The more fat I eat, the thinner and more muscular I get. Those advocating for less fat don't know what they're talking about.

Howdy all, 28 y/o man here. If anyone is curious about brain injury and carnivore diet, I asked Dr. Chaffee, in a superchat about 3 weeks ago, how capable the brain is of healing trauma on carnivore. My brain injury was in November of 2015, not 2014 as I stated in my comment. My brother, our friend and I were out shooting gun in the badlands of North Dakota on that fateful day. I brought my muzzleloader and they had two different pistols that we were shooting for around an hour or so. We had all fired my muzzleloader at least once with me shooting it the most. It was a .50 cal, and it had a pretty good kick, and at 19 y/o I was "bullet proof". After about the 6th shot I reloaded it and pulled the trigger and when I came to I was laying on my face on the ground, it exploded out the left side and blew some pretty nasty wounds into my left wrist and the barrel sheared off the stock, flew backwards and cracked my skull on the right side about 2 inches above my rght eyebrow. We had to drive 28 miles to the hospital where the did X-rays, and stitched up my wrist. There was a deep cut that they couldn't stitch because of it's proximity to the radial artery, they said around 2mm away from hitting it. I was then airlifted to another hospital 100 miles away and underwent brain surgery. My hospital stay was only 3 days because I got very lucky, the neurosurgeon told me if the barrel had hit an inch to the right or left, I'd most likely have been partially paralyzed. For the next 5 years, I dealt with intense paranoia, depression, mania, terrible sleep, migraines, and mild auditory hallucinations. I self medicated with booze and food and other terrible stuff. I was around 300 lbs when the incident happened, and ballooned up to around 375 lbs, depending on the day. In 2020 I got really into fasting, starting with OMAD, and slowly progressing into 2, 3, 5, 7, and 14 day fasts over the next year and a half. I dropped from 375 to 275 purely by fasting, and along with the weight loss all my mental issues went away within that time. I never did psych stuff or meds, so I know for sure it was the fasting. Only been carnivore since june last year, and I'm down to 255 now, and I can say for sure that the carnivore "diet" is the only one I've been able to stick to. Definitely changed my life for the better. I got back into weight lifting and sprinting, got rid of brain fog and pain in my left wrist, I'm probably twice as strong now as I was back when I was a fat tub of seed oil and booze, and I've always been the strong one at any job or group of friends I've had. Thank you to anyone that reads this whole post, I know it's long. If anyone needs advice on fasting or how to cope in a healthy way with brain injury, I'm fairly experienced in both of those areas. Dr. Chaffee, if you read this, thank you for your generosity with your time. I know your time is incredibly valuable, and with how much you give your viewers and the carnivore community I don't know how you ever sleep or have time for anything resembling relaxation.

I respect you so much! If big money or big pharmaceuticals gets to you I would be so disappointed. You’re one of the few people I listen to. So far my husband, my aunt and myself are all carnivore because of your wisdom. I’m 52 days Carnivore. I’m rooting for you! You will take us into another era of health and I truly believe that! Go Dr. Chaffee!

It is so amazing how quickly my carb cravings disappear after eating beef and eggs. Those cravings are def getting less and less but they still do creep in…but how quickly the disappear after proper meal!! When I was high carb, I feel like I could stuff myself with veg and potatoes and still be like what’s next? Whilst having a bubbly bloated abdomen ew

Beef tallow scrambled eggs with sea salt if you eat breakfast is a game changer. So tasty. Keeps me satiated until my dinner at night..then it's time for steak.👍

«Overweight but healthy» - That ladies and gentlemen is what we call an oxymoron

Yay... I'm really glad you spoke to the lady that is very thin and you told her you had that happen too. I went from 120 down to 100. Sometimes dip to 99. I'm 5'4" and what I'm hearing you say is you're prescribing me to eat my favorite thick cut of meat, that my husband must grill outside every day and since my fav is New York...add lots of butter. 💥🥩💥🥳💥🥩💥 Sounds great!

