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It's a bit of a coin toss. Some people's cholesterol doesn't change much. Others see their HDL go up and their LDL go down. Many see both their HDL and their LDL go up. I'm in it for weight loss, and there is stored cholesterol stored in adipose tissue that gets release as you lose wieght. As a result, my HDL has remained stable and I my LDL has gone up. I am unable to get an LDL reading currently due to my high triglycerides.

Bacon is a cured meat that in my opinion is quite delicious. Many people are afraid of bacon because it contains nitrates and nitrites, although we've been curing meat with these natural ingredients for thousands of years. As a result, some look for bacon that is cured using celery powder, which ironically contains the same nitrates and oftentimes even more of them. Others look for bacon that doesn't have added sugar, and granted, some flavors of bacon, like maple bacon, can have more sugar in it that is desired. But most bacons have only a trace amount, "contains less than 2% of.... sugar" only because sugar was used in the brining solution that it soaked in. Others will spot that on the ingredients, then look at the nutrition facts table and see <1g carb per serving, and consider this acceptable. Still others will only get bacon from their local rancher or forgo bacon altogether and just buy pork belly. Personally, I look for bacon that has clean ingredients and no sugar added as my first choice, but I don't obsess over this. I'll still get bacon at restaurants and will have no idea what kind they are using. But since it's by and large just sliced meat, I'm very comfortable with this. Do YOU enjoy bacon? How much do you include in your diet? Are you selective when it comes to buying bacon?

I would put this aside for now, since it's not causing a serious side effect. Coffee and beef affect you within a short time. Check makes you feel better "usually the next day". The next day is quite a difference. You still describe a temporary situation, with the coffee process hitting you sooner and ending sooner than the beef process. This makes sense, because it's going to take time to digest the beef and start absorbing it into your blood stream compared to the coffee which happens faster. So we have to figure out what it is. Rising blood sugar? Rising insulin levels? Low blood sugar? Temporary inflammation? Have you had diabetes? Are you on any medications? Those are pretty serious symptoms, and not generally anything beef alone would cause. I think you should see your doctor and explain this to him.

While this article is not technically from "the news media" it is quite an awesome piece of journalism. It's written by Nina Teicholz, author of The Big Fat Surprise - Why Butter, Meat, & Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet. She publishes a newsletter on substack that you could and should subscribe to called Unsettled Science. Article Source: https://unsettledscience.substack.com/p/harvard-has-been-anti-meat-for-30 Below is just the introduction of her article. Click the above link to read the whole thing. Harvard Has Been Anti-Meat for 30+ Years—Why? NINA TEICHOLZ NOV 5, 2023 Red meat is bad for health. We hear this from virtually all our nutrition authorities, and so, it must be true. Far less well known is the fact that this fear of eating red meat can mainly be traced back to a single person, Harvard’s Walter C. Willett, the first and most prominent anti-meat champion in academia. Indeed, in 1990, the year before he started his 25-year reign (1991-2017) as head of the highly influential Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH), Willett said it’s “quite possible” that “no red meat” was the optimal amount to eat.1 His more recent work has involved leading an international effort for a near-meatless diet for all people, globally. Yet this passion has never had a foundation in solid evidence. Rather, it has been based in a mixture of personal ambition, bad science, financial interests and bias. Willett’s unswerving advocacy for vegetarianism helps provide some context for his latest paper (paywalled), claiming that red and processed meat are “strongly associated” with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes. As the accompanying Harvard press release explained, “participants who ate the most red meat had a 62% higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes compared to those who ate the least.” The findings spurred at least a hundred headlines worldwide, including this one in The NY Times and another in the Washington Post (syndicated from Bloomberg): “Drop that Hot Dog if You Value Your Health.” Scary news indeed for the more than half of American adults estimated to have pre-diabetes or diabetes in 2012 (today’s number is no doubt higher), and this news will surely give many people pause about choosing steak instead of something from “plant protein sources,” which the Harvard researchers say are not only healthier but also better for the planet. “Swapping red meat for healthy plant protein sources would help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, and provide other environmental benefits,” they assert. The climate change implications are serious, and we should not dismiss them, yet we’re concerned here about human health—and so will stick to that. The errors of science in the Harvard paper are both superficial and profound. However, the bigger question is: why do Willett and HSPH put out such a constant stream of findings against animal foods when nutritionists for generations have argued, with good reason, that these foods are vitally important, if not essential to human life? Meat contains all of the essential amino acids, in the ratios that are ideal for humans. They are rich in twelve of the thirteen essential vitamins. Meat, especially, is an excellent source of vitamins A, E and all the B vitamins. Vitamins D and B12 are found only in animal products (although we might be able to get sufficient vitamin D with enough outdoor exposure to the sun). Thus, whatever we might think about eating animal foods, they are, due to their essential nutrient and ideal protein content, almost certainly crucial for the proper development and functioning of all human beings. Arguing against these foods is like taking the nutrition out of nutrition studies. Walter C. Willett, Chair of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health 1991-2017 What’s certain is that for 30 years, Willett has been a fervent champion of a vegetarian diet. His advocacy is run through with ideological beliefs, some linked to an actual vegan-promoting church, and it’s hard to imagine that these factors do not interfere with the pure pursuit of science. Complicating this mix are undeniable financial conflicts of interest, including multiple six-figure donations by the food industry to HSPH during Willett’s leadership. These commercial interests converge and dovetail with Willett’s personal zeal for vegetarianism; where one starts and the other ends is difficult to know. Indeed, Willett’s career can be seen as a case study in how a person’s beliefs can lead them into a web of financial, corporate and even ideological interests aligned with those beliefs. Over the course of a 30-year career, these fuse together into a single piece, a set of golden handcuffs for the mind. Evidence to the contrary might exist, but the researcher either ignores it or finds a way to dismiss it as insignificant. This article isn't over. There is a lot more to read. Some of the other subheadings are... Some Inconvenient Observations Spreading the Word Before Science A Life Committed to Vegetarianism A Careeer Funded by Vegetarian Interests Click here to read the whole article: https://unsettledscience.substack.com/p/harvard-has-been-anti-meat-for-30 Click here to download the bogus Harvard study... https://carnivoretalk.com/files/file/6-red-meat-intake-and-risk-of-type-2-diabetes-harvard/

