Michael is a Naturopathic student with a history of using ketogenic diets to cut weight for Muay Thai competitions. He had been on a ketogenic diet full time for the previous five years, when he saw Shawn Baker, MD interviewed on the Joe Rogan Experience. He decided to give it a try! Michael’s Transition to the Carnivore Diet At
Yecca’s Weight Struggle As a child, Yecca was always overweight, reaching 199 pounds when she was in high school. She tried every diet unsuccessfully, including lemonade diets, counting calories, plant-based diets, eating more salads, gluten-free diets, and a Paleo diet. Having lost weight before starting the Paleo diet, Yecca found herself gaining weight on the diet. A chef by
This is Stephanie, and she’s been eating carnivore for two years. She is a type I diabetic and used to struggle with digestive issues, scalp psoriasis, and, since she was a kid, ADHD. In 2014, Stephanie was diagnosed with IBS and was told to eat low FODMAP foods (fermentable carbs that can cause painful gas and bloating), take probiotics, and
Spence is a full-time touring and studio musician who works in Nashville. This occupation often entails long hours and irregular sleep patterns. Nutritional health and being a touring musician do not come packaged together, and he found that he began to suffer from a variety of symptoms and health problems. His physician was concerned about his lab work, and at
Vin has an engineering background, leading him to always want to understand and solve problems. But the biggest situation he needed to solve was his health. Vin was prediabetic at age 21, and significantly overweight at 215 lbs and 5’5” tall. Vin had damaged his metabolism over a period of several years, by crash dieting. He also sustained a powerlifting
Before discovering the carnivore diet, Simon experimented for 14-15 years with diets and weightlifting to improve his appearance and how people would perceive him. When he saw Lee Haney, the bodybuilder, he heard him say “you cannot lift like a horse and eat like a bird.” Simon began eating more food! In 4 years, he gained 60 lbs, going from
Seb was fit and active, eating a lot of carbs for 40 years, but then one day realized it wasn’t working for him. “I wasn’t feeling that great. I saw a podcast by Dr. Shawn Baker and heard him going on about world carnivore tribe, and world carnivore month, and I was talking to my girlfriend and said ‘this looks
From Nutrition Coach to Carnivore: Casey’s Journey Prior to becoming carnivore, Casey was a nutrition coach and personal trainer for 13 years. The advice was what was typically given, with lots of vegetables and carbohydrates. Low-carb Diet through Endurance Sports He found the low-carb way through endurance sports: “I found a higher fat, lower carb diet through endurance sports.
Robyn was on a ketogenic diet before learning about the carnivore diet and has been a keto diet coach for years. Before keto, she was never very overweight or obese, but always wanted to be “skinny.” She says “I have been on a diet since before 14 years old, standard low-fat high-carb” and that this caused problems: “I developed binging
Rhonda’s Journey to Better Health Rhonda grew up on a family farm, eating organically raised and wild game. When she became a mother, she started eating a lot more carbohydrates to stretch her budget, turning her diet for the worse. “I can remember so many times of that constant yo-yo of the coffee and then the carb crash
