The next 10 days are your downfall, admit it. You’re in good company, they are the downfall of most but they don’t have to be! Here are 3 simple but impactful ways to change your eating habits over the next 10 days to prevent weight gain. Come January 1st, you’ll be glad you did these things, trust me. Cliff notes version: Avoid seed oils (duh) Include nutrient-rich organs and animal fat prior to meals Choose nose to tail animal foods FIRST when you are eating Voila! And just like that you impro...
Dec 23, 2020•18 min
Dr. James DiNicolantonio, is a Doctor of Pharmacy and a cardiovascular research scientist. A well-respected and internationally known scientist and an expert on health and nutrition, he has contributed extensively to health policy and has testified in front of the Canadian Senate regarding the harms of added sugars. He serves as the associate editor of the British Medical Journal’s Open Heart, a journal published in partnership with the British Cardiovascular Society, and is on the editorial adv...
Dec 22, 2020•54 min
In short, yes (as long as you tolerate it)! Milk, yogurt, butter, ghee and colostrum are amazing sources of nutrients that have been highly valued by many indigenous groups for millenia. Dairy has a long tradition in Northern Europe, and among hunter-gatherer groups like the Maasai, or historically among groups like the Mongols (think warriors whose diets were basically milk, meat, and organs). Dairy isn’t for everyone, and some may have issues with lactose (a deficiency on the lactase enzyme), ...
Dec 18, 2020•30 min
Frank A. von Hippel is a professor of ecotoxicology at Northern Arizona University. Frank was born and raised in Alaska, received his A.B. in biology at Dartmouth College in 1989, and his Ph.D. in integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley in 1996. He taught for Columbia University (1996-1999) and the University of Alaska Anchorage (2000-2016) before moving to Arizona in 2016. Frank has taught ecology field courses in over twenty countries, and conducted research in the Americ...
Dec 14, 2020•2 hr 7 min
I get the “doesn’t red meat cause cancer” question ALL. THE. TIME. What better way to address it yet again (there’s a whole chapter about in my book, The Carnivore Code), than with my man, Ivor (see multiple previous podcasts including a recent debunk of the COVID response- Fundamental Health). In this extra nutrient dense edition of controversial thoughts we address the WHO (looking mighty sketch these days), TMAO, neu5gc, and much more about how we’ve been misled regarding meat and cancer. Wat...
Dec 11, 2020•1 hr 5 min
Kirk Parsley served as an Undersea Medical Officer at Naval Special Warfare Group One from June 2009 to January 2013. While there, he led the development and supervised the group’s first Sports Medicine Rehabilitation center. He is a former SEAL, and received his Medical Degree from Bethesda, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences (USUHS) in 2004. He interned in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Balboa Naval Hospital San Diego in 2005 and subsequently completed a Navy residency in Hyperbari...
Dec 07, 2020•1 hr 49 min
Is it time to get scared of COVID, or is the media just back on the hysteria train? Remember 6 months ago when everyone was trashing Sweden for their coronavirus response? Well guess what, they are looking pretty good right now despite having essentially no lockdowns or other measures in place. In this Controversial Thoughts video I discuss the concept of “dry tinder”, or the amount of any population that is most frail, elderly, and susceptible to illness and how this relates to the impact of CO...
Dec 04, 2020•24 min
Born in South Africa, Eric Edmeades has been fascinated by human history and the origins of our species since childhood when he learned that his great-grandfather, T.F. Dreyer, had discovered the Florisbad skull; a 259,000 year old sapien skull. Eric has undertaken a 25-year Indiana Jones-like series of adventures to explore our origins; adventures that have included exploring caves, archeological sites, and conducting many visits, over a ten year period, with the Hadza people of East Africa, so...
Nov 30, 2020•1 hr 52 min
Will an mRNA vaccine save us from COVID? Doubt it, and it certainly won’t save us from the massive amount of metabolic dysfunction that is driving severe COVID outcomes. In this Controversial Thoughts episode I describe recent research with both vaccines (Moderna/Pfizer), what looks good, things we still don’t know, and major potential problems possible in the future. How do you fix metabolic dysfunction? Listen until the end of the video in which I describe a striking interventional study with ...
Nov 27, 2020•30 min
This stuff is technical but critically important to understanding the possible underlying mechanisms by which excess PUFA may be hurting you. If this is confusing you may want to start with the first episode Peter and I did, all of which are at heartandsoil.co. Petro Dobromylskyj is a veterinarian, trained at the RVC, London University. He was fortunate enough to intercalate a BSc degree in physiology into his veterinary degree. He was even more fortunate to study under Patrick Wall at UCH, who ...
