Bob

Interesting article. Based on your list of symptoms compared to the article, you may very well be onto something. I haven't studied oxylates much because I haven't had any dumping issues. But what is interesting is after reading that article, I may have had oxylate toxicity that contributed to my kidney problems. You read down the list of foods that are high in oxylates, and I had been chowing down on almost all those things for years and years.

This is a neat idea. Thanks for sharing. I usually butter and season to taste, but I would have never thought of creating pre-seasoned butter like this.

So I am also 5'8" and 175 lbs. I do not intentionally exercise but my day job can be laborious sometimes. I have sat idle since mid-November, eating 2 or 3 times a day, and probably closer to 2500 calories on the average. If I dropped it down to 1800 and lifted everyday, I am sure that I would lose weight too. This is, in fact, what I plan to do coming soon.

It's a very useful app. I don't use it all the time. I get bored of logging after a while, and since I am a creature of habit and eat the same basic things I don't see the need. I did not track anything for almost all of my carnivore journey until I had that triglyceride scare in October. Then I used it to make sure I was getting the right amount of fat-to-protein, since this was one of my theories as to what might have been going on (which I ended up disproving). I will probably start logging again in March. That's when the weather starts to improve, and is when I plan to really buckle down to get my last few stubborn pounds off.

How many meals a day? Do you know your average daily calorie and macros? Are you intermittent fasting or eating 3 meals a day? Even though this is a weight optimization diet, in general, you can eat more to stop losing weight. If you want to gain muscle weight, lift heavy things. If you want to gain some body fat, add in some carbs. You'll find healthy carbs in milk and fruit and vegetables. The only caveat with vegetables is the plant defense chemicals that you may or may not react to. Basically, follow Paul Saladino's advice that if it's fruitage it's probably more benign, whereas leaves, stems, roots, and seeds will contain more toxins. If you didn't have auto-immune or chronic health issues prior to starting carnivore, then your personal proper human diet can include these other things as well. Dr. Berry says the proper human diet is a spectrum from zero carb carnivore up to 100g a day "low carb", and what is right for you depends on your DNA and personal physiology. We just want to stay away from ultra-processed foods, vegetable seed oils, sugars (refined/hidden), and grains for the most part.

I doubt it but I don't know. It might be worth testing. I have a pan by Ninja that is non-stick (sorta, more like easy to clean). I have no idea what it is made of. When you say iron, do you mean cast iron? I've heard that cast iron pans are actually the best.

Congrats. Ours was in December but we were down with the Covid and felt like death, so we had to postpone it.

Can you explain what you mean by picky system, picky gut? Are you talking about a stomachache, or the follow up bathroom experience? If the latter remember that bacon is super high fat. If you're gall bladder doesn't have enough bile to break down all the fat you consume in a meal, the excess fat is going to go right through you. When you are just starting out, your gall bladder might not be storing a whole lot. As your body learns that you are now eating more fat on a regular basis, it will ramp up bile production and storage.

For all of the last 5 months? Or more recent? All the time? Some of the time? Most of the time? I don't have anything to add here. Black stool may be from dark foods and drinks (beets and dark beer), supplements like iron, or a sign of bleeding in the upper GI tract from a peptic ulcer, gastritis, inflammation, colon polyps, etc. Your carnivore diet is going to be rich in iron. You have to consider these questions and decide if you think this is just due to the change in your diet, or if you want to see a GI doctor to rule out any other possible issue.

It's made from grapes so I assume it has naturally occurring sugars in it (but not refined sugar, like cane sugar).

I drink, on average, once every month or two. It will usually be a shot or two of Kentucky bourbon. I avoid beer and wine at all costs for the reasons that @Geezy listed. Beer is grain, wine is sugar. But all your hard liqueurs have zero carbs, such as pure and neat Scotch, Bourbon, Vodka, and Rum. You'll be kicked out of ketosis until you metabolize the alcohol, and then you will return to that state. The body will burn alcohol before carbs, and carbs before fat. Now I did have wine last night because we celebrated our anniversary. But that was an exception for a special occasion and I'm not the type of person who will backslide from my general dietary lifestyle just because I treated myself last night. If you have the same willpower and resolve, then you could probably drink whatever you want knowing it will be forever and a day till you do it again.

