My Carnivore Discovery
Summary: For about 5 years I experienced “peripheral neuropathy,” arthritis, and atherosclerosis gettnig progressively worse to the point where I started waking in the middle of the night with the need to shake my arms so blood and oxygen would flow to arms, hands and fingers.
These and many other problems miraculously improved when I switched to the Carnivore Lifestyle.
My History:
In my 20’s I figured out that eating processed foods containing chemicals was a bad idea so I didn’t do it, but I hadn’t yet been exposed to the truth that the food pyramid was another monsterous lie.
I read a terrible book called “a Diet for a Small Planet” which promoted the plant poison rabbit hole and then in my 50’s I was influenced even more egregiously misguided by “Hallelujah Acres” and was eating vegan for about a year.
The apparent consequence of veganism was my development later of peripheral neuropathy, waking with pain in my arms and numbness in my hands. I had to shake my arms to restore blood flow.
Then at age 65 the middle finger on my left hand hooked sharply in the morning and was painful to straighten.
Luckily then the solution:
On July 11th 2023 I watched this video: Phil Escot on the Charlie Ward show. On the show Phil explained he is a drummer and former vegan who had written veganism books, but explained that he switched to “Carnivore” when arthritis crippled his ability to perform (with drums). He found that by eating the “Lion Diet” consisting of only fatty ruminant meat including beef, lamb, bison, venison, salt and water, the inflamation in his hands faded and he was to play the drums again.
In This Video Phil explains how his arterial scans done in his 50’s, while a Vegan, showed developing atherosclerosis from plaque, (oxalates, bound to calcium), clogging arteries. Later in his 60’s while Phil was eating the Carnivore – Lion Diet, his scans show his arteries are clear!
I was convinced after watching that video, so I switched abruptly to an all-animal based diet including: Eggs, Fish, Chicken, BBB&E (Beef, Butter, Bacon and Eggs) – as carnivores call it, and noticed immediate improvement. Within a few days my hooked finger in the morning was gone, and I began to sleep through the night without waking to shake my arms for restored blood flow. I was inflammation-pain free!
Aware that I had found the “Proper Human Diet,” in November of 2023 I progressed to the more strict “Lion Diet” espoused by Phil Escot, Dr. Anthony Chaffee, and Mikala Peterson.
In retrospect I now suspect my year of vegan eating exacerbated the problems I had before eating carnivore because my stomach lining had become more more permeable, allowing higher quantities of oxacilac acid, lectins, and other plant toxins to enter my bloodstream. The oxcalic acid would bind to calcium to become toxic oxalates which were then sequestered by the body to protect itself from these poisons stored in bones, ligaments, even muscles so these chards would not do immediate harm traveling through the bloodstream.
Oxalates build up in damaged areas in the body and cause tissue inflammation. I reached the point where the inflammation called arthritis developed, and the first clear sign of that was my morning hooked finger.
Update 2/26/25: Having been a Carnivore for nearly two years, and my vitality continues to improve. Prior to eating “carnivore” I was having regular and crippling bouts of vertigo. The vertigo completely ended and has not re-appeared since carnivore.
I’m very glad I experienced arthritis since I might not have otherwise discovered the solution in the Carnivore lifestyle / way of eating.
Some of the healthiest, smartest and youngest-looking people I’ve seen online are those who have lived most, or all, of their lives eating only meat.
It’s apparent to me that Carnivore eating is the best way to improve human health and longevity; the ancestrally correct diet for humans.
Anthony Chafee’s playlist of videos about Carnivore Follow:
