Your Brain is a Fortress Under Attack - Fat-Fueled Ketosis and FASTING Protect It 🧠💪
A few years ago, I did extensive self-testing on all of the different diet variations in existence, to cut through the deafening noise on the subject, and see what MY BODY actually told me. I tried everything from full-vegan to full-carnivore over the course of 2022-2023.
The main things that blew my mind when I did 90 days of full-carnivore (animal products only; beef, butter, bacon, eggs, raw dairy):
- Since this diet is zero-carb by definition, your body switches into ketosis mode for energy
- Under ketosis, literally every mental function increases. Higher energy, higher focus, better sleep, everything. I felt ALL of these things flood in after the first 2-week transition period (as your body can get a little fatigued as it relearns how to burn fat for energy, something most of us in carb-world haven't felt since we were a baby breastfeeding, which is a keto/carnivore diet)
- I also noticed that the amount of meals I craved daily went from 3 meals plus snacks in between while eating carbs, to legitimately only needing 1-2 meals PER DAY while carnivore, without snacks (since meat is so packed with satiating protein, fat & nutrients), which jacks up the keto super-brain mode even more through automatic intermittent fasting
3 full years later, and I'm still firmly on the carnivore train, eating just 1 big meal per day (in the evening), and I can't imagine NOT being in ketosis. It has completely changed my life, boosted all of my mental functions massively, skyrocketed my testosterone (at 31) far beyond what it ever was in my teens/20s while eating carbs.
All because I literally just eat copious amounts of delicious fatty steaks covered in butter every night like our bodies were designed to.
When I tell people I eat just 1 meal a day and never think about food AT ALL during the morning/midday/afternoon, they look at me like I have 10 heads. This does not compute in the carb/sugar-addicted brain; they can't even fathom the idea of their body actually being fully-satiated ALL the time, which naturally carries its energy for 24 hours after a protein & fat-packed meal.
If anyone wants to learn more, follow
@WhyCarnivore.com. That's a page + website I built compiling ALL of my diet research; the website WhyCarnivore.com is the motherlode containing every resource you need to learn why pure proten/fat, ZERO carbs is the ultimate body & brain-optimizing diet for humans 🥩💪
