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hey guys I’m beginning a lot of

questions on the carnivore diet and how

it conflicts with my recommendation of

seven to ten cups of vegetables so let’s

just kind of talk about it

I think the carnivore diet has its place

I think a lot of people can benefit from

it and maybe even you should try it to

see if it makes you feel better but I

want to give you some additional data I

personally don’t do it I just feel

really good on the combination of animal

products and vegetables but if you have

digestive problems if you get bloating

you’ve constipation you definitely don’t

want to do a lot of vegetables and some

people do better on a smaller amount of

vegetables so they can start building up

their micro flora in here and if you

have the condition called SIBO small

intestinal bacterial overgrowth you

don’t want to do a lot of vegetables

because that’s going to feed the

microbes that are in your small

intestine but the benefit of this diet

is that you’re dropping your insulin

considerably so most people have high

insulin so you’re going to drop that

you’re going to improve a lot of

conditions with the heart with the

arteries with inflammation because it’s

a zero carbohydrate diet okay so that’s

really good also if you have

constipation in your bowels are sluggish

but reducing fiber you’re gonna

instantly feel better okay but now let’s

just look at the flip side some people

say well animal products are more

nutrient dense not necessarily true

unless you’re consuming organ meats so

if you’re doing the carnivore diet but

you’re not doing liver or brain or heart

or kidney or bone marrow and you’re just

doing the meat the muscle okay only I

think you’re making a big mistake

let’s just take a look at one cup of

kale versus three ounces of chicken

versus three ounces of fish okay this is

salmon

potassium per cup is 375 milligrams okay

but of course if I was gonna do a kale

salad I would do at least five so at

times this times five okay chicken has

220 milligrams of potassium fish has 300

milligrams of potassium so you say well

I’m just going to eat a lot more fish

there’s some people out there that are

consuming two or three or four pounds of

meat per

day okay so we’re getting away from this

moderate protein and we’re really doing

a high-protein diet how you gonna keep

your proteins moderate on this diet it’s

gonna be very difficult okay

there is a lot of data on excessive

amounts of protein and decreasing your

longevity I’ll put a link down below I

think I may have done a video on that

let’s look at magnesium one cup of kale

will provide 7% of the requirements of

magnesium okay three ounces of chicken

will provide 6% and fish will provide 5%

okay all right b6 will provide 10% from

the kale chicken provides 25% and fish

provide 25% so it’s gonna give you a lot

more b6 but only 25% okay then we have

iron 5% for kale 4% for chicken and 1%

for fish all right now let’s look for

vitamin C one cup of kale will give you

a hundred and thirty four percent of

your requirements okay that’s pretty

high that’s just one cup chicken zero

fish five percent but it does give you

five percent okay

vitamin D 0 from kale one percent from

chicken zero from fish calcium 10% from

kale one percent from chicken zero from

fish vitamin A a hundred and thirty

three percent now this is not the active

form it’s a beta carotene it’s a pre

vitamin A but still there’s a lot of

benefits in phytonutrients

so there’s anti-cancer properties in

phytonutrients there’s not a lot of

anti-cancer properties in meat that I

know about but maybe there’s a study I

haven’t seen one and then we have three

ounces of chicken give you zero of

vitamin A and four fish at zero carbs

six grams but zero per chicken and zero

for fish so vegetables give you the

phytonutrients which have a lot of

benefits health-wise that go beyond

vitamins and minerals they also have

vitamins and minerals so some vegetables

have anti-nutrient properties in which

they block certain thing

okay like minerals if you consume

fermented vegetables you will lessen

those amounts but I have not seen a big

problem with this right here as far as

people becoming depleted when they

consume vegetables but there is

something called phytic acid which is an

anti nutrient but phytic acid has very

powerful anti-cancer properties another

name for that is called ip6 a lot of

research on that because one of the

mechanisms it actually blocks iron which

combines with something called the

hydroxyl radical which is basically it’s

a free radical that creates a lot of

damage but it needs iron or copper but

phytic acid can block that reducing the

damage from this radical right here so

it stabilizes that free radical it’s one

of the only antioxidants that will do

that and the thing about iron is true

that animal products have a lot more

absorbable iron now here’s the issue a

lot of people have too much iron okay

and too much iron is dangerous in the

body it’s very reactive it creates a lot

of free radical issues and very

corrosive to your arteries and iron is

not eliminated easily throughout the

body so when we consume it it doesn’t go

out through like a potassium dust so you

tend to retain iron so these vegetables

are gonna actually help balance this

especially the ones that have phytic

acid so we really don’t need the amount

of iron

unless you’re losing iron as a female

because you’re menstruating each month

maybe then have some more but for men I

don’t recommend it anyway I wanted to

give you my opinion on the carnivore

diet I’m not saying it’s not a good

thing for some people so you might want

to try it on yourself to see if it

benefits you so you can see from this

chart there’s a large amount of vitamin

C that kale has and other vegetables

have so if you’re going to do the

carnivore diet you may not need as much

vitamin C and you’re also going to

improve insulin sensitivity which is

going to increase the absorption of all

nutrients so that’s a really good thing

but we don’t know the long-term effects

of doing this yet time will tell

vitamin C deficiencies take at least

three months to show up even the first

sign of a vitamin C deficiency which is

fatigue so you might feel great

for a period of time and then start

feeling tired because you’re developing

a vitamin C deficiency so these are just

some points I wanted to bring up and

talk about and if you’re gonna do a

carnivore diet you might want to do more

organ meats you may want to add some

fermented vegetables like sauerkraut

because that will totally give you way

more about them and C than you need

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