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
From Paleo To Plant-Based: The Journey Begins Frank was a little overweight as a child and became interested in health in middle and high school. He cut out grains and, by his senior year, was following a strict paleo diet. He says, “I felt amazing and worked out before and after school, always maintaining a lean physique.” The
Veere had been a vegetarian for seven years, and she was overweight. She injured her knee in a fall; it never healed properly, and it hurt when climbing stairs. Veerle developed carpal tunnel syndrome and couldn’t work. The condition always came back regularly. Veerle’s Struggle with Health Issues and Addiction to Sugar She found herself addicted to sugar
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
Questioning The Modern Diet: A Return To The Ancestral Way Of Eating When Travis was 23 years old, he was living in New York City. With a good health history, his post-college weight was 175 pounds, which he considered a little overweight. Travis decided to go on a ketogenic diet in the summer of 2012 and was “on and
Health Struggles: Antibiotics, Hashimoto’s Disease, And SIBO Meet Tatiana. She is a Meat RX coach and lives in Thailand. She believes that her health problems began at birth. She was born with a blood infection and had strong antibiotics on the first day of life. As a child, she couldn’t participate in sports and was not as active as
Sarah’s Struggle With Anxiety And Attempts To Find Relief Sarah developed constant anxiety after her second daughter was born and became “anxious about everything.” Her yoga practice led her to think, “Maybe I need to stop eating meat because that’s what I hear a lot of people were doing, and stuff against meat, and I started going to vegetarian
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.
