Episode 332: Carnivore Q&A with Dr Anthony Chaffee | Dec 30, 2026

All right. Hello, everyone. Thank you very much for joining this week's YouTube live. Sorry. I had to start a bit later than normal had got stuck in a lot of meetings. So, but good meetings so that there's a very good things happening, which is great. So different sports teams that contacted me about getting their players transitions. So we're doing that. But yeah, so that's that's pretty exciting too. So thank you all for joining in. And also wanted to let you guys know for World Carnival Month coming up in a couple of days will be launching our new 90 day challenge. So that's going to have a lot of for carnival. That's going to be on mighty networks. You look up Dr. Anthony JP's carnival challenge on mighty networks or there'll be a link in the description as well as in the chats and things like that and put that up there. There it is there. And but you can also find on my website at doctor Anthony chafy.com so dr Anthony chafy.com or it's in bio on Instagram and so on YouTube and all these other sorts of places. So you can find that if you like. We're doing a 90 day challenge because it's you know 30 days is good but you know really you don't get the full breadth of of understanding about how this affects your body and you know less than 90 days really so it's really, really good. It's a really good length of time to get through that transition period. They can take two or three weeks and then you actually just start improving improving improving. And then you see a lot of a lot of very good benefits at the end of that and then you can be more motivated to stick with it if you're seeing a lot of a lot of improvements. So check that out. We already have over 100 people that have joined for that, which is great. And we have a lot of brand new resources done over sort of semi against my will done about set over 70 different brand new videos for this so that we have sort of that content just for the challenge to really walk you through step by step on how you do this and how you succeed at it. How do you navigate different social situations and deal with oxalates or deal with histamines or deal with this or deal with that and the other thing. So a lot of resources there and of course you're having weekly Q&As and for support and all that sort of stuff and great moderators who are very experienced and very helpful. So if you want to check that out, you know, please do or share that with someone who you think would benefit for that or get into them as a gift or something like that too because we're really proud of it. I think this is going to be something that works really well for people. So check it out at the link provided or check out my website and see over there. There's a super chat here which is very nice of this person so guide on we did not believe. Thank you very much for the super chat. I'm not seeing a there we go. There's a question. So I said I never felt better and I have never experienced such traumatic results and benefits. I literally gained 15 to 20 years in my life back and create this sort of information inspiration on the topic. Well, thank you for that. I appreciate that. However, I've increased the plaque buildup why and why so rapidly also what toothpaste would you recommend. So I'm assuming you're doing a plaque dental plaque. People's oral biome change dramatically when they when they start eating different things and so plaque level can change some people actually find that there's a much much less plaque. But as the oral biome change is you're going to have differences in that as well. So the thing is is that it's it's you generally or yes, you can get sort of some buildup of plaques. But you shouldn't be cultivating the bacteria that cause cavities or cause gum disease because those require carbohydrates basically. So or or indirectly require carbohydrates such as prefer amount of change of Alice, which causes gum disease, gingivitis, but can own what you even though it doesn't eat carbohydrates, it can't survive without Candida, which does require carbohydrates, it does the carbohydrates. So they grow a sort of a dual biofilm and without Candida, you don't get prefer him on us. So that dies out too if you stop eating carbs. So even though you can get a bit of plaque and buildup, you know, that's actually pretty normal. You look at prehistoric and pre agricultural fossils and dental records actually did have calcification and plaques and tartar buildup around there actually filled in the gaps in the teeth so they didn't need to floss because there's nothing to floss anyway because there's all sort of filled in. And that likely was protective and they had their teeth in their whole life. So that seems to be just a normal natural response sort of building up that bit of calcification and we're sort of trying to brush it away and get it away, but that actually was very normal to build up that that sort of tartar and things like that or plaque or whatever you want to call it. And that sort of a bit around the teeth and sort of in between the teeth and things like that. I'm not saying that you should necessarily do that now. I do Russian floss my teeth, but with baking soda and non-flooridated toothpaste and things like that more natural ones. But, you know, I don't think it's necessarily going to cause a problem. So if you have a bit more tartar and a bit more plaque, I wouldn't worry too much about it, but that can be normal. But it's just your oral biome changes so that can change how much you build up at any given time, but it should still be difficult for you to get cavities and gingivitis. You shouldn't have those types of bacteria. It's just good. So the question of life is awesome. Doctor, my friend is a vegetarian for almost 30 years, and doctors are useless to help her get better. Could you give someone advice to long-term begins with low mineral transition to a carnival, please? Well, look, you know, I mean, these people who have done these sorts of things typically have done it for the right reasons. If they've been convinced that this is good for their health, this is good for the environment, this is good for the animals. And unfortunately, they just have their good intentions co-opted and taken advantage of. And it's not the healthiest way to eat. It's not the best thing for the environment. It's not actually even the best thing for the animals as it turns out. You know, using all the poisons and the sprays and the toxins and the clearing out entire ecosystem destroying all these animal habitats and killing all the bugs that are the basis of the food chain. And using those same poisons that kill the bugs also kill the birds and fish and the bees and all these other sorts of things. So it's actually a huge, huge, huge ecological damage from growing these giant crops and using these toxins and poisons to grow these crops. So you will definitely be nutritionally deficient, even generally when supplementing heavily. And I see this all the time in my practice, just people eating a normal diet. They're typically quite nutritionally deficient, and that's getting hidden because the way we measure nutrients are with blood tests, and that's an average. And so the average people in that area, that's the reference range. So basically the first few thousand people that walk in the door when they're making these reference ranges, that's the reference range. And most people getting their blood tested are sick, and they're being tempted by the doctor because there's a problem, right? So you're testing the worst of a sick population, of a sick malnourished population, and that's not going to get you a good reference range. So if you're in that reference range, that sort of means your average for a sick deficient population. And that hides it because now if everybody's deficient, no, no, it's deficient. And it's funny, because people say nutrition has some professional nutrition actually said, can't you call her because it's deficient in magnesium. My magnesium is above the reference range. So, you know, and in Australia where the soil is actually very deficient in magnesium, specifically, and other minerals as well, but magnesium specifically. So why is my magnesium above the reference range? The average soil is well above the average, basically, because the reference range is average. So, the way to transition is you just start reintroducing these animal-based food, you start reintroducing meat, you start reintroducing animal fats. And high density, once you try to get some organs, things like that, those are really good. And some people don't like organs, but they are extremely nutrient-dense. I'm trying to mix those in, even just a couple of ounces, three days a week, those are very long way. And so that will start increasing the nutrient status. There's never a bad time to get proper nutrition. There's never a bad time to stop eating poison. There's never a bad time to get enough vitamins. So, it shouldn't shock the system, but it might shock their sensibilities because they have an eateness in a while, so they can ease into it. But starting to eat more meat, eat more meat, start eating less of the other stuff, is going to make a big difference in their health. And may actually find that a lot of the health issues that your friend has been struggling with just go away within weeks or months of changing or diet, and hopefully it does. And it has for many people, I would estimate 60-70% of the people that follow me on YouTube and social media were at one point plant-based vegan or vegetarian or even vegan. The vast majority of people that follow me have tried that at one point or another, maybe they were long term, or maybe they did it for a while, and they just really significantly hurt their health. And so they had to stop it, but the vast majority of people were at one point plant-based who follow me or even full vegan. And they had to stop because it was not sustainable and was not healthy, and it wasn't something that they could do. So you can get a lot of advice, so maybe people that have been there can comment on that and give your advice and your experience with it. And just also just say, hey, yeah, that was me. I switched and these were the results. And these were the improvements. If there were improvements, which I'm sure there were. And then that can be very inspirational for other people saying, hey, okay, I'm in this vegetarian state. I've been vegetarian for 30 years. I'm not feeling well, this other person was there too. This person was there too. This person was too and they all improved. Okay, well maybe this is a good idea for me to change. I've interviewed many people who were long-term vegetarians like Claire Keith, who wrote a book called Vegetarian Myth, and she was vegan vegetarian for decades. And then she switched off that and went to a carnivore actually. And she's at least the last time I spoke to her, we were doing very, very well with that, which is great. And that's really important to get people's health back because all you have is your health, that's it. And once your health is gone, nothing else matters. That's what this saying goes, is