Carnivore 101 and Healing Humanity with Robyn
In a Nutshell
Carrie Man shares his complete transformation from 15 years of severe depression, anxiety, and multiple health conditions to radiant mental health and physical healing after adopting carnivore and eventually lion diet. The documentary "Healing Humanity" documents 60 interviews proving that eliminating plant toxins and focusing on ruminant meat, salt, and water can reverse autoimmune diseases, Parkinson's, and mental illness by treating root causes rather than symptoms with medication. Lion diet provides deeper healing than standard carnivore, requiring fewer meals while delivering superior mental clarity, sleep, and mood benefits through ruminant animals' superior toxin filtration.
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Carrie Man has been filming a documentary called Healing Humanity: The Power of a Proper Human Diet for three and a half to four years. The documentary includes 60 interviews with nine doctors and experts, totaling hundreds of hours of footage filmed all over the world. The film is completed and will be available to watch on Friday at 5 p.m. through healinghumanity.movie, where viewers can pre-order the film and access two trailers. A 24-hour live stream will occur on Thursday prior to the Friday release.
Carrie found miraculous healing through a carnivore diet, losing 100 pounds, overcoming depression, anxiety, arthritis, and reversing congestive heart failure. He initially reached many people through YouTube and decided to make a documentary to reach a wider audience through Netflix or major distributors.
Carrie and Robyn first met in Chicago at the original Healing Humanity meetup. Carrie was climbing on a pergola doing pull-ups when Robyn noticed his enthusiasm and suggested he start a YouTube channel. Carrie likened his pre-carnivore state to driving a broken-down vehicle with flat tires, now feeling like he has a sports car with excess energy.
Lion diet is a stricter version of carnivore consisting of ruminant meat, salt, and water only. Carrie has been on lion diet for 33-34 days, eating only beef. He initially planned 30 days but decided to continue because he felt even better than on standard carnivore. Jen, Carrie's wife, is on day 8-9 of lion diet after being carnivore for two years, primarily eating burger patties and eggs. She eliminated cheese due to its addictive nature.
Carrie experienced improved sleep with vivid dreams and better mood on lion diet. His wife Jen noted he became sweeter and more zen-like. The science behind lion diet involves ruminant animals like cows having multi-chamber stomachs (five filters) that process out chemicals and glyphosate from grain feed more effectively than single-stomach animals like chickens. Some people with autoimmune disorders or sensitivities do better on lion diet.
Robyn had to give up cheese approximately one year ago after discovering it caused skin problems including blisters. She was previously very attached to cheese and couldn't imagine life without it. Carrie had similar experiences with cheese addiction, eating entire bags of cheese cubes at Costco while doing keto.
Carrie learned about carnivore through Dante Ferrigno, who was discussing lion diet in a YouTube video. Dante is currently over 100 days into lion diet. Carrie previously did lion diet for 120 days and felt significantly better, but stopped when filming made access to beef difficult, eventually returning to eggs and bacon.
Carrie has eaten only beef for 33 days, avoiding pork, chicken, fish, eggs, and lamb. He did a 10-day stretch eating only ground beef from Arc Farms, a family regenerative farm, consuming a pound and a half daily. He found himself craving ground beef more than ribeye during this period. On lion diet, he eats one to two meals daily, starting around 1 p.m., which is less frequent than his previous three meals on carnivore.
Laura Russell, known as Healthy Carnivore, primarily does lion diet and appeared in the documentary. Dante Ferrigno started on lion diet, added cheese back, then returned to lion diet. Carrie jokes that Dante "shamed" him into restarting lion diet by asking why he stopped after feeling so good for 120 days.
Lion diet can be easier on the budget despite higher-quality meat because fewer meals are needed. Carrie eats less frequently and in smaller quantities. He recommends treating yourself with quality cuts like ribeye, steaks, or brisket when doing lion diet.
All six family members were carnivore for at least a month, creating noticeably calm household dynamics with triplet teenage daughters and older daughter Lily. Currently: Emma is carnivore, Alyssa is on lion diet (day 4-5), Katie does keto with 10 carbs or less, and Lily fluctuates between carnivore advocacy and poor eating choices. Carrie notes the heartbreak of watching Lily struggle with consistency, recognizing the importance of the diet as a tool for mental health that he lacked during his own depression.
