1/ Did you know that you can make insulin resistance (type 2 diabetes) worse while eating zero carb?
If you are close to your personal fat threshold and are eating lots of fat, then there ain’t anywhere for the fat to go. All your fat cells (adipose) are stuffed..
All these comments & none stating the most obviously and helpful answer. Eat less fat, especially from dairy. We have people coming to us from the “eat only fattiest cuts” carnivore recommendations daily that are just gaining body fat. Less in the diet means more burned off body.
I don’t know what to do anymore. I am scheduling a session with Bart Kay. Carnivore for 7 months, insomniac for 27 years. F 67, 1.72m. In Aug ‘23: 81 kg now 85, instead of losing 10 kg. Gained #, my jeans don’t fit anymore. No sweeteners, no dairy. Might be the lack of sleep.
Healthcare is expensive and almost never addresses root causes, just puts bandaids on symptoms. This is part of the problem. Sick people are a big businesss.
@HalCranmer
How has his cognition been? Blood ketones are just the difference in ketones made and ketones used. His brain could be using them up not leaving much left in the blood.
This never gets old. Watching a whale up to 80,000 pounds and up to 60 feet long lunch its body out of the water is an incredible sight.
This baby humpback was breaching over and over. Baby humpbacks will breach a lot in Maui to get the strength to swim back to Alaska.
@BenBikmanPhD
@BYU
Yes! And when too many fat cells get hypertrophic (overstuffed or close to your personal fat threshold) the body is in a state of insulin resistance and fat spills over into areas it shouldn’t (liver, pancreas, more in the bloodstream, etc) which is metabolic syndrome.
This is why we do what we do. I love helping people. We follow results not dogma or one size fits all approaches.
If you have been doing carnivore for months or even years without seeing results you want, follow a better approach designed for your body and goals.
@realDaveFeldman
@tednaiman
@BenBikmanPhD
They are both correct. But there is only one situation where there is an absence of insulin in the human body and that type 1 diabetics not taking insulin. So everyone has insulin around at all time and can store fat via insulin or ASP.
2/ and inflamed and thus rejecting insulin. No more fat will go into them. The fat has to go somewhere. So it end up staying in the blood longer (sky high triglycerides) and accumulating in the liver (fatty liver) and other organs.
Video about personal fat threshold:
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1/2 Nope. This study was a RCT that put one group on strict vegetarian diet and one on strict carnivore. What happens is the micro biome shifted within 24 hours of the new diet but in both cases there was similar alpha diversity (same types of gut bugs present) but different …
A lot of people are jumping on the “carnivore diet” trend, but they are missing one key truth: fiber is critical to your health.
Fiber nourishes your gut bacteria which impacts inflammation, digestion, and even your mood.
#carnivorediet
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When in this state the body has an overabundance of fuel so insulin is struggling to hold back the fuel in your fat cells, as well as deal with all the fuel in the blood it can’t store. This leads to higher glucose too. Even when eating zero carb…
This time of year we see more large groups of whales as the whales group up for the long swim back to Alaska. Here was a recent comp pods that swam past.
It’s hard to realize the power and size of these animals. Each one weighs up to 65,000 pounds & is up to 60 feet long!
I know many people in nutrition that never had a weight problem. They had a six pack on vegan & still have a 6 pack on keto & will have a 6 pack no matter what they eat. They will relate with someone struggling with obesity? Give me someone who lost 50+ pounds and no 6 pack.
I think it’s fair to ask if the MD or scientist or public health official saying to do X or not do Y looks and sounds healthy and vital. I avoid going to a dentist with bad teeth. What do you think? I sense diverging opinions on this.
4/ like this person who was eating high fat carnivore.
If you are close to your personal fat threshold, you must shrink your fat cells to reverse the insulin resistance. This can be when you are 110 pounds or 350 pounds. Just depends how many fat cells you have. Genetically, ..
@marxar
@tednaiman
It does raise insulin enough to be stored. And it can be stored without insulin through ASP. You want the body to store fat in your fat cells. If it didn’t, you would have a sky high triglycerides.
This guy came to us 7 months ago on Hospice with Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. He could barely stand up and was non-verbal.
Today his wife texted me:
“XXX filled in some on his medical report and then signed his name AND separated tge 2 pages, leaving the carbon with the nurse
9/ It seems the carnivore police have come out in force on this post! 😂
I have eaten carnivore myself for over 6 years and wrote the Carnivore Cookbook with my wife
@MariaEmmerich
5-6 years ago. Ben still ate keto/carnivore, just with lower fat and more protein.
6/ put out adiponectin, stuffed and inflamed ones put out less. My presentation at Hack Your Health this summer will go into this in detail. Hope to see you there! Use code: Maria for $50 off your ticket!
5/ most people have a limit to how many fat cells they can make.
How do you tell if you are close to your personal fat threshold? Fasting insulin is one marker. Fasting insulin will be high when close to the threshold. Another is low adiponectin levels. Happy, small fat cells…
Had an amazing time at Low Carb for Better Health this weekend! My favorite part was nearing so many amazing people and hearing stories of peoples lives changed by our books and info. Nothing more rewarding than that!
