TD (00:02.84)
I haven't done a diet update in a while for a vast amount of reasons. But I wanted to, this might be a couple part or this might be more than one discussion here. But for all y'all that have been following us, we went carnivore a couple years ago as a family.

and saw an enormous amount of benefits from it and had a lot of success and then maybe about

Eight months ago, my wife started having...

some issues again with her thyroid and her hair started falling out. So she started kind of like adjusting and

TD (01:04.622)
I was still having an enormous amount of success on carnivore, but what I started having issues with was with my sleep. Initially upon going carnivore and even like a year or a year and a half in, I would have really good...

sleep patterns for a while and they would fluctuate and right about probably about two years in or so my sleep

patterns got really messed up and what was happening to me even though that I was 100 % carnivore not eating any carbs is I would get insulin spikes in the middle of the night around two or three o'clock in the morning and it would wake me up I'd have to go to the bathroom and I'd be sweating and these were clearly like insulin spikes and I'm trying to decipher this I'm trying to figure it out and

last, this past summer, I had already decided we, were, we were adding back in fruit into our diet. And, I did notice that when I would eat fruit during the day, I wouldn't have these same insulin spikes at night.

or they would be different or they would be less intensified. So I knew that there was something to that. So for the last eight months, we've just been trying different things and adjusting. And I've started adding back in some simple carbs like fruit.

TD (03:12.044)
and like different types of potatoes and different things like that. I never held the line or bought into this whole thing that like fruits and vegetables are trying to kill you. I don't like vegetables and I don't see a need to eat vegetables, but I certainly don't think that they're trying to kill us. And I always thought that that was kind of hyperbolic and kind of weird. I also never bought into this like incest real.

proper human diet thing, this evolutionary idea. I never really bought into that. One, it's anti-biblical and it doesn't even align with the creation or count or even all of it. But what I did know is we went carnivore and I had an enormous amount of success and I felt great and therefore...

You know, and this is coming out of like being in an extreme amount of pain and inflammation with all the shoulder issues and the loss of the labrum and you know, the need for replacement and all that stuff. Which I still haven't done. And that's the only crummy part is as I do add back in some carbs.

my shoulder does start to bother me. So I'm trying to balance that with.

keeping the inflammation low. But what's kind of coming out in the carnivore community is there a lot of these carnivore docs that are having to adjust their diet. Lisa Wiedemann and even Dr. Kilts, because they're seeing wonky stuff. They're experiencing weird stuff like weight gain and

TD (05:09.002)
insulin levels acting weird and that that's exactly what I was experiencing. But now I'm just trying to I do have an enormous amount of success when I am in a ketogenic state. And one thing I'm completely certain of is that there is a tremendous benefit to being in a ketogenic state for extended periods of time.

I think the issues arise is when you remain in that state for periods of years. I think it's a great therapeutic tool to use from my experience, maybe in like three to six month periods. And there's an enormous amount of healing, but what happens is when it extends past that, it becomes...

inflammatory in the sense of like it starts jacking with your cortisol, starts jacking with your insulin levels and this is what I've experienced and I was very reticent to kind of update y'all just because I'm still kind of trying to figure it all out. Another healing modality that I've added that I am absolutely positive

that is incredibly beneficial is fasting and not just intermittent fasting. I've been intermittent fasting probably for the last 10 or 15 years. I've always only eaten one to two meals a day. I don't usually eat until the evening. And so now this is one of the other things that I'm starting to...

TD (07:02.068)
adjust or try is eating at different times of the day. Because what I would usually eat one meal a day, I would usually eat meat and fat. And somehow, you know, I was having these insulin spikes in the middle of the night. And I noticed if I would eat earlier in the day, I wouldn't always have that same type of response or reaction.

So I'm just continuing to kind of like adjust and we're gonna start getting our blood work more on a regular basis. I'm teaming up with this company Rhythm where they do this like, you can do this home blood work and it's like anti-needle. It looks really cool.

So I'm looking forward to trying that so we can start looking at our numbers and evaluating everything. But yeah, it's been very interesting. I started out carnivore. just had there for a period of like three to six months, I was sleeping so good and I had so much energy, like I would try to go to sleep at night.

And I felt super awake, but basically as soon as I laid down, I would like crash out and then wake up in the morning. And I just felt incredible. For probably like, it's probably like six to nine months in and probably for like three months there in a row, it was just awesome. It was incredible. And then I started having the insulin issues in the middle of the night. And I've never,

had these issues during the day, it would always be in the night and it would disrupt my sleep pattern. And my sleep pattern has always been bad. Like once it gets disrupted, it takes like three or four days for me to get back into a decent pattern. I want to get my wife on so I can kind of interview her so you can hear the different challenges she was having. She got, she had a ton of success in the beginning.

TD (09:22.22)
And then she got to the point where if she ate more than a half a pound of meat and she was only eating meat and fat, if she ate more than a half a pound of meat a day, she would gain weight. And just by adding back in a minimal amount of carbs, she started losing weight again. So there's definitely something to all this.

where I'm at right now, I absolutely know that a ketogenic diet is therapeutic and beneficial and helpful, but to remain in that ketogenic state for extended, and this, and I think the main point is that when it comes to diet,

Every individual is a creation of God and is particular and peculiar in their own right and everybody is absolutely different. Our skin colors are different, our eye colors are different, we all have different fingerprints and I think it's the exact same thing when it comes to our diet. We've all been exposed to different types of...

Injections, different types of pollution, different types of environmental, whatever in different regions. And it obviously affects us on a cellular level. And from these long term exposures, know, we do know that it'll, you know, basically mutate, modify who you are.

So everybody is absolutely different. I don't think that there's anything that works for everybody 100 % across the board. so we try, fail, and we adjust. And that's the period we're in now where we're adjusting. And the other thing I'm experimenting with is fasting once a week.

