RMVT Meat-Based Athlete Diet.
Are You Coachable
RMVT Systems for physical development is a long way from the dominant paradigms of athletic development.
They work better.
The same is true for our approach to food and wellness.
Can you survive on pop-tarts?
That's not a question we're wanting to pose.
We're looking for optimal nutrition.
The best performance and longevity outcomes.
If you're with the majority - you're probably wrong.
Or at the very best you're getting no advantage.
If you're doing something very few others are doing then you might get results others aren't getting.
These methods are gradually coming into the performance world along with many of the training approaches we've been using successfully for the last 5-10 years.
Run the experiments.
Do research.
Don't settle with the majority unless you're already winning far and beyond the average.
Keegan's Experience
For me, Carnivore wasn't just an option.
I had to try it.
I was forced to try it by my goals.
Why?
Because I had already done
- Low-fat sports nutrition
- John Berardi
- Paleo (many variations)
- Keto (many variations)
- Extensive fasting, intermittent fasting
- High meal frequency
- Vegetarian
- Raw Food Detoxes
- Juice Detoxes
- Vegan cleanses
And I didn't have the results I wanted.
I want to be healthy, mentally consistent, able to train well, lean, and strong.
I know diet can't give everything but it is the best place to start if the brain or body is off.
If you go to the VET they ask > What Are You Feeding It?
Not how was it's childhood?
Not how many hours is it sleeping?
Not does it spend too much time on social media.
FOOD FIRST FOR MENTAL HEALTH FOR PETS.
And Humans!
My biggest challenge in 2017 when I started this was I was still having some challenges with HAY FEVER. I believe it's primarily driven by the gut for me and fasting was really the only thing that consistently clears it up. But fasting has its limits.
When you love STRENGTH & MUSCLE fasting is a double-edged sword. Great tool. Deadly in excess! Even a little too much will kill gains and even motivation. It's a STRESS.
So I did it. I started during a 4 day camp in Canberra at Mitch Pike's gym. It was a powerful event that many still remember well. I felt a bit up and down through the camp but considering the kind of training days we did it was amazing how good I felt for most of it.
I stayed strict carnivore for 6 months and got some momentum back in training. I hit personal bests the gut was 10/10.
At the time I was a consultant with the Roosters for DIET and LIFESTYLE. Still, I told them to eat their vegetables on day one. I omitted that message once I started the carnivore diet and have now come to the point where I can honestly say I and many others look, feel and perform better PLANT FREE!
Fast forward 2 years and I've been on and off the diet. At Christmas, I went to what seemed to be a Polish Cheesecake party and I came away weighing 88kg for the first time in my life. It was a new record for me of Cheesecake and scale weight. My point is that this is not a religion for me. I eat some dairy, preferably and mostly raw. If will eat the odd vegetable for no apparent reason. I even add RICE back in from time to time. I don't feel better with carbohydrates added back in but those foods are all around us.
Right now some fruits, honey, and the odd bit of something else come into the diet.
Variety? Bone marrow, liver, brains, Osso Bucco, mince, lamb, venison, kangaroo, goat, butter, ghee, tallow, duck fat ... I'm not massive on fish & chicken but I'm not completely against them bacon, salami, jerky are all treats. Eggs, duck eggs, some raw dairy. You can see that this isn't as monotonous as the average peasant diet of wheat, vegetable oil, and sugar.
Most of the foods you will crave will be based on wheat, vegetable oil, and sugar. They are crap. Slave foods.
Chocolate and coffee have no noticeable negative impact when I'm eating this way but I still consider them treats.
Protein powder is also a slave food. A byproduct of cheese making that is best suited to feeding pigs. Still, if the rest of your diet is good and you have no symptoms look for raw/cold processed goats whey.
I don't rule out going back to a small salad a day or tactically using carbohydrates (although tolerance tends to decline with age all other factors being equal).
Again this is not a religion but it has been powerful too to heal my body and help me to be able to present without hay fever, skin conditions, or gut issues.
What Should Athletes Eat?
Firstly, what should HUMAN'S EAT!
HUMAN First... Athlete second.
