Josh recalls being morbidly obese as a child. Family meals consisted of lots of carbs—bread, pasta, rice, and potatoes—along with bowls of sugary cereal for snacks. At 12, Josh had back pain from carrying excess weight. In high school, he weighed 330 pounds. Josh developed sleep apnea in his early twenties, and waking up gasping for air terrified him. Another
Barbara is a 54-year-old mother of 3 grown girls with her first grandchild on the way. She was in the radiology field as an MRI technologist for 35 years. She has scanned many metabolically unhealthy people with intramuscular and visceral fat over the years. She has witnessed the overall decline in the health and a rise in obesity in many
Rory’s Journey to Carnivore Rory is from Brisbane, Australia, and says, “I’ve had health problems my whole life; diagnosed at four as an asthmatic. I had my tonsils taken out. From that point, I’ve had a lot of health issues, mainly asthma, gut-related stuff, food intolerances, and then acne, as I became a teenager. As an adult, I
Marcel’s Health Challenges and Struggle to Find a Solution Marcel is working on completing his Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) training and is focused on health. But health was something that was eluding him. Perhaps his health challenges were one of the things that made him decide to be a healthcare provider as well. Marcel’s Journey with Psoriasis and
From Statins to Steak Lycia, a 72-year-old Florida resident, makes a bold decision one day: she throws her statin medication in the trash. Within three days, her persistent brain fog begins to lift. This moment sparks a transformative journey into the carnivore diet, a lifestyle she describes as “an absolute miracle.” A Lifetime of Health Struggles For over a decade,
The Fruitarian Diet and its Promises of Healing Chronic Diseases I was a raw vegan/fruitarian for seven years. I was actually an influencer in that community and offered health consultations helping people heal chronic degenerative diseases using a fruitarian diet and now do the same thing but now recommend an animal-based diet/carnivore. I’ve actually helped many in the
An Active Lifestyle at 71: Tennis, Mountain Biking, and More I am 71 years old, retired, and now live in Idaho. Sports include tennis, mountain biking, kayaking, river climbing, and softball. Health has generally been good, but I had irritable bowel syndrome for many years and skin cancer in several places, removed with Mohs surgery. At retirement,
From Ankylosing Spondylitis to Carnivore Diet: Jennifer’s Story Jennifer is a long-term care nurse and bodybuilder in Ohio who, like many of us, was raised on Cheetos and Kraft singles and a standard American diet. As a child, she experienced terrible hip pain, which later in life would be diagnosed as ankylosing spondylitis. In her 20s, “when I
Joel’s Struggle with Autoimmune Diseases Joel was an engineer for Exxon-Mobil and developed autoimmune pericarditis after a viral infection. He fought it for years and had a bad flare-up in 1988. He resigned from Exxon-Mobil and was put on SSDI disability for ten years because of the pain and fatigue. In 2011 he was diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis,
A Shoulder Injury Leads to a Change in Diet Anne lives in Vancouver and says growing up, she ate a lot of carbohydrates, especially rice. Anne has been suffering from migraines with aura since she was thirteen years old, but a problem with her shoulder got her attention and made her want to change her diet. About a year
