yes poo is less bulky but it moves through gut easier and constipation seems to have gone. I do still have windy days, I think some veg are responsible for this but not yet worked out which ones. I feel so much healthier and have good energy levels. I don’t get hungry any more
The problem with all these "experts" is that people from both sides are cherry picking research that supports their point of view. As someone who's not even from the medical domain, I could still find plenty of research that supports the benefit of fiber. All these conferences are just one sided monologue with no debate.
i listened to this guy..he convinced me fiber was not necessary for good health..now i have a high calcium score and calcium deposits in every single artery that was screened including a 620 score in my lad also known as widow maker and total score of 810..now i need a diet consisting of high fiber daily diet of minimum of 30 grams per day just to keep it from progressing..turns out soluble fiber causes less production of cholesterol by the liver and removes excess cholesterol from blood vessels and out of the body and insoluble fiber feeds the good bacteria in gut preventing inflammation and colon cancer..
Fantastic video - so easy to understand and covers so much! Thank you for such a great resource - I will definitely be recommending this to lots of people.
Dr Mason, please make a video about carnivore and IBS/IBD and Crohn's and all that gastrointestinal issues. I hope you could share with us your xperience from your patients. ❤
Love this. I started on Carnivore 30 days ago at 52. Down 20+lbs and feel great. Had absolutely no gas after the 2nd week. I told a buddy I hadn't farted in two weeks - and he recommended fiber. I told him there was no constipation - and I'm sending him this video. Power to the people! :-) Thanks for all the great material doc!
If you are serious about zero fibre - how long do you think it is going to be before your gut muscles turn to jelly? 1 year, 2? 30 days is nothing. Muscles that are not in constant use atrophy.
I’m looking into starting this tomorrow. Been having massive stomach issues for years.
@@chazwyman8951 You could also say the same about fiber causing some people excessive gas causing chronic and acute inflammation in the gut leading to another pathway leading to intestinal permeability. Chronic inflammation causes atrophy in many parts of the body. Fiber isn't even necessary to heal the enterocyte. That is butyrate's job. Can get that from other sources than just the microbiome. Yes, we don't know the consequences of long-term carnivore, but we do know what happens from antibiotics now, and I have a feeling that people who need the carnivore diet often have a lot of antibiotic exposure form their parents and their childhood. Also, I think there are other ways to produce butyrate outside of fiber. Polyphenols are one example. The problem is, it's probably not possible to get 30 grams of polyphenols like it is with fiber. I personally try to consume some fiber as tolerated, but it's not possible for some people to function when they have extremely painful bloating and brain fog (Likely from the intestinal permeability) that cannot be relieved with farts or using the bathroom. My main concern is how this will affect future generations. Microbiomes are passed down, similar to epigenetics. I imagine it can't be worse than our previous wide-spread use of antibiotics, but who knows.
@@chazwyman8951 Do you think the gut is a waterslide? The muscles are still in use, heck if anything this video showed us a study that showed that eliminating fibre in people with constipation let them pass stool every day, that's amazing doesn't that mean they are using their muscles more? Also evidence shows us that just using muscles at all is enough to maintain them, just because muscles don't have a massive load to work on doesn't equal atrophy.
@@Rainbowsaur yes, they can actually get overworked/strained/fatigued
Dr. Paul Mason I enjoy the gentle way you communicate and deliver the inspiring information. You're a great conversationalist
but not scientifically sound
Every kid and adult that dislikes veggies will be quoting Dr. Mason.
Oh yeah! Myself included.
You still need vital vitamins and minerals that you get from vegetables that animal meat alone cannot provide. You don’t want to become deficient.
@@JackH2254 - the carnivore doctors say we don't need veggies at all, in fact our thyroid gland can be affected by some veggies.
@@JackH2254 Please, name a single vitamin or mineral that's not present on a carnivore diet. I'll wait.
@@JackH2254You have no idea what you are talking about, plants are missing multiple vitamins and minerals, animals arent.
Paul Mason has done a spectacular job of analyzing and disproving existing paradigms!!!!
Your comments fall into line with my Keto experience. I’m into month 2 and @61 I’ve lost 7.6kgs & now feel 30 years of age again. You wouldn’t know I have 2 arthritic knees that were due to be replaced (not anymore, for now anyway), I wouldn’t know I have bad feet (Plantar fasciitis), no bloat, no flatulence, crape skin is gone, dermatitis is gone, cravings for carbs or sugar is gone, lethargy is gone, sleep 30% less than I used to, wake up totally refreshed & alert, body is stronger, smarter (at least I feel that way), the list goes on.... Thing is my 91 year old mum is on it too, hasn’t helped her bad knee as it’s just too far gone, nor has it helped her hearing! But, she is saying she feels terrific & her rings now keep falling off her fingers as she has lost a few kgs. As with most (if not all) who do the Keto diet I thought I couldn’t live without my carbs (pasta, rice, bread, cereal, potatoes), my fresh fruit (pawpaw, mango, mangosteen, lychee), my veggies & salads? But guess what when in ketosis your brain tells your body, “You don’t need that shit, you’ve got plenty of body fat to convert to ketones & it I starts running short eat more meat & fats. Wow, that’s bazaar for me to just say that. Doing my 2nd set of full bloods in another 3 weeks to compare those I took beforehand which were sensational. Keep you posted!
How's your keto journey three years past?
Awesome 👌 How are you doing now?
Fantastic!👍
Bizarre* 😁
1. most vegan people not like meat but like sex because of attractive meat-skin :D
2. most vegan people care much about animals but still hate mosquites etc. ;) and
3. sometimes not care for or hate, friends and even family members. :D
4. some vegan people still "believe", govern-ment(al area. see 5. ) is right about co2-climate-warming. ;)
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5. god means creat-or ( make babies /life ), so all people in world, are or could be god. ( 5.2 one or some gods,
even if not lovely, would help, because god-s see, most people not can help itself, anymore, and get more confused.
5.3 with tele- kineses, pathie and see future, all needed creator-abilites can be trained, by feeling. (Y)
6. vegan di-at, weakens body and so limits life /happiness, so cruality reducation meaning of vegans is confused.
How are you and your mum doing now?
Dr. Paul Mason's presentation was not only entertaining and informative, it exemplifies something that all scientific minded people should be willing to do - slaughter sacred cows when those sacred cows are lacking evidence. Dr. Mason does just that with the much touted benefits of fiber, which has been an enduring sacred cow within nutrition circles for decades. Thank you for uploading this presentation, because it made me rethink my ideas about fiber. That is what good science should do.
If you read Samuel Pepys diary, you will see that doctors have been recommending fibre for constipation for the best part of 400 years. [It doesn't really seem to have worked for Pepys, who supplemented it with monthly colonic irrigations & aperients.]
I 100% echo your words.. I also thought fibre was critical to gut health.
Slaughter that sacred cow, and enjoy the meat!
@@resourcedragonWhat should I type in the search bar of the diary to see this article?
Tbh, i'll take the few extra ketones and the reduced blood sugar spike. But i'll also keep in mind to not consume fiber like crazy.
