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How to Do an Elimination Diet like The Carnivore Diet for Optimal Health

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June 2, 2021
How to Do an Elimination Diet like The Carnivore Diet for Optimal Health

Doing an elimination diet is something that we believe that most people should do in order to find the best diet for their own optimal health. An elimination diet simply entails cutting out foods that can cause negative effects and irritation in a lot of people for a period of time, and then adding each …

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25 Ways to Sneak in More Exercise Into Your Days

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May 26, 2021
25 Ways to Sneak in More Exercise Into Your Days

When I was a kid, I developed this habit of sneaking exercises into my days. I would do squats in the bathroom, do push ups against the kitchen counter, take mini dance sessions between study breaks, and take morning walks on the schoolyard.   I got a little OCD about it. There was a lot of …

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Why I Love Being on an Animal-Based Diet

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May 14, 2021
Why I Love Being on an Animal-Based Diet

My husband introduced me to the carnivore diet a few years ago and now, I’m animal-based. If you told my younger self that one day, I would only be eating animal foods, she would be shocked, but she was just as much as a health nerd back then as I am now, and I’m sure …

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I Had to Start Over With 75 HARD™ (Again)

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May 10, 2021
I Had to Start Over With 75 HARD™ (Again)

I started the 75 HARD™ challenge on the 1st of January 2021. And even though I absolutely love doing this challenge, it’s called 75 HARD™ for a reason and I have had to start over four times. Today is basically 75 HARD™, take number three.  What is the 75 HARD™ Challenge?  If you don’t know, …

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The Carnivore Diet and Intermittent Fasting | An Interview with William Chin

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May 3, 2021
The Carnivore Diet and Intermittent Fasting An Interview with William Chin (2)

I love learning about people’s diets and health journeys, and I’m super excited that William Chin, agile web consultant and experienced dieter, has agreed to do an interview with me to tell us more about his health journey, experience with the carnivore diet, and more. Can You Tell Us a Bit About Your Diet and …

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How I Do a Fat Fast

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April 30, 2021
How I Do a Fat Fast

I’ve tried quite a few different types of fasts in my life, including the Fasting Mimicking Diet, 16/8 intermittent fasting, 24-hour fasts, 48-hour fasts, juice fasts, bone broth fasts, etc. etc. But my favourite type of fast has to be a fat fast. I did a 3-day fat fast a few weeks ago and was …

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Why a Keto Diet is Good for Managing Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS)

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April 28, 2021
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If you’re reading this, then I’m assuming you know that PCOS stands for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, a hormonal condition that affects thousands of women around the world. I happen to be one of them.  If you’ve been diagnosed with PCOS, chances are that your doctor recommended you go on a low-GI diet or start taking …

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Does The Carnivore Diet Work?

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April 27, 2021
Does The Carnivore Diet Work

While the idea of the carnivore diet might seem odd to some, an animal-based diet has a lot of health benefits to be excited about. The diet is low in inflammatory foods, plant toxins, antinutrients, and processed junk. It’s great for people who want to manage insulin resistance and it has helped a lot of …

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The Benefits of Meat: The Centre of Our Primal Diet

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April 26, 2021
The Benefits of Meat The Centre of Our Primal Diet

What are the benefits of eating meat? While the world might be telling you to eat less meat for the sake of your health, eating meat is arguably one of the best things you can do for your health. Animal foods are some of the most nutrient-dense foods on the planet. The fact that steak …

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Can You Build Muscle on the Carnivore Diet?