everyone's got a thousand problems until they get a health issue. And then they only have one problem. And it's a big one. So I would look at those. I mean there's gentleman, he was vegan vegetarian for like 22 years. And that was a great interview, he was a really funny guy. And I have a lot of these videos, people that were previously plant-based and made that change and the significant benefits that they saw. So I'll take a look and see if you can find those and maybe show those to her. And yeah, maybe you can get Blair's book on the vegetarian myth. And there's the great plant-based con that's another good one too. So those are those you could books to get to. And then in my interviews with the authors, like Claire, and so on. So yeah, take those out and also comments. Please, people do comment if you experienced transitioning from that base to carnivore or your experiences. And that can really help people out. OK, circuit seven. Thank you for the super chat. Not long since I went carnivore and quit caffeine. So I'm still new. But how long until I feel normal? I wake up braug even after 8 to 10. I was asleep. Dad, look, you can take a little time, especially when you're withdrawn from caffeine and you take a couple of weeks before you start getting better from that. Keto adaptation can take weeks to even months to get full keto adapted. So just give that time. Also, you just need to make sure that you're eating enough and you're eating enough fat because one thing that people can have energy issues from is when they're not eating enough fat and they can have really poor energy. So even if you have excess fat on your body, that's not necessarily enough. You actually need dietary fat as well. It's a nutrient. It's not just an energy source, but it is an energy source. And if you are exclusively eating lean or if you're eating too lean and you're not getting enough fat, that can absolutely wreck your energy levels. So try to make sure you're eating enough fat. Make sure you're eating fat to the point you get soft stools, but not loose stools. You're having coffee, tea, caffeine, even decaf. Magnesium supplements or medications, sweeteners, seasonal act is laxatives. And that can hide the fact that you're not eating enough fat. So keep that in mind. And the other thing is that there's just a transition phase. That's the main one. So if you're doing everything right, they're still going to take-- it's still going to take time. It's still going to take several weeks before you're really starting to home and take off. Most people start feeling a lot better and have a lot better energy after a few weeks. Some people take a few months. Even more rarely, but sometimes it happens. I've seen people take up to six months than all of a sudden, just things kick in and they just feel a lot better. There's probably something underlying at that point. So it's where nutritional, now absorption issue, low B12 or an underlying thyroid issue or something like that, that they work previously on a wearup. And you could also check for that. If you've been going for a couple of months and you're not feeling better and having better energy, there's probably something underlying that you can get checked out and hopefully spruce up. Hadins liver three days a week and get the B vitamins up, get all those nutrients up. And hopefully that sorts things out as well. So a good look with that. OK, so my life is awesome. So if your mom's here on it, give them some love. So thank you for that. I'm glad you had the-- yeah, a lot of thanks go to the moderators who do a great job with these lives and all my different groups and things like that. And be thankful to know that a lot of those mods will be helping out with the 90-day challenge as well, which is great, because they're very, very helpful, and very knowledgeable. So thank you very much, moderators. Jabo says, hello from Utah. Dr. Shabie Big fan carnivore for her 432 days, endurance cyclist, love Tim Noakes, and his work on managing plug glucose for endurance athletes. Well, it's great. And yeah, everyone talks about that with endurance cyclists. And there's like, oh, no one's doing this on a cyclic. A lot of people are doing this with cycling and finding that they feel a lot better. And so I'm glad that you figured that out as well. And hopefully you're doing a lot better as well. OK. So David Rogers had a question here, which was, what advice, including dietary, would you have for a paramedical pausal woman who has just developed frozen shoulders? Well, frozen shoulders is sort of its own thing, but paramedical pauses can be drastically improved with dietary changes, because the things that you eat affect your hormones. And so if you're eating carbohydrates, that raises insulin, insulin blocks estrogen production and women, which will put you into paramedical pauses when you're not necessarily supposed to be in it, or even push you all the way past that into full-blown menopause. Typically, when you get rid of carbohydrates, that can improve estrogen production, and then paramedical pauses become not paramedical pauses, and just not menopause, just normal retinal. Getting rid of plants, going to plant free key to genetic diet, that can improve things even more, because plants have hormonal disruptors and they can call endocrine disruptors. And so when you get rid of those, that can help normalize your hormones as well. So it can massively improve things. I can't even tell you how many patients I've had, and I've come out of paramedical pauses in their 30s and 40s by changing their diet and going to carnivore within months. It's massive, massive recovery. Getting their periods back, normalizing their periods, much better estrogen levels, on blood tests, feeling better as well. I've even had six patients, now six ladies in their mid 50s, who have come out of menopause by going to the genetic carnivore. It's a huge. So can't say they'll happen for everybody, but at least it happened for them. And it will change how your hormones are produced and utilized. So that can definitely get them. For the frozen shoulder side of things, that's quite often a lot of scar tissue. You need to work with a physical therapist. And I try to work on that, try to get more mobility back, certainly being ketogenic and ketogenic carnivore can reduce the inflammation and pain, swelling, things like that that will hopefully help the frozen shoulder as well. But sometimes you have frozen shoulder, you actually have scar tissue that's just blocked. And sometimes you have to do is call the release, catch the release where-- I mean, you get put under anesthesia because it's very painful, and you have to make them relax. You can't manipulate them around and you're going to just naturally tense up to protect yourself. But basically, you just pull the joint through all the different ranges of motion and the right way. You're not just randomly ripping their arm around, but you're just breaking through that scar tissue. That's it. And it's pretty brutal. You're a lot of cracks and pops and rinses. You're like, oh, it's gotten up. And then you might actually go in and scope and pull out those big chunks of scar tissue that just float it off. And then you have to rehab it and keep that range of motion right, or else it can freeze up again before more scar tissue. But hopefully, going to ketogenic carnivore can help reduce the inflammation and pain. And with rehab and therapy, physio, maybe you can get that range of motion back and avoid that surgery, possibly. That would be ideal. If it needs to happen, then it needs to happen. At least we have that available to her. And so hopefully, she just gets better all on her own. So good luck with that. Also, there's been a number of vegetarian comments here. And actually, I had a list of my moderators. She let me know that in the comments, while you guys were patiently or maybe not so patiently waiting for me to finish up my other meetings that you guys got a couple of vegetarians to consider eating meat or going carnivore. So well done. And again, the intentions are still the same. They're still good and pure, just like us, good and pure carnivores. It's just that they've been told the wrong information. So we want to help ourselves. All of us are just trying to do the right thing. We're trying to be healthy, trying to help our kids be healthy, be good stewards of the planet and ecosystem and the animals that are in our care. And we just come across different information that leads us to say, OK, this is the best way to do that. And there are more than one ways to skin a cat, but sometimes there are better ways as well. And so I'm glad that you guys have been open-minded enough to sort of consider something else and try something new. And I'm sure you'll get a lot of health benefits as a result of that. So good job for you guys being open-minded and being willing to try something new. OK, so plant-sparing carnivore. Thank you so much for the super chat. It's very kind of you. For someone vegetarian for over 50 years with declining physical and mental health, how should a meat-based ketogenic diet be introduced to support recovery from long-term plant toxic exposure and adaptation to animal-based nutrition? So similar to what I was saying before, you can just start reintroducing things. The main issue is not that these chemicals and compounds in the meat are going to cause some sort of physiological disruption or detriment. By transitioning, it's more that their brains have been in vegetarian mode for 50 years. And that's really hard to do anything else. But once they start eating meat, their brains will start to turn on. Their body will start to feel better. And I mean, there's so many people that have been vegan, vegetarian for long-term. And they just felt so horrible. And I said, I got one and ate some fish. And it was like my brain turned off in the first time in years. I have patients that plant-based or some sort of issue. And the B12 is in the normal reference range, but way lower than it should be. And you give them an injection. And the same thing, they say their brain felt like the brain turned off for the first time in years. So these nutrients, just getting these nutrients in the body or going to improve their health. And so the transition really comes from their ability to sort of get their head around eating meat again. If they haven't been doing meat for a very long time, that can be hard for people. Because their whole identity and ideology and just the least structured sort of revolves around not eating meat. And now they're eating meat. And so it's just like, am I supposed to be doing this? And the body gets sort of rebelling. You can even get psychosomatic responses, where you might feel like, oh, no, I shouldn't be doing this. Because they've been telling themselves 50 years that they shouldn't be doing this. But that's a conditioned response. And that can be the condition. And the body can just get back to normal. And so the main thing with improving from toxic exposure is getting away from that toxic exposure. That's what you have to do. You can have permanent damage from that toxic exposure. But once you get rid of