I recently did an interview article with Keto Endurance. You can find the full article here.
It details my own health journey, advice and insights I've gathered along the way. I hope you enjoy and find it helpful in your own path! Here is an excerpt on my views on the future of a carnivore diet; Do you think Carnivore will ever be accepted as a mainstream diet? More and more people are getting sick, with chronic disease the number one cause of mortality worldwide. I see more people let down by the conventional allopathic medical system and looking for alternatives to heal themselves. This is where I think the carnivore approach will thrive. Our culture has taken such a deep dive off the cliff of disconnect from what is real, whole and natural that fundamental truths like the importance of animal fats and protein for human health, and the importance of well-managed ruminant animals for soil health has been vilified instead of celebrated. The culmination of decades of mindless consumption and industrial development going in a direction that works against nature has led us to ecological and human health degradation. We have reached this tipping point where we need massive, radical change in order to restore balance. I see things going in 2 ways evolving from the standard, destructive conventional status quo regime: there is the plant-based narrative that is being pushed as a way to save the planet, animals and human health, but is based on partial truths that actually lead us down this very synthetic road – think lab grown meat, supplements, and a world where plastic is chosen over leather and to have a “balanced” vegan diet means dependence of a fossil-fueled globalized food system of imported foods – or this Utopian “Garden of Eden” ideals of living off the land but eating mostly fruit and greens (health tends to degrade much quicker in this case). Both take us further away from our ancestral heritage and what is truly natural and needed. Long term, I would foresee this resulting in more nutritional deficiencies and metabolic dysregulation. Then we have the other narrative of the real food movement, based on traditional nutrient dense foods, Weston A. Price and ancestral health principles, and informed by disciplines like medical anthropology and evolutionary biology. Along with this, regenerative agriculture, holistic grazing and agroecology come alongside to support the production of a nutrient-dense and sustainable food system. I am rooting for this path! In my opinion, sustainability is not enough, we need regeneration – of the land and our bodies. An animal-food based diet provides the body with the most bio-available complete nutrition without the potential harmful substances in plants in a way that can replenish, nourish and create the conditions for healing. While I don’t think everybody should or has to go 100% carnivore to benefit from the life-enhancing nourishment of healthy animal foods, I do hope it will become widespread and mainstream as a tool for those who need it.
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I would like this blog and website to be dedicated to more specific information, practical and research-based, relating to a carnivore way of eating and regenerative lifestyle. However, I would like to provide a link to my more personal and historical blog posts concerning my own health journey, for those interested and perhaps in the same shoes I was veganism and autoimmune.
For all things detailing my past health journey, my previous blog Juicy Living, has all the personal posts going way back to when I was raw vegan and struggling - it's pretty interesting to look back and see the development unfold. This post details my initial transition to carnivore. Here is the link to the whole blog and archive: http://juicyliving.weebly.com/blog Check out the blog for all the photos and additional details, but what I mention here holds pretty much true today (month 13 on a carnivore WOE): 30 days Beef & Water My last month in Copenhagen before moving was the perfect set-up to do 30 days on mostly beef and water. I included the occasional hot drink of 100% cacao powder with water and stevia for the colder days (I was in the depth of a Danish winter!!!!), but otherwise my food nutrition was all animal-based, no plants, no fiber, zero carb. I ate mostly ground organic beef, and supplemented with organ meat like liver, heart and tongue. I also treated myself a few times to the best pastured roast pork ever at my favourite organic butchers in the world! Current Carnivore + occasional 100% cacoa = my main template. This way I get the best of both worlds - the most nutrient dense foods on the Planet with none of the issues of eating a high-plant diet! Highest nutrient density foods with highest bioavailability where the nutrients are in a form our body can most readily absorb: organ meats from healthy animals; meat and game; pastured pork; pastured poultry; wild, oily fish; 100% cacao, especially heirloom varieties in the form of cacao powder for drinks &/or 100% cacao paste (aka chocolateee, yeah!). I do my own thing. I don't eat only bacon - I feel sick doing that (I also react to cured or smoked meat in large amounts, probably due to the histamines). I don't add extra fat like lard, butter, ghee. I don't even cook in extra fat, usually (sometimes, yes ;). As you can maybe tell, I don't like going by rules. I go by guidelines, and modeify what doesn't work for me and add what is purely my own that optimises how I feel & function. Motto for any self-experiment & examined living: TAKE WHAT IS USEFUL DISCARD WHAT IS NOT ADD WHAT IS UNIQUELY YOUR OWN :=) I eat:
What I eat daily is very simple. I buy the best-quality meat & eggs at my Farmers market 1x a week, freeze meat I'll be eating later in the week. I've gotten into a rhythm with this system where I rarely have to buy anything else during the week - it is SO LIBERATING! Saving time and mental energy for prepping, planning, shopping has opened up more time to do what I love. The 1% / occasional plant sources:
I think we can get the best of BOTH worlds - meat + medicinal plants. I was making fresh cucumber lemon juice, but stopped as I felt better without it. No fiber, and no vegetables that been the biggest beneficial change for me. Meat + nourishing animal fats + eggs + DHA -rich wild seafood. I do like the idea of using the beef + H20 template as a protocol to cycle in for periods of time, as a reset and in times where I need maximum simplicity. |
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