Optometric Physician
Carnivore coach
11 years experience eating a no carbohydrate carnivorous diet
30 years experience guiding patients to a healthier way of eating

About

I am an optometric physician in practice for 30 years.  I have been studying low carbohydrate science and eating a carnivorous diet for 11 years.

I guide my patients toward educating themselves and practicing low or no carbohydrate way of eating to improve or cure inflammatory diseases, diabetes and a multitude of other maladies that often have ocular manifestations.

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Keto meets carnivore in this revolutionary new book by revered cookbook author and low-carb pioneer Maria Emmerich. 

Did you know that our ancestors were apex predators who were even more carnivorous than hyenas and big cats? That was only about 30,000 years ago. But since then, our diets have drastically changed due to the invention of agriculture about 7,000 years ago and, within the last 100 years or so, the introduction of millions of food additives, the development of a year-round produce supply, and the hybridization of fruits and vegetables, making them higher in sugar and lower in nutrients. Carnivore Cookbook explores what our bodies were really designed to digest and gives compelling evidence that we were designed to be primarily meat-eaters.

In this book, you will learn why all plants come with a downside. Antinutrients are chemicals and compounds that act as natural pesticides or defenses for the plants against being eaten. Maria explains how antinutrients can rob your body of minerals and other nutrients and lead to autoimmune issues and leaky gut. There is even a protocol for healing autoimmune issues called the Carnivore Autoimmune Protocol: a detailed system for stepping you through the various levels of carnivorous eating to find the point where your body responds best and is symptom free. You will also learn which foods are the highest in nutrient density to help your body heal.

Carnivore Cookbook includes more than 100 tasty meat-focused recipes featuring innovative ways to add flavor and variety. There are even carnivore meal plans with grocery lists to make the diet easy to follow.

Foodmed.net publisher and editor Marika Sboros is one of South Africa’s top writers on medicine for health in body and mind.

She started her career in South Africa at the Rand Daily Mail newsroom as a hard news general reporter, with a special interest in politics and religion.

She began writing on low-carb, healthy, high-fat (LCHF) lifestyles in 2014 after she became aware of academic bullying (or mobbing, as it is now popularly known) of University of Cape Town emeritus professor Tim Noakes.

Marika was the only journalist to cover Prof Noakes’s trial that the public quickly dubbed the Nutrition Trial of the 21st Century. The trial began in 2015 and lasted more than four years at a conservatively estimated cost of more than R10-million for the prosecution side alone. Foodmed.net has devoted a special page to her reporting on the Noakes trial.

Marika has faced regular attack on social media for covering the trial and reporting on LCHF, keto diets and the ‘Banting’ phenomenon, as LCHF is popularly known in South Africa. After being described as a ‘closet Banter’ – despite being a vegetarian for years at the time –  she decided she might as well be hanged for the sheep as for the lamb of nutrition science.

In late 2014, she stopped being a vegetarian and tried eating according to LCHF principles. She had no preconceptions about what it would do for her. On the contrary, having reported and experimented with many different diets for health, during her career, she expected that LCHF would do little for her.

Although she had no weight or major health problems, she was surprised at the positive effects of radical dietary change. Those effects became the positive reinforcement that makes her keep it up.

Marika also regularly faces attack on social media for being “biased” in favour of LCHF, keto and the MDs and scientists who promote them. She responds that, of course, she is biased – as we all are. But it’s how we all manage our bias that counts. And in this case, her bias is in favour of good science only – and if anyone can provide robust science to disprove benefits of LCHF and keto, she’ll write about it.

She is still waiting.

She is co-author with Prof Tim Noakes of Lore of Nutrition, Challenging Conventional Dietary Advice (Penguin 2017).  The book is revised and updated for the international market under the title: Real Food On Trial, How the diet dictators tried to destroy a top scientist (Columbus 2019). 

NYT bestselling author of The #KetoReset Diet, former endurance athlete, & founder of #MarksDailyApple, @PrimalKitchenCo & @PrimalBlueprint

Carnivore: Fringe to Mainstream

The carnivore movement has really changed and grown. Back when I first encountered it, carnivore or “zero carb” as it was known was a fringe movement. People were pretty much eating ground beef and drinking water, with few exceptions. I wrote about it back in 2010 and was highly skeptical. As it’s grown, and the anecdotes and (to a limited extent) studies have accumulated, I revisited it.

I developed the Primal Blueprint as a way to beat the ailments I’d wrought with my chronic cardio, high stress endurance athletic lifestyle: IBS, arthritis, chronic upper respiratory tract infections, general lethargy. Something wasn’t right, I knew. Humans weren’t supposed to be sick and in pain all the time. It worked, I got better, and I never looked back.

Meanwhile, carnivore adherents and enthusiasts were using the diet to beat many of the same ailments I’d beaten with Primal. What was going on?

I had to explore it myself. I had to experiment, so I began incorporating many carnivore principles into my own diet. Eating more meat and other animal foods. Emphasizing protein. Eating fewer vegetables. Choosing my plants with anti-nutrients in mind. But I’m not eating only animal products. I can’t call myself a carnivore, so what am I? What is this way of eating?

Since things need names, I’m calling it Carniflex: an animal-food-centric way of eating that doesn’t eliminate plants, instead selecting for the most optimal plants.

This is fairly close to how I eat most days, and it’s actually not far from how I’ve eaten for many years.

What is Carniflex?

Like I said, I don’t want to be dogmatic about ways of eating. So these aren’t hardline “diet rules.” These are loose guideposts.

Animal Foods

Animal foods form the basis of my diet. They provide the most calories.

• Meat: steaks, burgers, chops, roasts

• Seafood: fish, shellfish, shrimp

• Eggs

• Dairy: kefir, yogurt, cheese, cream

In other words, the bulk of my diet is standard carnivorous fare.

Plant Foods

I round out meals with vegetables and plant foods, rather than focusing on them. These foods aren’t the base of my diet. Carniflex uses plants as medicinal accoutrements. They enhance and provide micronutrition rather than huge caloric boluses.

Matthew Cress is a dietitian nutritionist that specializes in meat-based ancestral nutritional protocols to address complex health problems.   

Matthew healed 20 years of debilitating allergies with the carnivore diet and has been using  it as a tool with his clients ever since.

Matthew’s health specialties:

Immune System Pathologies:

Chronic allergies, asthma, rhinitis, etc.
Histamine intolerance, MCAS, etc.
Autoimmune diseases
Poor immunity resulting in chronic colds, flus, & other infections.
Chronic fatigue (including dysautonomia).​

Skin Conditions:
Acne - All kinds
Psoriasis
Eczema
Dermatitis
Rosacea

Viral, Bacterial, Parasitic, & Fungal Infections:
Viral: Acute Covid infections, long Covid complications, shingles, cold sores, etc.
Bacterial:  SIBO, UTIs, Lyme, Travelers diarrhea, etc.
Parasitic infections of all types.
Fungal: Candida, yeasts, & other mold problems.​

Metabolic & Digestive Disorders:
Thyroid diseases
Chronic Diarrhea or Constipation
SIBO & Bloating
Oxalate dumping complications
IBS
Crohn's disease

Mental Health​:
Anxiety
Depression
ADHD and procrastination troubles.
Brain fog
Burnout and low motivation​​

Nerve & Muscle Disorders:
Neuropathy
Dysautonomia (including POTS)
Fibromyalgia and chronic pain
Heart & blood pressure conditions.

Matthew, How did your allergies get so bad?

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My allergies caused my nose to run every single day of my life for 25 years. My allergies were debilitating and so incessant that I would cry out of frustration. I hated my nose and I wanted to rip it off. Going outside made me sick and it would get even worse with the changing seasons.

I took antihistamines daily and I carried tissues everywhere with me. I was labeled as the “sick kid” in school because of these allergies. It was horrible. I would lay in bed with tissues up my nose just to make it stop for a little.

