Geoff shares his transformative journey on the carnivore diet after struggling with serious heart conditions and Crohn’s disease. After enduring multiple hospitalizations and heart procedures, he eliminates medications and experiences significant health improvements by adopting a strict carnivore lifestyle, emphasizing the importance of diet in achieving healing rather than merely weight loss.
Key Points
Introduction to Heath Issues
Geoff recounts his struggles with heart disease, specifically atrial fibrillation (AFib) and Crohn’s disease, which led to frequent hospital visits and a desperate need for a healthy solution.
Discovery of Carnivore Diet
After a conversation with his son, Geoff learns about the carnivore diet. His son provides resources, including videos from doctors advocating for this diet, prompting Geoff to conduct thorough research.
Initial Experience on the Diet
Geoff starts the carnivore diet as a 30-day challenge, which quickly evolves into a 90-day commitment after observing notable health improvements such as reduced symptoms associated with his chronic conditions.
Health Improvements Noticed
Within the first 30 days, Geoff experiences significant relief from Crohn’s disease, reduced chronic pain, heightened energy levels, and the ability to engage in physical activities that had been challenging for years.
Medication Reduction
As his health stabilizes, Geoff’s cardiologists gradually reduce and eventually eliminate his heart medications after confirming his improved condition, marking a significant milestone in his health journey.
Personal Weight Loss Journey
Geoff loses a substantial amount of weight from 227 lbs to 160 lbs without focusing solely on weight loss, emphasizing that the primary goal was to heal his body.
Community Support Importance
Geoff underscores the importance of engaging with the carnivore community for motivation and support and shares how he encourages others to connect through local forums and meetups.
Advice for Newcomers to Carnivore Diet
Geoff advises newcomers to read foundational texts, engage with the community, and understand the body’s nutrition needs, stressing that each person’s journey may require individual adjustments.
Long-Term Commitment to Carnivore
With over 675 days on the carnivore diet, Geoff expresses his commitment to this lifestyle, recognizing it not as a traditional diet but rather as a lifelong approach to health.
All of the scientific tests will compare people with a medical condition. No one can get ethics approval to put healthy people on a weird diet
Type 2 diabetes studies at least shows that it reverses metabolic disorder; this implies the diet won’t kill you (a) quickly or (b) with metabolic disorder, which makes it better than the standard American diet
The only one I know of that addressed healthy people was the lean mass hyper responder/Miami heart health comparison (the LMHR study) which compared arterial calcium between long term carnivore dieters with the general population. LMHR people have very high cholesterol and the study mapped their cholesterol to cardiac calcium versus the general population’s cholesterol and cardiac calcium
But that’s just one biomarker and is only useful if your worry is cardiac disease.