that toxic exposure completely and you get all the nutrients that your body needs, you can undo a lot of that damage, a lot of that damage. And it started improving from there anyway. Are you going to be exactly the same as you would be if you're just eating the meat your whole life? Maybe, maybe not, but who cares? You're going to be better than you were last week anyway. So that's really good. So I would just start introducing more meat. I'll start cutting out other things. If you're eating junk food, obviously that stuff goes out, anything in the packet is out the window. Anything with carbs and grains and seeds and beans and legumes, that's what I would take out next. I'll start wining these things down. I'd start eating more meat. And start getting used to eating the fat, adding in a bit of liver, bit of kidneys, maybe in some heart. Because those are some of the most nutrient-dense foods that you can have on the surface. And being vegetarian for 50 years, they are going to be nutritionally deficient massively. And so you need to replace those nutrients. And then start building up those meats in animal fats and organs. And still don't need to go more than a few ounces of each of those organs, three days a week, three, four days a week. And then just eating more meat and fat and meat at that. And then start reducing more and more and more. But have a clear date, hey, let me cut this out here, this out here, this out here, and this out here. And then get down to the point where you're just eating as much meat, fat and meat, and eggs as she wants. Or as they want, I don't know who they are here. And then maybe just down to two-fist size servings of non-starchy vegetables per day. So that's a really limiting amount of vegetables. And they can do them all with that, maybe even try cutting up the vegetables and just eating the fatty meat next. And so that's the main transition. It's not healthy. She could just-- or he or she could just stop right now. And only fatty meat and cut out all vegetables and would just improve. But there's a mental aspect of it just like, oh, I shouldn't be doing that. As you can get psychosomatic changes. And maybe sometimes it can be a transition, can be hard on people. And as if you do it, just sort of at the drop of the hat, maybe that's too much. And they're like, oh, OK, an auction of dungs. So just meaning things down a bit can help with that transition as well. But so that's very reasonable to do as that transition. But just encouraging more meat and animal fats and organs in particular, catch up on those nutrients and then start cutting out all those things systematically until you get down to a more ketogenic corn of work space. And they're just going to keep improving all the way through until they finally get to there. There's zenith at a corn of or die, too. So good luck. Hopefully they do well, I'm sure they will. So clone 47 at a question here, which was, is it possible to be on a corn of work diet while on cholesterol-loan medications with high LDL? Yeah, absolutely. And you can be on a corn of work diet on any medication. Just remember that you may not require all of the same amounts of medication with time as you need to work with your doctor on deep prescribing. The major part of my practice is to actually deep prescribing people off of medications that they no longer need. So you can think about that. And you can also look at my playlist on YouTube called heart disease and cholesterol or cholesterol and heart disease or something like that. But there's a lot of videos on there talking about cholesterol on its link or lack of a link with cardiovascular disease. And then you get that information, then you can make an informed decision. Because everything's about informed consent. And it's not just about like, oh, this is what you need to just do it. That's on informed consent. If you don't tell someone the pros and the cons and all the backstory and the other arguments of, well, actually there are no studies showing the cause of an effect relationship between cholesterol and heart disease. Actually, there are randomized control trials showing that there's a complete opposite. There is no connection between cholesterol and heart disease and that as you replace like an administrative coronary experiment, as you replace an animal fat with vegetable oils and reduce LDL. It actually more people die of heart attacks and strokes as a result in a dose-dependent relationship. So the lower the LDL goes, the more people die of heart attacks and strokes. If they haven't told you that, then you don't have informed consent. And that is inappropriate and malpractice to put you on a drug that you have not actually given informed consent about. Whether technical or physical or mental practice may or may not. But it's not ethical anyway. You need to give all the information with people so they can make an indecision. Now, the reality is that you can't give all the information that's nailers is just too much. Give a little pamphlet. Here you go. Would you need to at least give it a shot? And in fact, the matter is, most doctors aren't even aware of those randomized control trials, because they were buried. That's quite simply what happened. So maybe watch those videos. And then you'll have more information so you can make a more informed decision. Again, you're never going to get perfect informed consent, because nobody has all the information on any of these subject or drugs. But at least you'll have more information to be able to make a decision. But yes, you can absolutely do carnivore diet while on cholesterol and medications, or any other medications, because it's just nutrients. You're just getting nutrition. There's nothing special about this. This is just raw nutrients. So it's not, can I do this in this circumstance? It's just nutrients. Can I get essential nutrients while doing X? The answer's always going to be yes. Can I stop eating poison even when I'm doing Y? Answer's always going to be yes. Unless that poison is some sort of medication that's helping you in a certain situation. But yeah, you can definitely do that. And then again, you may not need as much medications going forward as well. OK. See, so we have-- go to the super chat here from Samokal. Thank you so much for the very generous super chat. It's very, very kind of you. Samo says grains of legumes contain phytates and lectins that bind key minerals. Irritate the gut. Would you stomach acid, impair absorption of iron, zinc, B12, magnesium, et cetera? Progressively weakened digestion. Yet they're pushed for health. Why? Thank you for all you do. Yeah, that's a very good question. You know, that's a big answer to that. And I'll try to do it as briefly as possible. But the plant-based movement started actually in the early 1800s with the puritanical movement with the temperance movement. Because there are people that figured out that if you're eating more plant-based dieting, a lot more vegetables and things like that, this actually suppressed sexual urges. And you may less meet the suppressed sexual urges. And so women, especially in 1800s, were encouraged to eat a plant-based diet in order to suppress their sexual urges. Because obviously, you don't have them going around and having sex before marriage and all that sort of stuff. And lust was a sin and so on. So that was sort of being pushed at that point. I actually read an article about that time, sort of that pre-victorian era. That's actually where things changed. And before sort of 1810, people actually thought-- just recognize that plants were harmful. They weren't good to eat. They were vegetables were toxic. We need them. And then they started making the different cuisines and different than this, and that's, and oh, OK. So they became-- sort of came into fashion for different sort of weird dishes and things like that. And that's right around that time that they people started saying, hey, if you eat more plants than they're total suppressor sexual urges, so I don't know if that sort of came along that they figured that out first, and then that got incorporated into the cuisine and the food of the day, or what, but they all sort of happened at the same time. And before that, before the 1800s, I actually recognized that vegetables were not good for you. And they weren't healthy. And they would sprout, and they would ferment them. They would do all these sorts of things to lower that toxic load. Then the seventh day, I met just church, one of the founders, Ellen Chiwai. She says she had a vision from God saying that meat was simple, and that it caused lustful feelings, and that lust was a sin there for meat was a sin. And they started pushing this plant-based ideology from a religious standpoint. But they were very influential. So one of her protégés was named John Harvey Kellogg, who started Kellogg's cereals, in order to push a plant-based diet-on-people, in order to suppress sexual urges. And he said this, that was the purpose of corn flakes. And if you think about it, corn is a really good thing for him to have used, because corn can block out up to 100% on zinc absorption from your food. And so you'll get no zinc absorption. Even if there's zinc in the food, it will not absorb it if you eat it with corn, certainly a certain amount of corn. And you cannot make testosterone without zinc. And you'll get no thyroid function without zinc either. So that really creates your hormones up, and it will drop your libido. Absolutely, because your testosterone will drop down, both men and women will suppress their testosterone. And you will not have an overall response in the libido response. And so that was on purpose. I don't think they knew about the zinc at the time, but we know about it now. And they did find that corn suppressed sexual urges. So this is what they said. You should eat corn to suppress your sexual urges. And they were very influential on early nutritional sciences. So the American Nutrition and Dietetics Association was founded by a lady named Lena Cooper, who was a seven-day eventist, pushed a plant-based ideology, and wrote the first university textbook on nutrition. And it was all plant-based. It was published in 1925, I believe. And I just kept pushing this. And so they've been instrumental in changing policies and pushing college curriculum on nutrition sciences from the beginning. And they pushed this and pushed this and pushed this. But then Kellogg's was very influential, and dozens and dozens and dozens of serial companies came up out of that balcony, Michigan, which is where he had his hospital. And he was also like a post, like post-serials. That was a patient of his. And so Mr. Post went and founded post-serials. And so all these things just grew up around him. The eventist church founded over 20 different serial companies themselves that they don't pay taxes on, because it's a church equivalent of a church bake sale, basically. Sanitarian booze is the largest serial producer in Australia. That's still owned by the seven-day eventist church. So they're actually still very much involved. In fact, they have pushed a nutritional epidemiology to the nth degree. They fund people like Walter