 what's going on guys i'm going to take you through a carnivore diet day of eating and if it did not start at the grill where would it start the first thing i do at every single meal whenever i want to eat is i get my grill started so that i can prep the meat while it heats up and this is a Weber spirit propane grill but i actually cook over a wood fire and let me show you how so if you look inside there's no grease plates or heat distribution plates in the grill i took those off and i put the old grates on top of the burners and then i bought some new grates and what i do is i lay any hardwood over those grates on top of the burner so this is birch wood i usually prefer oak or cherry for flavor and this is essentially all i really did it's very simple this is really quick it literally takes me like a minute or two to chop up the wood throw it in the grill and the nice thing about this is how quickly it heats up so all i do is i just i turn the gas on burner lights the flame the nice thing about this is how fast we get a very very hot grill the hardwood is very dry we have a gas assisted start so we will have our own pillar of hell in about three minutes all right guys it's been about i would say five minutes and this fire is nice and hot in regards to what i'm eating today i have a grass-fed beef belly really beautiful orange color on it i'm just going to throw this on the grill and we're going to quick sear on the outside just to caramelize it get the mired reaction and then we'll go back inside and we'll let it sit in the oven for a few minutes in addition to that sometimes i cook some meat for my family so today for them i have a ribeye steak that i'll just throw on the grill and also for myself i have some marrow bones if i don't eat these myself i'll throw some of the bone marrow on the steak for my family all i'm really trying to do is just get that wood fire flavor on the outside of the belly so you want to make sure not to put too much wood in the grill because you want the flames to be licking the surface of the meat you don't want the meat to be engulfed in flames that's the difference between getting a black char and a nice brown crust but keep in mind we don't actually have to do that to the fat because the fat is just going to melt and render what we're trying not to burn is the muscle you guys want like a steak grilling ASMR video just like 10 minutes of me flipping a steak the beef belly is nice and caramelized it's still super raw in the middle so we'll throw it in the oven when we go inside for bone marrow i put it directly in the fire and and since the bone marrow is fat it can't really burn it's just going to keep melting so the main reason i put the bone marrow on the flame is to kill any bacteria on the outside that was maybe from the butcher saw that they used to cut it bone marrow about 10 seconds on the main side and just like the belly i keep the marrow raw on the inside i just hear the outside my family's sake of course i'll just throw it in the oven later and bring it to temperature if you guys want to know more about cooking principles and how to get a really good sear on a steak i have a video you can look up new york city style steak it's a great explanation of how you need to dry out the steak surface you have to have fat to caramelize the steak all right so i'm just going to finish grilling my family steak and then we'll go inside and eat this beautiful steak crust we got only took about three minutes this is why i love doing this wood fire method so much now the steak's completely raw on the inside so we can either continue to cook it on the grill or we could just take it inside and put it in the oven saves a lot of time i just threw the beef belly in the oven so my goals in general are nutrient density low inflammatory foods and part of nutrient density is consuming fermented foods this is because every one of our ancestors consumed large amounts of high quality fermented animal foods to get vitamin k2 vitamin k2 very important for calcium metabolism blood health bone health probably one of the vitamins that we're missing the most of in modern diets and here if you're wondering why this jar is in a plastic bag it's not too uh doesn't smell too good so what i have in this jar is bone marrow what i did was i scooped some bone marrow out of the bones i put it in a jar and i let it sit on my counter for about a week and this is not for the faint of heart uh indigenous preparations might have been examples of it's uh indigenous examples might have been like kiviak or muck tuck they would take maybe like a hundred birds thousands of birds even bury them in a seal skin and let it sit for over a year in the ground in the warmer climates they would let fish ferment in the sun for like six seven eight days so there there's no real temperature requirement to make high meat it just has to be in an aerobic environment like a jar with air in it and it needs to be maybe aired out once every few days this is akin to cheese and the reason i used bone marrow is because well bone marrow is very nutrient dense i think it would be pretty high in all the fat type of vitamins before it ferments so maybe the k2 content is higher when it ferments uh frank why don't you just eat some cheese yes i could eat some cheese but i am allergic to dairy uh parmesan oregano i think is a very affordable and high quality cheese made from raw milk for any of you guys uh if you did this with this is so funny you guys saw the video uh where i was wearing the beard for the testosterone there's a beard hair in this uh but when you do high meat would muscle meat it's not nearly as funky and it's not as nutrient dense i think doing high meat with something like bone marrow or fat is really really good from a nutrient perspective so all i do with this is i just have a few bites of it every day and it doesn't taste nearly as bad as it smells but i also like about this is when i eat the fat first i become more satiated