Thankfully, I was able to resolve my allergies through an elimination diet. My nose doesn't run anymore and I no longer hate when the seasons change!

Allergies - A talk with Matthew’s mom

My allergies started shortly after I was born, I had never known life without a runny nose. When I got old enough, I asked my mom what had happened.

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Mom: “Matthew was practically born sick. When I had him, I didn’t have much money. I bought the cheapest formula out there that I could afford. I clipped coupons every week for him. He was raised on soy formula.”

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“Eventually, he got croup (an upper airway viral infection), and when he coughed it sounded like a barking dog. I took him to the hospital and the croup went away with medication.”

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“That’s when the ear infections started. When he was about 2-3 years old he had 7-8 consecutive ear infections. They put him on antibiotics for 10 days, which would clear his ears. Then within the next 7 days, he'd get another ear infection.”

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“Once the ear infections stopped his allergies started. He had no food allergies, but he was allergic to absolutely everything outside. He was sick with allergies or a cold K-12”

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“I remember one year for Christmas he asked me for a new nose because of his allergies. That was hard for me.”

Been playing around with #carnivore more lately. My anecdotal observation: the closest I get to just meat, water, and salt I have noticed: 

my joints feel better 

I have reduced cravings 

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Interesting……

Melvin Anchell passed away on March 27, 2010 at age ninety. He is survived by his loving wife of 61 years, Janice, and his 5 children, Wendy, Marilyn, Stephen, Douglas, James, seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, August 23, 1919, Dr. Anchell graduated from the University of Maryland Medical School in 1944. He served in the U.S. Army as a captain and regimental surgeon of the Seventh United States Cavalry stationed in Tokyo. Dr. Anchell practiced medicine sixty-six years in Houston, Texas and Brentwood California. He was a Diplomate and Charter Member of the American Board of Family Practice, and has authored five books and wrote numerous articles published in medical journals and other publications. He was an expert witness in court trials representing the Citizens for Decent Literature for many years, and lectured both nationally and internationally.

Drs. Michael and Mary Dan Eades are physicians and the authors of 14 books in the fields of health, nutrition, and exercise over the last several decades—among them the New York Times mega-bestseller Protein Power (1996 Bantam) and its follow-up The Protein Power LifePlan (2000 Warner Books) that laid out one of the first nutritional concepts of a paleo lifestyle.

Dr. Michael Eades was born in Springfield, Missouri and educated in Missouri, Michigan, and California. He received his undergraduate degree in engineering from California State Polytechnic University, and received his medical degree from the University of Arkansas. After completing his medical and post-graduate training, he and his wife, Mary Dan, founded Medi-Stat Medical Clinics, a chain of ambulatory out-patient family care clinics in central Arkansas.  Since 1986 Dr. Eades has been in the full time practice of bariatric, nutritional, and metabolic medicine.

Dr. Mary Dan Eades was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas and received her undergraduate degree in biology and chemistry from the University of Arkansas, graduating magna cum laude. After completing her medical degree at the University of Arkansas, she and her husband have been in private practice devoting their clinical time exclusively to bariatric and nutritional medicine, gaining first hand experience treating over six thousand people suffering from high blood pressure, diabetes, elevated cholesterol and triglycerides, and obesity with their nutritional regimen.

The Drs. Eades became familiar to television viewing audiences from 1997 to 2005 because of a pair of highly successful infomercial shows—the first, based on their Protein Power nutritional strategy and the second on a nutritional supplement they developed for weight loss, called Metabosol—and as the on-camera hosts of a 26-episode PBS television cooking show, Low Carb CookwoRx, which they developed and co-wrote.

The Drs. Eades have been guest nutritional experts on hundreds of radio and television shows across the country, including national segments on FOX, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, and MSNBC. They continue to speak at medical and scientific conferences, to the general public, and to various lay organizations on the connection of diet and health, exercise, and the benefits of the low-carb and paleo diet. They are currently working on their fifteenth book, Protein Power 2.0, slated for publication in 2020.

