r/AnimalBased

Switched properly to AB diet over the last few days to try and help my gut issues. My main issue is acid reflux which causes me eusophagitis.

Whilst my inflammation and bloating has went down since switching to strict AB, I seem to be having quite a lot of if not more acid reflux.

Did anyone else have the same experience and how long did it take to go away? Guessing because it's s high fat diet and a switch in my microbiome.

Diet so far has mainly been...

Slow cooked lamb

Olives

Goat cheese

Raw butter

Raw a2 milk

Mango

Banana

Blueberries

A2 greek yoghurt made from raw milk

Grass fed steak mince

Grass fed liver

Squash

Courgettes

Soy free eggs

Maple syrup organic

Raw honey

Hello. Up until now I had never even heard about oxalates. I had been vegan wfpb for a few years and I managed fine up until menopause. Chronic joint pain in knees, ankles and leg and foot pain. Burning mouth syndrome, swollen tongue and anxiety about everything. My dentist suggested oxalates as a cause so I went keto and no more pain until last night which was apparently oxalate dumping? I don’t understand really but it was suggested to me to read up on animal based as you guys understand oxalates and what foods I can eat.

Right now I eat: sheep yoghurt and sheep cheeses. Fatty meat. Eggs. Heavy cream, butter and olive oil. Chinese cabbages. Lots of fizzy water with lime juice. Celtic salts and home made bone broth . I take two 1000mg b12 a day. Two magnesium and ashwagandah tablets a day. I can’t go back to that burning mouth, absolute misery all day long.

Please help

I've been having pitted Medjool dates filled with about a teaspoon of butter for years, and they're beyond addictive – in the best of ways. I'd be interested in hearing others' ideas!

I’m currently on carnivore and would like to consume carbs as I do believe we operate better with carbs.
My gut is still a bit of a mess and I seem to be having issues with fruit, I’m wondering what carbs are the least problematic, or have the least amount of protection. I don’t do well with honey, would fruit juice or maple syrup technically be the easiest to digest. Would there even be any benefit to doing just maple syrup and supplementing Vitamin c. Need some help please, anything is appreciated!

Edit - I also seem to have issues with histamine, trying to keep that down.

Hey everyone, just curious if anyone has taken or does take the Whole Package supplement but Heart and Soil and if you noticed any benefits.

For some background, I’m a 24 y/o male that lives a fairly healthy lifestyle, eat healthy for the most part, workout, drink probably more than I should but yeah. My sleep schedule is definitely a little off due to my work as a first responder. The thing is, my libido and energy are horrible, I feel like how a 70 year old should feel lol. I wake up with 7-9 hours of sleep and feel horrible and not just in the morning, it’s the whole day to the point where my workouts feel terrible. I am planning on getting bloodwork done during the summer to at least see what I’m deficient in but in the mean time I was going to try the Whole Package supplement to see if it would help my libido and energy and curious to see if it actually helped anyone. It’s annoying that I am 24 and have to deal with this but whatever I gotta find my way out of it. Thanks for all who reply

Hey fellow legends!
As an intro, 27 Male working out 4 times a week for a few years, 2 months ago changed from carnivore to animal based as my cortisol was sky high already and felt stuck( found out i under ate as well now lol, from 1700-2100 calories im now recomping and gaining GREAT progress by simply upping cals to 2600)

Do you eat carbs daily, even on non training days? If so, do you suffer from energy crashes due to insulin? Does it vary for you with the amount of carbs rative to your body? I am at 24% fat or so, and as an ex carnivore i DREADED carbs and im experimenting with the amounts of carbs i eat, on no. Training days i stay no carb but it kinda feels lika no mans land, rather than just having a baseline of 70 g of fat or so, 180-200 protein and rest from carbs
Was wondering, especially ex keto/carnivore people here, how do you tread this path? And anything related that can help as well as electrolyte balance etc…

Coconut is technically a fruit but I am unsure if it is something that really fits the principles of this diet.

