Dr. Anthony Chaffee addresses listener questions about neurological recovery and carnivore diet implementation. He explains how ketogenic carnivore diets support brain injury recovery and seizure management through ketone production, which provides optimal brain fuel while reducing inflammation. The discussion reveals that ketogenic diets have been treating epilepsy for a century, and many people successfully reduce or eliminate seizure medications when following this approach.
Practical guidance covers transitioning children to carnivore eating, managing carpal tunnel syndrome through reduced inflammation, and troubleshooting issues like dry skin and microbiome testing. Dr. Anthony Chaffee emphasizes that ketones are essential for brain development, regeneration, and repair, while animal foods provide crucial nutrients like B12, DHA, EPA, and arachidonic acid that support optimal neurological function.
Key Takeaways
- Ketogenic carnivore diets can significantly improve seizure disorders and brain injury recovery by providing ketones for optimal brain fuel, reducing inflammation, and supplying essential nutrients like B12, DHA, and EPA
- Transition children to carnivore by gradually removing processed foods from the house while ensuring they have access to fatty meats and eggs they enjoy, combined with age-appropriate education about nutrition
- Carpal tunnel symptoms may improve on strict carnivore due to reduced inflammation in peripheral nerves, though surgical intervention remains a simple option if dietary changes aren't sufficient
- Dry, cracking skin on lion diet often indicates insufficient fat intake or need for higher omega-3 sources like grass-fed butter, pasture-raised eggs, or wild-caught sardines rather than grain-finished meat
- Brain Injuries, Seizures and Ketogenic Carnivore Diet Recovery
- Transitioning Four-Year-Old Twins from Pasta and Rice to Carnivore Diet
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Neurological Inflammation on Carnivore
- Microbiome Testing and Digestive Health Solutions
- Fat Trimmings Water Weight and Diabetes Medication Success
- Lion Diet vs Carnivore for Dry Cracked Hands and Omega-3 Needs
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[Music] have two brain injuries and a brain stem injury uh brain stem damage I'm very sorry to hear that I also have seizures and I just went off my seizure medications I went off uh my muscle relaxer about a month ago can I get your thoughts um well um I suppose I suppose I have to do a bit of guess here you know have seizures and went off my seizure medication um I is that if that's in the context of on a carnivore diet and you don't need your seizure medications that's fantastic I'm really glad to hear that um ketogenic diets in general will improve the outcome outcomes from um traumatic brain injury recovery that that's in that's in the clinical literature uh and we so we've known that for years and so you know as I was mentioning before you really need ketones for your brain for development but also for regeneration regrowth and repair and just your normal maintenance you need the ketones to reild build the physical structures and and the ketones also to power your brain optimally and it also reduces inflammation and uh and further damage that can happen um in in cases of injury as well because ketones directly suppress inflammation and then you're getting all these other sorts of wonderful things for your brain like B12 vitamin D DHA EPA arachidonic acid all these other sorts of things that are very very very necessary and beneficial to the brain so they all they all really help and we've been treating epilepsy for a century now with ketogenic diets animal-based ketogenic diets high fat meat-based ketogenic diets like a carnivore diet and so a lot of people are finding that they can improve their epilepsy um and or you know um um or or those sorts of seizure disorders and by going on a ketogenic diet and even um some people get even more improved by going a ketogenic carnivore diet because there are other triggers for seizures uh like caffeine and coffee I I know people that um have to avoid caffeine and coffee because that that will trigger their seizures for example and that's ketogenic right so um so if you're able to come off those medication is because you're doing so much better then that's great that's really that's really exciting to hear it's um it's always nice to see that uh muscle relaxers as well you know this is if this is helping uh in that way as well and you're coming off more and more uh medications then that's always really great to see I think that ketogenic carnivore diets are a really really really good um uh solution to a lot of people's neurological conditions and and recovering from uh brain injuries as well um and this is something that that you know we're seeing even years down the track of people actually improving their neurological function after a stroke or or some sort of injury to the brain which is wild you know that's that's not supposed to happen but it is happening and so hopefully it can continue to happen for you as well and and hopefully you get get more and more improvements as you go so good luck with that uh bun me a thank you for the super chat um she asks how can I transition my four-year-old twins to carnivore they love pasta and rice Etc you know that's understandable and you know sometimes it takes a bit of tough love to sort of transition uh kids you know because they they're just used to these things they don't know why they can't have them anymore they enjoy them um and so on but you know you can you can just talk to them and explain them explain to them uh you know why you know this is it's not really all that good for you this stuff is better and all that sort of stuff but you can also just do it in a very subtle way where you know you just don't have as much