Principia Carnivora is a group that was created by Michael Frieze and Esmée La Fleur.

We are a discussion group where we share our thoughts and experiences about our carnivorous diets and lifestyle (even if that does include some plants). What makes us unique is that we do not take a one-size-fits-all approach and our foundation is based on humility. We aren't focused on being a support group for any specific way of eating.

Our moderation style is based on practical wisdom. We don't have a lot of rules and we prefer it that way. Also, we aren't strict about staying on topic. However, we do have a few rules and recommendations that you should become familiar with (so please read them).

Remember, each person is responsible for themselves. This community does not promote any health or dietary guidelines.

Michael Frieze 2 weeks ago

I have been eating only meat for over 10 years now. There are many of us out there. I learned about this from someone named Owsley Stanley who ate only meat for over 55 years. He showed me a book called "fat of the land" and it changed my mind. I had a lot of health issues like obesity, asthma, and epilepsy. When I started eating this way all of that disappeared. I no longer get asthma or seizures. So, I stuck it out and here I am 10 years later. My fiance has been eating this way for a decade with me as well. But, there are many of us eating like this in the long-term. I have a community on FB called Principia Carnivora which is all about this stuff. It has 20k members and many of them have been doing this for years.

Michelle Hurn is a registered and licensed dietitian with eleven years of experience as a clinical, acute care dietitian, lead dietitian in psychiatric care, and outpatient dietitian. Michelle is an avid endurance athlete, she has qualified for the Boston Marathon 12 times, and on November 7th 2020, she recently won her first ultra marathon covering 44.63 miles in a 6 hour timed race.

While practicing inpatient and outpatient care in the hospital setting, Michelle discovered a disheartening connecting between the high carbohydrate, low fat, “sugar in moderation,” nutrition guidelines she was required to teach, and the rapidly declining health of her patients.

In 2019, Michelle’s health started to fall apart. She was experiencing serve muscle pain, spasms, and crippling anxiety. She decided to follow a low carbohydrate, high animal protein diet simply to see if it might alleviate the severe muscle pain she was experiencing. Not only was her muscle pain gone in a matter of weeks, her decades of anxiety began to fade.

After reviewing the extensive clinical trials on a low carbohydrate diet, she knew she had to spread the word about this transformative way of eating. Michelle has written the book, “The Dietitian’s Dilemma,” detailing how the current nutrition guidelines came into existence and advocating a low carbohydrate, animal-based way of eating as an option for individuals struggling with diabetes, mental disorders, eating disorders, sarcopenia, and heart disease. You can follow Michelle on Instagram @RunEatMeatRepeat and on Twitter at MichelleHurnRD.

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After practicing as a neurologist and neurosurgeon in her Russian homeland, Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride moved to the UK, where she developed her theories on the relationship between neurological disorders and nutrition. She completed her second postgraduate degree in Human Nutrition at Sheffield University, UK, and currently runs the Cambridge Nutrition Clinic. She specializes in nutritional treatments, and has become recognized as one of the world’s leading experts in treating children and adults with learning disabilities and other mental disorders, as well as children and adults with digestive and immune disorders.

She is the author of Gut And Psychology Syndrome (Revised Edition 2010), in which she explores the connection between physical state and brain function; Put Your Heart in Your Mouth (Revised Edition 2016), which reviews natural treatments for heart disease, and Vegetarianism Explained (2017), which compares the physiological benefits of animal- and plant-based foods.

Dr Campbell-McBride frequently gives talks to health practitioners, and at professional conferences worldwide. She is a Member of The British Society for Environmental Medicine, and a Board Member of the Weston A Price Foundation, and is a regular contributing health editor to journals, magazines and newsletters in English speaking countries around the world.

