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Look, imagine that, a year has passed, a real year. This video is coming out on Sunday, and the one-year mark of me being on Carnivore was three days ago, on Friday or Saturday. I want to share my entire journey, a kind of ultimate
A year-long carnivore diet journey with insights, challenges, and lessons learned from weight loss to gym performance.
Key Takeaways
- Carnivore diet can lead to significant weight loss and improved satiety.
- Transitioning requires patience, especially for fat adaptation and energy recovery.
- Strict calorie counting and bodybuilding diets may not be sustainable or healthy for everyone.
- Eating fatty cuts of meat and eggs is foundational for carnivore success.
- Mental health benefits and gut health improvements are notable but take time.
What the video covers
- The creator shares a full year of experience on the carnivore diet, including pros, cons, mistakes, and discoveries.
- Initial motivation was weight loss after struggling with obesity and trying keto and strict calorie diets.
- Supported his wife on a strict keto diet for surgery prep, which inspired further exploration of low-carb eating.
- Tried bodybuilding diet with high carbs and lean protein but found it unsustainable and unhealthy.
- Started carnivore diet on November 7, 2023, inspired by Andrey Blok’s videos, focusing on fatty meats and eggs.
- Experienced initial challenges like meat odor and low gym strength, but found steak and eggs very satiating.
- Discussed the importance of fat adaptation beyond ketosis and the patience required during transition.
- Shared insights on traditional carnivore practices, nutrient absorption, and avoiding overly cooked meat.
- Mentioned the role of carnivore diet in mental health improvements and managing anxiety or depression.
- Provided practical advice on what to eat and how to gradually start the carnivore diet.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction and Initial Weight Loss Attempts
- 04:32Supporting Wife’s Keto Diet and Early Weight Loss Success
- 09:09Starting Carnivore Diet and Early Challenges
- 13:19Fat Adaptation and Ketosis Explained
- 19:59Cooking Practices and Meat Preparation
- 21:41Traditional Carnivore Perspectives and Ancestral Diets
- 26:49Carbohydrate Intake and Ketosis Flexibility
- 36:13Practical Advice on Carnivore Diet Foods
- 47:06Mental Health and Long-Term Benefits
- 57:28Summary and Final Thoughts
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review with the pros, cons, mistakes, and discoveries. I think this video will be useful for beginner carnivores, those already doing it, and even those who are pros might discover something too. I’ll start from a little further back, before carnivore, I had a problem
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where I got super fat and let myself go. Well, you know, my photos, right, they’ll be here now.
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A carb-loaded dumpling to the max. And that’s when the thought crept into my head: "Man, I really need to lose weight somehow." That was my primary goal. I didn't know anything about diets back then. That was my first
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experience. Somewhere in September 2022, I just typed into the internet, you know, "how to lose weight." The first thing I happened to come across was the keto diet. I decided: "Well, I’ll take a quick look and see what that is.
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" It turned out to be something like: "Don't eat carbs or eat them minimally." I tried eating like that, but without overthinking it, for about a week, you know, just eating the main dish—like fish or meat—and just not having
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buckwheat or preparing sides like that. Yeah. But I didn't really worry about it too much. And since it was only a week, I didn't feel anything. Yeah. And then I gave up on it again. But then in '23, at the beginning of 2023, my wife
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had a bit of a health scare, and she needed to lose a lot of weight in a short time for a serious surgery. Her doctor prescribed a specific diet, where a menu was laid out for every day for two weeks. Yeah. And she started
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following it. And I said: "Let me support you, otherwise, you know, if I eat something else, you’ll have temptations." "Let's do it." And I was curious to see what it was about too.
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Looking back, I realize now it was essentially a keto diet, but one I call "Starving Marvin." You're constantly hungry, because on a normal keto diet you eat as much as you want, but here, specifically to lose weight quickly, it
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was very strict. You only eat twice a day and very, very little. Well, I started to support her. Also eating those first few days. It was [ __ ] difficult. You just, you know, eat like that and watch all those food videos on
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YouTube. Yeah. Yeah. It was really hard, hard, hard. But at the same time, I started weighing myself every day. And what really motivated me, which doesn't motivate many people by the way, is that they start these diets where you
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count calories, like eat whatever you want, but within your calories, and they don't really lose weight, so they lose motivation fast. But here I was like: "Day one, minus 2 kg." Well, that’s water weight, I didn’t know that back then. The water just drained
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away. And every single day, there wasn't a day during those two weeks when the scale didn't go down. 500 grams, 300 grams, a kilo. I don’t recommend this diet to anyone because it’s so extreme, but it worked. And
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in two, um, in two weeks I lost 10 kg. Wow. 10, 10 kg. And I thought: "I want to keep going for another 2 weeks and try it again." I tried it, but I was losing less.
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Maybe, over those 2 weeks, I lost 3 or 4 kg. Then I thought: "I want 2 more weeks," and in that month I lost another 10 kg. And I was like: "Man, this is cool, it actually works, but
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it's tough." Yes, my wife also lost weight for her surgery and so on. And I thought: "Man, I guess it doesn't work as complicatedly as, you know, people make it out to be." I hadn’t fully unlocked this knowledge back then, but
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I was already thinking about it. That’s also when I first heard about the carnivore diet. I thought, basically what I’m eating now, what the doctor prescribed, it was, you know, eggs, ah, salmon, some kind of fish, and beef. Basically, carnivore. The
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diet just sometimes allowed for a carrot or some broccoli, you know, and I thought: "Someday I’ll just give that a try." But then I went a little crazy and decided that the gym was cool.
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I went to the gym, and started eating like all those bodybuilders, that diet that absolutely kills your body. Rice, buckwheat, chicken breast without any fat, you know, those salads.
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And a whole lot of it. And yes, yes, constantly. You feel like you've eaten enough for the whole day, but you still have to hit your calorie goal to gain any mass. Back then I was counting calories and weighing my food.
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So, the only upside to this was that I finally figured out calories and how many are in which foods. And this went on for a while—I started in the middle of summer 2023, and it lasted until November. And in November, on the
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7th, my anniversary, I suddenly thought: "That's it, tomorrow I'm just going to try carnivore." What would happen?
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While still keeping up with the gym. Oh, and by the way, do you know who it was that made me decide, "That's it, I'm starting tomorrow"? I had just watched Andrey Blok’s videos before bed and thought, "Man, he makes a good
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point." I had looked into carnivore a bit before him, but, you know, he really makes it sound convincing. I thought, "That's it, it's time." This is a sign. So, shoutout to Blok, my brother. I'll tell you later how he
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helped me out. And so I started eating that way. What did I eat? At first, I just bought steaks and ribeyes from Remas. They’re the fattiest ones, basically.
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Remas is our local supermarket, like a corner store, for those watching from abroad. Yeah, a local grocery store where you can get everything. I ate those and eggs. I was eating about 15 eggs a day, yolks and whites. I didn't know much
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about yolks back then. We'll get into that later. I ate pork belly slices, but not the packaged kind with dextrose, just raw cut ones. I'd fry them up and eat them. Yeah. And for the first few days—I'm just sharing my honest
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experience—I smelled so much like meat. I Googled it, and some people get this, what was it called? Protein smell or meat smell. It isn't scientifically explained, but many people have reported having it. I honestly smelled like meat; my skin felt like it was
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coated in fat, even though I hadn't used anything, and I reeked of meat. Just sharing what happened. It was just in the first few days that my body smelled that way. Yeah.