Nov 23, 2020•1 hr 58 min
If you missed yesterday's controversial thoughts podcast/video, you might also want to check that one out. I had a few ideas I wanted to discuss on COVID after I finished recording and knew I had to do another. The concept of "long COVID" is increasingly discussed today, but I'm not convinced this is anything new. First, it was "healthy" people (sadly) suffering from COVID who were obese or likely had metabolic dysfunction, and I think it's the same issue now. The majority of those with underlyi...
Nov 21, 2020•10 min
If you are curious about connections between metabolic dysfunction and the strength of your immune system but don't have time to listen to this video you disappoint me! 🤣 JK! But you should listen to this one and share it with someone in your life who is obese (and likely pre-diabetic) who doesn't think they are at risk of a bad COVID outcome, or maybe they are terrified but don't know what they can do about it other than cowering in their homes and continue eating junk. Nothing changes without...
Nov 20, 2020•26 min
This podcast will likely be censored on YouTube, but the video will be available at heartandsoil.co if this happens. We are only presenting facts in this podcast, but we’ll see what sort of nonsense the “fact checkers” come up with. This is the second podcast I have done with Ivor on COVID. We’ve also done a podcast on LDL and cholesterol. All of these can be found under the “learn” tab at heartandsoil.co. Bio: Ivor Cummins BE(Chem) CEng MIEI PMP completed a Biochemical Engineering degree in 199...
Nov 16, 2020•2 hr 1 min
Last week’s Controversial Thoughts was on The Carnivore Diet for Beginners. This week, I wanted to discuss the spectrum of plant toxicity a bit more. Thinking about this from the perspective of plants makes it a whole lot easier. Plants don’t want their seeds (nuts, grains, seeds, legumes), leaves, stems, or roots eaten. Avoid these foods while focusing on the least toxic parts of plants (fruit- sweet and non-sweet) while making meat and organs the centerpiece of your diet and you will thrive. #...
Nov 13, 2020•17 min
Part 1 of “Is a Carnivore Diet the Real Paleo Diet” is my friendly debate with Loren Cordain et al., which can be found here . Nora Gedgaudas is a widely recognized expert on the “Paleo diet”. She is the author of the international best-selling book, Primal Body, Primal Mind: Beyond the Paleo Diet for Total Health and A Longer Life. She maintains a private practice in Portland, Oregon as both a Board-Certified nutritional consultant and a Board-Certified clinical Neurofeedback Specialist. Her la...
Nov 09, 2020•1 hr 36 min
Most of my podcasts are pretty detailed and technical. I wanted to do a high level discussion of how to think about a Carnivore Diet and how to get started with this. There’s lots more info about this at heartandsoil.co on the about us page. The basics, eat well raised animal foods from nose to tail including organs and connective tissue. You can include less toxic plant foods if you’d like to depending on your goals. Welcome to #TheRemembering Check out heartandsoil.co if you need more nose to ...
Nov 06, 2020•13 min
Tucker Goodrich is a technology executive in the financial industry who designs, runs, and debugs complex systems in high-risk environments. Areas of expertise include risk management, systems management, and cyber-security. After experiencing some personal health crises and realizing that the ‘solutions’ offered by medical professionals weren’t working or addressing causation he started applying the same approach in research and evaluation of data to his own health issues to determine root caus...
Nov 02, 2020•2 hr 2 min
The number of ways that observational epidemiology is misinterpreted never ceases to amaze me. I wanted to make a video about this and truly explain in detail healthy user bias and unhealthy user bias, as well as why these two things can be such fatal confounders in this type of study. By contrasting epidemiology from the West and East, this becomes more apparent, and studies done on the UK cohort in this video illustrate that epidemiology seems to be telling us more about how beneficial healthy...
Oct 30, 2020•35 min
Dr Jaime Seeman is a board certified Obstetrician and Gynecologist practicing in Omaha, Nebraska. Born and raised in the state she played collegiate softball for the Cornhuskers. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Nutrition, Exercise and Health Sciences. She then went on to graduate medical school and completed her OBGYN residency at The University of Nebraska Medical Center. She currently is in private practice at Mid City OBGYN offering a full range of services in obstetrics, gynecology, ...
Oct 26, 2020•1 hr 50 min
Is high cholesterol always a bad thing? I say no! Context matters greatly here, as in are you metabolically healthy? Do you know how to assay this? Many people eating an ancestral type diet like carnivore, carnivore-ish, keto, paleo, etc. (like me!) will see LDL rise, but I don't believe this is a bad thing if we are insulin sensitive/metabolically healthy- this is the importance of context. I discuss the importance of considering context in discussions of LDL, Lp (a), uric acid, and APOE4 in th...
