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27 contributions to Eat Based on Your Biology™
What Is Your Body Telling You Right Now?
Quick check-in with everyone today. ❤️ Forget about being perfect for a minute. I want you to think about the **last 7 days** and tell me one thing: **What is ONE signal from your body you would most like to improve right now?** It could be: ❤️ Blood pressure ⚡ Low energy 😴 Poor sleep or waking during the night 🩸 Blood sugar 🧠 Brain fog 🔥 Digestion or reflux 💪 Strength or recovery 🫀 Cardiovascular health ⚖️ Stubborn belly fat 🦵 Cramps or circulation 🥶 Feeling cold 😰 Stress or anxiety 🍽️ Hunger or cravings 💩 Digestion/bowel movements Or something completely different. Then tell me: **1. What is the symptom/problem?** **2. When is it usually at its worst?** **3. What have you already tried?** Don’t overthink your answer. Sometimes one symptom gives us a clue about a much bigger pattern happening underneath. I’ll go through the responses and give you my thoughts. And if I see several people struggling with the same issue, **I’ll turn it into one of our upcoming lessons or Lives.** Remember: Don’t just chase the symptom. Find the signal. Eat Based On Your Biology, Not Ideology™ Fix the signal. Everything follows.
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Cramps in legs and feet after approximately 4 hours sleep. Bed between 21.30 and 22.00. Take a shot of salt in 100ml warm water. Back to bed. Contractions again around 4am. Get quality REM and deep sleep between but the pain is a factor. Trying to take more salt at dinner between 16.00 and 17.00. Drink when thirsty. 350mg magnesium glycinate, glycine 1 hour before bed. Do stretching exercises before bed.
What Has Carnivore Actually Taught You About Your Own Body?
One thing I’ve learned after years around carnivore is that the diet itself is only part of the story. Two people can eat almost the same foods and have completely different experiences. One person feels better with more fat. Another feels heavy, nauseated, or gets loose stools. One sleeps better. Another starts waking up in the middle of the night. One sees amazing triglycerides and glucose, while another watches ApoB climb. One does perfectly well with beef and salt for a while, while another eventually starts noticing issues with magnesium, iodine, digestion, energy, or recovery. That is why I keep coming back to the same idea: Eat Based On Your Biology, Not Ideology™ I’m curious about your experience. Not what you think carnivore is supposed to do. What has your own body actually taught you? Has your biggest lesson been about: fat intake, sleep, energy, electrolytes, digestion, bloodwork, weight loss, fasting, stress, or something completely different? For me, the longer I study this, the less interested I become in asking whether carnivore is “good” or “bad.” I’m much more interested in the pattern. What changed? What improved? What became harder? What did you have to adjust? Sometimes the most useful lesson is not that a diet worked or failed. It’s that your body gave you feedback and you learned how to listen to it. So I’d love to hear from everyone: What is the single biggest thing carnivore has taught you about your own biology? There is no right answer here. I think this could be a really interesting discussion because we may start seeing patterns across the group that are easy to miss when we only look at our own experience.
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The elimination of food noise and an ideological perspective towards diet and food consumption options available has been transformed. I am in an elder phase of life now and my motto is 'Easy is Right'. Simplicity through discipline and adopting and ancestral pattern of bringing the elements of respecting one's nature through the lens of it. AFIB, obesity, alcohol, RA, and pain was the catalyst to begin the 'Easy is Right' living. Get busy dying or get busy living? Respecting one's body biologically, physically and spirituality the signals will become quieter. Carnivore has improved my energy levels, focus, calmness, independence, belief and taught me to enjoy every moment like my life depends on it, because it does. Where the sacred becomes ordinary and the ordinary becomes sacred. What improved? Everything has improved. Sleep has become a new job. Blood pressure is dancing to the right tunes, after meal walks watching the colours of the seasons change, the grateful acknowledgment on completion of a zone training session. The desire to learn about a body that is so complexed but needs the right enviroment to blossom. Loving myself again. Oh yea also that every meal is sacred. What became harder? Keeping the sugar addiction spirit quiet. The cravings that come at you from the days the past. The contracting of muscles at night (It's work in progress :)) Keeping peoples opinions at bay. Wanting results sooner. What did you have to adjust? I had to adjust the pattern of types of fat intake, frequency of intake, cortisol routine, recovery and rest signal acceptance, APOB and LDL activity response to nutrition, movement and clearance mechanisms. Building nutrition and body function strategies that keeps carnivore at core and using options available to test and adjust what works. For example the introduction of soluble fiber (psyillium, chia seeds, small amount of beta-glucan in oats to help with lipid clearance. Carnivore has taught me that simplicity, discipline and using it as a core component to test and adjust and listen to the body is key to improved health.