The trend with industrialization is to gradually decrease the quality of food eaten. First, the blood was taken from us, then organ meats, then fat, now the latest war is the muscle meat (ecological / health/ spiritual myths of veganism are impacting most of society, we are eating less red meat and health is declining correspondingly)
ATHLETE SPECIFIC?
When we start with ATHLETE SPECIFIC diets that think only of short-term performance we start a cascade to poor health that equals poor performance.
The dominant paradigm of sports nutrition is still:
1. Carbohydrate dominant
2. High in processed foods
3. Macros over micro-nutrients
4. High in liquid calories
5. Loaded with low-quality supplements
We can go on.
It's not a human diet.
It creates poor mental, physical and structural foundations for performance.
We are looking for OPTIMAL.
Not What We Can Survive On.
Not What Makes The Most Profit.
Not what is maybe 1% better for today's training but will take years off the back-end of the career and set up a life of disease.
History & Evolution
Apes have massive fermenting digestive systems that use 2/3 of their metabolism.
Humans use more efficient foods and use a much greater amount of energy in the brain.
You may want to be a cow and eat grass (and bugs) but you're not. You don't have 4 stomachs and you can't ferment cellulose.
The human digestive tract is similar to that of a WOLF. Wolves can eat 10kg of meat or around 1/4 of their body weight in a single meal (killing). Mongolians and inuits have been known to eat 3-4kg of meat at a time. The Mongols conquered most of the known world on a protein-based diet in times before machinery played a big part in warfare.
No, we don't have wolves teeth, we have used tools for a long time and our teeth work fine with meat. Yes, we do have highly acidic stomachs similar to that of a wolf.
Yes, wolves and dogs can eat biscuits and crap. Yes, they get the same lifestyle diseases and social problems that humans get when they do.
Cows, kangaroos, birds, pigs... they all eat meat and search for protein. Some animals are bad hunters and have evolved to eat very little meat. Humans are good hunters so we have been able to get the foods all animals want.
Steffensen - Arctic people.
Weston A Price - Global traditional food culture > he explains the foods people valued and how they ate around the childbearing years. Without reading "Nutrition And Physical Degeneration" it would be easy to get lost in modern food science.
Grains + (Nuts, Legumes & Root Vegetables)
Grains allow existence but are sub-optimal for humans, dogs, cats, zoo animals, etc. This is very clear from superficial research of anthropology or experimenting on your own animals.
Grains paved the way for slavery and make concentration living (cities/ concentration camps) possible.
Grains are seeds.
Seeds are plant genitals.
All living things want to survive and reproduce.
Plants cover their genitals in poison so they don't get eaten.
Traditional cultures used special methods to minimize poisons to include some slave (plant) foods as backup options when meat was scarce or potentially for variety etc. (they were generally healthy living by nature's rhythms with no chemical or electrical pollution).
Grains are a significant energy source. When removing them from the diet fat or other carbohydrates should be added to replace them if fat/ weight loss is not desired.
Sweet potatoes are high in oxalates that cause many problems in the body. There is no free plant lunch.
If grains are included they should be traditionally prepared and used sparingly based on symptoms/performance. If you haven't tried living without them you don't know what it feels like to live without their chemical interference. Try it first.
Vegetables & Herbs
Most vegetables are low-calorie.
They do not need to be replaced if they are removed.
Removing meat from the diet doesn't mean you would be able to live on vegetables, there is not enough energy. You will have to live on grains, fruits, nuts, and sugar.
"Plant-based" is deceptive from the start.
Humans become very skinny living on greens because we don't have the digestive systems like cows to consume and ferment several kilograms of greens per day.
Greens and herbs aggravate the body causing spikes in immune activity or purging of cells. This can be useful to sick people/animals. Plants can stress the body and kill weak cells. This method for health is mostly required for grain-fed humans. If a high meat diet and robust health exist there may be less need for herbal/vegetable cleaners.
It is possible that we should be consuming one small salad every few days or a plant-based week of food once a year. The science and experience around all this are quite new. We live in an unprecedented toxic and potentially stressful environment.
We know that we can live without greens and that their primary benefit is in aggravating or provoking the immune systems which may cleanse or detoxify the body.
