If you’re concerned about consuming endocrine disrupting substances, rancid toxins, and mineral chelators that cause micronutrient deficiencies, then you may want to take nuts out of your diet.
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Recently, red meat has been blamed for many diseases and has been touted as the chief contributor to certain early death. Meat, we have been told, is associated with obesity, high cholesterol, heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure and a host of cancers. For people who care about their health, it becomes easy to begin seeing meat as an unnecessary and harmful vice. Sadly, these claims could not be further from the truth.
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Salt has often been vilified and blamed for contributing to many chronic illnesses including high blood pressure, heart attacks, stroke, and kidney disease. Table salt contains about 387mg of sodium per 1g serving, creating confusion with some of the numbers. A teaspoon of salt is fine by conventional nutrition recommendations, but a teaspoon of pure sodium is considered dangerous.
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Digestion begins in your head, and in order to get the process started off on the right track, you truly do need to relax and chew your food well. Once you’ve mechanically broken down and swallowed that food, chemical digestion begins in the stomach where you need adequate levels of stomach acid.
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Western cultures prefer muscle meat (steaks, thighs, ribs, loins) of animals. Yet, your hunter-gatherer ancestors recognized the wealth of nutrients obtained from the brains, liver, kidney, heart, blood, lungs, and all other visceral organs. From their fatty acid profiles, and high micronutrient (vitamins and mineral) contents, adding organ meats into your diet worth exploring!
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Nightshades are plants that belong to the Solanaceae family and include approximately 2500 species (although most are not edible and some are poisonous). Nightshade vegetables and fruits are eaten around the world and are a common part of many cuisines. Not everyone can tolerate nightshade vegetables and many deal with inflammation and exacerbation of chronic illness as a result of eating these vegetables.
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Protein powder is a very popular supplement in health and fitness spheres. When following a carnivore diet, you probably wonder whether there is still a need to include protein powders in your nutrition plan.
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The most diverse microbiome environment exists in your gut. You have your own unique array of organisms that have been nurtured and evolved with you over your lifetime. The types of microbes that live in your gut depend largely on your lifestyle and personal health history, what you eat, your environment, and the medications you take.
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Personally, I think, cheat days are not a good strategy because cheat foods are unhealthy and highly addictive. There is a risk that one cheat day may quickly turn into many and that you might need to start all over again, especially for those who have not been on the program for long.
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For decades you’ve have been told fruits and veggies are an excellent source of micronutrients, which are the vitamins, minerals and other phytonutrients that your body needs to thrive. Unfortunately, as with much of what has been taught about nutrition, there are some serious problems with this way of eating.
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The gallbladder performs the crucial task of storing the bile that processed your fats. Without a functioning gallbladder, the liver must produce more bile, and you would need to adapt the carnivore diet slightly to avoid digestion issues and fat malabsorption.
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Simply stated, there is no need for fiber on a carnivore diet because fiber has absolutely no nutritional value. Based on available evidence, fiber does not improve bowel function or provide any proven health benefits. In contrast, eliminating fiber has actually been found to be beneficial to gut health.
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Getting enough vitamin C on a carnivore diet is one of the most persistent concerns of people interested in following this nutrition protocol. The issue of lack of vitamin C is founded in a mainstream dietary fallacy that meat contains none.
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In recent years words and phrases, like “gluten-free”, “paleo”, and “grain free” are becoming more and more mainstream. “Grains are bad,” is a newer school of thought—completely negating the ‘health’ advice being broadcast widely for the past two decades in particular.
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It is time to dispel the myth that veganism is the healthiest diet and the one that will work best for you. Sadly, you hear less about the health problems that can occur from a plant-based diet that excludes all animal products.
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Western society has been conditioned to think of exercise as a key ingredient — perhaps one of the most important ingredients — of any fat loss effort. In truth, the evidence has been accumulating for years that exercise, while great for health, may actually not be all that important for fat loss.
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Fruits are definitely not a carnivore food but they did play a role in the diet of ancient man. In my experience, for some people, adding a small amount of fruits to a predominantly meat-based diet can be beneficial BUT, fruits are not a good fit for everyone, for some people, fruits should definitely be avoided.
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Eating sufficient fats is vital when following a carnivore diet because you need it for energy. It is difficult to subsist on only lean meat, eating too much lean meat can lead to protein poisoning.
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You may have been following your carnivore or meat-based diet for a while and have been patiently waiting for those hunger-suppressing, craving-crushing benefits and you might find yourself questioning why you are still hungry.
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