Comments By Brett Aquila

So the last month I've noticed a big change in it, where I am more "regular"

That's great news! Increasing the percentage of fats and proteins you eat will make a huge difference. In fact, many people get diarrhea when they first switch to carnivore because they're not used to that much protein and fat, and because carbs will make your body retain water, which gets flushed out when you stop eating so many carbs.

On carnivore, you'll wind up with a huge reduction in the amount of poop you produce. You won't even go daily because you won't produce enough waste. When we eat carnivore, almost everything gets used.

Keep eating plenty of fats especially. That will continue to improve the situation. Once you're eating the right stuff and your body adapts, you'll never have issues with being regular.

Hey Pinky! Glad you decided to join!

I am torn because where I live, I'm not sure if i want to make it a home but I know the BS that comes from OTR, but it would allow me to save up money and move in the near future (2-3 years).

We don't know you well enough to know if you'll enjoy OTR based on your personality and preferences. But what you said about choosing a place to live is interesting.

OTR would put you in the perfect position to save money while exploring other places to live. Once you decide where to live, it would be easy to change jobs if you needed to. Pretty much any company will hire you if you're currently running OTR and have a reasonably good track record.

So running OTR would put you in a good position with regard to your living situation.

I don't think raising enough meat, milk, or eggs will be a problem.

Cows eat grass. Cows provide meat and milk. Cows poop. Poop grows grass. Cows make more cows.

Chickens eat bugs and plants. Chickens provide eggs and meat. Chickens poop. Poop fertilizes plants and attracts bugs. Chickens make more chickens.

I think we're gonna be ok!

if everyone on Earth suddenly discovered that the carnivore diet was better for their health

...the world's population would instantly become way more healthy and we'd work together to figure out any challenges along the way.

It would be a glorious health revolution!

My eyes and nose have been completely clear for the past 4 or 5 days. I have never in my life not had to deal with this.

My energy and focus...seems better and sharper.

I haven't had that mid afternoon drowsiness that I used to get

The results thus far seem incredible

Wow! That's an amazing start!

I always emphasize the experience of eating this way because we all deal with a unique set of problems based on our genetics, lifestyle, nutrition, and fitness. Once you see your problems begin to disappear, you'll be a believer. No one will have to confirm it for you. You know your body, and your body knows when it gets the right fuel.

I's going to take me a little while to figure out how much and when I need to eat, and I also have to work in a fasting day, but I'm going to stick with it.

I'm pullin' for ya! I think you will stick with it.

For the first few years, I ate a small breakfast, just eggs most of the time, then a big dinner. It wasn't until about 1 1/2 years ago I switched to one meal per day. I didn't know that was a thing.

Most people get amazing results doing intermittent fasting, which means you go roughly 15 - 18 hours each day without eating. You normally eat two meals per day, within 6 hours of each other. That would give you 18 hours without eating each day.

Whatever you do, there's no hurry. In fact, if you hurry you'll suffer more discomfort as your body tries to adjust quickly. Doing a complete one-day fast is down the road, once you can consistently go 18 hours without eating each day. Then you can try to do more and see how it feels.

Of course, none of this is nutritional advice from me. I'm just passing on what I've heard.

It's not that difficult to figure out why "powerful forces" seek to discredit this diet and dismiss it's seemingly glowing results.

This is the key to understanding why people often vehemently oppose eating carnivore. Look around at our society and imagine how much money the food and medical industries make convincing us to eat too much of the wrong foods and keeping us in poor health.

If everyone suddenly discovered how to eat properly, it would completely wreck those industries and a long list of heads would roll when society started asking questions.

Yet, who benefits financially from spreading the truth? Almost no one! Hell, I've lost several members of this website by promoting this way of eating and haven't made a nickel from it. It sent me in the wrong direction! You wind up getting attacked from every angle. So there's a huge profit incentive for industries to promote unhealthy eating and to keep us sick, but there's almost no way to counter that by profiting from telling people to eat meat and eggs.

I have had a significant reduction in gas and bloating.

Yap, that "rot gut" thing Turtle mentioned disappears quickly when you stop eating carbs, especially veggies.