Has it been this way for all of the 5 months? Or it this something recent? If you do a web search for "stool color" you will see a lot of results that say that black can be a sign of blood in the stool and you may want to seek medical attention. But also some antibiotics, drugs, and foods can cause it too. Mine are brown to very dark brown, with random consistencies depending on my fat and magnesium intake, but I would not call mine black. So you have to determine if it's dark brown or black like tar/pitch.

So we went out and celebrated our 23th anniversary last night with some friends, so I did eat off plan - sorta. I had filet mignon, lobster tail, scallops, with a salad, mashed potatoes, and asparagus. We also had some red wine. They new it was our anniversary so they gave us a free creme brulee, and I did have a bite of that. Creme brulee has crusted sugar on top, which is the only part of the meal that actually breaks my personal vow to never eat sugar and grains again. Anniversaries are probably my only exception.

I'm pecking away at it slowly. She absolutely loves this Doctor. And don't get me wrong, he's a great Doctor and has served us both very well. It didn't help when I went carnivore and my trigs shot up to astronomical levels. Then she was critical of how I keep listening to these "YouTube doctors". And then when our doctor flipped on me, she was in the room because we schedule our checkups together (which might have to change, lol). I had to literally walk her through the research why most carnivores don't have the issues I do and that it was not the diet but rather the kidney disease. I've had her sit in on some Zoom calls with Doctor Ken Berry so she could see that he's actually knowledgeable and knows what he's talking about. But she's sugar addicted and would rather take meds so she can eat what she wants. You can lead a horse to water but you can make them drink.

Right. I've wanted to register, but it says that the Admin has disabled Registrations, which makes no sense to me at all.

Cures don't sell prescriptions, so there is no money in it and they try to silence these people and bury the information. I recently heard a story where someone came up with a cure for Hepatitis C, and that person was actually reprimanded and told that he should have came up with a treatment instead of a cure, because a treatment would create better long term cashflow. Sad!

My wife takes a statin. She recently had her labs done and the doc wants to up her dose because he's not happy with it. Fortunately he hasn't brought it up with me in a long time, and mine is sky high at the moment from all my weight loss. If I recall, hers was still within range according to the lab. It may have gone up a bit because I constantly make steak and use butter in everything now, lol.

This is an interesting video. Nicholas Norwitz performed an experiment on himself, demonstrating that adding carbs to an otherwise ketogenic diet would lower LDL better than Statin therapy. He changed nothing about his normal daily diet, except for adding a bunch of cookies to his daily regimen. Paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1989/14/1/73 Aim: To tested the prediction -- consistent with the Lipid Energy Model (below) -- that adding carbohydrates (in the form of Oreo cookies) to an LMHR on a ketogenic diet would reduce LDL-C levels by a similar, or greater, magnitude than high-intensity statin therapy. Findings: Oreo supplementation (12 cookies/d) lowered LDL-C by 71% (273 mg/dl) in just 16 days. Rosuvastatin (20 mg/d) lowered LDL-C by 32.5% (137 mg/dl). Thus, Oreos were ~2X as potent as high-intensity statin therapy for LDL cholesterol lowering in this LMHR subject. The Why: The LMHR phenotype has much to teach us about human metabolism, and cardiovascular disease pathophysiology. It's a new frontier that deserves further study, for the sake of the patients with this phenotype and for pure scientific curiosity! This experiment will serve as 'productive provocation,' a form of 'legit-bait' that will hopefully help prompt discussions and larger-scale experiments that need to happen.