I've been on meds for severe constipation for over a decade. I used to take a massive amount of laxitives once a week to "clean out". My wife said you need more fiber. I obliged and increased my fiber to 50-60 grams a day. It did not help with the constipation but it did give me incredible amount of gas. fast forward years later, I started keto eating very little fiber and no more constipation for months. After about 5 months my body adapted and now I just need a little help occasionally. I've found a tbsp or two a day of EVOO aliviates everything.
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@datsuntoyy Very helpful comment. I am 78. I have to take Swiss Kriss every day along with a large dose of generic Colace just to get by. That was before I started a carnivore diet three weeks ago. Now nothing works. I started Ox Bile two days ago. Don’t know yet if that will help. Today I started EVOO as per your remark. It can’t hurt. I really feel that I have a “bug” in my gut. My problem disappeared for a year after taking a strong antibiotic for sinus infection. Were you ever tested for a GI infection? Results?
Still struggling. Gary 🇺🇸
You need more fat in your diet
@@doowopbabytdrink plenty of water
Most are deficient in magneisum. Farming practices has depleted it from plants and in turn meat sources.
Magnesium citrate is one of the most bioavailable forms but it also has a side effect of helping in other means. So if you cant do 0 fibre just take more mag those days. Normally take 200mg or so and if its time ill bump it to 400mg and it'll take action the very next day in most cases. Just adjust dosage based on your personal results.
More of this please! I loved this talk. I battle carb addicts everyday and they just don’t get it. Dr. MASON thank you sir.
Did you ever consider that they are not carb addicts? That you are a fat addict?
@@pookiecatblue Most people can drop almost all intake of fat in a matter of days. Those same people can take years to finally kick carbs.
Let natural selection sort them out
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I cannot get enough of Dr Mason. I really want to meet him and hear him in-person. I have learned hell lot from him on TH-cam and Twitter already and feel like I know better than usual docs. If at all I am in Sydney, that will be one of my to-do list :)
You don’t need fiber for motility. The intestine is a muscle that moves food by itself. AND, everything in your intestines is liquid expect fiber. Tell me how adding wood to a river helps it flow better.
Ha! Love it
Humans don't digest fibre. We don't have the enzymes to do it. So, there is no way it can help motility.
that would not be my experience of keto, unfortunately
@@martinarnold5239 Me too. I get all bound up doing keto. I was hoping the good Down Under Doctor might address that problem.
^^^There are some foods that exacerbate constipation. Cheese and dairy are big ones for some people. Start by eliminating dairy and make sure you drink a lot of water or tea, even when you aren't thirsty but don't drink water with your meals. It dilutes your stomach acids that begin the digestion process. Chew the hell out of your food.
I watch a large number of these types of videos and this has to be the best presentation I've ever seen. A must watch.
I just got off a very high fiber diet. I didn’t have constipation, actually I would go sometimes several times a day. But I had horrible bloating and gas every day.
Keep on a high fiber diet and increase your fat intake, hopefully it can decrease your symptoms.
I gave up fibre/fiber 4 years ago.
My digestion is the best it has ever been.
Great video. Keep up the great work.
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A high fiber diet without sufficient water is constipating, but if you have sufficient water there should not be a problem.
@@allysonallo8119 So glad you're feeling better. Check out the GAPs diet... Natasha Campbell McBride. ...helped me alot.
Low fodmap diet, for my IBS and divertucular disease, from too much blasted fibre, led to ponder why have grains at all! Which led me to low carb. Much happier and metabolically healthier now.
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3 years fiber free. Meat, eggs, milk: all raw is what I eat and I am do not see reason to stop this. Perfect digestion.
So many people bring a lot of good stuff on line but this guy is way of the chart super good!!!!
Thank you. After poo poohing keto for years, I embraced it earlier this year out of desperation to lose weight V v happy. Slow but steady loss, not hungry at all, easy to manage meals at home and when eating out. The surprise was my digestion. After struggling for most of my life with bloating gas, constipation, you name it, I have no issues. Amazing. I've watched a lot of your videos. Thank you for your research and your presentations. V much appreciate it.
Me too. I didn't give it a chance. Its been about 4 months now and I've seen and felt a massive difference.
It doesn't mean we all should drink juices and stop eating whole veggies and fruit. No matter how much fiber i have on keto - no bloating, no constipation, no gas. It takes place if I eat frequently and do have grains and beans and bread and sugar (among which bread is the most problematic)
This video changed my LIFE! I've been on and off Keto and Carnivore for 4 years with great success, however, I've also suffered from debilitating medical issues and emotional overeating and too much wine. After my hernia surgery 3 years ago, suffering from horrible bloating and gas and thought it was from dairy. Fast forward to 2023 and back on track, quit drinking, lowered carb intake again, but didn't help gas and bloating. Watched this video in preparation to go back on Carnivore, but not motivated enough, until I saw this. Spent a week researching everything(again) and because my PC is of 0 help...so had to research Metabolic Syndrome, Insulin Resistance, Hypothyroidism, etc. and now I feel more confident to be disciplined and stick to it, especially since I discovered I'm Fructans Intolerant. Thank you, Dr. Mason!
I’ve enjoyed all of Dr. Mason‘s videos, but this one is paradigm shifting.
True...confused now
most evidence shows fiber is important. So what are you going to believe.... most of the evidence, or Dr. Mason?
@@amstvm low carb, keto and no fiber is like following a cult. Sure, lots of people can get sucked in. Doesn't mean it's a good thing
@@joc8092 you really have to look at who's funding those so-called studies. Remember when low fat was the thing? Now they've discovered that's a myth period do you know why that is? That is because Dr kellogg, who was a Seventh-Day Adventist didn't believe in eating meat. Plus, he wanted to sell his breakfast cereal. Look at how much illness was created after everybody stopped eating the nice breakfast of eggs and went to sugarcoated cereals.
@@joc8092 What evidence? Please cite it
Mostly a carnivore, I kept adding veggies and some fruit in response to the continuous admonitions on TH-cam from 'informed' sources that neglecting to do so meant cutting years off your life. Inspite of stomach aches at night with carbs, I couldn't get clarity.
Along comes the brilliant master logician, Dr. Mason, and the conflict is gone. (along with the carbs)
When brilliance, integrity and lightheartedness come together, genuine good is the happy result.
Spiritually uplifting, definitive, cutting edge info. My gratitude!
Are you still going well?
I found this in a 2017 publication and will just include the conclusion:
"CONCLUSIONS
There remains much misinformation in the literature about
the physical effects of fiber in the gut. In the small bowel,
fiber-related health benefits are dependent on the viscosity of
soluble fibers. High viscosity fibers (eg, gel-forming b-glucan,
psyllium, and raw guar gum) can have a significant beneficial
effect on both cholesterol and glycemic control. In contrast,
low viscosity/nonviscous fibers (eg, low-molecular-weight
b-glucan, methylcellulose, inulin, wheat dextrin) and insoluble
fiber (eg, wheat bran and cellulose) have no significant
effect on cholesterol concentrations or glycemic control, and
can be used as a placebo. In the large bowel, there are two
mechanisms that drive a regularity/laxative benefit: insoluble
fiber mechanically irritates the gut mucosa to stimulate mucous/
water secretion, and soluble gel-forming fiber that retains
a high-water holding capacity that resists dehydration.
