SAMA HOOLE: "How much fat should I eat on carnivore?" At least as much as protein (grams). 150g protein? Have at least 150g+ fat.

"How much fat should I eat on carnivore?"

At least as much as protein (grams).

150g protein? Have at least 150g+ fat.

Sources:
Ribeye
Brisket
Lamb
Butter on everything
Fatty ground beef (20-30% fat)
Beef belly
Pork belly
Tallow for cooking
Don't trim the fat
Stir any rendered…

— Sama Hoole (@SamaHoole) November 2, 2025

SAMA HOOLE: Maasai warriors drinking blood and milk mixtures: Cardiovascular disease rate: functionally zero. Diabetes: unheard of. Obesity: didn't exist in their language. Western doctors in 1960s study them expecting to find clogged arteries. Find the cleanest cardiovascular systems ever recorded.

Maasai warriors drinking blood and milk mixtures:

2,000+ calories daily from animal fat.
Cardiovascular disease rate: functionally zero.
Diabetes: unheard of.
Obesity: didn't exist in their language.

Western doctors in 1960s study them expecting to find clogged arteries.

Find… pic.twitter.com/FCpb1seYXp

— Sama Hoole (@SamaHoole) November 2, 2025

Maasai people. 

SAMA HOOLE: Pitsik meant lean meat, the stuff that was merely eaten, tolerated, functional. Uqsuq meant seal blubber, the fuel for life, the thing that kept you alive when the Arctic tried to kill you.

The Inuit had two words you need to understand.

Pitsik meant lean meat, the stuff that was merely eaten, tolerated, functional.

Uqsuq meant seal blubber, the fuel for life, the thing that kept you alive when the Arctic tried to kill you.

They had separate vocabulary to… pic.twitter.com/jQpRHvicRd

— Sama Hoole (@SamaHoole) November 2, 2025

Sama adds that

Worth reading Vilhajalmur Stefansson's book,  Fat of the Land.

The OG carnivore book, that goes in deep into the diet of the Inuits.

I'm guessing many of you are still on the Mediterranean Diet, am I right?  Do you know who came up with the Mediterranean Diet?  Ancel Keys and his wife, Margaret Keys.

So it's the same guy who said that saturated fat would kill you because 

Oh, so it's a diet to keep you from dying?  How's that working out for ya?

These foods were categorised as "red meat" in Harvard's diabetes study.

This is why nutritional epidemiology is junk science. pic.twitter.com/wgDksMOP55

— Sama Hoole (@SamaHoole) January 28, 2024