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Hello jsmith! You can be successful on the carnivore diet without a gallbladder. Some individuals have no problem whatsoever. Others may employ some strategy, such as.... 1) It smaller meals more frequently - so your body can keep up with bile production. 2) Eat leaner cuts (you still need fat, you just have to space it out). 2) Take ox bile supplements with your meals. This does not put too much stress on the liver. Your liver will adapt to the increase in fat consumption, and will ramp up bile production accordingly. This adaptation will take a little time, but you will get there. And then kidney cysts are usually harmless. They only need addressed if they are infected, bleeding, or getting larger.

Welcome aboard @Scott A Plateaus happen. Sometimes, your body is focusing on body recomposition or healing instead of losing weight. I've had times where my weight loss was stalled and yet I was still dropping notches on my belt. And then of course, we need to take a closer look at your diet. How many meals are you eating? Do you snack between meals? Do you eat late and then go to sleep on it? What are you eating? How strict is your carnivore or carnivore-centric diet when it comes to spices, sauces, dips, dairy, artificially sweetened beverages, or plant matter?

Welcome aboard Joel! For me it was about 6 weeks. I would go for DAYS without having to go. Sometimes I would even think I have to go, sit down, and nothing would happen (Phantom poopie, lol). The longest stretch was 9 days without a bowel movement. When I did have bowel movements, it was unpredictable whether it was going to be diarrhea or if it was going to have the consitency of driveway gravel. But eventually everything returned to my *new* normal, which is having a normal movement typically 3 times a week - ish.

This is accurate. On very rare occasions, I might have fruit or honey. If I overdo it, I start to get depressed and think strange thoughts. The more I avoid carbs, the more sane in the brain I am, lol.

Nick Norwitz. He's worth subscribing to. He has great information. 16*31 = 496. I'm certain you've been awarded 2nd place 😄

Ah, good point. I didn't think about that - a strategy to try and claim all the Tiktok users when it goes dark, lol.

I always like to add that if he is actively losing weight, those numbers tend to spike as LDL is released from adipose tissue into the blood stream. After some time, especially after being weight-stable for a while, those numbers tend to come back down. The exception being those who are "Lean Mass Hyper Responders". Even then, LDL by itself is not harmful. The book "The Great Cholesterol Myth" is a fantastic read for a deep dive into this subject. That is a fantastic strategy. A keto, ketovore, animal-based, and even paleo styled diets that are devoid of processed grains, refined sugars, and seed oils (as much as possible) still fall under the "Proper Human Diet" spectrum. That is awesome. Keep doing what you are doing.

I'm just catching up on this topic and wanted to mention that sugar is indeed a drug. They say that sugar addiction rivals that of your strongest and most addictive street drugs. And the withdrawals symptoms of cutting them out is akin to the withdrawal symptoms of 'going clean'. So the drug analogy is very apropos.

I feel the same way with carbs as I do with tobacco. I'm a carb addict. I admit it. You know and I know that if I eat them it's going to make me want more. And so like any addict it's best for me if I just stay away from them. Now my wife, on the on the other hand, she's a moderator. She can eat one scoop of ice cream and not touch ice cream again for a month. Doesn't bother her a bit. Me? I'm taking out a whole half gallon in one sitting. You know if I eat one spoonful, I'm going for the rest of it. So for me, I ain't adding nothing back in. Tiktok Version: https://www.tiktok.com/@carnivoretalk/video/7460270186042756398 Watch the Full Video Here: SUBSCRIBE to the channel! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeAwaxsqfNEK4ZtfWX3Dz3g?sub_confirmation=1 Join me and my keto-carnivore friends over at https://www.CarnivoreTalk.com Have YOU had success with a meat-based keto, ketovore, carnivore, carnivore-centric, or animal-based diet? Let's do a video together! Contact me using this form... https://carnivoretalk.com/contact/ DISCLAIMER: The Carnivore Talk website and its audio and video content is for general informational purposes only. The use of the information found within our content or from materials linked to from our content is at the user’s own risk. The content published by Carnivore Talk is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Users should seek the assistance of their health care professionals to obtain medical advice and to diagnose or treat any condition.

