Understanding The Carnivore Diet with Dr. Anthony Chaffee | October 8th, 2024

[Music] okay hello everyone thank you for joining me for another YouTube live um I'm Dr Anthony chaffy and I um have about an hour today so um be able to answer as many questions as we can I just want toh say thank you to my friend Chris brandlin who goes by the carnivore lawyer he's been helping me out with some um issues such as um patenting my videos and also um suing people that are defaming me and saying that I'm not a doctor and things like that like Lane Norton and um uh Alo um Dr Muhammad Alo who tried to you sort of replicate and um regurgitate the nonsense that Dr IDs was going around saying that I wasn't a doctor and I was well he said specifically I wasn't an MD uh even though my degree is exactly the same as an MD and what people took that to mean was that I wasn't a medical doctor and that I and but he said specifically that I was falsifying my credentials and um and so people took that to me that you know I'm not a medical doctor and things like that I'll be releasing a video just going over some of these things uh but I'm in the process of of suing Dr IDs and sent letters of um of U you know cease and desist letters to um to laye Norton and Dr Alo and if they do these things again then I will be suing them and Chris has been kind enough to help me with those sorts of things if people need help he he likes to help out people in the carnivore Community for free um as much as he can uh by going to Chris brandlin do um or Chris or brandlin sorry brandlin law.com so b r n DL i n law.com and um you know it's it is kind of funny that you know IDs was saying these things about me because um it's come to light that he actually only graduated medical school in 2021 and only finished his intern year in December 2022 and hasn't had a medical license in the UK since 2023 um he's calls himself a board-certified um specialist so he says he's board certified in lifestyle medicine funny thing is they don't have a board certification in lifestyle medicine so that's interesting um it's a certificate it's only a it's only like it's like an online course that is estimated to take 20 to 40 hours and he's calling himself um board certified um in life style medicine and of course that's not true like what what board certification is is you've completed a multi-year residency training program and Specialty and been tested on this and um and you have board certification so people go I'm a board certified OBGYN I'm a board certified blah blah blah blah blah and he's saying he's board certified lifestyle medicine and there's no such thing the LIF medicine people don't offer a board certification it's just a certificate and um or they say well it's a diploma but it's not even a diploma from a university they just call it a diploma but it's not actually a real diploma either um it's just a certificate and so he's going around um falsifying his credentials and then accusing actual practicing doctors of falsifying theirs um but yeah he's not a practicing physician he doesn't have a active medical license in the UK um he doesn't have he's not a registered dietician or nutritionist in the UK and um it doesn't doesn't appear that he's ever practiced medicine past his internship he's just been you know he's not so he's not really a practicing physician he just plays one on TV and that's probably why he wears the scrubs and the and the stethoscope in his videos even though he's not even working in the hospital he doesn't even he doesn't even see patients and which makes sense because the only people that walk around with their stethoscopes on are the insurance they want everyone to know that they're a doctor and um so that makes sense that he's going around doing videos with the stethoscope on um which is very very funny but you know it's um it's projection really you know he's saying that that I'm falsifying my credentials when he really truly is um trying to trying to say that he's a board-certified specialist when that doesn't exist that's not a a specialty and he do he not even a practicing physician so um Chris has been kind enough to help me with that and um you know and then I have my my legal team in the UK as well so um yeah but yeah I think that's interesting anyway so uh in any case thank you to Chris and people want to check out his website then go to brandlin law.com um also want to let people know that I'll be in Manchester next month on the weekend of octob this month week Jesus so I'll be leaving pretty much next week so like the the weekend of the 18th I think it's on the 19th we'll be doing the keto brain health conference in Manchester I think there are still tickets available to that so you can go to um you know just Google keto brain health I have some posts and things like that on my Instagram that people can find um but there's but it's also you know can find that on Instagram the keto brain health have their own page and uh and website and things like that so you can go and check that out um and there you go so there keto brain health. co.uk and then uh directly after that so that that following week uh from the 21st to the 25th I'll be in Spain just outside of Malaga um where uh we'll have a a conference there for um uh it's like a cornivore conference um and uh I'll be there um Sophia Clemens will be there uh Dr Natasha Campbell McBride from the from The Gap start was going to be though unfortunately she um had something else and she she can't make it to to this conference as well unfortunately but she I think she might zoom in for for something but I'm not I'm not 100% sure on that uh that one's going to be you know really interesting there are there were a couple last minute cancellations so there is I think a room or two available you know it's five days so not everybody can make that commitment but it's a really nice venue in the south of Spain it looks really nice anyway and apparently they've had conferences there before and really uh enjoyed them and that is um if you go to the bigfat challenge.com um you can find out more about that if you want I think there's only like one or two rooms available but if someone wanted to have the time and wanted to check that out uh they can go do that okay so there was there was a couple super chats from last week that I I I seem to have missed and so we'll get to those first um this one was from James manrique says what diet would you suggest for someone who has only one kidney the carnivore diet is high in animal protein uh that could put a lot of strain on the kidney so the thing is is that you know a lot of a lot of things in medicine are just on a best guess and we just said okay well protein gets broken down and and um you'd have to take off a nitrogen group and that ends up getting turned into Ura which has to pass through the kidneys and so as youra levels go high that could be that your um kidneys are slowing down but you know that's just a filtration process right that's not that doesn't mean that the Ura caused the kidney to slow down but that was that was what they thought like okay well maybe that slows it down okay maybe maybe avoid protein and then people's kidneys started getting worse and worse and worse with the less protein that they that they consumed um so Studies have actually been done now and actually actually a long time ago this isn't anything new showing that actually higher protein protein diet actually improves kidney function it doesn't actually make it worse so more protein more kidney function and so the best the best diet for people with one kidney is the same diet that's the best for everybody it's just it's just whatever is biologically appropriate for our species and you know that's really just a you know a plant-free ketogenic diet carnivore diet so you're going to get a lot of protein it's very good for you it's very good for your kidney and um and you're also going to be eliminating a lot of things that are nephrotoxic meaning that they damage your kidneys uh like oxalates and so you're getting rid of all these things that damage the kidney and you are allowing your body to heal and you're getting the protein and substrate that's that's necessary I mean you need protein your body's made out of protein and your body starts degrading and breaking down if you don't have enough protein to to replace and rebuild um your organs and tissue and so you know we're seeing more and more people with ckd4 ckd5 even a few people uh improving on dialysis starting to make more and more urine naturally and a couple people have been three of that I've seen been able to come off uh dialysis and and potentially more those are just the ones that I've seen um eating a much higher protein diet than the typical standard American diet but it's not like it's an insane amount of protein it's just it's just more than we normally get but most people are not even getting close to enough you know I think it's like something like 80% of the world don't meet the minimum uh standards for protein consumption as per the the UN and um and the thing is is that those those protein standards those are not like the goal those are the bare minimum and like 80% of people in in I think it's in developed Nations maybe but worldwide it's still pretty pretty high uh don't even