Ezetimibe: What It Really Does to LDL and ApoB
If you’ve ever wondered how EzetIMIBE actually lowers LDL and ApoB, I just created a full video breaking it down. This goes much deeper than “it blocks cholesterol absorption.” We look at: How ezetimibe changes cholesterol traffic between the intestine and liver. Why LDL receptors matter. Why ApoB can stay high even when triglycerides and glucose look excellent. Whether timing matters. Carnivore and saturated-fat responders. Zone 2, plaque regression, thyroid function, bergamot, and what the evidence actually supports. If this topic interests you, watch the video and then come back here because I want to hear your experience. A few questions for everyone: Have you ever taken ezetimibe? What was your LDL before and after? Did you measure ApoB before and after? How long were you taking it before you retested? Were you also taking a statin, changing saturated fat, or increasing exercise at the same time? I think comparing real before-and-after numbers from this community could make this discussion very interesting. Eat Based On Your Biology, Not Ideology™.
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Started taking 10mg Ezetimibe 05.08.26. New Blood work 08.09.26 Blood work 05.08 08.09 Total Cholesterol 12.7 6.1 HDL 1.5 1.7 LDL 12.7 4.1 Apob 3.32 1.27 CRP <5 <5 ALAT 55 29 ASAT 33 AbA1C 28 (4.7) GFR 74 84 This was started the same time as the introduction of Psyllium husk 1 tbls / Chia seeds 1 tbls every morning with 30g Oates (Beta glucans). The drop is quite significant in just over 1 month. The biological perspective is that yes, the medication contributed but also the introduction of fiber to support clearance in tandem with resistance training, walking after meals, and regular meal timing.
Weekend Assignment: Build Your Own Health Pattern
Hi everyone, I want to give you a simple assignment for the weekend. The goal is not to chase one lab number or one symptom. I want you to start thinking the way I think when I look at someone’s health. I want you to build your own **personal biology pattern**. Take 20 to 30 minutes this weekend and write down the following: 1. Your **top 3 health goals** right now. 2. Your **top 3 symptoms or concerns** you are still trying to understand. 3. Your most recent important labs, if you have them. Focus on things like fasting glucose, A1C, fasting insulin, triglycerides, HDL, LDL, ApoB, blood pressure, thyroid, hs-CRP, vitamin D, ferritin, or anything else relevant to you. 4. What has improved over the last 3 to 6 months? 5. What has not improved? 6. What are the **3 biggest things you are currently doing every day** that you believe are helping you? 7. What is one habit, food, supplement, medication, stressor, sleep issue, or lifestyle pattern that you think may still be working against you? 8. Most importantly, write down what you think the **main driver** of your current pattern may be. Do not worry about being right. That is the point of the exercise. I want you to practice connecting the dots. *For example: High fasting glucose + high insulin + high triglycerides may point us toward one pattern. High ApoB + low triglycerides + high HDL may point us toward a different pattern. Fatigue + high TSH + low free T3 may point us somewhere else. The goal is to stop looking at every marker as a separate problem. Think: **What connects these things together?** Then post your answers below. Next week I will go through some of them with you and show you where I agree, where I would look deeper, and what I would test next. Keep it simple. Do not write a medical textbook. Just give me your pattern. **Symptoms → Labs → Possible Driver → What You Would Do Next** That is the skill I want everyone practicing. Have a great weekend everyone. I’m looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
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@Jenni Lung Hi Jenni. Thank you for the post. Yeah the heavy cream. It quickly became an addictive routine with the coffee. I never had coffee with cream before. I have now swapped it for 60ml 1% lactose free milk in each cup. I love 2 big cups. But yeah that cream.... also bacon I saw contributed to high ldl / apob. All the best on this way. N.
