Over time I noticed that the closer I went towards a vegetarian diet and the longer I was going in that direction, the worse I felt. In late 2021, I had enough desperation to try a sixty-day “carnivore diet” challenge. I especially wanted to experiment upon myself with a diet that totally eliminated several controversial things like lectins, oxalates, solanine, gluten, sugar, soy, and so-called “seed oils” (canola oil, vegetable oil, safflower oil, sunflower oil, etc.). I also wanted to go into deep ketosis for an extended amount of time. The easiest way to do this was to go with a zero-carbohydrate (no plant material) diet. I re-focused my diet on beef, chicken eggs, butter, sardines, and omega-3 oil. I also had other meats like turkey, lamb, chicken, pork, duck, and a bit of cheese. I consumed no plant material at all except for a few light sprinkles of garlic, black pepper, and onion for flavor. Since my ideal body weight was 160 lbs, I attempted to aim roughly for 160 grams of protein and 160 grams of fat. But I found I could eat as much or as little meat and fat as I pleased.
The problems I was mainly trying to solve for were fatigue, lack of physical strength and stamina, brain-fog, and just feeling older than I should feel. I knew I had a low-grade struggle with both anxiety and depression but those weren’t really my complaints at the time. To my utter surprise, on day thirteen of my “carnivore diet” challenge, I noted that I was feeling much better mentally and physically than I have felt in quite a few years. I noted, “It feels like everything in my mind and body is more relaxed. Less anxiety too!” My depression and anxiety went to zero or near zero. Fascinated by this unexpected and profound fact, I started keeping track of some of the many other testimonies of people who got their mental health back on track by turning to a diet that is high in meat and animal fat.
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about any of this. I’m not a true expert on any of it but I enjoy discussing it and have plenty to say.
The usual objection I hear is,
But I don’t digest beef well.
My answer:
The fact that you don’t digest it perfectly right now doesn’t mean that you won’t be digesting it all perfectly two weeks after you begin a carnivore diet challenge. You actually do digest the protein in the beef well. Red meat is one of the very top forms of bio-available protein. Also red meat from ruminant animals (lamb, cattle, bison, elk, goats, deer, etc.) are arguably the least controversial protein sources known to man in the sense that human immune systems that over-react to various plant materials, eggs, and other meats are the least likely to react to red meat. As someone whose body is accustomed to a high carbohydrate diet, perhaps you don’t digest the fat/oils from the meat well yet. But you can. It takes a few days while for the liver, the gut bacteria colonies, and the GI tract to adapt to a high-fat, high-protein, low-fiber diet. You have to become ‘fat adapted’ first. That’s a thing. Research it if curious. For most people this adaptation takes about fourteen days to make this shift from carbivore to carnivore. Once your body makes that shift, you’ll probably find that you are digesting it all–proteins and oils too–extremely well.
Here is a list of videos and articles in no certain order. . .
Healing Mental Health w/ Keto Carnivore Diet | Juilliard Music Student Talks Anxiety & Depression
Carnivore is Best Diet Depression and Anxiety, Says Amber O’Hearn
Dr Georgia Ede and Dr Berry Discuss MEAT & Mental Health
After Eating Vegan 12+ Years, Dr.Rimka Reverses Health for Herself & Patients with Carnivore Diet
Carnivore Diet vs Lion Diet For Depression, Anxiety and OCD. My Carnivore Mental Health Experiment
The Carnivore Diet Healed My Depression
Carnivore Conquers 7-Day Fast, Bacterial Infection, & Depression · Mikhaila Peterson
Meat Healed My Depression ft. Mikhaila Peterson
Joe Rogan – Jordan Peterson’s Carnivore Diet Cured His Depression?
LION and CARNIVORE Diet for DEPRESSION with Jordan Fuller. How Strict? Supplements, Healing & More
40 Days on the [Carnivore Diet] — Anxiety and Depression
Mental Health on Carnivore Diet | Reverse Depression, Anxiety with Carnivore Diet
How the Carnivore diet helped my depression and anxiety
14YR Vegan to Carnivore Doctor Reverses Menopause, Gets Pregnant, Top Biohacks 4 Optimal Performance
Should You Only Eat Meat? | SHOCKING Science On The Carnivore Diet with Dr. Paul Saladino
Carnivore Diet BENEFITS For Everyone!