meet that minimum requirement so you know almost everybody can stand to to increase their protein um consumption uh but it does not damage your kidneys and um it will it should help you know I I if you want to get a more um you know learned uh view than mine I interviewed Professor Thomas wimes from uh UC Santa Barbra who studies the kidney and specifically polycystic kid polycystic kidney disease um and he's finding he reversing this with you know uh ketogenic diets in general like plant free ketogenic diets like a carnivore diet is a ketogenic diet right and so he was all for the K the carnivore diet um for kidney function and and you know we we talked a lot about that and at length and so you can check that out as well but yeah it it's not going to hurt your kidneys or your kidney uh Mikey Cayenne or Sayan 88 8580 uh says carnivore for one year a ton of benefit settled in at optimal weight BP normalized down 30 points but I've started developing zolas in the corner of my eye why they are they get ugly um you know that's that's a good question you know sometimes that's associated with like familial hyper cholesterolemia where you get you know extremely high levels of um uh cholesterol even more than you would typically get just eating you know ketogenic carnivore diet and remember that you just stop eating at all for you know several days five days your LDL is going to go up your HDL is also going to go up and your triglycerides are going to go down that's the same pattern that we seen when people go on a ketogenic diet as well because it's really just a matter it's a metabolic State change you're just not running on carbohydrates you're running on fat so you need to transport fat around your body and because your your blood is largely made out of water and fat repels water and water repels fat it has to be carried in a special molecule called HDL and LDL and so of course those things are going to have to go up because now you're transporting more fat around your body so you're running on fat and your body has to transport fat it's all there is to it and so if you eat the exact same amount of of meat and fatty meat H but you add in a whole bunch of carbs come right down because now you're not transporting all that fat around right and so we and we see this you know this this is demonstratable demonstrable um as far as anthol ASAS that's it's that's pretty atypical you know i' I've seen a couple people that have had that um it could be an underlying um familial issue like genetic issue that would predispose you to get even higher levels of cholesterol those even higher levels of cholesterol are still not going to cause heart disease because cholesterol does not cause heart disease um but some people that have familiar hypocholesterolemia have other genetic predispositions that could increase the the likelihood of cardiovascular disease um I'm I'm not too sure what can what can help with the zanol Asma if um you know you check your cholesterol and anything like that and you do have extremely high I mean there there are people that that just a ketogenic diet and they find that their cholesterol is is that of someone with familial hyper cholesterolemia you know I I would probably be in that category you know I haven't checked it in years because I don't care to because I think it's a complete waste of time and money but um you know it's uh it would have would have been up in sort of that that range and a lot of people are um but you know a lot of those people with the same levels of cholesterol as filla hyper cholesterolemia don't get the examp plasmas so there's probably something else going on and it could be some sort of you know just genetic predisposition that that you have that makes that um that more likely to form um possibly when you have higher levels of cholesterol but possibly for some other reason as well I'm not sure exactly if you really want to add in some carbs and things like that and lower your cholesterol down and have that help you know that see if that helps your anasma you could do that I mean I think it would be at at you know at the expense of Optimal Health but you know it's um something you can try anyway and see how you feel and see how you do as long as you're not having mass quantities of carbs and getting insulin resistance and you know glycation sort of damage you know but it's enough to just Tamp this down you know maybe that's okay but um you know to me I would I would pick you know the health side of things over and you know and and again this is not something that typically happens even with people that get really high levels of cholesterol so there's probably something else going on in your you know your particular genetics or maybe there's some other Factor that's contributing this as well um but it's rare enough that I've only I've only seen that you're probably like the second or third person I've seen that has has gotten that so I'm not exactly sure why that's happening so you know just but play around with it you know maybe you know maybe you can see uh what you can do to sort of manipulate that to get that down but still maintain Optimal Health and and good nutrition hey everyone really happy to announce a new sponsor for the show for everybody down in Australia Stockman steaks who are delivering highquality grass-fed and finished pasture raised beef and other meats flash frozen and vacuum sealed to your door something 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 heart as well well so use code chaffy 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feeling pretty low energy and rotten for about six months and then they had this takeoff anytime I see somebody struggling with energy or having you know you know sort of a slow burn I always I always will check their blood work and or suggest they check their blood work my patients I just check their blood work so I I can see this all ahead of time and head it off at the past but if you are having If you're sort of struggling and month in you know it could just be you know you're you're still adapting could be you're not drinking enough water could be you're not eating enough fat that's a real hard one for a lot of people is actually getting enough fat and that's where your energy comes from and uh could also be you know it it matters how strict she is as well a lot of people when they go carnivore they you know they eat a lot more meat and they eat a lot less of the other things which is great it's a big step in the right direction but there's a there is a big difference between eating mostly meat and a bit of things and eating 100% fatty meat and water and getting enough of it that it actually makes a massive massive difference especially if you're someone who's you know very low energy and and fibromyalgia and things like that uh fibromyalgia I I spoke to a pain specialist about this been doing this for 20 plus years I spoke to another researcher on this um that seems to be a metabolic right so you have to fix your metabolic issues and they have these pain issues when you're in ketosis your ketone go up that suppresses inflammation but also you're removing a lot of inflammatory products and and fixing your metabolism and so that tends to improve um but it also seems to be there's a very strong link between fibromyalgia and torine torine is a an amino acid that we normally make but not everybody necessarily makes enough of it and when people are eating fiber they may lose the torine because torine is made in the liver it's expressed in the bile and everyone goes o bile is so bad we have to get because it's made out of cholesterol we have to get rid of it to lower your cholesterol because it's just a waste product it's not that your body's making this on purpose to meet specific demand no you have to clear it out and flush it out and get rid of it because it's toxic all these toxins no that's not what bile is for bile is not a waste product that you're trying to get rid of your body works really hard to bring it back in in fact and we're trying to manipulate that and block that process and fiber is one of the ways that people do that and so that's how you lower cholesterol with fiber because it binds bile and removes it out and then you have to use cholesterol to make more bile and your body does not stop making bile it is it h it needs bile it tries to recycle bile it's that important and so torine gets made and expressed in the bile and when you bind it with fiber or medications that can bind bile to lower the cholesterol you lose the torine and so you know people eating a high fiber diet can actually lose more of this torine and uh and develop fibromyalgia so torine also is in meat of course but it gets denatured when you cook meat this is why cats have to have raw meat or at least some raw meat because they need torine that's an essential nutrient for them uh but it's really good for us to have have more torine in your diet plenty of studies that uh show that and specifically for f fibromyalgia this is something you should look into so cook you know more rare meat and to get the torine you can even take a torine supplement um and uh and I would check her Bloods I would check her blood work you can even check for her torine see if she has adequate torine levels um and um but I would also