2 Years Post Carnivore Diet
hi everyone welcome back to healthy with nicole
i wanted to give an update on my status post carnivore for all of you carnivore watchers out
there so um most of you that have been following me for any length of time know that i did the
carnivore diet for two and a half years to heal my bout with colitis which lasted seven years and it
totally worked so i can't express enough how much you should consider the carnivore diet if you're
still dealing with inflammatory bowel situations or many other autoimmunes in fact because of its
ability to eliminate irritants from the gut and it certainly worked for me it doesn't necessarily
work for everybody but i did learn a lot through that experience and since then so after the two
and a half years i started adding back foods which first i did some fruit and i did really well
with the fruit loved it it was delicious tasted good and gave me a ton of energy and
then i started to add things like mushrooms and you know peeled cucumbers and a few other things
and that went on for probably the first year and i did fine with it never experienced a
flare poor digestion anything like that um did really well and and then i kind of took
a break from eating so much fruit because it was out of season and so i went back to eating
more some some cooked vegetables but mostly meats mostly you know eggs beef fish things like that
and still no problems i'm still doing really well have not had a flare since the beginning of
really you know four months into my carnivore diet was when the symptoms went away and uh
that's been four years now so i haven't had a symptom since then so i think in case i said that
wrong four months into the carnivore diet and then it's been four years since then uh two
and a half of those on the carnivore diet and then almost two off it and so what i've
learned is that it is absolutely definitely without a question a great way to eliminate
irritants from your gut and this can help in so many ways for autoimmune but specifically for
ulcerative colitis when you have that disease you get to a point where pretty much anything
you eat irritates you because you're so inflamed so by taking away most of the irritants it
allows the things in the gut there to calm down now what i also think is that your gut microbes do
need some kind of prebiotic fiber and you're not really getting it unless you eat a lot of collagen
you're not really getting it from meats and animal products so once you're able to tolerate
foods again i think it is a good idea to add in some prebiotic fibers now that doesn't mean
that you should go and eat plates and plates of raw vegetables or even cooked vegetables
for that matter because that is probably what's causing a lot of problems for people i
know that for myself being vegan for 15 years did not help my gut at all and i even suspect
that it probably caused some of the problems but nonetheless um you know we have different
reasons why we have colitis for me i believe it was stress poor functioning thyroid way too
many raw vegetables and toxins from those foods um that caused my situation and then doing
the carnivore diet did stop it in its tracks and then since then i've worked on increasing my good
bacteria in the microbiome so i do fermented foods i make my own kefir that has been incredibly
helpful and i think a lot of people really just need more of the good bacteria in their gut and
then i use smaller amounts of prebiotic fiber like artichokes love artichokes um i eat those
whenever they're in season here in california and then also um you could have you
know like a little bit of asparagus some small amounts of fruit whatever you feel
like you digest well and so for myself i've been able to include those with all of my meals and
without any problems so a typical day for me is if i have breakfast sometimes i uh just
wait and have lunch at like 11 or 12.
But if i have breakfast i'll have um eggs and bacon
um sometimes i'll have a little kefir smoothie and then wait and have lunch which is usually some
kind of animal protein and occasionally i'll have a salad even just a little romaine lettuce which
i could never tolerate before but sometimes the crunch tastes good i might have a little bit of
fruit with it if i have a leaner protein for lunch such as raspberries or blackberries something
like that and then dinner again is just another animal protein and probably a cooked
vegetable and something like artichokes and a steak or something like that is pretty common
for me but that's where i'm at now and i've just learned that you you can't heal the gut
when you have a ton of irritants going in there so you do have to remove those for a while if not
permanently so that you can work on healing things if you have a thyroid problem you're going to
have a really hard time healing your gut without addressing that the reason is because it impairs
digestion and so many foods that we eat have things in it like goitrogens and cruciferous
vegetables that are really tough on the thyroid um and also you know things in legumes uh beans
nuts and seeds that are definitely can affect the thyroid so you have to address that because if
you don't you're going to have trouble with your digestion which is going to then set you up for
more inflammatory bowel problems so for me i had to address that at some point i didn't do it right
off the bat i just focused on the elimination for the first two years and then started to look at
you know adding in more of the beneficial bacteria the prebiotic fiber so i'm happy to say that
now four years later i am still colitis free i have zero symptoms at all and i have the
ability to eat more of what i want to eat i can pretty much eat anything however i don't just eat
anything because i know that a lot of those foods could get you back in the same position you were
you know originally with the inflammatory bowel so i stick to foods that are fairly easy to digest in
modest amounts and that make me feel good and so that's a good clue for you is if you digest
it well you feel good you don't feel any bloating or pain gas that's a good sign
that that's probably a good food for you so i hope that helps you wherever you are on your
journey of inflammatory bowel and working on um you know improving that situation obviously i
believe it can be done i know it can be done and there's lots of things to look at besides just
taking out irritants so that's super important obviously probably step number one but
you have to look at the big picture and get everything in line for long term results
i hope you like that video give it a thumbs up and subscribe if you did and comment below i'd
love to hear uh anybody's experience with you know elimination diets thyroid health anything
that you found to be helpful for your journey on ulcerative colitis or other inflammatory
bowel disease and i'll see you in the next video
