The Road to Carnivore

Welcome to Episode 24 of The Road to Carnivore Podcast! This 13-minute episode discusses why I like the Carnivore diet way more than keto, paleo, low carb, or any other diet I've ever tried. Though these diets tend to get grouped together as "alternative diets," my experience between carnivore and everything else has been enormously different. There are many reasons why I've been able to stick wit...

Welcome to Episode 23 of The Road to Carnivore Podcast! This 11-minute episode discusses how to tolerate dairy, if it's something you currently can't eat without issue, but would like to be able to eat. A carnivore diet may be able to heal your gut and villi enough to get you there. See the show notes and resources here on my website . **Do you want your kids to eat more meat and less junk? Check...

Welcome to Episode 22 of The Road to Carnivore Podcast! This 16-minute episode discusses the nuances of how sugar damages the body. We've all heard before that sugar is unhealthy, but the damage is so much worse than most people know. If you have trouble resisting sugar, the information shared here may serve as extra motivation to stay away from it. See the show notes and resources here on my webs...

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. See the show notes and resources here on...

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 att...

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. See the show notes and resources here on my website ....

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 tissue...

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 be...

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 w...

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...

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 environm...

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 hum...

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 extr...

Welcome to Episode 11 of The Road to Carnivore Podcast! In this 16-minute episode we talk all about gut health. The conventional advice on gut health is to take probiotics and drink kombucha, but did you know that probiotics actually do not populate your gut? Gut doctors know and acknowledge this, and researchers have found that taking a probiotic after an antibiotic actually delayed the restorati...

Welcome to Episode 10 of The Road to Carnivore Podcast! In this 20-minute episode we are going to examine the environmental angle of eating meat. The dominant narrative is that meat is bad for the environment and because of that, we should limit meat consumption. But eliminating meat is not the solution. Animals are integral for a sustainable and healthy food system, and cows are part of the solut...

Welcome to Episode 9 of The Road to Carnivore Podcast! In this 11-minute episode I share what I eat on a typical day of carnivore, so you can get a better idea of how this looks day to day. See the show notes and resources here on my website . **Do you want your kids to eat more meat and less junk? Check out my ebook How to Get Your Kids to Eat More Meat...and actually like it .

Welcome to Episode 8 of The Road to Carnivore Podcast! In this 15-minute episode I explain why we need to let go of the idea that eating less and exercising more is the long term solution for health problems and weight loss. People really want to hang on to this idea that they simply need to get back in control by counting calories again, watching portion sizes, and getting their cardio in every d...

Welcome to Episode 7 of The Road to Carnivore Podcast! In this 12-minute episode I explain why meat is better than plants from a metabolic health and fat adaptation perspective. While you don’t have to do carnivore specifically to have good metabolic health, what is optimal about carnivore is that it’s an extremely nutrient dense diet that is also very low carb, and chronically high carb consumpti...

Welcome to Episode 6 of The Road to Carnivore Podcast! In this 14-minute episode we explore and become aware of how insane our modern food environment is. If you’re someone who has a hard time resisting food, this concept is a revelation because you find out that to some degree it’s not your fault. We are constantly surrounded by hyperpalatable things to eat and we are constantly prompted to eat....

Welcome to Episode 5 of The Road to Carnivore Podcast! In this 18-minute episode we learn about food addiction, and how understanding this is the baseline for changing your eating successfully long term.  Most of the foods we are surrounded by are hyperpalatable foods, meaning they are carefully crafted and designed combinations of carbs, sugar, fat, and salt. These foods are excessively plea...

Welcome to Episode 4 of The Road to Carnivore Podcast! In this 17-minute episode we dive into the reality that plants contain toxic compounds and are trying to poison you. It’s not personal; they’re trying to poison the insects and animals that want to eat them too. Even though the current popular narrative in food is that vegetables are the healthiest thing we can eat, many of the foods that are...

Welcome to episode 3 of The Road to Carnivore podcast! In this 9-minute episode I explain why meat is better than plants from a nutrition perspective. With the current narrative in food and the dietary recommendations of the US government’s food pyramid, it’s fair to question if eating only animal foods will result in suboptimal nutrition. You can get the vitamins, minerals, healthy fats, and nutr...

Welcome to episode 2 of The Road to Carnivore podcast! In this 20-minute episode I share my story of how I came to carnivore and why I eat this way. I think when most people consider the idea of going carnivore, it can seem completely unimaginable to picture that for your own life. When you hear about someone choosing to eat only animal foods, the obvious thought is: “Why would someone do that?” T...

Welcome to The Road to Carnivore podcast! This 13-minute episode gives you an idea of what this entire series will be about, and the many topics that will be covered. The main argument in this series is that the further you go down the road to carnivore, the healthier you will be. Eat more meat, and less plants, for better health. Sound crazy? I hear you. I used to believe that plants were the hea...