CarniWOE:

"Many people would be surprised to hear that human beings can live exclusively on animal foods. In my clinic I have patients who live entirely on animal food with great results, both children and adults. Patients with ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease and severe mental illness do very well on a No-Plant GAPS Diet: not a leaf, not a speck of anything from the plant kingdom is consumed. These people live on meats, including organ meats, animal fats, meat stock and bone broth, fish (including shell fish and molluscs), fish stock, fresh eggs and fermented raw diary - kefir, sour cream, ghee, butter, cheese and yoghurt. In some severe cases of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease this is the only diet that allows them to be well, to stop all medication, to reach their normal body weight, to remove all digestive symptoms and to function to their full capacity. In severe cases of bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and other psychiatric conditions this diet can be a saviour. Some of these people have lived on this diet for 2 years or longer and have no desire to change their eating habits, because this diet works for them. Some of them tried to add a little vegetable or fruit to their regimen and found that their symptoms started returning, so they had to stop. So, based on my clinical experience I have no doubt that human beings can live very healthily without plant foods at all.

Living entirely on animal foods is not new on our planet. One of the healthiest group of traditional (so-called primitive) people in the world Weston A. Price has found in his research were Masai people in Africa who ate no plant matter at all. They are nomadic people travelling with their cattle and everything they eat is provided by their animals. They eat meat, organ meats, milk and sour milk and they drink the blood of their bulls. When they were asked why they don't eat fruit found in their habitat, they laughed and answered that fruit was food for their cows. These people had no diseases of our modern 'civilised' world whatsoever: no heart disease, no cancer, no degenerative conditions, their childbirth was easy and healthy, their bodies were trim and muscular, their life span was long and they had beautiful healthy teeth. Apart from perfect physical health these people were intelligent, joyful, peaceful, friendly and happy, no psychological problems at all. But when some of them moved to a city and adopted a modern diet, they started getting the same diseases people suffer from in any modern country.

So, the fact is humans can live without plants. However, we cannot live without animal foods!" http://www.doctor-natasha.com/feeding-versus-cleansing.php

Meet Dr Nevada Gray PharmD, RN

Nevada is a pharmacist and registered nurse with 20 years experience helping patients navigate the healthcare system and empower themselves back to health with nutrition and fitness. After suffering a partial spinal cord injury in 2016 called cauda equina syndrome, Nevada utilized the ketogenic diet and became a NASM certified personal trainer & certified KETO Coach, during her 2 year recovery. Since this time Nevada has established herself as a ketogenic lifestyle expert helping others return to a life of health and purpose with her coaching services, eBooks and programs. In 2019, Nevada co-founded the Mind Body Breakthroughs Health & Media Network with Chris Donohue. Nevada and Chris co-host their wildly popular Mind Body Breakthroughs Podcast & online coaching community, as well as provide social media marketing, branding and content creation for small & large scale business. Nevada has recently been featured in Women's Health Magazine, is a frequent podcast guest and public speaker & presenter at health conferences, online seminars and community workshops.

Nina Teicholz is an investigative science journalist and leader in nutrition reporting who is challenging the conventional wisdom on dietary fat–particularly, whether saturated fat causes heart disease and whether fat really makes you fat. The New York Times bestselling author of The Big Fat Surprise. Teicholz also serves as Executive Director of The Nutrition Coalition, an independent non-profit group that promotes evidence-based nutrition policy. She is one of a new generation of researchers arguing that diets lower in carbohydrates are a scientifically sound approach for reversing nutrition-related diseases.

For more than half a century, we’ve been told to eat a diet high in grains, low in fat, saturated fat (and cholesterol), but the last two decades of research have led a growing number of scientists  to conclude that this diet, despite being rigorously tested, could never be shown to prevent any kind of disease.

Teicholz’s work also explains why this diet has remained official policy for so long: the roles played by crusading scientists, the food industry, and more.

The story is as much about politics as it is about science, and Nina Teicholz’s research ultimately confirms that the traditional foods we were told to abandon (meat, cheese, eggs, butter) are safe, and even good for health.