check things like B12 um folate RBC zinc RBC magnesium vitamin D those sorts of things thyroid you know she's has has um you know chronic fatigu and really tired all the time she could have a thyroid issue um you know one month in you know I'm sure she's going to be getting more nutrients but if she's super low on a lot of these things it's going to take a long time and so I think that a lot of these people that take three months six months to start getting better energy they probably have an underlying thyroid condition or a very very deficient in nutrients like B12 which you don't have enough that you'll have horrible energy the reference R so many people are deficient in these things that the reference range have actually shifted left and so um you know all of a sudden no one's def no one's deficient because everyone's deficient so the reference ranges just show deficiency but they say oh that's normal now because it's normal to be deficient so you want to be on the high end of whatever reference range they have or even above for most things such as B12 you definitely want to be sort of above their range for B12 um on on almost every lab test because MO all lab tests have different reference ranges and that there in lies the problem like these are not optimal reference ranges these are just averages for that lab and so that's not what you want to go by so you you know check all these things you know make sure she's got you know good levels of of thyroid on the on the better ends the higher ends of you know T4 and T3 or you know at least middle to Upper and um and TSH being on the lower end you know that's just thyroid stimulating hormone so that the higher that is you know the the less functional your thyroid is you really want that to be below 2.0 a lot of these ranges go to four or five but anything above 2.0 actually doubles your risk for developing thyroid cancer so that's clearly not the way to go and not an acceptable range so I'll try all those I have a video online on YouTube about you know being tired on a carnivore diet and there's a couple things to troubleshoot there as well main ones are are you actually are you actually eating a carnivore diet or you just eating a lot of meat if you're only if you're eating a lot of meat Go full 100% just meat and water eat enough fat want to get one to two grams of fat to everyone gram of protein you need to eat fatty meat until it stops tasting good you need to get a lot of water almost everyone is under Dr under um hydrated drink aim for three liters a day you know and drink more if your body's telling you to um proper sleep stress all these other sorts of things toring as we discussed um checking your blood work and and uh otherwise you know there is there is keto adaptation and it can just take time for your body to get to the point that it can um uh you know you know utilize the ketones effectively so take a look at that and little Ellie Melly has joined the chat hi Ellie Melly nice to see you and she says hi you look cute um that's a little joke that we have was like the the Australian accent don't actually enunciate things you don't actually enunciate your your consonants and so they say oh you look cute oh it's cute a cute you know that's a instead of cute you know and um so yeah that's our little joke but yeah you look K all right so um vagar thank you very much for the Super Chat um 15 years with crohn's uh why does my gastrologist recommend mainly plant-based high fiber I've been Carnival for five weeks and never felt better because he just doesn't know and that's the simple truth of it you know we're told all the time that that fiber and plants are just so good for you and so good for your gut so he's a gastroenterologist so obviously that's what he recommends to people and because he's have the exact same results um you know every time this is why they say oh yeah diet doesn't have anything to do with it because put people on these like super healthy high fiber diets and makes it worse of anything so obviously diet diet's not something that's going to fix this um it's just this preconceived notion that is based on nothing you know I I I was saying earlier about you know just just um how we we misunderstand uh a lot of things we just s everything's sort of a best guess and we guess about you know eating more protein would damage your kidneys it doesn't you know and then we're saying like o fiber is good for your gut because someone said so and we just repeated this a thousand times no it's not um it's it's just that he doesn't know and and the problem is is that you have this this inbuilt hubris um as a doctor even going through medical school you know you the preconceived notions that you had oh fiber is good for you now you have that stamp as you're a doctor even a medical student and whatever your thoughts were whatever your prejudices were and your predictions you just now that's no that's that's that's what that is because I'm a medical school I'm a doctor so I know but it didn't actually come from Medical School it didn't come from your studies it didn't come from your personal experience and professional experience it it was just something you thought beforehand and now because you're an expert that's what that is and people speak with with with you know extreme confidence i' I've seen it so many times I I I saw this phenomenon when I was in in medical school and I saw you know my colleagues and and fellow students doing this and um and I sort of caught myself doing it once and I remember thinking in my head I'm like hold on a second I mean I I never learned that in here and I'm talking about it as if I that was something I was trained uh train to think and and understand and I was just like oh that's that's dangerous that's a you know that's a bad habit to get into and so I I stopped it I stopped I stopped doing that um but I was able to notice that not everybody does and so they don't even realize that they just have these preconceived notions and just oh no that's what that is and I'm a doctor so I would know like well no you don't because it's not true so same same idea you know your your your gastroenterologist just doesn't know um hasn't come across literature I mean I I got into it with some gastroenterologists here in Perth they're oh there's no evidence to show this I'm like yeah there is there's a ton of evidence like why where have you been um you know you're you're a specialist in this and you don't even know about and just you know just just went on Google scolar and show them like there's just laundry lists of uh of studies with ketogenic diets you know Carbon Fiber free diets um you know and and having this massive benefits for cronis disease and you know the patients that were eating um fiber and carbs you know weren't able to stay in remission without um medication at all for for you know zero months uh whereas people that avoided you know cut out carbs and fiber with crohn's disease without medication were able to stay remission up to 51 months without medication just by cutting out carbs and fiber and the people that ate fiber did not St in remission without medications um so it's in the literature you just have to look for it it's not going to be it's not spoonfed in a Residency program because there's no money at the other side of it there's money on the other side of medications and so you know your your gastrologist would be very hard pressed to come up with any randomized control trials or experimental Interventional trials showing that a high plant high fiber diet is going to improve Cron's disease because it won't um but there are studies Interventional trials in humans uh experimental data that we can show a cause and effect relationship from uh showing that removing plants and fiber improves Chron's Disease there's another one with elemental D with ketogenic Elemental D which normally it's just the macros and micros that you need broken down in their element elements so you don't have to digest them and break them down you just absorb them um ketogenic is the key there um those were typically designed for um kids with epilepsy and so that just the nutrients you need nothing else um and no carbs uh was a better treatment for an acute flare of Crohn's than prazone steroids right so you know um that's what the data shows and that's what the and what is an elemental diet what is what is just the nutrients you need with nothing else it's a stake right so just not eating certain things was a better treatment for Crohn's disease than steroids which is the gold standard right and just not eating carbs and fiber kept people in in in remission up to 51 months you know versus the control which didn't stay in remission at all without medication so that means there's something in the carbohydrates the carbohydrates or and the fiber themselves or something that came along with them is causing the Crohn's so unfortunately your your gastron neurologist doesn't know and so what you need to do is you just need to document what's going on and you need to be like hey I'm doing this thing there are hundreds of thousands of people around the world doing this for autoimmune issues including chronis disease and um and there's studies and things like that if you go on I have things on autoimmunity I did a a video on was