I direct sowed some Oregon sweet peas in this bed and when this came up I thought it was a pea, but it's growing so much faster than the others - now it's got me thinking it's actually a potato that I accidentally didn't harvest last year.
Does this look like a potato to you guys? I've never grown peas before, but it just doesn't look like the smaller ones, and it's growing so much faster than everyone else...
I hear lots of stories from migraine-sufferers that their migraines either improve drastically on Carnivore or even stop altogether.
For me, that's not the case. On Carnivore, I get fewer migraines, but when I do get them, they suuuuck. I get about 1 migraine per month.
High Fat + Nausea: The vomiting thing is something I've never had with my migraines while I was eating carbs. I almost suspect that the high fat content of carnivore plays a big role in the need to vomit. With the migraine I got yesterday, I'd eaten some bacon at 2pm. By 11pm I was vomiting until I brought up bacon, which surprised me because I would have thought it would move out of the stomach after so many hours. Apparently not. It seems almost as if the "stodge" of carbs / having something kind of gooey and sticky and carby in the stomach during the migraine wards off the nausea.
Hormones / Cycle: I also have a strong suspicion that this change is linked to hormones. I'm a woman and I notice that being on Carnivore has a huge impact on my cycle + my hormones generally speaking - in every other respect it has been all to the good (e.g., I now have zero period pain, I have lighter flow, I have dramatically better sleep, which I think it connected to hormones).
My migraines appear to be hormonal migraines now, where when I was on carbs, I think the migraines were not hormonal but rather linked to stress, irregular sleep + too much screen time. But it's a little difficult to know what's going on. I do notice a pattern when I am on Carnivore where I get my migraine a day before my period starts, or on the day it starts. Sometimes it's at the exact midpoint of my cycle, so day 14 or so, which lines up with ovulation, when oestrogen peaks, then rapidly drops.
I am certainly getting lots of fat. I eat 500g of 20% beef mince daily, and I eat all the fat that comes with that. I eat bacon, and keep the rendered fat and eat that. I eat probably 4 eggs per day, I eat butter.
Anyway, I'm just feeling a bit alone here because it's like for everyone else, Carnivore cures their migraines, whereas for me, it has honestly made them worse. Has anyone else experienced anything like this?
I'm going to the GP to see if they can put me on a different medication for dealing with the migriaines.
(This was a comment I made on another post. I thought I'd share it because it's a new way I've been thinking about sugar cravings / addiction that keeps dragging you back in)
"How can I overcome this addiction?"
The sugar is providing you with a very reliable dopamine high. It is like any other type of addiction.
When you eat sugar, it activates the brain’s reward system, especially pathways involving dopamine (a “motivation and reward” chemical, not just pleasure).
Repeatedly spiking your dopamine with sugar means you get frequent "highs" throughout the day, and it is basically the way in which you're dealing with your emotions - it's your crutch for regulating your inner state.
The brain comes to expect that level of stimulation from the reliable source of sugar. This leads to downregulation, which is the brain reducing sensitivity to dopamine (fewer or less responsive receptors). This is a general process seen in many reward-driven behaviours.
Your baseline feels lower so that everyday things that SHOULD be rewarding like socialising, walking, talking, hobbies - come to feel less rewarding.
It's a vicious cycle then, as you crave sugar again to get back to that “normal” feeling, and you also stop doing a range of good clean things that would ordinarily give you those little healthy dopamine rewards throughout your day for being a good functioning human being...
I did Carnivore for 1.5 years until end of 2025, where I fell off and went back to sugar. Regained my weight I'd lost and got in a bad place with health stuff that had improved doing cv that first time. Felt like such a failure. Well I'm back on carnivore, it's now Day 40. It took me about 2-3 weeks for my dopamine to reset from the artificial freakish highs of sugar, and get back to a normal baseline where I could start enjoying normal healthy clean dopamine bumps from normal life again.
TL;DR you need to just treat it like withdrawal from a drug, it will take about 3 weeks tops for your brain to recalibrate & dopamine sensitivity can recover. Then you need to fill out your day with a range of activities that will give you clean dopamine: a walk, a good conversation with a friend, gardening, new hobbies - whatever.
But all humans need that framework to get dopamine throughout the day, and ideally it should be from a range of things. That's what normal non-addicted people do automatically. Sorry for the essay but I kind of wanted to put my thoughts about this down in writing because it's been going through my head a lot since I got clear of the worst of the cravings this second time round and it's like a fog has lifted.