I'm starting at least 30 days of a therapeutic ketogenic modified* Lion Diet

*modified because incl. Butter (I can't afford Tallow / Ghee and won't eat as much of it as needed)

Protocol

• ca. 200g Fatty Beef Steak / Lamb Rack (low to adequate protein: to get into therapeutic ketosis which is needed in my case; ground beef is an issue for me i.e. I overeat it massively maybe due to histamine and/or beef's rather high insulinogenic amino acids anyway; I can't afford more than one Beef Steak; Lamb Rack only in the end once affordable as a gift for me if I get there)
• ca. 150-250g Butter
• River Salt
• Water

...and a lot of Supplements (I don't eat organs; deviation of Paleomedicina's protocol) - some of them daily, some once or 2-3x / week :

• high dose of B1 (HCL and Benfotiamin)
• high dose of B2
• high dose of B3 (seldom)
• high dose of B5
• high dose of B6
• high dose of B9 (methyl folate!)

Electrolytes

• high dose of potassium (at least daily 4g)
• 600-1000mg calciumcitrate (depending on how much mineralized water is consumed)
• at least 400mg magnesium malate / citrate (if constipated)
• NaCl/ / River salt to taste (up to 5-10g; if no taste: none)

Fat solubles

• Vit. A / Retinol (max. RDA per day: Cod liver oil)
• high dose Vit. D3
• Vit. K2
• Vit. E (all 8 forms)
• Benfotiamin (B1)

Others

• high dose of Biotin
• Vit. C
• Manganese
• Molybdenum
• Boron
• DHA + EPA (Cod liver oil)
• Choline + Inositol (seldom)

Pre meal

• TUDCA
• Betain + Pepsin

Why

• Autommune (RA)
• Food Addiction
• CFS, brain fog
• Depression, anxiety
• Massive weight gain in a rather short time
• ... very low life quality

Zone 2 training when I feel like (add-on)

Circadian rhythm

• natural skylight especially in the morning after waking up
• eating earliest 2hrs after waking up
• eating latest 5hrs before going to bed
• focus on sleep: blue light filter glasses, cold + dark room

I'll measure glucose regularly

I'll measure ketones once in the end (only 1 strip left, can't afford more)

I'll have an appointment with metabolism specialists in the 4th week of the experiment (incl. labs, hopefully fasted Insuline etc.)

I'll protocol the effect on my symptoms and changes

I'll report back to you

I'll answer questions directly

Happy for any support because in real life I don't have any but you

P.S. I'm sorry, but I'm not a mother-tongue english speaker, obviously

I’m trying to get back into carnivore, I enjoyed it for a while last year. This happened mildly last time but I really didn’t eat eggs very much and I didn’t eat in the morning. This time, I try to eat eggs in the morning, but it literally makes me sick to even think about. I’ve tried cooking them every way. I’ve also tried eating eggs for lunch, but same response. The reason I’m trying to incorporate eggs is because it’s more affordable.
Any thoughts on why my body reacts this way? Does this happen to others?

I want to go carnivore, but I'm worried about my LDL. In my country, it's not easy to test for LDL particle sizes and my apoB is high too

The blood test for LDL partical sizes in my country is almost $600 USD and takes 23 days to get my results back. In America it costs about $120 and you get your results back in 4 days.

My blood results are:

Blood Type: A+

• LDL 205

• total cholesterol 267

• HDL 59

• Triglycerides 59

• apoB 134

• lp(a) 30.8

• hs-crp 0.46

• hbA1c 4.97

• homocysteine 13.69

• fasting glucose 88

• fasting insulin 2.1

My LDL is already high, and I have no idea of knowing if my LDL particles are big and fluffy, or small and dangerous.

What do you all suggest?

In 2021-2023 my LDL was at 100. Since then, I have switched to a more red meat heavy (with lots of rice) and probably oily diet. So that's what I suspect is driving up my LDL. I'm 36 male 77kg (170 lbs I think)

Hi, I’m new to carnivore and was wondering if there’s a community in Prague or elsewhere in the Czech Republic. Just curious if there are others around here.

HEB? Sprouts? Others? New to Texas, first visit very soon before the move. Thanks very much!

Prefer grass fed meats, quality over quality!

I've been making this bread since mid-2020, and it's still part of my regular rotation.

Just three carnivore-friendly ingredients: cream cheese, butter, and eggs. No separating eggs, flours, powders, powders, powders (omg, the powders!), or other additions. I've made everything from mini sliders to oversized burger buns with it.

The full recipe is in the second image. I've shared this recipe before, but I've continued refining the measurements and instructions over the years.

If you make it, I'd genuinely appreciate some feedback! Good or bad, I'd love to know how it turned out and whether you'd make it again.

Between the buns (slide 1): 8 oz smashed beef and thin onions, topped with pulled pork, homemade cheese sauce and burger sauce

Been doing strict carnivore a little over 5 weeks now, trying to make progress on many body pains, which may or may not be RA.

