I DID A HIGH PROTEIN EXPERIMENT THREE YEARS AGO. The biggest insight I’ve ever had when it comes to healing my relationship with food came from this experiment and understanding our drives to meet essential nutrient needs. As someone who struggled with food addiction and 1/ 2/ overeating for YEARS I was able to completely END these patterns by learning the importance of prioritizing protein & nutrient dense foods.

We have essential micro and macro nutrients. Protein is one of the three macronutrients and the strongest driver as we cannot store

The Protein Leverage hypothesis was proposed by scientists Dr. David Raubenheimer and Dr. Stephen Simpson. What they discovered was ground breaking because, until now we have blamed carbohydrates and fat for driving obesity but it is not the root cause, it is an effect. 1 2/ The root cause is actually protein dilution and the intense drive that humans have to secure nitrogen from consuming protein daily. Protein has no storage site on the body and we cannot synthesize the nitrogen or most of the amino acids we need on a daily basis. This means

WHAT I EAT IN A DAY ON KETOGENIC CARNIVORE! I’ve been switching up my macros to high fat, moderated protein to optimize my sleep and it has been working wonders! I talked about this in yesterday’s podcast episode in depth. This is an average day of eating for me now. Eggs benny w with 3-6 eggs, keto Carnivore muffins with hollandaise OR eggs with beef sausage, salmon or brisket; a Viennese coffee, steak with butter for dinner, (or salmon, duck legs, brisket, chicken wings, etc). Egg pudding with heavy cream for dessert. My fat is way higher by %, between

WATER RETENTION/EDEMA/SWELLING and Protein & Salt Intake! What is the connection between these three? The more protein you eat, the more salt you need.

A low salt diet makes it hard for the body to maintain normal function. Salt deprivation can make it hard for the kidneys (1) (2) to eliminate nitrogen by-products from the breakdown of protein. When our bodies metabolize protein, nitrogen generates toxic ammonia and has to be sequestered in the liver, converted to urea for elimination via urine. If there is not enough salt, nitrogen waste builds up,

MUSCLE LOSS DURING FASTING 💪🏼 Super interesting fasting study done on mice to evaluate gluconeogenesis (GNG). We know that the body switches to mostly burning fat under prolonged fasting however there is still quite a bit of debate over muscle loss from amino acids being 1/5 to glucose for the organs that have obligate glucose needs.

This study evaluated mice in 6, 12 and 18 hour fasting (which for humans works out to much longer for humans) and which glucose substrate was utilized between lactate, glycerol and amino acids. The importance of 2/5