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Thirty Days: Just Meat and Me
The power of a comfortable transition for weight loss
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Well not quite. Thirty days of eating meat, seafood, and dairy. Call me crazy; I didn’t think I could do it but I did. You can read about why
There’s no shortage of Carnivore Diet success stories: raving testimonials about boundless energy, effortless weight loss, and mental clarity so sharp it could slice through steel. But let’s be honest: the idea of eating only animal products for a month sounds crazy!
No vegetables, no fruit, no comforting carbs? It sounded extreme but oddly intriguing. I had lost over 20lbs (11kgs) on a ketogenic diet and I was happy. My problem wasn’t weight loss it was my asthma. I was supplementing my preventer medication by sucking on my reliever numerous times a day just to breathe and I couldn’t see my doctor for a month.
Can diet help asthma? Plenty of anecdotes and suggest that it can. In the study, mice fed a ketogenic diet showed much less inflammation of the…
