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It takes years to understand nutrition and scientists will spend a lifetime just trying to understand one mechanism. What your experiencing is information overload and with your limited knowledge about nutrition in general your drawing conclusion that support your ideology, basically it's confirmation bias on steroids, how…

Actually what the body wants to do is bring it back down to base line which also prevent hyperglycemia which is what happens when that process doesn't happen efficiently. Biochemically we don't want chronically elevated blood sugar which leads to all sorts of heath issues, this is really nutritional science 101. Maybe I'm…

Nope, that's not the way it works. Glycogen stores will never be full when someone is on a keto diet and if they were then the metabolic machinery would switch that person to carbs (sugar burner) and they would be using those for fuel. They will manufacture some through a process called gluconeogenesis but that's to supply…

Some pan fried salmon, about 8 oz with some lemon butter, and 4 poached eggs.

Eating healthy is a new concept, where in the 60's and 70's, it really didn't exist very much for the vast majority of people because the food supply was mostly considered "healthy" by todays standards with about 15% of the population considered overweight or obese and now it's pushing 75%. Who knows maybe you can emulate…

@PAV888. What you say makes sense and it's an integral part of the skepticism and we can throw keto into that mix as well. Why would someone decide to do something this drastic and remove all the foods that aren't animal based. The vast majority, almost all the people actually that eventually decided to try carnivore, it…

Yep, most of it but the Canadian Gov't still has warnings for eating raw milk cheeses and says they present a higher risk of foodborne illness compared to pasteurized milk cheeses, and it's for the usual suspects, pregnant women, children, older people and people with weakened immune systems.

I don't drink milk but use cream and yogurt, both pasteurized but pretty much all my cheese from France and Italy are made with raw milk.

That's what he did Corina, he changed to the carnivore and he's seeing good results. His question like many that start the carnivore diet, they aren't quite sure about any longer term problems, which was his actual question. Pretty much every person that are on the carnivore diet initially had a lot of reservations based…

Where do you think he got this idea? could it be in studies, maybe, have you tried to investigate why he said that or are you just discounting the notion because to you, it doesn't make sense? Curious.

Hey, welcome to MFP and just to let you know I'm a semi retired chef as well, I also work around 3 days, good luck with your new venture. All of these GLP-1's muck with our gut microbiome which obviously cause lots of different issues but they generally clear up after some time. Also not eating enough and engaging in hard…

Nice, and yeah, sweet potato works well but I haven't made it in years. My recipe has heavy cream, eggs, brown sugar, vanilla which is more of a traditional ice cream recipe. Your recipe is more of a sweet potato puree which I actually have on a menu right now where in a vitamix I add butter and Chinese 5 spice but no milk…

Good for you. I always have hard boiled eggs in the fridge, they are my go to as a snack. :)

Paul is well, a different personality when it comes to nutrition in the general sense and is well known among his peers. His commitment originally with carnivore was driven with the same enthusiasm as he shows today for adding fruit, honey and raw dairy back in, which is fine and most in the carnivore space really don't…

After cooking the bacon down slowly, very slowly I add the 35% cream and allow to steep, the longer the better, even overnight. Reheat then strain the bacon out, then proceed with a recipe. The bacon fat works well, not to worry. Of course you'll need to experiment with different amounts to achieve a desired balance and if…

If your not aware, this is what i do for a living, being a chef. Although I'm 71and work generally around 15-20 hours a week I'm still active with 2 restaurants but more for recipe development, staff training and education. It's basically my job to come up with menu's or specific dishes based on availability, lately it was…

Yes, Dr. Paul Saladino wrote a book called "The Carnivore Code: unlocking the secrets to optimal health by returning to an ancestral diet". After about 5 years and now living in Costa Rica he complained he was experiencing decreased testosterone levels, sleep issues, and joint and muscle pain, which led him to reconsider…

Yeah, my post wasn't a reflection on your desire and love for sweet things, I share your enthusiasm but I needed a bit more intervention (restriction) based on my health concerns. I was just pointing out the conflict with the advice. Anyway I'll just mention that a banana or pineapple regardless of the fact it's a whole…

Also when you said you were an "unapologetic hedonist, the carnivore style would very likely make me want to jump off a tall bridge into shallow water out of sheer misery." I had to laugh to myself because I thought when I read that if I had to eat broccoli and soy for the rest of my life I'd rather poke my eye out with a…

No Ann, generally I like and agree your most of your advice, although I do find you try to appeal to the widest audience possible quite frequently. Your description of what a rabbit hole might consist of was, I thought quite interesting. But again no Ann your post didn't influence my post in the way you think it did, it's…

Why on earth would anyone ever consider such a crazy restrictive diet. Well, that's a rabbit hole that for the people that actually benefit and have made that journey don't consider it to be restrictive and who for the most part actually embrace the simplicity and it's mostly because health trumps all other concerns. It…

I believe that the more nutrient dense the food is the more satisfied the body will be. Just like when people eat in a deficit the urge to eat, driven by hunger, is one of the biggest reasons people fail, it just goes against our natural survival mechanisms and the machinery that dictates those actions and when we are not…

If what you mean by success is weight loss, then no, any diet can do that and a carnivore diet is, in that context, just another diet after all, and what drives weight loss is simply, a calorie deficit. But the no would therefore apply to every conceivable diet on the planet and where we have reduced everything down to the…

I know you were consuming a boat load of sugar substitutes and understand you wanting to get off them, it really does muck with our biome but for your dietitian to say your ready to add real sugar back in is perplexing for me considering that advice promotes inflammation by it's own action based on the hard science of…

Why would a can of pineapple need to be frozen?

The active ingredient is tirzepatide and apparently the diarrhea is quite common with people using higher doses. Maybe have the dose lowered and see what happens, maybe it'll be easier on you. Just a thought. What type of diet are you regularly on, just curious.

Inflammation is the 900 lb gorilla when it comes to heart disease, not cholesterol, and that myth has been busted for quite a while. :) If your worried about heart disease ask your doctor to have a CAC (Coronary Artery Calcium) score done, this will tell you your potential risk, no guessing involved.

First of all congratulations losing almost 40 lbs. Your main reason for trying this diet is by far the most important reason people seek out this diet and that is for health reason, which was my reasoning as well and your joint pain resonates with me which like you is completely gone. Anyway my point is that health by far…

You could just increase your plant protein which has fiber attached, that's a real popular dietary choice these days and suspect you'll get a lot of likes as well. The big problem with gut health is refined carbs and sugars which promote a gut health that leans towards biome overgrowth that is very detrimental so if your…

A basic problem arises when there is literally no long term studies examining "risk" for any nutritional data on outcomes in humans, and there'll never be any either. Risk implies cause-and -effect and that can't be established in human nutritional science, period. The only real science in nutrition is to look at the hard…