To exert a regularity benefit or laxative effect, a fiber must
resist fermentation to remain intact and present throughout
the large bowel (be present in stool), and significantly increase
stool water content. The increase in stool water content
provides bulky/soft/easy-to-pass stools. The plastic effect
of insoluble fiber (eg, wheat bran) is dependent on particle
size/coarseness: large/coarse particles have a significant
laxative effect; small/smooth particles can have a constipating
effect (add only to the dry mass of stool, decreasing
percent water content/hardening stools). The high waterholding
capacity of a nonfermented gel-forming fiber (eg,
psyllium) can provide a dichotomous stool normalizing effect;
that is, soften hard stool in constipation and firm-up loose/
liquid stools in diarrhea, and normalizing stool form in patients
with irritable bowel syndrome. In contrast, the lack of
water-holding capacity for fine insoluble fiber (eg, fine wheat
bran) and fermentable soluble fiber (eg, wheat dextrin) can
lead to a constipating effect, resulting in a decrease in stool
water content/harder stools. It is therefore essential to
recognize which fibers possess specific health-promoting
properties, and which fiber supplements have consistent,
rigorous evidence of clinically meaningful health benefits at
the doses commonly available in the market place (Table 3)."
"Understanding the Physics of Functional
Fibers in the Gastrointestinal Tract: An
Evidence-Based Approach to Resolving
Enduring Misconceptions about Insoluble
and Soluble Fiber
Johnson W. McRorie, Jr, PhD; Nicola M. McKeown, PhD"
Fred Lander we don’t need interpretations. Hard evidence speaks for itself
This! Perfectly correct! Thank you for sharing. This is also my personal experience. 👍🙂
Ed Mistarka - thank you for the time you put into this comment. It describes my personal experience exactly.
My experience with psyllium was not particularly good. While I did have more frequent BMs than before consuming it, I never felt so bloated (and gassed) my whole life.
God bless you, Dr Mason...you and so many others have given me back my physical health this past year!
It’s like cognitive dissonance. Could not believe how my health changed drastically by avoiding fibre likes the plague. So pleased.
@@johnsmith8848Is this true, you promise?!
amen
Great information! I had been on a ketogenic diet (and Intermittent fasting) by which I reversed my insulin issues, lowered inflammation markers, improved all lipid markers, improved hormones, especially thryroid (lowered daily dose) and lost 43 pounds in 9 months. But I was left with extremely bothersome IBS symptoms that didn't get better while all the other things were improving.
Just recently, five weeks ago, I decided to try the carnivore diet: no plants in the diet at all.
In this short amount of time, and having gone through the expected adjustment period, I am thrilled to share that I am not in the bathroom with watery diarrhea anymore after my meals! It used to be that when I ate salads with so-called salad greens, and lots fiber (to feed the microbiome) and my protein and fatty dressing, I prepared myself for several hours of agony and torture, as the watery diarrhea could last several hours even at times overnight till next morning :( But now, I have all animal products, including hard cheeses, butter and cream, eggs, and meats and have no issues at all. I have bowel movements everyday without any problems.
At this point, I see no point in adding plants to my diet, as it is a matter of personal preference and I am preferring to stay not bloated, not to have watery diarrhea, no headaches from weakness, no skin rashes and no inflammation.
Me too. I feel great on carnivore. No bloating. No rashes on face. No tiredness. But my thyroid is getting affected on carnivore. So iam taking carbs again and it helps my thyroid. Any advice to help my thyroid on carnivore diet itself
Carnivore Diet is just an ultimate elimination diet. maybe you should've gone trough an elimination diet before committing to a Carnivore Diet
@@NagaRaj-fi5py look into Biohackers Lab videos, he's done a fair amount on carnivore, he might have something on it, or you could post a question there and someone will suggest something you can investigate and maybe try.
@@NagaRaj-fi5py Iodine is necessary for a healthy thyroid. If you are on a carnivore diet you could add some iodised salt, get a supplement or worst case eat seaweed.
I love veggies, nuts, spices, and seeds in keto and have been doing it for 4 years and staying in a healthy weight range after 40+ pounds weight loss, that said, lately I have been bloating. It started after 3 day fasting. In fact each time I fast my belly goes flat and then the first thing I eat puffs it like a balloon. This has happened before, but it goes back to normal in time, but why would I want that! I prayed and now had this and a pre and pro-biotic video in my feed. I think I am going to do a 3 day Carnivore fast (liver, eggs, broth, & bacon) and bring back in veg after with a focus on pre and pro-biotic. I think for fasting I am going to try breaking fasts with carnivore so I am not hit with all the foods at once.
13:08 Rabbits - What Dr. Mason does not show is that rabbits also aid their digestion, like most all true herbivore mammals, by eating their food more than once. This is because, even with the help of microbes, plants are difficult to digest. In fact, no animal can do it; it actually the mircobes they host that digest the plant material they eat.
Ruminants, including cattle, sheep, deer, wildebeast, antelope, yaks, etc bring up the food they have already eaten back into their mouths, re-chew and re-swallow it. They spend most of their day either eating or re-eating their food. Hindgut fermenters, like rabbits and gorillas, eat the food that has already gone all the way through their digestive tracts. Yup, that is exactly what it sounds like.
I'm full carnivore and have no more constipation or poor digestion after a suffering most of my adult life. I ate a "healthy" all organic varied diet and yet continued to become more ill. All my symptoms are resolving after only 10 weeks. I eat no plant foods whatsoever.
Alba Vaz How often do you have to go to the bathroom? I only to the bathroom once every 3 to 4 days on a carnivore diet
@@LL-zw1dq Every morning for me.
In answer to Peter Faber, a carnivore diet with no plants is the only diet that contains all the nutrients that the human body needs. I have been eating this way for over a year, after fibre caused appendicitis, peritonitis and a near death experience! I am now wonderfully healthy!
Why would a non carnivore eat a carnivore diet. We are nothing like carnivores our jaw movement our teeth structure the amylase are mouth produces are intestinal tract length... I could go on and on.. our anatomy is far closer to a herbivore than a carnivore. I don't even know why that would be a debatable point. Put a raw piece of meat in front of a child and put an apple in front of a child which one do you think he will go for first. Ridiculous.
Neither, the child knows this is a trick, and they should go out and hunt their own food.
Edit: Bad spelling
sorry to disappoint you. The Okinawans had an excellent health on meat from pigs before world war II and not on sweet potatoes. That was their diet of starvation after the Americans had invaded the area and most of their pig staple was distroyed along with most of the young population. I can imagine that the rest of the blue zone diets may have had animal foods in them as well.We have no means of control, do we?
@@jowoo7237
Plants rot human teeth, meat does not. Grow up little girl.
