 Believe it or not, Marilyn Monroe was pretty much a carnivore. She obtained over 90% of her calories from animal-based foods, quite a drastic difference considering the starving vegan models we see today. She revealed her extremely strange diet to the world in a magazine in the early 1950s. She typically started the day with a liquid breakfast consisting of two raw eggs poured into a glass of warm milk. This was her morning routine even when she was traveling and she didn't actually eat anything throughout the day. For dinner, she typically did not eat out. Instead of going to the best restaurant in town, she would stop by a local market picking up some liver, steak, or lamb chops and broiled it herself using an electric oven. The only thing not really carnivore on Marilyn's diet were the carrots that she would snack on occasionally with dinner. Marilyn was known for indulging in ice cream sundaes at Will Wright's Ice Cream Parlor, which was actually recognized for having a very high fat percentage in their ice cream. This is important because the caloric amount of ice creams back then was drastically different, especially the macronutrient proportions of fat to sugar, likely even protein. To the average person, ice cream doesn't seem too carnivorous, but all ice cream really is, is milk and egg yolks with a little bit of sugar and flavorings added. It's a very animal based food. One interesting thing about this to me is Marilyn was having milk and eggs for breakfast and maybe she did make the logical parallel that milk and eggs for breakfast, milk and eggs in the sundae for dinner, two very nutrient dense foods, you know, I would like to think she was intelligent enough to make that parallel and know why she was eating these. To me, it just seems very odd to me that a public figure, especially of her esteem, would be following a diet like this without knowing why she's following a diet like this. And once you actually understand the nutrient profile of milk and eggs, it makes total sense. Milk has pretty much all the nutrients, the vitamins, minerals, elements, fatty acids that our body needs. The only thing milk is really missing might be preformed versions of omega three fatty acids, EPA and DHA, but if you add some egg yolks, you're getting the EPA and DHA and egg yolks are kind of making up for any nutrients that we're lacking in the milk. So by combining eggs and milk, you pretty much have a nutrient complete food source. The fact that Marilyn was eating liver frequently, you know, definitely onto something there and it actually sounds like a very nutrient dense diet, especially much more nutrient dense than what we eat now. I mean, you could literally follow Marilyn Monroe's diet, remove the carrots and be pretty much on a carnivore diet, you know, maybe adding a tablespoon or two of honey or some sort of sweetener to make your own ice cream. But it's very evident that she was very vibrant and healthy and looked great consuming a carnivorous diet. Now, I came across a female blogger who actually tried Marilyn's diet for several days and was having issues. This is understandable because modern foods are likely not as nutrient dense as the past foods because of how we're raising our animals. You know, cows are supposed to be on grass, chickens are supposed to be foraging for bugs and insects. And if they are not doing that, especially in the milk and the eggs, those foods aren't going to contain the vitamins and the minerals, everything they are supposed to have. Another possibility is that this girl wasn't eating enough at dinner. And yeah, if Marilyn's only eating one large meal during the day, you kind of have to make up a lot of calories depending on your activity in that meal and maybe the portion size was off. And something that also might have been overlooked is the ice cream back then being much more calorically dense as I mentioned earlier. It's a bit of an understatement, but the ice cream could literally be twice as calorically dense if the fat content is a little bit higher. If you are consuming solely animal foods, the quality is imperative. I've spoken about dairy in the past. I've spoken about eggs and past videos as well. We just briefly touched on the importance of, you know, what the animals eating correlating to the nutrient content of the food. And modern things like coffee and carbohydrates and sugar are actually excellent at masking vitamin deficiencies. Have you guys ever met an average person who doesn't drink coffee and consume large amounts of carbohydrates or sugar every few hours? This constant influx of energy is masking vitamin deficiencies and modern issues people are having that are past ancestors and probably even people like Marilyn Monroe didn't have issues with. When you have a constant energy source and you're, you know, you're, it's like you're almost injecting yourself with sugar and caffeine every two to three hours to keep yourself going. Once you remove that, it's apparent. Oh, maybe he has a vitamin D deficiency. Maybe he's lacking these vitamins. Maybe he's lacking that. Maybe he has a lot of inflammation. I mean, unfortunately, most people are literally deficient in every single nutrient, especially vitamins, likely minerals, certain elements, and especially fatty acids. Almost everyone is deficient in all of these things. And aspects of our modern culture, the caffeine, the starch, the carbohydrates, the sugar