Carnivore influencers are adding fruit, juice, and honey back in, and a lot of people are thoroughly confused.

Dr. Anthony Chaffee and I went through that Live, along with bone density, raw milk and raw meat, GLP-1 drugs, and why people who got their health back start to doubt the diet over a hangnail, because they've forgotten how bad they used to feel.

https://youtube.com/live/3d__LI8HaoU

BEEF VS PLANTS: USABLE PROTEIN

4 ounces of cooked 80/20 ground beef gives you about 28 grams of protein your body can actually use.

To match it with plants:
Peanut butter: 1.1 cups
Kidney beans: 3.1 cups
Green peas: 5.7 cups
Oatmeal: 8.7 cups
White rice: 11.1 cups
Whole wheat bread: 13 slices

That's USDA protein, adjusted for how much of it your body can use (DIAAS score).

Or you could just eat the beef.

USDA FoodData Central: https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/food-details/171799/nutrients
Protein quality scores: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25644361/ and https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32089140/

7 Cheapest Quality Proteins You Can Buy with Dr. Berry & Nurse Neisha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Enjc_2pw9P8

How Much Glyphosate Do You Want to Eat?

In a 2018 Swiss grocery survey...

Eggs and milk typically had none.

Meat and fish were typically under 1 part per billion.

Potatoes, vegetables, and oats were typically under 1 ppb too.

Bread, honey, and wine were about 2 to 3 ppb.

Breakfast cereal was 3.6 ppb typical, with some samples up to 291 ppb.

Durum pasta was the everyday food with the highest typical amount: 139 ppb, and some samples went up to 421 ppb. Nearly all of that durum wheat was imported.

The highest samples were chickpeas from Canada at 2,948 ppb and chickpea flour at 2,756 ppb. A typical pulse sample was only 1.2 ppb.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29284371/

Lp(a) DRUG FAILED TO HELP PATIENTS

Lp(a) has been promoted as an important heart-risk factor. Many people have been waiting for a drug that lowers it. Now we have results from the much-anticipated HORIZON trial.

Pelacarsen was given as an 80 mg injection once a month to people who already had cardiovascular disease and elevated Lp(a).

It lowered Lp(a) by 77.7% more than placebo at 12 months.

BUT, over a median 4.7 years, the trial's primary cardiovascular outcome occurred in 12.3% taking pelacarsen versus 12.1% taking placebo. That outcome included cardiovascular death, heart attack, ischemic stroke or an urgent coronary artery procedure requiring hospitalization. There was NO BENEFIT.

There were more side effects. Drug-related adverse events occurred in 56.8% with pelacarsen versus 18.0% with placebo. Adverse events led 20.6% to stop treatment versus 7.5% with placebo.

The injection lowered the Lp(a) number, but did not help these patients avoid the cardiovascular outcomes it was supposed to prevent.

If a drug is recommended to lower your Lp(a), ask whether that specific drug has been shown to help people like you. A lower lab number is not enough reason to accept more side effects.

Investigator report:
https://consultqd.clevelandclinic.org/lipoproteina-reduction-with-pelacarsen-has-no-impact-on-cardiac-events

Trial paper:
https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa2610159

All the Labs You Need Checked [Does Your Doctor Know?] 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddT-eXz66SY

Misdiagnosed as Type 2 Diabetes? 1 in 10 are!

Diabetes in adults isn't always type 2. Some people diagnosed with type 2 actually have LADA, latent autoimmune diabetes in adults, sometimes called type 1.5. Their immune system is slowly destroying the cells that make insulin.

This matters because no amount of metformin, other type 2 pills, or strict low-carb eating will bring their A1c to normal or stop the damage. They need insulin.

How common is each one? According to the CDC, about 90 to 95% of Americans with diabetes have type 2. LADA is much less common, but it's not rare. In a European study of 6,156 adults diagnosed with diabetes between ages 30 and 70, 9.7% had LADA. That's close to 1 in 10. In the UK Prospective Diabetes Study, 34% of people diagnosed with "type 2" between ages 25 and 34 had GAD antibodies, and 84% of those antibody-positive patients needed insulin within 6 years, compared with 14% of those without antibodies.

Here's how the mistake happens. An adult walks in with high blood sugar. Nine times out of ten that's type 2, so a lazy doctor writes "type 2," prescribes metformin, and never orders a C-peptide, insulin or antibody test. LADA comes on slowly, so at first it looks exactly like type 2, and the pills may even work for a while. When the sugars climb anyway, the patient gets blamed for not trying hard enough, and more pills get added. Meanwhile the pancreas keeps losing insulin-making cells, the high blood sugar keeps doing damage, and some people end up in the hospital with DKA before anyone checks.

Ask your doctor about LADA if:

1. Your blood sugar or A1c stays high even though you eat strict low-carb/keto/carnivore

2. You're losing weight without trying

3. You're thin or normal weight

4. You or a close family member has another autoimmune disease, like Hashimoto's thyroiditis

5. You were diagnosed younger than most people with type 2

Ask for these three tests:

1. C-peptide

2. Fasting serum insulin

3. GAD antibodies

A low C-peptide and low insulin with high blood sugar tells you your pancreas isn't making enough insulin. Positive GAD antibodies tell you why.

If it turns out you have LADA, low-carb still matters. Eating proper human food means you need much less insulin, your blood sugar stays steadier, and you have fewer lows. But it can't replace the insulin your body can no longer make.