Carrie struggles with watching his daughters make dietary choices that affect their mental health, particularly Alyssa's depression and anxiety. He recognizes that some struggle is necessary for strengthening, though difficult as a parent to allow natural consequences rather than intervention.
Failure isn't really failure - it's the lesson being learned from it. A parent realizes that giving everything to children and making everything perfect isn't the best approach, as they need to experience challenges. If everything is handed to them, their life won't be very good either because they won't have any struggle. The challenge as a parent is warming up to the idea that you can't always rescue your kids. When everything is handed to children of wealthy or famous people, they often end up depressed, addicted to video games, or drug addiction because they're not really living life without those struggles. The paradox is that parents want to protect their kids and give them everything for a better life, but giving them all of that actually makes their life worse. The speaker went through so much trauma and struggles, but now feels happy for all of it and thanks God for those experiences, realizing it was all part of God's plan. Without going through that struggle, the speaker probably never would have wrapped their brain around carnivore and would still be depressed a hundred pounds overweight on the couch.
The craziest thing the speaker still can't wrap their brain around is what happened to their heart. The most profound thing they thank God for every single day is their mental health improvements, particularly depression. The speaker suffered 15 years of horrible, hopeless suffering. The hardest part was trying to fake it - pretending not to be depressed while every fiber of their body said the opposite. Their girls and wife knew every single time. The biggest lie told about mental health, cancer, or depression is that the person is defective and there's something wrong with them that can only be fixed with medication. The speaker never thought changing food could fix a chemical imbalance in the brain. The mental health improvements are profound because the speaker didn't just go from hopeless depression to normal baseline - they went from depression to overflowing with joy and gratitude, literally the opposite of that darkest depression. They wake up sometimes with a big smile on their face, just happy. The anxiety is also completely gone - the speaker used to be anxious about everything, including a weekly conference call done for seven years, losing sleep over it every night, worrying about losing the house and everything. Now there's none of that anxiety. The speaker would never have done interviews or spoken at events before due to anxiety, but now they spoke at Meat Stock with 1,400 people and were excited rather than stressed.
The speaker thinks of all the things they spent years worrying about, and not one of them ever necessitated the worry - none of those fears ever came to fruition. The big fears like losing their job, losing their house, losing everything - none of it ever happened. The speaker questions how many years that stress took off one's life, being stressed every second of every day.
The speaker had an erratic heartbeat since birth and was born with a heart condition. The healing experienced with carnivore has been amazing, particularly the mental health transformation from being in a black hole to getting out and seeing the light.
The idea for the documentary came around the time the speaker was climbing on a pergola, experiencing endless energy and newfound energy they didn't have before. Early on, they did a 30-day video about the healing experienced, initially intending it to be just one video. However, the comments started coming in, with people sharing their own experiences of being hopelessly depressed and then healing. The speaker had been doing YouTube for 12 years with homesteading videos, including one with 5 million views, but the carnivore videos received more comments from the heart. The speaker realized this could help almost everybody. They had seen a documentary called "Fat Head" 15-20 years ago on Netflix about the ketogenic diet, which was impactful enough that they tried keto afterward. The documentary was powerful because it was well done with good science, funny, and engaging. The speaker realized that YouTube reaches only a small subset of people, while Netflix could cast a wider net. There was nothing like a carnivore documentary, and the healing stories being seen were crazy powerful. Initially, the speaker thought they could just film it on their phone, but later realized that to get on Netflix or in movie theaters, quality production was needed. The speaker believes this project is way bigger than them and gives all glory to God for being put in a position to be a conduit for these stories.
The speaker recalls Rebecca Heishman in the film saying that doctors don't treat the root cause of problems - they treat symptoms with medication. To fix the problem, you have to treat the root cause. The speaker was on medication for acid reflux for 10 years and still had acid reflux, realizing it was just a temporary bandaid. Every person in the film healed without medicine, just by changing the food they eat. The speaker was on 10 to 15 medications around the time of starting carnivore, including every SSRI and antidepressant medication, sleep medication, anti-anxiety medication like Xanax, heart medication, blood pressure medication, statins, acid reflux medication, medication for gout, anti-nausea medication, and IBS medication. They got off all of them safely with their doctor. Some medications were put in place because of side effects from former medications - SSRIs make people gain weight, turning them into emotionless zombies who don't care about overeating. Statins caused memory loss and muscle aches. The speaker believes doctors mean well and take an oath to do no harm, but when medications aren't treating the root cause, that is doing harm. The problem got worse and worse, nearly taking the speaker's life.