People are living fine and seeing massive improvements in health without engaging in this process. Grain/sugar eaters will have the most need for this.
We can go deeper into the problems of Soy, Gluten, chemicals placed on the skin, etc. but fundamentally know that grains and vegetables are not what they have been sold to us as.
Animal Foods
Animals don't have poisonous tissues.
Some animals have poison glands/venom.
Don't eat those parts.
Animals fight, run or hide, they don't survive by not being tasty.
They are tasty.
Muscle meats
Steak, mince any muscle with fat.
These foods are high in protein and micro-nutrients.
It's possible to live well on just muscle meat.
Dr. Shaun Baker has been living well on 90%+ Muscle Meats for 3 years and has significantly improved his body composition, lifts, and his rowing performances (highly lactic) while on a carnivore diet.
There are many other people using a muscle meat-based diet.
Muscle meat-based is better than being half-slave / half warrior.
Muscle meats are not the historically most valued parts of the animal.
Organ Meats
Organ meats are much more highly prized than muscle meats in traditional cultures. (Yes muscle is technically an organ but we mean the other organs)
I have lived this first hand in Mexico and Australia.
People who live connected to the land and cycles of nature value the blood most, then the brain, liver, kidneys, thymus, bone marrow, bone meat, tendons & ligaments, etc.
Feet and other gelatinous body parts are also prized for their contribution to soup or to be fried in fat.
The trend with industrialization is to gradually decrease the quality of food eaten. First, the blood was taken from us, then organ meats, then fat, now the latest war is the muscle meat (ecological / health/ spiritual myths of veganism are impacting most of society, we are eating less red meat and health is declining correspondingly)
Animal Fats
Yes, animal FATS have been very highly valued in the past.
Why?
Because they are the source of immunity, brain/ nerve tissue maintenance, cell membranes, preferred resting energy and they are the base for our hormones. We want fat-soluble vitamins also (A, D, E, K).
REALITY CHECK 1.
I've been hunting with indigenous people where the kill was left for other animals to consume it (there is only waste when we put things in a landfill - even then it's debatable). Test the body fat of the kill - too low - leave it.
REALITY CHECK 2.
Domesticated food animals (farm animals) have been bred for increased body fat. Fatty dairy... cattle are fattier than their more wild counterparts, domesticated pigs are much fattier than wild boars, chickens, ducks, geese are all fatter than most other birds and don't fly well as a result. We did that. We did that because we wanted the fat. We needed the fat to survive, thrive, and grow our big brains!
What's the modern reality about ANIMAL FAT?
True there is a massive war being waged on our food supply with massive chemical interference with our food. High-density farming and feedlots are far from nature's ways.
Still, may animals are better equipped to deal with toxins and overbuilt environments than consuming plants that are covered with chemicals and preservatives.
Going for lean meats is a better option if you're buying cheap meats and getting organic fat sources that usually aren't too expensive. If you're getting wild meats or pasture-raised anti-biotic free then fattier cuts are great.
Red Vs White Meats
Wild > Red > Seafood > Pastured Eggs > Fish > Raw Dairy > Poultry & Pig > Processed Meats.
Wild Red Meats - Wild animals have survived the wild. Just like plants from tough conditions tend to have stronger "medicinal" (self-defense) abilities. The same is true for animals. If you eat a more rich and vital animal that has lived on a great selection of free-growing plants then you will logically receive a better product. Animals can probably look after themselves better than we can look after them! Optimal sun, seasons, water, etc.
Red Meat - We are red meat, it's richer than white meats generally in things like creatine, carnitine, iron, etc.
Seafood - oysters are the best of the bunch here. Some do well on all kinds of crustaceans, others do poorly (allergies/feeling off).
Pastured Eggs - the best are from geese and ducks which can be found fairly easily in many parts of the world. Cage eggs are at the bottom of the protein source list but still way ahead of soy, beans, and even whey powder for most people.
Fish - small, cold-water fish are high in DHA and EPA these fish also tend to accumulate less of the human-generated pollution in the ocean. Bigger fish are best eaten raw as sashimi.
