We have hundreds of grams of calcium stored in the bones, you don’t want to have to be pulling the calcium out of the bones in order to maintain the serum levels of calcium, you want to be getti...
On the carnivore diet (or keto diet) it’s reasonable to be eating 10-15 grams of sodium chloride a day to get enough salt! Otherwise, the body will push the cortisol way up, because the body is ...
You don’t need carbs in order to build muscle, you just need an increased training stimulus. Just by increasing the load that your muscles have to lift and by eating a sufficient amount of prote...
Carnivore soda is a recipe of: sparkling water with a tablespoon of glycine powder. Glycine has a sweet, sugary taste and tastes great! It’s a simple amino acid, and an amazing molecule in the b...
NEAT is ‘non exercise activity thermogenesis’. It’s a measure of how many calories you burn throughout the whole day, not just during workouts. Keeping track of your NEATs is one of ...
Yes you can! A pulse-oximeter only measures the number of red blood cells in circulation that have percentage oxygen that’s bound to them. So oximeters are not measuring the amount of oxygen in ...
In a hyperbaric chamber they are doing two things; they are increasing atmospheric pressure and they’re increasing the amount of inspired oxygen that you’re breathing. Most of what they...
The issue of how you breathe is very important. Are YOU a mouth breather or a nasal breather Being a mouth breather, from an oral health perspective, from a body chemistry perspective, from a respirat...
You have to stimulate M4 but you need a certain amount of lucine to do it, as well as a full compliment of amino acids. You also need to have enough calories, it doesn’t have to be too much, but...
Longevity as it relates to meat is a non-issue. mTOR, yes it exists on the spectrum, and just like IGF 1 and all these other things, some expression of mTOR is phenomenal and necessary for growth, and...
Humans really need fats or carbohydrates as fuel, protein as kind of the building block and in order to create the ideal bio-chemistry, the ideal chemical engine in a human, you want to have fat or ca...
The healthy user bias is such an important point to note that, when we’re looking at epidemiology studies, in these observational studies we always need to consider the possibility that, whether...
If you look at the nutrient bio-availability in plants, it’s very poor. People may say that spinach has folate, but generally if you look at the B vitamins in plants they’re only about 30%...
70% of people’s calories in the USA come from grains, sugar and industrial seed oils. Note, that none of those three things contain any nutrition of any kind, other than calories. In the case of...
It’s just dirty reporting and it’s dirty science with an agenda in mind and they’re trying to push an agenda with these studies and the public is really mislead because if you look a...
The Westernized world has really been lead astray by these nutritional ideas that were based on observational studies, that were poorly conducted and misinterpreted, and we have forgotten the things t...
First if we take a look at human evolution, humans began eating animals 2.5 million years ago – and that was a key player in our evolution, in the size of our brains. The nutrients found in anim...
Meat has been meat for two million years, so as far back as humans go, or even arguably longer. If we compare that to other foods that we eat right now, if we look at even some of the hybridized [&hel...
Our brain size has shrunk by about 200 ccs. It peaked around 150,000 years ago at about 1500 ccs and now modern homo-sapiens are about 1300 ccs. That likely coincides with the fact that some of our fo...
Jared Diamond, a well-known scholar, historian and author, calls the advent of agriculture ‘The Worst Mistake in Human History’, he’s termed it ‘The Cult of the Seed’ If ...
The agriculture revolution 10,000 years ago was the starting point of our going wrong, we were hunter gatherers up until that point, we lived in small tribes, and moved from place to place because the...
Meat’s always been included in a healthy diet. Meat is what humans evolved as a primary source of protein, and we’re not just talking about rib-eye steaks and tenderloin but also eggs and ...
A study called ‘Stopping or Reducing Dietary Fiber Intake Reduces Constipation and it’s Associated Symptoms’ was done in 2012, with 16 male and 47 female patients. The 63 patients we...
The fiber story began with a guy named Burkitt, he compared the pattern of diseases in African hospitals to western diseases in the 1950’s and 60’s. So the story of fiber begins with this ...
Food contacts your body every day, it’s the thing that comes in the most, yes you breathe some air and this and that, but food is DIRECT CONTACT with your body, it’s the one thing we can a...
