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Carnivore is where the rabbit hole starts.

You start by questioning carbohydrates.

That leads you to glucose and insulin. Then metabolic health. Then cholesterol.

And cholesterol is where the rabbit hole gets considerably deeper.

You start reading about statins, pharmaceutical trials, relative versus absolute risk, who funds the research and why so much of modern healthcare revolves around managing individual markers.

Then you start questioning the food industry. Why we eat all day. Why food needs 30 ingredients. Why animal fat became something to fear while industrially manufactured food became completely normal.

Eventually you’re questioning far more than food.

Artificial light at night. Barely seeing daylight. Sitting all day. Constant eating. Poor sleep. Then another product, prescription or gadget to deal with the consequences.

You thought carnivore was about changing your food and eating meat.
But you end up changing the way you look at modern life.

That’s why I call it Live Ancestral.

Who else has gone from that rabbit hole?



Mike

 

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Mike

 

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The longer I eat carnivore, the stranger supermarket food looks. Pork is pork. Beef is beef. Eggs are eggs, Butter is cream and maybe salt. Then you walk three aisles over and need a chemistry degree to understand the ingredients in something marketed as a “healthy” snack.

I’m quite happy eating the boring food humans have recognised for thousands of years.



Mike

 

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I probably wouldn’t be here today if I didn’t make the changes that I made.

I was depressed. I was in a constant state of inflammation and I was losing my will to live.

Sleep was my only reprieve. The dopamine in junk food was my only joy.

I kept thinking, "What's the point?"

And all that changed after I dedicated myself to an animal-based diet. I immediately felt better and it made me want to live again.

That's why it's comical to me when someone tells me what’s on my plate is destroying me.

They have no idea about the hell I left behind to get where I am today.



Mike

 

[Medusa]

 

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Today marks 11 years as a carnivore. A progress report:

-Nutritional deficiencies: zero
-Blood tests taken: far too many
-Blood tests showing problems: zero
-Scurvy symptoms: zero
-Fiber deficiency symptoms: zero
-Chins: 1
-Manboobs: zero
-Deadlift personal best: 2× body weight
-Sleep: effortless and deep, 5–7 hours every night
-Afternoon crashes: zero
-Brain fog: zero
-Calories counted: zero
-Bloating: zero
-Digestive problems: zero
-Mental health on a scale of 1-10: 12
-Books written: 4
-Books I’d have written had I been eating plants: zero
-Days I was bored with steak: zero
-Plans to change: zero
-Sugar junkies concerned about my health: all of them
-Sugar junkies who were concerned about my health when I was fat and eating garbage: zero
-Convincing reasons sugar junkies have given me to eat plants: zero
-Health problems sugar junkies told me I would get from not eating plants: all of them
-Health problems I actually got from not eating plants: zero
-Years required before sugar junkies stop asking me whether carnivore is sustainable: more than 11

My guide to eating and cooking meat, which I wrote after 5 years of carnivore: https://saifedean.com/meat



Just passed the 3-year carnivore mark myself.

I don't talk about it much on here anymore since it's just normal life now, but going zero-carb has totally eliminated a lengthy list of health issues I struggled with earlier in life.

No more digestive problems, brain fog, low energy, sleep trouble, dry skin/acne, random aches & pains in my back/joints, and generally lower libido, motivation, and OOMPH in life due to lower testosterone.

I had no idea that fruits/vegetables/grains were causing all of these problems for me, since I was always told a "balanced diet" full of plants was the healthiest.

Well, I decided to listen to the crazy people on the internet and just TRY this weird all-meat diet as an experiment, and lo and behold, literally every single one of my health markers improved significantly in a matter of weeks.

It sent me deep down the diet rabbit hole, and the conclusion was clear: Eating plants is a scam. The human body's gut pH is 1.5, which means we are physically unable to break down plant fiber. It all just clogs up your system with bulk, and causes all sorts of problems (which is why the WEF, Big Pharma, and all of the other evil, anti-life organizations are relentlessly pushing veganism all the time. It creates a population of weak, low-testosterone, pill-dependent goy slobs).