The speaker found all healing with zero exercise initially, though exercise is important. The speaker believed they needed to exercise and were fat because of lack of exercise, but the reality is that most people are metabolically unwell or overweight from the foods they're eating - it's almost all diet. The speaker started exercising after losing weight and feeling better, getting energy and wanting to do something with it, like climbing on the pergola and doing pull-ups. During a recent 30-day Lion Diet stretch, no exercise was done. The speaker believes exercise is great but that the math on exercising for weight loss doesn't work out - you have to run a marathon to burn significant calories, and people often justify eating more because they exercised.
Many people lose significant weight on carnivore without exercising. Some cannot exercise initially because they are too large and need to focus on eating and allowing healing to occur first. Bill was not working out when he first started but gained energy and began doing exercises sitting down. Food is 80% of the problem. The speaker rode a Peloton and did other activities but was inconsistent until starting 14,400 steps daily for a year, which equals seven miles.
The speaker still drinks coffee. Jen quit coffee and switched to tea, then realized it was not caffeinated, started drinking coffee again, and eventually went off everything. People trying to go carnivore and quit coffee drastically increase their odds of failure. Many people do carnivore and coffee successfully. People who achieve healing on carnivore and coffee often report feeling much better after quitting coffee, but a majority of carnivore eaters consume coffee without issues. The speaker gave up coffee for a year starting carnivore in October, brought it back the next October, and has not given it up again yet. Jen never drank coffee her whole life but started on the day she went carnivore.
Mimi from South Carolina had Parkinson's, a full-blown stroke, and a crazy blood infection that left her bedridden and unable to walk. She is in her seventies. The speaker verified her medical records showing Parkinson's diagnosis. She is now completely free of Parkinson's with no symptoms, exercises, lifts weights, runs around, and is training to hike the 500-mile St. Francis of Assisi trail. Her before and after pictures are unrecognizable. Several stories could not be covered fully in the documentary without making it longer. Bella has an incredible story and is huge on YouTube. Rancher Maggie's story also could not be told fully in the film.
The documentary is currently two hours long and being edited down to approximately one hour and 45 minutes. Netflix and big distributors will not consider films under one hour and 30 minutes. The film covers a wide variety of health issues so people with type 2 diabetes, and other conditions can find relevant content. Individual episodes in the series will be around 45 minutes. Topics for the series include mental health, cancer, and aging. Rancher Maggie's standalone episode is complete.
Reviews on IMDB for Healing Humanity are amazing. Two test screenings were conducted with blind audiences who were not carnivore. Newspaper ads were placed in Milwaukee. People were paid $15 to watch a documentary about nutrition, and most thought it was vegan. The scientific screening showed strong results with people staying for two and a half hours asking questions afterward. The goal is reaching people who have not heard the message, including reaching people before they knew about carnivore.
Pre-order data is being taken to Netflix. A consultant with four films on Netflix is assisting with the process. Netflix and theaters care about whether films can fill seats and generate excitement. The 17 screenings and pre-orders prove audience demand. The film may get in front of millions of people if momentum continues. Pre-orders are $10 and allow permanent ownership. There are no guarantees but the trajectory looks promising.
The pay it forward option allows buying the film for someone else by sending them a code like a gift card. A new pay it forward pool lets people donate $10 to help those who cannot afford the film watch it for free. This data point proves people are willing to pay, which matters to Netflix and distributors. The goal is eventually making it free for everyone on YouTube.
A 24-hour live stream starts Thursday at 5 p.m. Central until Friday at 5 p.m. Participants include Dr. Ovadia, Dr. Barry, Dr. Chafee, and Rancher Maggie. Each person appears for about 15 minutes in rapid fire format. The speaker will participate and receive email details.
The documentary quality is impeccable. People who have not seen it will be blown away by how well done it is. The speaker has been involved since the Chicago meetup from the beginning.
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