Raw Dairy - there is great nutrition in raw dairy, it is the primary food source that keeps young mammals alive and supports their growth. It may have more growth factors that are ideal for aging humans but this is unclear. Humans have been heavily consuming raw dairy for thousands of years in many parts of the world. Those with damaged digestive systems may need to start slow with the addition of Raw Dairy. Pasteurized dairy should be used very sparingly or not at all.
Poultry & Pig - these cheap and highly domesticated meats are from animals adapted to eat just about anything. They have lived off excess grains and scraps. Commercially they are poorly fed and kept and have poor quality meat. When given their most natural conditions they are fine and acceptable but still not as rich as red and wild red meats. 9/10 carnivores instinctively remove chicken and decrease pork in their diets.
Jerky / Billtong / Bacon / Salami etc. - not the end of the world, often they have good amounts of fat and help us to be satisfied! If you can find them without nitrates and preservatives and even better if they come from wild meats and beef! Dried and powdered meats will never be as nutritious as raw meats but can have their place in the diet.
So It's Only Meat? What Else...
Firstly it is good to realize that nothing else is needed to be strong and healthy and that you can most likely perform above your current capacity.
Better immunity.
Stronger musculoskeletal system.
Better nerves and brain cells.
Better cell membranes.
Better organ function.
More training tolerance.
More sun tolerance.
More consistent performance and motivation.
It may take 1-2 months for you to realize these benefits but many feel the benefits within 1-2 days.
If you have an auto-immune challenge, constant injury, or similar then you might want to consider health your number one priority and be happy with that.
ADDITIONS
In saying that not everyone wants or needs to only eat meat for the rest of their days or even a few months.
1. Raw Honey
Adding in honey should be smooth sailing and the easiest carbohydrate to include.
2. Raw dairy
Depending on where you are this can either be freely available and cheap or illegal and difficult to access. Raw dairy is a traditional food for many cultures and is rich in nutrients. While it is an animal food it's not "meat" hence why it's on this list. Raw cream and soft cheeses are the best places to start for most. Raw yogurt and raw milk can be added in if SIZE is the top priority.
3. Fruit
Next would be fruits appropriate to where you live and the season. eg. in late summer you might eat berries if you're living in a cold climate because that's what grows there. Tropical fruits if you're in the tropics and those fruits are in season. Eating fruits out of season isn't ideal. All modern fruits can be thought of as domesticated/man-made fruits. Again like the fatty animals, we made them sweeter because the sugar tastes great and it is good for fattening animals and humans. Getting a little fatter once a year on fruits to prepare for the keto/carnivore winter was once a good thing. Today's perpetual summer is a death sentence.
4. Coffee / Chocolate
No point avoiding the obvious. People love their coffee and chocolate. Both are highly addictive and have strong impacts on physiology. If health and performance are on track then having some of both won't derail your journey. Take 2 weeks off both every 3 months to remain in control. If you notice a big difference it may be better to keep them out permanently.
5. Ice Cream
0 times per week if you're fat ( >15% for men 35%+ for women.)
1-2 times a week as a treat.
Daily if you're in a BULK or MISS OUT scenario.
Option 1 make your own
- > Heavy Cream + Honey/ Maple Syrup + Frozen Berries = instant ice-cream
Option 2
Haagen Daas Vanilla + your own toppings.
6. The odd serve of well-cooked vegetables.
Why do you want to add this?
Maybe it has some benefit.
Maybe it causes some irritation to the system.
Probably not a big deal for most people.
Let's not be fanatical about them!
7. Rice / Potatoes
Rice & potatoes have been by many people for a long time. Take the skin off (white rice) and wash and cook well. If you tolerate them well then have them up to once a day. Most people are better to look at once every 2-4 days. Portions can be small. These would mostly be included if rapid weight gain or extreme training volumes are the focus.
Think of these more as a garnish or little cheap energy than a food source.
8. Sourdough / taro / sweet potatoes / corn / oats
These are less "benign" than the previous options. Better to give them to the animals and eat them for most people.
Test them if you must.
Rotate or use them sparingly.
Prepare them traditionally using soaking in whey or vinegar according to traditional methods (see Weston A Price for more on food traditions).