Thanks 🎁 Q 0:30 stools only 2-3 times a month normal? Q 2:55 Idiopathic Intercranial hypertension and ketogenic diet (6:12 electrolytes in carnivore diet - add more salt) 6:33 thyroid Q 7:47 gain body fat or lose weight Q 13:54 water fasting for weight loss? 17:28 fasting - only if cancer Q 19:56 Salt on carnivore diet 20:38 electrolytes imbalance (salt) 21:03 keto flu Q 22:45 pregnant - carnivore and a clot Q 25:27 Ribeye Steak and other meat cuts? Q 27:08 vitamin D and lion diet in winter Q 29:29 severe kidney issues Q 32:55 prepare cook steaks- olive oil? Tallow Q 34:38 Brain inflammation, vertigo, depression, headache and fasting? Q 37:45 cerebral aneurysm 15 years? Skin Q 39:40 time travel… kelloggs Q 42:22 Carnivore. Strained archilles, sore muscles Q 45:34 skin rash. Chest. There are rashes that people experience when doing ketogenic diet 46:39 the eye, detoxing Q 47:50 high levels GGC after 5 months carnivore- gamma glytamyl transference - a liver enzyme 50:35 I’ve had that, too, it went away Q 51:01 blood in stool, constipated Q 52:40 big appetite, why? Q 55:40 1 year carnivore, eating cheese caused knee inflammation Q 59:09 diverticulosis. Diverticulitis Q 1:00:44 gastric sleeve , b12, organs Q 1:05:44 snack during exercise? Q 1:07:44 chronic gastritis Q 1:08:24 calories Q 1:11:37 20 hour fasting is just eating once a day, what a fast is… 1:12:06 I eat 23 hrs fast Q 1:13:40 prostates enlarged on carnivore diet Q 1:15:30 cholesterol 1:18:45 on carnivore, cholesterol goes up, LDL. Fasting and cholesterol. 1:24:11 I never look at cholesterol

I can eat dairy with no issues whatsoever. I have been eating it my whole life and have no intention of stopping. I am 2 years carnivore and I'm thriving.

When I starved myself my body held into weight. Now I eat daily, maybe 2-4 times a day according to hunger. I'm losing weight easily. Giving up herbs was the best thing I've done recently. I've lost more now because of that. I'm such a happy camper now. ❤😊

Thank you, Dr. Chaffee! You have changed my life, and countless thousands of people are improving their health because of what you are doing.

total truth " earning the respect of your body " after years of cheating it and abusing if you do not feed instead of restrict you will hinder your progress ...Progress over Perfection you will WIN!! Dr Chaffee is truly spot on and America needs this education!!

Anthony, you are so based I love it! I'm so glad I found carnivore, and I'm especially glad I found you. You have so much knowledge about the biology and politics of all of this in a way that no other carnivore on youtube does.

I love ❤️ it! When you go off on a wild tangent is such a sign of super awareness. Thank you so much for being there and helping all of us be healthy 🥳🙏👍👏

Carnivore for a month from keto... diabetes 2.….Blood test yesterday lowest A1C ever.st 5....all numbers are PERFECT...no meds. THANK YOU!! Kickin it at 67 due to doctors like you!!!

What's funny about salting steaks. Is I salt pretty close to the same every time. Some days the steak is too salty , sometimes not salty enough and other days perfect saltiness.

If you're just starting The carnivore diet. And you're coming from the standard american diet. It seems best to gradually reduce your Sugar or carb intake gradually. This greatly decreased my Cravings. I started On a weekly basis , reducing my carb intake from one hundred grams to less than ten grams. I reduced my carb intake by twenty five grams each week till less than 10. I had Very few cravings doing this method. Start a two months ago and have lost 40 pounds. As soon as I started to reduce the sugar I began to lose weight almost immediately. I was probably consuming two hundred fifty or more grams of sugar per day prior to starting the diet. Before I had tried to start cold turkey and had huge cravings. This time the cravings were very minimal. Also I intentionally had all my sugar/carb intake early in the morning all at once. Also didn't get the keto flu symptoms.

I feel like I loose more body fat eating lots of fatty meat than fasting. Not sure though

I was raised generational Seventh-Day Adventist, vegetarian. I left the church and vegetarianism when I was 21yo so I'd go for punching out Dr. Kellogg for many reasons. I had health issues from early childhood, including celiac. I looked like a starving child and had random severe stomach cramps that made me beg to die. I am just beginning my Carnivore journey.

