The extended list of supplements I take (that seems to be ever-growing) includes (Activated) D3 and the 'Thorne' brand of K1&K2. So why not K1?
K1 is the plant form and K2 is the animal form we require. Converting the plant version of a vitamin into the active animal form is a slow inefficient process. A quick google search says: “Your body can partly convert vitamin K1 to K2. However, only 10-15% of ingested vitamin K1 is absorbed in the digestive tract.”
Vitamin E has been recommended to me as well. At the moment I've paused any increase to my supplement list as it gets real expensive, real fast, and I need to justify any new supplement is going to assist with 'something' and not just take it anyway.
It's better to get all your nutrients naturally from what you eat. With carnivore you're already getting all the nutrients you need. The fatty meat of herbivores is what's best for us and contains everything we need. The animal fat contains all the nutrients our brains need. Unlike other carnivores, we need the fat. Fat is more important to us than the protein. And this makes sense, we have a highly acidic stomach like a scavenger.
I think humans evolved as scavengers that followed carnivores and scavenged on their left overs. We smashed open the skull and leg bones to get the brain and bone marrow. We also ate whatever meat the carnivore couldn't get. Having hands with opposed thumbs gives us a better ability to pull things apart and get at the meat up inside the rib cage for example. We evolved to thrive mostly on animal fat.
We can't survive on lean meat like other carnivores. If we don't eat enough fat with our meat we can get a condition know as protein poisoning (also referred to colloquially as rabbit starvation, mal de caribou, or fat starvation) - an acute form of malnutrition caused by a diet deficient in fat. The term rabbit starvation comes from shipwreck survivors stuck on an island with only rabbits that succumb to a fat deficient diet and eventually die. Rabbit meat is too lean for us. Our big brains need the fat nutrients.
'Fativore' more accurately describe what humans are. See:
Growing a Big Brain with Meat | Amber O'Hearn
After free range eggs, beef and lamb are more nutrient dense and 'complete' than any other food. 'Complete protein' means it contains all our essential amino acids. Animal sourced also ensures that those amino's are in the proportions that we require.
I used to take a huge number of supplements too. I now only take a few and will be phasing them out. The only nutrient I will keep is Magnesium Taurinate. Magnesium is an important mineral that we would have got drinking stream water. Tap water is deficient in magnesium due to how it's processed. Taurine is an essential amino acid that helps with things like your digestive, cardiovascular, skeletal, muscular, and nervous system functions. Taurine is destroyed by cooking but humans have been cooking meat for 100's of thousands of years. For example, cats can not survive on cooked meat (they must have raw meat).
It would possibly be 2+ years now, maybe more. Sorry, my memory is real patchy.
Me too, my brains is not the best, however it's improving. The latest science is saying dementia is a metabolic disease and some are now calling it type 3 diabetes. Sugar is making humans fat and stupid.
I now eat an equal amount (in volume) of fat and muscle meat. I get lamb fat trimmings from my local butcher and eat it cut up into little pieces and frozen. I find when eaten frozen it doesn't upset my stomach. If we eat too little fat we get constipation and if we eat too much we get soft stools or diarrhea. Adjust your fat consumption accordingly.
I should mention it is roughly 99% carnivore. I still have a small amount of raw leafy vegetables and (to a lesser extent) Mozzarella cheese.
Why are you doing that? Adding vegetables to a meat meal makes it less nutritious because of anti-nutrients - plant compounds that reduce the body's ability to absorb essential nutrients. Adult carnivores find they do better without diary products. Diary stimulates appetite because milk is designed to grow baby into an adult as quickly as possible to avoid predation (from other carnivores). Cheese is like concentrated milk.
After years of calorie counting and trying the blood group diet, I finally came to that conclusion. Pay attention to the signals coming from below, and I get some real nasty 'signals' when I get it wrong.
Yes, when you eat 'well' for some time, your body certainly lets you know if you eat something it doesn't like.
Additional to 'listen to your body', I also found consistent, warm weather keeps the symptoms to a minimum. Typically my symptoms 'lessen' between late Jan to May. This is why I'm currently arranging to relocate north. I'm in Canberra ATM and I'm not built for these winters.
I didn't know you were Australian. If you ever come up to Brisbane let's meet up.
Seeds? Would that include walnuts? That's another thing I have that strays from a pure carnivore diet but I'm starting to think it may not be doing me good. Slight bloating, but I'm not conclusive as to whether it is the cause.
I think you intuitively know the answer. Yes, walnuts are seeds.
Inflammation has been the primary concern, and it's a strange one.
If I don't lift weights for a number of days the inflammation starts to 'build up' in muscles and tendons. This 'injury like' feeling doesn't happen due to over-exertion or careless maneuvers, it just appears after being inactive for a prolonged period of time.
I find weight training seems to 'squeeze' the inflammation out. Many times after a workout, when I had elbow or wrist pain, it would fade away in the days that followed the workout.
Pain = inflammation. Exercising will temporarily remove the pain but that's due to a release of endorphins.
Sounds like you're over exercising or too often. I've heard a number of carnivore promoting doctors say they no longer prescribe exercise because they've found that their patients will spontaneously start exercising again when their bodies have sufficiently healed.