intake are able to cover this up very well. A vegan does this with sugar and carbohydrates, and they are like extreme versions of our modern world. You always hear vegans saying, Oh, I'm so hungry, blah, blah, blah. And although even people on a standard American diet get hangry and need to eat every few hours on a vegan diet, it's even more extreme. I would probably guess that people on a standard American diet eat four to six times per day. Vegans usually eat six, seven, eight times per day. So once you go further into nutrient deficiencies, you have to make up for energy from sugars even more. So the reasons this female blogger was having some issues could be attributed to the nutrient content, but it was more likely a combination effect. You know, she wasn't eating enough. So she wasn't getting enough caloric nutrition to sustain her energy levels. And then on top of that, the food isn't high in vitamins and minerals. So can't fix any, you know, hypothetical nutrient deficiencies that we suffer in our modern lives. The amount of steak or lamb chops that Marilyn ate for dinner was likely much larger in portion size than what people are used to now. You know, when people sit down and have a steak, they usually don't eat a giant one, one and a half pound steak. They usually eat a fairly small amount. And of course, if you're only eating that for dinner, it's not going to be enough caloric energy. The same thing with the ice cream sundae we mentioned earlier, the sundae, if made with ingredients from our past would actually be pretty healthy. It would be much higher in vitamins and minerals. It would have a higher fat content, likely less sugar content. I actually have a video I made on ice cream last year that you guys can watch that I'll link at the end here. It was actually yellow in color, almost orange because of the quality of the dairy products and the egg yolks that I put in the ice cream. Now, some of you old school Frank Tafano followers might have remembered that I actually did a video over a year ago following Marilyn Monroe's diet. Unfortunately, I think I deleted the video. And this was at a time that I still wasn't able to tolerate dairy. I just kind of suffered through it for a couple of days without too many negative side effects. I think this was because I was using goat dairy instead of cow's dairy. And for me, the diet was definitely unsustainable for someone that worked out and had a higher than average amount of muscle mass. I was definitely not getting enough protein or fat calories in general, but Marilyn Monroe didn't really do a lot of physical activity. You know, she did a light workout in the morning, but you know, she's not walking around with 15 or 20 pounds of extra muscle mass. So overall, I think this diet would be incredibly effective from an energy and productivity standpoint, quick and easy liquid breakfast, and then not eating through a busy day. And you finish up the day with a larger dinner, making up for whatever calories you were lacking. One consideration here is that Marilyn likely never limited her portion size. She was probably eating as much of whatever food she wanted for dinner. Maybe for breakfast, she kept it consistent and that was what satiated her. But you know, keep in mind, you have to adjust these food amounts to your body size. You know, maybe I would have two glasses of milk with three eggs. Maybe for dinner, I would eat twice as much meat and maybe add some extra fat to the meal. And then the ice cream Sunday, maybe I would eat more of it. When, you know, if you look at someone's diet, you have to kind of tailor it and cater it to your own needs. If you were considering modern nutrient deficiencies, issues you might be having, you might even want to add more of certain foods initially to make up for those modern nutrient deficiencies. I guess the main determining factor really is whether or not you tolerate large amounts of eggs and dairy. I mean, most people don't think they have allergies, but once you start consuming this amount of eggs and dairy as a primary source of your calories, you might run into issues. And the quality here is definitely something to keep in mind. Someone likely is not going to have access to super high quality milk, egg yolks and ice cream. You literally have to prepare everything yourself. I would love to see, you know, someone try this diet for a period of time with super high quality animal foods. Maybe there will be a point in the future, maybe six months a year from now, where I can give it a shot again. But right now I don't feel like breaking out with a face full of acne from drinking milk for two days. So thank you guys for watching. Please like, subscribe, hit that bell icon. It's right next to the subscribe button and share the video if you can. If you guys would like to support me further, just check out some of the videos I'm going to link at the end here. As I said, if you want to see how I made that super nutrient dense ice cream, that will be here. I've recently launched Frankie's free range meat. My goal being to provide you guys with high quality nutrient dense animal foods will definitely be selling eggs, raw dairy, even ice cream in the future, guys. We are selling meat right now. So if you guys want to learn more about the mission of Frankie's free range meats and possibly place an order, go to frankiesfreerangemeat.com. You guys enjoy the rest of your week.