Understandable. This isn't something I have heard of before. I tried doing some searches and came up with some usual things to check on. 1) Histamines. You might want to try and get something fresh from the farmer and cook it right away, rather than something from the store that has been packaged for several days. 2) Add more salt. 3) What is your fat intake like? The answer to number three could point you too endotoxemia from too much saturated fat at once or protein fermentation from eating too much protein. Based on your description, the symptoms start after you have had time to digest and absorb some of this, and then wears off hours later after digestion is over. This suggests temporary inflammation. But beef is usually uninflammatory unless you are having a histamine reaction to it. I'll turn on guest ability to Reply so you can comment further.

So, will taking a daily multivitamin be okay? Yes, it's not going to harm or impede you in any way. However, you can get everything your body needs on a carnivore diet. If you add a little beef liver to your Lion Diet (which is what you are about to do), you will probably have your bases covered. B1 (Thiamine) - beef liver, pork products, salmon, trout, mussels, tuna, chicken liver, fish roe. Biotin & Folate - beef liver and egg yolks. Vitamin A - beef liver, cod liver oil, butter, and a variety of cheeses. Vitamin C - beef, beef organs, and seafoods. Vitamin D - eggs, fatty fish, and you can make it by getting enough sun. Vitamin E - salmon and trout. Vitamin K - chicken, beef liver, and cheeses. Calcium - salmon, sardines, cheese, and milk. Chromium - beef and turkey Molybdenum - beef liver, yogurt, and milk. Magnesium - meat, but especially fatty fish. Iodine - eggs, dairy, and especially seafood. Admittedly, Vitamin D is one micronutrient that many people need to supplement. I take magnesium because I would need to eat 2-2.5 lbs of beef a day to meet my magnesium needs, and that's a bit much for me. I also take vitamin D because I have a history of being deficient.