Dr. Chaffee is humorous. 😊 There are some people who genuinely like the taste of vegetables, ya know. I’m carnivore and have given up veggies, but it certainly wasn’t because I didn’t enjoy them. They were delicious!!! I needed to give them up for health reasons and am content with only meat, eggs, butter and tallow. But veggies…. Yummmm. God bless you, Dr. Chaffee. Still appreciate you.

When talking about fasting, i was quite surprised to hear him use the calories in - calories out model of metabolism. That model has generally been shown to be inaplicable to those on keto and carnivore because insulin levels are back to normal functioning. With fasts under 3-5 days, the "starvation" he refers to, with a loss of muscle mass and decrease in metabolic rate and energy, isn't observed. People such as Dr Fung and Dr Mason have videos discussing the research on this

My first year of carnivore I could not do any dairy at all. After that first year I could handle it...

What scares me is I’ve worked so hard to get down to 204. I’ve gone from 265 to 204 and all I’ve ate for the last two months is 1lb of 80/20 grass fed ground beef with a half stick of butter to add onto the fat per day. Should I be adding even more fat than that? Just don’t want to lose progress I’m losing fat like mad, my skin can’t keep up with it hoping it shrinks down but we will see might have to get surgery if it doesn’t. Other option would be to build muscle to help fill in the loose skin but that’s another topic in mainly concerned about my fat loss.

No 2 2-3 times a month is absolutely NOT normal...

Good information! Thanks!

Thank you Anthony Great Talk!😁

Amazing video. Thank You for your persistence ;P

Ty! I get concerned about ppl complaining of not losing weight, following channels that promote protein only days etc. Obviously that's going to increase blood sugar, and also signal to your body to hold fat because obviously there's a famine going on in the animal world and that's why all the meat you're eating is so lean o_0 The dieting and "challenge" approach on some channels to me shows misunderstandings about fat and protein that can even be dangerous for some followers with kidney issues etc.

Thank you so much, Dr Chaffee!🙏 ❤🙏❤️🙏

Very interesting, as always! Thank you so much!

Thank you

Thank you for the health advice. It helped me a lot.

Carnivore (ish) since January 1st and lab vit D has gone up 😊 without taking supplements first time for me in years of following labs.

Thank you again Dr Chaffee for all your sound knowledge!

I wish there was a sample meal plan for a 2-1 fat protein ratio

Wow...Dr Keyes mention! Compare THAT to the debate Dr Westman had with Dr Kahn, who kept defending Keyes as he wrote the Keyes biography and loved him. Weird. He got very indignant when challenged on any point of Dr. Keyes' research or conclusions. Wild!

Greetings from Poland 🎉 Thank you for your work. I watched you in an interview with our Rodzeń Brothers ❤

Bro that is so true, i started eating leaner cuts and i started gaining weight, i added fat and i started losing fat, seriousle

I'm glad your channel so successful Dr, you are bringing great help with these QA sessions. I wish the ads were less frequent, they interrupt your answers quite a bit.

Nice flow on your Q&A Anthony. Great job! So starting a family soon ? 😊

Loved the "tangent" btw 👌🏾 I call it truth. Everyone should have their freedoms

Great video, there is a lot of great clips in this video. Please have an editor look trough it and extend your reach by making important clips. It will help the community grow and find specific topics.

I love the content of these bit i swear they purposely put so many freaking ads on them to make ppl not want ppl keep listening to them

After trying Dr. Chaffee’s way of dry-brining ribeye and frying in tallow, I don’t want any other way now. Ground beef is great doing it the same way too. Thanks Doc for the fantastic advise and information you deliver continuously.

I was very disappointed to find that the carnivore bar is only available in the USA, not even here in Australia where Dr. Chaffee lives 😒

I've been eating 80/20 beef, butter eggs and ribeye steaks... And have been gaining fat weight. Anyone experinced this? 41 5'9" and was 180 before starting, 187 now after one month carnivore.

Dr C, I’ve read coffee is good for the liver because it cleans it out. That doesn’t make sense to me. Isn’t the liver self cleaning? Are there economic benefactors disseminating propaganda on the supposed benefits of coffee? Could this be another “BIG LIE” foisted upon us? Respect!

