Dr. Anthony Chaffee addresses common questions about body recomposition timelines and cholesterol concerns on the carnivore diet. He explains that achieving optimal body composition takes 6-8 months of consistent carnivore eating combined with resistance training, drawing from his personal experience dropping from 270 to 240 pounds while gaining muscle. The process involves initial weight loss followed by simultaneous fat loss and muscle gain, which can mask progress on the scale.
The episode debunks cholesterol myths by explaining that higher LDL and total cholesterol are actually associated with lower all-cause mortality. Dr. Anthony Chaffee exposes how the American Heart Association was paid by Proctor and Gamble to promote seed oils over animal fats, and reveals that multiple randomized controlled trials showed increased heart disease mortality when saturated fat was replaced with vegetable oils. He emphasizes that metabolic health markers like HDL-to-triglyceride ratios are more important than LDL numbers.
Key Takeaways
- Body recomposition on carnivore takes 6-8 months to reach stable lean muscle mass, requiring consistent resistance training 3-4 hours daily combined with meat-only eating
- Sprint training 3 days per week throughout life maintains the ability to sprint into your 80s and 90s, with only 1% of people over 40 ever sprinting again
- HDL-to-triglyceride ratio near 1:1 indicates excellent metabolic health and Pattern A LDL particles, which carry only 70% increased cardiovascular risk compared to Pattern B
- No randomized controlled trials have ever shown causation between cholesterol and heart disease, while at least 5 large studies showed lower cholesterol increased cardiovascular mortality
- Body Recomposition Timeline on Carnivore Diet
- Diabetes Reversal and Cholesterol Concerns on Carnivore
- Cholesterol Studies and Heart Disease Myths
- Asthma Improvement on Carnivore Diet
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[Music] hey Doc I finally pulled the trigger and went full carnivore a week ago and I'm feeling great so far I'm 24 6'3 and around 100 or 210 PBS but still uh look skinny fat how long should I expect uh the body recomposition uh it's going to be months man it's going to be months and months and months so you know I mean I wasn't I wasn't obese or anything like that um when I came back to this at 30 but I was I was definitely out of shape and I've been in refugee camp you know working in refugee camp um volunteering in refugee camp in Bangladesh for you know for the last few months it hadn't worked out at all and um and just ate whatever the hell um I tried to stay sort of low carb during that but then it was just like I just got to eat whatever the hell's available because like it's just I may get one chance to eat a day and then I'm just you know off you know in the middle of a refugee camp for you know 16 hours or more um and it's uh it was bit hellish you know so um you not as bad as it was for them but um you know it wasn't great and so I just ate whatever the hell was available when it was available and and then I went full cornivore straight after that and I lost a significant amount of weight early on and then I just stayed Flatline why is that because I was putting on muscle because I was working out out very hard and you know lifting weights for three four hours a day every day and playing rugby right and so I was you know I was back at sort of at a at a sort of a professional training program that I that I had done previously and so and more so actually I was definitely doing a lot more weights than I had ever done um in my playing days because I just could I could just go forever and I had a home gym so I did and I just enjoyed that and uh so but even for me I didn't get down to like a stable body fat percentage for like six to eight months you know um and so you know and I wasn't like you know I was I was definitely overweight but you know I could still see my six-pack you know it was just you know had some fluff on it and um but you know I was was not you know as muscularly developed and it was not certainly not as lean and I was like 270 PBS is and then like I was down to like 240 you know just gone and then it was just like reading fat and stacking all muscle but it took 6 to8 months before I got to like a stable you know lean you know muscular physique um that I just have maintained since then and um so you know it depends on where you're coming from and it depends on how much work you're putting in it depends on how much you're lifting weights and if are you sprinting are you playing sports uh you're 24 you should be you know you should you should get in the habit of sprinting and and and playing sports and you know when you're doing uh you know uh Sports and things like that like you're just going to stay healthier and fitter for longer and if you make it a point to Sprint three days a week every week no matter what regardless if you're' in a sport or not and you keep doing that throughout your life you're going to have the ability to Sprint three days a week for the rest of your life which is going to be a much longer and happier life as a result you're 80 years old doing sprints you're winning you know and if you keep it up if you sprint three days a week every week you'll be able to do Sprints into your 80 90s hundreds and t0 that happens there are people doing that there's a 100-year old dude uh who runs 5K three days a week and he was up until his like until he's like 95 he was running like 10ks three days a week I think he probably should have kept it up at 10K because I mean I think Sprints are better but you know the less you do the less you're able to do especially as you're aging like that um there's some crazy statistic I heard you know I don't know exactly where they pulled this from but um there a statistic that said that that um only 1% of people over the age of 40 will ever Sprint again that's crazy I'm 44 you know the idea of just like never sprinting again that's crazy to me and not being able to Sprint ever again that's crazy to me so you know keep it up and you'll do great and you'll you'll shred fat and stack on on muscle um you know it's been a week right you're not gonna you're not going to just you know turn into a you know a a lean bodybuilder in in a week so it takes months but it it'll be quicker easier and healthier than basically any other way that you could go about this so just keep it up uh you'll start feeling better and better and better as you go uh in a couple weeks you'll feel better than you've ever have in your entire life because you get most of this crap out of your system your metabolism is going to start kicking in and you're going to start becoming more fat adapting getting more energy available and things like that from the ketones and you're going to feel better than you ever have in your entire