Carnivorist Chats

Monique Attinger is a certified holistic nutritionist and renowned expert on the plant compound called oxalate and histamine intolerance. She has over 15 years of experience treating, researching, and teaching about how to navigate low oxalate and low histamine diets. It was an honor to welcome back Monique to the podcast for my fourth Q&A episode. We had listeners submit their questions befor...

I hope you enjoy this Season 3 Q&A Episode with Dr. Chaffee. We started the podcast talking about his trip to visit Maggie, the amazing 80 plus year old Canadian carnivore rancher, as well as his thoughts on his recent "debate" discussion with Dr. Paul Saladino. www.givesendgo.com/PleaseHelpMaggie to donate to help Maggie. We then jumped into audience submitted questions for the rest...

Jake Thomas is an ex-Marine, six-time natural physique champion, and a carnivore for almost 4 years. He has been a vegan and vegetarian in the past, and actually competed (and won) as a vegan bodybuilder. Jake and I chat about his fascinating journey from veganism to the carnivore diet, his experiences running marathons (and now triathlons) using fasting, and carnivore strategies, and the impacts...

Doris Adamietz has an incredible story to share. From a young age, she was unknowingly exposed to eating high oxalate foods growing up in Germany (as was her family). This led to a good deal of health related issues with seasonal flu like symptoms every year, infections in her nails, ongoing severe hip pain and even Osgood-Schlatter syndrome. Things only got worse as she got older and tried to eat...

Hi folks, I wanted to take the short Q & A from the end of Episode 22 with Dr. Chaffee and upload it on its own in case anyone had not had the chance to hear it. Look out for another full episode with Dr. Chaffee in Season 3 of Carnivorist Chats, which will be starting on September 30th. Dr. Chaffee is an American medical doctor specializing in Neurosurgery who over a span of 20 years has rese...

Monique Attinger is a certified holistic nutritionist and renowned expert on the plant compound called oxalate and histamine intolerance. She has over 15 years of experience treating, researching, and teaching about how to navigate low oxalate and low histamine diets. It was an honor to welcome back Monique to the podcast for my second Q&A episode. We had listeners submit their questions befor...

Courtney Luna is a former yacht chef turned stay at home mom and carnivore content creator. She shares her recipes and health journey as she heals her body from years of yo-yo dieting through an animal-based way of eating. Courtney now helps others to try and break free from food addictions and live their best life. Both Courtney and Devan (The Contoured Carnivore) host their own podcast called &q...

Make sure to check out my first episode with Devan (14) here if you have not already for some context on this chat. https://youtu.be/xlT4bi1nuj4 It was so great to catch up with Devan again and to find out what has been happening to her since our last conversation. We get into a bunch of different topics like; - How she reintroduced certain foods recently - oxalates and the issues that they cause,...

Serena Musick has an incredible healing story of disordered eating to share. From the time she was 12 (when she bought her first diet pills) she went on a roller coaster ride with her weight and health, literally trying almost every diet out there. That all changed when she caught covid in 2020 and had to stop eating many foods because during recovery her senses of taste and smell were altered so...

Hi Folks, This will be the first in a series of solo session where I will talk about specific things with my journey on the carnivore diet. In this first solo session, I highlight how I started the carnivore diet after being a vegan for six years, what challenges I ran into and how I addressed them. Things like: - oxalates - low stomach acid - digestive enzymes - dairy & eggs - meal timings an...

Mark Ritz is the co-founder of Carnivore Snax. Along with his business partner Sylwia Tabor, they have created some of the most delicious and successful two-ingredient Carnivore products on the market. (meat & salt and that's it!) In this episode we talk about the why, what and how of Carnivore Snax. We also get into what is new and coming up for the company. It was an honor to have Mark o...

Monique Attinger is a certified holistic nutritionist and renowned expert on the plant compound called oxalate with over 15 years of experience treating, researching, and teaching about how to navigate a low oxalate diet. In this episode, Monique and I chatted about : - How she got into oxalates - What oxalates are and how they can harm you. - What foods are high in oxalates (her "dirty dozen...

