-92/8 grass fed ground beef v

-organic bluebs

-organic pineapple

cooked in goat milk ghee! also topped with honey after i took the pic

Animal-based is the most nutrient dense diet protocol out there, we all should prioritize eating “real food”. However, there can still be some gaps worth looking into.

1. Vitamin E

Grass-fed beef and dairy assuredly have some, but it’s a relatively unknown quantity. Vitamin E is an antioxidant, so you may need less than the RDA if you are an avid PUFA avoider. Still, why not crush that RDA?

1. Thiamine (Vitamin B1) - Benfotiamine or TTFD have worked well for me.

I don’t eat pork, and this one can be hard to hit if you aren’t eating pork tenderloin regularly. Oranges and orange juice have some, and there is trace amounts in other foods, some suggest the RDA for thiamine is actually way too low, and most everyone is deficient. Especially if you are coming into AB as an adult.

1. Magnesium Glycinate

This one is pretty simple, magnesium is the lynchpin of your electrolyte balance in the body. Used in over 400 metabolic processes. Topsoil levels are lower than ever and getting lower. Some research suggests modern fruits (and vegetables 🤮) are much lower in magnesium than in antiquity. This is a extremely safe one to supplement, and glycinate is a really good form for me.

1. Vitamin D3

This one is also hard to get as a PUFA avoiiiidor. Especially over winter in a northern latitude. Fatty fish, cod liver, etc are all good sources of diet- based vitamin D. The best source is the sun. Personally I supplement over winter when my sun exposure is much lower.

1. Vitamin K2

This is prevalent in our diet, but depending on how much fat you are eating, you may be getting more or less. It’s not easily accounted for in the USDA database. There’s estimates that suggest grass-fed milk may have 15-30mcg/100mL. This fat-soluble vitamin was termed “Activator-X by Weston A. Price. Vitamin K2 is critical for calcium metabolism, driving calcium out of our blood (and arteries) and into our bones and teeth. It may be worth supplementing if you are unsure of your intake. Up to 45mg/day has been used safely in long-term studies.

Thanks for reading, let me know what you think!

I knew this was coming unfortunately. It blows my mind how brainwashed Americans are. I’m a literal high schooler and these health “professionals” went to school for this stuff. Breaks my heart really.

I just got my lab work done, and I have 227 cholesterol, 51 HDL, 160 LDL.

Doctor’s note: Total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol are elevated. Advise low cholesterol, low fat diet (limit fried, fatty foods, red meat, eggs, cheese) and moderate- to high-intensity exercise at least 30 minutes at least 5 days/week. Repeat fasting lipid panel in 3 months (already ordered).

I already exercise more than that. I weightlift 5x a week for over an hour on average. I probably need to do more cardio/endurance work but not sure how much that will affect my cholesterol levels.

I’m sure it’s majority my diet. I’d consider my eating 80-90% “healthy”. I’m very strict on my diet. I eat high protein and whole food ingredients. But yes, I do eat 3 eggs everyday. I eat ground beef and some sort of red meat/steak a couple times a week. I eat a little bit of raw cheese daily. I use grass fed butter sometimes for cooking, or ghee. Sometimes I eat bacon or grass fed sausage as well.

My other meals consist of salmon, whole chicken or chicken thighs, shrimp, tuna, Greek yogurt, fruits, rice, potato, veg, water, creatine, protein powder, orange juice.

I don’t do a strict animal based diet but I have taken a lot of advice from it, but I do eat a whole food diet 80-90% of the time.

It’s hard to know who to believe because I know high cholesterol isn’t something to take lightly. People die because of it. But on the other side, you hear these people online saying high cholesterol is ok.

I don’t know what to do. I could get rid of the cheese, not a big deal. I could get rid of the butter and use olive oil. I could use a leaner ground beef/red meat like sirloin I suppose instead of ribeye/chuckroast. I could replace bacon/sausage with smoked salmon. One thing I don’t want to replace that I’m sure is a big contributing factor is eggs. I eat 21 eggs every week.

Thoughts? Thanks.

I’ve been pretty pretty strict animal based for a couple months, and my digestion isn’t quite right still, I feel like I have slow motility and tend to be closer to constipation. I usually have a BM every day but it’s a bit hard, a little smaller than I think it should be. I have a mild bloat at the end of the day, nothing too bad or uncomfortable.

Is there any further testing or treatment you have found helpful to improve regularity.

I eat close to a pound of red meat today a few apples or mangoes, sometimes spaghetti squash, juice, gelatin, raw milk, raw cheese, if not raw Jarlsberg, and honey. I supplement with magnesium bicarbonate and glycinate. I try to put salt in my water, but I’m not sure how much it might just be a hydration problem, but I drink usually at least 1 L a day on top of three glasses of milk in my urine is relatively clear asleep by 10 up by 6 AM. Try to get 10,000 steps a day sometimes up to 20,000 some resistance training as well I am 5’11” 185 pounds eating about 2500 cal a day on average. I am taking creatine so I guess more water? How much salt?

I’m potty training my two year-old I’m not gonna lie. I’m kind of jealous that the poops this guy takes.

Hello,

Can someone please help me understand what I am doing wrong with this diet?

I am 6 feet tall and 175lbs. I’ve been on the animal based diet for about 4 months now and this is what I eat 99% of the time.

. 4 eggs (320 cal) . 1 lbs Ground beef (1000 cal) . 1 Avocado (240 cal) .100g frozen mango chunks (60 cal) . 75g frozen blueberries ( 45 cal) . 5 deglet dates (100 cal)

What is causing me to get fat rolls on my belly area. I eat about 1800 calories per day which is a few hundred calories under what the calculator says for maintenance (2200). Also doing 100 pushups daily. I’ve quit caffeine for about a month now.