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8/ I will add, we have helped thousands of clients with keto and carnivore over the last 20 years. This is a special case where lower fat and higher protein is required. This person was still keto, just lowered fat and upped protein to fix this.
Thanks
@lilliekane_yt
for allowing me to go off on lengthy unhinged rants like this one about all sorts of things including insulin, carbs versus fat, artificial sweeteners, and I can’t even remember what else. 😁
Full YouTube video here:
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@robbwolf
@BenBikmanPhD
We advocate high protein and lower fat for weight loss. If eating in maintenance you eat higher fat (and possibly lower protein). That’s how I lose weight, I up my protein and lower my fat.
Diet alone can do amazing things. Cognitive impairment and sent to an assisted living facility. But instead of continuing to decline like most places feeding them the SAD diet, she was fed keto and our recipes and is now going back home!
Back in May we started our assisted living resident Melissa on a journey to restore her memory.
We gave her a cognitive impairment test called SLUMS to baseline her. She scored a 15/30. Well within the range saying she had Dementia.
Then we fed her a
#keto
/
#carnivore
diet and
@carnivore_jt
The most we have ever seen in a client was 100 pounds lost in 2 months. Client was 645 pounds at the start and guessing 1/3 or more was water weight at the start.
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@carnivore_jt
I’ll be sharing his story in my presentation at Hack Your Health this summer. He was 645 pounds but labs were perfect. Insulin 3, A1c 5.6, fasting glucose 80. He is a genetic variant that can readily make new fat cells so he never reaches his personal fat threshold. Amazing case
@voxdotcom
“It’s wrecking the planet”? Please. And on top of this, this carbon emitted by cows came from the air, it’s recycled. The transportation, energy and industry are mostly net new carbon from fossil fuels dug out of the ground.
This may sound weird but my favorite part of assisted living is when someone no longer needs our services.
Our resident Melissa has done such an amazing job of healing herself. Today I dropped her off at the airport to go home and start her new life.
It was sad to say goodbye
You know what? The light coming out of the sun is 400–800 THz!!! Even higher!
This is just silly. Posting the frequency of the signal and implying it’s the magnitude is silly. (From an electrical engineer)
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2/ beta diversity (certain gut bugs increased w/carnivore). But importantly, look at the second image. The genes responsible for vitamin biosynthesis drastically increased on carnivore and had no change on vegan. Eating carnivore you are getting far more bioavailable vitamins.
@BenBikmanPhD
@BYU
2/ But since many of the fats cells aren’t taking any fat, fasting insulin keeps rising. That’s why someone can have fasting insulin or 20 or 30 even eating low carb. We see this all the time. They have to shrink the fat cells by burning body fat to bring fasting insulin down.
@KetoCarnivore
To me this is like the people that say “just eat the food God made for us”. Well, he make anthrax and it grows naturally in some soils but I’m not eating that! 😁
Can food reverse
#dementia
?
It did for Melissa & it only months 💪
Melissa was a patient
@HalCranmer
that exclusively makes my recipes for their residents. This past weekend I was able to meet her and cook for her ❤️ I feel
#blessed
to be a part of her healing 🙏🏻
@carnivore_jt
He would likely never develop metabolic issues no matter how big he got because he could just make new fat cells and the fat cells stayed happy and small, so no insulin resistance of metabolic issues.
@realDaveFeldman
I agree, as long as the carb calories aren’t just replaced with fat calories. Increasing fat calories while cutting carb calories (equating protein) can make things worse. Have seen this many times.
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@HalCranmer
Mix it 4:1 or 5:1 with ground beef. Grind up, add 1 pound ground liver to 4-5 pounds ground beef. Make it in something like chili and you want even know it’s in there. :)
@KetoCarnivore
@robbwolf
@BenBikmanPhD
I wouldn’t call what I eat very high protein, no. It can vary a lot (like when I eat sashimi and go way over) but a typical day is around 130g or so.
@BenBikmanPhD
@BYU
1/ But fasting insulin, which accounts for most of the insulin produced by the body in a day, is highly elevated in someone close to their personal fat threshold. The body is ramping up insulin to try and force more fuel out of the bloodstream.
@KetoCarnivore
@robbwolf
@BenBikmanPhD
I would assume generally my basal insulin levels would go up with fat gain and down with fat loss. Insulin going up slightly because I gained body fat. More fuel to hold back in storage.
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Americans are obsessed with protein. They eat about 2x as much of it as the federal government advises, and 60% of US adults are trying to get even more of it into their diets.
Excessive protein consumption could be making us sick. It's also wrecking the planet.
How much
@robbwolf
It’s nuts what we put in baby formula and baby food. Nothing but soybean oil and corn syrup. They go from good fat and good amounts of protein in breast milk to fat free high sugar, almost vegetarian foods. Crazy.
@ShereeHusk90013
Yes, we have helped tons of clients with that. Prioritizing protein, lowering dietary fat and cutting 100% of dairy can help with time.
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Starting this "Know the guest" series.
Will be covering all the guests.
Thank you Craig
@emmerich_craig
for agreeing to be a part of this event - 2nd Metabolic Health Conference from India.
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