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Yeah. It lasted for about 5 days. Okay, I kept going, hit the gym while doing it, but when I first started carnivore, I had zero strength. I’d show up, realize I was just kidding myself, and leave because I couldn't
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lift the weights I could on carbs. But I kept eating that way anyway. But at the same time, what was one of the first interesting things for me, was that I was eating steak and eggs in the morning. At first, of course, it seemed
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unusual to me; what about oatmeal, a little banana, some carbs? But I was surprised that this steak and eggs lasted me, well, for about six hours. I really didn't want to eat. And at first, I wasn't going to the gym. I
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really had no energy, because I realized later that you have to enter ketosis first, but that's not even the main thing, you need to become fat-adapted. I'll talk about that a little bit later. You enter ketosis faster than fat adaptation, but
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there’s really no point in just being in ketosis. And those first few weeks, at one point I even posted, because I had an incident where I was walking, and suddenly I felt, you know, my heart wasn't hurting or racing, but I had
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this heaviness here. I got a bit scared, and I told my followers: "Guys, I'm going to try eating a few carbs just to rule out the worst-case scenarios." If it’s actually from a lack of carbs, then I’ll know. I ate a little bit of
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rice, and it went away immediately. Yeah, I thought, "Ah, okay, I just need to be patient." So I was patient. It took about a month or so. And after a month, that awesome state—any carnivore or keto fan will tell you—when ketosis
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kicks in, not even fat adaptation yet, just ketosis, when you start fueling with ke...
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So, I started training again. I kept eating about two, maybe three, or maybe four 200-gram steaks. Then I discovered the Hereford shop. This is not an ad.
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Everything in this episode, by the way, is not a paid advertisement. I'm just honestly sharing where I bought things.
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Maybe it'll be useful for those in Riga . And those in other countries might find something similar. At Hereford, I found fattier meat. Yes, it certainly is. It's better to eat grass-fed and grass-finished, because many cows are grass-fed but finished on grains, not
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grass. Yeah. But they were grain-finished, so there was a bit more fat and omega-6s, but they keep you fuller for longer. So I started eating those too. I absolutely loved it. I was like, "Wow!""This is an amazing concept
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." Immediately had way more energy. Back then, I wasn't eating organ meats yet, by the way—we’ll talk about that too. And that was it, I was able to go to the gym again, continuing without any carbs or anything. Also, a
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quick side note. I hadn't given up coffee yet at that time. That’s not exactly strict carnivore. All you carnivores who drink coffee, it means you're still not getting enough energy from your diet. Let’s admit it honestly. And I admit it based on my
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own experience. I’ll explain later. How I eventually got off coffee and what that was like.
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Well, yeah, you know, but the viewers don't know yet. So I was like, "Wow, this is a cool diet." The first thing I felt—my own personal discoveries—I don't mean I was the first to discover them, but for myself, you know, it’s
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one thing to hear it from someone else, but another to feel it in your own body —my stomach doesn't bloat at all. I mean, I thought, "Holy crap, was that even an option?" Before, I had that association, just like many of us. You
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eat, you get bloated, you feel heavy, you know, you need a nap or something.
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That carb coma—on Carnivore, all of that disappeared. All the gas went away ; you don't fart at all. No belching either. So, the GI tract really does recover. I’m speaking from my own experience. Other carnivores will confirm this too. But I was never
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interested in other people's opinions. What if they’re lying, you know? Yeah. But I verified it on myself. I was like, "First discovery: you don't poop as often as you do with fiber, because fiber is the indigestible part of a plant." And so you feel like you
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have to poop huge amounts every single day. You spend 15 minutes on the toilet —first round, second, third. Everyone thinks that’s normal. You wipe your ass, there’s so much [ __ ]. My discovery was that on Carnivore, you
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poop, well, once every two days, every three days, sometimes once a day, depending on how much you eat. And it happens just like that. I go to the bathroom, wipe, and the paper is clean.
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I wiped out of pure habit. That was a discovery for me too. Nobody talks about this.
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Yes. Yes. That’s where I started. Thinking, " Damn, this is interesting." But these were just the initial, you know, those first effects. Time went by, New Year's arrived, and I kept eating 15 steaks and 10 eggs a day, with the whites,
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everything still fried. Everything still fried. I was still, you know, like any of us raised on the standard diet, scared of raw meat. I would cook it well, about 3 minutes on each side for a steak, and I fried the eggs too.
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So that’s how I ate. I added pork to the ground beef. I’ll explain later why that’s a bad idea. But at first, I was trying to add variety, you know, I even ate fish in the beginning. That lasted until about New Year's. And the
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longer I stayed on this diet, the more incredible I started to feel. You know, you wake up just like that, you're ready to go immediately. No need to shake off the grogginess. You know how many of us are—shower first, coffee
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—though I was still having coffee, we’ll talk about that later. But I already understood then that I could go without coffee, it’s just an addictive habit, you know, and you go to bed, fall asleep in 2 minutes, that’s it, you’re out. Then I
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noticed another interesting thing: on carnivore, without carbs, you sleep, and you need less time to feel rested.
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About five hours. Later, when I started talking to other guys, they confirmed it. I mean, we sleep, and doctors advise us to sleep 8-9 hours. That’s just, if you eat junk food, for all that sugar, you know, that poison to
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clear out, you have to sleep longer, you understand? That was interesting too. I discovered that too. I’m not saying I was the first to discover it.
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100%, well, everyone had discovered it before me, but I hadn’t read anything . I was like: "Here’s my experiment, yeah, my experiment after New Year's," so I had already been on carnivore through November, December, January, February, everything was going well.
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And somewhere closer to summer, closer to summer, like April, May, half a year had passed, and usually during this time, 3 or 4 months, some need 2, a person becomes fat-adapted. And that is a very important thing. Not all
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carnivores, by the way, understand this . They are all obsessed with it. I respect everyone. I don’t use the word "obsessed" as something negative.
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Just being in ketosis at any cost. But it turned out that being in ketosis is pointless until you are fat-adapted.
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What do I mean by that? When you're in ketosis, it means you're not getting glucose, and instead, you're getting fats. You have to eat a lot of fats.
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That’s why I ate ghee and butter. I never fried anything in vegetable oils. Well, all carnivores will confirm this.
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You shouldn't do that. I just, you know , ate that butter by the spoonful too.
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And about six months later, I really became, well, fat-adapted. You can just tell immediately by intuition, you know ? It’s a completely different state.
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And once you're fat-adapted—I’ll talk about this a bit later—you don’t necessarily need to be in ketosis all the time. I also want to mention something else. You, by the way , witnessed it once. I tore my ass about two times. And that was only at
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the beginning of my journey. I understood that you always need more fat than protein, but sometimes I would just forget and get less fat. Then I would go to the toilet. Damn, I literally tore my ass. Remember, when
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we met, I was walking like this, guys, let's not sit down. That happened. And that’s why I’m sharing this experience with the guys so you don’t make this mistake. You always need more fat so you don't tear your ass, because on our standard diet
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you’re all used to this artificial fiber that doesn't digest, and it helps your gut poop, but that’s not normal.
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It acts, you know, like a laxative, yeah, like medicine. Everyone understands that you shouldn't take medicine every day. Only in emergencies, like cats when they lick up all that fur, we’ve all seen it, even dogs sometimes eat grass to take a dump, but not every day
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. But for us, it's the main part of the diet. And so, at first, while your gut is used to fiber and then you remove it , you absolutely need a lot of fat, because intestinal secretion works by
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nature on fat. And so I had a couple of times when I forgot to, like, add fat and I really tore my ass. That happened twice in the whole year.
