 The most popular concerns with the carnivore diet are scurvy, gout, nutrient deficiencies, fiber, and digestion. And not in this particular order necessarily, but we are going to start with scurvy. And most people are familiar that scurvy is caused by the lack of vitamin C. And also anti-scorbutic foods are foods that contain vitamin C, or fresh foods that are known to cure scurvy, for one reason or another. Scurvy is a very horrible disease, and the reason vitamin C causes it is because our body produces certain enzymes from vitamin C that are required for collagen synthesis. And that's why when scurvy progresses, people's gums literally get so soft, their teeth fall out. They die from internal hemorrhaging. They get very fatigued, very weak, three to four weeks in. That's why people who went on these expeditions in the 1600s and 1700s, many of them died. Because three to four weeks of preserved foods, they became so weak they could not function, and they didn't have access to fresh foods. The Mug Expedition is a good one to read about. Robert Falcon Scott. And these are all in The Fat of the Land. The Fat of the Land is a book by William Stephenson, and he's an arctic explorer who had first-hand experiences from seeing people get scurvy from eating preserved foods, and also from seeing as small as an Inuit who only ate meat and fish and never got scurvy. Robert Falcon Scott was the second person, I believe, to reach the South Pole. He was an explorer, and in a very heartbreaking story, he had a diary and everything. He died on the way back from the South Pole from scurvy, but they didn't list it as scurvy because it was viewed as something unclean back then. So if you guys want to read about scurvy, the history of that, and how people got scurvy, The Fat of the Land is a great book. I'll actually link that in the description as a PDF. So it's from eating only preserved foods, like porridge, breads, potted meats. Any anti-scorbuted foods are absent from the diet. It sets in within three to four weeks, and in William Stephenson's experience, about 10 days after it set in, it worsened drastically, and the men could barely function. They were very fatigued. But it was literally fixed in four days on a raw and lightly cooked diet of caribou. So there's obviously anti-scorbuted properties to any fresh food, as long as it is not overcooked, at least from what I can understand. The inuits consumed raw and cooked fish without scurvy. So there were people who got scurvy, and then they went hunting, they got fresh meat, they got fresh vegetables, but they would boil them and over-boil them to the point where all the anti-scorbuted properties were gone. And every single part of an animal contains vitamin C. I mean, there are some organs that contain much more vitamin C, and vitamin C is lost when the food is heated extensively. So any fresh food, raw preferably, liver, spleen, kidney, raw, would be the best at reversing scurvy. Preventing scurvy is much easier than reversing scurvy, as you can imagine. One interesting thing is, on one of the expeditions that I believe Robert Falcon Scott went on, he had plenty of New Zealand vegetables, produce, fresh fruits and vegetables, and they still got scurvy. So possibly the anti-scorbuted properties of those fruits and vegetables was not enough when they were consuming all of these other preserved foods. Also, people used to bring limes on ships believing that it had anti-scorbuted properties, but the problem is the limes, once they sat on a ship in a barrel for a month, they were no longer containing enough anti-scorbuted properties to prevent scurvy, let alone reverse scurvy. That's part of the reason I believe the daiquiri was invented, which is a cocktail with rum, lime juice, and simple syrup. Here we have a bottle of rum, lime and sugar, and a cocktail shaker. So that's one interesting thing, but they used to call lemons limes. So lemons probably have higher anti-scorbuted properties, but there was, I guess, a miscommunication with the name, so that's why doctors back in this time believed that limes would prevent scurvy. But time and time again, in this book, those foods did not prevent scurvy, and they could not even reverse scurvy. So something to be said about having fresh, lightly cooked foods in the diet, I think you could literally get scurvy if you only ate like 10 hour, if you only ate like 10 hour cooked barbecue brisket for a month or two. I think you could get scurvy. It has to be an incredibly small amount of vitamin C, and even cooking a steak to well done might not reduce the vitamin C content drastically enough to cause scurvy over that period of time. We have a black leg here. It was called black leg in a lot of cases, because that was one of the other side effects of scurvy. Definitely a very deadly and terrible disease. Just like tuberculosis was back then when we didn't have a vaccine for it, but