Think of these more as a garnish or little cheap energy than a food source.
9. Sugar / Maple Syrup / Carbohydrate Powders
Do you need more mass?
Are you already shredded, doing a high volume of training, and needing more calories?
Quick carbs might be well tolerated in these cases.
Top strongmen and bodybuilders are going to use these to push insulin because maximal growth stimulus is their life.
Don't push these levers all the time for months and years on end.
If things are going well in terms of health and you need mass then pulsing them on during periods of high volume training can make sense.
WARNING: The further you go down this list the more you embrace other foods the more risk you're inviting to be with the majority.
Salt
This has been written about in other guides. Use real mixed mineral salt. Table salt has been processed to become "sodium-chloride" this is a mining resource, not natural salt. Sea salt or "Himalayan" (Pakistani) salt are better options that have a more mixed mineral profile that is natural to humans.
Use 5-15g / day depending on size and sweat rates. Most people only need to worry about consuming too little. If you over-consume you may initially have some swelling or you may get diarrhea in the same way you would get from drinking seawater.
1/2-1 tsp of salt pre-workout can help increase circulation to shuttle whatever is in the blood to the areas the body is trying to flush nutrients to and waste out of (your training target area).
Snacks
You shouldn't need too many!
This food is satiating!
Cutting Options: Jerky / Billtong, raw lean meat, Liver Jerky, (black coffee)
Healthy Options: Pemmican (like fatty jerky), more meat.
Bulking Options: Fruit, cream, yogurt + honey.
The Skin Eats
Yes.
The digestive tract is basically skins as thick as your eyelid. It's a barrier that selectively allows food once digested into the body.
Your skin is similar but covers the outside of the body.
This gives us some opportunities to nourish the body further.
1. Creams you rub in the skin with good stuff in them > hormone replacement and other therapies can be given like this.
2. MOST OF THE POISON SOCIETY PLACES ON THEIR SKIN IS FEMINISING TOXIC JUNK. Stop that > shaving, toothpaste, deodorants, etc. it all needs to be edible or GONE!
Baths
We have the opportunity to nourish the body via bathing in things we want the body to absorb (this is another reason to ideally filter your bath and shower water to make it chlorine, fluoride, and other tap water toxin-free).
Mineral baths have been used for millennia for healing across many cultures.
Remineralising and improving circulation while removing impurities from the body are some of the key functions and reasons why it works.
Things to add to baths:
1. Bentonite and Similar Clay
2. Magnesium (Epsom Salts)
3. Himalayan Salt
4. Apple Cider Vinegar (1-2 tbs)
Some injuries, eg upper arms, and lower legs can be bathed in isolation quite easily.
Fasting
See the Fasting Guide & Fat 2 Free for more about fasting.
Why?
1. Reset baseline insulin.
2. Clear and heal the digestive tract.
3. Mental clarity and self-conquest.
4. Fat loss.
5. Anabolic sensitivity.
6. Protein recycling.
Types.
2 meals a day - a total of 2-3 days per week combined with 8 hour window days.
8-hour eating window - a total of 2-3 days per week combined with 2 meals per day days.
24 hour fast - during time off. Once a month on a day off.
72 hour fast - during injuries or during the off-season or when a mental reset is required and there is a break in training and performance requirements.
What If My Health Is Bad?
Arthritis, auto-immunity, skin conditions, poor eyesight, fungal conditions, anxiety, low libido, lack of motivation, etc. are all signs that something isn't right and health should be FIRST priority.
Without it, performance will be limited or short-lived!
The ideal diet for health is the RMVT healing diet.
2 grams of fat for 1 gram of protein. The fat should come from suet, fatty off-cuts, or worst case tallow, lard, and butter.
The diet should also include 500g of the liver. 250g of brains.
This diet has reversed "irreversible" cancer and type-1 diabetes in medically supervised and published studies.
RMVT Meat Based Athlete Sample Days
Eat 2-3 meals / day.
