[WARNING THATS A REALLY LONG POST] Carnivore for an half year, here is the story of how i found the way. I knew great victories, I knew fighting with myself into crazy training to feel I deserved any calories I ate and so I knew REDS, I knew the slow descent into hell and i finally knew that fatal injury which makes you realize that you need to stop the nonsense... I remember get out of the hospital with canes because my hips were completely f*cked and two days after already doing 5km walk with the canes, recovery was not even something existing in my stupid head... Then I knew what it is to be at the bottom with not a single physical capacity left and to have to develop everything again, during this period I oriented myself more than ever on endurance, (I was before someone really explosive doing lot of sport of high intensity and impact) during this endurance era I kinda make peace with myself and were not as strict as I always been, I was changing after years of military routine... but endurance is endurance I slowly started to become the perfect type of the "zombie runner"... seriously all these guys doing endurance, especially when it's start to expend to marathon or even more are mostly not feeling in good shape at all... after months and months to continuously complete weeks over 70km the injuries started to show up again but not as a one and only explosion like the first time but more little ones at intervals... outside of the high volume factor I was not eating enough again as I always did... and not the good food (I always been strict on my diet but "strict" based on what?... on usual poor recommandations that gives most of sports guys... So with all those little injuries i finally got bored. And I decided to stop to run FOR EVER! I actually started to hate it. Then I discovered "race walking" (if you never seen it look a few videos the movement can look a bit weird but that's a wonderful activity) I always walked a lot but at this moment walk became a sport! So I combined it with strength training (the only activity I never stopped for almost my whole life)... I felt in better shape than ever during this time but it was still something weird... I was always inconsistent, especially mentally... I'm a severe autist and yes it's not help me to feel good every days but I don't want of that excuse to let my own life f*cking me... one day I have just no idea from where but after considered and experimented everything with food I finally discovered something I never heard before "the keto diet"... at this moment I needed to move really really quickly, even consuming extra amount of oats on the few last days to bring forward the date by which I will no longer have any carbs into my house LOL... I never felt bad at the beginning in keto, probably because I had the chance that for years I always had a relatively reasonable distribution between fats and carbs in my diet compared to most people that eat a standard type diet. My performance stagnated for a while but I never have a fall. But the progress out of the gym came to an impressive speed! Headache, constant drowsiness, heatstroke, anxiety skyrocketing after meals, constipation... all was gone! and it's only now that I name all these issues that I realize how I was miserable when I was as it seems leading a healthy life, eating what is considered as "healthy foods" and aside of it being a great sportmen... Bullsh*t.... The keto diet was already a great improvement, but not everything was solved like the arthritis and joint pain I developped over years of eating sh*t and training to the limits, as well as a bad thermoregulation, my relation with food was still bad as I was constantly continuing to track my calories intake and stayed to a relatively low daily intake... I think the final transition has finally came of a sudden boredom of spending so much time to eat per day... I eat really slowly and in keto I was eating a lot of veggies so it was endless... I firstly got ride of the veggies, then during 2 or 3 weeks i finished the 2 foods I had in reserve at home, which were olive oil and nuts, then the cupboards ended up empty and the only things I had to think was to go get my meat, my butter, my eggs and my cheese, that's it. The carnivore definitely ended the last issues mentionned that were remains in keto. And the most crazy was about the sport, I came a beast in carnivore, it's simple the hormones start living again! No more digestive fatigue too, ou dont realize how it consume to digest... After five years of struggle with myself, to loathe my fate I'm back. Probably my greatest pride is to reach again numbers of cals I not saw since about 4 years, reaching close to 3k , 3k yes... but 3k for someone that is 160cm and 47kg! Until now I was almost limiting to strength training every day and "race walking" as became much rarer, but now that I am completely adapted to this diet I have the desire to do more again! (without going to excess for sure) And by doing more I will eat more and my greatest challenge is now to get some additional weight to simply have more reserve. I actually eat 2 times a days, on a whole day I eat about 500/750 gr of meat, and lot of cheese and eggs, and there is the butter... I'm on a consecutive streak of 100gr per days for months and months 🤣 but now I'm closer to 150gr a day. Hope some smiled reading my post. Take care. J
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You are probably aware of a service called OwnYourLabs.com, where you can order your own labs and have access to the results. They operate in an agreement with LabCorp so you get your results in your LabCorp account.
Now there are other services like OwnYourLabs.com where you can order your own labs at discounted prices. Usually OwnYourLabs.com is the cheapest, but there is one test that I wanted that is very expensive currently. That test is a Cystatin C. Cystatin C is an alternative test that can be used to calculate eGFR for those with chronic kidney disease, or those who are alarmed with their rising creatinine levels.
Creatinine is a protein waste product. However, it can be affected by excess meat consumption and/or lifting weights. Higher than average levels of creatinine can lead physicians to assume you too have chronic kidney disease.
However, Cystatin C is a protein produced by the cells that the kidneys are supposed to keep in check also. Cystatin C though is not affected by working out nor the food you eat. The problem though is that since OwnYourLabs.com doesn't get a lot of requests for a Cystatin C, the best price they can get at the time of this posting is about $280.00. Wowsa!
I was recently introduced to another website offering a similar service called JasonHealth.com and they offer Cystatin C orders for $40 plus an $18 lab collection fee ($58 in total). They operate through an agreement with Quest Diagnostics.
I have come to learn about others who are eating a carnivore diet and/or working out and suddenly their creatinine levels are registering as too high, and they are told there is a problem with their kidneys, but when they got their Cystatic C checked, they learned that their kidneys were just fine, and that their creatinine level was grossly exaggerated by their diet and exercise routine.
I wanted to share with the community in case there are others of you who would like Cystatin C test but don't want to drop $300.
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