I was doing so good, 10 months of clean pure carnivore. I had amazing results (45kg lost). I didn't have any cravings.

I feel off the wagon 2 weeks ago. It started innocently enough - A friend visiting from out of town wanted to go to a coffee shop and eat. They had pastrami bagels, I got one, scrapped off the meat - didn't eat the bagel. It was good. Really good. I found myself ordering this pastrami bagel to my house. Slowly enough that I didn't realize it, my old carvings came back. I found myself thinking of a deep dish pizza, over and over and over again.

There must have been sugar in the pastrami, I think I got triggered. I got the pizza, rationalizing it - I've been so good, just one cheat will be fine, then back on track. I felt bloated, stuffed, sick even - for the rest of the day. But... the next day, now I REALLY wanted a pizza - Fuck it. Got the pizza, and coffee (oh, did I mention I quit coffee 5 months ago?), and rice krispie treats.

Fast forward a few binge days...

Why This Could Happen When You Start Carnivore Are you experiencing joint pain, rashes, fatigue, or strange symptoms after starting the carnivore diet? You might be dealing with oxalate dumping—a hidden detox process that most people have never heard of.

In this video, Dr. Tony Hampton breaks down:

• What oxalates are and how they build up in the body
• What “dumping” really means and why it happens when you stop eating plants
• The symptoms to watch for—and how to know it’s not just “the meat”
• Step-by-step strategies to reduce oxalate dumping symptoms
• What to eat and avoid during this detox phase

Whether you're new to carnivore, coming from a plant-based diet, or just want to understand what’s happening inside your body, this video gives you the science, solutions, and encouragement to keep going.

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The video, presented by Dr. Tony Hampton, addresses a common concern among people who have recently started the carnivore diet or other low-carb

TLDR - Linoleic acid is bad, has gone up by 140%, has a half life of 600 days, and gets stored in fat tissue, Dietary sources of LA (industrial oils) have a direct influence on body composition.

Linoleic acid (LA) is a bioactive fatty acid with diverse effects on human physiology and pathophysiology. LA is a major dietary fatty acid, and also one of the most abundant fatty acids in adipose tissue, where its concentration reflects dietary intake. Over the last half century in the United States, dietary LA intake has greatly increased as dietary fat sources have shifted toward polyunsaturated seed oils such as soybean oil. We have conducted a systematic literature review of studies reporting the concentration of LA in subcutaneous adipose tissue of US cohorts. Our results indicate that adipose tissue LA has increased by 136% over the last half century and that this increase is highly correlated with an increase in dietary LA intake over the same period of time.

Full Paper https://doi

This Nick Norwitz video presents the biochemical link between inflammation and anxiety

It made me wonder - is this part of the reported cool that you hear about in carnivore circles. Is it just (or maybe mostly) that the lifestyle prevents the bulk of inflammation and thus the anxiety that inflammation would have caused

7 Reasons Plant-Based Diets Can Harm You Are plant-based diets really the healthiest choice?

In this video, Dr. Tony Hampton—board-certified obesity specialist and former vegetarian—dives into 7 hidden dangers of plant-based eating that can silently impact your brain, bones, metabolism, and more.

While plant-based diets can work with extreme intention, most people don’t realize what they’re missing—literally. From vitamin B12 and omega-3s to retinol and zinc, Dr. Hampton explains why so many well-meaning vegans and vegetarians eventually experience issues like fatigue, premature aging, low muscle mass, and poor immunity.

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This video presents a critical examination of plant-based diets, specifically highlighting seven key nutrient deficiencies common in such diets that can accelerate aging and impair overall health. The speaker, who spent eight years as a vegetarian and vegan, shares personal experience and clinical insights from his work as a health

In this video, I break down what Joe Rogan has said about and experienced on the carnivore diet.

Joe Rogan is divisive, but he is probably the most famous person to try carnivore.

Max German puts together a EXCELLENT over view of the data, science, and best practices I've seen about Carnivore. I can't find fault with anything Max covers. He even talks about Rogan's adaption issues.

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The video transcript details a personal experience and an in-depth exploration of the carnivore diet, supplemented by insights from Joe Rogan's experimentation and commentary on this nutritional approach. The narrator recounts their own month-long carnivore diet journey, noting significant weight loss (12 pounds), sustained, stable energy levels, and improvement in an autoimmune condition (vitiligo). They emphasize how eliminating carbohydrates prevents the typical blood sugar spikes and crashes that cause cravings and energy dips, leading to more consistent satiet

This community gets lots of negative attention, and for a very vocal group of people it becomes a focus of animosity

Carnivore is a tool - the people using this tool want to be healthy

Opportunities for common causes:

• 1. Whole foods - Single Ingredient foods - No Processed Foods

The Zero carb community as a whole focuses on single ingredient foods, without any processing.