I took a whole box worth of supplements back when I was on a "balanced diet", now I take absolutely nothing. I just eat one big meal of steak every night (yes, just ONE MEAL PER DAY, which sounds outlandish to the carb-addicted mind), and I'm fully satiated and energized for the next 24 hours. This is how our body is SUPPOSED TO WORK, not grazing like a sheep on 3+ meals every day, constantly thinking about your next sugar hit.

I don't care what health issues you or your loved ones are dealing with, I highly recommend you at least TRY going 100% carnivore for 90 days (animal products only; beef, butter, bacon & eggs), and keep a journal to see if it helps alleviate your issues.

The amount of health problems I have personally seen the Carnivore Diet improve or even cure, for countless people, is so expansive that I made an entire website dedicated to it

Go to https://whycarnivore.com/ (@whycarnivore), and search the Table of Contents for a health problem that you or someone you care about is in the trenches with. Follow the link, listen to the testimonials, and see what resonates!

And follow these accounts for the best signal on the subject of carnivore, and health/diet in general

@KenDBerryMD @SamaHoole @realzerocarb @tiras_corner @UKcarnivore @NutritionwJudy @SBakerMD @anthony_chaffee @holisticnut33 @CarnivoreFriend @ValerieAnne1970



Mike

 

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There are so many things I love about the carnivore diet.

I don’t count calories.

I don’t spend half my life reading ingredient labels.

Steak is an acceptable breakfast.

Eggs are an acceptable dinner.

I can walk past the cereal aisle without pretending any of it is food.

My shopping list is ridiculously short.

I don’t need seventeen ingredients to make dinner.

I’m never thinking about snacks.

I can go hours without thinking about food.

I don’t buy low fat anything.

I don’t need fake meat pretending to be real meat.

I don’t need cauliflower pretending to be rice either.

I eat the fat on my steak.

I eat the skin on my chicken.

I salt my food properly.

I don’t need a cupboard full of protein bars.

I don’t drink green sludge and call it breakfast.

I’m never disappointed when someone says we’re having steak.

I don’t need six tiny meals a day.

I’ve stopped being frightened of eggs.

I don’t need a recipe book to cook my food.

My freezer looks like I’m preparing for an apocalypse, but at least it’s a well fed apocalypse.

I know exactly what’s in my dinner.

Beef mince counts as convenience food.

Bacon can improve almost any situation.

I’ve discovered how many different ways there are to cook an egg.

I’ve also discovered there are apparently limits to how many eggs you can mention online before somebody gets concerned.

Nobody can sell me a £7 bag of “superfood” powder anymore.

I don’t need food to entertain me.

I don’t spend Sunday afternoon meal prepping.

My plate doesn’t look like a botanical garden.

I actually look forward to liver.

I don’t care what time breakfast is supposed to happen.

I eat when I’m hungry.

I stop when I’ve had enough.

And after years of being told food needed to be complicated, I love how ridiculously simple eating has become.

Meat. Eggs. Animal fat. Salt. Done.

Carnivores, what would you add?



Mike

 

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Mike

 

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People have lost their fucking minds over food.

I honestly don’t care what anybody eats. Live on cereal, vegan sausages and oat milk if that’s what you want to do.

But don’t tell me that eating real food is the dangerous option.

I eat meat.

“That much red meat can’t be good for you.”

I eat eggs.

“Every day?!”

I cook in beef fat.

“You need to worry about your cholesterol.”

I don’t eat bread.

“You need carbohydrates for energy.”

I don’t eat fibre.

“You must shit bricks.”

Apparently I’m about three fry-ups away from death.

Meanwhile we’ve got fake meat made from a list of ingredients that takes half the packet to print.
Milk that didn’t come from an animal. Protein bars with fake sugar and seed oils. Breakfast cereals with synthetic vitamins added back in and low-fat crap covered in marketing words like “healthy”, “plant based” and “high protein”.

