 Eat meat, drink water is a mantra that's worked very well for many people on the zero-carb carnivore diet. Maybe they only ate beef water with no salt for a couple weeks. Other people interpreted it as, let me go to McDonald's, get a couple bacon cheeseburgers, take the bun off, and then they wondered why they don't have success on the carnivore diet. I'm going to explain to you guys how to get started on the carnivore diet and where people tend to go wrong, from fat to protein ratio, how most people consume too much protein, how that ties into nutrients and satiation, digestion and how that's affected by cooking temperature, food additives and allergies, as well as salt and electrolytes and how consuming too much food can cause you to get thirsty and deplete your electrolytes. So first we have to start with the book, The Fat of the Land. It's about an arctic explorer named Vyama Stephenson. He went around and pretty much understood that Eskimos obtained 80% of their calories from fat, as well as 20% of the calories from protein, and they had many, many preferences for fatty parts of the animal, because grain fed rib eyes and ground beef did not exist unfortunately for some of you guys. So and then this gets ridiculous, like literally I have 40 quotes from that book, I'm going to link you guys in my Twitter description explaining like, oh they like the fish head over the caribou fat over the skin of the warthog, many, many indigenous food preferences leaning towards fat and organ meats. I've heard Sean Baker take a quote out of context in that book saying they fed the liver of caribou to the dogs because caribou don't have a gallbladder and the liver is bitter from the bile. There's literally 40 other quotes in that book explaining preference, there's like five quotes just saying preference for liver, let alone the other 30 to 40 quotes for organs and he is literally taking one quote out of context to justify that we don't have to consume organ meats. That also ties into the omega 3 to omega 6 ratio because the meat that these Eskimos ate was natural and wild and it was inherently very, very high in vitamins and these carnivore dieters say I feel better eating beef than pork or chicken. Well the reason you feel better eating beef than pork or chicken is because beef is closer to wild meat in regards to its omega ratio and nutrient content but you know what else is closer to wild meat in some omega 3 ratio and nutrient content. I'll give you a second to guess. Grass fed beef. So when I say why don't you take an extra step and try grass fed beef and see if you feel better they don't really care. A lot of contradictory stuff going on in these zero carb veterans but that's enough salt for now. I'll post that Twitter argument in the description for you guys to check it out. It's a little silly. So we've established 80% fat, 20% protein needs to be a good omega 3 to omega 6 ratio but where does this tie in directly? Omega 3 foods do have more nutrients and they can help us meet our RDAs and satiate ourselves through the order of satiety which I will explain in a minute but one of the most important things is high omega 6 fats don't digest well whether they're raw or cooked and they tend to taste often funky so having a high omega 6 fat as your primary source of calories will only be inflammatory. In regards to cooking temperature even if it is a good omega 3 source beef tallow even grass fed might have been rendered too much and it might not digest well same with pasteurized butter and I'm not going to name any names here but if you have diarrhea for 6 weeks then change the food source, change the cooking temperature. It's the food. It's not your stomach. So just by following an 80% fat to 20% protein diet with high quality animal foods we kind of achieve all of these things but I guess we have to go a little further in depth. Frank, what difference does this actually make? Well, Sean Baker might be eating 4 to 6 pounds of ribeye steak per day whereas the Inuit Eskimos would only eat a third of a pound of fat and 2 pounds of steak. Not only does that reduce digestive stress greatly, fat has way more nutrients, well not way more but fat is where the nutrients are stored. So you're inherently, you're reducing digestive stress, you're optimizing macronutrient ratios as well as increasing nutrient density. And we know that grain fed ribeye and ground beef did not exist but we can still use grass fed versions of those things to kind of achieve our 80% fat ratio. The cooking temp doesn't really seem to be something that most people have to alter although I will say you have to buy fresh high quality fat, you have to cook it to whatever temperature you like. The problem I see with cooking temperature is people buying smoked foods, pre-cooked foods, pasteurized foods, that's where the problem comes with cooking temperature. But in general, cooked meat does not digest as well as raw meat or lighter cooked meat because the B vitamins are denatured, the fat-soluble vitamin content is slightly lower, there's a much lower moisture content that makes you thirsty. I tried Sean Baker's grain fed steak diet for like 2 days, I couldn't do it. I was just so hungry I could not satiate my appetite. I was eating like 5 or 6 pounds of grain fed steak per day. I was so thirsty with the high food volume, I was depleting my body of electrolytes with so much water. Food additives kind of tie in with allergies in a sense that we need to remove inflammatory foods initially on this diet, especially dairy and eggs, unfortunately those are the only good sources of fat a lot of people initially have access to as well as things like soy lecithin and cheese. And the point is to remove them and see what happens when you reintroduce