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Tore my ass. You mean? It was just unpleasant to... Like, it's such constipation, you're pooping, but you're screaming, it's, well, it's painful as hell, you know, you're pooping for five minutes, because on carnivore you usually poop for 10 seconds,
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right? And that happened twice. I learned from those mistakes and didn't repeat them. And if anyone is watching us who might just be starting carnivore. Keep this in mind. You need more fat than protein . Absolutely, you will never get that
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from our standard meat. Therefore, you need to make up for it with either butter or ghee. That is what I recommend. And also fry food using these fats. Well, if you do fry food, we'll talk about that later too. These
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were my first, you know, attempts where there were some issues. But then it got very interesting. I had already fat-adapted based on how I felt, at least, yes. I would literally wake up like: "That's it, tons of energy." Well
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, you remember me and Logic, damn, that's it, let's go, let's do things. Well, you remember that energy, right?
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But I noticed something. In the gym. Back then I still believed in the gym, respecting Andrey Blok. I asked him this thing: "Listen, on Carnivore I go to the gym, but I'm not growing, because I get full faster than with
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carbs, because animal products are the best food in terms of nutrients, and you don't need much to get full." And I asked him: "What should I do?" He gave me some cool advice. Go less often, twice a week, and train to failure.
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Well, he wrote me a program. And here I truly give him respect, because it worked. I was the biggest I had ever been in my life. Specifically in terms of muscle. Later I will say why I eventually quit the gym. But respect to
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Blok, really. Wow. So what happened next? Around the summer, when about half a year had passed, April, May, I started noticing a strange thing: super-aggression. I mean, I was already eating meat, I had added liver, raw organs must be eaten, it's essential.
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Without them you'll feel like crap, I'll explain that too. But some kind of aggression started in me. Sometimes I just felt like, damn, I want to kill someone right now. If someone said the wrong thing right then. Even look at
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some of our episodes with Logic. You know which ones? Well, where I'm really angry and unreasonable. I would apologize later for being a jerk and so on. At first I didn't understand why that was. And do you know what it
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turned out to be? First, I checked it just as a pure experiment. I thought: " Okay, if I eat some carbs now, will something change or not?" And you remember, I even ate a Snickers, that absolute bottom-tier garbage, but for
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the sake of the experiment. And I would calm down. And then I thought: "Damn, this is weird stuff, it seems." We don't have essential carbohydrates, it's like we can live without them. But why this aggression? And then I
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discovered it, this was at the beginning of summer. And here I want to give a shout-out to Gatis and Vanderplast. If you know, you know.
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Thanks a lot, guys, seriously. It turns out that, you know, the carnivores, these traditional urban ones, they always reference the diet of our super-super ancestors. They also call themselves predators. Predator, lion diet. I eat store-bought steaks, salt them, lion.
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Uh-huh. And drink water. Strange stuff. I'll talk about that too. And then I realized, it turns out that in nature, and for a human, that should be our main criterion for healthy food, we need to see what a human eats in nature
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, not an urban one, but in nature. And I realized then, they don't eat dried store-bought meat like we do, and many even cook it to death, you know. Yes.
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And when you cook it like that, almost all the B vitamins evaporate, they're water-soluble. Some fat-soluble ones, D , E, K. I might be slightly off, but definitely D. And some amino acids break down too. So, you take 200g of
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meat, and if you fry it hard, you get way fewer nutrients, you see? And you have to eat more of that meat. And I thought, "Wow, humans in nature don't eat dried meat from stores or even markets, but fresh game, with blood,
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with fresh liver." And what is blood in an animal's muscles, just like in a human? It's glycogen stores. There is glucose in the liver. If we take even a domestic cow, not to mention some wild bull, which has an even larger liver, a
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cow's liver weighs about 3, maybe 4 kilos. Even if you don't eat that much because you'll share with your tribe, you'll consistently eat a kilogram.
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It's very valuable food. There's 2 kg there. From that, you'll actually get, and these are real facts, 50 to 100g of carbohydrates. That's even without plants, I mean, without getting them from fruits. Just natural food. Muscles with glycogen, fresh, not dried from
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the store. And I was like, "Wow, damn, maybe this is the answer." Maybe that's why, because when I tried Meduskuk, remember, I immediately became kind, but I knew that, well, I wouldn't stay on Meduskuk, it's still man-made harmful crap. And then this whole topic
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opened up for me, that in nature, a zero-carb diet simply doesn't exist. What many carnivores always refer to is that our ancestors, or even modern wild people, eat animals, there are no carbs there, but there are. It is in your
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city meat, and this is now called the " urban carnivore." No disrespect. I will clarify this. Everything is dried out there, and you really are missing carbohydrates. And that is why gluconeogenesis occurs in many people, when the liver produces glucose from
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protein. And depending on your genetics , you may actually never enter ketosis at all. It depends on the person. But when you get carbohydrates even from a freshly killed animal, from its glycogen, the liver, well, does not perform gluconeogenesis. So what is the
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point of gluconeogenesis? Besides many other hormones, cortisol is involved in the gluconeogenesis cycle—a so-called stress hormone, although there are no useless hormones in the body, it just responds to stress. Because of this, your stress levels rise, and you become
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angry. Not to mention that I was also drinking coffee. Coffee is always adrenaline, it's cortisol, you're always on edge, right?
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A slave-like, slave-like drink, pure narcotics. As long as you drink coffee, you are not actually fully carnivore.
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And I admit this for myself. I often see many popular carnivores write: "Yes , I ate meat and drank bulletproof coffee." This is a sti......of that same thing, well, butter, yes.
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You still drink coffee, you are always on cortisol. And this is the first signal, by the way, that your diet is lacking, meaning you don't have enough energy without a stimulant. It is also a plant, it is poison, it is a
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drug. So look, it turns out that if we drink coffee even on a carnivore diet, many of us still experience gluconeogenesis. Even if we have more fat than protein, for many people, the liver will genetically still perform gluconeogenesis. It’s just a matter
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of luck. They did research; you know, many people are obsessed, in a good way , with northern peoples. Like, look at the Chukchi or Inuit; they only have fatty food, no herbs, no berries. They are all in this, in ketosis. It sounds
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logical, but when I looked at the studies, guys actually researched them. It turned out that it’s not like that for everyone. They all eat the same food, but due to some, perhaps, genetic characteristics, many of them aren't even in ketosis. Many are in ketosis,
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but many are not. But they are still, they are still doing just fine. That is why I also came to the conclusion back then that this obsessive ketosis is something that we should probably ease up on a little bit. There’s a
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somewhat religious vibe, you know, that has emerged among carnivores. At the same time, I love carnivores. I’ll explain why later. They are deathly afraid of carbohydrates. Like, absolutely no carbs under any circumstances. Better to take 30 pharmacy supplements than any carbs.
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But why? The main thing is for us to eat as healthily as possible. And the only people on this planet who eat as healthily as possible are wild tribes.
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They live longer than us, better than us, and so on. When they start following our diet, they get our diseases, they need our medicine, and so on. And it turns out, even if they eat fatty, natural food, not everyone
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is in ketosis. And there is nothing wrong with that. My sister is on keto, and since she's a doctor, she was obsessed not just with guessing, but with actually testing to see if she was in ketosis. So, she’s in ketosis, and
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suddenly she goes to a friend’s birthday party and thinks, "I’ll have a piece of cake.""I’ll see what happens and measure it for real.""Am I in ketosis?" checking ketone bodies through blood. She ate it, and she didn't fall out of ketosis. So, every
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person has their own glucose threshold that will or will not kick them out of ketosis. Moreover, she thought, "Okay, I'll eat more carbs." She checked the results, she did fall out of ketosis, but then she checked again in the
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morning, and she was back in ketosis. Uh-huh. So, you don't need to, you know, pray to it so orthodoxically. Even a wild person—well, especially those closer to the equator, which isn't much of an example for us, but just for science.
