Geezy
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Great wisdom in what you say here. I am going to save the Bruce Lee quote. It is perfectly fitting for how everyone needs to look at how carnivore in their lives. I too am on board with you on herbs or some plants in general. I do believe that they can have their medicinal properties and uses but need to be used sparingly and for a specific purpose. -
As Bob already stated those are fruit oils and are no where near as bad as seed oils. Seed oils are a slow poison whereas fruit oils are a food. Be aware that not all olive oil is alike. If it’s make olive oil but not extra virgin then it’s probably cut with canola oil which of course is a seed oil. Even extra virgin olive oil can’t always be trusted. There have been lawsuits brought against some of the bigger olive oil companies that ship to the US for misrepresentation of their oils because of cutting it with canola oil. Buyer beware. Now, that doesn’t mean they are the best for you. They are less bad than seed oils but not as good as animal fats so take that into consideration. I have some avocado oil that I use to season my cast iron that I don’t use regularly and I will use it for making mayonnaise. I put MCT oil (derived from coconut oil) in my tea every morning as part of my bulletproof tea. It helps to stimulate ketones in the body. So, they can be a part of your diet but for cooking you really should stick with animal fats.
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All of the studies that show that bred meat and saturated fats are bad are agenda driven, cherry picked and funded by the agricultural lobby or big pharma. There is not and has never been any definitive study to prove that red fatty meat is detrimental to our health. If it was we would have died out as a species a long time ago. While I do believe there are dumb questions, yours is not one of them. Many people don’t understand what constitutes a seed or grain so this is a very good question. A seed is anything that a plant uses to propagate its species so yes, a nut is a seed, just like a grain is a seed or a legume is a seed or a bean is a seed. Yes, seeds are not good for you. Plants do not want you to eat their babies (seeds) because that is how they ensure the survival of their species. So there are toxins in them that are designed by nature to make us ill to try to ward us off. Some of those toxins in certain seeds will kill you quick and others just poison you over time. One of the reasons we have so many inflammatory bowel issues and autoimmune diseases is because of the toxins in seeds. Then there are the pesticides that are used on them as they are growing. Those pesticides cannot be cleaned off or neutralized so you are getting poisoned by those also. Seeds of any kind provide no nutritional value that is essential to human life. But fatty meat does. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Please, please, please don’t boil your bison or any red meat for that matter. You never want to overcook red meat. All red meat is safe to red rare or even blue. Yes you need to specific on what cuts you want. Just like with beef there are cuts that are naturally tender and some that are tough. Do an online search to Lear’s the different cuts and how best to cook them. Bison is basically the same as beef in the cuts. It’s major difference is the taste. It better in my opinion. If you get a tough cut of meat and this applies to all meats, you need to slow cook it in the oven or a crockpot or instant pot. First, salt and then sere the outside of the meat in a hot skillet to get a nice crust on both sides. Then place the meat in a whatever your cooking in and pour some bone broth or water over it so that it come half way up the meat and then slow cook it in a crockpot for five hours on high or 8 hours on low. Instant pot you can pressure cook it for 20 - 30 minutes. With the oven you can put it in a pan and put it in the oven at 350° for an hour. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Mike Mike, your doctor is ignorant, plain and simple. My primary care is the same way but fortunately my cardiologist is not. He’s very open to what I’m doing and he is encouraged by my results. The red meat and fat cause cardiovascular disease is a total myth. There is not one shred of evidence that proves red meat causes anything except better health and mortality. And as previously listed, getting rid of all sugars, grains, seeds, seed oils and highly processed foods will in and of itself do wonders for your health. Me personally I won’t eat vegetables because the provide no bioavailable nutrients for my body. They are just a carbohydrate and there are no essential carbs that the body needs. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Spent all day on the tractor cutting pastures. The eclipse was interesting and the relief from the sun for that little while was pleasant. Didn’t have anything to eat all day and I didn’t get in the house until after seven. But I was tired and hungry so I had seven scrambled eggs with four slices of bacon chopped up in them. Man, that hit the spot after being in the fields all day. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Ok, Bob has tagged me to step up on the heart issue but first I just want to say that Bob is spot on. I’d just add that carnivore is the proper human diet. There are absolutely no carbs that are essential to human health or life. Fat and animal protein is all we need to be healthy. Some processed meats are not bad for you or junk. The key is in the ingredient labels. It just must be clean of all sugars and sweeteners, grain fillers, soy and all plant matter. It’s hard to find but it’s out there. I make much of my own so I keep it fairly clean. If you’ve seen any of my posts about waffles you’ll see they are Chaffles which are all carnivore. Recipe in the recipe forum. Now to the heart. What is your heart issue? I have Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation. I’ve been carnivore for 334 days now and in that time it’s been over a year now since my last AFib attack. That is significant since when I have one it’s bad and I end up I ICU for a few days. My cardiologist is extremely please with my diet and what it’s done for me. In losing 55 pounds and reducing the inflammation in my body my heart flutters have reduced from a stop and let me catch my breath six or seven times a day to something so mild I have to wonder if I actually felt something and this only a couple of times a week. I was take my completely off of one medication (Metropol) because it was taking my blood pressure down so far naturally that the medication was taking in down way too low artificially. My BP yesterday was 112/ 62. As of my last visit with my cardiologist two weeks ago he has now cut my o the medication (Flecanide) in half and if I continue doing so well he may take me completely off of it in six months or so. So yes sir, carnivore can help with heart issues. I also just had another sleep study to see if carnivore had help me there and unfortunately my sleep apnea is not cured but I have gone from a ranking of moderately severe (22) down to mild (11). This a list of my other healings and improvements. Inflammation way down. Hands don’t hurt. Can make a fist again. Knees don’t hurt. Right hip doesn’t hurt. Left hip (prosthetic) is better. Back is 80-90% pain free. Shoulders are 90% pain free. IBS is gone. Bowel inflammation is gone. Crohns is gone. Energy is better. LI’m Attitude is better. Floaters in eyes are less noticeable. Eye watering gone Running nose reduced 90%. Walking two- three miles every other day without support. Exercising with resistance bands every other day. Long rides on my motorcycle again. Light sensitivity is greatly diminished. Rarely use sunglasses. Dandruff is healed. I can clip my toenails again. Sleep apnea is much better and may be cured. Elimination of one heart med. AFib much better Hunger is now “Keto Hunger). No carb addiction, no temptation. So yes, carnivore really does heal. I will never eat any other way again. I don’t eat carnivore, I am carnivore. