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I love bleu cheese. It makes a fantastic steak sauce when melted with butter.

Fine…I try to learn a new format. You’re killin me Smalls. Just kidding, it’s fine.

Like anything else it’s a tool. It can be used for good or evil.

Very high ketone levels don’t necessarily mean that you are an effective ketone producing machine. As ketones become very elevated ketone clearance could actually decrease. Therefore ketone concentrations are not always synonymous with fat burning. A Ketone meter measures the ketones waiting in the blood steam, it doesn’t count the ketones that have already gone to work. The number on your meter doesn't simply tell you how many ketones your liver produced It tells you how much BHB happens to be in your bloodstream at that moment. If production > utilization→ BHB rises If utilization > production → BHB (*Beta-hydroxybutyrate) falls If production = utilization → BHB stays stable. Chasing ketones is not the whole story and neither should it be. If your goal is weight loss, improved insulin sensitivity, better glucose control, lower triglycerides and reduced hunger or improved metabolic health then consider instead, what is happening to your waist, your body composition, your glucose, your fasting insulin, your triglycerides and HDL, your blood pressure, your hunger and your energy. How do you feel? If all of these things are moving in the right direction but your ketones dropped a little which metric seems more important? We can become so fascinated by ketosis that we forget to ask why we are trying to create ketosis in the first place. Therapeutic ketosis is different from simply trying to improve your health. What is your goal In all of this? Your ketone meter is a tool. It is not a metabolic report card. It measures concentration. Not ketone production. Not total ketone utilization. Not total fat oxidation. Not insulin sensitivity. Not body-fat loss.

I would add to that, yes, there is great benefits to eating only meat over eating only vegetation and that is metabolic healing. 16 different ailments in my body reversed or healed by eating a meat only diet. Carbohydrates were killing me. Meat healed me. Sounds like a benefit to me.

It’s alway good to educate the ignorant. It’s up to them to learn.

Sure you can…if you scramble them. 😁

Rolling smoke on 12 racks of Dino ribs this morning.

As of this writing 1199 days.

That’s great Bob.

I’ve been a carnivore for over three years and have never tracked my ketones or macros. The only thing I’ve ever tracked was my weight and my body measurements. I believe some people can overthink this carnivore lifestyle and make something that’s so simple into something complex.

That’s funny.

I have eaten my share of insects in the past due to working in Korea and going through several survival training challenges. I am not a fan by any stretch but I know that if it came down to eating an insect or dying from starvation I know I can do it but barring that I’ll never eat another unless there was a heavy wager riding on it. I personally don’t think anything I eat as a carnivore is weird although others might. I think it’s just natural. I’m a hunter and I raise most of the animals that I eat. I waste very little of what I kill so organs are on the dinner menu. I always save the heart, liver, and kidneys. I have been known to save the spleen as well but it really doesn’t have much flavor and the texture is kinda mushy. The one that gets some people is what we call calf fries here in Texas. These are the testicles from the young bull calves when we “cut” them or castrate them. Back in my cowboy days I would cut several hundred calves in one day. We would eat our fill of calf fries for lunch during those roundups.

Very clever and I like your style. Asking questions, especially when you know the correct answers can reveal the ignorance of the other person. I get a lot of pushback when I post on Quora but it’s totally expected when the majority of people are brainwashed and really have no idea about what they are defending.