Most people doing carnivore are over-salting, over-hydrating, over-proteining, and overcomplicating.
Here’s the uncomfortable truth about what you don’t actually need… and the one thing you do🧵
Here’s the uncomfortable truth about what you don’t actually need… and the one thing you do🧵
1. Salt 🧂
Your requirement is zero. Meat provides all the sodium you need as long as you’re in ketosis (a low fluid state) and not padding potassium with vegetables.
When you cut carbs, your body flushes salt.
That doesn’t mean you need to cram it back in.
It means you need to step back and let the body regulate its new fuel state.
Trust me, hydration works better without you trying to finetune it.
Your requirement is zero. Meat provides all the sodium you need as long as you’re in ketosis (a low fluid state) and not padding potassium with vegetables.
When you cut carbs, your body flushes salt.
That doesn’t mean you need to cram it back in.
It means you need to step back and let the body regulate its new fuel state.
Trust me, hydration works better without you trying to finetune it.
2. Water 🌊
Chugging water like your life depends on it, will only dilute existing electrolyte levels and make you LESS hydrated.
Meat has water. Burning fat provides metabolic water (1 gram of water for every 1g of fat burnt).
Drinking to thirst will be more than enough to meet your needs. Don’t force it.
Chugging water like your life depends on it, will only dilute existing electrolyte levels and make you LESS hydrated.
Meat has water. Burning fat provides metabolic water (1 gram of water for every 1g of fat burnt).
Drinking to thirst will be more than enough to meet your needs. Don’t force it.
3. Protein 🥩
Sure, excess protein is never going to be turned into fat.
It’s also very unlikely to be turned into glucose.
But the issue with overdoing protein, is you’ll rapidly exceed your ability to utilise it, feel sluggish in the process from the digestive strain, and lose out of energising fat you could be eating instead.
There’s no evidence of any advantages of eating over 0.8 protein/lb of bodyweight. And your needs will be even lower on carnivore, since ketones spare amino acids from being used as energy.
Sure, excess protein is never going to be turned into fat.
It’s also very unlikely to be turned into glucose.
But the issue with overdoing protein, is you’ll rapidly exceed your ability to utilise it, feel sluggish in the process from the digestive strain, and lose out of energising fat you could be eating instead.
There’s no evidence of any advantages of eating over 0.8 protein/lb of bodyweight. And your needs will be even lower on carnivore, since ketones spare amino acids from being used as energy.
4. Liver
Yes, liver is nutrient-dense.
No, you don’t need to eat liver to thrive on carnivore. Red meat and eggs will get you there just fine.
Sidestepping liver also lets you skip any risk of toxicity issues from having too much Vitamin A or copper.
There’s a reason our ancestors used to leave it for the dogs.
Yes, liver is nutrient-dense.
No, you don’t need to eat liver to thrive on carnivore. Red meat and eggs will get you there just fine.
Sidestepping liver also lets you skip any risk of toxicity issues from having too much Vitamin A or copper.
There’s a reason our ancestors used to leave it for the dogs.
5. Fat (the one you do need) 🧈
This is the whole reason we are human, and our chosen evolutionary fuel source.
You need to chase it like the success of your diet depends on it.
Skimp on fat → crash, cravings, fatigue.
Fatty cuts aren’t cheating, they’re the cheat code.
This is the whole reason we are human, and our chosen evolutionary fuel source.
You need to chase it like the success of your diet depends on it.
Skimp on fat → crash, cravings, fatigue.
Fatty cuts aren’t cheating, they’re the cheat code.
Your ancestors weren’t measuring electrolytes, swallowing desiccated bull testicle capsules, while carrying around a gallon of water with them at all times.
They were just eating the damn mammoth.
Carnivore works because it’s simple.
Micromanaging just makes things worse.
Eat fatty cuts of red meat to failure, let the body handle the rest for you.
They were just eating the damn mammoth.
Carnivore works because it’s simple.
Micromanaging just makes things worse.
Eat fatty cuts of red meat to failure, let the body handle the rest for you.
For a deeper dive into these carnivore dilemmas, I've written an article on how I arrived at these conclusions over my years on this diet.
fitawakening.co.uk/2024/12/20/wha…
fitawakening.co.uk/2024/12/20/wha…
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