@@jowoo7237 So you're having several stomachs like a cow. What's common to herbivores is that the bugs ferment their food BEFORE it gets digested. In our case the bacteria ferment the food AFTER it was digested. They'll get the rest so to speak. We are definitely omnivores that is why we can basically eat whatever food we want - hence the amylase. But the body can always adapt. If a child is really hungry it will grab a good looking steak and then the apple. Besides apples are full of sugar we can get addicted to it so easily. Why don't you let the child decide between a brocolli and meat? The answer will be very clear, I'm guessing.
Arguably the most revolutionary, earth-shattering talk available on TH-cam right now. Frankly I'm surprised it hasn't been banned!
settle down
@@xXRambodianXx only if fastfood corporate money is given to youtube
awesome that you've taken the time to listen to every other talk so as to make this assessment.
Fascinating presentation. Will have to listen to a second time.
Another splendid scientific explanation and de-bunking of standard dietary myths.
12:46: " 'low biologically available glucose diet' - because we can’t say low-carb diet in a diabetes journal?" LOL We're starting to see more and more backsliding language, as prestigious journals, organizations, and universities figure out an elegant way to reverse position without upsetting Agriculture. Look to see the phrase "Medical Nutrition Therapy" thrown about related to low-carb diets. For example the American Diabetes Association’s new Consensus Report of April 18, 2019: "This moves a low carbohydrate eating pattern and a very low carbohydrate (ketogenic) eating pattern from the realm of a popular lifestyle choice to Medical Nutrition Therapy for the purpose of disease management." :-) I suppose those of us not yet diagnosed are supposed to keep stuffing ourselves with so-called "heart-healthy grains" until a doctor says stop.
Or until our Hearts say stop!
Lol what do u think about better nutrition and digestion from raw eggs and beef instead of cooked?
Are you sick of inflammation?
Can someone please direct me to (or share a link for) the study on 0 fiber intake that reduced symptoms to 0%? I've tried looking but can't find any that eliminate fiber altogether. Only studies that reduce it.
An amazingly credible doctor and researcher talks about controversial evidence based medicine that goes against the establishment. My favorite, supporting his thesis by all my stamina and means because I lived the miracles in my life, on cutting back all inflammatory foods.
Great to know because I can't cope with fiber it rips my gut right up. The only veg I eat has to be well cooked or stewed. It has worried me for a while that I just don't get enough roughage but hearing this has put my mind at ease.
I was always thought I was never getting enough of these healthy plant foods and the moment I tried to up the intake slowly I started suffering immensely. Then I saw a video about how 2 fruit 5 veg really isn't all that true for most people. I stopped eating it through the day and left it for only for dinner and felt so much better.
Always a pleasure to listen to. Dr. Mason's appearance on HPO podcast was a huge treat and packed with fascinating info (check it out if you haven't). His lovely aussie accent is just icing on the cake.
كل الشكر والتقدير والاحترام لصاحب القناة والمترجَم وكل من ساهم في نقل هذا المحتوى
it would be so good if you include the links of the research that dr mason talked about in the description... dont get me wrong, i am into keto. just want to have the data for my study purposes
Some people may need to up their intake of water to ensure they don’t get hard painful stools.
I had that problem when starting keto, it was like passing rocks, painful.The solution was to drink more water.
Lack of water causes other problems as well so keep well hydrated.
Bless you. When I first came to Switzerland, I was baffled as to how I suddenly began to have vastly different and yet much better bowel movements than where I had lived previously. The confusion came from the fact that I was eating significantly more meat and cheese while at the same time, lower amounts of Fiber.
Huh.
Dried meat bungs me up but unprocessed meat doesn't.
I miss living in Switzerland for their cheeses!
As I understand it, rural Africans eat huge amounts of fibre but don’t suffer from haemorrhoids, diverticulitis, etc, and their stools are huge. I grew up eating a low carb diet but was always constipated. This talk overthrows everything I’ve ever believed about the importance of fibre!
I like you r style . Relevant and with a sense of humor down under. I should migrate to down under.
Ketosis fixed my leaky gut and a multitude of other problems.
This explains so much why kids instinctively hate vegetables.
Everyone misses this point, why does a child go against a parent when we say they are good for you.
That is primarily down to taste.. otherwise yea.. ice cream and candy.
If you feed them vegetables from a young enough age with variety, and don't slack on it.. and don't feed them sweet sugar at a young age... they often never stop eating vegetables.
Eating vegetables is different from eating vegetable oils. Vegetables are healthy but vegetable oils are not.
No it does not, countries that don't spoil their children with junkfood don't have such a problem.
Well said. Instinctive.
Keto since June 2019 with good result after listening to all the keto gurus on TH-cam. Very happy. Not going back, after having suffered bloating and gut pain for decades on food pyramid diet. But I do enjoy risotto using 250gm cauliflower rice, garlic, onion, white wine, cream with Parmesan and prawns. Delicious. No bloat or gut pain as suggested by Paul. Why?
everybody's different! that meal might just be tolerable by your current healthy gut
At 11:11, read the study from which he took the image of those charts. On the animal based diet, there was a significant increase in bile and harmful bacteria like Bilophila. The researchers concluded that the study supports the link that these animal diet induced increases of bile and Bilophila trigger inflammatory bowel disease. Quote from the study- “Finally, increases in the abundance and activity of Bilophila wadsworthia on the animal-based diet support a link between dietary fat, bile acids and the outgrowth of microorganisms capable of triggering inflammatory bowel disease.” This was the opposite for the plant based diet. The reduced the bile and bacteria which trigger IBD. Malicious misinformation on from this presenter.
Additionally, his earlier suggestions about ketones, rather than scfas being able to reduce inflammation were hypothetical at best. He mentions a study of intravenous ketones reducing inflammation but fails to name the study. I ran ketones and inflammation through the medical database search engine and got no results for it. Please provide the study. Based on his explanation of the study he shows at 11:11, I cannot trust him to accurately relay the results of a study.
I allready had the intuïtive feeling that he tends to cherry-pick things from studies that fit to his beliefs. He is the Low Carb Down Under guy, so he seems to be talking in a way that makes his story sell...
So, yes, you made a interesting point here.
PLEASE CITE.
@@chazwyman8951 she did, read the report
I should just let this go, but I can’t: Dr. Mason is making a scientific presentation to colleagues, who are expected to know the literature, read the articles, etc. In such presentations, one always highlights the findings that one thinks is most important to make one’s points. People who watch these presentations, are certainly allowed to disagree, or bring up points that they think he had overlooked. There is nothing nefarious about his choices. If he highlights the findings of one study when there are other data from that study that may work against his assertions, presumably he has enough information from other studies that he feels justified in making his conclusion. Just because we may disagree does not mean that he is being disingenuous or deceptive. This is how science works. If you disagree, just keep reading and studying and find the data to support *your* point, and please don’t attribute evil motives to him. It’s not helpful. Personally, I don’t see where we would benefit from these alleged evil intentions. No one we listen to is going to 100% right all the time-and I’m sure Dr. Mason would be the first to admit to that. People asserting what they believe does not make them evil.
So after 30 days of eating meat, fish and dairy I have gone from having a bowel movement every 2 days to now having a bowel movement every 4 days. When I ate Meat + Fruit, the stools are soft and break up in the toilet. Only meat (like I've been doing for the past 30 days) makes the stools hard and I nearly plug the toilet every time I poop. When Dr. Mason talks about no fibre groups having 1 bowel movement a day after no fibre, then I think about my personal experience, I get confused.