CarnivoryCon 2019: Georgia Ede, MD — “The Brain Needs Meat: Mental Health Benefits of the Carnivore…
Digesting Depression
My OCD diary — an imperfect story: Julia Britz at TEDxUNLV
She said that her OCD went away after she (1) eliminated gluten/wheat from her diet and (2) began taking supplements to help her brain health
| Healing Millions w/ Animal Based Diets & Reversing Mental Disorders | Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6P66BZv5TM&t=11s |
| Part 142 – Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride on Healing Millions w/ Animal Based Diets, Reversing Mental Disorders, and the GAPS Diet Today’s guest is Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride, who is the creator of the GAPS diet. The GAPS diet aims to solve an array of health conditions and chronic diseases by healing the gut. She has helped millions of people through her GAPS nutritional protocols and she shares a lot of her wisdom with us in this jam-packed episode! We discuss: Gut and Psychology Syndrome (GAPS) Symptoms of abnormal gut flora Every food contains glyphosate? Your health is rooted in your gut microbes Brain development & gut health Gut problems cause overeating? The main problem with processed foods The deleterious effects of high insulin The actual cause of heart disease Why does everyone want treats? How to fix a child’s diet Why meat stock is beneficial for children Is meat stock better than bone broth? Autism, epilepsy & the GAPS diet What is the GAPS protocol? What foods are GAPS-approved? Humans can’t live without animal products Vegetables – a modern human invention? What about fruit & honey? Is modern dairy healthy? The best type of dairy How she was raised in the Soviet Union Listen Here |
| Dr Georgia Ede and Dr Berry Discuss MEAT & Mental Health From <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgL1vlasrxU> |
| Tier 1 – Paleo is a great starting place. Meats fruits vegetables nuts seeds Get rid of grains, legumes, dairy products, processed foods. Great for teenagers and kids who can handle carbs and starchy vegetables. Get tested for insulin resistance. Good quality whole foods Tier 2 Try a ketogenic version of this diet to make sure brain gets enough energy. Easy to correct. Food sensitivies may also need to be considered. Tier3 Carnivore diet is the ultimate elimination diet. Long term or short term. |
| After Eating Vegan 12+ Years, Dr.Rimka Reverses Health for Herself & Patients with Carnivore Diet https://youtu.be/hAfNjB2eE2I There are a few things she says which I disagree with: She assumes that hominids and humans are the same She assumes that hominids have eaten mostly meat for 2 million years and/or 200,000 years. She believes that plants have few minerals and the soil that they’re grown in has no minerals. (That might be partially true in some locations.) She assumes “prana” life force energy goes from animals to people through ingestion (but surely thinks of it mainly in a chemical standpoint) She thinks it is good to drink blood She seems to think that humans are purely material beings. Seems to be atheist/pantheist. She is a chiropractor who started moving towards GAPS to treat autism. Her specialty is treating people with brain-based disorders, particularly with (1) mental health diagnoses, (2) autism, (3) ADHD, processing disorders, sensory integration, (4) anxiety, depression, PTSD. This led her to understand the gut-brain axis better. She works to heal guts to heal brains in children and adults for last 25 years. She’s also big on genetics. She is also “board certified” in neurofeedback. She looks at brain function and brain waves a lot. From a brain development standpoint, everyone under 25 yoa is a pediatric patient. Neural network infrastructure still being built. She thinks of the brain as a 75% cholesterol-saturated-fat bio-liquid computer. She can help 20 years olds in one way but for post 25 its just fighting off pruning and dying. https://brainandbodysolutions.com/work-with-me/ How she became vegan starts here: https://youtu.be/hAfNjB2eE2I?t=457 She first became a vegetarian in college due to leftist propaganda preying on her emotions. Stayed vegetarian for two years and became religiously vegan for another twelve years. Refers to veganism as a cult. Propaganda, emotional propaganda, trapped. Then she became religiously vegan for another 10 years. Her health broke down. Gained a lot of weight. Became slow. Became hypothyroid. Bones got brittle and broke her back. Sleeping all the time. Anxious and depressed. Strip the brain of cholesterol and can’t make hormones anymore and can’t make your thyroid function any more. Started menopause at age 32 her older friends and other doctors said your hormones are jacked. But you’re so religiously committed to the dogma and principles ethically and spiritually so that even if sick and dying need to stay this way. Then her endocrinologist and a PhD geneticist trying to help her found a way to talk to her and said, “You’ll be dead in three years. You cant have children. You’ll end up with cancer.” They gave her hormonal supplementation. Three days after ditching soy and gluten…She went to fish because its not furry. Salmon and shrimp. Berries. Paleo. … fog lifted. From black and white to color. 14 years of dull perception. She blamed soy and gluten for a while. She has been a carnivore for 3 years She started with 30days then 90 days. She says the proper human diet is ketogenic and mostly carnivore. She switched to carnivore diet. She realized that she had been pushing many patients with IBS and Crones and severe intestinal disorders (the more plant fiber, the worse their health) to carnivore diets. hear this part too: https://youtu.be/hAfNjB2eE2I?t=1280 She treats people with depression. But she wont do neurofeedback with them if they’re on a vegetarian diet because she says that demyelization has set in. Vegan brains are demylenized. Neurofeedback is like crossfit for the brain so she wont take money from vegans. No natural vegetarian societies … no successful tribes that are vegan since they go sterile. Forced and imposed based on misunderstanding of religious texts. Easier to dominate people who have no protein. Our human bodies are red meat, saturated fat, cholesterol, minerals. That’s all I am. I’m not made of carbohydrates. The best way to make more red meat, liver, and brain is to eat those things. It’s hard to take kale and turn it into muscle. Good to drink blood too. She recommends three months for a reset. Get glycine. Nose to tail. Brains, liver, chicken skin, Mostly red meat. Gets a half cow in freezer. But prefers filet mignon to ribeye because doesn’t love fat. Lots of eggs A2 raw milk from a dairy not far from her home Gets omega3s from sardines and salmon rather than pills Oysters, shrimp, sea bass, mostly steak, salmon roe, chicken wings Olives and avocado for fat since she doesn’t love fatty meats. Liver or brains and sardine or salmon roe for high omega three. Bone broth. Deficiencies to beware of on carnivore diet? Glycine Vitamin C She suggests that there is plenty of potassium and magnesium in abundance in bone broth. Anyway, eat sardines with the bones and you get a lot of bioavailable minerals. |
