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03/30/2026

There are a lot of things you can say about coffee, but for me the main thing to recommend against it is the anti-nutrients. Things such as phytic acid, oxides, lectins, tannins, saponins, and so on can disrupt and prevent the absorption of different vitamins minerals proteins and fats from being absorbed, and even medications.

Having tested dozens of patients on thyroid medication and have found that if they drink coffee or tea within 2 hours of taking their medications, it doesn't even show up on their blood test. It's like they are not taking it at all. How many People are on far too much medication simply because they are taking their morning meds with coffee or tea? I would guess quite a lot.

So at the very least, if you are going to drink coffee, I would recommend not drinking it for at least 2 hours before or after any food, supplements, and even meditation.

03/29/2026

At first you may need some added salt because your body can lose too much sodium when you are for switching to a ketogenic diet, as insulin is a major factor in sodium retention in the urine. So when insulin levels come down, you may lose too much sodium in your urine, which draws out excess water, and you become dehydrated getting cramps and having low energy. So for the first couple of weeks until you see your insulin normalize, which could be longer for some, you may need to add as much as 5 to 7 g of salt per day and increase your water consumption to stay hydrated. After this time however, you will like and need much less salt, so just salt to taste. There are many long-term carnivores, going on 20 or 30 years, they recommend no salt at all, even from the beginning. Transition may be harder if you go that route, so just see what your body needs and add salt as appropriate, but don't forget the water as well. Almost everybody drinks way too little water as opposed to too much. After a while, you will likely need less and less salt, and you may not need any at all, which is where high and many others have been for several years now.

03/28/2026

I have never once seen anybody's electrolytes get deranged by going on a carnivore die. In the first few weeks, sometimes you can lose some extra sodium, and therefore lose water and get dehydrated and lightheaded or have cramps, but I've never seen it drop below the actual normal range. This also resolves within a few weeks for the vast majority of people.

Even though it is thought that meat does not have enough magnesium in it to meet our daily requirements, I have never once seen anybody lower their magnesium by going carnivore. In fact I always see it go up unless they are drinking a lot of coffee or tea. The reason is that when you stop eating plants with anti-nutrients such as phytic acid etc, you absorb far more magnesium than you would otherwise. Plus the magnesium in meat is much more bioavailable than in plants. So it seems like there isn't as much magnesium in meat, but in fact there is quite a lot more in the end.

Front in depth guide and support with a carnivore diet, join my 90 day carnivore challenge on Mighty Networks at the link below, or comment "Challenge" and I'll send you a link.

https://dr-chaffee-s-90-day-carnivore-challenge.mn.co/landing/

03/27/2026

Most people don't realize it but there are actually no experimental studies showing a cause and effect relationship between cholesterol and cardiovascular disease. However, there are a number of experimental studies showing that it does not. So why are we relying on flawed epidemiology, especially when many of those studies that we look at so conclusively like the Framingham study were actually misrepresented at various times to say that higher cholesterol was associated with cardiovascular disease, when in fact it was the opposite?

Comment the word "Cholesterol" and I'll send you my lecture on the evidence and truth about cholesterol and heart disease, complete with direct references in the video and in the description.

03/26/2026

Do you need carbohydrates to thrive, or even survive? This really shouldn't be a debate anymore, the evidence is overwhelming against it. Humans have not only survived but thrived in much harsher and life-threatening conditions, such as the ice ages, for 99% of human existence without carbohydrates. So as far as survival, that's a non-starter to suggest that you need carbohydrates.

As for thriving, again the evidence is overwhelming that carbohydrates cause direct harm, without any added benefit as long as you are getting adequate nutrition and energy from other sources, such as our primary diet of fatty meat.

You can even see this in the genome, where humans didn't even have the genetic code to make amylase in any abundance prior to the agricultural revolution about 10,000 years ago. Amylase is the enzyme that breaks down starch, plant carbohydrates. So if we didn't even have the genetic ability to break down starch and carbohydrates from plants, we clearly weren't eating them or requiring them.

The evidence goes on and on, as you will see in this video, so as you can see the evidence is thoroughly against carbohydrates being necessary or beneficial in the human diet.

This is of course not an exhaustive list of evidence against eating carbohydrates. What are some other reasons and evidence that you can think of as well?

Apparently I'm not vascular because my carnivore diet doesn't have carbs 😂
03/18/2026

Apparently I'm not vascular because my carnivore diet doesn't have carbs 😂

03/17/2026

We see a sharp decline in the development and bone structure of humans directly after our ancestors switched to agriculture. And this only happened in areas that did switch to agriculture. Other areas remained intact. If this doesn't show you that agricultural based foods, that were a huge divergence from our natural diets for the entire existence of humanity prior to this, then nothing will.

03/15/2026

A lot of the data and certainly the guidelines on cholesterol and heart disease were largely fabricated and influenced by the food industry, specifically the sugar industry. This is published in the top peer-reviewed medical journals of the world, like the journal of the American Medical Association, JAMA, with actual documents from the sugar companies showing how they were paying off Harvard professors to claim that cholesterol was the major risk factor for cardiovascular disease, and that sugar was safe in this context One of these professors was named head of the USDA, and he was the one who altered and published the USDA declaration that cholesterol caused heart disease, which shut down all meaningful debate on the subject, and most importantly it shut down the research I was just accepted as fact from then on.

Sugar industry cover up, JAMA 2016
"Sugar Industry and Coronary Heart Disease Research
A Historical Analysis of Internal Industry Documents"

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2548255
PMID 27617709

Sugar industry cover up article (NPR)

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074/50-years-ago-sugar-industry-quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat

03/13/2026

It doesn't matter if your blood sugar gets back down to normal after a huge carbohydrate spike, the damage has already been done. If you getting spike after spike after spike of blood sugar, you have to look at the area under the curve. That is all damage and glycation.

Glycation is when any carbohydrate fuses to other molecules and permanently damages them. These form advanced glycation end products, AGEs, that literally age you. They damage your arteries, damaging the blood vessels, and the blood supply to your organs and tissue. This is what causes the major destruction in diabetes that can culminate in multi-organ failure, amputations, and death.

03/11/2026

Saturated fat does NOT cause heart disease, and it wouldn't make sense if it did.
Umbrella review w/all current/recent RCTs and meta analysis showing saturated fat is not a cardiovascular risk, but instead protective against stroke.
"Saturated Fats and Health: A Reassessment and Proposal for Food-Based Recommendations: JACC State-of-the-Art Review"
Journal of the American College of Cardiology 76 (7), 844-857, 2020
https://www.jacc.org/doi/abs/10.1016/j.jacc.2020.05.077
PMID: 32562735


“The recommendation to limit dietary saturated fatty acid (SFA) intake has persisted despite mounting evidence to the contrary.”
“Most recent meta-analyses of randomized trials and observational studies found no beneficial effects of reducing SFA intake on cardiovascular disease (CVD) and total mortality, and instead found protective effects against stroke.”
“There is no robust evidence that current population‑wide arbitrary upper limits on saturated fat consumption in the United States will prevent CVD or reduce mortality.”

03/09/2026

How do you want to get your B12?

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03/08/2026

Nutrition is easy when you think about it. Do we need any long term RCTs to know what a lion in the zoo should eat? Or can you just look at what they eat in the wild? For humans that has predominantly been fatty meat for the past 2 million years, and the plants we ate were much different and they were prepared on specific ways on reduce toxicity and increase nutrient bioavailability. Get as close to that as you can, and you'll be much better off.

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