I did NOT get the shot in the arm. 900,000 Americans had a stroke every year before they had the shot, and guess what... 900,000 people have a stroke every year now. My Pateron: www.patreon.com/frugalprepper My 2nd Channel: www.youtube.com/@FrugalPrepper2 Facebook Group: facebook.com/groups/frugalpreppers

That stroke was building up in you for a long time. Im so glad you got through it.

I had a stroke I March after being on the carnivore for 18 months, I was in the hospital for 3 days, I didn’t get the clot buster because my stroke symptoms went on for more than a day, I didn’t even know it. I only understood what was happening when I started falling over. I went back to work 2 weeks later I credit it to the carnivore diet. Of course my blood pressure and LDL and total cholesterol was high, triglycerides was normal HDL 99, too high. Took a CAC Score it was zero , cardio angiography was normal, all thanks to carnivore. I refused to eat while in the hospital. My blood glucose was from 60 to 83. The nurses were not happy that I was not eating. They were worried about my blood glucose. I told them I was fine. When I got home i fasted for 5 days, then on sardines for 3 days with occasional stick of butter. I was asked to go to a cure rehab , I refused. I needed my freedom at home, well I knew how to rehab myself. So I decided to come home. Still have a slight limp in my gait, but making progress everyday. Eating: beef and eggs mostly with occasional sardines and of course butter. I am not on blood pressure medication but I tell my doctor it won’t be for too long. My fasting glucose was 105, and fasting insulin’ 13.5. I told her I was insulin resistant, she looked at my AIC which is 5.5, and told me I wasn’t. I told her I will prove to her insulin and not cholesterol kept my blood pressure high. Oops please pardon me, I went off with my story.

You should reach out to them. They aren’t afraid of your stroke. They’ve had people who had to go for heart surgery. Those people reach out to them. Hope you have a blessed day😊

The strokes was probably caused by the years of bad eating before the carnivore. God bless

In my personal opinion, you should be the “Poster Child” for the Carnivore lifestyle. It has transformed your health and saved your life. Thanks for sharing Tom, your stories, personal experience and testimonies has helped to save my daughters life. Keep doing you brother. 👍🏼🙏🏼❤️

A while back, I saw some carnivore channels had videos about a carnivore dieter who had a stroke. Most of the leading carnivore advocates don't seem to have any problems with having honest dialogues about health issues. At this point, there are probably hundreds of thousands of people around the world on carnivore and near-carnivore diets. I wouldn't take it personally that you aren't getting attention. Most KZfaqrs are largely unknown. The carnivore advocates you're thinking of likely don't even know your channel exists. It's the nature of the KZfaq algorithm.

You've got a great channel you are very honest about your journey, I find it very refreshing. I am getting disenchanted with some of the channels try harder to sell you stuff, then talking about what's really going on. Thank you for what you do!!!

The Carnivore community needs to hear your story. So glad your heart is good and you’re much better. Thx for sharing. 👏

I believe you have the right idea I've been carnivore for a long time and social club has never had anything to do with it. Only health and the ability to take care of myself and not live in pain.

Youre so lucky you pulled through and recovered. My grandfather suffered a MASSIVE stroke and was alone for 4 hours. He never showed up to work and they knew something was wrong. He was a mayor so they sent cops to his house and found him. He never regained function of the left side of his body and was never able to speak again. Rip pop.

This is life. How many “carnivores” are not full on 100%. I bet very few. I call myself a ketovore because I would be lying if I said otherwise. I’m glad you are recovered. Thank you for being you.

Thanks, man. I hope some day they do interview you. It helps to hear from people having issues while working through it.

Thank you for your honesty buddy. This is why I love listening to you. Keep On Keeping on.

thanks for sharing, your medical journey has inspired me, keep up the fight and God bless.

Thank you for sharing your journey. You’ve done an amazing job.

Who needs to be in "the club" anyway? You are doing great.

Been following for a long time. I remember you had lead poisoning causing erratic and uncontrolled blood pressure spikes for a while. Was that a fact (in hindsight) or was your blood pressure spiking for other reasons? I am so glad you're on a successful journey to recovery. Stay healthy and stay with us!

