Dr. Anthony Chaffee shares his personal journey from accidental carnivore to medical advocate, beginning when his cancer biology professor warned that plants are trying to kill you due to their toxic and carcinogenic compounds. After eating only eggs and meat for five years, he experienced unprecedented health and energy levels, though he didn't initially connect this to his diet. He later returned to adding vegetables and experienced the familiar carb comas and energy crashes that many dismiss as normal.
Returning to carnivore at age 38, Dr. Anthony Chaffee regained his peak physical condition and was able to compete professionally in rugby again. He reveals how pharmaceutical companies control medical education and scientific publishing, blocking research that threatens their products. Despite thousands of studies showing dietary interventions outperform medications for many conditions, this evidence remains hidden from medical curricula. His clinical practice now focuses on treating root causes through elimination diets, helping patients reverse conditions considered incurable by addressing what's causing the disease rather than just managing symptoms.
Key Takeaways
- Plants contain natural toxins and carcinogens as defense mechanisms, which a cancer biology professor at a major university refuses to let his own children consume
- Carbohydrates past a certain threshold become directly toxic to the body, triggering insulin responses and reactive hypoglycemia that causes the familiar 'carb coma' effect
- Pharmaceutical companies actively block scientific research and control medical school curricula, preventing publication of studies showing dietary interventions outperform medications
- Thousands of high-quality randomized controlled trials demonstrate massive health improvements and disease reversal through carnivore diets, but this research remains hidden from mainstream medical education
- Dr. Chaffee's Medical Background and Plant Toxin Discovery
- Five Years Carnivore - Peak Performance and Athletic Recovery
- Carb Coma and Reactive Hypoglycemia from Pasta
- Medical Research Suppression by Food and Drug Companies
- Treating Incurable Diseases with Carnivore Diet
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[Music] Yeah, I'm I'm a medical doctor and I have a a private practice here in Australia although I'm from America. Um I've been specializing in neurosurgery as a as a registar here and um but also I have a private practice in metabolic health preventative medicine and uh just health optimization you know using lifestyle and dietary and lifestyle interventions to try to get people as healthy as possible and we are just seeing massive improvements in in people's health. Um, so much so that I mean I can't I can't not do this, you know. I it's not I don't think it would be ethical for me to to stop because I just I just see it helping so many people in so many profound ways. What got me into this? Well, initially, like I said, I had a professor of cancer biology who told us how toxic plants were and how they were very carcinogenic and said to us that he didn't eat salads or vegetables and wouldn't let his kids eat vegetables because in his words, plants are trying to kill you. So, the the the what was left hanging there was that, well, why the hell would you eat these things? Like, they're toxic. They're trying to kill you. What's wrong with you? And so I stopped at that point and I I just went to the grocery store like what what in God's name do I eat? And I just was walking around. I was like everything's has plants in it. That was my only my only standard. It was just like can't have plants. That was the only thing I cared about. And so it was just everything. I was walking through everything had plants in it. And I just walked by some eggs and meat and I was like okay eggs and meat it is. And that's what I ate for five years. I've never felt better. I felt absolutely amazing. I was worried about, you know, vitamin deficiencies. I remember thinking, I was like, "Oh, do I need to like take a multivitamin or take a eat a banana or something?" And I was just like, "Well, you know, I mean, I feel good. My gums aren't bleeding, so, you know, I'm just going to ride this out." That was an actual conversation I had in my head verbatim. I was like, "What do I do?" I was like, "All right, let's let's let's ride this out. See what happens." And and I felt amazing. I I just felt better and better as I went. There wasn't any issues. And you know, you you sort of slip off these things because you you just get inundated with, oh, you know, but you need this, you need that and this research, blah, blah, blah. And I was like, yeah, I don't know, you know, because it has these toxins and carcinogens like, you know, oh, but you have to have mushrooms because it has anti vef and that's an anti-carcinogen and it's good against cancer. And I was like, yeah, but it has carcinogens in it, you know, like why are you why are you take and and also I don't have cancer, so why am I taking anti-vef which is it was a chemotherapy agent. It's like why why would I be taking chemo if I'm not on if I don't have cancer? That doesn't make sense because you wouldn't just take any other chemo drugs because they would hurt you that would cause a lot of harm and they have carcinogens. I was like that doesn't really make sense but I was just like I don't know and you just go along with these things because you just have it's coming from so many directions you're like okay I guess and I never felt as good as I did during those five years. And I never I never knew why. I didn't didn't chalk it up to that. I didn't see that um at the time. It wasn't for several years later, actually 12 years later that I came back to this and realized that no, humans just really are carnivores as a species. We've been apex predators for millions of years. I learned that in second grade. And that's what I was doing. I