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Welcome to Carnivore Talk Wes. In answer to your question, there can be many factors that could contribute to this. Normal biological variation - Fasting insulin is not as stable as many people think. Day-to-day fluctuations occur. Different laboratory methods - If the tests were run by different labs or different assay methods, results can vary. Stress or poor sleep before the blood draw can increase insulin levels. Illness, inflammation, or infection around the time of testing can temporarily raise insulin. Weight gain since the prior test could contribute. Less physical activity can increase insulin resistance and insulin levels. Certain medications, such as steroids, can raise insulin. Long-term high protein intake can stimulate insulin secretion even when carbohydrate intake is very low. This doesn't necessarily indicate insulin resistance by itself. The more important question is whether your glucose levels changed as well. Fasting insulin by itself is difficult to interpret. Ideally, you would want: Fasting glucose Fasting insulin HbA1c Waist circumference and weight trends Using fasting glucose and fasting insulin together, you can calculate a measure called HOMA-IR, which gives a better picture of insulin sensitivity than insulin alone. HOMA-IR stands for Homeostatic Model Assessment of Insulin Resistance. It’s a calculation that uses your fasting glucose and fasting insulin to estimate how resistant your body is to insulin. The formula most commonly used in the United States is: Less than 1.0: Excellent insulin sensitivity 1.0–1.9: Normal 2.0–2.9: Early insulin resistance may be present 3.0 or higher: Suggests significant insulin resistance These are rough guidelines, and interpretation can vary somewhat depending on the lab and the person’s overall health. Example If someone has: Fasting insulin = 16.6 μIU/mL Fasting glucose = 95 mg/dL Then: HOMA-IR = (16.6 × 95) ÷ 405 = 3.9 That would suggest insulin resistance despite a normal fasting glucose. One thing to keep in mind: people following a very low-carbohydrate or carnivore diet sometimes develop what’s called physiological insulin resistance (also called adaptive glucose sparing), which can make glucose-related measurements look different from someone eating a standard diet. That’s why it’s helpful to look at the whole picture—fasting glucose, fasting insulin, HbA1c, triglycerides, HDL cholesterol, weight, and waist size—rather than a single number. I hope this helps you.

Fatback and chicken livers…you must be southern.

They are generally the result of your body still adapting, adjusting or something in the diet that needs to be changed such as dairy. Dairy stalls most of us if we start eating it.

It is natural to many of us carnivores. We just don’t look at food the same anymore and quite often we just don’t experience hunger like we used to.

You sound like you are truly becoming a carnivore and are on the right track. I lost 50 pounds in a little less than a year but being a male it can be easier for us. Patience is the key to success and you are correct to not weigh every day. Just weigh once a week. Mondays are a good day to weigh as you start your week or Friday as you gI into the weekend to stay motivated. The best things you can do is to keep a daily journal detailing every step of your journey. Then once a month get out a cloth tape measure and measure every part of your body. Neck, shoulders, chest, belly, waist, hips, thighs, calves, biceps and forearms. Write this down in your journal and compare it month to month. Inches lost mean more than pounds lost. Good luck on your journey and try to look at this as a lifestyle and not a diet. Diets come and go but a lifestyle belongs to you forever.

Welcome to Carnivore Talk Oyodi. We love to hear the success stories from our fellow carnivores. It is a wonderful healing lifestyle.

We will be gone a week. The smaller bags have a dozen strips and the bigger bags have 21 strips of bacon. These are manly for road snacks. Dehydrated really retains the fat so these satisfy you pretty quickly. It doesn’t take much. There’s going to be several people with us so it probably won’t go very far but that’s why I’m going to make some beef jerky to go with it.

Welcome back to carnivore and welcome to Carnivore Talk. It’s great that you are seeing such good benefits from eating a proper human diet. The benefits are so good that for many of us it’s a lifestyle that we will never abandon.

Getting ready for a vacation trip to Alabama on the 15th. So taking a page from Missouri Carnivore (Kelly) tips on traveling carnivore I dehydrated about 2.5 pounds of bacon and vacuum sealed it for the trip. If you’ve never tried dehydrated bacon you really should give it a go if you have the means to do it, it may be my new favorite way of eating bacon. I’ll also be dehydrating beef jerky this week.

Score my behind…you flat out stole that cow. Congratulations. Great deal.

Post it, we won’t censored or judge unless it’s vulgar.

Congratulations on such great success in such a short time. You are doing great. Like Scott I’ve never had to deal much with allergies. In the spring I’d get some itchy eyes but that’s gone. For me, carnivore reversed so many things in my body and I feel so much better that I’ll always eat this way. After 3 years it’s a lifestyle now and not a diet.