Your a very lucy man that you fully recovered from the stroke . Well done

It's really good to hear your recovering and sharing with us, but disturbed that parts of the carnivore tribe are exclusing you. I've been carnivore 2 years, started aged 68, so a late developer! Had a bad chest infection and developed heart failure, as my treatment was fkd up and delayed for 2 weeks while I developed pneumonia. Examinations showed some blocked arteries too, but these have taken years and years of vegetarian diet to build the problems up. Im not changing my diet as everything else is so much better, and Im sure it is helping me rebuild my heart strength. Certainly Im not going back to the decades of inflammation from seed oils and vegetables. Keep your progress on track!!!

Thanks for the update. Glad you are much better.

Thank you for sharing your story. We all are on journeys. Best wishes for more healing.

So glad that you’re listening to your body and know hoe to take care yourself - you’re a good example! Feel better!!

Glad you are pretty much 100% recovered from your strokes. I’m sure you’ll eventually get the blood pressure issue solved. Onion plants will be here this week!

Totally agree with your perspective. I consider myself a meat-based keto person. I allow myself about 20-40 carbs per day in the form of berries and low-carb vegs. I still follow the hard-core carnivores & keto folks but I take it all with a grain of salt. I listen to my own body and feed it what I think it needs.

God Bless you so happy you survived! Good Luck with your journey 🙏🙏🙏

Thank you for sharing your story with us. Sounds like you are doing what you need to do for your body. I eat mostly meat, but occasionally I have some salad or zucchini and sometimes avocado. I have to eat high fat or I get bad constipation as well.

You are a very Smart and Sensible man , Good info. Thank you for this video. 🙏

That’s great to hear that you’re eating vegetables from your own garden. Can you get off that medicine? If so, maybe you can feel better. Glad to hear you’re doing well and keep on posting videos, we all love to hear from ya!😊

Great testimony, bro. I have hypertension too, so this was valuable to me.

Many thanks for posting! Your knowledge on this subject is amazing. I haven't had a stroke, but I'm overweight and the doctor has me on Lisinopril 5gm. My left side heart is slightly enlarged. I need to get out and walk and do the one meal a day. God Bless You! ~ Ben

Please keep giving your testimony. It's important for people to know that even if they change to a carnivore lifestyle, they could still have repercussions from previous years of bad health. And everyone needs to know that it's an individual health journey because none of us are 100% exactly the same. N=1 experiment always. Your lipid numbers are really good! I have Hashimoto's hypothyroiditis and one of my symptoms is constipation, so I take extra magnesium to keep my bowels moving. It sounds like you're doing much better now, keep it up! :) God Bless!

Thank you so much! You are a very strong and honest man! God bless you!

Happy to hear you are doing well after the stroke. Take care

Thank you for being open and honest.

Nice to find your channel Tom. Glad youre doing well.

All the inflammation is gone, full mobility now...I've only been on it 8 days

I’m so encouraged thank you for your open frank honesty. At 71 been eating mostly meat for two years then almost 72 I have an Afib attack! Now on a scale of 1 to 10 my energy is 1. I need heart surgery to get back close to normal. All veins are clean and like you high blood pressure caused the Afib. I’ll keep in touch starting to eat veggies starting with papaya which has been very good with numbers 2 movements!

Who cares about any club? I am 3.5 years carnivore and just went through blood clots in a leg and lungs. Recovered much quicker than anyone of the docs thought would happen. Never had pain or shortness of breath and none of them believed me. I also believe changing the diet is why I got through it so well. Eat what you need to eat for you. Carnivore is 'mostly' meat anyway. Our ancestors would have eaten whatever they came across and thought was food, they certainly would not have turned down anything they thought they could eat. As long as you are happy and think you are doing well, forget others who want to label you anything, they are irrelevant.

This was really wonderful. Love your balanced and common sense approach. Carnivore here and I support you 100%!

Tom...I missed your video on being on the NYC marathon this weekend...LOL much respect for sharing you life. Peace DVD:)

Congratulations on your recovery! You said you noticed signs of previous strokes, will you do a video about that please? God is good all the time 😁

You may have mentioned but I’m curious about your thoughts on artificial sweeteners. Good to hear this update 👍I like your sensibility

Glad you're better. Don't worry about being accepted in any "club". That misses the plot! We're each individuals trying to change our lives for the better, however that turns out to be for each of us. We're all different.

Hope you get well soon. God bless you.