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Sometimes they find honey, though it's not that often. They eat a hell of a lot of it. They fall out of ketosis, but since they are fat-adapted and the rest of their diet is still animal fat, they get back into it quickly. There is
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absolutely no problem with that whatsoever. That needs to be understood . I’m saying this not even for carnivore beginners, but for those who have been at it a bit longer and are too—well, religious—I don't really want to use that word. Just
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thoughtlessly, you know, "Ketosis is everything, no sugar whatsoever." That is, that is, that is not the most important thing. What you really need to understand is, of course, the city —I call it the "urban keto diet"— where there is no blood, where
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unfortunately many don't eat organs, and where many, at least from what I've seen in their videos, fry their meat to death. You know.
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Regarding organs, I've noticed that all predatory animals start eating their prey specifically from the belly, where the skin is thinnest. And the first things they eat are the organs, while the muscles—what we eat—are for later, as if the organs are the most
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valuable part to them. That's all they eat. The same applies to wild humans, by the way. When I researched them, I conducted a survey. Their favorite animal food—first place is brain, liver, and from the more carbohydrate-rich options, honey. They
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all obsess over it; it's very rare. And why not? A bull's liver, for example, weighs about 5–6 kilograms.
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If you eat it all at once—and in the wild, you would, although you’d share with your tribesmen—you don’t get to pick and choose like we city folk do , you know?
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Right? You can easily get 100 or 150 grams of carbohydrates, but you could still stay in ketosis. And there is nothing wrong with that. I’ve noticed that almost none of the carnivores talk about this.
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And I want to talk about it. We eat city meat, even dried-out muscles. In the wild, you kill a fresh animal. And it's not just the liver. The muscles will have blood, there will be glycogen . And all that is normal. It's
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absolutely normal. Just not in the quantities we get when we eat rice or buckwheat every day. You know, too many of these man-made carbohydrates. That needs to be understood. My guys from the chat think so too. The link will be
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in the description, by the way. Anyone who wants to, join my carnivore chat. They were testing this topic. Damn, I don't want to name names, of course. I don’t want to offend anyone, but for the sake of science, we must
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tell the truth. Let's go. There is this site—not a site, but a Telegram chat. A predator chat.
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Okay. Guys are seriously calling themselves predators there. They just...mention carbohydrates, and they immediately get triggered. Triggered right away.
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And my guys and I realized that you just haven't fully grasped that in nature, a truly zero-carb human diet doesn't actually exist. It doesn't exist at all. Even if you eat a fresh animal, there will be carbohydrates, not to mention that in season,
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especially near the equator, there will be more—even some fruits and berries, though rarely, and honey. And here in our latitudes, also just in season in the summer, my daughter and I would go, pick blueberries, and eat them—it was
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all okay. But we, well, meat is still the most important thing. And I also noticed that many of them don't eat organs either. They aren't getting all the nutrients, and the meat they cook is cooked to death. I’ve
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studied this issue. There is research on it. This isn't just my opinion, it's a real topic. The more you cook meat, especially well-done, almost all water-soluble vitamins disappear by 70% , 60%, or 50%. These are B-group vitamins, which are very important. B12
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, B6, B3; even fat-soluble vitamins like D, K, and E—there’s less of them. And that, well, it makes sense.
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You fry it, there's less fat, there's less of everything, you know? There are even fewer amino acids. That's why you need to eat so much of that dead, cooked meat to feel full. And then I thought: "Why don't I try eating raw
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meat?" I had never tried it before. Remember when we filmed that video? Yeah. I’m sure I didn't discover America, but simply I never copied anyone else. I just genuinely discovered it for myself. I was like: "Wow, you need less of it."
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Meaning, if before, cooked meat—even though I always fry it rare— it's seared on the outside, but raw on the inside. Still, you need more of that than raw meat to feel full. It’s even cost-effective, you know? Then I
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tried raw liver. I never eat it cooked anymore. Never, always raw. I also understood the idea behind raw egg yolks later, when I studied that raw egg whites contain anti-nutrients that protect the chick. But the yolk is the
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chick's food, that’s why it’s so delicious. If you really don't want to eat raw eggs, okay, fry the whites too.
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You'll destroy the anti-nutrients, but some water-soluble vitamins will vanish as well. But I suggest keeping the yolk as runny as possible, at least, because it's very tasty. Brain. Brain is an amazing thing. It tastes like egg yolk.
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Many people—I watched interviews with indigenous tribes—they eat it. Brain, because it's incredibly delicious and nutrient-dense, and very rare, just like blood. Right. And gradually I came to the conclusion that what is currently being promoted on social media by carnivores—no disrespect
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intended. Shout out to Block. Especially a shout out to Gatis. Shout out to Vanderplanck. Dr. Nikita Kharlov . If you want a doctor's perspective, check him out too. But apart from them, many people promote cooking meat to death. Sometimes they show what they
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are eating today. The meat is almost black. And it turns out that very often , in my opinion, even if you’re a carnivore...The urban carnivore diet, as I call it, is basically the best food available in the city, but it's
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not the end game. And even if you’re eating it, you’ll still be slowly decaying. Especially if you’re genetically predisposed to gluconeogenesis, your cortisol will always be high, especially with coffee.
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And I see everyone drinking coffee. That means something’s wrong with your diet, guys. You’re lacking something if you need that cortisol-adrenaline energy, which is, well, destroying you. It causes anxiety and wrecks your heart. Well, we know.
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So I arrived at this thought: hell, what if I eat raw meat, what would happen? Because I wanted to get rid of this, you know, anger inside me. I ate raw meat, though in the city, of course , it's bloodless. I started eating
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venison. Venison is, in principle, from what’s available in our latitudes, the closest thing to nature because it’s definitely not farmed, it definitely eats natural food, and it has a much better omega-3 to omega-6 ratio compared to a cow. Beef is great
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too, don’t get me wrong, but venison isn’t as fatty. I mean, you eat it and eat it, you get everything you need from it raw, but you’re never full.
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Ever heard of rabbit starvation? No. The guys who conquered the New World, they ate rabbits at first, but they were, you know, like......they were wimps and were like: "We don't eat organs, we don't eat eyes, we only eat
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the meat." The Indians told them right away: "No, no, no, you have to eat everything." They didn't listen to them , and they just ate that. I mean, they ate meat constantly and died of starvation. Because the rabbit is too
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lean, there’s not enough fat. To get full on it, you really have to eat the whole thing. And I’ve really noticed that many of these urban carnivores don’t eat, as recommended, from nose to tail. I'm just finishing up on
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Thursday. I’ll finally finish my first cow tomorrow, at long last. One cow a year. You see what I’m saying?
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Yeah. Exactly. And I really advise people, maybe it's just me being an idiot who feels some kind of aggression , but my boys went into all these carnivore chats and asked them simple questions. They really responded aggressively. Makes you want to tell
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them: "Well, just eat some carbs through blood or at least through the liver." We noticed that a lot. And I...
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You remember yourself how aggressive I was and how much progress there is now, Yes, much better, of course.
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My brother Vavan helped me with this. And I was eating raw liver all the time , every day. For some reason I thought, because I didn't have, well, a scale there. I lived with my mother, like, eh , I thought I was eating enough. And
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suddenly at one point he says: "Listen, brother, I eat just like you, let's weigh how much we are really eating." And we were eating maybe one piece like this, maybe two. He's like: "You need to eat at least 50 grams a day." And he
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says: "Listen, do you know that this piece only weighs 7 grams? So if you're even eating two, that's like 14." I'm like: "Brother, thank you." That's also cool when there is a community.