I'm going to give this diet an honest effort

I love it! Report back often and let us know how it's going. I'd love to hear about it!

On the menu for this week:

I smoked a pork loin, chuck roast, and salmon yesterday, and have the leftovers all packaged up ready for reheating in the truck. Additionally, I have 15 boiled eggs and some cubed steak fried in bacon grease.

I cooked up another pork loin and some cheeseburgers the other day. I have swordfish and cheeseburger on the menu tonight! Yesterday was my day off from eating.

The fact that I go 48 hours without eating once every week, and almost 24 hours without eating almost daily, without any loss of energy or feeling any different at all really shows how stable my health is and how well my body has adapted to burning fats for fuel by eating this way.

Brett, have you ever read anything by Sally Fallon?

I had never heard of her, so I reviewed some of her stuff using AI. It seems she basically says to eat meat, eggs, and dairy, and if you want to eat some other stuff because you think it helps, you can if you prepare it right.

She seems to be on the right track.

She reminded me of something I've always noticed - people can not accept a simple answer to what they believe is a complex problem like human nutrition. People think our bodies are so complex that proper nutrition must be complex. But I'm always looking for what I call the simplest effective solution to any problem. In our case, eat a huge pile of fats and proteins once a day. That's it. It works flawlessly.

But people can't accept that. There's no way you can eat a big pile of beef every day and be healthy! It freaks people out. They just won't accept it. Even Joe Rogan, one of the toughest dudes ever, said he felt the best he ever did in his life on carnivore, but he was afraid to eat that way. He just couldn't trust it.

So you'll find a ton of nutritional people now who are "almost carnivore" and "mostly" eat that way. But they'll always throw in a few little things like "you need fermented foods for better digestion" or "a little fiber helps you poop better." I don't know if they just feel the need to complicate things so we perceive their expertise as valuable? I don't know.

But I do know there are examples of simple solutions all around us.

Millions of vehicles all over the world run on the exact same gasoline. You don't need custom gasoline solutions because each car is built differently or they have different genetics or they're operating under different circumstances. Gasoline for one and all. That's it.

What about cows? Cows eat grass, they poop, poop grows grass. I mean, it's that simple! There's nothing more to it.

Over the years, I've seen attitudes progress as cynics watch more and more people have success eating this way. They've gone from, "You're insane and you're gonna kill people!" to "Ok, so 'one guy' felt a little better eating steak. Doesn't prove anything!"

Now we're at the point where even the "professionals" are admitting, "Ok, it has worked flawlessly for years for thousands of people and it has even reversed a long list of diseases, but....but......but....."

...and then they throw in a few of their little custom exceptions to the rule like "ya gotta eat rhubarb for better eyesight!" or "chic peas help regulate your thyroid!" or some weird thing no one could ever prove anyhow.

Slowly migrate to a diet based on proteins and fats. Give it three months. If you run into problems after those three months, then work through it. Don't forecast gloom and doom and push yourself away from the solution out of fear. Give it a try. Then you'll know.

Chief Brody tried to post. I deleted it. He said I likely would. But I'll sum it up:

To paraphrase:

I don't like you, Brett, and I'd like to prove you wrong, but I've done no work of my own and I have no proof of anything, so I'll just criticize you a few times and leave a link to a random article on a random nutrition website that says carnivore probably won't work because "science."

Thanks, Chief Brody.

So many skeptics, so few willing to do the work.

For those who are interested, here is a new video from Dr Shawn Baker, the face of the carnivore movement that discusses things you must know if you're interested in eating carnivore:

Some highlights:

• Eating carnivore includes meat, fish, eggs, and dairy
• You should try it for at least three months, with one month dedicated to transitioning away from carbs and onto fats and proteins
• Most processed foods are not even food, and affect us like a recreational drug
• You may need more fluids and electrolytes than normal. Processed foods and vegetables often have added salt and make you retain water. You must replace that salt and water by drinking more than usual. You may experience diarrhea only in the beginning stages of transitioning until your body releases the extra fluids you retain and get used to the increased fat intake. That will not last.
• You will poop way less than you used to. You are not constipated. You're eating properly now so there is far less waste. This is good.
• Most people eat twice per day. Many of us eat only once at dinner.