Willett and other nutritional researchers who push ideology over science and health, and they're also the peer reviewers. So when you submit something for a peer review, and it doesn't find what they want, it may not go through if they're the ones that catch that in peer review. So you have to be mindful of that. And the McGovern report, which was the one that sort of said, go, yeah, we should stop being fat and cholesterol-caused, heart disease written by a seven-day eventist member. So there are a lot of influence. But then they started this process boot industry that turned it to its own fractured stones. Monster went off and did its own thing. And now that has a very, very, very high profit motive and a life of its own. And the things that's all plant-based, isn't it? And so they know that if you go plant-based, you stop eating meat. That you don't eat fresh legumes. And this isn't that. So you eat packaged food. So they say, oh, look how healthy legumes are. Look how healthy these are. Look how they're ignoring the fight tapes and the lectins and all the other sorts of issues. Because they want to just focus on, hey, look, this is-- look at these good things in here. They ignore all the good things, cherry picking, ignore all the bad things, right? And the thing is that they know that you're not going to go and eat a whole bunch of grains of legumes. You might sometimes-- but really what you're going to do is you're going to buy packaged food. Because it's easier, it can be cheaper, too. And so you end up not doing that. And so the other thing, too, is that growing these grains with umes and beans and seeds and all that sort of stuff is actually a big business. Not for the farmers, farmers get screwed. But for the ag companies, my goodness, it's huge. So they know what you can sell an acre of wheat for. And so they all-- it's like price fixing is really illegal. But they can ratchet up their costs, their prices, so that basically you're only going to make $10 an acre or something like that. And then they know what you're getting paid on the back end. So they're going to charge you just below that. And then something goes wrong. Now you're losing money. And so some farmers are having to spend, going to debt, take loans on their land and their property for $400,000, $500,000 a year. They're spending $500,000 a year to work in soil all year. So they're not the ones making it. And then there's government bail us out. You need to save the American farmers. It's going to hurt more tens of billions of dollars to do that. That is not going to go to the farmer that goes to their debt collectors. And they know that they can keep no key in these people and charge them-- these rates that they basically are going to go under if they keep doing this. But then they'll get bailed out. And then that will just come to them too. And they'll just keep making money. And then they sell that for barely anything. But then they market up and sell it for a huge markup. So it's actually a big business. It is big business growing grains and plants and monoprops and things like that. And the other thing is that when you push that, most people don't buy fresh quinoa and all that sort of stuff or grow their own garden or anything like that. They're buying heavily processed package that come from these big multinational companies that make a huge profit. And they don't care about you. They don't care about the farmers. They don't care about anybody except the bottom line. And that's one thing. If you're providing a product that is beneficial and people want to buy it, but when you monopolize the market and you do price fixing and you're manipulating those markets, that's not OK. That's got to go. And so that's what's happening now, unfortunately. That's happening in the meat industry as well. And they're burning down processing plants and they're trying to kill herds and saying that we need to do this for the environments. We need to wipe out all these cows. What is that going to do? That's going to make things more expensive. It's going to make it difficult to get. It's going to make them more money. And give them more control because if you control the food, supply you control people. That's it, because people got to eat. And if you're-- you can control them through their food, you can absolutely do that. So there's a lot of stuff going on there. But yeah, crazy legumes. But don't discount the influence of the 70-adventures church and those activists. The process food industry spends billions of dollars a year on nutritional research. And it's all promoting plant-based diet and plant-based agenda, because that's their product at the end of the day. Coca-Cola alone spent $119 million just in 2015 alone on nutritional studies, specifically. So they spend a lot of money. They all spend a lot of money. That was a decade ago. How much are they spending now? One of those studies coming up with showing that if you feed rats Coca-Cola, they lose weight. I bet they do. Sure. Now you have to say, come on. It's just so transparent at this point. I mean, you just can't even take anything seriously. But the 70-adventures church is still going. They're still going strong. There are several of them on that WHO commission that said that meat was a carcinogen, total bullshit. They threw away hundreds of high-quality studies that showed no correlation whatsoever between meat and cancer of any form and even processed meat. People on that panel said, hey, you guys need to clear your bias. Your vegans, vegetarians, and 70-adventures. You need to say that you were biased against this, and then refused. So it's just-- and now that's down, and people don't know that. So they just think, oh, meat's a carcinogen. That hell it is. I mean, give me a break. Cancer rates were extremely low just a century ago. Two centuries ago, even more rare than that. And we're eating far more meat in the early 1800s than we were in the early 1900s when all these diseases started going nuts. So that's nonsense. And that's been published. University of Washington published a systematic review looking at all the available studies on this. They found absolutely no connection between meat and cancer with any form, even processed meat, and certainly not unprocessed red meat. And the studies they did show a very, very weak link. It was very weak. And they said that they were, quote, junk studies and lazy science. And so that's what the WHO used. And that was influenced by the 70-adventures church who also have financial ties to the connections to different research groups and WHO, et cetera. And then they also, more recently, or very recently, founded a sort of a certificate that you can get in medicine called lifestyle medicine. It's not a real residency. You don't have to train for four years to do this. It's like an online course. Crush it out in a number of hours. And now people are going around saying that they're bored, certified in lifestyle medicine. There's no such thing as a board certification. In lifestyle medicine, it's not a board certificate. It's not a specialty, but they're trying to pass themselves off as attendings and consultants in lifestyle medicine, which is a con. Anybody who says they're bored, certified in lifestyle medicine, you know that they're trying to con you. And because there's no such thing as a board certification in lifestyle medicine, that's not-- I think it's a certificate. You're certified as an you have a certificate. It's an online certificate. It's not-- I would say it's not worth the paper. It's printed on. It's not even printed on paper. It's an online digital certificate. It might send you one out. But it's an online certificate, a certain certification. And it's done by the seven-day Adventist Church. And lifestyle medicine makes sense. In a way, you're going to do diet and lifestyle interventions so that you improve your health. So you don't need all these medications. Totally behind that, that's what I do in my practice. But what is the diet that they're pushing? It's a vegan diet. It's a vegetarian diet. It's a seven-day Adventist diet. So it's just a Trojan horse to push their plant-based ideology. So it's pretty crazy. But there's a lot there. And so I have a video on what was it called? It was a presentation. It was called "The Hill Was It." There are so many about our nutrition medical guidelines are corrupt. And I go into that a lot there. But that's a bit of a short form of that. But now there's sort of a weight of inertia. Where there's just been even pushing this plant-based ideology for so long because we're saying meat's bad. Therefore, plants are good. Plants, plants, plants, plants, plants. Because you can't eat meat, because that causes heart disease. So you have to eat plants. You have to keep talking about how great plants are. And so that's what it is. It's just so many different directions. And it's just been pushing for so long. That's where we are. But yeah, objectively, those things have toxins. And anti-nutrients. And are harmful. And don't contain all the nutrients we need. And block out the nutrients we do get from them for meat. So how can this be a benefit to our health? Clearly isn't, except if you're starting. And then, let me if it's sprouted, implemented, and boiled to hell to make sure that it lowers its toxic load. But no, it's not good for you. And it subjectively has harmful things in it. And more people are waking up to that fact. So Josh, he got Josh Hyben. Anyway, thank you very much for the super chat. Sorry to put your name. Dear Dr. Shafan, I'm experiencing severe stomach cancer nausea following the week of Moxicillin three times daily for a telefection, been done with the course band lives for a week. Thanks. Yeah, well, you could very well disrupt your microbiome. You could infer to gut. And a bottle should be very notorious for damaging the gut and getting nausea. And you die rea, and these sorts of things. And stomach cancer. Yeah, I'm really sorry to hear that. Usually after about a week, things do come down. But you could try a bit of fermented foods, as well, like fermented yogurt. But you put that like a teaspoon of it on meat, or even less than that, on a bit of meat, chew it up thoroughly together to get those bacteria sort of walked into the inside of the meat. And then you swallow that to try to protect it through the stomach acid, may not do much. But it is at least something. If you're just eating spoonfuls of yogurt, it'll just die in the stomach. So you won't even look at past that. And so I would try that. I've never really needed to take antibiotics in the last decade. But the once or twice or whatever that I did-- can't remember-- but anyway, it's at least once. And I did have some yogurt after that. I didn't have any of the stomach pains or things like that. But I just had a tiny little bit of yogurt on meat, as I was on that-- I don't know if it's necessarily but on the antibiotics, and then for like a week after that. And once you reestablish that microbiome, it should be able to just self-perpetuate. So you try that. I would try getting rid of everything else. If there's anything else still on your body and your system, then