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DAIRY

LEAN MEATS

Chicken breasts, lean pork or lean steak that has the fat stripped off of it.  Fat is a set of essential nutrients.  There are essential fatty acids that you have to have or you will get sick and die.  There are essential fat-soluble nutrients that you have to have or you will get sick and die.  It's also essential to get your nutrient source outside of "just" protein.  So if you're on a ketogenic diet, like a carnivore diet, and really what you're eating is protein and fat with minimal carbohydrates, you need to get the majority of your energy from fat because that is what your body typically uses for energy.  If it needs to and it starts cutting into protein in order to generate energy, it has to break down those amino acids and pull off an amino group, the nitrogen group, and then that gets turned into ammonia, and that gets turned into urea in the liver.  However, if you're eating predominately eating lean meat and protein with very little fat and very little carbohydrates, you'll find that you'll get a build up of that ammonia and it can overwhelm your liver's ability to turn it into urea.  And so you can get a serious problem with high ammonia levels, and this is called protein poisoning.  People lose their hair, yes, they lost weight but they lose their health and they get very sick.  This is what bodybuilders when they're in their cutting phase going toward competition.  They cut out fat, they cut out carbs, and just eat a lot of lean protein.  Yes, they get lean, but they feel miserable doing that.  And they all say you can't keep up this year round because you just feel miserable.  You get too sick and it destroys your hormones and your health generally.  So when people are having problems with carnivore, it's often because they're listening to this horrible advise from people trying to sell you $2,000, $3,000 program and weight-loss package where they take other people's information and get it wrong and tell you to cut calories and eat ultra lean.  Yes, they're losing weight but it's like that bodybuilder cutting for a competition; they get very sick and they trash their hormones.  People say, "This hurt my hormones.  This hurt my thyroid."  It's often the ones that are eating the super-low fat to try to lose weight.