I was going club footed. I couldn't hardly walk anymore. Finally had to have surgery on that, and I just let everything go until carnivore came along. And my son was the one that introduced it to me after my last AFib attack. I told him the story of lying there on the gurney while they're while a team of doctors and nurses are working on my heart, trying to get me back in rhythm. And I got tears streaming out of my eyes, and I just turned to my wife and I said "This is it! I can't take this anymore. I'm done!" My son came home from the oil fields about a week or 2 later. And he asked me, "Dad, is this going to shorten your life?" And I said "yeah more than likely." I said I'm definitely at a five to 6 times higher risk for stroke because of this. And he says "I'd like to tell you something if you're willing to listen to me with an open mind." I said sure I can do that and so he explained to me about proper nutrition, eating right, and carnivore. And he just didn't tell me about it or how to do it. He sent me videos from the top doctors, you know, Chaffee, Baker, and Berry - and then he sent me research and websites to look at. So I was able to do my research and get it down firmly in my mind that this is what I needed to do and I've never looked back. Tiktok version: https://www.tiktok.com/@carnivoretalk/video/7456572003613576494 Watch the Full Video: SUBSCRIBE to the channel! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeAwaxsqfNEK4ZtfWX3Dz3g?sub_confirmation=1 Join me and my keto-carnivore friends over at https://www.CarnivoreTalk.com Have YOU had success with a meat-based keto, ketovore, carnivore, carnivore-centric, or animal-based diet? Let's do a video together! Contact me using this form... https://carnivoretalk.com/contact/ DISCLAIMER: The Carnivore Talk website and its audio and video content is for general informational purposes only. The use of the information found within our content or from materials linked to from our content is at the user’s own risk. The content published by Carnivore Talk is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Users should seek the assistance of their health care professionals to obtain medical advice and to diagnose or treat any condition.

So I'm going to go check my cystatin C, and my gut's telling me that my cystatin C is going to come back and still say twenty three, and that I'm fine. But I will tell you that when I opened up my test results on Friday and I saw the creatinine was 7.81 and the eGFR was 8 that shook me up. That did shake me up a bit and I'm just kind of like 'OK try not to let it get to your head.' Let's do some more blood work first you know before I get out of control because like I still feel fine. I sleep fine. I wake up fine. I go to work fine. I'm not nauseous. I don't have the sweats. I don't throw up. I have no symptoms. I have 0 symptoms of chronic kidney disease. So obviously I have chronic kidney disease, but yeah, that was scary as all get out. Which is going to be kind of a bummer because it's going to kind of negate the kidney video I made if I if I've actually if I've actually lost ground and I'm going to need a transplant or something like that, which I hope not. But if I get the test and the cystatin C and my eGFR is 23 and all my other markers are good .... Tiktok version: https://www.tiktok.com/@carnivoretalk/video/7456219317563116842 Watch the FULL video here... SUBSCRIBE to the channel! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeAwaxsqfNEK4ZtfWX3Dz3g?sub_confirmation=1 Join me and my keto-carnivore friends over at https://www.CarnivoreTalk.com Have YOU had success with a meat-based keto, ketovore, carnivore, carnivore-centric, or animal-based diet? Let's do a video together! Contact me using this form... https://carnivoretalk.com/contact/ DISCLAIMER: The Carnivore Talk website and its audio and video content is for general informational purposes only. The use of the information found within our content or from materials linked to from our content is at the user’s own risk. The content published by Carnivore Talk is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Users should seek the assistance of their health care professionals to obtain medical advice and to diagnose or treat any condition.

Pink slime is still being used in hundreds of meat products worldwide as a food additive or filler. Pink slime refers to boneless lean beef trimmings and finely textured beef, which are meat byproducts used in ground beef, sausages, hot dogs, and deli meats. The United States Department of Agriculture has reclassified the product once referred to as “pink slime” or “lean finely textured beef” as simply “ground beef”. You are likely still consuming "pink slime" from a variety of the foods you eat. However, there is one fast food chain that stopped using it all the way back in 2011. Tiktok version: https://www.tiktok.com/@carnivoretalk/video/7460337748126240042 Watch the FULL video here... https://youtu.be/kWiKpzrbAv4 SUBSCRIBE to the channel! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeAwaxsqfNEK4ZtfWX3Dz3g?sub_confirmation=1 Join me and my keto-carnivore friends over at https://www.CarnivoreTalk.com Have YOU had success with a meat-based keto, ketovore, carnivore, carnivore-centric, or animal-based diet? Let's do a video together! Contact me using this form... https://carnivoretalk.com/contact/ DISCLAIMER: The Carnivore Talk website and its audio and video content is for general informational purposes only. The use of the information found within our content or from materials linked to from our content is at the user’s own risk. The content published by Carnivore Talk is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Users should seek the assistance of their health care professionals to obtain medical advice and to diagnose or treat any condition.