Pros:

Excellent fatty acid profile: Coconut is almost purely saturated fat or medium chain triglycerides, lower in PUFA than just about anything. The MCTs are seemingly good for metabolic health, lauric acid is seemingly a beneficial saturated fat, it has no palmitic acid which is the one saturated fat type that does have some negatives.

Lauric acid's anti-microbial properties, in a natural context, might be beneficial for the gut. not sure how true this is though.

Tastes really good- seemingly ancestrally consistent, at least in places that had access.

Cons:

Not really a fruit?

Super high in phytic acid

Not necessarily a lot of nutrients outside of the fats - more of a safe way to consume more fat in a natural food matrix

Paul Saladino said something about coconut meat being the "nut" part of the meat and therefore harmful and I believe him on that given the pretty notable amount of phytic acid in coconuts. This post is a bit disjointed but I just want to hear other people's perspectives here, ideally perspectives that know more about coconuts than I do.

Parece mejorar varias patologías y si se hace de manera correcta no debería de haber ningun problema con ella... Lo que veo es que la gente en realidad no sabe hacerla bien (exceso proteico, grasas inadecuadas, desequilibrio de electrolitos etc). Que piensan al respecto? mi temperatura corporal es de 36.5-37C (incluso en ayuno ~16h)

After 18 months on strict carnivore, I’m new to animal based. F, 37 yo, carnivore wasn’t doing well for me. No libido, and always in very loose stools……
The great sides were healing my rosacea, and less inflammation, better sleep, and at first I had a better energy.
But I decided to change to animal because if the loose stools (after a week in, it’s already much better)
Win back my libido too.

I’m dealing with psoriasis at the very beginning of my hair line, and I’m wondering for those who’ve healed it, how and how long did it take? I like to wash my hair 2 times a week, so I’m not looking for the no wash kind of tips… but yes, if you’ve changed your shampoo, I’d like to hear to which one? And if it’s only with nutrition, even better!

Also have a small patch of eczema on my hand. And some melasma (which improved a lot from carnivore)

Thanks!

Been on this diet two weeks now having done carnivore previously and I feel so much better. I’m a woman in my early 20s and I just felt like carnivore wasn’t good for my hormones, I always felt tired and anxious and didn’t feel like it could be a lifestyle.
Also, I would lose weight really slowly, wheres the weight is falling off me on animal based even tho I’m eating carbs and I’m not starving myself. I’m curious as to why this is, because many say carnivore is ideal and better for weight loss. But I’ve found to be the complete opposite. Honestly I’ve never felt better and so glad I switched over

I prefer butter over tallow although I like tallow as well, I’m curious though does cooking with the raw butter and exposing it to high heat basically pasteurize the butter thus killing all of the health benefits of it being raw and defeating the whole purpose? Just curious, thanks!

Raspberries, blueberries etc are all very common on AB but they all have seeds which are the plants babies and usually protected.

So why are these fine to eat but not things like pumpkin seeds, squash seeds etc

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Howdy all! I know it sounds crazy but I’m motivated and want to open a restaurant as there are limited options that are seed oil free even in a more progressive and health oriented city. Would love to gain feedback from this community on things you look for in a restaurant or that you’d like to see. My main desires are; of course seed oil free, plastic free, prioritize sourcing from local regenerative farms, & high quality nourishing meals. I’ve seen Talo down in California and like their model but wanna do something a lil more eloquent & highlighting the produce here in the PNW.

I’m searching for mental sharpness and consistent energy, which I can’t archive with carnivore or animal based diet. I either consume carbs and workouts get a bit better but mental clarity and brain flog/ inflammation thrive or I go carnivore and have mental sharpness but workouts suck, life kind of feels boring and your kind of just floating through life

I'm trying to be as strict as possible with the diet. However, I live in Scotland where raw dairy is illegal so had to get stuff shipped over from England.

Got my order through today but the raw a2 cheese didn't come. Will it make a big difference if I just eat goat cheese from supermarket or proper mozzarella instead?