in the house maybe you start you know cutting it down or they say oh you want some rice and pasta oh sorry sweetie you know we don't really have that I'll have to go to the store you know but we do have this other nice thing that you like so the different sorts of meats that they like eggs that they like you prepare those and I mean so it's not that they they they're going from well they like they're not allowed to have pasta which they love and they have to eat this other thing which they really don't like all that much you're making meat like you know liver or something something like that and they're just like oh no I'm not doing that that's going to be a harder cell but if you um if you are making sure that they're getting uh foods that they really like you know meats you know fatty meats and eggs and things like that that they really like um then you can say oh you know yeah we don't have that tonight sorry we're not going to be able to have rice tonight but you know we do have this other thing that you really like and so you know that's what we're going to have you know and you can slowly transition these things out of the house and then all of a sudden just the only I mean they're four you know so um you know four yearolds are not dumb but you know it's it is something that you can sort of change their environment and they'll get used to it fairly readily and they can adapt and and actually just be very fine with it and constantly you're educating them because they they were just sponges for information and knowledge at that age and so you know you can just talk to them about how important this is you know for for them and they're growing and their growth and their brains and all these sorts of things so it's like well you know the pasta is not really good for you because you know we want we want you to grow strong and want you to be very smart and so that this food is better for that and and you know for all these different reasons and you can explain in as much detail as you think that they would be able to understand um but that's a way you can do it and just um you I mean four-year-olds they I mean you think back to when you were you know five or six you know young kid We Were Young we didn't know much but we weren't dumb you know and they're not either and so you know they're if you explain to them and and don't them if you just tell them what's going on um and say why you know it's better to eat these sorts of things they'll they'll they'll pick that up and U and again you can sort of just you know slowly filter these things out so there's just less and less of this junk in the house and then they're getting used to eating you know this good food and they they like it and so then and then with the education on top of that then they understand why they're doing it so when they're out and over other people's house they'll make good choices when they're on their own as well later on in life so that's how I would approach it anyway JC 94 thank you for the Super Chat hi doctor will strict carnivore fix my carpal tunnel it it can definitely reduce inflammation and improve neurological functioning and reduce the inflammation in uh our our neurological systems including our peripheral nerves um so people do improve uh from a symptom point of view in carbal tunnel and other sort of impingement um features such as radiculopathy like if you had a had a compressed um exiting nerve grot from the from the spine for example uh from the spinal cord but it depends on the level of impingement and it depends on um you know how much is able to be reversed so you have this certain level of of inflammation and swelling in that area thickening of the different tissues in that area and that's causing compression on the nerve um how much of that can be reversed how bad is it um so some of that let's say some of that reverses is that enough to give you significant Improvement it probably will improve somewhat is that enough to make it so you don't want surgery that's something that we'll have to sort of wait and see carpon surgery is piss easy I mean is it's just one of the more basic um surgical procedures that exist I mean there almost every Surgical Specialty does this general surgeons can do it um orthopedic surgeons can do it neurosurgeons do it like there's all sorts of I mean it's it's very very straightforward I mean it's just just a little incision right here you just and you just sort of dissect up and cut off you know that that sort of the thick ligament that's that's trapped over there you just make sure you get all of it and see make sure the neres free and clear don't cut it anything that's not supposed to be cut Stitch it up and you're done it's um you know it is it is it takes minutes you know um and yes you have a wound there and you need to sort of recover from that but it's a it's a pretty straightforward recovery especially when you're cornivore but it could very well be that you can avoid all that in the first place and and improve your your certainly will improve your inflammation and um and neurological function in a number of other ways ways could very well improve this to to enough to the point that you don't need or want surgery and that would be great um but there's no guarantees unfortunately we don't know how much uh inflammation impingement that you have and how much is possible for your body to reverse so that's just a sort of a um a wait and see sort of thing hey everyone really happy to announce a new sponsor for the show and for everybody down in Australia Stockman Stakes who who are delivering highquality grass-fed and finished pasture raised beef and other meats flash frozen and vacuum sealed to your door something that I've been enjoying a lot of myself recently as well they also have a great range of specialty items such as high fat keto mints and carnivore beef and organs mints