Can You Build Muscle on the Carnivore Diet? Can you build muscle on a carnivore diet? If you’ve done some research about building muscle, you’ve probably come across the advice that you should eat carbs to help you gain muscle. This advice is pretty mainstream. Bodybuilder diets are often low in fat and high in carbs because they believe the carbs will help them build muscle. Those who don’t have aspirations of becoming bodybuilders and just want to gain muscle to look good and become stronger also typically opt for more carbs. This popular muscle-building diet approach has lead to many fearing that if they go on a low-carb diet like the carnivore diet, they’ll struggle to gain muscle. If you want to try the carnivore diet but you’re worried it will interfere with your goals, then hopefully I can put your mind at ease. How Do You Build Muscle? First, it’s important to understand what is required for your body to build muscle. To build muscle, you need to: Do resistance training and focus on progressive overload, which is when you make exercises harder by doing things like lifting heavier weights, slowing down your tempo, adding reps, and adding sets. Eat enough protein (aim for 1g to 1.2g per pound of body weight) Eat enough calories during the day and aim for maintenance calories or higher. You’ll struggle to build muscle if you're in a calorie deficit. If you prioritize fatty meat on a carnivore diet, it shouldn't be too hard to reach your calorie goals. Prioritise sleep and recovery: proper rest is very important for building muscle and helping your muscles repair. Sleep helps you produce more human growth hormone, which plays an important role in muscle building and strength. Do You Need Carbs to Build Muscle? Many voices in the health and fitness community will tell you that, in order to build muscle, you need to eat enough protein and load up on carbs. The carbs fill your muscles with glycogen for you to use during your workout, and eating carbohydrates can help your performance in the gym. But you don't need to eat carbs to help you build muscle, as long as you consume enough electrolytes, eat enough fat, and provide your body with the calories it needs. When you first switch to a low-carb diet like the carnivore diet and the keto diet, your performance when working out will likely decline for a few weeks while your body adjusts and becomes fat adapted. This is because you lose quite a bit of stored glycogen and you’re body hasn’t switched over to using fat as its main energy source yet. But once you are fat adapted, your performance when training should improve and it will become easier to build muscle. Where will you get glycogen from? Well, your liver produces it. And if you consume more protein than your body needs, it will turn it into glucose through a process called gluconeogenesis. But if you want, you can have carbs on a carnivore diet. I know, I know, many people in the carnivore community don't approve of the consumption of honey and dairy products but these come from animals and can definitely be included in a carnivore diet. So if you want the power of carbs to fuel you for your workouts, why not just have some honey or raw milk? If you can't tolerate dairy (like me), then you can get all the carbs you need from honey. You can be strategic and have your carnivore carbs before you train to give you energy and then again after to help restore the glycogen in your muscles. How Can the Carnivore Diet Help You Build Muscle? So many people who are trying to build muscle don't eat enough protein. You need to eat enough protein so your body gets the amino acids it needs to build muscle. If you've never tracked how much protein you consume in a day, you might be shocked to discover that you're not close to your protein goal of 1g to 1,2g protein per pound of body weight. If you're on a carnivore diet, you can easily get to your daily protein goal. Before I started doing The Lion Diet in January for World Carnivore Month, I struggled to reach my protein goals, but then once I started doing the carnivore diet, it became incredibly easy to reach this goal. Meat also provides you with a lot of creatine. Many people who are trying to build muscle will supplement with creatine because creatine helps give muscles more energy. Your levels of phosphocreatine will increase when you consume creatine, which your body then uses to make adenosine triphosphate (ATP). Creatine is found in meat. You can skip the supplements if you're on the carnivore diet due to the fact that you eat so much meat. A carnivore diet promotes healthy testosterone levels. Testosterone is very important for muscle building. If you consume a lot of sugar at once, it can significantly lower your testosterone levels (link). If you don't consume enough fat, your testosterone levels also won't be optimal since you need fat and cholesterol to produce it. Following a low-carb, high-fat diet like The Carnivore Diet can boost your testosterone levels, which will aid muscle growth. (link) Animal foods like red meat are also great sources of zinc, which your body also needs to produce testosterone. On the carnivore diet, you won't experience blood sugar fluctuations like you would on a high-carb diet. Stable blood sugar levels means stable energy levels, which means you'll perform better during workouts and can train harder. Your chances of experiencing a mid-workout energy dip are much lower on a carnivore diet. The Carnivore vs Vegan Diet The carnivore diet is far superior than the vegan diet when it comes to building muscle. First of all, animal foods are higher in protein than plant sources of protein like beans, nuts, rice and lentils. But, here is the truth. There are 20 amino acids your body needs to build muscle and 9 of them cannot be produced by your body, so you need to get them from your food. Foods that contain all nine essential amino acids are called complete proteins. There are no plant proteins that meet this criteria. You need to combine different plant protein sources (like mixing rice with beans) to get all the essential amino acids. But, meat and other animal sources of protein like cheese, eggs and yoghurt, are complete proteins. There's no combining necessary. Plant foods are also harder to digest. You definitely won't get the most out of the protein you're getting from plants. Meat and eggs are two of the easiest foods for the body to digest and get protein from. If you're on a muscle-building journey, why not try the carnivore diet for a few months and see how it affects your progress. I think it's also a great idea to do it if you were gaining muscle but have now hit a plateau. The carnivore diet could be just what you need to start seeing progress again and build that muscle you're after.

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