❤❤❤ Thanks from a newbie carnavore

I wish you well .. carnivore is a personal journey not all of us have this perfect story that other people share...my bp is still high despite doing everything i feel you! My doctor thinks it might he caused by sleep apnea so gonna go for the test

Regardless of the circumstances just focus on yourself and stay healthy~ 💪🏻

Im nearly 1 year on Carnivore but i have autoimune problems, oxidative stress. My cure for this - eat more organ meat( liver) and drink more extra virgin olive oil( Vitamin E).

Praying for you Brother

You go... they would want to talk to you... you had damage before the carnivore diet... we all do... let's hope we are all getting better now 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

I do not worry too much about my LDL. I checked high since my twenties now sixty eight. The two things I am determined to keep under control are my risk for diabetes and high blood pressure. So far, they are normal, but my parents have had issues with BP and my mom with abnormal glucose not full diabetes, two siblings are diabetic now and bp elevated. In my mother's side, most die with diabetic complications and related diseases. Her BP has caused her dementia, and right now she is deteriorating faster, and we feel very helpless. I started keto three years ago, and I have slowly become more carnivore, but I still eat a few greens here and there, no problem. My club is one person member, me, myself and so farI am doing fine. I have managed to avoid medications so far. Regardless of believing in good, healthy eating and life style habits, no diet can guaranteed us perfect health. Do what feels best for you!

Honest and eye opening; thanks for your video. Affirmation for me not to worship the carnivore diet or the carnivore community/preachers ie make it my god. Churches are the same ... they will excommunicate you if you don't measure up or ask too many questions. Best wishes for longevity and a healthy life.

Enjoyed this one!

You make sense.. in an odd way.. and I like your explanations. 🌈

Hey man. I'm just happy you are okay. Keep doing it FOR YOU. Screw those who are not about the truth.

Sounds like you are doing great. I’m very impressed by your fortitude. I wish I could find out the mechanism for the effect of lead on BP. I’m going to dig deeper even though my lead is below the threshold now.

I've had severe blood pressure spikes just by eating out because of the cheap cooking oils they use in restaurants ( seed aka vegetable oils are the culprits ) and of course sugars don't help an inflamed condition brought upon by those cheap machine oils. I'm sure a leaky gut doesn't help the situation either. Keep on trucking sir!

So glad you are doing better 🙏🙏🙏 I heard you mention kings Island I'm thinking we must be from same state. 😂 Pretty cool

So glade your ok. Take care

Glad you are on the mend. I'm no spring chicken either and getting old sucks but it beats the alternative. Personally I'm an omnivore. I enjoy a good steak and don't mind eating a salad or snacking on some snap peas.

I love your spirit your a lovely guy thank you

The carnivore/ketovore/ketogenic diet helps us heal from the consequences of years of bad diet. Might have changed the diet too late to change the stroke or heart attack outcome but the diet will help heal and mitigate the deleterious effects of those events. At least I hope so. Thank you for sharing your health story.

Hey FrugalPrepper i am 25 years old and way obese. Im 6 feet and weight 350. I was up to 375 at my highest. I work a moderately physical job, im on my feet for about half the day and on a Hyster or in my truck the rest. I have high blood pressure but on two pills for thay and have pre diabetes and severe sleep apnea. I cut out all energy, and sugar drinks lately as well as gas station foods. For breakfast i have black coffee and a bowl of whole grain Cheerios, for lunch a salad with ranch packet from the store and dinner is a bit harder for me but ive been trying to find something light and easy I can have. Ive been trying to move more and count my calories. I did try the carnivore diet but stopped because it made me feel bad, not enough greens. So now im just counting calories but it is hard, i havent lost much! Ive been thinking about adding in exercise its just hard when you work 10-12 hours a day and have an hour commute.

I drank a 18 pack of beer everyday for 30yrs..managed a restaurant and had a stroke at 44 44...tried tried

Thanks for your words.. "you have to heal first"

You live! Keep doing that. Living is kinda neat. =D

Phooey on people! You have educated yourself well and you are doing well.

5 years later and 8 pills I thought I'll be dead in 5 years...then I discovered carnivore

If you have sometimes an inverted p wave you might have an atrial cardial arithmia sometimes with stagnant bloodflow in your atrium with bloodcloths forming which can travel to your brain......

Amen!