• 2. Sustainably produced

We all live on spaceship earth, and that system needs to be maintained for our future and our children's future. Any solution to health needs to be sustainable ecologically. That means using natures own biocycles and minimizing the need for industrial chemicals. i.e. crop rotation rather then mono-cropping, using ruminants to regenerate top soil

• 3. Locally sourced foods

Moving a special product around the globe via airplanes or ocean vessel simply is a waste of energy, time, and logistics. This should be minimized in the food supply, and any solution to health and sustainabi

Two popular carnivore influencers are being called out for supposedly becoming pre-diabetic. But is the data really what it seems? Dr. Eric Westman breaks down one of the most misunderstood metrics in all of nutrition—HbA1c—and unpacks why some people on low-carb or carnivore diets may show unexpected blood sugar markers. Could your "normal" lab results actually be misleading? What role does red blood cell lifespan play in these readings? And does this mean you're actually at risk—or is there something deeper going on? Don't miss this one.

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In this detailed video, Dr. Eric Westman addresses the controversial claims that following a carnivore diet causes pre-diabetes or diabetes. Highlighting recent viral social media critiques targeting popular carnivore influencers, Dr. Westman explains why these claims oversimplify and misinterpret key health markers, particularly blood glucose and hemoglobin A1C (HbA1C) levels, when taken out of context. He clarif

From our previous discussions about the "sugar" diet, the key mechanism appears to be stimulation of FGF-21 which is triggered by protein sparing, and not sugar.

FGF-21 decouples mitochondria from cells and appears to increase basal metabolic rate by ~20%.

MD Shawn Baker does a protein sparing carnivore diet experiment (butter only) for 3 days - which should also stimulate FGF-21 increases.

Shawn Baker lost 4.5kg (10lbs) in 3 days doing this protein sparing diet.

THIS DIET IS NOT HEALTHY! You need protein.

We have discussed this before as a "fat" fast, but never in the context of FGF-21.

The mobile khanates are documented eating horse meat and dairy products along their vast nomadic tracts

Renowned for their ability to ride for days and immediately go into battle, this maps to what we understand about modern carnivore - eating only when necessary, skipping meals, very high levels of energy speak to a fat based metabolism

Obviously the Mongols were not exclusive carnivores - they were opportunistic

https://www.historyonthenet.com/what-did-the-mongols-eat

Farming was not possible for the most part, so the most prominent foods in the Mongol diet were meat and milk products such as cheese and yogurt. The Mongols were a nomadic, pastoral culture and they prized their animals: horses, sheep, camels, cattle and goats. As their herds ate up the grass, the Mongols would pack up their gers, tent-like dwellings they lived in, and move their herds to fresher pastures.

Thus, their food groups were predominantly milk products and a variety of meats. While the Mongols ap

Hunger and Frequency of Eating are big points of friction when dating someone who doesn't do keto or carnivore.

They are always hungry, I probably was this way before too, but now it's feels like such a huge time sink.

"Let's go to lunch - at the grill!" Great! I love the grill... Literally walking out of the grill "Let's find a snack"... one ice cream later... "Where are we going to have dinner"

I went on a few dates with a vegetarian and they were craving food constantly, even more then the above - every few minutes they had to eat some fruit or something sweet. It was kinda funny until it started to interrupt plans or outings.

I suppose this is just a reflection with how much my relationship with food has changed. Going into markets with a million snack shops seems so out of touch with reality now.

For 4 weeks, I ate 2,000 calories per day of saturated fat to see what it would do to my cholesterol levels. Spoiler alert: NOTHING. That’s 222 grams of saturated fat per day, and my total and LDL "bad" cholesterol levels remained the same. In this video, I break down why this happened and explain why this isn't just clickbait—it's a science-backed demonstration that will challenge conventional thinking about cholesterol, saturated fat, and cardiovascular health. We'll dive deep into how dietary fat influences cholesterol levels, the role of LDL and HDL, and why it's important to rethink what we know about fat consumption. Prepare to have your curiosity piqued and learn the real science behind these surprising results that appear to defy mainstream perspectives cholesterol.

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0:00 – Consuming 2000 Calories from Saturated Fat: What Happened? 
1:02 – How My Baseline Ketogenic Diet Affected My Cholesterol 
1:52 – Switching to a Saturated Fat-Rich Diet: The Details 
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I think the zeitgeist would agree that Pizza isn't healthy, it's a junk food

What is a pizza?