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You teach people something, and they do the same for you. And I've now really started eating 50 grams of liver. Moon, earth. Well, you see, even now you know , there's no aggression, none at all, but you remember, hell, how crazy I was
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. Moving on, I've said all that. What to eat? Many might say: "Tell me, I just started, what should I eat?" Look, guys, ruminant animals should be the foundation. In our latitudes, it's most common...Well, like Latvia, yeah, maybe
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Russia, well, not all of it, of course, Ukraine, Belarus, Estonia, Lithuania. Cows are the most common ruminants we have. Beef, but fatty cuts, ribeye, entrecôte, that's preferable, but you still won't reach your fat goals, so definitely add ghee, butter is a must.
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Next. For those who have lamb, basically any ruminant, goat, horse meat. My friend in the chat, he's from Kazakhstan, he's like: "I want to go all-in on horse meat, eat only horse." Let's see, we're waiting for a review.
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That's the first thing. But definitely, we guys have already really tested this . If you don't consume more fats than proteins during the day, there is a high chance you'll stay in gluconeogenesis, cortisol will rise, and you'll be angry. Pay attention to
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this. You can even bother for the first week, weigh things and actually count. I'm against it, of course, but until you understand, because it seems to many: "Well, I added two pieces of butter, it seems fine." It's not fine.
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I checked it later. More than that, it turns out it’s very important. You were talking about what to eat, about ruminants, and what else, what other products are best for carnivore?
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Ruminants must be the foundation of your diet, for sure. Yes, that’s first. Second. Eggs. A game changer, though you don’t always want them.
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Meat is necessary, yes, but eggs— especially the yolks, I realized that later, figured out that biotin and so on in the whites are anti-nutrients that prevent, or at least try to prevent, a predator from eating the chick. Therefore, if we eat raw eggs—
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and that’s the best raw food—the yolks are the best part. If we live in Latvia, we have cool labels for free-range eggs. Zeros.
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Zeros. Or ones at most. And now, by the way, I noticed the guys sent stuff from Rimi, Maxima, all across Lithuania and Estonia, they’ve decided to focus more on that. Maybe I had an influence, so damn, prices will go up now, damn it
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. I need to start saying "guys, vegetarianism, vegetarianism" again so it gets cheaper. Eggs are a really cool topic.
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You can add fish if you want, but there’s a problem with fish, you see.
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If you buy some salmon from the store, it’ll be farmed salmon, and it’s super toxic. If you have access to real wild-caught fish, you can have it occasionally. Chicken with skin is a must, not the breast, not that lean
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crap, right? But all this food is just a supplement. From my own experience, I’ve noticed it happens after about six months, maybe seven. You think: "I don't really want beef." It's as if your body has gotten all the nutrients
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and says: "No need for now." I’ve had that happen too. For example, I didn't eat beef at all for a week. Many people also love ground meat, but there’s a catch with ground meat. First off, it’s often made from animal scraps,
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you know, hooves, skin, and so on. That’s the first thing. And the second thing, which is even worse, is that they usually use a dairy cow for ground meat. And a cow is one that has given birth to a calf. And she was used
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to being milked her whole life. Because good meat, for steaks, usually comes from young steers, or slightly older steers. But a cow is milked for half her life, and she becomes exhausted.
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And the only thing you can make from her afterwards is ground meat. It will be cheaper, but keep that in mind sometimes. Sometimes I also like, very occasionally, ground turkey, yeah.
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I throw a bunch of eggs into a pan and eat my experience. Feel free to share your own experience in the comments, by the way.
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For me, it was a discovery this year. I started eating tartare actively. It's basically raw beef with an egg yolk.
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And you just make yourself a small portion. And somehow you get satisfied specifically by the raw yolk and the beef. It’s just wow. It’s something else. Not the same as having eggs and a steak. You get satisfied in a
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completely different way. It's cool that you said that. But I can’t agree based on my experience, because the tartare I’ve eaten is mostly muscle mass and doesn’t have that much fat.
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I can’t get full on it. I eat it sometimes, but you actually get full?
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Well, if you make a big portion with two yolks, I guess so, but I don’t sit down at the table super hungry, like dying to eat. I just think I want to eat, I make tartare, I eat it, and
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I’m like, great, I feel excellent, like I'm ready to keep going. We also have this childhood habit of stuffing ourselves, you know, sitting down to eat until your belly is, you know, full to the brim. But I like to eat in a way
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where you’re done and you feel light, and that’s it, I move on. How do you like it? I’m really into tartare.
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I’m generally hooked on raw meat now. I just cut it up for myself. Like dog food, you can even eat it in chunks.
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You could also tell us about oysters. Let's talk about seafood. I personally am not much of a seafood fan, but it was a real discovery for me. I thought, "Listen, I’ve never eaten oysters in my life." I’m on carnivore now. And
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oysters are carnivore. I devoured some oysters. It was libido to the max. Yeah .
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Considering that it hasn't been working for me for a while, it just, damn, it came back to life. I later learned the history of oysters; it turns out that centuries ago in brothels, men were given oysters before Viagra was
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invented so they could perform. It’s the real deal. So, guys, you should try it too. It’s a bit pricey, but give it a try. Speaking of it being expensive. Many people, yesterday I asked the guys, what questions do you
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want me to cover? Is it expensive to be on carnivore? I’ll say this, it depends on what you eat.
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Well, have you calculated how much it costs you if you eat beef and eggs?
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Yeah. I’ll calculate it right now. Look, if you take beef from a supermarket, it’s not bad, but it’s not top tier . One piece costs about 7 euros without discounts; to be full for the day, you need two or three of those. So that’s
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14–21 euros plus eggs. I only buy free-range eggs. And 10 eggs can cost 5 euros. So how much is that? 26.
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Well, let’s multiply 26 by 30, for example. That’s about 780 for food a month, if you eat only beef and eggs without minced meat, which is cheap there. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Well, you can start carnivore not immediately with just beef and eggs. You can gradually add in some chicken and, as you say, venison. Do you know how much venison costs? By the way, regarding venison, yeah, when I discovered venison—not an ad, but for
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those from Riga, yeah, I can just recommend it. They didn’t pay me anything for this. There is this "Wild and Free" place.
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The guy actually hunts the deer and can deliver to you anywhere you want. I recently got 2 kg for 60 euros, but I ate it for about a month, though venison doesn't keep you full. It has little fat, but it's still healthy, in
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principle. I’ll say this: carnivore, if you buy everything high-quality, well, it can cost a pretty penny. If you eat minced meat, eggs, and take slightly cheaper cuts of beef—not steaks, but, you know, some cuts from the market—they won't be as fatty,
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you won't feel full either, then you'll need to add butter and so on. You can do it on a budget. More budget-friendly . It somehow works out cheaper for me to eat per day. I eat maybe one 200g
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steak per day. I eat some tartare, one part, and the second, maybe I'll fry it , eat a couple of eggs and mix in something else. But overall, damn, is that enough for you, considering you're taller than me, and
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Well yeah, but I can sometimes, since I'm not strictly carnivore, I can eat some fruits, berries, raspberries, some blueberries, or a pear sometimes.
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It’s not like I’m strictly stuck on carnivore. I try to make it my foundation, but sometimes I can stray a bit. I try, of course, not to eat any chocolate bars, but in general, I can't say it turns out very expensive. And in
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any case, people who aren't on carnivore, their diet, we know ourselves, includes buns, coffee, something else, snacks here and there.
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And if you calculate all of that, it comes out about the same. It's just like being on Carnivore, that’s what I think.
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And even if it turns out cheaper, I’d say, good piece, counter-piece. Don't be stingy with yourself, damn it.