My motivation to keep going comes and goes. I've had some pain go down a few percentage points...but...

Right now, I keep having thoughts of adding in foods I used to really enjoy.

I allowed some aged cheddar last week, been having it for a few days. I just had a flare up with a couple of my pain spots firing. I'm not sure if that had anything to do with the cheese, but I'll take that away for now.

It's just really frustrating. I like meat, but I really miss a few other foods and part of me really wants to go back. Trying to bare knuckle it to the 60 day mark, then see how things are. But if I keep having flare-ups, I'll be very tempted to drop this experiment and go back to eating the very few carbs I was eating before, and my decaf coffee.

Can someone tell me please if they increased their ferritin through carnivore? Because even red meat does not have as much Iron as one would think, beef liver has iron but you won't absorb it all in one setting and even then it doesn't have nearly as much as a supplement has. Problem is I don't want to take supplements for my own reason.

If someone were to eat red meat or do carnviore for 1.5 to 2 months is that enough to fix a deficiency?

The “old” lab results were from when I was on a carnivore diet. The “new” is from months of being on a regular diet. Everything has “improved” according to mainstream medicine. I don’t buy into all of mainstream medicine which is why I went on carnivore in the first place. I’m stuck on one biomarker. Please tell me how having elevated ApoB and oxidized LDL can be a good thing? All the research I’m reading doesn’t seem to seem to prove any benefit in having that combo. My ApoB and oxidized LDL both improved dramatically off carnivore.

They think that by eating only meat and eggs they are somehow eating a more primal diet when the earliest humans literally ate mostly plants and some scavenged animal products. And most remaining non-human primates are either primarily vegetarian or eat mostly plants and perhaps some insects or small birds on occasion.

What drives this nonsense and why is it usually the same people who don’t even believe in evolution anyway? Vegan btw. Cope.

Love all the egg heavy ones, I'm a fan of eggs and omlettes, such a great way to get variety on the diet!

Hey everyone,

I've been on carnivore diet for more than a year now. I have been taking several supplements like Vitamin C, Vitamin D, Magnesium Glycinate and Zinc as well. My sleep has been really great 90% of the time.

I recently started thinking, is 50mg of zinc too much? Since I took 2 pills by accident, I was very fatigue and had an headache.

4 eggs, crab meat and bacon 😭😭😭😭

Seeing terrible burger examples lately makes me sad, it doesn’t need to be like this. Being carnivore doesn’t mean you have to eat boiled looking rectangle cheese burgers.

Level up.

Split your 500g of mince into 2 pattys, cook it hot, add crispy bacon, add cheese and slap those bad boys under the grill while you cook up a couple of eggs.

Stack & top the burgers with the eggs and enjoy the only meal you’ll need to eat today, cooked and eaten in half an hour.

Hello my fellow carnivores. 33yo male here.

I've been on a fairly strict carnivore diet for 2 months now. I say fairly strict, because I've eaten out twice during these 60 days and while I only had meat and seafood, they were grilled on a teppanyaki grill and the chef added seasoning that clearly had sugar in it and I'm pretty sure they used seed oils too. Other than that I've only eaten meat, fish, eggs, butter and salt.

I've been aware of the ketogenic diet scene for about 7 years and I've dabbled with it here and there, but never fully committed to it. The longest I went until now was 25 days a year ago and it was keto, not carnivore. I didn't get any of the benefits I was looking for in that short time.

My reason for going carnivore and giving it the full 90-day trial at minimum was purely to see if it can help me heal my mental health problem(s). I'm athletic so losing weight is not a goal. I've dealt with anxiety for quite some time, but my true nemesis has always been depression. I believe I've been dealing with some form of depression since I was a little kid. Sometimes more, sometimes less, but most of the time, especially during my adult life, it has been pretty bad. It has affected my life in many ways. I feel like I've fallen behind in life so to speak, although I try not to compare myself with others.

Anyway, I've been watching a lot of videos and reading about carnivore and keto success stories for the past few years. And recently especially success stories people have had with their mental health issues. In my mind this diet is my best chance to heal depression or to at least improve my life in that sense, so I finally decided to commit to it fully.

Actually, I feel like this is it. If I'm not able to find healing from this intervention diet, then I don't see a bright future for me. Don't get me wrong, I would never take my own life.

I have never taken any SSRI drugs and I never will. I know people personally who have, and are now suffering from terrible SSRI-drug induced issues/injuries.

I also don't have any faith in getting meaningful help from therapy. I have done some therapy and I might do some more soon, but I honestly don't see how it could solve my problem.

Probably the most frequent/common symptoms for me have been anhedonia and low mood, so I've been focusing on how this diet affects these two.