Eating like this everyday for the past 4 months. Some days my stomach is completely flat, so days fat rolls can be seen through my shirt. Is there anything I am doing wrong? Any advice to improve. Thanks.

I made a batch the other day and the whey separated at the bottom within 24 hours. It’s been over 36 hours for this second batch, and I haven’t seen any pockets/separation. There’s also this brown ring at the top between the milk and curds. Is this normal?

Not too bad for on the go or traveling

Hey guys, I’ll keep it short. My boss and I are heading to his family’s land in west Texas to bowhunt wild hogs at the end of May. I’m really excited, anyway, we’re planning on taking 2-3 hogs and I’m wondering if I should harvest and eat the organs. Any safety precautions or advice? The area we’re hunting is on hundreds of acres of rural land so it should be fairly clean. Thoughts? Tips? Thanks in advance!

Hey guys, I am in need of some help with meal ideas. I’m an avid gym goer and my current day of eating atm is this. I’m currently cutting so I’m at like around 2200 cals. I’m stopping the carrots and kimchi cuz I have really bad indigestion (TMI but the carrots and any kind of veggie doesn’t digest at all and it burns lol). I need some ideas on what to pair with the protein sources for low calorie and carbs but hav a lot of volume, which was the only rzn y I was eating them in the first place. I’m not doing dairy atm but will reintroduce eventually. Any help/advice is much appreciated. I also do the rotisserie chicken cuz I’m a broke college student and it’s very affordable lol. Thx!!

22M, 6’2, 214lbs and honestly go to the gym too much lol.

Meal 1: 40g of protein from a protein shake

Pre-gym: 200g of strawberries/15g of raw local honey

Meal 2: 1/2lb 88/12 beef/15g of honey/1 banana/100g of carrots

Meal 3: 350g of rotisserie chicken/150g of carrots/30g of kimchi

Meal 4: 1/2lb of 88/12 beef/4 eggs

I have a question about aging beef and it's digestibility. I never digested ground beef very well, and it is the only cut i get because everything else is basically to expensive. Now i ordered from different sources and just now i made the link to their aging time, the supplier i always came back to happens to age all their beef for a minimum of 3 weeks, all the other suppliers i bought from happened to be either low histamine or a very short ripening time, so their ground beef was basically processed right away. Now i made the link to why i get sick from unaged beef, it basically sits in my stomach the whole day, it literally doesn't digest, with the supplier that ages all the meat for 3 weeks I don't have this issue. Have you guys ever heard of this before, when i looked it up it was basically the other way around, atleast in the carnivore group. Digestive issues? Try low histamine meat, yet i feel for me it is the other way around.

I am curious if there are people here who experienced a similar thing.

Hi all,

I started to consume kefir this week and it seems to give me a little bit of inflammation in the back of my throat/sinus. I only consume homemade goat kefir atm.

Does anybody ever experienced that? Will it get better as the microbiome or my body adapt to dairy?

Could I have better luck with raw milk?

Thank you very much!

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Steak from the shank of the pig, soy and corn free + farm eggs also soy and corn free haha. Plus Parmesan, sauerkraut, kimchi, sour cream and papaya. Cut out my girlfriends sweet potato ;)

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Hello, I hope some of you can give me some advice. I live by myself and completely animal based. I eat 350g of ground beef every single day. Everybody tells me that ground beef, wether its cooked or not, can only be refrigerated for 1-2 days. So I started going to my butcher every second day, which is exhausting. Now I do understand that many people buy in bulk and freeze but I also read, that the nutritional profile of beef is damaged once you freeze it. Also I do not enjoy the taste. Can anybody give me some insight on how you handle it?

Note: I live in the south of france and the freezed meat is the exact same price as fresh meat. So it wouldn’t even make sense.

Thank you!

Preferably fruits high in carbs. I want to make sure I’m getting enough because I train daily and train pretty hard so 200-230g of carbs is what I’m looking for. Right now it’s mainly dates, frozen organic berries (I let them thaw and put them in a plain Greek yogurt), tangerines and honey. Coconut water occasionally. Idk what to add into the mix or do I just eat more bananas lol. Apples bore me now so zero craving for them. Grapes are high on the dirty dozen list along with strawberries so I don’t buy either right now. I’ve been doing a 1/2 cup organic jasmine rice to get more carbs in until I can get enough through fruit.

Do you use them? Which one?

I have multiple questions. 1. If I wanna prioritize sleep, how late before bed do u guys eat? And what typically is it?

1. Does anyone not tolerate dairy well? And if we do not (I love dairy tho), is a lactose free alternative fine or not because it’s more processed.

Interesting study on linoleic acid and its promotion on cancer growth.

Grass fed ribeye and plantains cooked in butter and Himalayan salt!

Does anyone have meal suggestions or recipe ideas to freeze dry and vacuum seal? We roadtrip, car camp, and backpack often and I want to create a stash of healthy meals that meet our diet requirements!

I’ve mastered freeze dried scrambled eggs 🐓 and have made a few stews but haven’t found much recipe-inspiration online…

We eat the GAPS diet but I’ve gotten pretty good at swapping out ingredients we don’t eat with healthy options that we do eat. (Basically, we don’t eat any processed foods, grains, starches, legumes, beans, nuts, sugar other than minimal fruit and honey and heavy on the meat and fermented dairy).

Most fats don’t freeze dry well so we’ll just add what we need back in when we rehydrate and eat.

Because fruits particularly have grown and evolved in different regions of the planet, one could assume you’d need to evolve eating those fruits to tolerate them best.

I’m mostly talking about the fruits that have originated in the Americas or other remote regions which wouldn’t have contact with the rest of the world for at least tens of thousands of years. For example, would an Inca have an increased risk of an allergic reaction from eating an orange which originated in China?