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How much useless crap have you bought that ruined your life? Don't be cheap on yourself now, so you don't have to spend a fortune on doctors later. And that’s going to be way more expensive, plus your quality of life will drop. I’m telling you.
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Here’s another interesting thing. There are people with gallbladder issues, or those who’ve had it removed, and doctors prescribe things immediately. Everything I’m about to say is not medical advice, legally covering my bases, but my boys will confirm it's the truth. I have guys in
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the chat who don't have a gallbladder, and bile is what digests fat. The liver produces bile, so you can live without the gallbladder. They all confirmed that as long as they listened to doctors, eating veggies and all that
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crap, they felt like [ __ ]. They started eating fatty meat, you just can't have too much at once. They spread it out throughout the day. They say: "Damn, it's night and day." Well, those are just the facts. I'm not lying. You can
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go in and talk to them. Also for people on psychiatric meds, you've also been told that whole thing, that well, you'll need to take this for the rest of your life, it's incurable, we don't know what to do about it. Vavan, you're
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watching me. Not just you, many people in the comments too. What did it turn out to be? Our flora, especially in the gut, if it isn't wrecked by trash food, if you feed it natural food, it works at full capacity. It actually produces
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neurotransmitters, dopamine, serotonin. Most of the serotonin is produced here and then goes to the brain. If everything is wrecked in there, it’s not produced. And you have to artificially buy pills so you have at least some serotonin firing, yeah, for
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anxiety or depression, but the side effects are a pain in the ass. It's a nightmare. That’s why Carnivore restores it, but you need a bit more time. And you know what the funny thing is? Many might say: "Listen, you’re
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singing a bit too beautifully. Does meat really heal everything?" Yes and no. Hold on, let me explain. It's not just that meat heals, although it does heal. But the key point is that you remove the trash food that's wrecking
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you with antinutrients and harmful toxins, which doesn't even let many nutrients from meat be absorbed, even if you eat it along with the meat. E.
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coli, the one we are scared of. Do you know that you have E. coli and salmonella inside you right now? All these E. coli, E. coli, I think that's just the intestinal bacteria. All these bacteria, parasites that they scare us
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with. Do you know what the funny thing is, turns out? No, I don't even know what these parasites are. I've kind of heard of them, but I'm not in the loop.
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Sounds like something dangerous. Sounds like something dangerous. Yeah. I'll say one thing first, then we'll get to the E. coli gradually. Your cell consists of, besides all the crap we're taught about, you know, mitochondria and so on, it contains a germ, but an
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inactive one, of parasites. Do you know why that is? The body naturally came up with that right away. Do you know why?
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Let's say you fell from a tree, hurt yourself really bad, you have a bruise, tissue necrosis starts under your skin, and your cells are dying. How do you make them just go away? Because if they stay there, well, toxin release begins,
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it can lead to cancer. Every cell naturally has parasite germs in it, which, if you smash it, are born to eat it up. And as soon as there is no more fuel for them, those cells, they die off. So this is natural [ __ ] that is
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inside you. E. coli, it is located in your rectum. Our food, unlike cows ', for instance. Well, we humans have our own thing. Our stomach consists, it's single-chambered, but has two, um, sections. Not that much food gets absorbed there, by the way. Everything
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else is absorbed in the large intestine and the small one. And when you feed yourself natural food, meat, blood, organs, the E. coli at the very end gets this food, everything that's left of it. And that's exactly what produces
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dopamine and serotonin. You see, if you frequently do enemas or, as is popular now, you all have parasites, come to me for a million dollars, I'll get rid of them for you. Dim-witted people go.
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You're going to have a breakdown. This is all fresh [ __ ] right now. I'm only mentioning this for the first time in this video. I'm currently studying this stuff. It's just a revolution. So these parasites, so-called bacteria, they are
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actually what we need. And when you eat raw meat with them, you get what you need. Do you understand? There's this little worm, a helminth, called trichinellosis. They studied wild people in tribes who eat raw animals, raw fish with parasites. All of them
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were found to have trichinellosis. It lives inside them. For us, this is considered: oh [ __ ], we need to get rid of it. But all these wild people have it. They live longer than us. They live without the diseases we have. But here,
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if you have even a hint of trichinosis, you're immediately put on antibiotics and so on. It turns out it's also a natural thing that it should be in you, to perform its function. They eat fish that is full of parasites. And do you
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know why parasites exist in humans and fish at all? They act as a kind of street sweeper or sanitary worker. If you have a lot of toxins, or a fish swimming in our contaminated oceans with lots of metals, the parasites eat
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that up. As soon as that food is gone, the parasites die, and that’s it, they’re no longer needed. That is their function. And all wild people have it. They ran an experiment, thinking: "Damn, is it really that harmless?" What the hell? Why do they,
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you know, live so well? "At one university, they took pigs that were kept in, you know, a clean laboratory, fed disinfected food, and given antibiotics so they wouldn't develop parasites. And they started getting sick. Meanwhile, another group of pigs
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was raised, you know, on a farm where it was like, [ __ ] where you eat. They all had trichinosis. They were healthy.
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And the guys decided to go further. Damn, what if we took these pigs infected with trichinosis and transferred it to these sick ones that don't have it? After 5 days, they all recovered, you know? This is the thing
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I've been working on just these last few days. Uh-huh. That's how I arrived at this through my own path, through Kornev.
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That's why when people say:" Damn, if you eat raw meat, what about parasites, what about bacteria? "All your cells consist of parasites and bacteria.
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That's what you need. People often get confused. And really think about the words here, how much our language even hints at this. Food poisoning. They confuse it with poisoning from some bacteria. Yes, you got poisoned by food that, perhaps, a human stored poorly,
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you know? You ate it, and your bacteria received unnatural types of this food. Just like any human, when they eat unnaturally, they feel like crap. The bacteria start receiving this unnatural crap and release toxins. And you really have poisoning. You're throwing up,
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you're [ __ ]. It passes, of course, in a few days, but if you go for tests, they'll tell you:" Oh, you have salmonella, you have trichinosis, E.
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coli. "But you already had them anyway, you know, they're already in you, but they'll tell you it's because of that, so take antibiotics and kill your life.
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Yeah. This is some new [ __ ] right now that I’m, you know, discovering. Just wanted to mention it. So I’ll say this: over this past year, I’ve come to what I now call" urban carnivore, " where we eat either overcooked meat, or
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even if it’s not overcooked, very few raw organs. I have now increased my liver intake fivefold. I’ve started to feel differently. Before, I was like this, like that. Yeah, five times more, you know, every single day.
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Urban carnivore is still, I agree, better than any other diet created by man, by a city dweller, at least.
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It’s also—I call it" urban carnivore. "But for me, it was a good step to realize that in nature, a person eats almost the same thing, but with blood, organs, meat with blood, you know? And that is what we should
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strive for. We shouldn't fear the carbohydrates that are in a fresh animal. There is no zero-carb diet in nature. I understand these urban carnivores. They are just afraid of carbohydrates because our standard Eastern or Western diet implies 70%of
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the diet is carbs. Yeah, that’s way too [ __ ] much, it’s garbage. But in nature, if you eat them, it’s awesome, and you won’t be angry.
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We are also really scared off by carnivore diets, told that you’ll have high cholesterol, that you can’t eat a lot of eggs and meat, and because of that there will be problems, plaque in your vessels, and so on. Over this
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year of being a carnivore, I’ve been getting blood tests, super complete ones, like an 80-euro full blood panel.
