A Mother’s Search for Answers to Help Her Son with Crohn’s Disease Lee Anne was on a mission to find answers to her son’s battle with Crohn’s disease. For the past fifteen years, she explored ways to help improve his condition through nutritional intervention and finally found what she had been looking for on a carnivore diet. Read
I was raised with a typical German diet: sugar cereal or toast for breakfast, pasta, rice or potatoes for lunch, cake or cookies as an evening snack, and bread for dinner. Really high in carbohydrates, sugar, low in protein and nutrients. My typical day consisted of 4-5 meals. Because of my active childhood, I always had an athletic/normal body.
As Doug approached his mid-forties, he decided it was time to focus on his health and reduce the adverse effects of aging. As a competitive athlete, Doug had previously followed conventional wisdom around carb-loading and frequent meals. However, his lifelong struggle with debilitating migraines and the onset of joint pain caused him to seek the benefits of a meat-based diet.
Julia came to follow a carnivore diet after suffering from obesity for many years and what she describes as a “plethora” of other health conditions. “I was suffering from anxiety and depression, nausea, vomiting, joint pain, inflammation, and a headache that would just not go away,” she shares. “I had allergies to things I didn’t even know about and reactions
Emotional Attachment to Food and Failed Diets Holly grew up in a loving family of “gourmet chefs”, and from a young age, formed emotional attachments to food. While otherwise a healthy child she developed a dairy intolerance in her teens that led her down a path of different ways of eating, but nothing helped her food addiction and weight
A Young Man’s Struggle With An Idiopathic Illness Brian was a presumably healthy, active young man until one day that all changed. “Seemingly overnight, my world was turned upside down by some idiopathic illness,” Brian shares. In his early twenties, Brian suddenly was plagued with headaches, trouble sleeping, debilitating fatigue, muscle pain, joint pain, chest pain, heart palpitations, and
The story, in pictures: 1. I’m six years old. My father is starting to put on weight, started to feel sick. He was a physician’s assistant. Didn’t he know how to be healthy? Mother wants to do something about it. She started cooking low fat, adding swiss chard and spinach, ordering organic vegetables, potatoes, and tofu instead of beef. She ground
A Career of Swashbuckling and Struggle I have had a very unique career. I was a sword-fighting comedian who performed more than four thousand shows in sixteen countries around the world at Renaissance festivals and USO shows. I have done stunts in live stunt shows and have generally abused my body. This, I thought, was the cause for
Relief from Migraine Headaches For the past seven months, Justin has been following a carnivore lifestyle. Switching to a meat-based diet has allowed him to greatly reduce (if not completely eliminate) terrible migraine headaches from which he suffered over the last decade. “Anyone out there who’s ever suffered from migraines, you know how terrible and disrupting to your life
Brandon’s Journey to the Carnivore Diet for Health and Fitness When Brandon started his carnivore journey, he had skin issues and migraines. He first began his diet journey on a ketogenic diet and attained a respectable 10% body fat percentage following that diet. He still had some problems, however, and knew that as a regular CrossFit member, he should