life and you're going to look back in your life and realize that you felt like crap your whole life and you're going to be pissed because I was pissed and everybody else I talked to is pissed he like this I could have felt like this my whole life this is how I supposed to feel my whole life you know that's that's so um good luck with that and um you know keep it up be patient you you'll get to where you want to be especially if you're lifting weights especially if you're sprinting good luck hey guys just want to take a second to thank our sponsor carnivore bar I don't promote many products because honestly all you need to be healthy is to just eat meat for those times that you're out hiking road tripping or stuck at work and you want a nutritious snack that is just meat fat and salt if you want it the carnivore bar is a great option so I like this product not because it's just pure meat but also because I want the carnivore Market to thrive as well and the more we support meat only products the more meat only products there will be 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and your diabetes going away um you know diabetes is increases your risk of heart disease by 1,000% metabolic syndrome by 600% um and uh pattern B LDL so sdldl predominant LDL pattern is only 70% and with your HDL being where it is and your triglycerides being where they are you almost certainly have pattern a um statistically speaking so you don't even have that 70% increased risk um the same things that will reverse your pattern B to pattern a LDL is the same thing it's going to reverse your diabetes and your metabolic syndrome which is getting rid of carbs and eating more meat and fat and stopping eating these these plants that can actually cause harm and obviously junk food Etc uh watch my video called the truth about cholesterol and heart disease um that is you know I go through the history on that but there is abolutely no high LEL studies anywhere that have ever been done in human history published anywhere uh that have shown a cause and effect relationship between cholesterol and heart disease nowhere and yet we are you know infatuated with this idea that cholesterol causes heart disease there is zero hard evidence of that zero none nothing there's only correlation it's weak correlation and in many of these studies there was an inverse correlation there was no correlation whatsoever or even verse correlation saying that higher cholesterol actually protected against um cardiovascular disease and strokes and you know and and then again Lower all cause mortality right so um we've been lied to there's no there are no studies showing a cause and effect relationship none uh because you need an experimental trial like a randomized control trial and you change one variable and you see what happens um there have been randomized control trials not a single one of them have shown that increased cholesterol leads to a cardiovascular disease of any description but there have been at least five large scale randomized control trials with thousands of patients each that have shown the opposite they showed absolutely no association with uh cardiovasular disease or in the two larger more well-designed studies they actually showed that as you lowered saturated fat replaced with vegetable oils and lowered LDL and total cholesterol more people died of heart attacks and strokes as a result and so guess what they did with that they buried that for 40 years and they they had be uncovered by other people who figured this out and figured out that these Studies have been done and and dug up their old records from um uh the families of the of some of the people that did them is so so specifically I'm referring to the Minnesota coronary experiment that was buried for 40 years but that that had people that were in institutionalized so they could control every single meal and they reduced animal fat and replaced butter with Marine things like that and um more people died as a result more people got heart attacks and strokes as a result so why didn't they publish that well because you know people like anel keys were were leading that study and they're you know he at least was on the was known to be on the payroll of the sugar companies at the time and they were trying to vilify cholesterol to exonerate Sugar and say sugar was safe because there were a lot of people saying that sugar was not safe and that it was absolutely causing heart disease and strokes Etc which was a brand new disease in the 20th century that really did not exist prior to the 1900s first death from heart attack in America proven on autopsy was in 1912 so where was heart disease before that when we're eating way more animal fat seed oils didn't even exist these heart healthy uh un polyunsaturated vegetables they didn't even exist so I mean how did any anyone survive before that right um because it's a lie it's all a big lie um Proctor and Gamble paid the American Heart Association the equivalent of $20 million to lie and say that uh seed oils like krisco were heart healthy and that animal fats like butter and lard were not based on no evidence it was just it was just their opinion statement and they just said oh yes this is what and that launched them to it's it's a private organization by the way that's not like a government oversight committee or something like that even though we think oh that's the official government no it's not and like you we should trust the government anyway definitely shouldn't but this is just a private organization that that was started by you know some cardiologists that said hey we should have an organization because this is heart disease getting worse and worse and worse and this is something that you know we should have an organization for and they just sold out almost immediately and so that's that's been their you know they just they just sell out the American Heart Association misrepresented the Framingham study and said that that higher cholesterol was associated with higher um cardiovascular disease mortality rates it did not the actual Framingham study showed the opposite showed that lowering total cholesterol increased um cardiovascular uh disease mortality rates so they lied and we have hard evidence of them lying and being paid to lie multiple times since their Inception by Proctor and Gamble in particular and um so these are all lies and and I go into a lot of detail on that in my uh video the truth about cholesterol and heart disease so check that out what your body does I mean my asthma like massively improved I still have asthma you know but it's like it's exercise induced and sort of bit of a tightening but not like it was it's not close to what it was um when I was eating vegetables filthy filthy vegetables but you know allergies to these sorts of things I mean that's that can be sort of a different you know different kettle of fish