10 sats \ 11 replies \ @k00b 10 Feb \ parent \ on: How is your memory prowess? health
Do you have an idea what the mechanism might be?
I'm guessing that my brain wasn't getting the correct nutrition. Or, that excess carbohydrates were causing inflammation everywhere, including the brain.
I don't think you have to be vegetarian in order to be low on nutrients like B12, iron, etc. I was never vegetarian, just ate limited meat ("meat should be treated as a condiment"), because of the propaganda. I had a friend who was anemic for 2 years, and tried 6 different iron supplements. None of them improved her anemia. She started a meat-heavy diet, and the anemia was gone in 2 weeks. Meat is just a much better, bio-available source for many nutrients.
The book Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind, by Dr. Georgia Ede just came out. She's been doing interviews on lots of podcasts, as well. It's mainly about improving mental disorders (depression, anxiety, etc.) by changing your diet - ranging from just limiting carbohydrates, to doing keto, then all the way to carnivore. She records some amazing success stories with her protocols.
She also has a lot of great info on the science behind why low-carb/high meat is so helpful. But I think the gist of it is - improved nutrition, less inflammation.
Also another thing - as a carnivore, you're no longer eating the anti-nutrients in plants (oxalates, lectins, all kinds of other chemicals) that are defensive chemicals. Plants produce these chemicals in order to prevent themselves from getting eaten. These chemicals can cause serious damage to the body.
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I’ve watched a lot of Dr. Ede’s videos. She produces some of my favorite content on Carnivore things.
I think the b-vitamin thing is huge. I was a vegan for awhile, have a heterozygous mutation in MTHFR, and wasn’t consistently supplementing with b12. My anxiety was terrible during that period of time. I also had a close friend go vegan who about 2 years in developed schizophrenia, went homeless, then od’d last year.
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Wow. So sorry to hear about your friend.
Dr. Ede is REALLY convincing, with all her stories of reversal of mental disorders - I wonder if it would have helped your friend. I have many friend and acquaintances with borderline issues that I believe would benefit if they were to start eating carnivore. Or at least Ketovore. I definitely talk it up.
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Having been a vegan and preached that, I'm all out of preaching juice. I'll leave advice to experts. I try to share my experiences though when other are curious.
I did very strict carnivore for a year quite awhile ago. I found a lot of benefit in it. I'd probably go back if it weren't so inconvenient. I love the simplicity.
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What specifically did you find inconvenient? Not trying to deny that it can be inconvenient, I'm just curious what it was.
For me - grocery shopping is way more convenient. Meeting people for coffee is still fine - I still do coffee. Dinner at restaurant - yes, you're limited in where you can go. An extended stay at a friend's house, which I have coming up - yep, I'm trying to figure out how best to handle it. I have some extended travel coming up in summer, with no cooking facilities - not sure how that will work.
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not sure how long or where...but I take frozen burger patties (cooked) with me, and thaw as needed, if you have a cooler or refrigeration.
Also use these for longer trips https://carnivorebar.com/
Just beef and tallow (pemmican) but they make them with salt and honey added which i like. 420 calories each and 35g saturated fat
If you have access to McDonalds, you can ask for the individual beef patties for $1 each (I usually get 12)
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I've actually done the McDonalds thing, just ordering plain patties, I was shocked that it worked! They're surprisingly tasty, with some salt.
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