If you did not catch my first episode with Alex, make sure to listen to it first to add even more context to this powerful conversation. You can find the link to Episode 27 here: https://youtu.be/gl1nr6IuFps It was a pleasure to welcome Alex back to Carnivorist Chats. In this episode, we dug into issues we both faced on the vegan diet like other infections, digestive problems, dental challenges an...

Valerie was diagnosed in 1984 at the age of 14 with anorexia nervosa. She suffered for a total of 34 years. She is 5'9" and her lowest bmi was 11.8. Not only that, she spent most of the 34 years at 80 lbs. Doctors/dieticians pushed plant based heavy carbs, no fat and low protein on her. She believed them that it did not matter what she ate as long as her was weight restored. Her brain was...

For a young woman, Olyveya has already had her fair share of illness. After mold exposure and catching mononucleosis, she then had radiation poisoning (three times) and discovered she had heavy metals and parasites as well. Through the guidance of her mother and moving to a less toxic environment, she finally began to heal. Once she started to address her toxicities and combined that with the Carn...

Tamar is a carnivore, model, personal trainer, and lifestyle coach. After suffering for many years with health issues, she took matters into her own hands and took a closer look at what and how she was eating. Tamar has seen tremendous success with the carnivore diet and is passionate about sharing information and helping others achieve their diet and fitness goals. On her Instagram page, she shar...

Kelsey is the founder of the Instagram page NoReason2BVegan. She is a former vegan herself, with first-hand experience of how this way of eating can be harmful to your health. After many years of researching truths, Kelsey has made it her mission to help others to not fall into the trap of veganism. Her content strikes a great balance between informative and humorous, however she takes this very s...

Claire had been struggling with anorexia nervosa since childhood. Many traumas brought her deeper and deeper into this eating disorder. Then, while being very depressed, she discovered veganism, which only made things worse. She suffered from sarcopenia, and ended up in a wheelchair, blind, and tube fed. In 2017, she got the flu which became pneumonia, and she literally died for 6 minutes. Claire...

Phillip Meece created "The Carnivore Bar" after seeing first hand the damage that the commonly available food caused to himself and others who were deployed. Phillip was a combat medic who served in Afghanistan and returned with gut dysbiosis after his health was compromised by preservative and seed oil laden foods and heavy antibiotic use. After finding out about the benefits of the Car...

Alex Ball has an incredible healing story to share. From a young age, she had always felt very "sickly". After chronic antibiotic use for bronchitis and ear and sinus infections ruined her gut, she turned to a vegetarian and then vegan diet for hope and healing. Unfortunately, it was about to get worse, much worse. On her last two years on a vegan diet she suffered from severe malnutriti...

Hal Cranmer is the owner of A Paradise For Parents, which includes several assisted living homes in Phoenix, AZ. They are having incredible success by implementing low carbohydrate and carnivore diets, along with exercise programs, with their residents. They help people lose weight and improve cognition, which has greatly diminished the effects of dementia, Alzheimer's, and other cognitive dis...

Brett Lloyd (aka The Thankful Carnivore) faced many years of psychological and physical challenges. After the conventional medical system failed him, he found hope and healing through simply changing what he put into his mouth on a daily basis. It was an honor to chat with Brett, as his testimony was so influential in my own journey. It was Brett who first told me to make sure and to tell others a...

Irvin Dazl St-Louis is an athlete, dancer/street performer, and was primarily plant-based for 21 years. He recently decided to reintroduce meat into his diet in 2017 and ended up going full Carnivore in 2022. It was an honor to chat with Daz as we share so many similarities in how we ate and our experiences over the years. It was a candid and thought-provoking conversation. I hope you enjoy it as...

Derrick Josi is a 4th generation dairy farmer and member of the Tillamook farmers co-op in Oregon. He's the author of the book "An Industry Worth Fighting For" which gives a glimpse into the life of an active dairy farm and dispels many misconceptions about the industry. (get it on Amazon) It was great to chat with Derrick about his life as a dairy farmer and his thoughts around many...

Dr. Chaffee is an American medical doctor specializing in Neurosurgery who over a span of 20 years has researched the optimal nutritional habits for athletic performance and health. Dr. Chaffee has dedicated many years and a large part of his professional practice to the study and education of diet and nutrition, and personally practices a fully carnivorous diet to this day. He currently resides i...