called autoimmune diseases what they don't want you to know it's quick video it's like 16 minutes it's one of my earlier ones it's like the first want to go viral um and then my channel got um shadowbanned and throttled and um it just was going up up up Flatline but you know it's grown since but um but if you go to that one there those studies that I just mentioned are are in the description and I talk about them in that in that video and I also uh have links for them and there's way more just go on Google Scholar and just go Crohn's disease ketogenic diets you'll find a ton of stuff um and uh um yeah you may have to search around with different key terms but uh it was very easy to for me to find a ton of literature on this when oh there's no there's no data there's no studies yeah there's a ton of studies actually and and there's a lot of there's even more lived experience so yeah what you do is you just you just um you keep doing what you're doing you never felt better why the hell would you go back to the other way um and when you go into full remission which you will especially if you're you're like Lion diet strict lion diet just red meat and water you will not have Crohn's disease in the future if you just keep eating that way um the good thing about Crohn's is it so dramatic you know when you have a flare up it's just like you even have like a piece of chicken or some bacon and that causes you to react you're just like not doing that again you know 's have bloody diarrhea for three days or like absolutely not you know or you have a piece of fruit or some Fiber and it's just horrific you know your body's not going to not going to want to touch that stuff and so it's a lot easier to stay strict but that's how you do the best always it's just red meat and water and um you're probably very close to remission of your symptoms at this point and um you know the next few weeks or a couple months you will probably have clinical remission on biopsy and so you do that just say hey this is what I'm doing this is what hundreds of thousands of other people are doing around the world this actually is literature on this um this is something that you need to look into you tell your your gastron neurologist this and you say hey you what you're saying whenever I plants whenever I eat fiber I get way worse and in fact these studies show that if you cut out fiber and carbs you get better with Cron's disease specifically it's like you this is something you need to look into because this is this is what's going to help your patients and if and if you give them other advice is going to hurt them and um you know and so you could you could definitely change uh change their mind and that would be really important because then they're going to disseminate that to other people and you use yourself as an example and just say you know if you don't think it's true prove me wrong you know put other people on it see what happens and um if if it no one else gets the same result okay well then it was just a fluke it's just anecdotal but if it keeps happening it keeps happening keeps happening then there's something there that that is um worth investigating and who knows you know you could you could win a you know a major medical award or Nobel Prize for curing Crohn's Disease by you know doing the big studies showing that this actually works and uh you know you could you know get your Your Name In Lights as a result of this you know appeal to his um you know better nature first and you know appeal to his greed and you know and and um after that and uh see where you go but you know this is how a lot of doctors are coming around is that they're seeing patients doing these things they're seeing the the results that you're getting and they're like okay well I need to I need to look into this because uh that's I was not expecting that result let me just Che something here second just pop over so hold on a second there we go um okay great okay so here's a question from AP which is about Alpha gal syndrome and what causes it um any cases of actual cures how to be Carn or living with Alpha gal syndrome alphal syndrome is is a is basically a sensitization reaction to um the the salid a whatever of a tick of the lone star tick and that can make you sensitive to Alpha calctose which is a carbohydrate that can be found on on um surface proteins of some uh meat like red meat in particular so it doesn't mean that you can't do carnivore it just is unlucky but there are uh plenty of meats available that don't have um Alpha gal won't trigger Alpha gal um but you you have to avoid things like red meat and so you can look that up you can look what look up what meats have have that and don't and which ones you need to stick to um and you can just do that I think chicken and fish are pretty pretty good maybe eggs pretty sure and I'm don't quote me though look it up and um and um uh but from what I've been told by other clinicians because i' I've never treated Alpha gal syndrome I haven't seen anybody with it um myself but I have spoken to other clinicians who have and they said that know there are other meats that you can eat so you just you just do that and um and apparently it wears off apparently like you know after you know six months two a year sort of wears off and you can start eating this stuff again um then there's always the weird room you know there's that weird dude that did a Ted it was a TED Talk and um he was like a wef guy and he was saying like oh yeah you know we have to desperately cut out ruminant me because it's just destroying the planet which is not true of course and um but you know that's really hard to do so you know instead of just you know waiting for people to make the right decision what they feel is the right decision um we should you know try to make it allergic and make you sick if you eat this stuff and it's like that's pure evil I mean that is that is Nazi level evil stuff you know manipulating people and you you don't get to manipulate people's bodies you don't do you don't get to do that it's in the nberg code it's in the Constitution of the United States you don't get to do that people own themselves as a fundamental um fundamentals of property rights is that you you own your property and the most important part is that you own yourself you are your own property no one else gets to do that no one else gets to do anything to your body that you don't want them to at all for any reason and they don't get to pressure you or threaten you or say you can't you don't get to work or you don't get to travel you don't get to go to a you don't get to do that that is illegal it's against the freaking nberg code they say specifically in the nberg code that you cannot pressure people um and uh through you know uh duress to make them manipulate them into doing something like this and um so back off so you know you can you can eat other meats and even if this it doesn't recover and you can never eat red meats again you know it's a shame but you can still do Carnival for the rest of your life uh eating other sorts of of meats as well that don't have Alpha gal so you can definitely still do that and from what I'm told it does get better but um I don't know that for sure but that's uh just what I've been told and hopefully that's the case 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 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 but also because I want the carnivore Market to thrive as well and the 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where they were before they started feeding them cooked meat they um it took four generations before they got back and they br back so there are multigenerational epigenetic effects but every generation was bigger and bigger and bigger so yeah you absolutely could have a kid over six feet tall it will almost it will be certainly taller than both of you um but may not get over six feet tall but I me know look at look at these little um you know wizened Chinese people that were you know live through the the F you know the m famines and things like that and uh you know while they're developing and they're just you know five foot tall tiny little thing and and then they come to America or you know other another Western Country and they have access to food and meat and like oh thank God and their kids get you know everything that they need and you have this six foot4 kid I mean I had I played rugby with a kid uh that was in that that state he was 6'4 you know well muscle he was like in a body building in in high school um and uh his uh parents were tiny just tiny little things you know and so uh yeah I can definitely I don't know if they'll get over six feet tall but I'm I'm very very confident that they'll be taller than you anyway probably significantly taller and probably well over six feet yeah um and if he's carnivore his whole life and he gets a wife that's carnivore for a lot of her life hopefully most of her life or all of her life that could happen happen now um in the future their kids will be even taller and their kids will be even taller you know but both mom and dad play a role in that um but yeah you definitely very good likelihood of being over six feet tall um okay here's a question from um Dr uh fenan zapar or fan pazar Pazer sorry buddy I think I