Eat primal diet !
When you cook meat, it gets dry and is much harder to digest. At best cooked meat gives you 20% of its nutritional value. Raw cow’s milk can cause hard stools, and the cause it mainly that your bowels are too dry, and not enough of fat.
Learn from Aajonus Vonderplanitz, and follow Sv3rige.
I’m on the raw primal diet since a year now, and have only seen health benefits, wrinkles disappear, etc….
All meat should be fresh, pasture raised. When drinking raw milk, before I do I always eat some fresh butter to add fat which is not only good for the body, but helps preventing constipation.
On a raw primal diet, you won’t have gas, no bloated belly, stool has absolutely no smell at all.
Dr.Maon has good info, yet his hair is turning grey. It’s caused by either high sugar (starch convert to sugar, and hybrid veggies contain starch). Another huge source of grey hair formation are avocado’s, which are gmo. We can’t eat the real avocado, since it has a huge pit and very thin layer of green pulp. Avocado’s are toxic, due to their extremely high toxic copper. Once the liver is saturated with this toxic copper, the person eating this will turn grey very rapidly.
Think about it… which other animal cooks their food?
Eat primal diet, you’ll thank me later
You didn't eat enough fat.
@@johanpeeters4188 Good info but there is a problem in your mention about copper. If the person cannot bind copper, that will cause toxicity, which goes for any of the metals. Not that it is "toxic", but that the rest of the bodily processes have to be working in order for the copper to bind and not collect in organs, specifically the liver.
@@sandrastein7276 i think so too, i think the fat makes a difference here, I’m certainly benefitting much better from carnivore than from having veggies & fruits & fiber
@@johanpeeters4188 Gorillas, for example, don't cook their food.
They also have a completely different stomach than us. They can eat every part of their fruits, including the outer casing that we don't eat such as bananas and oranges. They get a lot of protein that way. We cannot utilize this.
My point is, I'm not sure you can compare us to animals.
I eat only meat, fish, eggs and some dairy products and I feel great! Great video Dr Mason!
same here , but most people think i'am crazzy or a blood thirsty lying savage
same, I allow cheating on the weekend but mostly stick to that all week
Really ?
Which dairy products?
@@cascadianapplications7124 grass fed cheese is great on keto, maybe alittle grass fed goat kefir too
Ty Dr Mason 🧡💯👌, I was doing so poorly on plant based and am now ketovore, as my immunity suffered a lot recently with the plants and I am healing slowly .. I have a feeling my gut was being affected by the plants. btw - a chiropractor I know eat only meats and fruit ! 😝 I also have chronic low Hb levels
Why is there not more with this guy on youtube? I find like 3 videos all from this conference, and they are all brilliant - I would really like to hear more from this guy!
Cause nothing that he spouts is based on science. That's why.
Krydolph so would I. He is a brilliant young man with impeccable credentials.
@@davidhenderson5051 its all based on science. Did you just ignore the studies he showed 😂
Here is his channel th-cam.com/channels/3vzrYZcGqpgchc5sYM5Ybw.htmlvideos
@@davidhenderson5051 Are you even healthy? I know what's pushed, but I also know what works. Pushed and best are not the same thing. Are you prideful? Did you even watch the video? What are you a med student that just finished your 20 needed hours on food where they teach everyone to love what your nation grows based off 70-year-old unethically done studies? I have seen a common theme in 2021/2022 peoples fear and pride can be manipulated into them rejecting reality and growing in hate of the other "side." Let me guess, you take pride in the fact that your "side" trusts the doctors and scientists who have 1 in 200 in their care dying because THEY follow "the science." You mock those "conspiracy theorists" scientists and doctors who are "dangerous" with over 2000 treated, each, but without a single loss. WAKE UP. Your pride is causing harm, and not just to yourself. My hospital won't give doctor prescribed treatments, due to policy influenced by gov. but then the same hospital will spend days dehydrating those same patients while they are drugged out of their minds as deemed "safest" care option, "comfort care," not drugs or vitamins successfully used by millions. WAKE UP!!! Most people are up, we just don't have a say. Maybe that brings you comfort, doctors and scientists are told what science and treatment is allowed. You have peace with that? Fine if your doctor knew how to save Grandma but wasn't allowed to? Good. Enjoy your 11 servings of grain a day and run to the hospital next time you cough so they can immobilize you in a bed for a few months without human contact unless they are willing to be put on death row comfort care. Enjoy! It's "the science." Find peace in being part of those who mock and gag others from feeling they can share the truth.
i did zero fiber on keto once. for two weeks straight.
it was the worst constipation i ever had in my life. maybe it helps a lot of people, but there still will be some exceptions to the rule. from this day i add flaxseed to my diet, just to be on the safe side.
@Stella Starbrite It's all the good stuff in the so-called non-essential carbohydrate that's good for your health.
Being vegan for so long 2011 - 2022 caused me bad symptoms and I believe it caused diverticulitis switched over to clean keto andIF and I am feeling so much better I lost 83 lbs and I'm almost 50 and feel like I'm in my late 20s . Fiber hurts me I know good fats and real whole food is healing
I really love your explanation and photograph of the traffic jam.
The crowds reaction was priceless
The two videos I've watched featuring Dr. Mason have been very interesting and almost vindicating for my decision a month ago to embark on a Carnivore Lifestyle. Prior to changing my lifestyle, I would eat most things but had become aware that the onion family was extremely upsetting to my system, that bread was almost as bad and sugar was my nemesis. After almost 4 weeks of my new lifestyle I feel much better generally, I don't have the bloat, unpleasant bowl movements or tiredness. However, if I'm being totally transparent, I have still to quit coffee, which I can't have without a little milk and half a teaspoon of sugar. I'm also eating a small amount of fruit in the morning, Pawpaw, Pear, Grapes and Blue Berries. And every second day I'm having a glass of Pear juice to keep things moving. I was certain that I needed the fruit to help me, but now I'm not so sure. Great info, thanks for posting.
That study seems almost impossible. In this experiment of one, I was eating a high fiber diet for a year and a half and I felt like I finally understood how things were supposed to move through my bowels. It was glorious. I had more than one bowel movement a day with no straining. Because of some blood glucose issues, I have gone to a low-carb diet and I am back to the little hard tough pebbles of my childhood. I’m not willing to go back to eating a lot of foods that spike my blood glucose but I’m not happy with this change at all. I’m surprised that he says that there is no proof because when I read up on keto diet used in the early 20th century for children with epilepsy, constipation was routinely reported. I actually wasn’t aware until I listen to this that anybody is claiming that the average person can have weight loss from changing their gut biome. That was not my motivation at all. But I sure liked the way things moved on a high fiber diet!