If your numbers won't come down no matter how well you eat, it's not your fault. Get tested.

https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/about/about-type-2-diabetes.html

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23248199/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9357409/

HIGH INSULIN SLOWS THE RELEASE OF STORED FAT

Insulin doesn't just regulate blood sugar. It also suppresses the release of fat from your fat cells.

In a human study, even relatively small increases in insulin sharply reduced fat release. That is one of insulin's normal jobs.

Ask your doctor to check your serum Insulin, and eat a diet that keeps it under 10.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2573554/

I USED TO PUT EVERYONE WITH HIGH LDL ON A STATIN

Early in my career, high LDL meant an immediate, high-dose statin. Side effects were "all in your head". I barely looked at triglycerides unless they were really high. I was blind to the benefit of normal trigs.

Now I know how ignorant and unhelpful that was. It's also why I have hope for your doctor; correcting your paradigm is hard, but it is possible.

Carey 2010 studied hospital patients whose LDL was already under 130. The ones with heart disease were more likely to have high triglycerides and low HDL. The group with the highest trigs and lowest HDL had about 10 times the odds of heart disease.

That doesn't mean nobody needs a statin. It means LDL is at best a small part of the whole story. Look at your trigs, HDL, A1c, Insulin & hs-CRP first.

I used to take 2 Nexium every single day.

Early in my career, I put people with reflux on the highest-dose acid blocker and told them they'd need it for life. I should have asked more about what they were eating.

A randomized trial assigned 98 veterans with reflux to 4 diets for 9 weeks. The group that kept total carbs high but cut simple sugars by about 62 grams a day had better measured acid exposure than the control group.

That doesn't mean everyone can quit medicine. It means food belongs in the conversation. Review your food and your medicine with your doctor before changing a prescription.

Study:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9531994/

My video: How to Fix GERD Naturally Without Acid Blockers (7 Strategies That Work)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1pj07mF574

Are you a marketing-induced protein zombie, wasting money on bars?

EGGS BEAT A TOP WHOLE FOODS PROTEIN BAR ON USABLE PROTEIN PER DOLLAR.

Protein maxxing is popular, so companies put protein in everything, even junk food. The questions are what that protein costs and how much your body can actually use. DIAAS is a score for how much of a food's protein your body can use. Above 100 means high quality. Take grams of protein per dollar, multiply by DIAAS, and the bigger number is the better buy.

I checked Great Value large eggs at Walmart against Perfect Bar Peanut Butter, one of the top protein bars at Whole Foods.

Eggs: $1.67 a dozen. About 45 grams of protein per dollar. Cooked egg DIAAS 135. That is about 61 grams per dollar of protein your body can use. Under 1 gram of carbs per egg.

Perfect Bar Peanut Butter: $3.39 for one 2.5 oz bar. 17 grams of protein. 26 grams of carbs. About 5 grams of protein per dollar. The finished bar has no published DIAAS. First ingredient is peanut butter. Roasted peanut DIAAS is 0.43. Using that as an estimate: about 2 grams per dollar of protein your body can use. That is about 28 times less.

If you want more protein, skip the protein bar and buy a carton of eggs.

Egg DIAAS (Fanelli 2024):
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11658930/
Peanut DIAAS estimate (Rutherfurd 2015):
https://doi.org/10.3945/jn.114.195438
Walmart eggs price:
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Large-White-Eggs-12-Count/145051970
Perfect Bar at Whole Foods:
https://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/grocery/product/perfect-bar-perfect-bar-organic-peanut-butter-refrigerated-protein-bar-2-5-oz-bar-b0713m3tdc

#carnivorediet #eatyourmeat #eggs #protein #DIAAS #proteinperdollar

Meat should be your baby's FIRST food. Not infant cereal.

Researchers at the University of Colorado tested it with 88 breastfed babies. Half got pureed beef as their first food. Half got iron-fortified infant cereal.

At 7 months, the cereal babies got 0.6 mg of zinc a day from solid food, about 25% of what they need. The beef babies got 1.9 mg, more than 3 times as much.

The beef babies also had more head growth from 7 to 12 months, and they took the beef just as well as the cereal.

"But cereal has iron!" It's iron sprayed onto starch. Iron is absorbed at 14 to 18% from diets with meat, and only 5 to 12% from vegetarian diets. Meat itself helps your body absorb iron. Cereal doesn't.

A growing brain needs protein, fat, zinc and iron. Infant cereal is starch, which turns to sugar, with iron added, and the baby-food industry has sold it hard for decades while real meat sat right there on the shelf.

What did your baby start on, and would you do it the same way again?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16456417/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20200263/

A glass of fruit juice is a glass of sugar water. The juice companies have spent decades convincing you it is a health food, and it is not.

Orange juice has actual table sugar in it. One 8 oz glass has 20 grams of sugar, and over half of that is sucrose, the same sugar in the bag in your pantry. Nobody had to add it. The orange made it.

Pomegranate juice, the one sold as a superfood, has 31.5 grams of sugar in one glass, split about 50/50 fructose and glucose. That is nearly the same mix as the high fructose corn syrup in a can of soda.

Apple juice has 24 grams. Cranberry juice cocktail has 30. That is 5 to 8 teaspoons of sugar in every glass.

The glucose spikes your blood sugar and insulin, and the fructose goes straight to your liver. You get hit both ways.

If you would not hand your child a glass of sugar water, stop handing them a glass of juice...