so it's a great way to gauge your appetite and when people tell me they eat you know three four pounds of meat a day like shone baker i'm like it doesn't have to be fermented marrow to not want to eat anymore you you just need to consume a high quality fat source and that will satiate your appetite but there's something to be said about the nutrient density of foods like this and how satiating they are you can't really eat more than a few bites without being full so rotten meat is also referred to as high meat sometimes in a book the fat of the land definitely check that out if you haven't read it let me know if you guys want to know more about like preparing this and making it and uh who knows maybe i'll do some videos in the future on it if you guys are interested i think i actually did a video where i made some if you guys are curious the meat has to be fresh most important thing and ideally high quality meat pretty much put it in a jar air it out every two days okay so i took my beef belly out of the oven but before my beef belly here i have some kelp this is kombu this is from main coast sea vegetables uh this is on my amazon shop you can also get it at Whole Foods it's a low temperature dehydrated seaweed it has a good amount of potassium some magnesium but mainly for iodine the main reason i consume this is iodine secondary sometimes potassium so this is a third of a cup eight servings per bag i probably have about two servings and what i did was you take the dried seaweed you put it in a cup with some water and it it rehydrates itself you can eat it when it's dry but it's a bit chewy and this is something that i would do maybe once a week once every two weeks just to get some iodine in uh you know those indigenous groups those hunter gatherers that lived in mountainous areas had to go down to the ocean to gather things for iodine so iodine very very important i use seaweed when i don't have access to fish row or fish eggs and since salmon row is out of season since i haven't placed a bulk order at the fish market recently i haven't been consuming any iodine from seafood directly although i do recommend shellfish crab lobs or whatever it may be are excellent sources of iodine and i recommend them over seaweed but this is better than nothing so the seaweed sat in water i think it takes like half an hour an hour to soak so i take the seaweed out i'm going to save this water and i'll drink it later but what i do is i just chop up the seaweed and then i'll just chew it all right so let's take a look at the cooking temperature on this beef belly and it doesn't have a cooking temperature because it's raw on the inside normally i do salt my food but i got some blood work recently and my chloride levels are a little bit high and i haven't really been craving salt and i've also been getting muscle cramps in my leg so i'm going to experiment without salt for a couple days i'm going to use seaweed for some potassium and see if my hydration pattern changes or if um anything changes at all cuts like belly are a bit tougher to chew but if you keep them raw and you slice against the grain it's not too bad so the meat is essentially entirely raw i'm technically a raw carnivore it's just seared on the outside for a little bit of flavor and i mean that also kills the bacteria but i'm not too concerned about bacteria if i'm eating raw bone marrow so this beef has that like farmy grassy hay flavor it's not really like butterscotch i think what i'm gonna do is i feel like having it a little more cooked today so i'm gonna throw it back in the oven and maybe cook it too rare instead of raw completely and there's no benefit to raw versus cooked food i say this time and time again every indigent school consumed raw food cooked food fermented food there's no right or wrong what's right is consuming a variety of high quality animal foods so i just put the steak in the oven for a few minutes on broil cooked food serves the purpose of calories primarily in indigenous diets raw food for nutrients and fermented food also alters the nutrient profile as well as the fatty acid profile of the food so there's benefits to every single preparation of food and they're all necessary in the human diet as this beef this beef is so tasty it's crazy no salt no seasoning just a fire and some meat a meal without salt is like 80 of the enjoyment of a normal meal with salt maybe like 70% so i definitely miss salt even if i just do it for one day without it but i'm gonna try it for a couple more days and i'll maybe i'll give you guys an update on that maybe we ate total i don't know maybe like 50 grams of the raw bone marrow and then we just had the beef belly so i'm guessing we ate about a pound and a half to two pounds of fatty beef belly in regards to vitamin profile of this meal we just have a balanced amount of all the fat soluble vitamins we have some vitamin a some vitamin e some vitamin k2 actually plenty of vitamin k2 from the fermented bone marrow and all of these foods since they are grass-fed and high quality have decent amounts of the precursor linoleic and linoleic acid so it's safe to say we're getting a decent amount of dha from these foods and that if you're consuming a diet like this with high quality grass-fed fat it's not too necessary to consume fish or really consume any fish at all if you'd like to you can have brain tissue maybe once a month once a week depending on how you want to increase your dha intake but i don't think i'm going to eat anything else today i prefer to eat earlier in the day i digest and then i end up sleeping better so thank you guys for watching if you guys would like to support the channel please like subscribe and share the video if you guys want to check out my amazon shop the seaweed's in there patreon i do have some exclusive videos on my patreon and i do answer questions in-depth on there i'm on twitter i'm on instagram you guys can check that 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