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@Maurice Daher Thank you for your response Maurice. An update to the post from earlier in this thread. Building my own health pattern. My quest and development towards lowering this has been driven mainly by A-pob and LDL markers which were highly elevated. It has evolved in different directions due to my own research, valuable information on this forum, testing and discovery of what works in regards to the biggest factor or keeping RA quiet / CRP low. In the last month I have tested and adjusted eating routines, cortisol management, fat to protein ratios and types, simplified meal structures, sleep and introduced low carbs that are focused towards high fiber management (1 tbls Psyllium, 1 tbls Chia seeds, 30g oats, at breakfast - supported by 30g of walnuts / pistachio nuts between lunch and dinner at 4.30pm) whilst also starting a temporary course of 10mg Ezetimibe. The rest has been lean meat ground beef, salmon, eggs and carnivore at core. This was started 05.08.26 from last blood work to today 08.09. Blood work 05.08 08.09 Total Cholesterol 12.7 6.1 HDL 1.5 1.7 LDL 12.7 4.1 Apob 3.32 1.27 CRP <5 <5 ALAT 55 29 ASAT 33 AbA1C 28 (4.7) GFR 74 84 The direction of movement has been significant and I believe that the medication and the addition of fiber towards cholesterol clearance has been one important element of the shift. Energy has improved recently and although cramps at night are still an issue (Timing of Ezetimibe suggested moved from supper to bedtime.) This is the next phase. The evidence that CRP did not move because of the reintroduction of a low carb based fiber addition has helped me find confidence towards having that option as means of supporting lipid clearance in conjunction with movement, zone training, keep carnivore core to apparatus of monitoring signals as they come. I just thought you should know the effect after 4 weeks. I will continue with the routine as BP is solid at low 100's in the morning, RHR at 53. I did not expect such a change so quickly. Thank you for your knowledge, support and time with all you do.
‼️ NEW DOCUMENTARY HOMEWORK ‼️
Who taught you what “healthy” means? Was it your parents? School? Your doctor? A food label? A fitness magazine? Or maybe today, the algorithm on your phone? That is the question behind my latest documentary. Over the years, we absorb rules about food, cholesterol, weight, exercise, fasting, medication, supplements, meat, plants, salt, and fat. After hearing the same messages long enough, they start to feel like our own beliefs. But what happens when your biology gives you a different answer? What happens when the diet that worked at 30 stops working at 55? What happens when one biomarker improves, but another gets worse? What happens when the advice everyone says is “healthy” does not produce a healthy response in you? That is where I want you to start thinking differently. Health is not about blindly following a rule. It is about understanding what the rule was designed to accomplish, what it changes inside the body, what trade-offs come with it, and whether your own biology is responding the way you expected. In the documentary, I walk through how our definition of health gets shaped by family, school, medicine, marketing, fitness culture, diet identity, and eventually social media. Then we bring it back to physiology. Because your liver does not know which diet camp you belong to. Your arteries do not care which influencer you follow. Your pancreas does not care what label you put on your diet. Your body responds to the environment you give it. Food. Sleep. Stress. Movement. Blood pressure. Hormones. Medications. Genetics. Disease. And time. That is why I keep coming back to the same principle: Eat Based On Your Biology, Not Ideology™. 🎥 Watch the full documentary first. ‼️ Then I want you to complete this week’s homework. ‼️ Answer these five questions: 1. What is one health belief you have followed for years, and where did that belief originally come from? 2. What actual outcome were you hoping that belief or strategy would improve? 3. What is the biological mechanism behind it? In other words, what is it supposed to change inside your body? 4. What are the possible trade-offs? Has anything improved while something else became worse? 5. What evidence from your own body would tell you whether this strategy is working? Think symptoms, blood work, blood pressure, sleep, energy, performance, digestion, or other measurable changes.
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1. That many grains and vegetables were the bedrock of good health. these beliefs came earlier from family, then school. 2. Energy and not getting sick or overweight? 3. Not change anything. Just keep the system or metabolism at an optimised level to be able to repair and sustain metabolic function. Exercise was also heavily encouraged at school by having more focus on movement and sports. 4. No. Health became secondary as a life style as more focus was put onto sugar being the number one energy source. Grains and a full breakfast of cereals. Nothing improved until recently as more has been on the mechanics of metabolic health. Ideology behind the marketing of nutrition as good health but don't read the small print on the back of the packet. In the past education about the real driving mechanisms of body signalling, mind and body harmony and energy flow has been confusing. Advice backed by the magic pill. The real magic is knowing the effects of sugar on the system. Change of strategy through wisdom and knowledge towards simplicity, discipline, patience and treating your body as the temple to allow it to radiate in the silence of simple nutrition and ritual. 5. All markers have normalised except blood markers because of excessive fat intake. RA symptoms are quiet, blood work work in progress to find balance, blood pressure excellent, sleep - excellent, energy - very good, performance - active, digestion - good, mental clarity strong. Simplicity through nutrition has given the second brain in the stomach more time to focus on repair and recovery. That is crucial. Repair and recovery.
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Nick O'Donoghue. 61, history of arthritis, Afib, aggressive loss of weight due to lung infection. Here to learn with gracefulness and gratitude. Thx.

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