And that’s normal?

Nobody bats an eyelid.

But put a steak on a plate with four eggs and suddenly everyone has concerns.

The brainwashing has worked so well.

People will confidently tell me that meat is dangerous while pushing a trolley full of shit that didn’t even exist 100 years ago.

And they’re absolutely certain about it.

They don’t use their fucking brains anymore to question anything.

Look at how many people are obese. Look at how common type 2 diabetes and fatty liver have become. But let’s focus on heart disease because it’’s supposed to be caused by cholesterol. Nothing to do with amount sugar and carbs they are shoving into their bodies all day long.

They have somehow decided the problem is beef, eggs and butter.

Open your eyes!

Something has gone very wrong with what we’ve been taught to call normal.

How the hell did we get to a point where real food became extreme and factory-made food became normal?

Rant over



Mike

 

[Medusa]

Er is geen enkel voedsel dat beter is voor je gezondheid dan steak.

Het is een multivitamine, volgeladen met cruciale voedingsstoffen zoals selenium, kalium, magnesium, koper, b1, b3, b5, b6, b12.

Het bevat ook bioactieve stoffen zoals taurine, die diabetes, levensduur en dopamineproductie verbeteren...creatine, dat werkt als een antidepressivum en spiergroei verhoogt...carnitine, dat helpt bij ATP- en energieopwekking...en nog veel meer.

Het feit dat ze ons bang hebben gemaakt voor steak is de meest gemene misdaad die ooit op de mensheid is begaan.

Eet meer vlees.

 

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We spent decades being told fat was bad for us while walking around with the fattiest organ in the human body sitting inside our skull.

Your brain is roughly 60% fat by dry weight.

And somehow we decided the healthy thing to do was buy low-fat yoghurt, trim every bit of fat off our meat, swap butter for spreads and generally behave as though eating fat was going to kill us.

I did it too.

I bought all the low-fat crap because I genuinely thought I was looking after myself. Everything had to be lean. Fat was something you removed.

Meanwhile the brain contains huge amounts of DHA, an omega-3 fatty acid that has to ultimately come from the diet because our ability to make enough from plant omega-3 is limited. Some of the richest sources are exactly the fatty animal foods we were being encouraged to eat less of, particularly oily fish and egg yolks.

Then I went in completely the opposite direction.

I cut the carbs and started eating proper fatty food again. Eggs, fatty meat, butter, tallow. Once I was running on very little carbohydrate and producing ketones, the difference in my head was one of the first things I noticed.

I could think more clearly.

And this sent me down another rabbit hole.

The brain normally relies heavily on glucose, but when carbohydrate availability falls the liver makes ketones from fat and the brain can use them for a substantial amount of its energy.

Then you start looking at Alzheimer’s research and it gets even more interesting. Reduced glucose metabolism in affected areas of the brain is a well-established feature of Alzheimer’s disease, while the brain’s ability to take up ketones can remain relatively preserved. Researchers are actively studying ketogenic interventions and ketone-based fuels because of it.

So after spending years being frightened of fat, I now eat plenty of it and regularly run my brain partly on fuel made from fat.

And I feel mentally better doing it.

Which does make me wonder how many people spent years eating low-fat everything, feeling hungry and foggy, and never once questioned whether the diet they’d been told was “healthy” actually suited them.

Did you do the low-fat years too? What were you eating?



Mike

 

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Why has eating become so bloody complicated?

There was a time when a person got hungry, ate real food and stopped when they were full. That was the whole system, and it worked for a few hundred thousand years without a single app.

Now eating needs a calculator.

We need five a day, or is it ten now? Thirty different plants a week, thirty grams of fibre, six to eight glasses of water, and just over a third of the plate from starch, according to an official drawing of a plate.

There is red, amber and green on the front of the packet, like dinner is a road junction, and calories printed on menus so everyone can work out how many calories they’re allowed to eat that day. Scan the barcode, log the meal, weigh the chicken.