I'll get rid of that. But sometimes when you have antibiotics, it can cause GI issues. It's a very common side effect of that. And they can persist as well, especially if you're not going to buy them, gets a bit damaged. So that's what I would try. Hopefully it just clears up on its own fairly soon. All right, Greg, on the go. In fact, I actually probably cut the super chats now. I probably have to cut the super chats now here, guys, because I only have about an hour. And probably have to go over an hour to get all the super chats we already have. But Greg says, "Hi, Dr. J.P. successful. Four-year strict carnivore here 140 pounds gone." Wow, it's great. Sleep apnea gone among many other things. Comes you from Thailand, where I live. No question just showing appreciation. Well, thank you very much for that. Greg, I appreciate that. And fantastic. Really well done. I'm really glad to hear that you're doing so well. And it's really good to see more long-term carnivores doing fantastically well and not buying into the non-sensory state. Oh my gosh, you can only be in ketosis for 13 minutes. And then you'll die. It's non-sensory. ketosis is our natural metabolic state. It just is. That's the metabolic state that people are in the ice ages, in the Arctic circle, which we know people were in, and we know that they were thriving. And not just surviving, but thriving. Walking from Asia to North America over in ice bridge, 1,500 miles north of what is now Seattle, when Seattle was under a mile high block of ice. How much spring cabbage, cauliflower, and mangoes, are you getting in those conditions? Not much. Not many mangoes grow on ice. You usually need dirt for that and heat and light. Some light helps. So, of course, that's not true. And most animals on Earth are in a ketogenic state, because 7% of animals species are barnacles, and they just eat meat and fat. They're not eating carbohydrates. So they're a fat burning metabolism. That's what a ketogenic metabolism is. It's a fat burning metabolism. So they're in a fat burning metabolism. So are we? So are most herbivores. Because herbivores need fibers plants. They don't break down the fiber. It's the bacteria that eat the fiber and produce fat as a vibrant, and then the bacteria die off and get it absorbed as protein. So, gorillas and cows, callas, eat fibers, plants, but what they absorb is fat and protein. So again, very little carbohydrates. So they're not running the carbohydrates. They're running their fat stores. Like all animals do. You store fat so that you could burn fat. Certain a fat burning metabolism. You need to be, because it's not otherwise you can't burn your fat. So that's a ketogenic state. It's just a fat burning metabolism. That is a natural metabolic state of nearly every single animal in it. I don't know what the hell a honeybee has as far as this metabolism. You don't much care, because the vast majority of life is in a fat burning metabolism. And so we should be anyway. Keep going strong and glad to see that you do so well. OK. So, Slappeda of 52/16 says if a diabetic, pre-diabetic, those carnivore would dietary fat be stored as fat due to the Randall cycle and collagen stores being full. How to store it? Yeah, you'd be fine. So the thing is that just stopping the carbohydrates excess exogenous carbohydrates is going to be producing carbohydrates and producing ketones. And so you don't run into that issue. And you're not just going to be maxed out on your collagen, because you'll be losing your collagen and replenishing your glycogen. So you won't run into that. It's only when you're eating exogenous carbohydrates and fat. And you can sort of run into a bit of an issue there. But we do know that diabetes and pre-diabetic reverse those conditions by going ketogenic or ketogenic carnivore. And I see that in my practice all the time. And you can come up all your medications all of them. Eventually, some people may need to stay on some for some period of time. Some may need to stay on longer depending on how strict they are. But 100% of my patients that were diabetic, that were able to pre-diabetic, they were able to stick to a ketogenic carnivore diet. Problem solved. Goes away. Doesn't need medications anymore. It's fantastic. So you can just start, like anybody else. So it's very good. I recommend just jumping straight into it, especially because that helps people get going. And you sort of strike while they aren't spot. You get the sort of weight a bit or, oh, I'll do it a bit eventually. It's sort of you lose the drive and the impetus. And it sort of just goes away. So I would just jump into it. Just like anybody else in any other situation, start a carnivore diet. There's never a bad time to eat proper nutrition and just get the vitamins and minerals that your body needs. If you feel you're getting a bit of dysbiosis or gut issues are like that, and you feel that transitioning a bit more slowly is better for you, great. Most people do find just transitioning straight across. And so that's what I would recommend to give that a try first. So a good luck with that. I have a lot of videos on that, on playlists, on my YouTube channel, just getting started on a carnivore diet. Just especially the first several videos are very instructive on how to do this successfully and just to get on that. And there's no reason why to do it. There's multiple diabetes, too. And then obviously there's the groups. I have my 90 day challenge starting up in January. So January 1st or just in a couple of days now. And so those can be helpful as well. But yeah, just start their normal way. And just get going, and good luck with it. So Art Vork Jones, good name. I appreciate it. What do you think about stem cells for me and cartilage repair or just generally? It's interesting, especially for me, because I really want my damn patellar cartilage to get better. I damaged that from a kickboxing from an early age. Like that kickbox. It sounds 14 and sort of damaged the cartilage from knee strikes. And so that was unfortunate. But no, I don't have any other damage like cartilage or anything like that. Well, nature injuries didn't after decades of very overly aggressive sports, except for that. But I've tried different things. But every time I try to run, it doesn't hurt all that much. But what it does for it is I can deal with. But it does sort of start swelling up. And I get effusions in my knee, which then makes it so I can't really do much after that, which sucks. So I've actually thought about stem cells. We don't have much data. Unfortunately, we don't have a lot of human trials. Stem cells are not stem cells or not stem cells. It doesn't matter the quality. Where you get them from, are they autologous, are they your own stem cells? Where they get them from? How can they harvest them? Are they foreign stem cells? Are they fetal stem cells? So they cord stem cells. Are they where they're from? It makes a difference. There's different laws in different countries about which kinds of stem cells you can use, and how you can use them. And so this is why some people go to Mexico or Panama or other countries to do this. I get a patient that went to Kiev in Ukraine during the war and everything like that. And he was saying that it wasn't much going on. You wouldn't tell from being in Kiev that there was a war going on, and that hundreds of thousands of people were dying. The main thing that was that he had to fly into Poland and then take a taxi in, they cost him four grand, because they're trying to throw a war zone to get him into Kiev. But once he was there, he said everything was fine. I would recommend that. Because you never know what's going to happen in a confrontation, or a confrontation sort of situation at any time. But that was something that he did as well, found for stem cells. So the thing is that we don't have great studies on this yet. We don't have-- and also which ones are you studying? Which sort of stem cells are you studying? So it's something that it's very expensive. There are people that have done this and swear by it. There are a lot of top athletes that have been doing this. And some that I've spoken to said that it really helped them. My patient in the morning came to Kiev. He said it really helped him and his knee. And we had very bad knee pain for a long time. And then now it's just fine. He just squats normally, and all these sorts of things don't have any issues. So it depends. It's not clear and definitive. And if it were, you would have to differentiate from which stem cell line, what treatment, and all that sort of stuff, and how it was done. And it's very expensive. So it's not something that I would feel confident recommending to people and say, hey, you should go do this. This can help you. It's like, I think in Mexico, it's something like $25,000 per jolt, a lot of money. That's a lot of money. I mean, that's half a year's wage for the average American and the average else generally. And that's a lot of money. And so it's important to keep them. So if it's something that you can afford and you've tried all these other sorts of things, then you want to try it. Then you may be looking to one of those centers that have the better quality stem cells. And then there's other sort of ethical dilemmas as well, because some use stem cells from a fetus that have been imported. And so that may not work with some people. If they're like, no, that's not what I'm going to do. But you can also do things like core blood stem cells. There's different kinds of stem cells. There's a lot of different nuance here. It's not just stem cells. There's a lot of different kinds. And it could be taken from your fat tissues, fun down in injected tube. How efficacious is that? It doesn't seem to be as good as other things. But maybe it works just well for things like carolids. We need a lot of studies on that. It's not we don't have great data on that yet, unfortunately. So for the cost and the expense, it's not something that I can really say, yes, this is something that's highly recommendable. But that said, it is something that I'm starting to think like, is this what I have to do to get my damn knees working so that I can stop getting these effusions and I can go and play rugby again, because I would really like to. So those are my thoughts. On that sort of thing, I would just realize that we don't have great data, largely anecdotal. And that there is a difference between the different types of stem cells. And that will certainly make a significant difference in your outcomes. But that is very expensive. And so if it's not something that you can easily afford, I would probably wait and wait until we got more data. I wouldn't just try it as an experiment. I would definitely wait and see what comes out of it, which exact treatment worked the best. There was something that I heard recently that it was like, I think it was some group in Germany figured out some way to re-co-grow cartilage. And that that was very promising that might actually be something that we could then sort out without stem cells or maybe include stem cells. Who knows, but there does seem to be some sort of innovations. And so we'll see. But yeah, those