Well, hello folks. It's Mike here. I
just want to welcome you back to Mr.
Cast Iron and uh I'm starting to get
over my scratchy throat and my issues
that I had the other day at the reunion.
But anyway, uh you know, I get this
question sometimes and is it healthy to
be on a carnivore diet? And uh you know,
I'm not a doctor. I'm not going to give
you any kind of medical advice or
anything. I'm just going to give you my
opinion and what's uh uh you know, what
I've experienced personally. Um, number
one is, you know, excess weight loss.
I've lost almost 50 lbs
uh in less than 3 months. Coming up on
the 20th of this month will be 3 months
exactly. And uh so that was huge for me
to lose that much weight. I feel so much
better. Uh I get around so much easier.
I have so much more energy. And uh you
know that was an awesome thing. But
another thing too was the loss of
inflammation. Um there was times that I
thought I had um you know basically
arthritis of some form and I'd have
stiff joints and sometimes even my
fingers would lock up when I would grab
a hold of something. And uh all that is
gone. I don't have any more uh
inflammation. I don't have any joint
pain uh or arthritis in any any joints
of my body. And so that was huge for me.
And uh I'm so thankful for that part of
it. Another thing too that um that I've
noticed being on the carnivore diet is
how much clarity I have and more
clearheaded. Uh no more brain fog and
and stuff like that. It's just so so
clear thoughts. You're able to focus on
what you're, you know, concentrating on.
And that's huge, too. But uh another big
thing too is uh there's no hunger. Um I
eat basically as much as I want. This is
not some kind of a restricted diet uh in
a sense as far as volume or carbs or
well it is carbs but um as far as
calories is what I meant to say. There's
no restriction on calories. You can eat
as much as you want. When you get full
you quit eating. Uh now I do have some
time restrictions. I try to do
intermittent fasting where I only eat uh
in say like a fast for 16 hours and eat
in an 8 hour window or fast for 18 hours
and eat in a 6-hour window. Uh many
times I only eat one meal a day, OMAD
it's called. And uh so basically you're
fasting for 23 and 1/2 hours and you eat
for an a half hour to an hour. And uh
that has done real well for me. I I uh
think I that's probably helped me more
than anything because uh when you eat a
pound or a pound and a half of beef, you
know, roast beef or pot roast or ribeye
or whatever type of beef you're eating,
you know, you don't get as hungry. I eat
a lot of beef, butter, bacon, eggs, uh
shrimp, seafood, salmon, tuna. I mean,
there's all kinds of things that you can
eat, although this is restrictive in a
way. Uh and only thing that it's
restrictive is low carb. It's low to no
carb actually. Uh anywhere from uh low
carb would be anywhere from 100 gram of
carbs per day. Uh no carb is down to
zero naturally. And I basically try to
get as zero as I can because even not
eating carbohydrate foods, uh your body
produces carbohydrates through uh your
liver and everything. So you're not
lacking on your carbohydrates. Uh that's
a big, you know, question or that's a a
big controversy sometimes. People say,
"Well, how can you live? How can you
eat? Your body has to have carbs." And
that's true. But your body produces that
through your liver. And so, no problem
there. But another thing, too, was that
I've noticed is clear skin. My skin has
cleared up. Uh I don't have uh a lot of
uh skin tags or anything like that, some
blemishes. Uh it just looks so much
better. And that's a notice that I have.
My face is so much clearer. Uh that's
something that people have noticed, you
know, that that your face has more of a
shine to it. And um so that's just
another benefit that I've noticed.
Another one too, believe it or not, this
kind of um well, ain't no way of beating
around the bush on this, but I don't
have any gas. Uh, you don't fart on
carnivore, you know, and there's no
indigestion, you know. I used to burp
and belch a lot from time to time and
that all that was was the food in my
belly that was trying to digest and
ferment actually in a lot of ways.
Vegetables and things like that would do
that and that causes that gas, that
fermentation process. And on a carnivore
diet, I don't have any of that anymore
at all. Period. But another thing too
among many, this is just uh seven things
that I wanted to mention today, but one
that I really noticed
uh that is odd to me. I every morning
when I take a shower, I always take a
Q-tip and I clean my ears. And before
carnivore, before I got back onto this
way of eating, uh I would always have
pretty good little bit of ear wax in
both ears. And as it is now, when I take
a shower every morning, I've noticed
that my Q-tips are basically clear.
There may be just a small hint of ear
wax on there, but very little. So,
anyway, is the carnivore diet is it is
it healthy to be on a carnivore diet?
Well, I guess that's u you know, that's
up to interpretation.
Uh in my opinion, it is. Uh but anyway,
those are just some things that I wanted
to share with you. Just let me know if
you guys have any comments or any
questions about any of that and we'll be
glad to try to help you out. Anyway, so
you guys take care now. It's Mike over
here at Mr. Cast Iron. We'll see you
later. Bye-bye.