My name is Demetrios. I’m 37 years old and embarked on the carnivore journey a few weeks after my 36th birthday, February 2022. My entire life I was always on the heavier size. I was over 250 in high school and broke the 300 mark after our first child. There I sat for about 5-6 years bouncing up to some
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
Since my early teenage years, training was a big part of my life. Running, swimming, bodybuilding, wrestling and martial arts. Staying fit was always important to me. At the age of 19, I served 6 years in the United States Army as a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division. The 82nd, we were known as the running junkies! After the
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
Meet Gina: A Lifetime of Physical Activity I’m Gina. I’m a 52-year-old wife, mom, and dental hygienist. I had my two oldest when I was in my early 20s and became very physically active when they were little to stay in shape. I lifted weights and even worked at a gym as a trainer. In my 30s, I was
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
I am a Covid ventilator survivor and started the carnivore diet a few months after release from the hospital in January 2022. Prior to my illness, I was at least 50 pounds over weight. In early November 2021, I unfortunately contracted Covid and was not getting better after 10 days. Under a doctors supervision, I took Ivermectin and Z-pac, but
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
How Alicea’s Carnivore Diet Helped Her Overcome Her Eating Disorders Alicea lives in northern California. She’s 52 and struggled with eating disorders since she was 15 years old. While she was never obese, she still struggled with bulimia, bingeing, and purging. At one point, she got down to 107 pounds, which isn’t much for her 5′ 7″ frame. Alicea
An avid athlete, firefighter Danny Smith would work out twice—sometimes even three times—a day. In 2016, after a few bouts of what he thought was gastritis, he went to the hospital on a day he was experiencing, particularly acute symptoms. He was admitted right away, and while the nurse was asking him about the situation, Danny passed out. The