I can’t eat fat. One thing I discovered on carnivore. It gives me diarrhea and that’s why I went on carnivore was to heal my issues. One being over 20 years of chronic diarrhea. Not going to say I’m low fat I just do not add fat. No gallbladder here. I do cook eggs in butter or bacon fat. But I quit adding fat. I learned that watching steak and butter gal.

P.S. did you get a chance to see Part 1 of Dr Cywes and Isabella interview? Just cking. She's amazing. WHAT A STUDY!

Just had a check up after one year carnivore. A1C down from 5.8 to 5.5 and my B12 levels were 1117 pg/mL which I found a bit surprising. But I guess a bit above “normal levels” is ok. It actually had me a bit worried. Thanks for what you do.💕

I have days were i do not consume much as far as meat...then i will have days where i crave and eat meat throughout the day....been doing Carnivore for 3 months... I've "tested" what hurts me every 2 to 3 weeks, and has only affirmed for me the solid truth...meat and fat and Celtic Sea Salt are the best...it might be subtle, or just "In my head", as it appears the type of sea salt you consume makes a difference ...

Anybody start singing in their head Huey Lewis and the news I want a new drug? You found it!

Listened from Lincolnton NC.

YES Dr Chaffee! Safe to say, you and I and others here will NOT develop cancer, I’d put money on it

I had puffy feet and thick calves before carnivore but when i dropped the added salt on carnivore my feet have never looked and felt better. Can see my ankle bones and foot tendons again. Had too much salt on carnivore when i started.

Isn't "Idyopatic intercranial hypertension" just an observation, rather than "diagnosis"?

1:09:01 a calorie is the energy required to raise the temp of water. So fundamentally our body needs energy to function and if you aren’t intaking the number of calories needed to function then your body will burn fat for energy.

Your analogy at the end about smoke and fire is exactly the same for bacteria. When you can find the same bacteria in a person with and without an illness, common sense would tell you that the bacteria is not the cause of the dis "ease" to keep looking for another cause. I can tell you as a medical professional, myself, I was never ever taught it was actually called germ "theory". That's a rabbit hole too.

Gastric sleeve - a friend eats ground beef to speed digestion and eats several meals.

There's an eye doctor on KZfaq that tells you about the high-fat carnivore diet helping eyes

Why did you stop posting on Rumble? Love the content just prefer it there.

Ansel keys did a low calorie diet which puts the body in starvation mode which is very different to fasting which is healthy.

Best question of the day... Who would you punch in the face if you went back in time😂😂😂

I am confused now Doctor, cuz I watched your older video, where you processed your meat with a lot of SALT on all sides and put on a rack in the fridge, to have a more tender beef to eat. So what do you do now, since you say you don’t eat salt anymore? Thanks for answering

Dr Chaffee did say once that you don’t really need electrolytes, 99% of the time, you need WATER. And if you take in just more salt or the LMNT packets, you’ll be MORE thirsty! I used to do LMNT each day and salted my food like crazy. And good lord I was a thirsty MFer. And peeing all night is annoying. But now I don’t take in any electrolyte packets and salt meat and eggs to taste. Which is less than a few months ago I feel. And I don’t get low bp or dizziness. I will say, the Deep South in the summertime and you’re working out outside or at the Caribbean, all these places so hot and humid, then yeah I felt the need for LMNT and lots of water haha. Cuz working out won’t stop✊🏼so just gauge it off your sweat!

Let go of obsession with calories. Trade it for obsession of 2:1 counting of protein to fat. How does this make sense? Now I need a book on protein and fat. SMH

Dr Chaffee is completely wrong about fasting slowing the metabolism, whether intermittent or extended, I know this from my own experience. There is a big difference between the body's response to fasting and under eating. Dr Jason Fung has deeply studied fasting in conjunction with weight loss and I would follow him on fasting. There are a number of other fasting experts on You Tube that would be able to give you far better information on the topic. Studies quoted by Dr Fung have shown that the metabolism actually speeds up about ten percent during fasting, which would make ancestral sense. A caveman who didn't succeed in hunting one day would die if his metabolism slowed as he didn't eat as he would have less energy on subsequent days.

long do you leave steaks out in fridge to dry out.

Low vit D my entire life until I became a keto carnivore.