TD (11:44.878)
Maybe even like fasting every other day. I'm just experimenting with that. When you start listening to some of the people that have kind of like had failure in carnivore, I really start to think that they're going completely the other way.

And then they even start talking about like fasting is bad because it puts your body in this. It creates cortisol and all this stuff. And I'm just not there yet. But I am, you know.

You have to do what works for you. And you have to try, fail, and adjust. And you have to find out what that is.

I've always been willing to basically try almost anything just for the sake of wanting to function well, feel well, sleep well. Most people don't do well because they don't feel well. And most people are in a chronic state of illness and a lot of the depression

and mental issues they deal with are just because they feel terrible. And a lot of it is dietary related. And it's just, some of it is just the pollution of polluting your brain with your diet and your depression and your emotions and your anxiety are completely driven by just the toxins and the seed oils and the ultra processed foods.

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and all these new ingredients.

You just have to stay vigilant. You have to read the labels. You have to eat whole foods. You can't eat foods with like multiple ingredients that are processed. They keep changing the labels and disguising the toxins and the seed oils. But it's been a great learning process.

and friends contact me all the time about carnivore. always, I still recommend it. I think it's a great baseline where you can one, it's an excellent elimination diet where you can see the benefits one of an elimination diet, two of Keto Genesis. And then as you process through that, you just try fail adjust, you tweak, you adjust it and you twist the knob.

and let me try this, let me add this, let me remove that. And it's the same thing with fasting. And I've yet to try a dry fast, I've heard a lot about that. I haven't tried that yet. But I do find an enormous amount of success fasting. One thing happened to me about six months ago and I stopped fasting because

Usually when I fast, I sleep 80 % better than when I eat even with carnivore. And then one night I was fasting and I literally didn't sleep at all. And I don't know what that was. And there's a lot to sleep, y'all, with the whole like lunatic stuff and the cycle of the moon and the full moon. I mean, we're, it's, we are incredible creations of God and

TD (15:36.472)
There is something to like all of our surroundings, you know, and there's EMFs, there's all this other stuff. There's dirty electricity. So I realized there's a lot of things going on and a lot of things to consider, which makes this topic incredibly robust and complicated. And so I keep all of that in mind. I never try to be

hyperbolic, really with anything, and I think it's great.

I think Carnivore is a great tool in the toolbox.

The challenge I'm having now is when I deviate from it, my sleep improves but my inflammation gets worse. So I'm trying to find a sweet spot where my inflammation is down and my sleep is good. So that's just what I'm experimenting with now.

I'll keep you updated. I'm going to try to have faith on and I can interview her where we can discuss all the different things that she's been going through. She just had a very strong, her thyroid was doing really well and then it just really started swelling up and hurting her. And between that and then

TD (17:21.93)
if she ate more than a half a pound of beef a day, she would just gain weight. And none of that makes sense theoretically, but it was absolutely true for her. And our daughter too, when our daughter was just carnivore, she would gain weight, which seems like antithetical. But that was the reason for my wife and...

my daughter adding back in some carbs. It's very interesting and it's a challenge and it's great to talk about and that's why I like having a lot of different people on with different approaches and ideas and philosophies because you can just try, fail, adjust and find what works for you. Hopefully find what works for you. Hopefully it's not like this.

perpetual trying to, you know, and everything changes as we age things change. So there is a lot of that too, you know.

as you age, your body changes, your rhythms change, your hormones change. So there's all these different factors that we have to take into consideration. so I just wanted to update y'all. I wanted to encourage y'all. And if you are struggling on carnivore, if you've hit a roadblock,

TD (19:03.53)
maybe try adding back in some simple carbohydrates. And when I say simple, I mean whole foods. Like there's absolute certainties that I'm absolutely positive on. Ultra-processed foods and seed oils will absolutely kill you. They will destroy your body. They will inflame and destroy your joints. They'll make you fat and puffy.

and you will feel terrible and they will jack up your brain and they'll mess with all of your hormones and they are completely and utterly toxic. But if you've hit a roadblock with carnivore, you know, and there's, dangers to carnivore in the sense of like beef, butter, bacon and eggs, like bacon, you can, you can OD on bacon and it can jack you up.

You know what mean? So that's what I'm saying. It's never like this super blanket thing like one thing fixes everything for everybody all the time in every... You know, that's what everybody's looking for, that panacea. Everybody's looking for that one hack, the one thing. And in life, whether it's your faith...

whether it's your food, whether it's your finance, whether it's your family, there isn't like this one thing.

Now, as a Christian, right, and as a new creature, spiritually there is one thing, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ. so I'm not trying to diminish that, but I'm saying all your different aspects of life.

TD (21:05.587)
everybody's looking for the shortcut or the cheat code or the hack. And the reality is, is there isn't one. You know, and there's lots of different tools and modalities and different things that we can put in the tool belt and different things we can experience. And many times we can't make them work if we don't experience them. You know, it would be great to learn.

everything from others and learn from everyone else's mistakes and never make a mistake for yourself but that reality is fiction. And when it comes to your diet you're going to try fail adjust. And when it comes to business and investing and finances and entrepreneurship

most of the time you're gonna try, fail, adjust, you know, and you're gonna have great ideas and you're gonna think about them and you're gonna study them and you're gonna look at other people that have done them and they're gonna tell you, yeah, just do these five things and this will work every time. And it may or it may not. And so you try, fail, adjust. you know, this is...

Part of our approach and our philosophy to life is try, fail, adjust. It is observe the masses and do the opposite. The one thing that is clear to me is the masses as a whole, they're eating the standard American diet, they're sick, they're sad, and they're broke, and...

They have been conditioned to be that way. And it's sad. But observe the masses and do the opposite and try, fail, adjust.