Breakfast
1. Raw (or cooked) mince or + 3 raw egg yolks and 3 cooked egg whites.
2. Finely sliced raw steak with salt (cooked is another option).
3. Billtong / Jerky / Pemican (on the go option)
Snack
1. Yogurt + Honey with Berries.
2. Billtong / Jerky / Pemican / Dried meat (on the go option)
3. Smoked Fish
Dinner
1. Fish
2. Steak (Lamb / Kangaroo / Venison etc.)
3. Burger Patties (Lamb / Kangaroo / Venison etc.)
Special Foods 2-3 times per week.
1. Liver (150-200g)
2. Brains (Lamb)
3. Feet (chicken, pig, veal)
4. Fish Eggs
5. Ligaments & tendons
6. Broth - ideally blend the bones from broth into the mix
7. Suet / Fatty Off-cuts.
8. Bone Marrow
9. Raw Dairy (cream, cheese, milk)
10. Kidneys (especially if allergies are an issue)
Competing Once / Wk
Honestly, the better you eat generally the less this matters.
Some will feel and perform better without adding the carbohydrate the day before the game.
Some will feel and perform better WITH carbohydrates the day before the game.
You can repeat this rhythm before your biggest training session of the week if you want to go twice / wk.
Consider dropping the honey on other days.
Most muscle meats are fine.
Logistically you may want to travel with a sandwich press or something similar to be able to cook up in your hotel or plugged into a cigarette lighter on the road. It's not too hard. Take salt, plate, knife, and fork or borrow bits and pieces from the hotel kitchen.
It's a lot less stressful to have control of your path than eating random things and wondering how you will feel after.
EXAMPLE
Saturday is game day.
Day before the game >
MEAL 1
Steak / Burger (ideally raw with salt if you're a fan of tartare / carpaccio etc.
3-6 eggs (yolks go well with raw meat. cook or throw out the egg whites) Bone Broth
MEAL 2
Brains + Bone marrow 250g (don't stress if you can't get them just get them in somewhere through the week)
Liver - 250g (Liver jerky is a good option if you're having trouble logistically)
Steak / fatty mince & off-cuts 300-500g
4-6 egg yolks.
20 mins later - 2 tbs honey with dairy and or berries if well tolerated.
- Some will add in a moderate portion 150-250g of rice or potatoes here.
Bone Broth
EXAMPLE
Gameday >
MEAL 1
Steak / Burger
3-6 eggs.
Bone Broth
MEAL 2
Steak and eggs 4-6 hours before the event. Judge this for yourself.
Most do best when feeling fairly empty and starting to get a little hungry before the event.
As much fat as you like/feel good with. Beware that overcooked/rendered fats can cause digestive challenges.
Bone Broth
Just before the game.
5-15g of carbohydrate from raw honey or glucose.
2-5g Himalayan salt
Pruvit Exogenous Ketones (I've only heard complaints with other brands personally have felt they were a waste of time and money)
Half Time
5-15g of carbohydrate from raw honey or glucose.
2-5g Himalayan salt
Pruvit Exogenous Ketones (I've only heard complaints with other brands personally have felt they were a waste of time and money)
Post Game
Raw Bone Marrow / Raw Egg Yolks / Raw Cream / Raw Butter
Raw meat
Honey
Canaries Vs Cockroaches
Some people would survive a nuclear holocaust or being hit by a truck.
Others would die when struck with a firm breeze without antibiotics and modern medical intervention.
How we live impacts our resilience.
Did your parents and grandparents live long illness-free, high physical function lives?
Did you have an illness as a child?
Have you taken antibiotics?
Have you had various injections of unknown materials?
Have you been on or are you currently on medications?
Have you had depression, anxiety, mania, poor concentration?
Have you / do you have skin conditions?
Do you have tendon/ligament/joint / bone pain or injury history?
The more challenges there are in your family and personal history the more you're likely to improve on the pure carnivore protocols. The more of a cockroach, the more leeway. Stick with what works best most of the time!
Genetic Momentum
Similar to what I've been speaking about the health of your grandmother's eggs impacts you as that is where your mother's life started.
On average male testosterone levels are dropping dramatically but that doesn't mean that was the case for your grandfathers and father.
The healthier they were the more you've been blessed with generational health. The inverse is also true.
It also matters how old your parents both were. Women in their teens are in their optimal biological time for the strongest offspring.
