Keto-Pro, Neath (2025)

21/12/2025

This is Mikey Davies — an exceptional endurance athlete.
Mikey came to see me years ago as a vegan.
He was already a strong athlete — but he never placed.
After transitioning to keto, and later carnivore, his performance changed dramatically.
He’s barely been unplaced since — and is now a Welsh Ironman age-group record holder.
A real-world example of how metabolic health and fuel choice can impact performance.
🎤 From the World Nutrition Summit (Noakes Foundation)

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20/12/2025

Sinus issues aren’t always just one thing.
Dairy can be a major contributor to inflammation and sinus problems for some people. But seed oils are often overlooked.
Vegetable and seed oils can increase thromboxanes and leukotrienes — highly reactive inflammatory compounds linked to conditions like asthma.
This is why context matters. And why reducing inflammation often means looking beyond one food.

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19/12/2025

Coffee and caffeine aren’t automatically the enemy.
Caffeine is a known ergogenic aid. It mobilises fat, increases free fatty acid availability, and can support athletic performance. There’s also evidence it may improve ketone transport and utilisation.
Context matters. Timing matters. And coffee ≠ caffeine for everyone.

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18/12/2025

There’s a lot of certainty online about ketogenic diets and performance.
In this conversation, we take a step back and do something more useful: we assume nothing — and look closely at the evidence being used to support the claims.

What consistently shows up in ketogenic sports research isn’t just mixed results, but recurring issues in protocol design and in how biological data is interpreted.
When you zoom out, many conclusions don’t translate well to real-world physiology or real athletes.
Often, the issue isn’t the metabolism. It’s the framing.

Full conversation with Coach Bronson here: https://youtu.be/_NjR9jJfeUA?si=xAo8_LsSHUlN26fH

17/12/2025

Taurine supports bile production, reabsorption, and gut healing.
Vitamin D3 and K2 can also be useful tools — particularly for those coming from a damaged background. As adaptation occurs, the need for supplementation may reduce, but in many cases these supports are not harmful and may be beneficial early on.
As always, context matters.

🎥 Weekly Lives with The UK Carnivore

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16/12/2025

Modern life isn’t one big stress — it’s hundreds of small ones.
You might manage one heavy load for a while. But carry lots of smaller loads, all day, every day… and eventually something gives.
That’s modern life:
being late, work pressure, money stress, relationship strain — constant low-level stress with no real recovery.
Even with a solid lifestyle, targeted support and guidance can make the difference between coping and actually thriving.
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15/12/2025

The idea that ketogenic athletes perform better on paper isn’t supported by the data.
What’s consistently ignored are the downstream effects:
reduced inflammation, increased fat oxidation, lower lactate production — and how those translate into faster recovery, fewer injuries, and higher sustainable training volume.
This is where real-world outcomes diverge from narrow lab definitions of “performance.”
🎥 Full discussion with Coach Bronson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NjR9jJfeUA

14/12/2025

If the human body is made of protein, why aren’t we prioritising protein?
Nitrogen-15 isotope testing shows humans are hyper-carnivores, not omnivores. Our isotope ratios exceed those of apex predators — consistently over 13%.

There is also only one food shown to increase telomere length: red meat.
When you remove compounds not found in plants, you lose over half of what’s essential for optimal human health.
🎥 Clip from my talk at the World Nutrition Summit, hosted by the Noakes Foundation: https://youtu.be/1f8GvC-X8nU

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13/12/2025

I love coffee — but that doesn’t mean it loves us back.
In this clip from my talk at the World Nutrition Summit, I explain why coffee isn’t as harmless as many believe, including the role of acrylamide, a known neurotoxin formed during roasting — even in mycotoxin-free coffee.
This is about understanding toxic load, neurological stress, and why some people experience migraines, tremors, or neurological symptoms from foods others tolerate just fine.

🎥 Full talk from the World Nutrition Summit hosted by The Noakes Foundation: https://youtu.be/1f8GvC-X8nU?si=vxFfyHcjwKD3KhiF

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12/12/2025

Most people don’t realise this… the same Nrf2 pathway that vegetables activate is also activated by lead, mercury, arsenic, to***co smoke, and car exhaust.

If you went outside and inhaled the fumes from a tailpipe, you would trigger the same defence pathway that people claim makes vegetables “antioxidants.”
So how can one be called beneficial… while the other is clearly harmful?
What’s actually happening is this:

👉 Nrf2 gets activated 👉 Glutathione rises 👉 The body conjugates the toxin and removes it 👉 We think it’s an antioxidant effect 👉 But it’s actually a pro-oxidant stimulus that forces the body to respond
Plants are not antioxidants. They are pro-oxidants that may produce a beneficial hormetic effect — but only through brief activation of the same pathway triggered by toxins.

And if the goal is to raise glutathione and support the body’s antioxidant systems…
Why not do it through ketogenic metabolism, which achieves the same outcome without the toxic load?

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From my talk at the World Nutrition Summit hosted by the Noakes Foundation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x52gSeLsLgI

From my talk at the World Nutrition Summit hosted by the Noakes Foundation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x52gSeLsLgI

11/12/2025

You’ll hear a lot of people in the carnivore/keto space saying things like “my T3 is low” or “my testosterone is tanking” after a couple of years… but this completely misunderstands what’s actually happening.
If you’ve lost a lot of stored body fat — by your own admission — your body no longer needs the same levels of these hormones to run the same pathways.
When you’re leaner, you’re breaking down far less stored fat and relying more on dietary fat. That whole process requires less testosterone.
And because you’re not consuming carbohydrates, you also need less testosterone for glucose handling.
Exactly the same way insulin works:

👉 High-carb diet → you need a lot of insulin
👉 Low-carb diet → you need far less insulin

It doesn’t mean you’re insulin resistant…
It means your requirements have dropped.
Your body is simply becoming more efficient.
If you want clarity on your markers, your hormones, or how to optimise your health with a low-carb or carnivore lifestyle…

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10/12/2025

Most keto “performance studies” fall apart the moment you look at the methods.

No electrolytes.
Short interventions.
Not even truly ketogenic diets.
And then people wonder why the outcomes look poor.

Proper electrolyte balance is foundational for athletic performance — plasma volume, thermoregulation, cardiovascular strain, oxygen demand, cognition… every variable depends on it.
If you’re not supporting electrolytes, you’re not testing keto.
You’re testing dehydration.

Full episode now live on YouTube with .bronson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NjR9jJfeUA

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