butchered that um but welcome um he says I am a pediatrician who had diabetes Now with normal hemoglobin A1c after four months on a carnivore I feel amazing and I'm trying to decide how to let this knowledge affect my pediatric practice well I'm really glad that you're doing so much better that that's amazing and and I I think it's um really great that you're thinking about how this can affect your practice because of course this is going to make a massive difference in the lives of your patients um look into the the studies and the work on just ketogenic diets in general so carnivore diet is a ketogenic diet since I've heard it termed a plant-free ketogenic diet and uh but there are literally thousands of high quality studies on high fat meat-based ketogenic diet showing you know explicit benefits for many major medical issues I mean diabetes I that's that's in the guidelines now for in Australia of um using ketogenic diet to treat diabetes so that that's actually standard of care um and in fact it got upgraded to best practice this year and um because it works you know and so you know look you know immerse yourself in in that literature and um you go to uh the Youtube channel low carb down under where I have a few talks on um they have amazing amazing lectures it's it's a medical conference you know it's it's it's you know CME CPD medical conference here in Australia and um they have you know some really really amazing people you know talking at these things and um I'm not just saying that because I was I've spoken there I'm I'm the least of all of these uh videos I've got a couple good ones you know my plants are trying to kill you on that sort of went viral there but it's um they're they're amazing amazing amazing talks there and so just immerse yourself in that I mean there there's this whole world of medicine that that we just weren't taught in medical school or residency because there's no product at the end of it right you know so it's it doesn't get into the curriculum it's not you know there's no drug reps or anything like that coming around telling us how great ketogenic diets are for you know um you know uh for for childhood diabetes and things like that um you know because there's no there's no product right so you know only products have a marketing budget and so you know um we have to find this stuff ourselves but it is there it is absolutely there and um you looking at you know Dr Paul Mason has a ton of great talks there um there are cardiologists there there are cardi Thoracic Surgeons there are psychiatrists there are pediatricians there are many many many many many different you know Top Doctors um you know giving excellent uh lectures and um and there are plenty of studies available so this is evidence-based medicine it's just we have to go look for it it's not going to be spoonfed to us so think about that immerse yourself in in the literature and the data um and then you know you can talk I mean we've been using ketogenic diets you know for well over a century for epilepsy um in the late 1700s and 1800s and early 1900s the only treatment for type 1 and type two diabetes was a ketogenic diet that was the only thing that would keep people alive when they stopped making insulin and um and then we got insulin it was like okay no problem anymore you know we just forget about everything that we did for the last 150 years but that was the treatment for diabetes for 150 years was a ketogenic diet and you know fasting has been used u in in you know in medicinal uh context since you know going I mean there's records of it going back to like 500 BC you know so you know these are these are working on the same principles and also you know looking at you know childhood development I mean think about it you many studies are there showing that um if you disrupt the normal cholesterol metabolism of the brain um you'll get very serious neurological uh conditions and um and mdev of the brain like you need cholesterol for the brain and you know we're eating things that lower cholesterol and interrupt the normal cholesterol metabolism of the brain and so obviously that's going to be a big big deal when you're talking about a in the Pediatric population um you know kids need to be in ketosis you know because they need ketones across the bloodb brain barrier and reconstitute into fatty acids to build the physical structures of the brain also the neocortex and two-thirds of the brain optimally primarily run on ketones if you you know I mean we learn this in Biochemistry at least those of us who um you know had had the undergraduate degree and took took you know college level biochemistry that you know when you have ketones available even if you have an abundance of glucose your those parts of your brain will only run on the ketones it's only one those keton start dropping that you start replacing you know filling in the gaps with glucose and so it's very very important for a kid to be in into ketosis fetus is you know fetus is in ketosis in the womb and breastfeeding children are in ketosis because they need to be in ketosis and then we give them a bunch of sugary formula and nasty mushed peas with a ton of sugar and and it forces them out and they don't develop properly um you know we've seen the brain size uh in humans dropped precipitously at about 10,000 years ago dropped 11% for adult males dropped 17% for adult females and that's a developmental issue that didn't take hundreds of years or thousands of years that wasn't like a you know um you know an evolutionary process or anything like that that's a developmental delay and we saw this in real time with the Native Americans Australians they shrunk and their health got seriously affected um I don't know if they've ever done um you know you know head circumference and you know calculating that but you know if you look at the skulls of pre and post agricultural humans massive difference massive difference that's a developmental issue and so part of that is that you're not in ketosis and you're not getting the right nutrients up to the brain so we have all that information like we know that that happens and of course that's that's the most important in a pediatric population if you have kids with autoimmune issues they're getting rashes they're getting sick all the time you know God forbid they're getting diabetes you know these These are interventions that are that are very important to think about and uh and you talk to the parents about it you get informed consent say listen you know this is this is something you know that that could help you know and then and uh this could help in these conditions and X Y and Z and you know it's not going to hurt them meat's not going to hurt anyone and um eliminating out carbs and being ketosis certainly won't hurt them because kids are supposed to be in ketosis so the brains can grow and you're not missing anything by cutting out vegetables in fact you're gaining a lot by cutting out vegetables you're getting rid of these anti- nutrients that block out the absorption of um of the nutrients even in meat you're stopping the digestion you're blocking protease and lipase and stopping your body from breaking down the nutrients that you need fiber will bind to bile and eliminate that so you can't absorb the amount of fat that you need and your brain needs and so on and so on and so on so you know then you can start you know once you get confident enough that this is not going to hurt anyone first Do no harm meat does not do harm um and uh you know and you and you've seen the data in the literature and on ketogenic diets carnivore diet is a ketogenic diet it's a plant-free ketogenic diet which has that next layer of benefit because now you're getting rid of these toxins and these antinutrients and even fiber it's an antinutrient IT blocks out 30% absorption or up to 30% of the absorption of the food that you're eating so that's fine if you're eating garbage you know and you and you don't absorb 30% of the garbage but what if you're not eating garbage well then you're blocking out 30% absorption of things that are good and so you know once you understand that and and you sort of and and you really you've seen it in yourself but now you look into the literature and um once you're confident enough and you start talking to patients about it you will see results like you've never seen before in your entire life and you know that's why I I have I use diet and lifestyle as a as a major part of my practice because it works you know and we have medicines that can fill in the gaps but so many things just go away and stop being a problem long before you you ever get to medications and so you know I I still will prescribe things for people but I the amount that I have to do it's it's it's vanishingly small compared to what um you know people would normally have to do or what you know I would have done historically L you know because you're just like oh here's this problem here's this pill that's how we're taught you know but now you change their diet and their lifestyle and all these things just improve improve improve and I always say like look I'd rather not do medications why don't we see how you go and they're feeling better and they're doing better and you're months on and you're seeing their blood work all improve