Hi Dr. Chaffee, I am 70 years old and was unable to be active do to a medical issue since 2016. Therefore I consumed junk and gained 50lbs. Now I am doing the Carnivore but I seem to get stuck at 196, so far lost 6 lbs in 4 weeks.Why will it not ever move faster.

Fasting requires some variation in the fasting schedule to avoid any metabolic set rate. I wouldnt do 10 days of fasting every 30 days. But once a year, maybe ok. The Fasting Method has a lot of clinical experience with fasting. Fasting led me get to carnivore. It had its place in my life and my opinion is it has its place in getting healthy and with weight loss. Not eating for 16-18 hrs is considered intermittent fasting.

My A1c went up from 5.9 to 6.1 my insulin level was 3 Should I fast for 3 days to bring BG down quicker?

Dr.Chaffee, can you tell us please what to do if we have trouble digesting fat? Seems we need a strong digestive system and many of us starting this diet are a little weak in that area. Thank you for all you share with us. xx

I just watched your debate with Mathew Nagra. I only want to say that you won the debate by listening and being calm. and I don’t know if you’ve seen his opening comments rubbishing you in point form. OMG poor fellow Anyway I learned a lot from your demeanour and conversely from his. ? Is pasta less harmful than spinach? Anyone got an opinion?

Dr Chaffee, can you please make it where the people who watch your videos later can see the Chat Replay? I used to always be able to see it but for the last several ones you've done I cannot. 🙂

I don’t really like the weight loss focus. People should start thinking body composition, and call it fat loss instead, and try to build some muscles in the process.

I am eating meat, meat and fat….that’s all. Keto sticks say I am in deep Ketosis. I am not losing anything? Why?

Can we purchase transcript of the podcast?

What is your opinion on kangaroo meat?

I have uti klepsiela pneunonia due to using the wrong antibiotics unwisely over long period and h I have a manifestation of sores on my head every now and again. Would the carnivore diet change that?

I love you Antonio....PE RI OD.

I've been wondering why I've been plateaued for almost a month. Now I think I've been eating too much protein and not enough fat.

How can I add fat? Unfortunately butter is out due to casein allergy. Fatty red meat and tallow is less than 1 gram of fat to 1 gram of protein.

Will my weight loss eventually level out? How do I stop losing too much weight? What do I eat to gain without eating carbs?

A clean carnivore high-fat diet will help her eyes

Interesting about fasting. Dr C didn’t you say a fasted metabolic state is our natural state? I read that dry fasting will initiate autophagy, produce new stem cells and make the immune system more robust. Dr Chaffee is this not the case? Respect!

I have a friend that has Mitochondrial Disease would the carnivore diet help?

For the guy who did 5 marathons in a row without eating, doesnt the body also produce glucose for energy ? As well as growth hormone while you rest on an empty stomach ? I can see him accomplishing it. 😀

Sometimes I find that I don’t want to eat after 1 meal. I’m not purposely trying to restrict calories. Today I ate a 1.3 pound sirloin steak and haven’t wanted anything else. Should I force myself to eat?

I've gone from LCHF to super LC, pretty much 67% fat and 35% protein, carbs down to 2-5%. I am now struggling to maintain my minimum weight, 1kg below minimum at moment. I avoid the word carnivore, as I don't adhere 100% to carnivore. Plenty fish, cheese and eggs.

I'd fast for autophagy not fat loss

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I have done carnivore for 6 months, basically hamburger and ribeye, I have gained 32 pounds and now I am going to stop, I can’t gain any more weight and I don’t feel good, but should I try keto?

I love you Antonio. PE RI OD.

Is coconut oil a good fat alternative?

I have plateaued and cannot lose anything more. My goal is to lose 30 more lbs. I am afraid to add more food in case I gain my weight back.

Pink Himalayan salt..good or bad?

So you don't recommend intermittent fasting?

Ancel Keyes did not fast them in that experiment he starved them on a very low calorie diet people that are on diets lose muscle mass and regain fat when going back to regular eating people that fast do not have this happen There are a very large number of benefits to fasting and many doctors are promoting it for weight loss immune function stimulation stem cells and of course disease fighting long extended fast are problematic potentially but regular fasting 36 72 to 96 etc. hours only benefits us

Did I hear correctly that its ok and normal to pass stool 2-3 times a month? Wow, in Ayurveda that would be considered chronic constipation, it should be everyday! 😱