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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I’m not sure if I’ve had one or not. When I had my first big AFib attack my cardiologist put me through a battery of tests to see if there was any damage to my heart or if I’d had a heart attack on top of the AFib. They also looked at my arteries for any blockage or buildup. It started with a very thorough sonogram the like of which I’d never experienced before. It was interesting to see the blood flowing through my heart. Then I had a nuclear stress test where they had me wired for sound and walking on a treadmill at a steep angle until my heart rate got up the the numbers they were looking for. I think it was 130 or 135 bpm. As soon as I hit that number the shot me with a radioactive isotope and then did an scan of my heart and arteries. Test came back negative in all regards. No heart attack, no damage, no blockage and no build up. So they said I was clean in my arteries. I don’t know if that has anything to do with CAC but saying my arteries are clean as a whistle gives me a warm fuzzy. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Lamb steak and lamb burger with butter. Later on while working in my garage I had a little fat snack of rendered fat with a touch of smoked salt on it. The cracklings are my little fat snacks or fat bombs that come from rendering down beef fat for tallow. After I’ve rendered out all of that liquid gold these fat bites are left over and with a little salt they make a good fatty snack. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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I think there are a couple of different types of chops depending on how the meat is cut. Now I’m not a butcher but I believe standard chops, just like pork chops are taken from a section along the back bone and just above the ribs. The ribs are then cut out for spareribs. If the ribs are not goin to be used as spareribs then the rib is kept in and more meat is attached as part of the chop. You get more meat and a better quality cut. In cattle it would be called the T-bone. If cut further up the spine it would be a bone in ribeye. I may be a little off on my explanation but I think I’m close.
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I get that then. When I did Adkins 20 years ago that was a common thing to do to shock your system off of the plateau. Since I’m now carnivore I’ve learned that I don’t need and tricks or gimmicks, I just need to keep eating the way I always eat because this is how I’m always going to eat. I hope that makes sense. So it doesn’t matter what happens I’m not going to change my diet because I know that this is about eating strictly for nutrition. If my body wants to stall out then fine. It’s got something that it’s trying to adjust to or it’s reached it optimal weight. My goal was never to lose X amount of weight. It was to become healthy and let my body decide what my best weight should be. I ignored plateauing and just kept on keeping on. Eventually it would decide to drop some more pounds. These stalls might last two weeks or even a month. No big deal when your eating for optimal health and nutrition. For the last three months I’ve been at the same weight of 172 average. That’s lighter than I’ve been since high school over 50 years ago. So three months with no change I figure that’s it. I’m optimal. This morning I was at 169. Lol, I guess it may not be over just yet. You see, I am 330 days carnivore and have not strayed from my WOE and never will. I just can’t ever see myself eating and kind of sugar, seed, grain, seed oil or vegetable. They just don’t have any nutritional benefits for the human body so they don’t need to be in my diet. Now with that all being said, I drink a hot bulletproof tea in the morning and I will sometimes use a spice, onion or garlic for flavoring but it’s in very limited amounts and doesn’t cause my body harm. I’m not saying any of this to say you’ve done anything wrong or to seem like I’m looking down on you I’m just trying to tell say that you don’t need to trick your body, you just need to be consistent. Be committed to this and try not to treat it like a weigh loss diet but rather a lifestyle. Good luck on your journey. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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This is fascinating. Recently I’ve been hearing bits and pieces here and there of dental hygiene and carnivore. Dr. Chaffee has mentioned it several times. I’ve heard some carnivores talk about going to the dentist and not having any plaque build up. I think I remember that Egyptian mummies we found to have terrible teeth and since they were basically, from what I understand, the founders of the agriculture era it would make sense. I have terrible teeth due to having seven teeth broken in a car accident and the rest all stress fractured. I’ve got one molar, top and bottom, both sides left. There of them are gold crowned. I’m doing my best to hang on to them. I’m really hoping that carnivore will help in that regard. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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You are thinking of this in the wrong ratios I believe. The idea is to get 75 percent of our calories from fat and the rest from protein. So it’s about percentage not volume or mass. Fat is higher in calories than protein so it’s not a balancing act of the meat vs fat but of the calories consumed. Generally if you are eating a fatty meat and cooking it in fat you will get the proper ratios. If the meat is lean then you may need to add fat to what you’re eating. When I eat something like chicken which is too lean I’ll add a lot of butter to it. Hamburger, even high fat hamburger I’ll add butter to it because most of the fat cooks out of it. Lean cuts of beef will also get plenty of butter or I’ll make my carnivorous steak sauce. If you want to be able to get a better idea of the fat to protein macros you could download and app such as Carb Manager and it will give you an good scale by which to measure what you are doing. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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