He's actually talking about a low fibre diet not a low carb keto diet which can be very high in fibre especially if you listen to people like eric berg, a zero fibre diet is actually a carnivore diet, eating only animal products and no plant products will fix your constipation, and remember going less isn't a problem its only if its causing discomfort, animal products are very nutrient dense so the body absorbs most of it, fibre cannot be absorbed so comes out as it went in and I would say going more than once a day is probably too much and a sign the food is not being used
I find chia seeds very helpful on low carb plus brussel sprouts, broccoli, fermented veggies ... also upping good fats
I never had that problem on keto. You could try flax seeds. Theyre really good for digestion no matter the diet. My mum is no longer on blood pressure tablets since having flax seeds too. Easy way to eat them is to grind a spoonful and put it in yoghurt. They're easy to eat that way.
You are so right! Little hard pebbles! The only thing that keeps my bowels moving is oatmeal with a chopped up apple in it. So that's what I eat!
I believe everyone is different. Meat gives me constipation or diarrhea, especially if its fatty. Never goes through me smoothly. Going keto would make it way worse. Low fat and fiberous foods would make me feel perfect. But again everyone is different, what works for me may not work for someone else.
I find it very had to believe that the average person in the "high fiber" group only had a bowel movement every 6.8 days. If you actually take in even a couple of spoon fulls of a fiber supplement you'll know that's not how it works. Those people must have had some very significant digestion problems.
Honesty I have so much less gas eating keto it worried me at first. I was always bloated and gassy eating a carbohydrate diet
Amen! Humans aren't designed to process so much grains... especially GMOs.
How do you make homemade glue? Use water and a starch!
If you're not eating starches, you don't need fiber to push it on through!
My thyroid went low on carnivore diet. I had to take carbs to keep my thyroid healthy but it bloats me. I can tiredness in my face right after 2 hours of eating veggies. Carbs are killing me but carbs helps my thyroid. Any advice pls
And the Big Pollutors want to blame it on the cows.... and it could actually be the vegans!
Seriously, they totally ignoring the fat that deer, antelope, caribou, musk oxen, llamas, alpacas, bighorn sheep, bison, elk, chamois, reindeer, yaks, wildebeast, giraffes, Cape buffalo, camels, water buffalo, etc and domestic sheep and goats are all ruminants, too - and have the same kind of digestive system as domestic cattle.
And that numbers and total mass of ruminant herbivores worldwide are at a fraction of what they were at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
Or that healthy pasture absorbs as much methane/natural gas as about 200 cows can produce- and cattle are typically stocked at acres per head, not the other way around.
Or course it is actually the anaerobic microbes in the rumen of thee animals that actually produces the methane. And in the cecum of the hindgut fermenters - rabbits, gorillas, horses, elephants, donkeys, zebras...
And in rice paddies. And cesspools and sewage. And natural wetlands.
herbivores don't damage the land or plants either - so long as they are allowed to fill their ecological roles. Then the soil life, plant communities, and animals all benefit each other. It's called an ecosystem, and no intact, functional ecosystem is without herbivore animals.
G33k I've noticed that as well ✅
Naga Raj carnivore may have made you more thyroid-sensitive. Carbs make you thyroid-resistant, meaning you need higher thyroid levels to function
I'd like this guy more if he said something reasonable like: "Yes it is possible to thrive without fiber, but of course for many people that is not the case". but instead he asserts that fiber is bad in a hundred ways and the only enlightened path is to go without fiber. Well I must not be human because after trying several diets for 4 months at a time over the last three years (including fiberless keto), its obvious that the best diet for me is LCHF, about 50g-70g of vegetable based carbs a day, the fiber that's included in those veggies, moderate protein, TRF schedule. The fact that the good doctor asserts that one unique extreme diet is the only correct diet is ridiculous. While tearing down the monolithic paradigms of the past is a good thing, erecting new ones based on one or two studies is simply premature.
John Alexander this!
We speak about the general as if it's the only. If he got up and said "well some people will do good without fibre" then he may as well have not spoken. There may be some people under some conditions that don't do better on the diet he proclaims, but the implication of the findings is that it'll work for the vast majority.
He does not address probiotic health at all.
He is cherry picking his studies. Eat some fiber, not too much.
It would be great to see the correlation of this and internal health. Bowel health and condition? Instance of cancers etc with zero fiber vs a high fiber diet. Also what was the other components of their diets? Did any indulge in processed foods or include refined sugars? Were they equal diets among each participant? A ton of variables to consider.
There's a good documentary called The Magic Pill that addresses this...
good questions. I know the bacteria, Akkermansia muciniphila, that prevents many diseases, thrives on pommegranate. and [SIBO small intestinal bacterial overload, with it's related bloating] is not the fault of healthy fiber, but the fault of a faulty ileocecal valve and good bacteria backing up into the small intestine. that bacteria starts to ferment all the fiber and sugars you eat.
@@blissbrain what is the solution? I agree that it's not the fibre as I've had 2 decades of ibs and constipation. I find fats are what make my issues worse not fibre. Carnivore made it worse.
I experienced first hand that all Dr Mason is teaching is 100% correct. I am on a low carb diet with very little fibre and I never felt better.
So you never eat vegetables? Only protein and fat?
@@evelynrose9002 I eat 98% protein and fat. The rest are pickled vegetables and sauerkraut. No digestive issues. any longer.
We are tune to believe to poo every day, if you are on carnivore diet, you do not have to poo everyday, and people will tell, if you are on carnivore you will have constipation. I got minimum problem with constipation ever since i am on a carnivore diet.
The problem with this presentation: when gut bacteria ferment fiber and resistant starches, the byproducts are short chain fatty acids, and one of most importance is, butyrate, which is the primary fuel source of epithelial cells lining the intestines. Within that cell structure are other cells called goblet cells the colonocytes (with the help of butyrate) stimulate to make mucus to coat and protect those cells from pathogens and gut bacteria.
The mucus is primarily made of carbohydrates; it is a secondary fuel source for the gut bacteria should you not eat a fiber rich diet. Mucosal layers aren't made of ketones. If you deprive the gut bacteria of fiber, they begin feeding on the mucosal layer. If this feeding takes place long enough because of a lack of fiber, those gut bacteria and pathogens now start feeding on the epithelial lining of the gut, and this is the beginning of autoimmune diseases.
You have 4 to 5 lbs. of bacteria in the gut. They thrive on fiber rich diets. If you starve them out with a constant low/no carb diet, they have to feed on something, and that something is your mucosal layer. Low carb and keto diets primarily rely on protein and fats, which are quickly digested by the small intestines and do not nourish the colon. Any these keto/low carb diets really starve out a lot of the beneficial gut flora. Some bacteria thrive on fats and proteins, while other thrive on carbs and fiber. A large diversity of microbes makes for a very healthy host.
Study on low carb inducing ulcerative colitis: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4732800/
You're a real brainiac, aren't you? You might want to listen to theses Stanford Microbiome Researches, the Sonnenburg's, who discovered this, explain this to Dr. Rhonda Patrick. I'm pretty sure they're more studied in this field than you AND I. I just love loudmouth morons like you, that's why I didn't post this link earlier; I just KNEW some illiterate moron would have something to say and I could put my foot on his neck. It took a bit longer than I anticipated, but glad you finally showed up, lol.
You win the dumba$$ of the year award, congratulations!