The Very Meaty History of Treating Diabetes Before Insulin A surprisingly effective method for its time BY TOBIAS CARROLL January 26, 2024 1:15 pm Before insulin, some diabetes treatments doubled down on meat. Getty Images It’s been just over a century since insulin was first used to treat diabetes. Given that doctors and scientists have known about diabetes for thousands of years — and have been searching for the best way to improve the lives of people with the condition since then — that means a lot of different treatments were tried out over the years all over the world. And, as it turns out, some of them involved plenty of meat. In an excerpt from his book Rethinking Diabetes: What Science Reveals about Diet, Insulin, and Successful Treatments, Gary Taubes recounts the story of the 18th century doctor John Rollo, who “may have been the first physician to successfully bring a case of diabetes under control.” What did Rollo prescribe his patients? Meat. So, so much meat. Taubes refers to this as “the animal diet,” which is exactly what it sounds like. (Thankfully, Rollo’s refinement of this meant that he moved away from telling patients to eat “rancid old meat and fat.”) The thinking behind this was to reduce carbohydrates in diabetes patients, and it seems to have worked to prolong the lives of several of the people he treated, provided they stuck to the regimen. If you’re reading this description and getting flashbacks to, say, the heyday of the Atkins Diet, you’re not alone. And while it’s nowhere near as sophisticated as insulin, Rollo’s overall line of thinking has aged relatively well. In 2018, Anahad O’Connor wrote in the New York Times about a study that showed diabetes patients successfully regulating their blood sugar levels via a diet low in carbohydrates and high in protein. There’s another lesson in Tabes’s retelling of Rollo’s story, and it stems from the experience Rollo and his colleagues had in treating diabetes with the “animal diet.” Not surprisingly, Rollo and his fellow doctors learned that patients fared far worse when they cheated on their diet, snacking on bread or something similar before it was safe to do so. It doesn’t matter if it’s the 18th century or the 21st — sticking to what a doctor prescribes can make a big difference in treating whatever ails you. ARTICLE SOURCE: https://www.insidehook.com/longevity/diabetes-treatments-before-insulin-meat Tobias Carroll lives and writes in New York City, and has been covering a wide variety of subjects — including (but not limited to) books, soccer and drinks — for many years. His writing has been...Read More

Yes, thanks for posting this interview. I am definitely adding it to my queue. I am currently listening to his book, Brain Energy by Chris Palmer, on Audible. He narrates it himself and I recognized his voice in the YouTube video immediately.

I read the first chapter last night before uploading it here, and I think it's going to be a fantastic read. I'll probably use a credit and get it on Audible also.

I would try to see if I could get by without it, giving your body it's opportunity to learn how to make it's own sufficient amount of bile. As a general rule, I have heard that if stools are stiff, add more fat, if stools are liquid, reduce your fat. But at the same time, I was eating too little fat and had diarrhea, but when I upped my fat I got better. So for me there is a happy medium between too much and too little. I aim for 66%-75% of my calories to come from fat and the remaining to come from protein. But, it wouldn't hurt to take some oxbile along with a fatty meal. Oxbile will not do you any harm. So if you feel that is what works for you, then it's what works for you 😉 Generally no. You will get everything you need from ruminant meat and eggs. Some of us do end up needing electrolytes, because it's removed from our filtered waters. If you don't get out in the sun much, maybe a vitamin D3 supplement. It's best to know what your vitamin D lab results would be and then check them from time to time to make sure you need it and/or aren't getting too much.

The Vegetarian Myth by Lierre Kieth We’ve been told that a vegetarian diet can feed the hungry, honor the animals, and save the planet. But, is it true? Lierre Keith believed in that plant-based diet and spent twenty years as a vegan. But in The Vegetarian Myth, she argues that we’ve been led astray—not by our longings for a just and sustainable world, but by our ignorance. The truth is that agriculture is a relentless assault against the planet, and more of the same won’t save us. In service to annual grains, humans have devastated prairies and forests, driven countless species extinct, altered the climate, and destroyed the topsoil—the basis of life itself. Keith argues that if we are to save this planet, our food must be an act of profound and abiding repair: it must come from inside living communities, not be imposed across them. Part memoir, part nutritional primer, and part political manifesto, The Vegetarian Myth will challenge everything you thought you knew about food politics. File Information Submitter Bob Submitted 01/25/2024 Category Books View File

I was surprised to see NSAIDs on the list. But, this isn't necessarily new news. I try to keep my prescriptions and over the counter drug use to a minimum. I have a relative that probably takes every one on the list, and yes, they are losing their mind.