@HomeSteadHow Kerry, maybe interview this gentleman for your documentary?

The "godfather of fitness" Jack Lalanne lived well into his late 90s, and his wife nearly the same age is still alive. Physical exercise everyday and just eat whole unprocessed foods. Don't know why people box themselves into a specific diet. They solved this business in the mid 1900s =/

My husband was on BP meds years ago until I researched them, then he quit taking them and now takes L-argenine to keep his BP low. He quit the meds about 13 years ago.

Hi, I'm new to your channel. It showed up on my feed today. At some point, I'll get a bead on your carnivore or ketovore lifestyle. I joined a couple of carnivore subs: one is counting calories and macros, do this, do that. I burned out early because it caused me anxiety, and the lady looked anorexic. The other one, at least we get to see her cook and actually eat the food. I have watched many carnivore TY channels, and they are all over the place. Geez.

Clubs are for kids. Be an adult. Be happy and do your own thing. Avoid the junk food, get some exercise/ movement and keep moving forward.

I’ve had that kind of constipation plug. Nasty!!!!! I use a fiber drink.

Tom, I would love to have you on my channel. Nuance is important. Right now you are in a medically dangerous situation and you need some supervision with an expert. I would recommend seeing if you could do telemedicine with someone in Dr. Westman’s clinic. He has run a low carb weight loss clinic at Duke for decades. You seem to be self treating and that is very dangerous especially right now . I wish the best for you and again, let me know how to contact you if you would like to have a nuanced discussion. All the best.

Keep on doing what you’re doing, if you say that you believe that your strokes were caused by eating poorly, and not because of the carnivore diet, and great continue to do that because we all believe you and I’m sure there’s others like me and the carnivore club wants you to continue with your message especially how it probably saved your life from the terrible weight and blood pressure and all the meds were on. Incorrect me if I’m wrong, but you’re still on the carnivore diet correct ? Even after having the stroke.? that’s fantastic. Hopefully, it will continue to heal you.. keep on making great videos

Thanks for the video! What was the symptoms of the previous strokes that you didn’t realize were strokes at the time ? So I can be more aware if it happens to me. I’m 99.9% carnivore like you.

I’m so glad to hear that you’re feeling better after your stroke. Your stroke was not caused by your (previous) carnivore diet. It was caused by decades of consuming sugar, carbs, toxic veg seed oils and man made chemicals from the SAD diet. That diet also caused your high blood pressure. Regarding your having trouble with hard poops/constipation, as Dr Chaffee says… If you’re having hard bowel Movements or constipation, you need to up the fat and if you’ve got the reverse (loose stools), then reduce the fat. Most carnivores are not getting enough fat. Dr Kiltz says… carnivore should really be called FATOVORE bc most people who start or do carnivore aren’t eating enough fat. I wasn’t getting enough fat early on either, and when I added butter (and/or beef tallow) to my meat and eggs, it resolved these issues with hard stools fairly quickly and easily. If you want to continue eating big salads with your meat, more power to ya. However, just remember that vegetables (and fruits) are literally soaked in man made pesticides like glyphosate which is extremely toxic…. It is a poison. I don’t know about you but a little bit of poison every day is too much poison for me. I don’t want to put any poisons or toxins in my body so I have stopped eating vegetables and fruits for the most part. I do sometimes have berries and once in awhile I might have some avocado or asparagus. One more thing.. are you putting g salad dressing on your salad? If so, you might want to check to see if it contains veg seed oils… most of them are loaded with this and other chemicals and potentially even sugar. Hope this helps!😊😊

Hopefully you can get some long walks in your day - good for BP. wishing you well. x. Have you been investigated for the reason your blood pressure is resistant to drugs? there are some medical causes.

Good on you. Glad you’re okay and still eating meat. Sometimes it helps to add some plants just depending on what’s going on in your body and we each need to find what works for us. The strokes were going to happen obviously and your recovery is down to your diet. Most of us on carnivore don’t judge anyone who does what they think is right. It’s just the judgemental few who might have issues. You just do you.

Shawn Baker would do a piece with Tom because he is about carnivore facts and is not afraid of those who don't know or adhere to the facts about carnivore.