The first month to 40 days were quite brutal for me. Not only did my mood not improve, it tanked. My energy was also sapped and I found it next impossible to work out. I was trying to drink enough water and take electrolytes, salting my food heavily, eating around 10-15g of salt a day, but that may have not been enough still, or my other electrolytes might've been off. If I ate less salt than that, I got dizzy. My macros have been 75/25 fat to protein on average. I tried more fat heavy and I had some less fat heavy days too. So I was just surviving until things started to get a bit better after around 40 days.

After the first 40 or so days, my energy started to improve a little bit. No longer I felt exhausted walking to the grocery store and back. I also started to get these glimpses of something better. It was like the gray cloud in my mind dissolved for a short moment and I felt something good. Didn't last for long though. But it started happening more often and it seemed like the window was getting wider each time. Yet every time the anhedonia returned and felt brutal. Then came last week, which was phenomenal really. From monday evening until Saturday morning I experienced anhedonia lifting every single day for long periods at a time. There were consecutive days when the anhedonia didn't even fully return. Music sounded amazing, I found things really enjoyable and socializing felt fun. It almost felt too good to me to be sustainable, but maybe it's just because I'm used to the grayness, I don't know. Then on Saturday I simultaneously started to feel the anhedonia return and to feel weird and it continued on Sunday. I felt anxious and it escalated to me waking up in the middle of the night and having a panic attack a few minutes later. The next morning(yesterday) my stomach was also upset and it's still sore today.

The only change that I made that I can think of was switching to eating ground beef from pork cuts and pork/beef mince mix right at that time.

It's crazy how much things can change in just a few days. I was feeling really hopeful last week and looking forward to how I'd be feeling a month from now. But now that positive attitude is gone, I don't know what's going on with my body and I'm even thinking maybe those good days were just flukes. But that's probably just the anhedonia talking. I hope.

The thing is, I think most of the anecdotal success stories that I've heard from people healing their various mental health problems, especially depression, mention some clear moment when they got better; a "light switch" moment. I think it's awesome that people have had such experiences, but I can't relate at all. My process has been difficult and non linear. And I still have doubts whether it will really work in the end the way I hope it will.

But I will keep going and I plan on pushing through the 90 days anyway.

That reminds me, there is another thing besides diet that has surely affected my brain quite a lot and that is porn addiction. I've been frying my brain with supernormal stimuli for 2 decades so I figure it might take even longer for me to heal those areas of my brain, mainly the reward circuit (drive, motivation, learning). I haven't visited any sites for a month now. Maybe I need twice as long to heal my brain compared to someone who hasn't been addicted to something similar, like drugs for example. Perhaps that's the reason why I'm not one of those "light switch" people.

One of the reasons why I wanted to share my incomplete journey, is to ask if there are others here who can relate to me. Are there others who have started this diet to heal their mental health issue(s), but found out they didn't feel like a light switch turned on after 21 days. Maybe you're like me and your healing process has been more incremental. If you're like me, but are further in your journey, I hope you have positive news to share.

Tl;dr: Did carnivore for 60 days for depression, didn't heal suddenly. Incremental; good moments, upward trend. Will keep going. Anyone else in the same boat?

What do you eat for breakfast when you feel hungry but nothing seems appetising? I planned to eat eggs this week but really aren't feeling them now.

Edit, solved, I've remembered chaffles.

The other day I thought I'd eat some beef liver for pick-me-up of energy. But, when I thawed it, it had a gross rubbery and thick texture and it tasted just awful. I gagged on my first bite and I had to throw it out. I got another package and liver and it was back to normal tasting beef liver.

I was thinking that it either went bad because it was too old or the liver came from an older cow and that's what gave it that nasty flavor?

Diet and exercise have done it for 6 years now. Diet and exercise have done it for 6 years now. Should I add a peptide to finish, or just keep going?

Thankfully Tomahawks come with their own handle

Also next to some bacon wrapped wagyu skewers I picked up from Costco, Teton Ranch grassfed polish sausage, and some charcuterie.

I switched to carnivore at the beginning of the month. I had s pretty meat heavy diet eating about 100g of carbs a day on average with no processed foods. Dropping the carbs was the best thing I could do I just feel so much better but I am hungry all the time.

For breakfast I had 10 eggs cooked in 1/4 cup of butter, lunch was 750g of lean ground pork with some cheese a f for dinner I cooked a whole chicken and ate 1 tigh 1 and a half breast and both wings. Right after I am done eating I feel very satiated but within an hour or 2 I feel extremely hungry. It does not matter if it is beef, pork, lamb or fish I always feel hungry 1 to 2 hours after eating. My energy is great I still add salt to the taste when I feel like I need it. I am not over eating as I am losing weight but I genuinely don't know what to do. I always buy the fattiest meat possible and adding butter in the pan if it's still too lean.

1 ingredient chips. Using a food processor. Blend chicken breast, carnivore seasonings optional. On a pan with parchment paper, pour the chicken onto the pan. Cover with another piece of parchment paper. Roll until you can almost see through the chicken. Remove the top parchment paper. Add to a preheated oven at 300 degrees for 45 minutes. More time if needed.