and the blood pressure improve diabetes go away and their autoimmunity goes away like okay yeah we don't we don't even need to start medication you know someone's really bad then okay you you get them on the medication while they're transitioning but then you can deprescribe and so I think you'll find that once you are are confident enough to make that step you will you will see better results than You' ever seen in your entire in your entire career and that's really exciting you know because it's um it's pretty amazing and like my friend Dr Gary feky says once you see it you can't unsee it like you you know this is there and you you can't stop recommending this to people because you know it works and it works better than anything else we're doing so it's great to hear thank you for for um for sharing that and glad to have you on team carnivore and I'm really looking forward to hearing about your experiences uh with your patients in the future because I'm sure it'll be great um also I'm gonna have to we'll need to cut off um the super chats because um because I've only got about 20 minutes before my my inter my my next interview starts so I'll have to sort of do these as quickly as possible um but yeah can't won't be able to take any more Super chats um past the ones that are here um and if worse comes to worse we may have to save some of the super chats and then and then do them next time so nav thank you very much for the super chat um I eat when hungry on Carnivore as recommended by others for healing purposes I'm doing three meals uh because I'm usually hungry three times a day would it be problematic to do omad or Tad if I'm uh still healing no not necessarily as long as you're getting enough if you eat fatty meat until it stops tasting good that's key you want to get to the point that you have a bite that just sort of tastes like cardboard that's your body telling you yeah we don't need this anymore we're good um often people don't need to eat more than once or twice a day if your body really needs those nutrients and really wants to put on healthy lean body mass then it uh it may be that you need to eat more than that but maybe not so just just listen to your body if you want to you know try just eating one big meal a day you just need to make sure you're eating enough because it's it's a lot it's a lot easier to undereat on a carnivore diet than overeat on a carnivore diet because at a certain point it stops tasting good and you just really don't enjoy it and you're having like force feed yourself okay don't do that you know just eat as it's enjoyable and let your body um tell you what to do and if you're only eating meat and only drinking water you can actually listen to that as long as you're on you know medications like cortical steroids and things like that that um that uh uh will will screw with your your hunger signals or dairy dairy will will make you feel like you're hungrier than you are and cause you to overeat so you know just avoid those things just meat and water and you should be fine um just really quickly um from MAA Blondie are any good carnivore bars available in Australia well the carnivore bar isn't but um looking in with um about seeing if we can get that distributed here in Australia um and there are a couple other meat bars um I know that the chief bar they're making a carnivore version of the chief bar that doesn't have any spices or seasonings or anything like that and I think it's going to be out now or if not then soon so that that's that's an option as well um but I'm trying to see if we can get the carnivore bar and other sort of options here in Australia as well but that's a work in progress uh nav thank you very much for the chat again that's very kind of you uh primary care provider said he won't order certain blood work tests when I asked for it uh for things like fasting insulin and more which were recommended by you and others because insurance won't approve it annoyed me how do I get around this um you look that that that actually is the thing you know some of these things you you might just have to pay for out of your own pocket you know if the insurance won't pay for it then um then they won't pay for it you know and um but it can still be it can still be useful you know you you want to have that on the on the lower end um and uh and if you have just massively elevated insulin you show that you have insulin resistance um you know that that can be a good piece of information you leptin is another one leptin takes a lot longer to normalize than insulin does but you know at the end of the day if you're on a ketogenic carnivore diet so a plant-free ketogenic diet your insulin is g to come down and so it's it's it's a good tool um to assess people that are eating any old which way and and then you can use that and say look L listen you're massively insulin resistant this causes a lot of problems because insulin affects over you know 100 different processes in your body and this is this is a big deal we need to get this down the only way to get it down is a ketogenic diet um and so you know that that's what that's used for you know but if you're already doing the intervention your insulin is going to be normal eventually anyway and usually usually well it usually takes a few months for people that are that are insulin resistant if people are exquisitly insulin resistant you know it could takes several months but it will come down and um so you I don't think you you absolutely have to have a fasting insulin test it's a good piece of information and it's also very reassuring because you look at this okay my insulin is 36 and now you know six months later it's five okay well that's great you know it's a proof of concept that this is actually working but you're going to you're going to get down to a good healthy level eventually anyway so it just depends you know if if if you want it for a reassurance and just to be able to track things you know then you know paying for it out of pocket might be worth it probably not that much you know 102 bucks maybe I I don't know maybe not even that much um and um you can check your lepin while you're at it and you have lepin resistance it's very difficult to lose weight typically but you know you don't strictly need it is as long as you don't need it for motivation to stay on track if you're just happy to just keep going with it they're all going to come down and normalize anyway if you want to see that in real time then you may need to pay for it out of pocket because yeah the insurance may not cover it which is stupid because you know fasting insulin is is way more important than um just blood sugar alone because your blood sugar can be completely normal but your but you can have insulin resistance and fasting insulin be elevated for 101 15 years before your blood sugar ever comes up so it's you know it's it's catching it early a lot earlier you're catching diabetes a lot earlier and I would consider that really pre-diabetes and then diabetes is when your blood sugar starts coming up but they call that pre-diabetes and then when it's floridly elevated then you get full diabetes I think that that's not quite right but that is what what it's termed as um but you know it is important to check fasting uh insulin even if you're you have normal blood sugar right but if you're on a ketogenic diet it's going to get better anyway if you're on a ketogenic carnivore diet it's going to get even better even faster and so you know um I wouldn't worry about it too much but if you want it for your own reassurance then um you know I would look into um you know private testing centers that you can pay to get whatever test you want uh Christy Chris thank you very much for the super chat um total cholesterol 211 HDL 42 triglycerides 156 LDL 139 um should I be concerned uh doctor is hounding me about a stattin well you know there are over 100 different particulates of LDL and um you know even the ones that are damaged sdldl the damaged glycated oxidized ones that you know could cause an issue maybe or they could be in indicating that there is damage going on in your body that is damaging the the LDL and also damaging other things that could precipitate atherosclerotic plaques I think it's probably the latter that that the sdldl doesn't cause anything that it's just um you know it's it's a symptom it's not the disease it's the smoke it's not the fire it's a sign that something's going wrong but it's not the cause of it going wrong if that makes sense also if you have all this sdldl and and damaged particulates statins don't reduce those statins prevent your body from making the large buoyant healthy LDL molecules in the first place so you know is that really is that really of benefit um I don't think that that it is it's also treating a a problem that doesn't it hasn't never been proven to exist because we've never proven that there's a cause and effect relationship between any form of LDL or apob or total cholesterol or anything else and cardiovascular disease in fact the only experimental Studies have ever been done on the subject have shown the opposite I've shown that um you improve um you improve patient Health um well you get improved outcomes with higher animal fat and cholesterol and um and so when they lower saturated fat or lower