Nutritionally Perfect Carnivorous Diet
Average Daily Amounts:15oz lamb/beef, ~17% fat+ 3tbsp tallow (or 465g 24% fat beef/lamb)3oz mackerel (or 4oz salmon)55g lean pork3 large eggs (save the shells for broth)2oz chicken liver2oz pork...
View ArticlePosts I'm Planning
I haven't posted in a while due to both my PC and laptop breaking. My laptop now works and some of the posts I was writing have been retrieved from my portable hard-drive, but most are stuck on my PC...
View ArticleMucous not glucose deficiency
I mentioned briefly in my first post on principles of a healthy carnivore diet that mucin is important and which amino acids are needed to ensure proper production, but I didn't go into a lot of detail...
View ArticleDetox, Antioxidants, and Scurvy: Protein Beats Plants
This blog post is an updated and slightly edited version of on of my 'facebook essays', which were comments written as normal comments in facebook but ended up being really long and more like essays....
View ArticleNutrient Needs On A Carnivorous Diet
To create my last carnivorous diet, I used the USDA RDA as targets for the nutrients. The USDA RDA is based on the nutrient requirements on a high-carb, grain-based diet, and the nutrient requirements...
View ArticleBlocking People With Whom You Disagree Is More Than Pathetic
Today on facebook a member of the zero carb community posted to their wall a video (link), saying that the wolves didn't eat the organs, just the meat and fat. When my good friend Danny Albers and I...
View ArticleZC community Versus Evidence: Who Can We Trust More?
My biggest disagreement with the zero carb community, or rather specifically with it's leader, who say that we are somehow different from all other carnivorousness animals that get very ill if not fed...
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Homocysteine and Glutathione Nutrients
Folate, choline, B6, and B12All these nutrients are part of the homocysteine cycle. High blood levels of homocysteine are dangerous and greatly increase your risk of heart disease. Homocysteine can be...
View ArticleEvolutionary Trade-Offs: Fast Versus Famine
This is a sister post to Primal North's "Keto Adaptation vs Low Carb Limbo".Gluconeogenesis (GNG) is a big topic in ketogenic dieting, and most people think it means eating too much protein knocks you...
View ArticleFurther Implications of Lowered Gluconeogenesis: Vitamin C Synthesis
This is a follow up post to "Evolutionary Trade-Offs: Fast Versus Famine" and "Detox, Antioxidants, and Scurvy: Protein Beats Plants".We already looked at how we manage without the ability to...
View ArticleFat Soluble Nutrients
Vitamin A:The best source of knowledge on vitamin A seems to be the Weston A Price Foundation, which recommends at least 10,000IU for all adults (double that for pregnant/lactating women, half that for...
View ArticleHow little vitamin A is enough?
There have been many discussions between me and the zero carb community as to how much vitamin A is needed to avoid deficiency, they maintain that fatty muscle meat has enough to prevent deficiency and...
View ArticleCalcium
Sources other than dairy:Small bones: fish (sardines, etc), eaten with the fish or as broth.Big bones: beef/lamb/pork/chicken/etc, as broth.Eggshells, as broth.Green leafy vegetables: darker the...
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Protein Propaganda Pisses Me Off
There are a lot of pictures going round on various social media sites and elsewhere showing examples of 'protein-rich foods', and quite simply this pictures are outright lies! They are misleading, and...
View ArticlePhytic Acid Nutrients
Absorption:MineralAbsorption factor by removing / lowering phytic acidAverageRDACalciumx1.3, x1.2 1.251,000 --> 800mg(WAPF: 680 --> 544mg)Magnesiumx2.52.5420 --> 168mgZinchigh/no: x6.2, x4.8;...
View ArticleWhat can we learn from breast milk? Part 1: Macronutrients
Warning: post contains maths!Breast milk is 1% protein, 6.9% carbohydrate and 4.4% fat by weight, or 5.6% protein, 38.8% carbohydrate and 55.6% fat by calories. It is low in protein and high in both...
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What can we learn for breast milk? Part 2: Micronutrients
All these calculations use 84 grams of protein worth of breast milk, to normalise it to the minimum needed for an adult (see part 1).I'm also aware that the nutritional content of breast milk varies...
View ArticleTrace Minerals
Selenium:The USDA RDA for selenium is 55ug, but studies show that 200ug daily is the best for a healthy immune system (link and link), and preventing heart disease (link) due to it's co-factor role in...
View ArticleCarnivore RDA Chart, The End of A Long Road
Amino Acids: NutrientUnitUSDA RDAcRDANPCD*Recommended FoodsTotal Proteing/kg0.8 (54.5g/150lbs)1.2/lean(82g/150lbs@20%bf)97g(1.78g/kg lean)Serine+Glycinemg/kgN/A200(13,620mg/150lbs)13,700mgGlycine:...
View ArticleInner Wolf Unchained
I'm currently writing a book on nutrition, with my good friend Danny Albers of Primal North assisting. It's called 'Inner Wolf Unchained', with a subtitle of 'Eat and Train like a Wolf to Get Healthy...
View ArticleBoosting Glutathione
We've talked previously about how important good glutathione levels are, so here we'll talk about how to boost them naturally and also with supplements. First a quick review of how glutathione is...
View ArticleHome-made Mineral Water
Most water is pitiful, it's either contaminated with chlorine/fluorine, or is very poor in minerals after being cleaned/filtered. Here I purpose the ultimate solution (pun intended), for home-made...
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Bachelor Chow (A Soylent Recipe)
Soylent is all the rage these days, so I decided to make my own version, which follows these parameters:Solid food, rather than liquids. This is for better storage and palatability, any fool can drink...
View ArticleCarnivore RDA Version 2
Menu:7oz beef/lamb, 30% fat2oz mackerel110g beef/lamb tallow2 eggs, whole2oz pork kidneys1/4oz pork liver2tbsp gelatin powder1/2tsp losalt1/2tsp Himalayan pink salt1tsp/1g kelp/kombu, dry16floz...
View ArticleMy NK Experiment
During February I will be undertaking a nutritional ketosis (NK) experiment, I will be chronicling my journey on a separate blog. Link: http://depawnk.blogspot.co.uk/
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