are my thoughts. Very, very early days on stem cells for us the data we have. So just keep that in mind before we spend a lot of money. OK. So, BEX 1521. I really appreciate it. Dr. Chaffee, thank you for all you do. I've been through a very stressful year, and I could not have made it through, so well, if I hadn't caught a cute, cute work partner by changing the lives that you're helpful. Thank you very much. I really appreciate that. And I'm really glad to hear that you were helped by that. I know that in my life, you know, when things were really busy when I was in neurosurgery and you know, God, you can-- I mean, my longest week was 135 hours straight, and then just straight into the next week, right? So it wasn't like 135 hour a week, it was more like 500 hour a month, you know, it was just awful. And so it's sort of crazy to think about, you know, it should really only be, you know, like maybe 160 hour a month, and I'm doing like a 500 hour month, 400 hour month. It's a lot, it's a lot of work. And so probably the only thing that got me through that without going crazy was just being healthy and being able to eat the way I did, it was-- it was a lot of pressure, a lot of stress, a lot of poor sleep, and you know, dealing and trying to make split second decisions in the middle of the night, that affect if someone's going to live or die, and that's, you know, very stressful. But it was definitely doable because of L.A. And if I hadn't done that, I think it would be much different. I think back in my intern year, it was again working 120 hour weeks regularly. I did not work under 100 hours-- one single week in my intern year, not even work under 100 hours, once in a week in my intern year. It was generally 105 to 120, 122, so it was my longest. Now it was sustained. It was 244 hours in a two week period. So it's-- you know, I think about how I felt then. That was the longest year of my life. It was just like this is hell on earth. And then in neurosurgery, you're actually doing longer hours than that. And it's much more stressful and much more involved. It's just flew by. It's actually really enjoyable. And a lot easier. So I'm glad that you felt that as well, and you do so well. And thank you very much for sharing. I appreciate that. So Jay Blase, thank you very much for the super chat. Jay Blase says, what's your favorite fast food place for beef patties? That's a good question. I mean, I guess I have to probably say, like, this would be an America where that would be, because in Australia, you're sort of just limited to Burger King and McDonald's. They call Burger King Hungry Jacks here, because apparently he's just so low in pop place. I already had the name Burger King in Australia, and they wouldn't sell it. So they had to chase their whole franchise name in Australia. So it's called Hungry Jacks in Australia instead of Burger King. And so that's really how you have here. And so I was sort of crafting whatever is around. But usually McDonald's. But in America, when you have a bit more choice, there's some good options, actually. Five guys actually really like five guys. Those are really good in and out. When I'm in California, it's fantastic. Very salty, but still good. I like it. I think they're all brass fat as well. I might be misremembering, so don't quote me on that. But still good. Still tastes good. Carl's Jr., I'm always a little Carl's Jr., and that was also my favorite place as a kid. Kind of still like their beat patties now. But they don't have those open Washington. So generally my favorite go to is for change would be five guys. There's actually a place called Burger Master in Washington that they do, they actually do grass fed beef. And that's definitely advertised grass fed beef. And yeah, maybe I'm just thinking of that sort of into now. I don't actually know what down they do. But in any case, the Burger Master, they do this to grass fed. Those are really good too. I've got those several times. Kind of like those as well. So those would be some of my picks in the States anyway. Jack in the box is actually pretty good. As far as the big chains go, Jack in the box, I think their beat patties are actually quite good. So that's what I think about too. OK. So D. So binar says, I'm one of those people who can't lose weight for anything. Leptin is in the 50s. Can you talk about leptin resistance? I read somewhere that I should eat more often and adding carbs to fix it. No. So leptin is the satiety hormone. It comes from our fat stores and goes up to our brain, our hypothalamus. And it actually dictates some hormonal expression that will coordinate your metabolism. So if you have plenty of fat and plenty of leptin that goes up to the brain, the brain says, oh, look at all this leptin. We have all this energy, it's like a running gas gauge. It says, OK, we can actually reduce our hunger and increase the metabolism. Actually burn off some of this excess fat. We don't need all of this stuff. Great. What if your leptin is really low? You don't have a lot of fat. You're emaciated, starving, and on the desert somewhere. Your brain's not going to see as much leptin. It's going to say, OK, look, we're starving. We're emaciated. We actually slow down our metabolism. So that we store and retain as much of this energy as possible. We can't just use this and blow it out because we don't have anything to waste. It might be wintertime or something like that. And so it's for our family. And so your body coordinates your metabolism that way. And so when we see them in source starvation studies, where they sort of gave people really low food to last wait for a while within a plateau and they just sort of leveled off. And your bodies are slowed down in metabolism so that you could maintain at that famine level. And survive. And that's what life causes a surprise. Try to. And so the problem is that there are things that can block leptin. And so even if you have high leptin, like 50, it should be under five. It should be two to five. That doesn't mean that you have high leptin. Your body's like, oh, great. We'll slow down your metabolism. That's because you have leptin in resistance. And your leptin is being blocked at your hypothalamus from reaching your brain and reaching your hypothalamus. So there are things that block leptin. And eating carbs is not going to help because carbs raise insulin. Insulin blocks leptin. So eating carbs is the last thing you want to do. That actually increases your hunger signals. And if blocks leptin, so now your brain doesn't see the leptin, so it thinks your RMACA is starving in the desert or in the winter. And then you need to slow down your metabolism. And any food that you get in, you need to store that because you're going to die. And so that's what happens when you eat carbs is you block leptin and your brain picks your mace in. So what else blocks leptin? Fruit toast blocks leptin. That's the sweet part of sugar. And that's in fruit. So there's I don't know. Fruit sugar is good because it's natural. Our thing's natural. And fruit toast will block leptin. And it will upregulate insulin as well. And insulin, again, will block leptin. And also, it's a fast-door turmoil, which makes you against your fat. Alcohol blocks leptin. And leptins block leptin. Leptins are the plant toxins that we talked about earlier, like in bean seeds, for games, nuts. But she all plants have leptins to varying degrees, especially in anything on the seed of the plant, like a grain or a guise or nut or something like that. Those have very high leptins, night shades, potatoes, tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, tobacco, very high leptins. And they're harmful leptins as well. And so those combined in some receptors five times more tightly than insulin. So anything insulin can do, those leptins can do, like block leptins. So these leptins can actually bind to leptin so that it can never reach your hypothalamus. So going on to a ketogenic diet, reduces the sugar, or gets rid of the sugar, gets rid of the insulin, gets rid of the alcohol. That's three things right there, that block leptin. And then going plant-free ketogenic, carivore, that blocks out fourth thing of the leptins. So they get four major causes of block leptin, right there, just by changing your diet. There are two other major ones that you need to look out for, and well, there's probably others too, but these are the six main ones that I know about. Cortisol. So stress or sleep will raise cortisol. That will block leptin as well. And so if you average five hours of sleep or nine or less for just seven nights in a row, you, that's actually such a jump in your cortisol that you can actually give yourself pre-diabetes. Okay, that's how big of an impact is that. That's how big of an impact for sleep has. And it can take a full week of seven to eight hours of sleep to reverse that. So it's not just one or two good nights. It's like you need to stay in good sleep for a week at least. Stress. We live in a high stress society, a high stress environment. That's going to raise your ins, that's going to raise your cortisol. That's going to raise your blood sugar, raise your insulin, and it can block leptin. That's what that can cause you to, again, have weight issues as well, and cause citric acidity, things like that. They're difficult to lose weight when you stress down and pour sleep because you will trigger that deposition, especially in your belly. Around your belly and inside your gut, your visceral fat. And then strangely enough, blue light. So all this crap that we're doing right now, are these screens, and TVs, and phones, and just all LED lights. Where I don't keep these stupid things on, I just use natural light that's coming in, facing me from the window. I try to use natural light as much as possible. I try to keep these stupid things off as much as I can. I try to get out in the sun as much as I can because the artificial blue light blocks leptin at the level of the hypothalamus. And that's a major one. So if your blue light talks, you know, a whole bunch of LED lights and bright white lights, those are the worst. You want the soft yellow light that's better for your brain, that's better for your leptin. You also want low flicker or no flicker if you can get it. Lights, that's the whole other thing. But, and you get natural light when you get out in the sun. That also improves your other hormones as well and can improve your testosterone growth hormone and these sorts of things. Just getting out natural sunlight. It's a nutrient. You have to think of sunlight as a nutrient. And, you know, increases PDD and F brain drive into a tropic factor, increases vitamin D, increases nitric oxide, increases testosterone, it optimizes estrogen and growth hormone in women, optimizes testosterone and growth hormone in men, making it actually improve metabolic function as well. So there are a lot of, a lot of very beneficial things from being natural sunlight responsibly so you don't burn things like that. So when I am patients who's leptin is elevated like that in your 10 times above where you should be F50. You should people go five. That's what I do. And those are the things