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Is she eating yet? Or is this just behavioral improvement being off the carbs?

Because of my ulcerative colitis (now cured), I probably have more colonoscopy experience than anybody here, lol. Geoff is right on par. There is very little waste eating a carnivore diet. Almost all the fat, protein, and nutrients get absorbs and used by your body. It will take some time before you have to defecate again. My disease had me going at least a dozen times a day. It was amazing, yet strange, when that slowed down to once or twice a week.

@Geezy has had some heart peculiarities. He was kind enough to let me interview him here...

And he was definitely on to something. This jives with the claim that humans are hypercarnivores, meaning that we get more than 70% of our diet from meat.

Lol. They are? "They calculated, approximately, a single day of increase in life expectancy for each year of taking a statin. Slightly more in secondary prevention, slightly less in primary (people who have not previously had a heart attack or a stroke). The main take away message I believe, is the following. Statins do not prevent fatal heart attacks and strokes. They can only delay them. They delay them by about one or two days per year of treatment. For those who have read my books you will know that I have regularly suggested we get rid of the concept of ‘preventative medicine’. We need to replace it with the concept of ‘delayative medicine’. You cannot stop people dying. You can only make them live longer. How much longer is the key question. With statins this question has been answered. You can, to be generous, add a maximum of two days per year to life expectancy. Which means that if you were to take a statin for thirty years you could expect to live about two months longer. (Possibly three, more likely one). Assuming, and this is a big assumption, that none of the trials done have been in any way biased towards statins. Even though every single one was funded by the pharmaceutical industry. Further assuming that any benefits seen in the trials will continue for the next twenty-five years." Article Source: https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2015/10/27/how-much-longer-will-you-live-if-you-take-a-statin/

Have you been weight-stable for the last 3 months? Or if you are still losing weight, is it at a much slower pace? There is LDL stored in adipose tissue (i.e. fat) that gets released into the blood stream when you lose weight, causing a spike. Eventually it gets cleared out and your numbers go back down. I initially had LDL around 92. Went I started losing weight on carnivore, it spiked to the upper 300's. Now they sit comfortably at 208 according to the last draw. Correct. Ancel Keys. Sugar and grain lobbyists. Pointing the finger at saturated fat and cholesterol. Especially in regard to lipids. I had a Doctor appointment today. He ordered up a BMP just so we can see if my kidneys function is improving having gone off the prescription he had me on that was killing me. When I said I wasn't fasting he said he wasn't ordering a lipid panel but he could if I wanted him too. I simply said "Honestly, I could care less about my lipid markers" lol.

That pepper looks to be a bit spicy 😋 That was me too. Prediabetes, CKD, Colitis, memory issues, brain fog, trouble breathing, etc. Finally I was like "I gotta make a change".

Is it lactose intolerance? If so, there are a number of cheeses that you can enjoy with little to no lactose at all. Cream cheese is often well-tolerated because it is low in lactose, about 2g per ounce. A sudden change in diet is difficult for anybody, especially a 7 year old addicted to sweets. This may need to be done gradually. The elimination of grains, seed oils, and refined sugar (i.e. processed food) is your first objective. Most people will do well just eating what nature provides, basically animal products, fruits, and vegetables (especially veggies that are in reality also fruits). On the other hand, she will eat when she is hungry enough, and if she has any substantial belly/body fat she then she has plenty of fuel in reserve. But even so, we want to see her get proper nutrition.

You haven't suffered in a White Castle then, lol. I used to hate McDonald's. But now that I am a carnivore, I think their plain quarter pound patties are the best among fast food establishments. I used to eat Wendy's but now I can't. McDonald's has won my tastebuds over.

Not here the USA. It's 100% pure beef over here with no fillers. The quarter pounder should be.... a quarter pound 😉