448 sats \ 17 replies \ @Signal312 10 Feb \ on: How is your memory prowess? health
For memory problems, age related memory loss, not being able to remember pins, phone numbers, etc. - I suggest you try a carnivore diet. Eat only animal based products (meat, eggs, seafood, maybe dairy), no plant foods (grains, fruits, veggies, etc.).
It sounds extreme, but it's helped me enormously, in just 2 months. I can remember phone numbers, digits, password, that I couldn't before. I'm much improved in terms of finding the exact right word in the midst of conversation, as opposed to struggling and searching, previously. I can easily speak more fluidly, better structured sentences. It's very noticeable.
Here's one of my last posts on the topic:
Latest steps in my carnivore path - and why you should consider a carnivore diet
I didn't even mention the memory improvements in that one, but they're very clear now. I hope to improve even more.
If anyone is interested, I recommend podcasts from Dr. Shawn Baker. He also wrote the book The Carnivore Diet, very highly recommended. Or Dr. Ken Berry on YouTube.
This is fascinating especially when recent research expounds on the benefits of going vegan. Thanks for sharing
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I second the carnivore diet. Most impactful change in my life from Bitcoin so far . I just finished reading “Fiat Food” and, it’s mind blowing how corrupted “research” has become in the age of fiat. Highly recommend the book.
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I really enjoyed Fiat Food.
Here's some of the other nutrition books that have been enlightening:
The Big Fat Surprise by Nina Teicholtz: this one was a gateway drug for me, into the carnivore diet. Not that it's a big advocate of the carnivore diet, but it's a great read on the US nutritional guidelines, how unhealthy they are, how healthy foods like meat and eggs have been demonized, and the complete lack of evidence that saturated fats are bad for you. As a matter of fact it appears that the opposite is true. It's very well written and has won multiple awards. Once you realize how bad our current advice is, it opens your mind to alternative viewpoints.
Here's a couple more:
Toxic Superfoods
The Carnivore Code
The Carnivore Diet
Podcasts - I'm working my way through Shawn Baker's backlog, there's lots of great interviews and stories in there.
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Yes, a lot of the research on vegan diets is very biased.
Take for example the new "documentary" on Netflix, "You Are What You Eat". The story is that they took a large set of identical twins, put one of the twins on a vegan diet, and the other on an "omnivore" diet. It was funded by a fake meat company (beyond burgers, I think).
Anyway, there's numerous critiques of this study. If you do a search on YouTube for "You Are What You Eat" vegan propaganda, you'll find some. Here's one of them:
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Yes I saw the first 15 minutes of that Netflix “documentary” and knew it was going to be industrial sludge propaganda!
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Do you have an idea what the mechanism might be?
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I'm guessing that my brain wasn't getting the correct nutrition. Or, that excess carbohydrates were causing inflammation everywhere, including the brain.
I don't think you have to be vegetarian in order to be low on nutrients like B12, iron, etc. I was never vegetarian, just ate limited meat ("meat should be treated as a condiment"), because of the propaganda. I had a friend who was anemic for 2 years, and tried 6 different iron supplements. None of them improved her anemia. She started a meat-heavy diet, and the anemia was gone in 2 weeks. Meat is just a much better, bio-available source for many nutrients.
The book Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind, by Dr. Georgia Ede just came out. She's been doing interviews on lots of podcasts, as well. It's mainly about improving mental disorders (depression, anxiety, etc.) by changing your diet - ranging from just limiting carbohydrates, to doing keto, then all the way to carnivore. She records some amazing success stories with her protocols.
She also has a lot of great info on the science behind why low-carb/high meat is so helpful. But I think the gist of it is - improved nutrition, less inflammation.
Also another thing - as a carnivore, you're no longer eating the anti-nutrients in plants (oxalates, lectins, all kinds of other chemicals) that are defensive chemicals. Plants produce these chemicals in order to prevent themselves from getting eaten. These chemicals can cause serious damage to the body.
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I’ve watched a lot of Dr. Ede’s videos. She produces some of my favorite content on Carnivore things.
I think the b-vitamin thing is huge. I was a vegan for awhile, have a heterozygous mutation in MTHFR, and wasn’t consistently supplementing with b12. My anxiety was terrible during that period of time. I also had a close friend go vegan who about 2 years in developed schizophrenia, went homeless, then od’d last year.
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Wow. So sorry to hear about your friend.
Dr. Ede is REALLY convincing, with all her stories of reversal of mental disorders - I wonder if it would have helped your friend. I have many friend and acquaintances with borderline issues that I believe would benefit if they were to start eating carnivore. Or at least Ketovore. I definitely talk it up.
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Having been a vegan and preached that, I'm all out of preaching juice. I'll leave advice to experts. I try to share my experiences though when other are curious.
I did very strict carnivore for a year quite awhile ago. I found a lot of benefit in it. I'd probably go back if it weren't so inconvenient. I love the simplicity.
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What specifically did you find inconvenient? Not trying to deny that it can be inconvenient, I'm just curious what it was.
For me - grocery shopping is way more convenient. Meeting people for coffee is still fine - I still do coffee. Dinner at restaurant - yes, you're limited in where you can go. An extended stay at a friend's house, which I have coming up - yep, I'm trying to figure out how best to handle it. I have some extended travel coming up in summer, with no cooking facilities - not sure how that will work.
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not sure how long or where...but I take frozen burger patties (cooked) with me, and thaw as needed, if you have a cooler or refrigeration.
Also use these for longer trips https://carnivorebar.com/
Just beef and tallow (pemmican) but they make them with salt and honey added which i like. 420 calories each and 35g saturated fat
If you have access to McDonalds, you can ask for the individual beef patties for $1 each (I usually get 12)
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I've actually done the McDonalds thing, just ordering plain patties, I was shocked that it worked! They're surprisingly tasty, with some salt.