these are both diseases, modern degenerative diseases, from staying away from our natural indigenous diet. So gout is pretty interesting, and my father actually has gout, and he actually has a B12 deficiency as well. Vegetarians get gout. Meat does not seem to be a risk, because 14% of the American diet is meat. So why would we say reduce meat consumption even more? It doesn't make sense. Excess meat consumption increases uric acid for protein. That is why people believe that uric acid is the problem, but as we look further, do not be afraid of meat. Stop running away from meat when you have gout. So the actual problem is fructose, and when fructose is in your body, it needs ATP, adenosine triphosphate, to be metabolized. And a lack of ATP triggers degradation system for adenine, producing very large amounts of uric acid. My father had uric acid. Fructose to glucose ratio. I'm not sure how important this is. I know obviously consuming high fructose corn syrup is worse than consuming something like honey that has an even fructose to glucose ratio, but, and even in the context of fresh fruit and naturally occurring sugars, I am not 100% sure, because we never really saw a gout or any of these problems in indigenous groups that did consume milk and honey, so I don't know if it's possible to replicate gout without the inflammatory properties of a modern diet. High insulin is also linked to increased levels because high insulin decreases the kidney's ability to excrete uric acid. Gout is linked to populations with high sugar consumption, so like the English I believe in the 1500s and 1700s started developing gout when their sugar consumption increased. So it's very apparent at any research you look at that gout is caused by excess fructose consumption. To what degree you have to change your diet to do that is up in the air, but going from a high sugar diet to a carnivore diet, you might have to take some precautions here and there before doing that. Definitely safe to say, removing inflammation seems to be the most important factor for gout and being heavily overweight, being insulin resistant, all of those things matter much more than what you're actually putting into your body. I mean, they both matter, but if you're someone that comes from a keto diet and you were insulin resistant, you had all these problems, and you go on this diet and now you get gout, someone else might not have had the same problem and gotten gout from that because of your pre-existing conditions. Definitely something worth noting. Everyone is different. Nutrient deficiencies, and this bothers me because this diet and the reason I follow this diet is because it is literally the highest vitamin diet and the healthiest diet you can follow because animal foods, organs, wild caught fish, pastured eggs, high quality dairy, raw cheeses, all have the highest amount of the most bioavailable forms of vitamins. So people are literally contradicting themselves when they're saying, this diet is nutrient deficient, this diet is low on vitamin C, when it's literally the highest vitamin diet there is. We can touch on a couple of things. Liver and kidney are nutritionally complete. They have all the fat and water cycle vitamins, all the elements and minerals you need. Liver is exceptionally high in vitamin A and copper, whereas kidney edges it out in selenium but doesn't have as much vitamin A. Goose liver has an, I mean both of these have an incredible amount of folate but migratory bird liver, they store more fat type of vitamins in their liver. So goose liver, literally like 5,200 grams of it, has your daily RDA of folate in it. Don't be afraid of nutrients on this diet. Do not be like this guy. Fish row is also nutritionally complete as liver is. Nothing really stands up to the vitamin A content of liver, but fish row is known for its exceptional omega-3 DHA content. The only other food you could really consume for that high amount of DHA is brain tissue, and most people don't want to consume brain tissue. So that's why I suggest omega-3 eggs, wild caught fish, fish row, for DHA as opposed to eating brains. Egg yolks are a great example. They have all the fat type of vitamins, plenty of the B vitamin folate, nice amounts of omega-3 fatty acids, plenty of elements, plenty of minerals. Any of these foods can pretty much be used to achieve the RDA if you consume enough of them, as we can see by the happy RDA smiley face. So we don't have to question whether or not the RDAs are correct when we can actually reach them and exceed them drastically on this diet. The minerals like potassium and magnesium, if you eat 2 to 3 pounds of meat a day, you will hit those RDAs, especially if you're consuming wild caught fish, especially if you're getting various organ meats. And seaweed is an excellent food to consume for your minerals. It's very rich in potassium as well as magnesium and calcium. If you ever have