It matters how long between children your parents waited or if you were the first.
It matters if your mother was vegetarian or ate nature's special foods (listed above) around and between pregnancies.
Drugs/ Alcohol
Alcohol sterilizes and dissolves. It can be used to kill things off in the body periodically, especially around colds and flu. I would be more inclined to have a few shots than to take antibiotics. I tend not to do either and rarely have an issue since eating this way.
Drugs. It depends which and what but Paleo Medicina who are getting the world's best-documented healing results take patients off all supplements and medicines to heal them. You can access their materials in the RMVT Endorsed Course.
Gut Health
"Death Begins In The Gut"
It's been said since ancient Greek times.
It's still true today.
We're being told that sauerkraut and probiotics are the answer.
They aren't.
What I have seen work repeatedly and consistently for the bad gut is to focus on meat and broth. Some people struggle with rendered-cooked animal fats initially. The alternatives are raw animal fats or often butter processes better.
The more raw the meat is the easier it tends to digest.
Steak Tartare, Steak Carpaccio, and Sashimi from quality fish are some of the most easily digested nutritious meals.
Drink hot drinks, mostly broth.
Don't drink cold water during meals.
Your body secretes acid and enzymes during a meal. Both are less able to do their job when cold water is added to them.
Many of the gut and skin issues are related to fermentation happening in the gut. Humans aren't great at fermenting grains and other plant materials. Some are less reactive / less intolerant than others. They tend to be from places genetically closer to the equator.
Fasting and space between meals can help a lot of gut challenges. If big meals are causing issues also then fast and then graze through a 6-8 hour window to avoid both issues.
Eating from when you wake to when you sleep at regular intervals also causes many gut issues.
Alternative Perspectives
VEGAN / PLANT FOCUS (Zero / Low / Moderate meat diets all fall in here)
Some say we are naturally vegans.
Even most "herbivores" will go for the grass where the insects are or are happy to eat food meal with bone/blood etc in it.
Living beings want nutrient density.
Plants love meat, blood, and bones too.
Plant-based is "ecological" - no it's not. It requires more fossil fuels and transport. Grain-based is really what we are talking about. Grains rely on and require mono-cropping which is not ecological. Grain production is massively dependent on fossil fuels. Many more animals could be raised on pasture if this was our intention.
Plant-based is good for performance - no it's not. Many athletes retire injured or slip into obscurity soon after going plant-based or even decreasing their meat intake consciously. Some will survive longer especially when strength and power are not required.
Plant-based doesn't cause infertility - yes it does. Emaciated bodies have been made fashionable but mother nature doesn't lie. Fluctuating blood sugar, b-vitamin deficiencies, etc are a challenge to the body. Many women have consistent miscarriages because they are tending towards veganism. Plant-based diets are another war on families and childbirth.
Red Meat is bad for you - no it's not. There are no studies that show red meat is bad for you. Dive into the work of Paul Saladino who breaks down the research.
You need fiber in your diet - also not true - Dr. Paul Mason has a great lecture on this. If you live on junk food fiber may help clear some crap. People with serious gut issues do better on low fiber diets according to the research.
MACRO BASED DIETS
As long as you get your macros you can look great - true! But who cares. The goal isn't to get on stage! The goal IS to look great long-term and feel and perform even better. This is not a 12-week process. This is your life. Fat 2 Free is our solution to getting on stage or going from OBESE to a healthy weight. We want you to BE as healthy as you LOOK!
Case Studies
Lewis Holland (Aussie 7's) - Got in great shape while gaining strength.
SBW - 2 months. Has enjoyed it and recommended it to other players.
Lee Jones (HK 7's) - Got lean with big strength and other gains.
Troy Savage - Leanest ever shape.
Keegan Smith - Most consistent training and mind on carnivore.
Mitch Pike - Most consistent mind. Got to 8% body fat.
Sam Davis - Lost 4kg in the first 2 weeks. Consistent energy to train.
Player with repeat concussions - got back to play with no concussions for the remainder of the year.
Jay Corrigan - Gained 2kg of mass while losing bodyfat and gaining strength.
Made with Bullet