was living as a carnivore. I was living to our biological design. That's what meant. I've never felt better in my entire life during that period. And so I said that's what I was doing. I've never been able to figure it out. That's what it was. I just chocked it up to age. I just, you know, at 25 I felt like a superhero. At 25 and a half, I did not. And I couldn't figure out what happened. And then I did at 38 finally. I guess better late than never. And I I just So you'd gone back to You'd gone back to um non non-cnivore at that point. Yeah. I I sort of I just sort of went back to just mostly eating meat because that was always what I preferred anyway. and and but just adding in some salads, you know, salads or veggies or or something like that. Never really ate much fruit, you know, you know, a bit here and there, but uh yeah, mostly like salads and and meat. I wasn't really a big bread guy. Every now and then if it was like easy, like when I was studying for the MCAT, it was just easy to get a whole bunch of like whole wheat pasta and I just boil it up real quick and have a whole big thing of pasta and just eat that real quick and then, you know, study for the afternoon. And I I never really realized it, but like I I would I would pass out like a couple hours later. I just get exhausted and I'd pass out on the couch and sleep for two hours and then wake up and keep studying. And like you know that was that was this um you know this carb coma that I would go into after I ate pasta. You know because you you actually get that because you eat these carbohydrates. Carbohydrates at past a certain level are actually directly toxic to your body. This is what kills diabetics is the toxic nature of carbohydrates past a certain point. And so your body is trying to protect you by detoxifying this. So you know your body responds to glucose past a certain level as a toxin and try and responds to it by detoxifying it which is how you know it's a toxin. And so insulin goes up and it stays up and then blood sugar drops down. and you get what's called reactive hypoglycemia and you just get tired and your blood sugar drops and you just take a nap if you can or you have to you know suffer and drink a bunch of coffee if you can't and um you know looking back that's what it was but yeah I switched back to I've always eaten very clean I never ate junk food you know I'd have pizza once every few years maybe you know I mean it was like it was just never never something that um was a major part of my diet we always cooked cooked all our meals. My mom cooked every meal at home apart from like cereal in the mornings. And um you know when I was an adult I did the same and uh most of that was meat and I would have some other stuff with it because you're supposed to have other stuff with it. That was pretty much it. And so I went back to a very clean whole food mostly meat probably ketogenic most of the time because I just didn't didn't buy a bunch of bread and eat carbs all that much. um sort of diet with with a bunch of like clean veggies, you know? I mean, like on paper, you'd think that was a really really healthy diet. And it's a lot healthier than a lot of other people, but I felt a thousand times better at 38 when I just dropped the veggies and started eating a lot more fatty meat. I felt like I was 22 again and I started performing like I was 22 again. actually went out and started playing rugby again and just was right back into it and and felt amazing even though I was insanely out of shape. I hadn't played rugby in three years or full season in three years anyway and just just felt amazing and was able to compete at a high level again um and actually go back and start playing professionally again in in Seattle. The my my team in Seattle that I grew up playing with, they had gone fully professional at that point with the the start of the MLR, the major league rugby. And so that was the first season I was like, I really want to play in this season. And I was back and and feeling great and getting back in shape. Unfortunately, I had a knee injury, but there was just, you know, I felt absolutely incredible from a from a fitness health point of view. Um, there so there's no no issues there. And then at that point, I really started getting really interested in in this concept and and and how much better I was feeling. And I started really digging into the literature and trying to find out as much as I could. I I realized that there was this massive body of medical and biological physiological literature out there that you never get taught in medical school or residency. It's just completely outside the the scope of teaching there. And the reality is is because it's, you know, the the curriculum is largely dictated by the food and drug companies were the major sponsors of these institutions. Unfortunately, they're also the major sponsors of the scientific journals, which I actually found out recently, and they actually can block out and and and say who gets published where or even gets reviewed to publish a paper because they don't want things going against their product. And so they can say, "Hey, we're going to pull funding if you look at that that paper." And so people are finding it actually very difficult like to like some of the top professors from uh MIT like professor Stephanie Senith you know she went to MIT for undergrad and grad school PhD there in computer science right so she smart cookie right and top 1% of the top 1% 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 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 also because I want the carnivore market to thrive as well. And the more we support meatonly products, the more meat only products there will be available in the mainstream. So, if this sounds like something you'd like to get behind, check it out using my discount code Anthony to get 10% off, which also applies to subscriptions, giving you 25% off total. All