a concern about getting your minerals and then maybe trying seaweed to see how that adds to your carnivore diet, definitely worth checking out. Nutrient deficiencies should be the last thing you're worried about because I literally followed this diet for the nutrient density of these high quality animal foods. And we mentioned a few things here, but the more approachable foods like egg yolks are almost nutritionally complete. Shellfish, oysters, crabs, lobsters, all have all the fat-soluble vitamins and vitamins in them, water-soluble vitamins as well. We have raw dairy, grass-fed dairy, high quality butter and cheese, all have high amounts of fat-soluble vitamins. The reason people don't know about these things is because grain-fed beef fat, grain-fed liver, it tastes like shit, and the grain-fed fat does not have the vitamins that grass-fed fat does. Same with dairy. When you take a cow off pasture, they're not getting the vitamin A and the vitamin K in the grass, the carotenoids and the vitamin K1 in the grass to convert them to the retinoic acid and vitamin K2 in the flesh of the animal. If the cow is not getting those vitamins, it's not going to be in the milk. So that's definitely something to keep in mind with all of these foods. Quality is pertinent to nutrient density of the food, especially in rumen and animals, and I mean there's so much wild caught fish that it's not as much of an issue in fish, but it's definitely still an issue. Fiber is like the carbohydrate argument. You don't need fiber, you don't need carbohydrates. Eskimos do not get fiber, babies do not get fiber when they drink breast milk. Fasting people that fast still get bowel movements regardless of their fiber intake. It's just one of those things where the arguments for fiber really are crushed by the arguments against fiber in a lot of cases. Digestion. The main reasons you would have problems with digestion on this diet are you're adjusting to a food you haven't had before, which should take no more than two days. The cooking type of the food, sometimes rendered fat does not digest too well, sometimes overcooked meat does not digest too well. The food source. It could be cross-contaminated with bacteria. It could be very high in omega-6, like grain fed chicken and grain fed pork. High omega-6 fats and high omega-6 meats can cause problems for a lot of people. Allergies are another one. You could have an egg allergy or a dairy allergy and it's not your stomach adjusting to the food. Your body is just trying to reject it. And although it will eventually adjust to it, you still will be getting some inflammatory reactions from the food if you're allergic to it. It could be as intense as appendix appendicitis. Your appendix could burst to just maybe acne. There's various degrees of low-level inflammatory reactions from these foods. Other things to ask are are you thirsty or are you hungry? I'll do pretty much a whole video on this. Keep in mind your body might be craving certain minerals and electrolytes as opposed to actual calories. And the water quality is also important. A lot of people are just eating minerals in their body because they're not consuming a good source of water. Whether it's reverse osmosis with minerals added back in or high-quality glass-biled mineral water you want to remove. And I have a whole video on electrolytes. I won't go too much into that. You can watch that for water. But I think I've covered everything and any concerns you might have about the carnivore diet. The only other thing you might need to know is that you do need to consume about 80% of calories from fat in order to have optimal energy levels on this diet. Fat in the land. I will link that resource. That will answer a lot of questions people might have. It talks about scurvy. Gout is something you can Google. Nutrient deficiencies. I'll link some of my other videos to get you guys started. Fiber. I'll try to find you guys some resources on fiber and the digestion thing. That's all my personal knowledge and experience. So thank you guys for watching. Can I take this stupid shit off? I asked on Instagram a good pirate's name and no one answered me. So I was thinking like Calico Jack was called Calico Jack because he wore Calico clothing and then Jack was nicknamed for whatever. I was thinking Captain Haines no beard. Because I wear a lot of Haines t-shirts and I don't have a beard. I'm like black beard, no beard. Let me know what you guys think. Although it would have kind of been this point is how many more videos am I going to do where I can wear an eyepatch and a gold earring. So if you guys would like to support me please just share the video. If you guys would like to support me on Patreon, I offer reduced diet write-ups, diet critiques. I also do one-on-one consultations. You guys can reach out to me. Frank A. Tufano at gmail.com. 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