My sister keeps going on at me about trying this as she feels it’s the cure to everything, has anyone on here heard of it or better still tried it ????
My sister keeps going on at me about trying this as she feels it’s the cure to everything, has anyone on here heard of it or better still tried it ????
Tristan, it’s a load of BS
It is just another fad.
Strength does not come from physical capacity.It comes from an Indomitable will.
I think it could also be a very good way to make yourself severely unwell very quickly, not to mention flat broke.
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Personally I don't think it's BS, it's just an elimination diet.
What it's actually doing is removing 90% of the crap processed food out of your system and replacing it with easily digested concentrated nutrition. You are drastically lowering carbohydrate to near zero which has a profound effect on the mind and body, which is why it's not BS.
It's also not unhealthy if done properly. This isn't a diet of sausages and bacon. It's more about eating offal, good quality whole cuts of meat, eggs and fish. There are numerous communities around the world that exist almost completely on a carnivore diet with no health issues, but it's important to remember that these people are eating wild animals, not factory farmed sausage pigs.
The jury is out on the benefits or health issues long term for the kind of animal products WE eat, but if you're prepared to eat the whole animal and not just live off fillet steak and bacon it might be worth a try. It's important to keep the high quality fats in the diet though.
That's fair, Joe. I was just thinking of that idiot Jordan Peterson who claims to live on nothing but steak.
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There are always obsessive advocates of any lifestyle, but there is merit to the way of eating if it's done properly. But again, who knows what years of eating that way would do to you. In the short term it's just an easy way to not eat processed crap.
Sorry Joe.x, I still believe it’s a load of BS.
Strength does not come from physical capacity.It comes from an Indomitable will.
Well it depends on how you define BS. Elimination diets are a proven thing, and can have a profound effect on your mind and body. Good quality meat is immensely nutritious, and easy on the gut. It's not hard to digest. The result of this is that people 'can' feel a lot better doing it.
People generally eat a lot of crap, crap that was sold as being healthy for decades. Bread, pasta, etc etc etc yadda yadda. If you go carnivore, you are obliged to stop.
The BS part could be that the carnivore part itself is the cure, now that I believe to be BS. I believe that the magic is happening because of what you're not eating way more than what you are eating on carnivore.
It's like a vegan's nemesis!
Getting back to less processed food and less sugar is obviously a good thing but what about veg & fibre? What about calcium (those that won't eat dairy)? It's the opposite of health advice and I am questioning the claims it says your GI is better for it when you are eating things that aren't aimed at helping with that. People thousands of years ago would be eating a combination and not just meat.
I would agree it's benefits are more about removing heavily processed foods, something which are recent to humans, and cutting back on so many areas that you end up eliminating some bad foods too.
I have never heard of it so did a quick Google. The first result sounded like every BS product claim out there stating how it solves so many healthy problems and utter nonsense about never feeling hungry or counting macros (healthy eating is all about watching what you eat or you end up overeating and putting weight on with bowls of salad every day if they are bin lid sized). Like the bogus claims found in paleo I guess.
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Ohhh... I have a mate who seems to lap up every fad diet like this and he now seems to proclaim himself an expert on T2 diabetes as a result because it's helped a couple of his mates. He's also convinced that statins kill everybody who take them, grains are very bad for you due to spikes in blood sugar &c. Nearly everything seems to boil down to ketogenic diets; get rid of the carbs and make the cells take nutrition from fat.
Trouble is... there's this thing called ketoacidosis. To me, diets like this are akin to playing Russian Roulette with your body, with potentially the same outcome.
And one other way of proving if something's of dubious merit: does its advocate try and sell you something?
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