That's probably water-weight. Since you stopped eating carbohydrates (see the word "hydrate" in there?) and sugars, which hold water, you have used up all your glycogen stores. You probably haven't lost actual fat yet, and if you have, it is minimal. When you say you thought you would gain weight, are you referring to muscle weight or fat weight? If you want to gain muscle weight, keep eating this way and work out by lifting heavy weights. If you want to gain fat fluffy weight, then start eating more carbs. It is normal during the transition phase and yes, you probably need more time to adjust. It took me 6 weeks before I had a normal stool again. It would oscillate between the consistency of gravel that was difficult to push out and then the next time it would pour out like turning on a faucet. Now that I am adapted, it's usually normal. I only go to the bathroom twice a week now. Part of this transition phase is that your body is learning how much bile it needs to store in your gall bladder, which is necessary to digest fat. After a while, your body learns how much bile it's needs to have on hand. Then, if your stool are hard, you can add more fat, and if they are loose, you can back off the fat. It sounds like you are metabolically healthy, so you can add whatever fruit you wish. Lower carb, low glycemic fruits that are tolerated on a ketogenic diet are usually a small portion of berries. Again, this depends on your metabolic health and your goals. For example, if you have a lot of weight to lose, are insulin resistant, have metabolic syndrome, pre-diabetes or type 2 diabetes, etc, then you want to keep that carb consumption very low, typically under 20g per day, and the lower the better. But if you are metabolically healthy then you could do low carb, which is under 100g per day. Low carb <100g actual carbs per day Keto <20g actual carbs per day Ketovore <10 actual carbs per day Carnivore = animal products only, minimal carbs per day. I had to look up sashimi and it looks like this means raw fish. Raw fish would be fine. Soy sauce has like 1 carb per tablespoon, so this might be just fine for you in small quantities. It's doesn't have the cleanest of ingredients though, so you might want to do a web search for a keto-friendly soy sauce recipe substitute. There are also keto soy sauce substitutes that you can order from Amazon or Whole Foods Market. I think any of it would be okay if you are only eating it once a month or two. But yes, you could remove the rice and the rest would be fine. This I can't answer. There could be a number of reasons that you have sleep apnea and snore. For example, enlarged tonsils or other glands in the face and sinuses. My daughter would snore and stop breathing at night. It was very disturbing and so we brought it up with her doctor. Turns out she had enlarged "kissing" tonsils and had to have them removed. Whether your sleep apnea will resolve with diet is yet to be seen. Just not that while some people experience improvements within days of starting keto-carnivore, most people see these improvements over time. That is why it is recommended to be faithful to your dietary changes for at least 30 days, but preferably at least 90 days.

It probably doesn't show up in Tapatalk. But if you came to Carnivore Talk using your web browser you would see the poll above the first post at the top of the page. I just google "balut eggs". Yes, that would be a negative for me too, lol. Same here. I like to switch things up usually, so I never make them the same way two days back-to-back.

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Fasted for 24 hours and broke it with this approximately 1500 calorie dish. Shrimp, cheese, and bacon and some ground beef and ghost pepper cheese. I had to do leaves today. Took me from noon to 4pm, and I have a huge yard with a lot of leaves. I'm easily in an energy deficit today

So tonight had to be something quick because I had to get somewhere, so I cooked up 16oz of ground beef in tallow (for the extra fat) around 6pm. This starts my weekend 24 hour fast, which will end at 6pm tomorrow unless I choose to extend it to the following morning like I did one time.

What kind of internet service do you currently have? I have Spectrum Cable (formerly Time Warner) and it's usually up all the time. It'll go out a few times a year if there's a bad storm or accident that effects the line, etc. It was short lived. Yesterday I woke up 178.6 and today 178.4. Seeing 174.6 on the scale the other day was such a teaser, lol. Yesterday I fasted until 2pm then had bacon and eggs, and then last night at 7:30 I had a New York Strip.

This isn't surprising, given that Alzheimer's disease is also known as Type 3 Diabetes. If diet can prevent Type 2 Diabetes, then it stands to reason that diet can prevent Alzheimer's disease as well. True. But there are a surprising number of people who would rather take the pill so they can supposedly 'eat whatever they want'. This is probably the majority of people too, which is why doctors default to prescribing yet another medication instead of trying to educate their patients with regards to diet.

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Made burger patties tonight, topped with colby jack cheese. I fried them in tallow and then used the fat as dipping sauce. I also topped them with a dollop of avocado oil mayonnaise for the extra fat. I had no idea changing my macros would have this effect, but the wieght is melting off again. I officially reached my initial goal weight of 175 today!