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Liver, AST, ALT, C-reactive protein— well, for inflammation—glucose, triglycerides, cholesterol, HDL, LDL. All hormones, including testosterone, the sex ones, yeah, uh, thyroid. Well, you remember we did a review, right? Yeah. Whoever wants to, take a look on Insta. And remember, before the
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tests, I said that my cholesterol would 100%be elevated. It doesn’t go up for all carnivores. There’s just this quirk. In English, it’s called" Lean Mass Hyper-Responders. "Basically, when they are very thin, they have this quirk—like my cholesterol limit is
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maybe five, I think, and mine is eight. And my doctor immediately said:" That's it, no more meat, eat vegetables, greens, and so on. "I said:" Thanks for the advice, goodbye. "Because this whole cholesterol thing is a super old
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trope from the American Heart Association. When they tell you:" There will be tons of cholesterol, you’ll have plaques, you’re [ __ ]. "So take statins, pay up. Uh-huh.
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And you know, the cholesterol level set by the government keeps dropping lower and lower, so you have even more chances of exceeding it. But real studies show that people with high cholesterol, especially in old age, actually live longer because, well,
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that's life. Cholesterol is what your body uses to produce many sex hormones, male and female, and vitamin D. This is a very important topic, so this is not medical advice; I'm covering myself legally just in case. That didn't stop
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me at all. You remember, right? I predicted this, I was like," Yeah, high cholesterol, who cares. " Besides, it’s elevated according to medical standards that told us it should be this level or that level, so, yeah, the government said that's the
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standard. Fine, I’m like," Okay, I’ll go check my blood vessels when cholesterol is high, to lower the risk of cardiovascular disease, you have to check your vessels. "Are there plaques?
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Especially checking here, so you don't have a stroke or a heart attack. Everything is clean, absolutely clean.
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I have the test results, if you want, I’ll show them. And even without all these tests, it doesn't bother me personally. Not medical advice, but for those who are worried, who are afraid, who don't trust this, please lower your
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cholesterol. I'm sharing my own experience. And not just, you know, like this. Oh, he’s giving advice but doesn't follow it himself. No, my cholesterol is high, and I keep eating red fatty meat. Someone says," What about parasites? What about that? "
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Based on my own example, I've been eating raw meat for a year now. Not every day, but, you know, raw eggs, my liver is always raw, everything is fine . The people I know who have been eating like this longer than me, for
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years. Everything is okay. The only thing that might happen, super rarely, is food poisoning. Don't get it twisted . Not poisoning from bacteria or something else, you know, just food poisoning. It was contaminated by the producers themselves. That’s all. That’s why
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we get it from trusted people. Logic. I never told him directly:" You have to.
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"I didn't have that, you know, that pushy vibe. No, nothing. I calmly kept dropping hints, kept dropping them. The guy just tried it.
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And he liked it. Yeah, super. But I always, like, meat was the main food, I understood that you helped me cut out potatoes more.
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You started telling me about coffee, and I gave that up. Cut back on vegetables. And try to transition so that meat is the main thing. You also talked about eggs. I listen to everything, test it on myself, and it
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all works. Yeah, that's great. I feel excellent. I'd also like to say to people who are like," Well, I basically eat meat already. "Many people eat meat , but at the same time, what's the harm ? With some rice, potatoes, vegetables.
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Let me explain. It's not just that meat has healing properties, although it does, because it has more nutrients than any other food. But if you eat meat along with those things I listed, you significantly lower its bioavailability with fiber. It cannot
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be absorbed. Coffee, coffee binds to calcium, to magnesium. Not all proteins will be absorbed, you see?
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That's why there's no room for half-measures here. A human thrives on what they are meant to eat in nature.
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And also regarding carnivores. Many carnivores don't know this either. Well , at least I haven't encountered it.
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Maybe I'll enlighten someone right now. In general, by biological definition, concerning animals, including us. A carnivore is an animal that gets at least 30%of its energy and nutrients from another animal. 30. That is called a hypocarnivore. Then there are
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mesocarnivores. That is an animal that needs at least 50%from an animal to survive. And there are hypercarnivores.
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They need 70%or more from an animal. There are, of course, obligate carnivores, like a lion. It eats nothing but meat. It's a debatable question where humans fall among these types of carnivores. Well, my personal opinion is that we are hypercarnivores.
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We definitely need 70%or more from animals, and then, it depends wildly on the climate, you can get by with something else, but not store-bought vegetables, which don't exist in nature , nor store-bought fruits, which don't exist in that form in nature and are
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rarely found anyway. You really need to understand this. And I've noticed something else. I don't want this to be taken as some kind of attack. But there are people online, you know, some of the most popular Russian-speaking carnivore communities, let's say. They
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are very fanatical. I've encountered this when even the slightest mention of carbohydrates comes up, even animal-based, like, well, there are carbs in liver. What's the big deal?
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And they react very harshly. And I have a suspicion that they are running on cortisol. Precisely because they aren't getting enough carbohydrates, even from animal sources. Plus, they are all on coffee. Guys, seriously, try cutting out the coffee. It will calm you down
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significantly, especially your adrenal glands. And just start eating more raw liver. You'll instantly become more pleasant. There you go. And so, when you know that there are, well, you study biology a bit more, that there are hypocarnivores, mesocarnivores,
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hypercarnivores. There are obligate ones, like a lion, just a little, well, you know, you take it with a smile when a guy says:" I'm on a lion diet. "It's good that you're eating dried, bloodless store-bought steaks, salt, salt, a lion is like, I add salt and
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water. Well, guys, it's your right, but you have to keep in mind that this is just a type of urban carnivore. A lion eats the entire animal with organs, blood, meat, and glycogen. That's why we aren't lions. You shouldn't, you
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know, try to reference it somehow. You need to understand what humans eat in nature. That is truly my opinion, because I, well, I can't really bring up anything more weighty than looking at what humans eat in nature. Deer. We
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need to, uh, gradually switch to wild animals. I want to get in touch with hunters. By the way, that guy we met at football on the beach, do you remember, he talked about liver, then I met you in Hereford, you were eating, uh, this
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raw minced meat, and you told me you were eating high, uh, this same liver.
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Do you know what high liver is? No. Fermented, rotten liver, and the meat too. They take meat in a jar, pour water in, and set it aside. About every 3 days they open the lid so oxygen gets in, then they close it again and leave
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it for a month. Then they open it, so it’s completely fermented meat, it’s all full of bacteria.
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And he's not the first person to tell me about this. You eat it. Why is it called high meat? In 20 minutes, you're just the happiest person on Earth. It happens, and it aligns with the theory of bacteria inside us, that they have
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already digested the meat for you into substances that your brain and body immediately absorb, plus you get those bacteria yourself. This is the only thing I haven't eaten yet. And blood.
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So, guys, if anyone has a source for blood—and blood is something where you have to go straight to the slaughter or the hunt—please invite me, and high meat. I want to try high meat. Many people think:" High meat, it
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reeks like hell. "But this guy told me, he told all his buddies when I invited them:" Want to try something? "" Yeah, let me blindfold you. "He would open a jar of rotten liver and have them smell it. They’d be like," Oh, it smells
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like chocolate. "He’d let them open their eyes, they’d see what it was and be like," Ugh, gross, what the hell . "But they say it’s the bomb. I mean , speaking of my next moves in carnivore, I'll continue what I'm doing
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, but I still haven't tried blood yet; I really want to try it because they say it’s, well, wow. Yeah, it’s really wow. I haven't tried brain yet, though all my—many guys from the chat have already tried it. That’s also
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wow. And thymus. But heart, lungs, and other organs— they're good. I just haven't eaten them , I don't know. I really want to try brain, thymus, and blood.