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Except that butyrate is found in Milk fat as well. So you can get it from other sources. Butter and Ghee are excellent sources of butyrate.
If you read the author of that article, most other articles he or she has published advocate that plants cure every gut disease. What a load of shit.
While there's some truth in what you write, the keto diet I'm on for 1.5+ yrs doesn't deprive me of all carbs, only reduced by elimination the simple carbs, such as white flour, wheat flour, pasta, sugar, potatoes, etc., for more complex ones found in vegetables. I got on it because I was severely pre-diabetic: following Dr Eric Berg, in 8 months my blood sugar went from 15 to 5.6; it's completely under control.
To keep my GP happy I took some minimal meds: he's a very able clinician type and has helped people with long-standing problems. He's also my client the past 10 years and I don't want to lose him! He had me on the lowest dose of Metformin 3 times a day, but I stopped taking 3 when I went from 3 meals a day to 1; is 1 Metformin a day enough to make it effective? I'm just doing it for Larry! I also take a very moderate dose of Ramipril --I think 10 mg-- and the lowest dose of gliclazide, also 1/day. You should also know that I drink 1.5 liters of red wine a day, and will be 76 February 17th next. Larry says my kidneys are amazing: they're working at 120% efficiency.
So far my weight's gone from 285 to 220; my goal is 185 on my 5'-10" frame. I still work as much as I can self-employed as a traditional Carpenter-contractor, as my pension is $1,500 a month, not enough to have a decent lifes in Victoria BC, even though I rent a house with 2 other men, our rent+utilities is $650 month.
CONCLUSION:
I love potatoes, and learned by growing them for chefs the Kennebec potato has the lowest glycemic index; it's the one you should treat yourself to, and ditto for sourdough bread, which you can have as a treat occasionally with lots of butter and garlic! I have full fat cheesecake 2X/month and would love lots of French vanilla ice cream, but it's loaded with sugar, so I had to give it up except as a once or twice a year treat.
After I get my L knee replacement early next year, I'm going back five days/week to regain muscle mass I've been losing the last 8 years: to paraphrase the Greeks of 2000+ plus years ago, "Use it or lose it!"
Joseph E Fasciani
Esquimalt, BC
TYTYTY 🙏 for this, Dr Mason. Going zero fiber made me regular, first time in life, ever. 💯
Do you consume dairy?
I bought bran flakes last week thinking I needed fiber. I ate only a small amount, yet it still caused constipation. I just threw out the bran flakes & I'll stick with the high (healthy) fat, moderate protein, & plenty of only the healthy carb (lots of lettuce) diet.
Great information. The only difference for me is that, when I'm eating a meat-based diet, I have *fewer* bowel movements per week. This makes sense when you consider that a meat-heavy diet is very nutrient-dense, and there is very little waste. On a standard high-carb, junk food diet, you're filling yourself with crap (literally!) and you have more bowel movements per week, to get rid of all the crap that your body doesn't need and can't process.
Fascinating work Dr Paul....I'm working on reversing T2D with a Keto diet and read and listen to all I can to improve my life.
Then as soon as possible, like he says, take out all plants (they all turn eventually into sugar and indigestible fiber) so transition to carnivore.
@Kaye Bonato Here here Ann Kleinman. Carnivore is the answer for me. Transitioned from keto. It helped but carni is better. I have type 2 diabetes Hashimotos, hyperparathyroidism hyponatraemia, hypertension and oboesity. Carnivore diet is healing me slowly but surely.
Check out the documentary of the tree of life..diabetic ate a raw food diet n gabriel cousin
@@marciabernard3820 Raw food diets are nutrient deficient.
@@dguerreiro01 😂🤣🤣🤡🤡
Hello to those following Dr. Mason’ lecture. A question: I did not catch what does he recommend we DO EAT to get the dietary replacement instead of fibers to keep our stools “normal”?
Toally agree...
meat, butter and water
I like Dr. Mason..he covers lots of topic in low carbohydrate...
Great talk and thanks Dr. Mason. What is the best source of calcium.
*The crowd says: Whoooooaaaaa!* when the doc says: 'Fiber is not necessary!' *Heresy!* Doesn't he know *what Saint Ancel Keys said* about: 'Six to ten servings of whole grains daily'! Brought down from on high from The Almighty!? Much obliged Doctor Mason! This may set me straight! Cheers!
So glad I found Dr Paul. Hes so on to it!!!!
Interesting. The Ho, K-S et al study only had 63 subjects and seems to have been conducted in Singapore, so I am wondering whether this is a large enough sample size and whether ethnicity played any role. It would have been useful had the researchers included what the no fibre group actually ate and how much fluids they consumed on an average day.
FODMAPS are the most insidious little buggers. Totally non-intuitive to figure out and super potent.
This makes so much sense. Every time I was having troubles I’d up my fibre 10 fold and nothing. It literally does, nothing.
An older wiser low carb doctor i knew advised more fat to lubricate the digestive tract comfortably.
@@cincin4515 ;O
from what I can understand, keto is great. But blood cholesterol will raise dramatically some people say this should not be an issue with the low triglycerides and stable low blood sugar but it still worries me a little
Why? High cholesterol showed that increase life expectancy at least 5 years over those with "normal" and low rates. You should watch some videos from Bart Kay and Anthony Chafee
It's not about completely adding or removing from the diet, just eat how we have evolved. Our ancestors would have eaten meat and vegetables. Go outside study wild edibles and snaring and hunting. You will learn that food is not so easy to come by as people think, your not just gonna stumble across a large bowl of salad, nor will you will eating meat 6 times a day, or even per day. Natural life is about taking what you can get in the season it is abundant.
Hindsight truth !!
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The ability to pack on the fat got people through the winter. On a modern diet with no fasting, this ability causes disease instead of survival.
Other than me, I'm just wondering if anyone else has experienced a measurable improvement in their bone density while on the carnivore diet. The encouragement would be much appreciated!
IBS-C - there are a lot of us, and fiber is essential for many of us when we go low carb.
Where do you get that idea? Most people who go low carb eat far too much fat to require any fibre at all.
what is the weekly menu for the No Constipation? Please share.
The fructan study is fascinating.
Thanks for sharing this! Here's an interesting fact: while marketing makes you think brown sugar is more natural than white sugar, the only difference is that brown sugar is turned to white sugar by adding phosphate! And when it comes to gut health, brown and white sugar have similar effects!
Why would you want to add unnecessary phosphate just to prove a point?
It's simple. Avoid both
FODMAP is an acronym for "Fermentable Oligo-, Di-, Mono-saccharides And Polyols". I had no idea
18:23 “High animal protein intake and low carbohydrates also affected the reduction of Bacteroides spp. while reducing the abundance of the butyrate producer Roseburia/Eubacterium rectale”
Roseburia and Eubacterium are essential for butyrate…
Article “Effect of Consumption of Animal Products on the Gut Microbiome Composition and Gut Health”
What works for me is apples ,banana, pineapple the right spices and herbs and oatmeal. My father has chronic constipation. He never eats fruit .
Does your stool get soften?