Nina Teicholz has been called “The Rachel Carson of the nutrition movement.” Her book has been called a “must read” by some of the most prestigious medical journals in the world, including The Lancet, The BMJ, and the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

In speaking about Nina, the immediate past-president of the World Heart Federation, said at the Davos Cardiology Update Davos (2017) “She shook up the nutrition world, but she was right.”

Norm Robillard, Ph.D. (Norman John Robillard), Founder of Digestive Health Institute, is a gut health expert, author, and microbiologist. He is the creator of the Fast Tract Diet – Fermentation Potential (FP) system, author of the Fast Tract Digestion book series, and publisher of the Fast Tract Diet mobile app.

Dr. Norm received his Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst studying Bacillus anthracis and other Bacillus species. His post-doctoral training at Tufts University, Boston, focused on antibiotic resistance gene transfer. He was the first to demonstrate the transfer of genes (via conjugation) between the anaerobic gut microbes Bacteroides fragilis and E. coli.

During his career in pharma/biotech, Dr. Norm studied the mechanisms of antibiotic action and the genetics of antibiotic resistance. His work contributed to the development and approval of ciprofloxacin, a life-saving antibiotic. However, he always recommended a cautious approach with antibiotics balancing the benefits with the risks and side effects.

Beyond antibiotics, Dr. Norm worked on various other projects, including septic shock, viral illnesses and other antibiotics, antiviral and antibody-based therapies.

Dr. Norm was the first to propose small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) as the underlying cause of acid reflux and explained the connection between intragastric pressure from gas-producing bacteria in our intestines, nutritional malabsorption, and the symptoms of acid reflux in his first book, Heartburn Cured.

His latest book series provides a safe and effective dietary tool and behavioral strategy (Fast Tract Diet) as an alternative to proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), H2 blockers, IBS drugs or antibiotics for GERD, IBS and other SIBO related conditions.

The Fast Tract Diet was presented at the Digestive Disease Week conference in 2013 to provide gastroenterologists with a new science-based dietary treatment option for addressing SIBO-related conditions.

Dr. Norm’s Fast Tract Diet mobile app was recognized and included in the Top Gut Health Apps of the Year by Healthline in 2017 and 2019.

About his personal journey on digestive health, please read one of his blogs, What Really Causes Acid Reflux and GERD?

I have been eating the natural human dietary regime for over 47 years now. I do not eat anything whatsoever from vegetable sources. The only things veggie I use are spices. My diet is usually 60% fat and 40% protein by calories. I used to eat 80/20 when younger and about twice as much quantity of meat also, but that seems too much energy at my age, which is 71- even though I am very active. I think the body actually becomes more efficient with energy as you age, but I have no way of proving it true. Otherwise, my body today is very like it was at the age of 30. I figure most of what we call 'aging' is due to insulin damage to the collagen and other body structures. No carbs = no insulin. I don't heal quite as fast when injured as I did as a youngster, however. But I have few wrinkles, and my skin is still strong and elastic.

For all those who argue ad nauseum about #lowcarb !! I'm a doctor and I'm not an idiot to tell people to stay off medicines and focus on inner immunity and health. All my life I struggled with a hypocaloric high carb diet. That's why I feel deeply about this whole topic. 

I was a plump child and was always told to eat less and exercise more. I was always hungry. I grew up to a fat teen with a terrible body image. It drives me up the wall to see people unnecessarily arguing about the so called balanced diet. I tried all gimmicks : Alas 

Thank God that I came across #IntermittentFasting and #lowcarb. It's never about #weight. It's about #Health. #weightloss and a #positiveattitude is the by product. Thank you to all those who have been a part. I'm 3 years menopausal now. And pretty much fit for my age. #fit

Apart from being fat  I had low #Immunity, #bodyaches and pains and extreme #lethargy. Even #depression!! It's not a joke guys : incorrect information can really harm people !!

Important #investigations :  

General blood picture  

BP 

ESR  

LFT  

Lipid profile : TG HDL ratio  

HOMA  IR 

Fasting insulin  

Random blood sugar 

CAC scan.  

Thyroid tests.

Board Certified Family Physician, nutrition nerd, and lipovore