with liver kidneys and beef heartart as well so use code cha today for free order of beef mints or another specialty gift along with your order at Stockman steaks.com and I'll see you over there thanks guys next question is from uh nav who uh asked how do I get my microbiome checked it's a it's a feal uh sample so there's a lot of different things you don't need a doctor to do this you just get um there's different companies depending on on the country and area that you're in I don't I don't know all the different ones or what the best ones are but this is something that can be is eminently googleable and so just find a find a place that that does microbiome testing and they'll send you a kit basically you'll need to provide a stool sample you put that sample in their little container and you'll send it off to them and then they'll run it through the lab and um and and give you your answer and some feedback um anytime you get any sort of test just remember this is a snapshot in time this can change all the time especially your microbiome microbiome can change very very readily but it's it can give you um a very good look at you know what's going on right now that snapshot and time and uh then you can check it again in a few months you know and if it's just Barren and you don't have a lot of diversity and things are pretty rotten okay that that's you know maybe a good time to start thinking about the um you know fermented dairy eaten with and chewed up and swallowed together with meat and um and then you know do that for for a few weeks and I you really don't once you have established a microbiome a new microbiome that should just perpetuate based on the food that you're eating and um and you'll support bacteria that you want with fatty meat that's the those are the microbes we want are the ones that that do well on those so then you check it again and see how you're going and um you get some weird changes and things like that that you're concerned about you know you can you can check it that way and see how you go and if it comes back and it's very diverse and healthy and all these different sorts of uh species that are good for you then you know then you you can at least check that one off the list on uh possible concerns and and issues that might be causing your IBS so good luck with that Annabella the happy carnivore nice to see you again um hi Dr a whenever I eat a lot of fat trimmings I get a keto whoosh um increased water weight I wonder why I've also been able to get off diabetes meds this year hey congratulations that's really good um that's interesting I've never heard of Keto whoosh I've KET heard of Keto flu and keto rash and um I don't know keto diarrhea I don't I don't know what else you want to call it um but I haven't heard of Keto whoosh before um but that's interesting that is interesting that you you would gain water weight that's actually not something that I've really seen much before um you know I wonder if that's the same if you're eating butter or something else or Tallow uh or just fatty meat you know if you're if you're just eating a fatty A fattier cut of meat do you get that or is it just specifically the trimmings maybe try to play around with that and um and see see if it you know what what is doing what because there might be some subtle differences there and at the end of the day if you're getting you know an unwanted uh effect you know by eating fat trimmings versus something else you just just avoid those things and um and see how you go but maybe there's something strange to do with the trimmings themselves as opposed to to Fat um because that's that's interesting it um really shouldn't do that and so um maybe maybe play around with that and see if other sources of fat uh don't do that and you know but but you know do tailor things in a way that that work best for your body and and again congratulations on getting off your diabetes medications that's fantastic hey guys just want to take a second to thank our sponsor at 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 trip DPP or stuck at work and you want 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 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sardines are good for the the um the healthy fat side of things and it could very well be that if you're eating grain finished um beef and lamb if they're in the feed lot for up to three months they typically don't have uh much of the Omega-3s to speak of they they basically sort of wash all those out at that point at least some some Studies have shown that anyway um so you know I I but yeah I mean I I I would be suspicious that you know the dry sort of a lot of times when people get dry skin it's often that they're not eating enough fat so maybe they're just not eating enough fat in general or maybe it's the quality of fat like you mentioned so um try increasing uh the fat and but again you know it doesn't have to be line diet unless you have to be on a line diet uh your your specific health issues um like autoimmune issues and things like that I always feel best on just red meat and water that's just I it tastes the best to me I feel best uh I don't have any autoimmune issues I don't have any specific health issues that I um have have to deal with I just feel better in general so I just naturally gravitate uh there anyway um but yeah if you find that you're doing better um with a bit of other other things mixed in that could be a reason why and either way way if that's where you feel the best then then do that have any autoimmune issues I don't have any specific health issues that I um have have to deal with I just feel better in general so I just naturally gravitate uh there anyway um but yeah if you find that you're doing better um with a bit of other other things mixed in that could be a reason why and either way if that's what you feel the best then do that