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Fantastic new episode with Dr Boz out on YouTube now! Search for our interview on my channel on YouTube now, hit the l...
02/02/2026

Fantastic new episode with Dr Boz out on YouTube now!

Search for our interview on my channel on YouTube now, hit the link below, or comment "Keto" And I will send you a DM with the link.

YouTube:
https://youtu.be/m_x2SAh1Rak

01/30/2026

The assumption that saturated fat causes heart disease is simply not born out by the data. Period.

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

Stanford Professor of bioenergetics Dr Annelise Barron shows us some of amazing research into just how toxic some foods ...
01/26/2026

Stanford Professor of bioenergetics Dr Annelise Barron shows us some of amazing research into just how toxic some foods are for the brain, and in very different ways than you might expect! Out now on YouTube and podcast platforms.

Search for the video on YouTube, click the link below, or comment "brain health" and I'll DM you a link

https://youtu.be/dk3Njuhubo8





01/25/2026

If you're trying to quit smoking, would you keep packs of ci******es laying around the house? Not if you wanted to be successful you wouldn't. So why are you doing the same thing with addictive "food?"

01/22/2026

There is a lot of misinformation going around that in order to lose fat you need to cut out fat. This is the same tired lie from 50 years ago that helped create the largest epidemic of obesity that has ever existed. We are now fatter and sicker than we have ever been in human history, or prehistory, and that was after reducing saturated fat by 33% and red meat by over 33% as well.

Now even people in the carnivore space who understand that red meat, cholesterol, and saturated fat were vilified wrongly are still holding firm on the other misinformed idea that eating fat makes you fat, and we should eat lean meat instead of a high fat carnivore diet.

A high fat carnivore diet has been the traditional diet since humans have been humans, and the optimal way it has been taught in modern times as well. Look at the Inuit and the Maasai, as well as the Nenet and other native tribes who get the vast majority of their calories from saturated fat and are extremely lean, have little to no chronic disease, and live to great old ages in excellent health on their traditional high fat carnivore diets.

If you know the facts and try it for yourself you'll see that a high fat carnivore diet provides optimal health and energy.

Great new video out NOW on YouTube! Follow the link below, or comment "fat loss" and I'll DM you the link! https://youtu...
01/22/2026

Great new video out NOW on YouTube! Follow the link below, or comment "fat loss" and I'll DM you the link!

https://youtu.be/olp1jJWdZRQ

There are any number of ways to skin a cat, but not all of them get you the best results long-term. When it comes to weight loss and improving health and body composition, there are many ways that you can force yourself to lose body fat, but they can destroy your metabolism, your health, and lead to long-term weight gain, even with early weight loss.

If you want long-term, sustained and healthy weight loss and improvements in not only your body composition but health, then you need to do things right from the beginning and maintain them long-term. Just because something else can give you quicker early results doesn't mean they will get you to the finish line quicker or even at all. slow and steady wins the race.

01/20/2026

Should you have dairy on a carnivore diet? Well this is a bit of a gray area because while dairy has a lot of great nutrients, it also has some downsides as well. If you are eating a mixed diet or mostly plant-based diet and you don't have access to high quality animal nutrition, full fat dairy is a great option. Some people are a bit sensitive to it though, and I can cause got irritation and inflammation, especially A1/A1 milk products. This can also cause gut permeability, leaky gut, and contribute to or even flare up autoimmune conditions.

So the best thing to do is cut it out of your diet for at least 30 days and then reintroduce it slowly to see how you react. If you tolerate it well without issues, then just use it sparingly and as a condiment. There is nothing in dairy that you won't get from meat that you need, so just keep that in mind.

It's also a good idea to keep it relatively rare as it has casomorphines which can also trigger a hunger signal and energy storage. This is often seen in people who are having difficulty losing weight or even gaining weight and excess body fat when doing carnivore or keto but using a lot of dairy.

So if you are trying to lose excess body fat, or concerned about putting it on, best to avoid dairy or keep it to a minimum. If you do find yourself putting on weight or stalling on your weight loss goals, think about whether or not you are using dairy and cut it out if you need to.