Kelly Hogan was unable to have children until she went on a zero carb diet, and so it gave her back her fertility. We can use fertility as a measure of health too, so the more fertile you are it [&hel...
Protein can inhibit ketosis at a certain level, but I don’t think it’s because the protein itself is sending some kind of signal to say ‘let’s make more sugar.’ It’...
Something that is really helpful in the transition with the keto flu has been electrolytes; salt and potassium and magnesium in particular. And I think there may be some benefit to doing that transiti...
I don’t think there’s necessarily any reason to avoid eating a plant if you show no symptoms of ill response to it. In the kenogenic world you might think of a variety of conditions that p...
About what kind of results that people seem to be getting, I wish we had clinical trials, and so all of this is hypothesis stage observation level but things I’ve seen again and again in reading...
Although there isn’t a target macro level to hit or a level of protein that you’re trying to avoid staying under, I think that people who don’t eat fatty enough meat tend to not feel...
You can’t build muscle with protein from broccoli, the protein is not bio-available, you can’t absorb a lot of it and you would need a ton of it! Also, broccoli doesn’t have leucine ...
Your current health is a good indicator of your future health. Shawn Baker ...
We currently have evidence for a worldwide epidemic of chronic illness, we can argue about how clear or how scientific the basis is for making claims about all the chronic illnesses that are plausibly...
The popular narrative regarding a healthy diet often involves people characterizing numbers or data in their favor or providing a gross miscalculation on purpose. It’s analogous to a rope. Imagi...
People say that the majority of agricultural land in the USA is supporting animal agriculture and if we got rid of animal agriculture, look at how much land we’d have to feed people. What they&#...
A beef animal spends most of it’s life and sometimes its entire life on pastures, even in the USA Animals that end up in a feedlot are only going to spend a couple of months at the end of its [&...
When people improve their health, they are improving the world. One way for many people to improve their health is to follow a diet restricted in carbs, largely, if not solely based on animal products...
Avocado Olives Squash (a carbohydrate rich fruit) Non-sweet fruits (like berries but they’re high in oxalate) Cucumber without seeds or skin Fermented foods Detoxified vegetables (so they are le...
Carbs plus fat equals a bad combination. This doesn’t occur in nature and it’s incredibly addictive. Think of ice-cream! The only place in nature carbs + fat occurs is in breast milk…...
Most mineral water is rich in bicarbonate, but some is not and most other water is lacking bicarbonate. This is an easy fix, add 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda to a glass of water. (1/2 teaspoon is 1600 ...
Reserveratrol is a plant molecule. No one wants to focus on the side effects. We are just so willing to believe that it does just one good thing, when in fact it does one good thing and has six other ...
Studies show that 1-1/2 lbs. of fruit and vegetables per day for one week, four weeks, 10 weeks (!) have NO BENEFIT on the antioxidant system in the human body. Source: Stock, Kevin, guest. “Paul Sa...
Phytic acid is a plant anti-nutrient. It chelates calcium, zinc, phosphorous, magnesium in the body, rendering them unavailable.. Phytic acid builds up a mineral deficiency, which develops very rapidl...
Lectins are carbohydrate binding proteins found in a variety of foods, plants and animals. They are most present in plant babies, seeds, grains, legumes and nuts. Note, the model of Parkinsons disease...
Anything can be poisonous if you eat too much of it. We can tolerate a little bit of oxalates, but for the people who are sick… Everyone should approach this information from the context of wher...
The carnivore diet is an ancestral diet. Just zoom out for a minute… Up until the agricultural revolution 12,000 years ago (just a nick of time) we ate meat, the vast majority of our diet was me...
You can get shredded on the carnivore diet. You have two levers; 1) decrease calories 2) increase energy expenditure (cardio). Add cardio and gradually build it up while you gradually decrease your fo...
Indigenous people spent hours preparing plants – all day long. Most plants are toxic and if you really want to eat them you better know how to avoid those toxins, or accept the consequences. Joi...
Raw honey, peeled sweet potato in pressure cooker, white rice Source: Stock, Kevin, guest. “Gaining Muscle Mass and Getting Perfect Teeth! A conversation with Dr. Kevin Stock.” Fundamental...
So I have granola every morning, am I fucked If you’re not eating a lot of fat, and you’re eating granola and vegetables, if you’re following a more plant based diet then your body can tolerate ...