animal fat replacing with unsaturated vegetable oils lower LDL cholesterol in three of these studies that conferred no benefit to cardiovascular disease and then the two larger um better design studies actually lowering um fatty or animal fat and cholesterol actually caused more heart attacks and strokes and more deaths from heart attacks and strokes so it's it's treating a problem that doesn't exist um I wouldn't worry about your LDL typically you know population studies show that the higher your LDL and total cholesterol the higher um your life life expectancy is um there are also a lot of um you know there's a lot of suggestions that you know if you have cholesterol under 200 you know you actually are are worse off you're more susceptible infectious diseases cancers other sorts of uh very serious issues you know higher LDL um is associated with lower rates of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's and dementia um it's also associated with lower rates of heart attacks and strokes in fact um it's just that you know they try to sort of hide that and um or lie about it and change the data around like they did with Framingham study they misrepresented the data from the Framingham study American Heart Association misrepresented it and said that you know higher cholesterol equals higher cardiovascular disease mortality in fact it was a lower cholesterol correlated with higher cardiovascular disease mortality rates so you know that was a lie um you know as you go it looks like you're probably early on in a in a well I'm assuming you're on a carnivore diet or while El are you here um you know asking me but um if you're not on a carnor d you should be and what that will do is it will raise your LDL your HDL and it will continue to lower your triglycerides and then you'll get that ratio of HDL to triglycerides will be more favorable so you you want you don't want more than double your trig double your HDL in triglycerides and and eventually if you stay on a ketogenic carnivore diet um your HDL will Eclipse your triglycerides you actually have higher levels of HDL then triglyceride and being extremely low risk of of heart disease um regardless of what your LDL is so yeah so good luck with that um but um no I don't I don't get concerned over that you know my my main thing would be your HDL and triglycerides I want to see your triglycerides down further and your HDL up more and and being on a you know ketogenic carnivore diet it will uh okay Steve large thank you very much for the Super Chat carnivore 285 days uh one meal a day and loving it how can I find uh the right fat balance without overdoing it because that's a mistake I don't want to make again thanks Doc yeah I mean just just small minor changes you know make sure you're not drinking coffee tea taking magnesium artificial sweeteners or things like metformin um or can all cause a laxative effect and so it's more dramatic when you're not eating fiber because fiber actually slows things down it does not speed things up and so if you eat you know really overdo it on the fat you're going to get explosive diarrhea so don't do that just just slowly increasing amount of fat but the thing is is if you know if you're not taking any of those things and you're only eating fatty meat and only drinking water you know if you're if you're eating enough fat you'll have soft stools if you're not eating enough fat you'll get hard stools okay so if you're getting hard stools just slowly you know just marginally increase the amount of fat until you start getting soft stools and then keep it there um you sort of you through taste you know people can start figuring out uh how much is right for them and they start you know coordinating that with their stools um Dairy can be very constipa constipa and so and other things can be have have more of a laxative effect so you know you just have to you have to balance these things out but if you just meet in water no dairy or coffee or tea or anything else um then just you know go buy your stools and if you're having soft stools you're done you're there it's all right you increase the fat a little bit it starts getting a bit loose okay pull back a bit you know if you have big changes then you'll get you know big changes in the amount of fat that you're eating you can get you know big changes in your bowel motions but um you know if you do it slowly you should be fine uh Mitch thank you very much for the super chat um my brother has developed immunity problems from beasting have you heard of this is a carnivore good well I mean I I'm assuming what you're meaning is is like like a hyper sensitivity uh reaction to beas thingss like they're allergic to beas thingss um which of course is very dangerous I I don't know if a cornivore die is going to help that I mean you know people have self-reported I mean I've certainly noticed myself that you know like my asthma and my reactive sort of asthma and um Allergies have got a lot better um but that doesn't mean that um you know if you have a like an allergy to a beasting that you know you shouldn't still walk around with an epip pen um so you know I can't tell you one way or the other unfortunately I I don't I don't uh I I don't know anybody who has uh you recovered from like a severe anaphylactic sort of allergy to something on a carnivore D doesn't mean that they haven't but you know most times when people have a severe anaphylactic reaction to something even when they go carnivore even if it did help it they're they're not going to just go out and test it just to see because that's a bit foolhardy um you know so it would have to be sort of a an incidental like oh my God I got sung by a bean they look at that it's fine but I don't know about that either I haven't I haven't come across anybody like that so you know hopefully this I mean this helps modulate you know people immune systems a lot better um it could very well be that it helps with these hypers sensitivities I mean these hypers sensitivities you know peut allergies and food allergies and things like that have just gotten worse and worse uh in in recent decades and that could very well be part of this whole you know chronic disease pandemic that's afflicting the world that is ultimately almost exclusively related to what we're eating or not eating so it could very well but I I don't actually know one way or the other but um you know still be careful be cautious and but hopefully doesn't have any problem if he ever gets stung by a b again good luck James Joseph Finn thank you very much for the Super Chat uh greetings doc thank you for all you do any idea why I have a wicked leg cramps without supplementing uh with magnesium eating nothing but beef eggs and butter it's almost always dehydration um you can check your magnesium but check your urethra site levels your RBC red blood cell levels of magnesium that's really the only one that's accurate um whenever I whenever a lab does a s normal magnesium it doesn't do the Red Cell magnesium but then they'll they'll come back and do both because they you know they they saw the the request uh better um it it may align but often it doesn't so um magnesium works in the cells and so getting serum levels of magnesium it's really not helpful um but it's almost always dehydration it could be magnesium but just check check your magnesium you know and if you're supplementing with magnesium and that's helping it okay but are you drinking a lot of water with that magnesium maybe so try upping your water see what that does check your magnesium if your magnesium is very low you know on your RBC levels of of magnesium okay well then you just need to you need to you know get higher density you know nutritions you need add some you know liver organs things like that are going to have you know plenty of these these micronutrients um and you could very well benefit from uh you know supplementing with magnesium it can take months months and months to get your magnesium up to good levels um when you're really deficient uh and if you're drinking coffee or tea or anything like that that will strip out magnesium out of your body caffeine alone will strip magnesium out of your body and it will certainly block you from absorbing it so when people take magnesium or or medications or other supplements and they drink coffee or tea around the same time they don't absorb hardly any of it and so you know it's um you know something you need to be you know very very uh strict with and it sounds like you are you eating just beef eggs and butter but some people say I'm only eating beef eggs and butter and I and and they say do you drink coffee oh well I drink I do drink coffee so you know you always have to ask um so any sort of coffee tea anything like that anything with caffeine as well cut it out and that doesn't mean the decaf is any better because it will still block out and strip out zinc magnesium and other nutrients um but the caffeine alone will do it so caffeine tablets you know will still cause a problem with magnesium um so just cut all that out drink a lot more water and see how you go and if you need to take magnesium for a while it may take a couple months to get your your levels up um but you shouldn't have to Forever MAV demon thank you very much for the super chat or Diamond can