Dementia to double by 2040, driven by poor lifestyles ‘Wake-up call’ for social care as rates accelerate Eleanor Hayward, Health Correspondent Thursday October 26 2023, 11.30pm BST, The Times The number of people with dementia in England and Wales is expected to almost double to 1.7 million by 2040. Rates in the population are rising much faster than previously thought, in a trend linked to widening inequalities, obesity and unhealthy living. The number of future cases will be 42 per cent higher than earlier forecasts had suggested, a study by University College London said, placing a “considerably larger” burden on NHS and social care. Nearly 900,000 people are estimated to have dementia in England and Wales but if trends continue this could reach 1.2 million by 2030 and 1.7 million by 2040. The study, published in The Lancet Public Health, looked at data from people aged 50 to 80 living in England between 2002 and 2019. Between 2008 and 2016, dementia incidence increased by 25 per cent. The study said that an “epidemic” of obesity and type 2 diabetes — both risk factors for dementia — may have contributed. “Other possible explanations include worsening risk factors in socially disadvantaged groups and improved survival for patients with stroke,” it said. Four in ten cases of dementia could be prevented through improving lifestyle, including stopping smoking, losing weight and drinking less alcohol. The research updates a forecast from 2017 suggesting that there would be 1.2 million cases by 2040. This figure was calculated using older data that had shown a promising dip in rates of dementia. ‘Wake-up call’ Speaking of the new prediction of 1.7 million sufferers, Dr Yuntao Chen, the lead author, from the UCL Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care, said: “Not only will this have a devastating effect on the lives of those involved but it will also put a considerably larger burden on health and social care than current forecasts predict.” Professor Eric Brunner, also from UCL , said: “Our research has exposed that dementia is likely to be a more urgent policy problem than previously recognised — even if the current trend continues for just a few years.” Dementia is the biggest cause of death in England and Wales. The social care system has failed to keep up with demand, with several governments breaking promises to reform it, and charities said the figures must be a “wake-up call” to improve dementia care. James White, head of national influencing at the Alzheimer’s Society, said: “Dementia is the biggest health and social care issue of our time. Without action, the individual and economic devastation caused by dementia shows no sign of stopping. “We know that one in three people born in the UK today will develop this terminal condition in their lifetime. Pressure on our already struggling social care system is only going to increase. “Quality social care can make a huge difference to people’s lives, but we know that people with dementia — who are the biggest users of social care — are struggling with a care system that’s costly, difficult to access, and too often not tailored to their needs.” Hilary Evans, chief executive of Alzheimer’s Research UK, said: “This news highlights the enormous threat dementia poses, for both the public and for our already overstretched health and care workforce. As these figures show, unless urgent action is taken, dementia is set to place a huge and increasing burden on our healthcare system, and to blight millions of futures. “With new treatments for Alzheimer’s disease — the leading cause of dementia — finally on the horizon, we are now in the strongest position yet to bring an end to the devastation this condition causes. Now we must keep up this momentum if we are to free individuals and society from the fear, harm and heartbreak of dementia.’’ Hope for treatments Dementia is a general term for a set of symptoms caused by damage to nerve cells in the brain, including memory loss, confusion, loss of language and changes in behaviour. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common type, responsible for about two in three cases. There is no cure, but several new drugs can slow the progress of Alzheimer’s. Trials show that two, donanemab and lecanemab, can slow memory decline and they have been hailed as the “beginning of the end” for the disease. Although they have not yet been approved for NHS use, the drugs could be widely available by 2040. But this would require a radical improvement in NHS diagnostic services, as the medications work best when patients are diagnosed early. A Department of Health spokeswoman said: “We are providing £160 million a year by 2024-25 for dementia research to accelerate the development of the latest treatments and technology and our Major Conditions Strategy recognises not only the importance of tackling this disease but will set out the standards patients should expect at all stages of dementia care.” Source: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/dementia-rates-rising-faster-than-thought-due-to-unhealthy-lifestyles-7nq7w5qgm

The last 2 evenings were just variations of what I made Friday. Sunday was ground beef with eggs and some blue cheese crumbles cooked in tallow. Monday was the same thing but I added bacon and cooked everything in the bacon grease instead of the tallow. Today was beef, turkey sausage, egg, and ghost pepper cheese cooked in tallow. I've basically had some variation of the same thing for several dinners in a row now because 1) It's so darn tasty, and 2) I can't let the huge package of ground beef go bad. It is getting repetitive though. I'll probably switch it up tomorrow.

Thanks for the tip. I usually buy in bulk at Sam's Club https://www.samsclub.com/p/members-mark-salted-sweet-cream-butter-elgin-style-16ct/prod3990032?xid=plp_product_2 That online price works out to $3.53 per pound. I'm sure the in-club price is the same or close.

You may not need them daily when you don't work out. But it won't hurt anything. If you don't need a certain mineral, you will just urinate it out. Most people get what they need from food. Others like me end up with issues, usually leg cramps at night. For me, it was magnesium in particular, so I supplement with magnesium. You could do 1 pill on a normal day and on a workout day take the 2nd pill after the workout.

This is the file that I had attached to this post... I just decided to put it in the Downloads/Files Library section as well.