And there is always someone who knows the system by heart. “I’ve had 1,400 of my 1,850, I’m twelve grams short on fibre, and I still have six plants to find by Sunday.”

That is more complicated than my tax return. And after all that arithmetic, they’re still hungry by ten o’clock.

Meanwhile I’ve not even had my breakfast. I never read a label. I eat, I stop, and I get on with my day. No app, no targets, no drawing of a plate.

It’s food. I eat it when I’m hungry and I stop when I’m full.

Then people ask, “Don’t you get bored eating that way?”

No. It’s food. It’s dinner.

I don’t need food to provide me with excitement. Your life must be incredibly dull if all the entertainment happens at mealtimes.

I like steak. I eat steak. There’s a fairly good chance I’ll still like steak tomorrow.

Give me food I like, let me eat until I’ve had enough and then let me get on with the rest of my fucking day.



Mike

 

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Mike

 

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Mike

 

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Them: Is it really true that you eat red meat every day?

Me: Mostly true, but to be fair, some days I don’t eat anything. But that’s a different conversation.

Them: So how much red meat do you eat?

Me: Not quite double my body weight every year.

Them: Aren’t you worried about your cholesterol?

Me: Actually, I am concerned about my cholesterol. I hope it doesn’t get too low. That’s part of why I eat the way I eat and why I avoid statins.

Them: You’re worried about it being too LOW?

Me: Nobody probably told you this, but some studies of older adults have found that older people with higher cholesterol lived longer than people with lower cholesterol. Ever hear that side of the conversation?

Them: *Acts like I told them that water is not wet and turns to leave.

Me: Hold on a second! Now it’s my turn. You probably eat double your body weight in pizza, donuts and cereal every year.

Aren’t YOU worried about your cholesterol, your liver, your heart, your brain and your wardrobe?

See how that works?



Mike

 

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Eat red meat, eggs and butter every day and suddenly everyone becomes a nutrition scientist demanding decades of clinical trials to prove it’s safe.

Ox cheeks are a perfect example of how much nutrition we’re overlooking when we only eat the popular cuts of meat.

A cow spends hours every day chewing, so its cheek muscles are full of connective tissue. That tissue contains collagen, which breaks down into gelatin when cooked slowly, giving the meat its incredibly rich flavour and tender texture.

Ox cheeks also provide complete protein, iron, zinc and vitamin B12. The collagen supplies glycine and proline, amino acids involved in building and maintaining connective tissue.

Our ancestors didn’t just eat steaks and chicken breasts. They used the whole animal, including the tougher muscles, organs, fat and bones.

We’ve become so disconnected from traditional food that eating a cow’s cheek sounds strange to some people.

Yet it’s one of the most delicious and nutritious cuts of beef you can put on your plate.

Have you ever tried ox cheeks?



Mike

 

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"Sometimes eating healthy means you have to eat foods that don't taste good."

I can't believe it took me 46 years before I finally realized that statement isn't true.

Any time I tried to lose weight, I used to force myself to eat foods that don't taste good.

I used to get plenty of fiber.
I used to avoid red meat.
I used to eat lean and low-fat.

At 46 is when I decided to try something completely different.

Something I had always been told is unhealthy.

Eat red meat and eggs every day. Cook with butter. Use sea salt. Choose full-fat dairy.

The food that I eat now always tastes delicious!

And,
My gut is happier without fiber.
My muscles are stronger with red meat.
My body is leaner eating fat.

But the best part, all of my health issues resolve when I consistently eat this way.

BP, heart rate, joints, sleep, brain fog, muscle recovery, hormones, energy, skin, hair, etc etc. All better.

All it took was for me to stop believing what I had been told for 46 years was "healthy" and take a leap of faith eating the foods that provide the most nutrition for my body.

I've never felt better!

My lunch today is chopped up pieces of locally raised buffalo chuck eye seared in butter and salt with locally raised eggs also cooked in butter and salt. Yum!



Mike