 You ever wonder why low carb diets, and especially the carnivore diet in particular, are really struggling to become mainstream? Hey there, NJRoot22.com here with another low carb keto carnivore check. And today it's a little something that I want to talk about, I hope I don't ramble on too much, but it's about why it takes people so long to become carnivore. Regardless of what they have been prior. And it seems that the carnivore diet, out of all the cases I've read, has been the final stop. There have been no successors to the people that have chosen carnivore. Once they become carnivore, they stay carnivore, because it is a solution for them. There's various different kinds of carnivore diets out there. There's the hardcore carnivore, and this is all a rough understanding of mine, because I have my own way of dealing with carnivore. But the hardcore carnivore is almost raw meat only, and that's it. Raw meat and water, usually a ground beef or steak, and people just eat that. That's it. Red meat and water, that's the hard, hard, hard core carnivore, zero carb diet. And then there's the relaxed carnivore, which is, that's more like our diet, which is animal based. It's animal based, it's meat, eggs, and dairy. And some people avoid the dairy because of their digestive issues, but I'm sure if they stuck with it long enough, dairy could be introduced. That's not everybody, but a lot of people. But what I've been reading in all these various sites that aren't censored or blocked or subverted by some other mainstream interests is that these people, they start some diet either because they're overweight, out of shape, in pain, have some sort of other issues, skin related, sleep related, aches. There's all sorts of issues people have with their life that they try and die. And what I've seen a lot of people go through is they go, oh, I'm going to go vegan. They go vegan and their life gets worse. They become sick, they become disgusting, they gain weight, it's just a big mess. People are vegan, I don't know how people do it, but from what I've been reading vegan is just an awful, awful choice to make. And then they go, okay, this isn't working, I'm going to try paleo or keto. Now they're both good diets, but I believe personally that they're not sustainable long term. There's too many restrictions and so on. And that especially is true for something like the Atkins diet, which from my recollection I had the three phases and phase one everybody lost weight and then they started reintroducing carbs in two and three and then it didn't work, it never worked. If you follow it, if you follow phase one, sure, maybe it works, but I don't know enough about the Atkins diet, I just knew that that was also another one of these things where they had supporting foods and points and all this nonsense. That just doesn't seem to work, it's too freaking complicated. And a lot of people just went after doing keto and paleo with mild success, but not overwhelming. They couldn't solve all their problems. They said, no, let me give keto, I mean, I'm sorry, carnivore a tribe 30 days and all of a sudden turned to 60, 90 and permanent. And that seems to be a very, very observable trend with these diets that carnivore, once you get past the hump or the stigma behind it or the difficulty in the beginning of just having meat and then after those 30 days, you're like, man, this is easy. I don't think about food. I don't care. I feel great. I'm losing weight. I'm energetic. My woes are going away. But I just find it interesting how it's this carnivore seems to be the end of the line for a lot of people instead of the first thing they're trying. And part of this video, what I want to express is that I think a lot of it has to do with the marketing and the money behind a particular movement. There is no real benefactors to the carnivore lifestyle other than the meat industry, I guess. If you had to think of one beneficiary of the carnivore diet, it's the meat industry. And there's not really even one kind of meat industry either because you have crappy meat, the worst possible meat like those tops frozen burgers or McDonald's burgers or that meat is just crappy. I mean, there's a lot of disparity between the meats. And then there's the organic, on the other end of the spectrum, you've got the organic grass-fed, free-range meats which are exorbitantly expensive, very expensive. And then there's the middle of the road meat, which I guess covers 80% of the spectrum. But there's really no beneficiary, like Keto and Paleo, they have all this marketing behind it and groups and there's brands and I don't know. It just seems to be, there's something more money in the pie there to keep people in the Keto or Paleo. Smirnoff spiked sparkling seltzer is still the number one drink. Anyway, you should do a little digging yourself to wonder why. Go on this website, it's called Ketogenic Endurance, I think. If I can remember, I'll put the link in the video description. Every single person being interviewed says the same thing, I did this, I did that and here I am at Carnivore and awesome. And it doesn't even have to include exercise or any kind of fanatical lifestyle change, just, you know, your eating becomes secondary. And I've said this in several videos before about food is fuel, it shouldn't be entertainment, it shouldn't be, I mean, it's not bad to enjoy your food and your meals and make a kind of life out of it, but it's not really necessary either and it shouldn't be a requirement for anybody to, oh, I have to have all this perfect food. I mean, wouldn't it be better if you could, let's say you ate for two hours a day or maybe even more if you include preparation, say, like a 20% of your days involved around, revolved around eating. What happens if you can make that 2% of your days involved with eating and you could do other things with your time? I mean, that's the, I don't know, maybe it's the same difference between just spending three minutes at the gas station filling up your car and driving off or an hour at our like electric car station. It just seems like you're, it's a waste of time to spend too much time fueling your body and that's a topic that's easily debatable. Someone can come around and tell me, oh, well, what's wrong with it or what's the harm? Yeah, that's fine. Do whatever you want with your time. But I think humans in this society could be more productive if they spent less time eating. And of course, there's a flip side to this equation as well. If you spend less time eating, you might have even more time to do more stupid stuff like sit around on the couch and watch TV instead of building or creating or learning something or hustling for extra money. There's flip side to every kind of situation, flip side to the coins, as they say. But think about it. If you can, about why carnivore, like just a really, really, really low carb, not complicated diet seems to be the end of the line. It's like the last thing people discover. And in 2019, 2020, I believe a lot of people are going to understand the carnivore a little bit more and may try higher in the food chain, pecking order than some of these other more popular trendy diets that celebrities are talking about on TV and reading in stupid magazines and so on. But I don't know. That's it. It's just a fascinating, like how it became the hardest thing to find and you have to go through the jungle to get to the clearing, you know what I mean? I don't know. That's it. I think there's something to be discovered in this whole subject and I think it's worth investigating and talking to other people about. I can never really finish a video. I think, because I do all of this top of my head. I have no script. One sentence that says carnivore keto paleo, that's all I'm working on. But I think it's hard because people have these long-term traditions and rituals that they've gotten into, like the three meals a day or three meals in two snacks or breakfast is the most important meal and all these things that people have been almost, I would like to say cursed with because it's not true. I don't eat breakfast ever anymore. On a rare occasion when I'm really busting my butt for several days in a row, I may actually be genuinely hungry in the morning and may eat eggs. When I make food for my kids, I also, I may pick at it and I try not to eat any solid food at all because I like to keep a window, like a four to six hour window where I can eat and then the rest of the time, I'm not eating because that's good for ketosis and it's just good in general to feed off your excess. I still have 20 solid pounds of excess body fat to lose and I'm giving myself about a year, about maybe a pound and a half a month will slowly come off before I really hit the gym and pack on the muscle again. But anyway, I'm rambling. Just look into why carnivore seems to be the last stop for a lot of people, not only in their lifestyle choices, but in their discovery of lifestyle choices. I mean, I should add one last quick thing here, like a lot of people discovered carnivore after listening to the Joe Rogan podcast or video vlog. So that was really helpful for the carnivore movement. And I have really no opinion good or bad about Joe Rogan and some people have really negative opinions. I mean, because you can never agree with anybody 100% of the time. I mean, there's people I really like, actors, for instance, or musicians that I don't agree with their political positions doesn't change. I'm not going to allow that to change how I feel about their creative works because that's really a different, it's a different thing. I'm not going to get into who and what, but I learned how to kind of get over it. If I like what they, if I like the product they put forward, I'm going to sort of ignore what they do personally. But anyway, that's it. I've rambled. But why is carnivore so far at the end of the line? Have a good week ahead.