carnivore help with an ininal hernia um ininal hernia is is a structural defect and so it's you know it's it's not very likely that that's going to sort of close that defect and I mean i' I've never seen it I I would doubt that it ever would you know never say never but um I no I don't think so um it can help with the pain you know and um sometimes those those can be pretty painful um but no almost certainly you'll need to to get surgery for that if you want to get that repaired um but carnivore diet is going to help you be as healthy as you can with an inguinal hernia and it will certainly help you recover uh from the surgery much much much uh more easily because even just higher protein diets adding in more protein in the diet that all been long shown to improve uh surgical recovery healing wound healing things like that so you know being carnivore while you go through surgery like that is uh is um going to help you as well but no I don't think it's going to it's not going to repair like a physical defect like a like an inguinal hernia some things it can heal I mean a lot of people have found that their joint pains and things like that are a lot better but is that because the cartilage is regrowing probably not it's because the expression of pain is going down because the inflammation is coming down so you know but a lot of people do heal especially neurological issues you know people have gotten more strength poststroke even years down the line by going on a ketogenic carnivore diet like Dave Mack he recovered from a stroke 30 years ago you he had stroke 30 years ago and then you know 30 years later goes carnivore and in a few months his neurological issues um improve dramatically um but no I don't think it's gonna it's going to um get rid of an U hernia I think you'll have to have to get surgery if you want to get that fixed and do be careful because if those get incarcerated you get like Hern that pops out and it gets stuck and you can't push it back down it can cut off the blood supply and it can actually kill that Loop of Balor or whatever came through and that's an emergency you know then you're then you're in a lot of trouble and um and that's you know that that's life-threatening you know so you know work with your doctor work with your medical team to um you know to understand you know what the risk factors are and and and the warning signs to look out for basically if it gets stuck and it really hurts you need to go and you're not able to to to push it down in uh you need to go see a doctor ASAP and get them to look at it and um but yeah we work with your doctor on you know what and if surgery would be appropriate and good luck with that okay low carb low drama we'll we'll end here with you thank you so much for a very generous Super Chat that's very kind of you hi Dr chaffy a close acquaintance has been diagnosed with leukemia I'm very sorry to hear that her prognosis is three months Jesus okay um your thoughts on whether a ketogenic carnivore diet would be beneficial in this liquid cancer like with solid cancers thank you for all that you do yeah I absolutely do um cancer is a really really nasty illness and and even if we do everything that we know that is is beneficial so we're doing you know ketogenic we're staying away from different things that can you know feed the cancers we're limiting glutamine or even interrupting glutamine with different you know chemotherapy agents or Med or medications um and we're using chemo and radiation all these sorts of things people still die um it's a very serious illness since you know things have gone you know seriously wrong previously to then culminate into cancer and and once you have cancer it's there's you know it's a very difficult situation to get away from you know it's not just like oh this is what it is and you just snap your fingers and it goes away uh we're not there yet maybe in the future but we're certainly not there yet and um but no I I 100% think that a ketogenic carnivore diet would help because you know it's it's still a cancer cell and those cancer cells still re ire 400 times the amount of glucose that other cells do and so you know I I've heard someone say that before that that liquid cancers you know in the blood don't act the same as a solid tumor like why would that be the case I mean they still require the same amount of energy and um and also it is a solid T that tumor that sort of disseminates because you know they have problems in your bone marrow you're producing cancer cells in your bone marrow and you're just pumping out you know these little damaged cancer cells that are that are going everywhere but it's starting in your bone marrow right because that's what's generating those cells in the first place so it actually is a solid tumor that's just basically fantastici vising like hell all the time and um so it's the same principles you know these these cells still require 400 times the amount of glucose they need a certain amount of glutamine and they will respond in various ways to chemotherapy and radiation um there's bone marrow transplants you know I mean that's um you know I don't know why that's not an option you know you have someone who's 3 months they'll be high on the list for getting a bone marrow transplant um and you know they they might be able to find like a relative that that would be an adequate donor I mean that's that's a that's a you know that's a cure you know for leukemia but in the mean time she can go on a on a carn a ketogenic carnivore diet and I do think that will help her it'll make her healthier in a lot of ways at least just get her basic nutrition you know something that she needs you know and uh and get rid of all these things that can hold her back and then being in ketosis that helps while you're going through Chone radiation it can help sensitize the cancer cells to Chone radiation and helps protect your cells your healthy cells from chemo and radiation so obviously a very good thing and then of course you're limiting the amount of energy available to those cells and so they tend to die out um or at Le least have more of a difficult time reproducing I 100% think that this is something that would would help I don't know how much it will help but um I you know strongly feel that this is something that's worth trying it's not going to cause harm first Do no harm meat's not going to cause harm being ketosis is not going to cause harm um not even not eating things that are poisonous and harmful to you certainly not going to cause harm AKA plants um and being in ketosis you know is going going to limit the amount of energy available protect the body in a number of different ways and so I think it's well worth trying I can't tell you how much it's going to help but I can I can confidently say it won't hurt and uh will should help for all of those different reasons there are very very good reasons why it would help and no reason why it would hurt and so you know why the hell not um Good Luck to her I hope that that she does well I hope that she does at least give it a try and um and see how it goes because I think it would really help her and and hopefully it helps enough and at least give her a lot more time than just three months because that's that's very you know that's very dire and you know at the very least maybe it can give her few more months few more years with her family you know may maybe not though just have to see there are people that have put their cancers into remission doing this as as an adjunct to their standard of care you know so even better you know hope that is the case there are a lot of factors that go into this a lot of factors that that go into this and so you know we just have to see it's just one of those things you just have to try it and see uh but I think it's it's well worth to try and uh good luck to her please do let me know um if she ends up giving it a try and how she does um so I'd be very very interested in that okay um thanks everybody I um an hour goes really quick I'm just so usually these like three- hour marathon things that I you know an hour is just like doesn't seem like that long um but it has been um over an hour so uh I'll need to to go at this point um because I've got another meeting starting uh six minutes ago so uh unfortunately I have to head off but I'll try to do this again be back again on I think in two days time I'll have to double check but I think I think we'll be able to come back in two days time and um and we'll see how things work I may I may switch to just doing one uh big uh YouTube live uh once a week and maybe try to stick one in here and there but um um or at least keep it at at least one a week um going forward and uh but it may be my Friday America's Thursday um because I'll have some some more work stuff on on Wednesdays for me but we'll see how it goes I'll let you guys all know and thank you all for showing up really appreciate it thank you all for questions and I will see you next time chemical imbalance in the brain well maybe but why is it there in the first place you know answer that you know well it's genetic well no because they weren't born with it you know they they it they developed it over time and so and and even with genetic issues when you have these concordance studies with uh Iden IAL Twins and