them I have videos on dairy and eggs coming up over the next 2 days, in regards to the additives, it's kind of difficult, people just need to really be strict with the diet for the first few weeks to see how things go. The order of satiety explains a lot of things and once you experience it, you'll kind of understand where I'm coming from. So if you eat only fat first and pure fat, you will get nauseous. It only takes about a half of a pound to a third of a pound of fat for someone to get full on fat. Very interesting. Eat pure fat and then for nutrients. Nutrients also have that same super high satiation. If you eat salmon roe, I guarantee you you won't be able to eat more than like a quarter pound of salmon roe once. It's so high in nutrients, it's just satiate your hunger. That's why I tell people if you eat half a pound of breastfit fat and then a quarter pound of liver, I can't understand why you would be hungry for a steak. I mean you might want a little bit but for the most part, fat and high nutrient foods will satiate your hunger. And this could be as easy as having eggs with a lot of butter in them, like high quality pastured eggs and raw butter, or having some grass fed marrow fat with some oysters. You can achieve your fat and your nutrient density and that is what the main difference is between what Sean Baker does and what the Inuit Eskimos do. They achieved a very high nutrient intake through high quality animal foods as well as just in general better omega 3 ratios. What you're getting by buying high quality animal foods or just even incorporating all you got to do guys, have a few pastured egg yolks here and there, have some oysters once a week, you're getting all the fat type of vitamins. When a grain fed steak diet, all you're getting is vitamin B and some minerals for the most part. Very small amounts of other vitamins and what drives me crazy is people will go on the carnivore diet forums and say, oh I'm having a hard time and people say, eat more meat. One pound of salmon roe probably has more nutrients than you've eaten in a month of your grain fed ribeye steaks. It's literally mind boggling to the advice I see some of these people getting and I know I might have come across as a bit abrasive in this video but and unfortunately most of this video is just me speaking negatively about what other people do on the carnivore diet but that's unfortunately what this video had to be because of all the advice I've been seeing. Sun, water and exercise, people will go so far against the grain in regards to their carnivore diet but they don't care about their D3 levels, they don't care that they're drinking pesticides in their water, they don't care that they're not getting exercise and increasing their lean body mass, improving their posture, there's so many other elements to help that you know the reason I'm able to come up with these ideas and these theories is through my objectiveness, my open-mindedness, my willingness to self-experiment and see what other people are doing and most importantly admit I'm wrong and I always have more to learn. So I think I've kind of done over all the points just to briefly touch on everything. Fat to protein ratio, you need to consume more fat, high-quality fat, this is the biggest hurdle. Getting a high-quality source of fat, go to your local butchers, I go to my local supermarket, they give me lamb shrimp fat for free, I'll show you guys that in a few minutes. I went to my local Asian market today, they said oh we'll collect some fish row for you for the week. Nutrients, how do I time to satiation? Try that guys, eat some fat, get some oysters, see how much less of it you eat than grain-fed ribeye, digestion, have a high omega-6 fats and lighter cooked fats digest way easier. If you're having diarrhea or anything definitely try that. Food additives, soy lessethane, sugar, nitrates, soy that might be in certain foods, can be an issue for some people, cooking temperature, lighter cooked food always digests better. Salt and electrolytes, most people find that they do reduce the salt on their food over the course of this diet but the main concern is consuming too much cooked meat and depleting your electrolytes with a high water intake. Allergies, that can only remove dairy and eggs initially, reintroduce them three to four weeks in, you'd be surprised at how many low- level inflammatory reactions go under the radar. So I'm gonna go down to my fridge and show you guys just the fat that I eat and that's pretty much it. Alright so in here I have slabs of lamb fat and this is basically the bulk of my calories. My local supermarket gives these to me for free sometimes even and I literally get 80% of my calories from this lamb fat. All I do is I toss it on the grill and then I'll have it with you know whatever meat is on sale, whatever I get but I usually don't pay more than six or seven dollars a pound for meat and I get the fat for almost free so I'm eating for a fairly cheap price every day and very very high quality stuff. The hardest part of this is sourcing fat and you go to your local supermarkets, go to your local butchers, ask them if they eat your animals, go online, get a good high quality source of fat you know if you can tolerate raw butter, if you can tolerate pastured eggs that's great but initially if you can find a source and remove all the other things from your diet initially for a few weeks and then reintroduce the dairy and eggs back in to see how you react. If you guys want specifics on things I have many videos over the past two weeks approximately and some videos that will be coming out like tomorrow and Wednesday on dairy and eggs that will explain things further. 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