5 Ways to "DO" Carnivore Diet (I Switched to #4)
In a Nutshell
The video outlines five carnivore diet types: (1) Dirty (with plants/cheats, stalls healing); (2) BBBE (beef, butter, bacon, eggs, eat till full); (3) Lion (ruminant meat, salt, water); (4) Healing (deep therapeutic ketosis via high-fat/low-protein, OMAD—speaker's current favorite after 3 years, yielding incredible energy/brain fog relief); (5) Maintenance (mostly carnivore post-healing). Strict versions enable ketosis, gut healing, and metabolic repair for issues like autoimmune disorders, mental health, and fatty liver—avoid dirty/maintenance until healed. Speaker urges experimenting to match personal goals, tracking ketones for optimal results.
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There are five types of carnivore diet. The speaker has experimented with them over the last 3 years of eating a proper human diet and recently switched to one specific type after over 3 years.
The carnivore space has binary thinking: either carnivore or not, which is problematic. People do carnivore for specific reasons like mental health improvements, weight loss, or autoimmune disorders. Doing the wrong type may prevent achieving results.
This video is filmed entirely on the road, one take, no edits, using the speaker's carnivore brain. For the last 10 days, the speaker has felt incredible due to switching types of carnivore diet.
Dirty carnivore: Beef, butter, bacon, eggs, maybe some plants, vegetables, or cheats like during a birthday. No hate or judgment—if doing dirty carnivore, you're probably doing better than the majority of humanity.
Caution for those doing carnivore for health or healing, including vanity pounds weight loss, as it causes stalling. Stricter carnivore overcomes addiction. You cannot overcome addiction without admitting it and abstaining.
Dirty carnivore does not get you fully into ketosis or deep ketosis. You're on the threshold of fat burning but snacks or treats kick you out. It also refeeds bad gut bacteria in dysbiosis; abstaining cleans it up and allows gut healing.
BBBE carnivore (beef, butter, bacon, eggs): Only animal products, no tracking ketones/glucose, no counting, eat until comfortably full. Natural and easy. This is what the speaker did for most of their journey and what most people do.
People get into ruts and can't reach goals. Example: Eating chicken breast six times a day is clean carnivore but prevents therapeutic ketosis due to frequent insulin responses. Eating once or twice a day allows more fat burning time.
Lion diet: Ruminant meat only, salt, and water. Speaker has done it and felt incredible. Most people don't need it, but recommend experimenting if already on carnivore—stop eggs, fish, chicken for a while.
Ruminant animals like cows have multi-chamber digestive systems that filter out glyphosate, pesticides, chemicals from grains before it reaches the meat, making it cleaner. Chicken (monogastric) passes more into the meat, upsetting those with autoimmune disorders or serious issues.
Speaker did lion diet for 30-60 days multiple times, always felt amazing.
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Speaker recently switched to this game-changer: Carnivore for healing, emphasizing deep therapeutic ketosis. Most people are sicker than they realize—overweight means metabolically unwell, likely fatty liver (epidemic), damaged mitochondria, inflammation leading to heart disease, cancer.
Deep therapeutic ketosis is crucial for healing (e.g., Professor Thomas Seyfried recommends for cancer; for seizures, mental health like depression, bipolar, schizophrenia). Not binary—focus on ketosis level for fat burning and healing.
Achieve via dials: increase fat, lower protein, but different for everyone. Speaker uses OMAD (one meal a day, 1-hour eating window, 23 hours fasting). Tracked last 5 days: ketones at 3 or above (deep therapeutic healing ketosis). Feels incredible: carnivore zen, energy, brain firing.
Healed depression, reversed heart disease, but continues for benefits. Factors affecting ketosis: high fat/low protein (skinny starters), intermittent fasting (overweight), exercise, stress, sleep. Consult metabolic health professionals/coaches/doctors—may need only 30 days.
Maintenance carnivore: After healing, stay mostly carnivore because it feels better. Experimented with salad/vegetables but felt worse, not worth it. Occasionally seasonal blackberries/raspberries from garden (not store-bought with chemicals), rare indulgences.
Speaker chooses not to, as carnivore saved their life from horrible depression caused by food. Lacking nothing, feels grateful, satiated, incredible.
Encouragement: Don't enter maintenance or dirty carnivore until healed.
- Dirty carnivore: Includes plants/cheats.
- BBBE carnivore: Beef, butter, bacon, eggs, eat till full, no cheats.
- Lion diet: Ruminant meat, salt, water.
- Carnivore for healing: Deep therapeutic ketosis (speaker's current, OMAD, feels best ever).
- Maintenance carnivore.
Speaker healed everything on carnivore, no diagnoses left, but deep ketosis strengthens brain, energy. Not medical advice—figure out for your journey; evolves over time (different from day 1, month 6).
If good for cancer, seizures, mental health, good for everyone. 10 days in, game-changer; wishes done it from start instead of fumbling 3 years.
Current OMAD example: 6 burger patties, 6 scrambled eggs (adjusts for exercise).
Comment: What version of the five are you doing? Do you feel better on one vs. another?
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