hey this is dr. Barry let's discuss the
carnivore diet for a few minutes and
what about vitamin C that's important
right how are you gonna get vitamin C if
you only eat meat now you may have
noticed that the carnivore diet is
catching on like wildfire in the
ketogenic way of eating community and
that's because carnivore is a subset of
the ketogenic diet in which you only eat
fatty meat you don't eat any veg
thing that doesn't come directly from an
animal or that is an animal product now
some people are very strict about this
and they only eat the flesh of the
animal other people will eat animal
products such as eggs such as butter etc
so the carnivore diet is is getting mad
popular and I think it's time that we
talked about this and what about the
vitamin C issue now if you know someone
who's thinking about going carnivore
please share this with them you can
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you help me spread the word of how to
get healthier now let's talk about the
carnivore diet and what about vitamin C
so there's three big points I want to
hit in this video number one the
ketogenic diet in general and the
carnivore diet in specific are very very
uninflated diets right anybody who's
eating keto for a while or carnivore for
a while knows their joint inflammation
gets better their gut inflammation gets
better their skin inflammation gets
better their inflammation body-wide
improves on a ketogenic or a carnivore
diet so vitamin C plays a role in the
body as an antioxidant among the other
things that it does and when you don't
have as much in inflammation in your
body then you don't need as many
antioxidants therefore I think that's
one reason why we you just don't need as
much vitamin C if you're eating a
carnivore or even a ketogenic diet so
number two
when you're eating a high carb diet like
the standard American diet you actually
probably need to supplement with vitamin
C because you're eating so much sugar so
many carbs that you need more vitamin C
as an antioxidant it also looks like
it's harder for vitamin C to get into
transporters and into cells with all
that glucose present and so if you're
eating very low carb if you're eating
ketogenic or if you're eating the
carnivore diet you again you just don't
need as much vitamin C now third this is
mud the one that I love you're gonna
love this
so most meat has a little vitamin C in
it not a lot but a little even just the
flesh just the Ted the the lean meat of
a cow or a pig or or a sheep or a goat
has a little bit of vitamin C it
probably has enough if you just ate the
flesh to never develop scurvy and that's
the thing you have to understand
carnivore is not new it's just new to
you the carnivore diet has been around
as a choice for 15-20 years there are
people on the Facebook carnivore group
who have been doing strict carnivore for
over 10 years no one has developed
scurvy no one has their skin coming
apart and falling off no one has their
teeth falling out they're all
vigorous vibrant healthy muscular people
with very low levels of inflammation so
if we need as much vitamin C as we've
been taught kind of like you know we
need lots of whole wheat flour and we
need lots of low fat foods and we need
lots of fiber you know those are the
things we were told it turns out it's
probably not true at all I think one of
the things we've been told it probably
isn't true if you're eating a very low
carb an inflammatory diet is you just
don't need that much vitamin C now if
you're still concerned about vitamin C
but you want to try the carnivore diet
I'm gonna tell you the secret eat liver
actually you can eat any of the internal
organs the three most common ones that
are eaten around the world that have
lots of vitamin C I mean lots of vitamin
C or liver the spleen and the pancreas
now I've never eaten a spleen or
pancreas well I have it yet but I'm
going to soon but I've eaten lots of
liver and I like liver and I don't like
it the way some people cook it but if
you sauté it in butter or if you fried
it in bacon grease its
darn delicious and it's full of vitamins
and minerals one of which is vitamin you
guessed it vitamin C now pork liver has
the most vitamin C of the three I'm
gonna talk about cow liver has the next
most and then chicken liver has some but
not as much as those other two so if you
can get your hands on some pork liver
from the butcher that's vitamin C you
will never develop scurvy eating pork
liver if you're eating beef liver you're
good to go if you're eating chicken
liver you may have to eat it several
times a week to get enough vitamin C but
it's still in there so if you want to
try our carnival or challenge and do a
month of carnival I think it's perfectly
safe I think it's ancestrally
appropriate for example the Inuit the
Scandinavian the Nordic any northern the
northern Russian tribes all of these
people ate almost exclusively meat the
only time they didn't eat meat it's when
they couldn't find me then they would
eat some veg if they just had to and so
these people did not have scurvy they
did great they were healthy they were
they were muscular they were very strong
agile hunters but they ate only meat and
so obviously there has to be some
vitamin C in there somewhere and the
most of it is in the liver the pancreas
and the spleen if you have a local
butcher you can ask him to save you
those parts you can grind them up and
mix them with your ground beef you can
learn to sautee them in butter or fry
them in bacon grease and they make
delicious vitamin C rich additions to
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