Sucks when you get a tough or dry steak. Hopefully this steak picking thread will help you spot the good ones.

Yes, marbling matters but it's only part of what makes a steak enjoyable. Avoiding steaks w/ connective tissue (gristle & silver skin) should be the priority.

1/5 The king of steaks is the ribeye, aka Delmonico. There's not much connective tissue to worry about but the bottom steak has a tiny bit in the center. The top steak has the coveted spinalis muscle on the left side and that's the best of the three here. #2 is the middle steak.

The fat knob in the middle of the steak can help with satiety and sometimes I crave it and sometimes it's whatever. It's all up to you.

One thing to note about the bottom steak is the tail at the far-right side. That's going to be super tender and tasty.

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For the past week, I've eaten nothing but bone broth and eggs and I must say, I feel like a new person.

I have never lost this much weight in a week.

1/4 I had a stressful few months and had excused myself to 'experiment' with things I normally avoid:

Potato chips fried in avocado oil
Peanut butter
Potatoes
Chocolate
Pizza

This is a breakfast hash with potatoes.

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We all know beef is the king of all meat but why does it taste the best and make us feel our best?

1/6 Beef has the highest amount of Conjugated Linoleic Acid per serving. That's an amino acid that excels at managing inflammation and fat metabolism.

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This dish, Spicy cabbage stir fry, satisfies my Korean DNA and my European DNA. It's truly a recipe I enjoyed and probably my favorite of 2025, so far.

I precooked the cabbage in an Instant Pot for 2 minutes to save some time and I will do it for 1 minute less next time. You can just cook the cabbage in your frying pan with the beef or separately in another frying pan to save space.

For this recipe, you really need the Korean Pepper flakes and Gochugaru, which is flour free and sugar free if you get the brand I linked below. All the ingredients are linked below except the sesame oil, which you can get at just about any grocery store. Just make sure it's cold pressed.

You can use any beef you want but I really think ribeye will be the most enjoyable. Red Pepper Flakes:
amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B077VX…

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Some say cow's milk is for baby cows but what if I told you that there's a newly discovered essential fatty acid in milk (and other dairy) called pentadecanoic acid or C15 for short, & this fatty acid's presence has been clinically linked to some amazing things:

1/4 Insulin sensitivity. Hyperinsulinemia is connected to every single chronic disease. C15 helps restore insulin's efficiency.

Heart health. Higher levels of C15 are linked to better cardiovascular outcomes.

Liver health. Low levels of C15 are found in kids with fatty liver disease.

Better cellular function. C15 might indirectly influence cellular aging by enhancing energy production and reducing oxidative stress.

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Just about everyone in the health community understands that cancer loves glucose, but does everyone also understand that many cancers also love glutamine?

Glutamine is an important amino acid found in protein rich foods like meat, fish, eggs, dairy and some vegetables.

1/4 Cancers that are typically glutamine dependent:

Brain
Liver
Breast
Pancreatic
Prostate
Lung
Lymphoma
Leukemia
Melanoma

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With it being peak prime rib season, I thought it might be a good time to give ya'll the rub on the rib roast.

1/6 Prime rib or rib roast is an uncut section of the ribeye muscle, usually with the bones attached but it sometimes comes with the bones cut and tied or dangling from a tiny strip of meat. If you buy prime rib from a butcher, they should ask you how you would like the bones. Most people ask for them cut and tied.

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37-hour dry fasting notes:

The first 20 hours were the easiest foodless stretch I've ever done. My hunger was a fraction of what it usually was when I OMAD. Only for a brief moment or two did I experience any dryness in my mouth and that was just on the roof of my mouth.

1/10 I shopped for some steaks and eggs at 22 hours and the thought of eating them the next day kind of aroused my hunger a little. Otherwise, everything was normal.

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2024 has been a huge year in the ketogenic diet studies dept. Here's a thread to summarize the keto wins I've noted so far:

1) PCOS & infertility
2) IBD & UC
3) Mental Illness
4) Depression & Anxiety
5) Polycystic Kidney Disease
6) Arterial calcification vs LDL

1/8 100% of women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome got their period back. 55.6% of women desiring pregnancy, got pregnant, including 100% of those who were not on Metformin!

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Today marks six years since I started my low-carb journey, despite the skepticism of friends and family who thought I wouldn't last a month.

1/8 Before I started in 2018, I was 50+ pounds overweight and struggling physically and mentally. I decided to take a walk on a scorching 90° day, thinking that some exercise might do me good. Little did I know, this walk would change my life forever.