Good job.

I am totally against lab grown meat. I’m also against vegetables, seed oils and highly processed foods. That’s a personal decision. If we start dictating what can be grown and how it’s grown we can easily slide down a slippery slope that comes back to bite us where we live. If this generation bans what we want to ban then the next generation comes in and bans what we like. A lot of it comes down to who is in charge at the time. What we need to do is educate people in what is right and wrong. What is good and bad. I don’t want anyone telling me what I can or cannot do or what I can or cannot believe. I believe in freedom. I absolutely hate it when someone tries to force their beliefs on me or demands that I follow their dogma and I won’t do it to them. What you do in the privacy of your home is your business. If you want to eat something that may kill you sooner, that’s your business, I won’t try to stop you.

I subscribe to him and I have learned a lot from him and I quote him often. I believe he is one of the most educated people in the carnivore community. I appreciate his knowledge. In the other hand I hate his delivery. I don’t like his foul mouth and while I believe in being truthful and calling people out when they are abhorrently wrong I don’t think he needs to attack them in the manner he does. I used to watch his response videos but he interrupts the videos so often that it’s annoying to try and watch or follow.

The natural way is always the best way.

I can’t say for sure that a carnivore diet would heal your son but I can say that a carnivore diet healed my Crohn’s disease and it cured Bob’s ulcerative colitis. It has healed many people in the carnivore community who had bowel issues. If it were my son I’d definitely put him on an all meat diet. When I was going to a gastroenterologist for my Crohn’s the doctor had me on a no meat, nearly all grain diet and it was killing me. Once I switched over to a high fat, moderate protein diet (carnivore) my symptoms cleared up in 30 days. My gastroenterologist was mad at me when I told her I cured my Crohn’s with an all meat diet. lol.

Welcome Maat. We are here to help and support you any way we can. Chronic constipation has been an issue with me. Here lately I’ve been doing better though. I don’t have a gallbladder and I had a history of IBS for over 30 years so carnivore hasn’t done for me what is has for so many. It’s generally felt that upping the fat intake can help and staying hydrated as well. That hasn’t always helped me. I think I’ve finally figured out that my main issue is that I have a very slow moving bowel. It was recommended that I actually cut back on my fat intake so I’ve been eating a little less fat. I’m not sure if that’s what’s work for me but until someone changes I’ll keep going with it. When I do get constipation then I’ll take some magnesium citrate or magnesium oxide. I’ve also been known to drink an herbal tea called Smooth Move on occasion. In an emergency I’ll use a suppository for quicker relief. I hope this helps. Good luck.

Welcome Maat. For me electrolytes can help but I only take them if I’ve been working out in the heat all day. Otherwise I can build up too much potassium in my system and that can be dangerous for me. For on the spot treatment a heaping tablespoon of yellow mustard has been working well for me.

The standard blood test used to check electrolytes is usually called a Basic Metabolic Panel (BMP) or a Comprehensive Metabolic Panel (CMP). These tests commonly measure: Sodium Potassium Chloride Bicarbonate (CO₂) Calcium (on many CMPs) Kidney function markers like creatinine and BUN Glucose A CMP includes everything in a BMP plus additional liver-related tests and proteins. If someone is specifically concerned about hydration, muscle cramps, weakness, heart rhythm issues, medication effects, or conditions affecting electrolyte balance, doctors may also order: Magnesium Phosphorus Sometimes ionized calcium or other specialized labs

Busy day cooking today. 2 pounds of liverwurst. 1 chuck roast (fire grilled but in the crockpot now) 1 large heart 2 pounds of hamburger patties 3 pounds of tablitas Hard to beat meat cooked over a wood fire

Way to go. That looks good.

Welcome to Carnivore Talk Cindy, I’m sorry you are going through this cramping issue. Most of us do experience at time to time. I think getting a blood test is a good idea rather than just guessing at it. For me, I drink a lot of water and if I’m working outside all day in the heat I’ll have to take a LMNT packet or I’ll be getting cramps. Cramps are generally not so much due to sodium as much as it is a magnesium deficiency. Because we are carnivores we tend to flush out electrolytes. Some people are capable of getting what they need from their food but some can’t so we must supplement. I will put salt on my food and I also salt my water throughout the day. I also take a magnesium glycogen supplement every night before bed. Even at that I’ll sometimes get woke up in the middle of the night with a cramp and when I do I’ll take a heaping tablespoon of yellow mustard like a medicine. So far every time I do that it has alleviated the cramp.

If you’re new or struggling or just wondering if your doing carnivore right now check out Dr. Hampton’s latest video.

Ahoy meatie, congratulations on your anniversary.