that I address. And when they are able to address them, they get better. And so some people, their stress levels are just too high and they're just light toxic and things like that and even they're doing the diet right. The leptin is just sort of not going too fast. Then they do the other things and they improve the stress and things like that and that can improve. And then other times people just change the diet and they don't do much else than different and you just let them just close down. If you're finding it's sticky, even if you're doing the diet side right, think about your stress levels, think about your light environment as well. And those can also always be effectors as well. So I'll keep that in mind. Okay, so it's a kitty ting, okay? We'll wait a lot to stop automatically when you reach your right weight. I'm afraid of losing too much. I'm a carnivore for cancer prevention and anxiety. Yeah, it will. Because the thing is your body will adjust to your hunger signals, okay? So when you've gone down to a body fat percentage that's low enough and your body says, okay, that's where we want to keep it. Your appetite will increase. Your hunger will increase. And so as long as you are eating fat, you need until it stops tasting good and you're eating as many times during the days your body's telling you to, your body will tell you to eat enough to maintain a certain level of body fat. If you can on your eat is very easy to on your eat on a carnivore diet because you feel so much more satiated. And so you have to recognize and you learn your hunger signals. And that's where taste comes in. You eat until it stops tasting good. And if you do that, you keep eating too, you get a bite that tastes like cardboard, then you've gotten enough. And so if you're not doing that, if you're not eating enough, you just where you make, oh, I feel fine, so I can stop there. But it still tastes good. You're under eating. And yes, you can lose too much weight. So if you find yourself losing more weight than you think you should, think about it. Am I eating enough? Keep eating until it stops tasting good. Maybe I didn't a second meal. And might say like, oh wow, that tastes good too. Maybe you need a third meal. So you just need to eat enough and your hunger signals will increase when your body wants to maintain your body fat percentage. You won't lose too much as long as you're eating. So now before we say, oh, I don't want to eat too much 'cause I'm going to gain weight. Now you need to make sure you're eating enough so you won't lose too much weight as well. It's a nice problem to have sort of in reverse. Okay. So Annabella Redwood, thank you so much for the super chat. Hi, Dr. A. I ate some mango after a wisdom tooth was pulled. I had the worst period of pain in years for just evil, I hope you haven't. Happy New Year. Thank you very much, Happy New Year to you too. Yeah, I see that a lot too. I mean, so many women are finding that they don't actually have period pain. It's crazy. That's such a normal part of our life. I don't get sore after working out. Most people that get rid of all the plants they don't get sore after working out. Either they drink coffee, they still get a bit sore, but otherwise you don't. And so these are things we're just taking for granted. I'm just used to being sore all the time because I'm constantly working out. I'm constantly playing sports for my entire life. So it's always sore to a certain degree, always. And if I wasn't sore, I'm like, well, I haven't worked out recently enough. I'm not working hard enough. I need to go out there and do stuff. I mean, I'm sort of sitting on my laurels too. And I need to get out there. So now I'm not sore at all ever. I'm like, I dealt with that torture decades of my life. You need any of it. And you know, same thing with periods. You know, people are suffering with periods that are horrible, debilitating, cramps. You know, they're gone. You think about that. You know, one other animal in the wild when they go to the rest of their bodies is just locked and pain. They're crumpled on the ground. They can't run from predators. They're gonna get eaten. They're gonna get taken out. There's gonna be bread right out of the gene pool. You know, painful periods are gonna be bread right out. So there's something else going on, right? So there's something we're eating is actually causing pain. When discomfort and distress. You have pregnant lions chasing down pregnant gazelles, you know? And you know, this is, you know, this is just nature. If you were going to be debilitated just, you know, every month, you know, that's not a recipe for survival. You know, if you're, you know, getting pregnant like we are now or, you know, bloated ankles and back pain and you're like, I'll float out on my feet or. You know, you can't, you're gonna migrate with a, with a, you know, following buffalo herds and things like that. Walking pregnant like that. You're gonna, you know, it's not gonna be possible. You're gonna get eaten by something. Something's gonna eat you because you're, you're a soft target, right? And so it makes sense that for eating naturally, a lot of these issues should go away. We should just be a lot healthier and a lot more pain free. So thank you very much for sharing that. I appreciate that. It's a good reminder to people that even fruit can be bad for you. And it's, okay. So cloned 47. And as you say, thank you very much for the detail information. Well, you're very welcome. I'm glad it was helpful. Okay. All right. And super fluidity of notiness. Well, thank you very much for the super chat. I have stage four colon cancer that has metastasis. I'm very sorry to hear that. I will full coronavore benefit me. I've been often on quasi-chartibor, and it is going well so far. My docs say minimize red meat for your thoughts. I would ask them for any actual evidence that red meat is going to worsen your situation. Otherwise, I shouldn't be giving that information because that's actually the definition of malpractice. They're just saying random stuff. And that's, and it's prescriptive, they're telling you to do something or not do something. And there's actually no basis in evidence for them to say that. What that's coming from is that WHO accusation that red meat may contribute to colon cancer. It doesn't. I spoke about that earlier, but the University of Washington published a paper looking over 800 studies showed no connection whatsoever. Between even processed meat and colon cancer, or any cancer, or any disease, and especially not unprocessed red meat, has no connection with colon cancer, or any other cancer. So that is false. And that's not what the evidence shows. And unfortunately, your doctor is not aware of the current literature and has not stayed current with the evidence, which is, which means they should not be giving out random advice. They need to familiarize themselves with the new updates in the literature, and before they start making those sort of blanket statements. Even if you were to say that red meat could possibly maybe slightly kind of contribute to the development of colon cancer, does that mean that those nutrients are now not useful and helpful? Does that mean that they're going to perpetuate that cancer? There's don't have evidence of that either, right? And of course, it doesn't cause cancer. We have very good studies showing that and that analyses and systematic reviews showing that there's no correlation whatsoever between red meat and cancer. So there are studies, hundreds of studies, and humans and animals showing that key to genetic diets can help fight cancer, because it just limits the amount of energy available to the cancer cells. Cancer cells don't have functional mitochondria. All known cancers have damaged mitochondria. They don't all have damaged DNA, by the way. Some cancers have no genetic changes whatsoever. And in your particular cancer, you will see it, you take a biopsy, you'll see all these cells and some will have genetic changes, some won't, or some will have different genetic changes. They all have damaged mitochondria, all of them. And the mitochondria, when healthy, will prevent those cancer cells from dividing rapidly like crazy. This is the mitochondria that's stopped, cell division with, if there's a problem, or kill the cell, if it's passable, I have no return. The mitochondria have to do that actively, it's an active process. And so when the mitochondria are damaged, they can't stop inappropriate cell division, so they get unregulated cell growth, cancer, and they can't kill themselves. They immoralize it, they can't shut themselves down. So those are hallmarks of cancer, and those are hallmarks of mitochondrial dysfunction as well. So, when you don't have mitochondria that function, you can't go through oxidative phosphorylation, which is a way of making energy ATP. Because of that, they can't run on ketones, because you have to have mitochondria to burn ketones, or red blood cells don't have mitochondria, so they can't run on ketones. They need glucose, but you still need a bit of glucose to try and make glucose. But your cells that have mitochondria, they do run on ketones. And cancer cells don't have mitochondria, so they can't run on ketones. Oh, no, but there's phatoxylization, bullshit. If you don't have mitochondria, you can't run on phatoxylization, or ketones can't, or else red blood cells would do it, right? But they don't, because they can't. So, if you can't, the cells go through something called substrate level fermentation. If they take glucose, they also take glutamine, which is amino acid, and they can ferment. This is a very inefficient process, doesn't make very good energy. Kicks off a lot of free radicals and oxidative stress, and all sorts of damage, causes more DNA damage, more mitochondrial damage. And because they're rapidly dividing and splitting off, they have a higher metabolic demand. So they need more energy, and it's harder for them to produce it, so they need hundreds of times more glucose, including then other cells, too. So, it's something called a warburg effect, which is a Nobel Prize winner in medicine, who studied cancer for decades. And he showed that cancer's a metabolic mitochondrial disease, where a paper of 1956, called the origins of cancer, where he basically showed that this is from mitochondrial dysfunction. And that's been further improved down the road. I have videos on this. The key to the genic metabolic therapy is an adjunct to standard care. That's a lecture that I gave in a medical conference and find that on my YouTube channel. Or not, well, it's online, anyway. It's on the low card down under YouTube channel, for sure. And now I've interviewed one of the top researchers in the ketogenic metabolic therapy for cancer, Professor Thomas Seafreet. And that's great, like my most popular long-term video. Still, it's an hour and a half electron on cancer biology. It's really, really popular, which is great. So, cancer cells require 400 times the amount of glucose that they normal cells do, OK? So, here's a thought, maybe donating glucose, because the majority of that's going to go to the cancer. Because cancer cells