Oct 23, 2020•27 min
Dr. Nadir Ali is an interventional cardiologist with over 25 years of experience. He is also the chairman of the Department of Cardiology at Clear Lake Regional Medical Center. Before working as a cardiologist, he served as an assistant professor of medicine for eight years at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, where he also received his medical training. Time Stamps: 0:09:44 Podcast Begins 0:11:00 Lifestyle change and the power of animal foods 0:16:38 Is red meat killing us? 0:19:32 Humans ...
Oct 19, 2020•1 hr 41 min
Meat and Organs cause gout, right? Not so fast sea bass! In this controversial thoughts video, I break it all down and discuss how CONTEXT is again critical here and how Western Medicine is myopic in its view of gout. Hint: it's all about metabolic dysfunction, like so many other things! Check us out at Heart & Soil (www.heartandsoil.co) if you need more nose to tail nutrition in your life! Send me an email at [email protected] if you have questions about diet/organs!...
Oct 16, 2020•23 min
Petro Dobromylskyj is a veterinarian, trained at the RVC, London University. He was fortunate enough to intercalate a BSc degree in physiology into his veterinary degree. He was even more fortunate to study under Patrick Wall at UCH, who set me on course to become a veterinary anaesthetist, mostly working on acute pain control. That led to the Certificate then Diploma in Veterinary Anaesthesia and enough publications to allow him to enter the European College of Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analge...
Oct 12, 2020•2 hr 6 min
What does bloodwork look like on a Nose to Tail Carnivore diet? Find out in this detailed video in which I review @KarnivoreKurt 's bloodwork with him and add detailed commentary. Spoiler alert: It looks amazingly good because animal-based diets are what humans are designed to eat! Check us out at www.heartandsoil.co if you need more nose to tail nourishment in your life! Welcome to The Remembering... Firestarter and Gut & Digestion are out now in addition to Beef Organs and Bone Marrow & Liver....
Oct 09, 2020•34 min
If you are interested in lipids, you’ve probably heard of Dave Feldman and his work. If not, you’ve got some homework to do, and I think you’ll be amazed at what you find. Dave’s work can be found at cholesterolcode.com where he details his multiple, meticulous self-experimental projects. Prior to cholesterol adventures Dave was a senior software scientist and an engineer. He brings this “out of the box” thinking to the world of medicine and we are all better off for it. He began a low-carb, hig...
Oct 05, 2020•1 hr 51 min
In case you needed more reasons to love Suet (and tallow) allow me to share with you a few more studies showing some really cool benefits including colon cancer prevention in animal models, and odd chain fatty acids like C:15 (pentadecanoic acid) which appear to have significant health benefits that are found only in animal foods! Nose to tail for the win yet again! Welcome to The Remembering... Check us out at Heart & Soil (www.heartandsoil.co) if you need more nose to tail nutrition in your li...
Oct 02, 2020•9 min
Dr. Knobbe began his practice of ophthalmology in 1994, after completing his residency training at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, in Denver, Colorado, USA. He was certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology in 1997 and has remained board-certified since then. Eye physician and surgeon, Chris A. Knobbe, MD, had been in practice nearly 20 years when, in 2013, he asked himself the question, “Could macular degeneration be a ‘Westernized disease’? Could AMD be a disease that ...
Sep 28, 2020•1 hr 59 min
Animal-based diets, like a nose to tail carnivore diet, are about much more than food. They are a stepping stone to remembering where we have come from as humans. Forgetting this history has led to myriad health and social ills today. Check us out at www.Heartandsoil.co for the finest desiccated organ pills out there- get more nose to tail nutrition and thrive! Firestarter and Gut & Digestion are out now in addition to Beef Organs and Bone Marrow & Liver. You can also always email me at drpaul@h...
Sep 25, 2020•12 min
Karen Martel is a Transformational Nutrition Coach who is a leading expert in ancestral nutrition, weight loss resistance and women’s hormone health. Host of the top-rated women’s health podcast The Other Side of Weight Loss and founder of the revolutionary program OnTrack, a membership community that has helped thousands of women to balance their hormones and lose weight. After struggling with her own health issues, Karen was determined to bring her knowledge to others with a bold new approach ...
Sep 21, 2020•1 hr 45 min
Do the Hadza really consume 100g of fiber per day? Do we really know what a healthy gut microbiome is? Doubt it! When asked to rank their preferences for food (their diets are essentially meat, honey, berries, baobab fruit, and tubers) they consistently rank honey as their favorite and tubers last! In this video, I break down a number of articles looking at how the Hadza eat, their predilection for honey and meat, their oral health, and the seasonal cycling of their microbiota. I challenge the n...
Sep 18, 2020•33 min
