In what ways has it improved your health for the better? What improved?
It took about 3 weeks but my body became fat adapted after that. You don't need carbs at all. Contrary to most beliefs, carbs are completely useless when you become fat adapted. Things that have gotten better: digestion, joint inflammation, skin issues I had, blood pressure, shits are perfect no mess and less often 3x a week, body fat dropping, have much more energy, everyone in my house has been sick at least once in the last year, 2 with the flu, I haven't even had a sniffle, acid reflux completely gone.
Might not be for everybody and I had my doubts before trying it. But holy shit, I feel so good that I can't remember how many decades ago it would've been that I felt near this good. I'm 48.
I eat high fat cuts of beef like ribeye and rib roast along with 80/20 ground beef, bacon and about 8 eggs a day. Drink nothing but water, occasional unsweet tea 1-2x a month. Fruits are shit, straight sugar with zero vitamin benefits. For instance an orange is high in Vit C but also high in natural sugars (glucose). The glucose competes with the Vit C for your cells once ingested. Glucose wins 100 times out of 100 and the vitamin C gets flushed out via urine. Your body now only gets about 15-20g of sugar.
Muscle in a cow (beef) is made up of the exact perfect nutrition ratio, just like our body. Our muscles are made up of exactly what our body needs to stay alive, regulated by our entire system. So when you eat beef, it has the exact nutrients, minerals etc.. that our body needs. Its by far the most optimal food source on earth for us and it is 97% bioavailable for absorption into our body after we consume it. Organic vegetables at best are 30% and non-organic are 5%-20% bioavailable. IMO, they are a waste to eat and if you go back to how we survived, it was by stuffing ourselves with meat, organs and brain and surviving off vegetation during times of famine. Herbs were medicine, vegetation was filler in between kills and meat was everything. So I have decided to make it simple for myself. I eat steaks, burgers, bacon and eggs and occasionally liver, fish and shrimp. The last 3 are to consume certain other minerals and nutrients.
Didn't mean to go on a rant, but I figured if I wrote a quick response, there'd be questions or comments or whatever. So I tried to kill it in one post.
Interesting info if you want to search Dr Ken Berry or Dr Shawn Baker on twitter or IG. Dr Baker holds some world records and is carnivore at age 52.
My family and friends mostly think I'm fucking retarded except the few who decided to try it and have changed their life, so don't worry about hurting my feelings with responses. It works for me so I don't really care who says what. I get comments in the grocery store from people who are 5'8" 280lbs with rosacea and acne at age 50 who are laughing at what I'm buying when they just loaded loaves of bread, crackers, oreos, orange juice, etc...up on the belt to be rung out at the store. I just laugh. Everybody does their own thing. More power to them.
2 years ago I ate shit food, dessert was a meal, etc... I never would've guessed this was even a way of life. But there are people who've been doing it for over a decade and are curing diabetes and tons of other dignosed illnesses by resetting their body with meat nutrition. I read a story the other day about a 72 year old guy who's been bedridden for years because of his rheumatoid arthritis and onset of alzheimers. Within 3 weeks of eating carnivore he was up and walking around for the first time in over a year. He was able to get off of all of his medicine and has gained his memory back and is no longer dealing with any alzheimers effects.
Its fucking great!
So anyway, my main post was just wondering if anybody had run a cycle eating this way because everything I read it says you need carbs preworkout for energy etc... I see people posting their meals and there's always bread or a
tortilla, salad dressing, croutons, rice, potato.....every one of those things have almost zero nutritional value, so why eat them? I don't get it. They all work against what you're trying to achieve (clean and lean muscle mass). They're all simple carbs that convert straight to glucose, spike your insulin levels and turn to fat. It just gives your body more shit it has to burn off during the workout. That's my opinion at least.