• Bread
• Cheese
• Topping (pepperoni)
• Tomato Sauce

By weight bread is the largest component of pizza.

So which part of this makes it a junk food?

Carnivores would say the Cheese and Meat is fine, and the bread and sauce are making it a junk food

What would have to change on a pizza to make it "healthy"?

Ali Morgan has actually been involved with farming in many different ways for decades in many countries all around the world. Today, she busts a lot of myths about animal and crop farming and shows us the truths about what vegetarianism and veganism does to our beautiful planet. She is also one of the authors of the book: Why Vegans Have Smaller Brains.

https://youtu.be/qO1l43vVUig

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1:00 Intro
2:55 Who is Ali Morgan?
5:00 Farming knowledge in the west vs elsewhere
7:25 Nutrition quality in different countries
11:19 Reduction in farming industry
12:33 Automation / Mechanisation
14:25 Loss of rotation damages the environment
18:50 When we lost planet-friendly farming
19:49 Definition of organic farming, vegan farming myths
22:28 Definition of conventional farming
23:30 Soya’s carbon emissions
24:16 Beef doesn’t hurt the amazon
26:06 Crops vs livestock for the environment
36:34 Conventional vs organic vs regenerative farming
45:00 Definition of regenerative farming

  

Dr Chaffee presents his paradigm-altering thesis that autoimmune diseases are the result of the body's attack on plant compounds. He presents evidence that removal, as in a carnivore diet, leads to remission of a wide range of autoimmune diseases.

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In this presentation at the Regenerate Conference, the speaker challenges the conventional understanding of autoimmune diseases—the idea that these conditions result from the body mistakenly attacking itself due to molecular mimicry or immune dysregulation. Traditionally, autoimmunity is thought to arise when the immune system is sensitized to self-antigens following an environmental trigger, such as a pathogen or toxin, often influenced by genetic predisposition. However, the speaker asserts that this model does not hold up well against clinical and immunological observations. Instead, they propose an alternative explanation focusing on environmental toxins, particularly plant lectins and glyphosate, as

Up until about 15 years ago lectins were thought of as laboratory tools, useful for histochemistry and blood transfusion work. The fact that many common foods are rich sources of lectin was not considered by most biomedical scientists. In the last decade, however, there has been a flowering of knowledge about the interactions of lectins with body organs and tissues, and it has become clear that many lectins are resistant to cooking and digestion and are distributed to distant parts of the body after ingestion. There is now abundant evidence that dietary lectins can cause disease in Man and animals. This review will adduce evidence that such hitherto mysterious diseases as inflammatory bowel disease, diabetes mellitus, rheumatoid arthritis, glomerulonephri-tis, psoriasis, multiple sclerosis, retinitis and cataracts in the eye, are all explicable in terms of a lectin aetiology, as are congenital malformations, infertility, IgE-mediated allergies and autoimmune states. Complete proof is s

In any health intervention there can be the proponents who become zealous and unreasonable, holding people to too high a standard.

In the Keto/Carnivore space there is such excitement from finding a tool that works so well that advocates can become a bit annoying when they overshare with their friends and family.

Addictive personalities probably see quite a benefit in following a eating pattern strictly. These are the people who can not "moderate" temptation and must abstain to maintain their health goals. These are exactly the people who see the proper approach requiring strictness.

Not everyone is going to see the same benefits from the same intervention, and if someone is starting off relatively healthy their tolerances mean the tradeoff of strictness vs benefit isn't worth it.

For myself I've found that I can't hold people around me to the same standard I'm trying to keep myself at - I need the accountability for good outcomes, but that doesn't translate to other people.

Discover the life-changing potential of the carnivore lifestyle with tips from Bella, the Steak & Butter Gal. In this episode we dive into how your cravings usually mean something, they are not to be ignored. But also how a meat-based lifestyle, enriched with nutrient-dense butter, as well as other fat components such as Kefir and more can help you shed body fat, combat chronic illness, end obesity, stop food cravings, end anxiety and more.

Bella gets real on her history and shares her expert insights on why butter and animal fats crush food cravings and reduce anxiety, paving the way for mental clarity and high energy. Whether you’re seeking to reverse health challenges or create the vibrant life you’ve always wanted, this conversation offers actionable strategies and science-backed wisdom to thrive in a carnivore lifestyle.

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This video transcript features an in-depth conversation between two advocates of the carnivore lifestyle, focusing primaril