On the carnivore diet you should only eat meat, salt, and water for best results:
Eat fatty meat until it stops tasting good, and then stop.
Eat any meat or seafood you prefer, makes you feel the best, and that you can afford, but ruminants like beef, lamb, goat and venison are optimal.
The fat is very important as it contains many essential nutrients and is essential for healthy hormones, skin, neurological health, energy, growth, and repair; it is not just a calorie source. Eat the fat!
Eggs are great as long as you tolerate them. If you don’t, it’s often the whites that cause issues so try having just the yolks to see if they work for you.
You can salt your meat to taste, but you don't need to add salt to your water unless for some reason it tastes good and you feel better doing it. Normally just salting to taste gets the job done. You really don’t need much salt and many long term carnivores don’t use salt at all, myself included.
Dairy should be used as a condiment only.
Now, What Not To Eat:
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My hard rules for myself and those who want to optimize their health are:
1) No plants or fungi,
2) No sugar or any sweeteners,
3) Nothing artificial.
These rules apply to sauces, seasonings, and drinks as well.
- No plant oils eg. canola oil, sunflower oil, grapeseed oil, soybean oil or even olive oil
- Seasonings, spices, bread crumbs etc.
- Legumes, grains, vegetables, seeds, nuts etc.
- Fruit and honey (sorry Dr. Saladino).
- Sweeteners.
- Coffee & tea.
- Sauces and marinades.
- Anything derived from or containing plants
Carnivore For Beginners - Dr. Anthony Chaffee
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Although I’d heard of the Carnivore diet a long time ago, I viewed it with the commonly held false narrative, that it was hugely detrimental to physical health.
As a Master PT (also CEO & published author) I’m very interested in how I can fuel my body to work at its optimal level. Previously, I have been vegetarian for 16 years and as an Ultra runner I tried Veganism for 12 months – which resulted in me becoming unwell with bad blood results.
I have always been very active physically…competitive Crossfitter, Ultra Runner, Cyclist. Recently, I started suffering from digestive symptoms such as excessive bloating, acid reflux, poor sleep, psoriasis and general fatigue. I’m a 58yr old grandmother and still train 6 x per week but feel as though I’m not living my optimal self and have made a commitment to do 90 days strict carnivore. I’ve been replacing my veggies and fruit with meat, fish, eggs and cheese…but have also been eating sugar-free gum and drinking tea and coffee. So, tomorrow I’m starting on a strict phase of Beef, Lamb, Pork & Venison, eggs and drinking only mineral water. I’m really excited to see how I feel mentally and physically!
I was a vegetarian for 37 years. Been eating fish for 20+ years and meat for 7 years now. I struggle. The problem with carnivore diets is that I don’t particularly like meat, I need veg to take away the taste. I really have a problem with fatty meat (usually feel as though I want to throw it up). I am however cooking with lard and manage to eat sausages. I would really like to do a carnivore diet but I don’t think I could do it.. I am hoping I can gradually work up to increasing my meat intake. If you have any ideas on this, or fancy doing a veggie to carnivore challenge, I’ll be there!
I currently weigh 250lbs and been on a ketogenic diet previously and lost 15lbs quickly and just stayed at same weight for 3 months.. To lose my desired weight to 200 lbs i dont understand quantities to eat as have heard I can eat too little protein, normally ribeye steak..
I normally have 2 × 200g ribeye steaks at 1pm and snack on a couple of pieces of lamb before at 6pm and feel totally satiated but should increase to maybe 3 ribeye or 2 or 3 eggs per day??
I’ve been doing carnivore for about 3 weeks, and would like to continue but have found myself breaking the diet once or twice in this period of time. I feel good getting a little carbs (feels great), which is making me consider doing keto-vore. My wife who’s a nurse is concerned about the increased risk of colon cancer from people who have low fibre – could you please speak to this?
I’m 50, reasonably fit, 5’6"/130lbs, but have Celiac Disease, Hashimoto, and arthritic flare ups in old athletic injuries. I’ve recently started the carnivore diet, but am concerned that I have pain and pressure where my gallbladder used to be, which was removed 3 years ago after almost rupturing. I have read to use Ox Bile and Lipase to ease my way into the diet, but since I watched your video, I’ve leaned towards just letting my body figure it out by eating less-fatty meats. Is it still ok to feel a bit of pain and tugging where my gallbladder was? I do have an abnormally high bilirubin of 1.5-2.6 for decades with no answers other than that just may be my normal. Thank you for all you do to bring awareness.
Also, I look forward to joining you after the new year for a 30 Day challenge to check out the community as this has been a bit lonely doing this on my own. My 17 yr old daughter will be joining as well to see if it can help her JIA, IgA Deficiency, gut, and mental health. She is excited to try something that does not use medication. We look forward to it!