have many more times the amount of insulin receptors than normal cells do. So, they take a disproportionate high amount of glucose because they need that, right? Because they're going to die of it, so they upregulate their insulin receptors. This is-- we used the Warburg effect when diagnosing metastases. So, in your stage where colon cancer with metastases, the way they diagnose those metastases is with a PET scan, which I'm sure you remember. And so, they give you an injection and they put you in a scanner. And then they see you, these dots light up. It's like a Christmas tree inside your body. Those are all cancers, right? Why did those line up? Because that injection was glucose. They gave you an injection of radio-label glucose. And they saw where that glucose went. And your cancer cells sucked it all up disproportionately. So, it wasn't like just evenly distributed throughout your body. And this cancer cells got what they got. You know, cancer cells suck in the majority of that. But they can't use ketones. So, you go into ketosis. You stop eating glucose. Now, you're starving up those cancer cells, but your cells are fine because they can run on ketones and a little bit of glucose that you make. So, any time you have a bagel or a pizza or a soda or pasta or rice or bread, think of your PET scan and think about all those cancer cells lighting up. Because that is what they're doing right then. You're taking those glucose, 200, 400 grams of carbs and your cancer cells are just lighting up and they're just kicking on a furnace. And their metabolic rate has just shot up through the roof. And they're going to start dividing like hell. And so, that's not what you want to do. You want to limit the amount of glucose available. And so, you're going to make something, you know? But, the amount that you make is hundreds of grams less than if you were eating carbs. So, you want to limit that. Fasting can be beneficial as well as different protocols. But, you know, you can just do something called-- you have tracks in the called your G.K.I. glucose ketone index that bests or seafood writes about. And we actually published-- I was on a team of his where I looked at a different protocol for key genetic metabolic therapies or standardizing key genetic approach to cancer. And so, that's published now. So, you can look that up. That's C-FreeS-E-Y-F-R-I-E-D. I was a co-author on that. And so, you can find that protocol. You can take a look at it. It's published, peer-reviewed. And, you know, think about that. That is what I would do. I would probably fast for four or five days a week every week. But, if you're doing that and you're limiting the amount that you're eating, you need to have refeeding days. All the studies show that calorie-restricted ketogenic diet work better than just ketogenic diet. So, you're just limiting the energy available for those cancer cells. So, fasting is something that can go in there as well as part of that calorie restriction. And, you can under-eat, and you don't want to do that, right? For too long because you lose too much weight. And that can be a problem too. So, you need to have refeeding days where you're stressing this cancer cell. And, cancer is where you're limiting the energy and sort of they're breaking down and dying because they can't function properly. And, there's other things that improve your metabolism as well. When you're eating carbs, 100 grams of carbs, it's just to go back to 74 in 1974. That you eat 100 grams of carbs from any source, from sugar, fructose, fruit juice, you know, rice, whatever. That actually suppresses your neutrophils, which are your immune cells. For up to five hours, they can't function, right? So, they can't kill bacteria and they also can't fight cancers because your neutrophils actually help you fight cancers. They can eat your cancer cells. And, also, you know, get your immune system to attack them and things like that. And, so, you eat carbs, you eat in carbs every day. You now suppress your immune system to fight cancer. Sounds you want to do. When you have visceral fat, that actually sequestres in and locks up your NKT cells, natural killer T cells, which fight cancers. And so, now they're locked up in your antipose tissue and your abdomen and they can't function. So, by going ketogenic, by losing that weight, and as you're releasing those NKT cells, and your body can help fight cancer better. So, there's a lot of benefits. And, you know, I would watch those videos. I have a playlist on cancer, on different videos on with tonic seed freed, with a ketogenic metabolic therapy, lecture that I gave, other cancer lectures, and interviews with people that are doing this and are improving their cancer. With that, I have improved their cancers. Not all of them are able to survive. Some of these things are very aggressive. A lot of these people are putting these into remission. And then, you know, they might slip off and then they go and then it comes back and it's like, oh, Jesus. Okay, that's not good. But, some people are actually able to put this into remission. And some people actually do it really well, and then change chemotherapy agents. And then, actually, the chemotherapy, actually, caused very serious issues and they ended up dying. It's very, very sad when that happens. But, in those cases, anyway, it wasn't the cancer that got them. It was the treatment that got them. And, you know, that's a sad reality is that some of these, these treatments are a killer cure. And then, it can cause harm, just like the cancer can. So, that is something that I would definitely take a look at. I would at least be ketogenic. I would be strongly ketogenic. Me personally, if I got cancer today, I probably wouldn't eat for the next two, three weeks. That's just me. I have this energy store available. I would be fine. And then, I would probably do a five day, you know, two, five and two sort of fasting. Probably just wouldn't eat Monday through Friday and just refeed on the weekends. So, that press pulse or high stress on the cancer during the week to not eating anything. Then, they catch up on food on the weekends. You know, it might be periods where I might be able to do that as aggressively because if I'm losing too much weight or something like that. And then, I would look at other things like deuterium. So, in that cancer section, I have videos on deuterium, which is super important when you're thinking about cancer because cancer cells need more deuterium. And, in fact, people with cancer generally have higher levels of deuterium. And, some people think, like Dr. Stephanie Senef is a really, really bright lady. She's a computer science professor at MIT in researcher. For like 40 years. And then, she's now studying glyphosate and deuterium. Very bright lady. I've had her on my podcast. Please watch it. It's a great, it's a great interview. And, she was saying that she thinks that it might be actually your body's protective mechanism of forming cancer to pull in more deuterium and protect the rest of your body from excessive amounts of deuterium, which is a very interesting weight looking at it. But, either way, going carnivore, ketogenic lowers your deuterium. And, deuterium is necessary for cancer cells to divide and multiply as well. And, they also destroy your two-eye deuterium destroyer of mychondria. So, that's not what you want, right? Because you want healthy mychondria. So, there are things like deuterium depleted water, but also just being ketogenic and being carnivore. Especially, because we eat plants, especially fruit, and very high levels of deuterium, very high. So, if you're just eating meat, then you get much lower level of deuterium from your food. And, also being in ketogenic state, that will lower down your deuterium as well. And, so, that will limit the amount of deuterium that's available for your cancers. And, so, that can improve things, right? There's also deuterium depleted water that they can do that quickly. And, there are protocols for that. And, there are published studies on that from a guy named Dr. Gavore Somhlai in Hungary. And, then, a colleague of his, who is a professor of medicine at UCLA, now, professor emeritus. And, he, that's Dr. Lazovores. And, I've had them both on my podcast a couple of times. You should watch those. And, they're doing fascinating research on this. And, so, that's what I would do. I would approach that from that standpoint. And, being in ketosis and being in one carnivore does help with deuterium as well as energy available, the glucose energy available to cancer cells as well. So, there's a lot of different things there. All of those can be found on my cancer playlist that you shouldn't watch that. So, please do watch that. And, then, go from there. And, don't be concerned about red meat making a situation which is simply will not, that is not what the evidence shows. So, good luck with that. I hope that that helps. And, I hope that you do well. And, I hope that you beat this. And, I know that you can, people have before. That does not say that everyone will. Cancer is a really nasty thing. And, sometimes, it's just not possible to come back. But, it's great that you're still fighting. Because, once you give up hope, the body starts to understand that. And, it just starts giving up as well. And, so, keep fighting and keep going. And, I think this is a really good direction to go in and to look into to see if it's right for you. And, of course, it can benefit you because it's just limiting energy supply to the cancer cells or just then, it's great. But, being in ketosis also improves the outcomes of chemo and radiation. So, it can actually make that more effective and safer for you. So, you get less damage to your body from the chemo and radiation. And, it's more effective than kill for more cancer cells. And, that's been shown in countless studies. So, that can be beneficial from that end, too. So, that's where I look at. I will go to the cancer playlist and just watch every single one of those videos and get as much information on that. I will take notes. And, I would, you know, get a game plan as to what you're going to do and how you're going to structure this. Gabor has a book on treating cancer with deuterium depleted water and deuterium restriction. So, I would get that and I would look it up and I would look at what it says for, you know, calling cancer and what that protocol is. And, I would do that. I would do that because why the hell not? I mean, just this cancer, you know, you got to throw the kitchen sink at it. It's life or death. So, I would, that's what I would do anyway. I really hope that you do well. And, you know, I hope that those resources are helpful. Okay. All right. Thank you, everybody. I've got to stop there, gone about 40 minutes over where I was planning to. So, thank you all very much for that. And, happy new year to all of you. It's great to see you all. And, thank you all very much for joining me. Also, I have a new member enchanted geek. Thank you very much for joining the YouTube channel. We do extra lives every month for just for YouTube members and subscribers. 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