I know it’s not just me but could others here comment? On meat or not.
I find often I need to exercise, I’m just itching to use my resistance training set until failure (and then, after an hour resist doing it again) or go for a bike ride - it’s a half hour up hill ride from here to most places I go, and I’ll ride hard to the top of that hill and see what speed I can get on the way back, just to burn off what feels like excess energy
Yes! Doing very low carb had given me huge energy boots compared to when I fall off the wagon. Just itching to get out and go
Lchf vs carnivore, I think I have the same Energy either way.
After 3 months I think I top out my vim and vigor.
Doing very low carb had given me huge energy boots
Whhaaat—you got energy boots? All I rolled was high uric acid.
Serious though, I felt like my gas tank would empty a lot quicker. I always hoped it would give me that kind of boost, but the closest I got was a tangential motivational boost from dropping pesky weight that I had trouble dropping otherwise–the flirt with gout (with what I was eating, anyway) did happen though.
I had gout while I was on carbs, I couldn’t go off allopurinol until I had given up carbs completely. Now I haven’t had any medications for ages.
A thing I have heard, but I can’t place where, is that all the super muscle youtube carnivores have high uric acid, so there’s a hypothesis that success in strength training is better with high uric acid.
Anyway eating only meat animal sourced foods (I also eat eggs) appears to protective against gout, I still have high uric acid, as bad as when I put on allopurinol, but now I don’t get gout.
“Comorbidities associated with gout include hypertension, diabetes mellitus, renal disease and morbid obesity ” citation
“A systematic review and meta-analysis from 2008 further support that alcohol and fructose may be greater contributors to hyperuricemia than meat consumption” citation
“NLRP3 is inhibited by colchicine, a historic treatment for acute gout episodes. The same inhibitory effect has been observed with the ketone bodies β-hydroxybutyrate and acetoacetate” citation
Gout goes hand in hand with insulin resistance. Uric acid by itself is not a problem, in fact its necessary for the functioning of a healthy body (peoples bodies produce something like 8x more uric acid a day then you could possibly eat), its the ability of the body to regulate it and prevent it from precipitating into the joints that is the major issue with gout.
Under keto I couldn’t do nearly as much. I’m progressing well on the resistance exercises, and I’m faster each time I ride
On keto I didn’t advance and I was tired all the time. I think it’s because I wasn’t eating enough
Interesting; How different is your carnivore diet from keto?
For me I just removed the avocados and stopped trying to find “keto bread”, or “keto pizza”… meaning I was already doing a 500g of ground beef and liver on carnivore. I just removed the other stuff. Maybe thats why I felt fine on both?
Keto for me had quite a bit of low carb veg. I think some of those didn’t agree with me given how much better I feel on zero carb
I never did the keto fake foods, I think I have been doing low carb on and off since I was 20, I’m now 47
My carnivore diet has been scotch fillet steak (rib eye), eaten until satisfied, and often about 4 eggs a day. My “too much fat” thing I think was because I had fallen into a one meal a day pattern, and it’s hard to process a day’s fat in a single dose
While I was fat I ate leaner cuts
I buy my meat as whole prime cuts, I need to up my frozen storage space so I can instead get a whole cow