Butter and ghee are usually fine because this takes out most of the milk solids and proteins and just leaves the healthy fats, but even then some people can react negatively to it so just take on a case-by-case basis for yourself.

01/16/2026

Those who say that people should do low fat carnivore have clearly never seen a harp seal, whales, or mammoths, which are the types of animals humans have actually been hunting and eating for millions of years. They also fail to realize that wild animals, when healthy, are not actually lean; they have quite a lot of subcutaneous and intra-abdominal fat around their organs. What they mistake as lean is the muscle bodies that don't have marbling, because they are not metabolically sick. However they have just as much, if not more, fat in other parts of their body.

For example, Native Americans in the Great Plains who hunted Buffalo, which most people think of as very lean, would mix their fat and lean dried meat into pemican, which had two grams of fat for every one gram of protein. That's 80% calories from fat. How is that lean exactly?

If there are any hunters reading this, what has your experience been with healthy, wild animals before the winter famine leans them out? Please comment below.

If you want to join my NEW 90 day Carnivore challenge group and community where you can learn the real facts and science behind nutrition and health, comment "Challenge" and I will DM you a link.

01/14/2026

Of all the exceptional changes on the dietary guidelines, such as the inclusion of ketogenic diets for metabolically ill patients which is most Americans, they unfortunately missed the glaring defect in the recommended limit of 10% or less total calories from saturated fat. Of all the things in the old guidelines, this had the most robust, high level clinical evidence supporting its change.

In this video I discuss and umbrella review, which is a meta-analysis of meta analyses of randomized controlled trials, published in the top cardiology journal in the world, the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, in 2020 showing that saturated fat unequivocally does not cause heart disease, protects against strokes, and that there should be NO limitations on the amount of saturated fat that is recommended safe to eat.

Direct from the authors: “The recommendation to limit dietary saturated fatty acid (SFA) intake has persisted despite mounting evidence to the contrary,” and recent meta-analyses show no benefit to cutting saturated fat for heart disease or mortality, with a protective signal for stroke.

This is not coming from fringe voices but from an international team of leading cardiology and nutrition scientists, including former chairs and members of the official U.S. Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committees that originally wrote the low–saturated-fat advice. Among the authors are Prof. Arne Astrup (University of Copenhagen, obesity and nutrition), Dr. Janet C. King (PhD, RD, chair of the 2005 U.S. Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee), and Dr. JosĂ© M. OrdovĂĄs (Tufts/USDA HNRCA, a global leader in nutrigenomics and a member of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee).

In other words, the very experts who helped shape the original “limit saturated fat” policy are now publishing in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology that blanket caps on saturated fat are not supported by the best current evidence and should be replaced by food‑based, individualized recommendations.

"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

If you want to join my NEW 90 day Carnivore challenge group and community well you can learn the real facts and science behind nutrition and health, use the link below.

Or comment "Challenge" and I will DM you a link. You can also find it in my bio, on my website, or on Mighty Networks:

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

01/08/2026

Cutting fat on keto or carnivore is one of the fastest ways to crash your metabolism and your mood.If most of your calories come from protein instead of fat, you push into “rabbit starvation” territory: excess ammonia, liver stress, hair loss, low energy, brain fog, and intense cravings.Dietary fat isn’t just fuel—it carries fat‑soluble vitamins and other lipid‑based nutrients you cannot replace with lean protein or your old, seed‑oil‑and-sugar fat stores.Starve the carbs, not the fat.

What you need to know about carbs and low carb diets. Why are people adding back in carbs? Is it actually a dangerous to...
01/06/2026

What you need to know about carbs and low carb diets. Why are people adding back in carbs? Is it actually a dangerous to not eat carbohydrates long-term? Here are the facts. Watch at the link below, or go to my YouTube channel. You can also comment "Carnivore" and I'll send you the link.

https://youtu.be/BZPN33hjHOw

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