right, thanks guys. She has been a professor at MIT ever since or she's been a tenure professor in computer science um for 40 years or so and then she started doing you know biological studies and studying um glyphosate and its effects on on you know human health and she was saying that that it's actually very difficult to get published even as a 40-year tenure professor at MIT because of this of this issue that they just have this block and strangle hold even on the scientific medical or scientific um journals. And so they there are papers out there though there are thousands upon thousands upon thousands of papers out there and studies show randomized control trials largecale human uh subjects that show massive improvements to human health and reversal of many diseases. And it's, you know, begs a question, why isn't this taught in medical school? And and that is a legitimate question because this works better than drugs in a lot of cases. And so, you know, it's it's a direct competition with these drug companies and they're the ones who who who help dictate the curriculum. But the the data is there. It's just that people don't realize it. They think, well, if it was, you know, fit to print, then I would have been taught it in medical school or residency. And if it wasn't taught to me there, that means it doesn't exist. And so, you talk to them. So, well, there's there's no evidence to to show that diet has anything to do with disease or condition X. And what that really means is that they have no idea. They just haven't looked because it because a lot of the time it is there. And so, you know, a good a good thing to do is say you ask them about that. No, no, there's no evidence for that. And that question is like, have you looked? Because actually there is a lot of evidence. It's just not spoonfed to us. And so that's that's sort of been my crusade here for the last several years is trying to get this information out to mainstream. I've obviously seen this direct effect on my life, my family's life, and now my patients life. And I'm seeing the evidence. I'm seeing this absolute iceberg in of information that is just out of sight for people. And they just, you know, they don't even know to look for it. you don't know what you don't know and they said they don't even look for I started asking questions I said well if we if this is the case we should see evidence for this I just started searching for studies anything that could that could compare you know these two different contrasting situations and trying to find evidence with which to test these theories against and I I found endless supplies of studies of high quality and and merit that just don't get taught you in medical school because they don't have a product behind it so there's no marketing team behind it to push this out there. And um so now putting this into practice and and having treated hundreds of patients, if not thousands of patients directly in my clinic, in my practice, I've seen massive improvements. I mean, things that that just are right now considered incurable. They cannot be treated. They cannot be cured. They can only treat the symptoms. No, no, you can you can you can cure it if you know what's causing it. you know, you just have to, you know, you have to address the root cause. And so that's what what I've been doing. And I've been I've been putting this out there uh for free online, telling people um showing people the evidence and and showing them people who have healed different things. And then you look in the comments, you'll see hundreds if not thousands of people saying that was me. I would I did that few years ago. I'm going through it now. I'm coming off my medications. All these other sorts of things. The theory is only good as what it's able to predict. And so it's um you know it's a bit telling when people go on a carnivore diet and the the benefits that they receive are exactly what are laid out every time and time and time and time again. You get these this very clear progression and improvement. And so it's just very important to me to get this out to people to get this out to people so they can take their health into their own hands and they don't have to be beholden to the medical establishment and they don't have to be beholden to taking all these medications and supplements and this is and that and whatever. They can just eat food and be healthy. The natural state of all life on earth is that of health. And we are the most successful species that has ever walked the earth. And so we should be the healthiest and most robust species on earth. and yet we're the sickest. Okay, so that's not genetic. That's not part of our species. That's not inbuilt in us. That's happening to us. And we're seeing this in real time. Every decade we're getting more and more sick. And so obviously that's environmental. That's not uh anything we're in in innately built with built with. So that's very important to me to let people understand how to take back control of their own health and only need the medical establishment when there's an actual emergency like an injury or infectious disease that they can't clear on their own and and to educate doctors as well and get them on this board because it's so important for the medical establishment to really understand this as well and and know hey look there's actually better uh there's better evidence here for other treatments and they work better for patients and get better outcomes and they don't cost a fortune. And so that's obviously better for your patient. And you know, the more doctors that come across this that I that I speak to or that that see it for themselves, the more people that are on board with this because the evidence is absolutely there and they're seeing this as well. It's not just me. It's not just a few others. This is tens of thousands of doctors around the world at this point. 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