Welcome to Episode 21 of The Road to Carnivore Podcast! This 15-minute episode brings awareness to a common stumbling block for those trying to switch to a carnivore lifestyle: unchecked affection for non-carnivore foods. Reining in this affection is key to doing carnivore long term from a place of joy and peace, instead of forced discipline and compliance. Show Notes and Resources: https://theroadtocarnivore.com/episode-21-the-dangers-of-having-affection-for-food ..read more

Welcome to Episode 20 of The Road to Carnivore Podcast! In this 16-minute episode, I share my personal experience with the carnivore diet during pregnancy. Despite the fact that I was carnivore for nearly 2 years prior to this pregnancy, having a fully carnivore pregnancy was literally not possible for me. I was so sick with nausea, vomiting, and meat aversions in the first trimester, that any attempts to force these carnivore foods down resulted in being overruled by my body, and all the meat coming back up.  While it was very upsetting at the time, my research into this topic confirmed ..read more

Welcome to Episode 19 of The Road to Carnivore Podcast! Have you ever heard someone say that meat causes cancer? This 17-minute episode will help you understand this widely held but unfounded claim, and where it came from. There is literally not a single study on earth that proves a link between meat consumption and an increased risk of cancer. Show Notes and Resources: https://theroadtocarnivore.com/episode-19-the-meat-causes-cancer-myth ..read more

Welcome to Episode 18 of The Road to Carnivore Podcast! This 20-minute episode is all about wheat, and the ways it damages the human body.  Many people are familiar with gluten, and the gut damage it causes is pretty well known and well accepted. But the damage done by wheat is much more than that.  Wheat also damages the brain, the arteries, the bones and joints, and other types of cells and tissues. It also hijacks the reward system in the brain, increases visceral fat, and impacts mental health. Show Notes and Resources: https://theroadtocarnivore.com/episode-18-why-wheat-is-far ..read more

Welcome to Episode 17 of The Road to Carnivore Podcast! In this 13-minute episode, I will share a concept with you that has been a big part of my carnivore experience: letting go of food with freedom. There are many ways to approach carnivore. One approach is strict abstinence akin to how some people address alcoholism, where you live by the rule that you never eat carbohydrates and plant foods because by nature, it’s not allowed on carnivore. This approach may work for people, but I personally found it did not work for me. The thought of a food “not being allowed” made me incredibly rebelliou ..read more

Welcome to Episode 16 of The Road to Carnivore Podcast! In this 16-minute episode, I will teach you how to handle falling off the wagon, and how to get back on track. It's best to avoid falling off the wagon in the first place by doing the practices I shared in the previous episode on handling cravings, but the truth is that sometimes it's going to happen. The information I share in this episode will help you learn how to get back on track as soon as possible to minimize the damage.  Show Notes and Resources: https://theroadtocarnivore.com/episode-16-how-to-handle-falling-off-the-wagon ..read more

Welcome to Episode 15 of The Road to Carnivore Podcast! In this 19-minute episode, I will teach you my process for how to handle cravings and overcome them. Learning how to overcome cravings and believing that you can is a critical component to long term success on carnivore. In my experience, when you change your thinking around cravings and understand how to handle them and that you are totally capable, you’ve pretty much conquered the most difficult thing about relationship with food.  In this episode we will discuss the two major kinds of cravings and learn more about the workings of ..read more

Welcome to Episode 14 of The Road to Carnivore Podcast! In this 14-minute episode, I will lay out my personal recommendations for how to transition to a carnivore diet. I discuss considerations for how quickly to jump in depending on various factors like your personality, minimizing transitional adjustments in your body, and your starting point. I also discuss what to eat, how to set your environment up for success, and how and why to stay the course for at least 30 days. Show Notes and Resources: https://theroadtocarnivore.com/episode-14-how-to-transition-to-carnivore ..read more

Welcome to Episode 13 of The Road to Carnivore Podcast! This 26-minute episode is part 2 of a 2-episode discussion on dietary fat, the fat that you eat. In this episode, we discuss the three major types of fat: saturated fat, monounsaturated fat, and polyunsaturated fat. You’ll learn why and how PUFAs, the vegetable and seed oils that are in everything today, are so damaging and harmful to the human body. These are incredibly unstable fats that oxidize easily, and have been shown to massively increase the risk of cancer by breaking down into toxic aldehydes and degraded triglycerides, suppress ..read more

Welcome to Episode 12 of The Road to Carnivore Podcast! This 21-minute episode is part 1 of 2-episode discussion on dietary fat, the fat that you eat. In this episode, we discuss the unbelievable story of where the anti-fat narratives and lies came from, and how they became nutritional dogma and integrated into governmental dietary guidelines. Learning the story of how fat became vilified was extremely important because it helped me throw out the anti-fat narratives that have been in my head since I was a child. There is a tremendous amount of scientific evidence that supports the importance o ..read more