I'm curious why you feel you have been kicked out of the carnivore club? Your sharing YOUR story and I'm sure it's helping others. That's what matters. I too went in with a strange symptom in my arm and was kept for three days because they couldn't get me in for an MRI until then. They found one previous stroke but all the docs who saw me kept saying they couldn't tell if this symptom that I reported to emergency was a stroke. I too was insulin resistant and I know my metabolic health has drastically changed since going Keto/ Carnivore 6 years ago. Last checked I am PATTERN A. Triglycerides 57, ldl160, HDL 94. I'm a lean person so weight isn't a problem really. BP is normal to more on the low side. I take it several times a day. My cardiologist had me wear a halter monitor for a month to see if I showed any sign of a-fib but there was no sign. After the event that lead me to emergency I had a follow up with my neurologist several months later and he ordered a 2nd MRI with contrast and what ever that was that had happened had disappeared. He speculated maybe it was a weird migraine I had or some kind of seizure. They never could tell me it was a stroke. But I do know I was fatigued and had a weakness that shifted from one side to the other back and forth for a good 6-8 weeks after that "event". I ate mostly carnivore during that time and I know it helped me heal quickly. I do believe that I did have a 2nd stroke regardless of what all the docs say because I know my body but it was so vague and the original MRI was so unremarkable that they never could confirm this. My only "symptom" was I had a weird tingling numbness move from my hand to my elbow and stop. But I knew it wasn't normal so off to emergency I went. They put me on Eliquis in the hospital and tried to put me on a statin but I wouldn't take the statin. I have family history of Alzheimer's and so I know I'm predisposed. My neurologist took me off the Eliquis and put me on baby aspirin once a day. Anyway, thanks so much for sharing your journey. Good for you for being your own best advocate. I have a strong feeling you're going to be just fine!

I'll have you back! I've been so busy i've hardly doing enough YT.

A hiatal hernia can cause high blood pressure( also pulmonary pressure,), a very obscure fact. Including, any issues involving digestion problems such as GERD and LPR can cause HBP.

What blood thinners are you on?

Sounds like you are figuring out what works for your body. I’m in the same process of figuring out my body. Cheers guy! I’m on the fence about “the proper human diet” concept. I’m thinking it’s the pesticides and herbicides that are causing all of these diseases and problems people are having. I believe meat is the cleanest food around these days. Just my 2 cents.

Keep your Blood Pressure down and live the life you want to live.

I'm currently Ketovore

Healing may take years ! We didn’t mess up our body eating standards crappy diet in a day , so it is basically dissolving …resolving all this past issues , I do low carb some days, keto or some completely carnivore 😂 I feel great

Great video Tom Dr Ken Berry has a carnivore friend name Kerry from Homestead how KZfaq channel 😀 have you watched it before?

Do they know what the root cause of your high blood pressure? is it the lead exposure you mentioned one time?

Carnivore, Ketovore, and Keto are all on The Proper Human Diet spectrum.

Eating a salad and meat isn’t any reason not to call you a carnivore. A hyper carnivore is 70% meat. Even lions have been know to eat the intestine of their prey. That intestine would be full of salad.

My problem has been when I get to much carbs (in excess of 20g) per day my body starts becoming inflammed and miserable. If I fast and reset then get back on the carnivore track im good.

You could be sensitive to salt / sodium like me. I am not overweight but my BP stays in the 170-199 and can’t move it. I found in my labs I have low renin. Have been working on filling my deficiencies. I am very dizzy, nauseous and it’s so frustrating. I had the vision problems when I had to call for an ambulance and my BP was 232 ! I really thought that was it, scary scary scary stuff. Look into Renin and Aldosterone. Aldosterone and renin play important roles in the body. Aldosterone regulates your levels of potassium, sodium, and overall blood volume. High levels of aldosterone can result from a condition called primary aldosteronism (PA), which causes high blood pressure. PA is also known as hyperaldosteronism or Conn syndrome.

What’s your LDL?

If you went on a plant based diet your blood pressure would go down drastically the next day. Leafy green greens like collard greens mustard greens arugula watercress turnip greens book choy dandelion lettuce and raping are low in oxalate and fine to consume. also garlic works great on lowering blood pressure. There is a lot of misinformation out there by those promoting carnivore. Two books you could read are diet for a strong heart by Michio Kushi and the Macrobiotic path to total health: How to cure the two hundred most common ailments by Michio Kushi the later book can be found online in a pdf file for free