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What do you think about the fact that, taking the carnivore diet, it is still a diet invented by humans. I have a suspicion that a human even in nature wouldn't eat on a schedule, like we do every day: breakfast, lunch, and dinner
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, or eating a set amount twice a day. I feel like I felt a bit better when I practiced intermittent fasting and just , say, didn't eat for a day or for a day and a half, and then I'd be like,
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I'm hungry, now I'll eat. It feels like the fact that we eat on some kind of schedule doesn't seem quite right either.
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On the carnivore diet, I've moved closer to natural eating, and it's the same there. You should eat when there is prey and when there is hunger. It's just that in nature, you might be hungry, but there isn't always prey.
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And for us, yeah, I always advocate for that too. Eat when you're hungry, and eat until you're full. And that could be once a day, it could be twice, or maybe not at all. But the intermittent fasting I practiced back on Keto is
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still unnatural, when you have food but you force yourself to wait. And what is fasting, anyway? It’s something a human wants to avoid.
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During a fast, you are consuming yourself. So, actually, sometimes I eat once a day, sometimes twice, sometimes three times; I don't follow a schedule.
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When I want to, I eat, sometimes I don't eat at all. I’ve heard a lot on the internet, and it kind of makes sense, that when we’re sick, for example, we don't want to eat because our body is
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fighting a virus and doesn't have time to digest food or spend energy on that.
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And so, when we fast, all our ailments seem to heal. I think the blogger Afonya also talked about this. You know , when you fast, your body essentially recovers and all its resources are spent on restoring itself and feeling
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better. I would argue with Afonya. Although, when I saw him a few years ago, I was like:" Damn, I need to think about this. "Well, but when I studied the topic more, I can argue with him now. But I don't
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want to waste this video on that. I specifically want to talk about carnivore. We should avoid fasting whenever possible. Yeah, but for guys who weigh a lot and want to lose weight quickly —when I was on that starving keto,
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yeah, I had intermittent fasting, you can lose weight fast, by the way. Here's more. And now the benefits.
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Benefits. If you are overweight, you will lose it very easily, without suffering. You will eat as much as you want and whenever you want. And those who are underweight will gain it, but a natural kind of weight. Therefore, you
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need to forget all these man-made:" Oh, listen, I want to, well, bulk up to 100 kg. "It's not natural weight. Why do that? You don't need it, you've been brainwashed. But I don't want to talk about that here, about the gym, and all
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that. We've already discussed that. Purely about carnivore. Can you talk about your plans, how you plan to eat correctly in the future?
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What will your diet consist of? Has it changed over a year of carnivore? And how were you eating then and now? Will you add something or remove it instead?
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Well, it changed in that the first few months I still cooked my food quite well.
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Uh-huh. Both meat and eggs, you know, over time I started doing less, like, you know, frying a steak for just one minute. At some point I came to raw, and it turned out that raw is much tastier and much
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more nutritious. You just need less of it. Because cooking is, after all, denaturing the food. You kill its natural state, as nature intended it.
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But many might immediately get tense, like, damn, I was just eating french fries, and now I have to eat raw brains , what the hell. No, at first you'll already be eating better than 95%of people, even if you're cooking your
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food. Yes, but in my experience, I see that everyone eventually turns to raw. A quick question. At the start of the video, you mentioned Andrei Blok, who recommended that to build muscle mass in the gym, you need to eat meat and go
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to the gym less often. I looked him up, watched the video, and honestly, what he says about meat is really interesting. But regarding the gym, he doesn't look like a guy who built his muscle on meat and eggs; he looks like
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he's using something or cycling gear. He doesn't look like a natural bodybuilder. What do you think about that? He looks like your typical gym bro, where the muscles are so defined it's like there's something else involved. Exactly.
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I'll say this, it's my personal opinion . If, for example, you're a skinny guy, yeah, and you're like," I want to gain muscle mass just on carnivore, "it won't work.
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You won't be able to eat enough. Seriously. And naturally, you don't even need to. Blok, most likely, brother, respect. He just showed his photos from when he was on carbs. He used to train on carbohydrates. On carbohydrates, it's easy to gain,
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right? But on carnivore, he got really lean, and then on carnivore, you can just maintain that shape.
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Okay. Yeah. But you know our stories about bodybuilders. You don't need that, guys . Many guys come to my chat and say," I want to gain mass. "I ask," Why? "" Well, my wife says I looked better before. "I say," Are you sure she meant
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that you need to gain weight? "He says, " Let me go ask. "And she says," No, no , actually, everything is okay. "We often have, you know, our own hang-ups.
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The gym is vanity. Nobody actually wants to be in the gym. Look, I don't want to get into related topics right now. I just want to stick to my one-year experience on carnivore. My wife is on carnivore, and my daughter
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is on carnivore. She's 4 years old. She still sometimes eats some fruit or a little carrot. Well, because she got used to that before starting carnivore.
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But for children, even with good genetics, if you want to develop them to their maximum instead of destroying them, this will be the best food. Blood , organs, meat. She loves fat, mutton, raw liver. But in our day and age, you
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know, being all tolerant, I'll say just in case that this is not medical advice , it's just my own example. Yeah, I just want to give another shout-out to Hereford. Not a paid ad by Wild and Free, just for those in Latvia, I
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recommend buying there at Remas. These Polish entrecotes are also a more budget-friendly option. Eggs from Pridushi, those are grade ones. And also at Remas there are eco ones, those are the zeros.
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Which zeros are better? Well, the zeros are the best. And the ones are good too. Twos, threes. No.
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I think you said that the more natural the egg, the more orange the yolk. I think you told me about that. No.
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The closer to zero, the more yellow it is, actually. Oh, is that how it is?
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Yeah. But this really interests me because many guys say the opposite:" The more orange, the better. "It's like , you know, you need to send it to a lab and actually check. Otherwise, yeah , if you have access to good seafood,
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oysters are a decent option. But that's just a supplement, ruminants are the main thing. And if you have access to a hunt, this buddy of mine who eats fermented liver, he goes with hunters and he asks right away—they slit the
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throat, he pours the blood into a glass , drinks it; they look at him like he's a nutjob, but he's doing it right.
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Why don't you want to try going to that same Hereford, to their ranch or wherever they keep these farms with cows, and try the blood there? I think they'd let you have some no problem.
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Hereford, from what I understand, they bring in from America specifically, you know, fattier, more prestigious, so to speak, options. But yeah, I also saw them selling bull testicles here in Latvia, but I just can't find brain. Even though almost all my guys in the chat
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have found brain. And yeah, by the way, guys, everything I've told you, if you want to try, in principle, even everything I've said today, you can start and try with just that. But if you have any questions, if you want me
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to guide you, help you, the link to our community will be in the description.
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Join Viktor Logic, you know what I'm saying. S L ko. And we have just a little bit of time left at the end here . I asked you to ask some questions on Insta. I won't be able to answer them
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all, but I'll try to answer some in just a couple of sentences. Alright, Zhenya Ustinov asks:" Explain Carnivore . "Do you have any info on the VK? What should I do for gastritis and chronic dermatitis? I can't eat fried food, and
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raw food is sketchy. Only natural food will help you. Really, only natural food. Blood, organs, meat, because all this junk food is what really destroys your GI tract. Your daughter is on a diet too, right? How expensive is the
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Carnivore diet? We already talked about regular store-bought milk. Pasteurized stuff in the store. Dead milk. If you have the chance to drink it raw, straight from the cow, that's better.
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But honestly, my personal opinion is that dairy products aren't for humans, because milk is for the calf after all.
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Well, what about the butter you say to eat? Butter is okay, yes, and ghee too. But specifically milk.
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Wait, butter is made from milk. We'll cut that out. No, butter is fine, but just pure milk.
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Yes, pure milk can be drunk, but you have to understand that it's, well, like, not food for you.
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Well, yeah.
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