My father has improved his constipation by eating less fruit and fibre
@@Zill7711Everybody is different. What works for one person doesn't work for another and vice versa.
Do either of you eat fat? Fat like butter or oils like coconut oil makes food slide down the pipe. Water goes out of the digestive system, into the bloodsteam and out through the kidneys and bladder. Nowhere near your bowel.
My fiber intake is still high on keto diet from vegetables, nuts, seeds.. I have been thriving on this diet from many years. It is worth to mention that high longevity people from Blue zones are all on high fiber diet. Fiber may not be necessary in diet but I think it may be for someone on healthy and sustainable diet..
"the Blue zones" are full of myths and their diet has changed a lot in in modern times
Fool, fibre is protecting you. It eliminates cholesterol through poops.
What I've found through experimenting is that it's not fiber that helps with constipation, but rather magnesium and potassium found in vegetables and fruits.
This! 👍🙂
These ozzy doctors r pretty much on point and quite inventive.. I went to one in Melbourne for sinusitis.. he gave me prednisone and the next day I was fine
@ 04:42 he says zero fiber went once a day and high fiber went every 6 days. This is backwards from my actual experience and other Carnivore's experiences. It would make more sense to go more often when eating fiber.
looks like you're disagreeing with the study. He's just the messenger.
This talk changed my life for the better, but not in the way you'd expect.
I've been trying to find a way to contact Paul directly to thank him and and let him know about my experiment, inspired by his talk.
Please pass my details on to him so that I can thank him directly and give him the inside information (pun intended).
Why hasn't this got a million views? Astonishing
Good question.
A few of the broscience keto channels should be watching this because many of them recommend taking psyllium husk to avoid constipation. I took up Keto a couple of weeks ago to try and help with arthritic inflammation and have been taking a glass of water with psyllium husk every morning. I haven't had any bowel issues but I have had random minor pain in my tummy that I don't usually have. I should say never have as I pretty much have a cast iron stomach. Sounds like this might be the answer.
This doesn't mean you shouldn't eat vegetables. It just means that if you have problems, you can figure out which vegetables cause these problems.
Also means that if the only way to be symptom free, is by eating no plants at all, you can still live healthy enough on a zero carb diet. Though I would be really fanatic on figuring out all the animal based foods required to have no deficiencies.
eat ruminants and eggs. and dont be afraid of eating things like liver, heart and such.
you dont have to frantically search for eyes, brain, tongue, liver etc.
a lot of zero carbers do just fine eating mostly beef, eggs and butter
there's being a lot of research done on the Carnivore diet. Give it a look. So far, there have been people on this diet bec/ of autoimmune disease and severe allergies who seem to have no deficiencies at all. It also seems to have a positive effect on mood, all but curing some of their depression. I was surprised by the lack of vitamin C. It seems, and they don't know why....yet. If you have a source of fresh meat, vitamin C is not needed. Its all very interesting.
Peter Faber True. There are too many factors and variations of microbial "fingerprints" to make a specific conclusion. People with dysbiosis are typically put on low FODMAP diets until their gut heals, and the foods can be slowly reintroduced back into their diet. All fiber isn't bad for everyone. I'm curious about microbial diversity when dietary fiber is removed for a long period of time.
you don't have any deficiencies if you eat grass-fed quality meat with lots of fats, dairy (preferably raw) and eggs. Bodybuilders stopped taking supplements completely because it covers all the nutrients we need. It's the plants that are foreign to us because of so many anti-nutrients. We can absorb them also very poorly vitamin-/mineralwise. We are not made to break plants/seeds/grains down - just the bacteria. Ex-vegans and autoimmune sufferers could reverse their health problems with carnivore or raw carnivore diet - with zero carbs.
I guess an animal diet based on wild animals and eggs might make sense. Of course, only if you eat the whole animals with all of their organs. But who regularly goes hunting these days?
Googled "Is fibre necessary? " First result is from Harvard, saying that "fiber helps regulate the body's use if sugar, helping to keep hunger and blood sugar in check". Seems to be the main motivation for fiber. What if you don't consume blood sugar spiking foods?
Fyber keeps in "check" because make you digest slow so you don't get the sugar too quickly. That's all. Nothing else.
I was going through a number of years of bad constipation (not to mention other associated symptoms), after taking quantities of both soluble and insoluble fibre, from dietetics professional advice, yes it made matters worse.
Funny enough, since I have gone into a low carb diet, defecating is a lot easier, like it used to be in my teen age years.
The moral of this story, do not take what the medical profession is telling you the Gospel truth. You have to try it out yourself. If it does not work within two weeks, look for other solutions. And then apply the same principle.
You've gotten rid of the grains and starches, that is why. 🙂
Hows the constipation these days? I suffer from it and thinking about going low carb / keto
Fantastic! Nobel prize right here please.
My bowels move much easier with fiber than meat. I never been constipated going whole food plant based. I have plenty of times not just eating meat, but the higher the ratio my meat consumption was and the more often i ate meat the more often it occured.
The problem with the more fiber vs meat volume, the stool is much softer with fiber. I had stools much smaller with meat, but the constipation occured becuase the stools were very hard. Like a gold ball hard.
Aria Invictus
Agree. Large, regular healthy shits on plant based. But goodness, I farted ALL the time! And digestion seemed to require a lot of work. And as a low carber, I miss the ease of regularity and have to be particularly careful to not eat too much cheese. But my pancreas is simply unable to handle all the carbs anymore. Those were the days! Whole watermelons, lots of potatoes, dates at will. Life ain’t always at my wishing.
On low carb HF we don’t eat much fruit and no processed food such as flour, but it isn’t no carb. We eat lots of veg including some root veg, and squashes and some low fructose fruits. Yes poo is less bulky but it moves through gut easier and constipation seems to have gone. I do still have windy days, I think some veg are responsible for this but not yet worked out which ones. I feel so much healthier and have good energy levels. I don’t get hungry any more
شكرا جزيلا على الإفادة ..🥰
Animal based diet has really improved my digestion.
The truth will set you free. Thanks
The problem with all these "experts" is that people from both sides are cherry picking research that supports their point of view. As someone who's not even from the medical domain, I could still find plenty of research that supports the benefit of fiber. All these conferences are just one sided monologue with no debate.
i listened to this guy..he convinced me fiber was not necessary for good health..now i have a high calcium score and calcium deposits in every single artery that was screened including a 620 score in my lad also known as widow maker and total score of 810..now i need a diet consisting of high fiber daily diet of minimum of 30 grams per day just to keep it from progressing..turns out soluble fiber causes less production of cholesterol by the liver and removes excess cholesterol from blood vessels and out of the body and insoluble fiber feeds the good bacteria in gut preventing inflammation and colon cancer..
You need Vitamin K2. Both MK-4 AND MK-7.
This guy clearly connects all the dots
If you are a fool
Very well done presentation. Clear and concise.
Fantastic video - so easy to understand and covers so much! Thank you for such a great resource - I will definitely be recommending this to lots of people.
Dr Mason, please make a video about carnivore and IBS/IBD and Crohn's and all that gastrointestinal issues. I hope you could share with us your xperience from your patients. ❤