In the video he does not mention how to transition to it. Slowly reduce the amount of carbs you eat with your meals. Eat larger amounts of meat and eggs, smaller amounts of everything else. Take about one full month to slowly transition to the point you eat at most two meals per day, preferably within 6 hours of each other.

Wow, Turtle. I did not have "Turtle going one-meal-a-day carnivore" on my bingo card! I thought you were just the next person in line to take a shot at me. When I saw your name on this thread, I thought, "Wow, even Turtle has had enough of me talking about this." But I'm obviously thrilled to hear the news!

I mentioned my wife to show the health contrast, anecdotal as it may be, between someone who prefers fats and proteins versus someone who prefers vegetables.

We are way beyond the anecdotal stage or the fad stage with eating carnivore. It first became known about seven years ago when Dr Shawn Baker called it the carnivore diet. There is a small army of thousands people who have all had the same earth-shattering results eating this way for years now, which is not a diet, but simply the proper way to eat.

5+ years ago I would have said we're getting anecdotal evidence or it's a fad. Not anymore.

After a year and a half of the veggie business, yes I did lose a little bit of weight, like 15lbs. but I had never felt worse in my life. I had a daily dose of what I would call "rot gut", just a queasy or upset feeling in my stomach. I was sluggish, and seemed to have progressively less energy

This is why I'm insisting that people stop talking about it and try carnivore. Once you experience the way you feel eating properly, all doubt will vanish. You'll never need another explanation about nutrition or waste your time in debates.

Notice, also, that everything Turtle experienced in his life pointed him toward eating meat. We're all born this way. Every kid on Earth loves meat and hates vegetables. It was not until people started confusing us with their advertising gimmicks that we lost our way. But the truth is instinctual. Our bodies know what to eat.

I would say "rot gut" is the perfect description of life on vegetables. All that fiber, which we can not digest, clogs our system. Along with that comes the garbage people put on vegetables like salad dressings, nuts, seeds, and fruits. It produces a ton of gas, which leaves us feeling bloated and having to go to the bathroom a lot. Your energy stays low because your body is trying to digest all this garbage and wants you to rest while it does that.

So you wind up bloated and gassy, lethargic, and just feeling crappy because you filled your body with useless fiber and things your body can not digest while ingesting nearly none of the nutrition you need. It's a disaster.

I also had to visit the hospital for the first non-accident, an appendectomy. Coincidence?

Man, I'm sorry to hear that. Since there's no way to prove that eating the wrong way caused it, we'll throw this one on that gigantic pile of anecdotal evidence that always seems to point in the same direction.

All the vitamins and nutrients we need are in the very thing that we were designed to eat: ANIMALS!

Just getting this on a t-shirt doesn't seem like a strong enough message. I might tattoo this on my forehead.

I've been mostly OMAD (one meal a day), which has its own separate health benefits

Fasting is almost as important as eating the right thing in the first place. Even if you're eating vegetables and fasting, you're giving your body a chance to clean itself out sometimes. But when you combine fasting with carnivore, you're now eating properly and allowing your body time to process the food, rebuild itself, and clean up afterward. At the same time, you're becoming more efficient at processing fats for fuel, which is the ideal way for the human body to fuel itself.

I can't describe how heartbreaking it is to go through life watching everyone around you suffer with obesity, illness, and depression when all they have to do is eat steak and eggs! Then, when you tell people the great news, you're treated like an outcast! It feels like I'm living in the Twilight Zone. I have the best possible news, and no one wants to hear it.

I hope more of you step up to the plate and give Carnivore a shot. I suspect there are more of you out there who are considering it, but you're not too excited about admitting that here after the reception the others have given me. I understand. But I encourage you to keep going down the path to carnivore. You may have noticed, as I have, that the only person who agrees with me so far is the only one who actually put in the work and tried it for himself. Hopefully more of you will report back with some exciting results!