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I ate 12,000+ Motrin across 8 yrs because in 2009, a young doctor told me it was the best way to manage my osteoarthritis pain and I was just going to have to get used to it.

I took Motrin every day I worked to dull the pain.

1/4 Nothing gave me true relief until I went keto. I was trying to lose weight but before that occurred, I felt the inflammation leave my body like some grand exorcism.

I didn’t even realize how tense the muscles in my face had been until suddenly, I stopped gritting 24/7.

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Since they've been thrust into the spotlight lately, I've been getting a lot of people asking me "What's wrong with seed oils"?

Let's begin with the disgusting way in which they are made:



1/10 Seed oils are cheap. They are subsidized by taxpayer money and one of the three main ingredients necessary to make most junk food. The other two are sugar and refined flour. These ingredients are ubiquitous in grocery stores and restaurants.

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In the 1960s, the sugar industry paid Harvard scientists today's equivalent of $50,000 to make saturated fat appear villainous in order to take the heat off of sugar.

It began an era of manipulating data and turning science into a marketing tool.

1/9 But the sugar industry shenanigans began much earlier. In the 50s, they tried to convince people that 50 calories of sugar were better than 75 calories of apple.

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After nearly 6 yrs of an animal-based diet, what happens to my blood glucose levels & immune system after I eat a half loaf of homemade French bread?

My whole life I've had issues w/ refined wheat that didn't reveal themself until I went animal based. My sinuses used to be chronically inflamed & I thought it was a coding error in my DNA.

1/4 Gluten problems are uncommon in Europe which led me to the belief that there's something wrong w/ American wheat. I tested that theory & made bread w/ French wheat, salt, water & yeast, which are the only ingredients allowed if it's to legally be called bread in France. No sugar!
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Since the 1960s:

Obesity tripled
Diabetes quadrupled
Seed oil consumption quadrupled

Maybe we are too focused on sugar as the cause of all our health problems? #PUFAgeddon

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1/7 Many believe the food pyramid/the USDA dietary recommendations for a low fat diet led us to eat more low fat, ultra-processed foods & while that is true, this graph shows T2D popped onto radar abt 20 yrs before those things occurred. They are undeniable part of the problem.

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Ya'll got your Super Bowl Sunday menu planned out yet? I'm not a snacker by any means but if snacksidents happen on SBS, I'll make sure mine are low carb! Some ideas ⬇️ and recipes in the thread.

Top to bottom, left to right:
Ground beef queso dip
Taco cheese bowl
Buffalo chicken dip
Jalapeño poppers
Buttery pork rinds w/ Old Bay
Wings
Meatloaf footballs
Maryland shrimp
Cheddaronies Queso dip:
ketocarnivore9.wordpress.com/2023/08/30/que…

I often get asked about my thoughts on cholesterol and saturated fat and whether its demonization is just. Well, I'm tired of digging through my bookmarks and photos and decided to compile a thread of what I often share. I'll pin this in my highlights.

1/15 The country that eats the most meat (saturated fat) lives the longest and the country that eats the least lives the 2nd shortest.

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Did you know the average American eats 5-10 tablespoons of seed/veg oil per day.

For a year's worth (at 5 tbs per day), it requires:
36,135 ears of corn or
1,022,000 sunflower seeds or
228,125 grapes or
146,000 cups of brown rice

1/5 5 tablespoons of veg oil, which is high in linoleic acid, is 613 calories. Multiply that by 330 million Americans and that's 202 billion empty calories we are consuming every single day!

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Bored with low carb? In no particular order, these are my favorite low carb/carnivore recipes and they are all available on my recipe sharing website:

I'll list the recipe for each one in this thread. 1/10 ketocarnivore9.wordpress.com
Pizzagna: 2/2 ketocarnivore9.wordpress.com/2023/03/18/piz…

What if your whole life you believed that PMS was exclusively a hormonal problem and then one day you went to visit the Maasai and learned that it didn’t exist there?

1/5 This is what nutritionist/researcher/author Mary Ruddick learned when she went to visit this indigenous African community whose diet mainly consists of milk, blood and meat.

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Stalled on keto or carnivore? Here are a few tips that might get you going again:

1/7 1) Try a month of no dairy, not counting butter to cook with. This accounted for 300-400 calories a day I was eating that I didn't need and broke my one and only stall. Eat to fulfill hunger, not macros.

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