DR. ANTHONY CHAFFEE: So high blood sugar is damaging, and this kills you. It's part of what kills diabetics by glycation, glucose molecules physically fusing to various molecules.

1:10. Now, I've never seen you guzzling down a carton of milk on your Instagram. 

1:15.  Very very rarely.  I used to love milk, I mean I do love milk.  It has enough lactose that this is going to cause a problem.  It's going to cause an insulin, a blood sugar spike, and an insulin spike, and that's just not what you want.  It kicks you out of your primary metabolism.  It starts making you glucose driven as opposed to running on all of your different energy sources such as blood sugar and glycogen and ketones.  So that gets you out of that primary metabolic State and puts you back into a where you're packing in fat and you're storing fat and your fat cells as opposed to utilizing the energy and your fat cells so it's just a completely different way of functioning as an energy supply.  So milk can do that as well.  So I do stay away from that, yeah.  

2:05.  So even though Dairy is an animal product, it's got lots of fat and protein, but it also has a lot of carbohydrates.  It's got sugar in it.  

2:16.  Yeah, yeah, yeah.  The lactose sugar is a disaccharide meaning that it's a combination of glucose and lactose just stuck together, and that gets broken down into glucose and lactose as you can imagine.  So that raises your blood sugar.  It's not as bad as fructose like from fruit and honey I certainly wouldn't touch those but it is bad for your body and your metabolism and pumps up your insulin as well.  So high blood sugar is damaging, and this kills you.  It's part of what kills diabetics by glycation, glucose molecules physically fusing to various molecules.  But then in response to that, your body raises insulin, which is protective against this higher blood sugar but it also causes a myriad of problems that you really don't want and causes huge harm.  It's definitely best to be avoided.  Every now and then, fine.  But there's this idea that you need to be carbohydrates and go back and forth because you want to be metabolically flexible that has absolutely no basis in reality, science, or evidence.  I was just talking to Professor Ben Bikman at BYU, who is a biochemist and professor of bioenergetics at BYU.  He has been studying insulin on the body for over 15 years, and I asked him that very specifically.  I asked him what are the hard facts on this, and he said absolutely not, it doesn't matter.  And he went through the exact biochemistry of it, what happens, how this stuff looks, and how it can seem like that.  If you haven't eaten carbohydrates, if you've been out of that state for a while, you're just not storing insulin in your pancreas because you're not just ready.  Your body is not in protective mode and building up this tolerance because it's anticipating a big jolt of glucose.  And so it's not anticipating that and so that breaks it down because your body is very efficient.  And then all of a sudden you do a glucose tolerance test and all of a sudden your insulin spikes . . . sorry, your blood sugar spikes.  Oh, you're not tolerant to this.  No, actually if you prime the pump and you have a bit of glucose before a bit of sugar before, the next time you eat it it'll be primed up.  And you'll actually have a much better response.  So it's sort of a false, false picture and I think that's leading people astray.  So the idea that you need to scrap in order to eat this crap in order to keep some metabolic flexibility is absolutely not based in science or reality.  You do not have to eat any carbohydrates.

4:56.  Just to go back to the pump analogy so the misconception is that you need to prime the pump by eating carbohydrates so that it's ready if you do it some to then absorb, but then the reality is what's the reality like of the analogy?  I'm just not getting it.

5:13.  Yeah, so when you're eating a lot of glucose and carbohydrates, your body makes more insulin.  It's not just producing insulin when you're eating it, it makes a lot of insulin and stores it in the pancreas and gets it ready.  It's just like you have bile in your gallbladder and you eat a fatty meal, it can just squirt out a whole bunch of bile at once; whereas if you don't have a gallbladder, it just slowly drips out.  It's a little different than that because you don't have insulin slowly dripping out; it will come out in a very controlled manner.  But when you eat carbohydrates, if you've been eating a lot of carbohydrates, you will have pre-made a lot of insulin and store that in your pancreas, anticipating a carbohydrate-driven meal.  And then as soon as that comes in, boom! it dumps in a big load of insulin.  However, when you're not eating a bunch of carbohydrates, it doesn't do that.  Your body is very efficient. 

CARNIVORE TEACHER ALPHA: Dairy contains proteins, like casein, which can be inflammatory or harder to tolerate for some people. Casomorphin. Sounds like morphine, doesn't it? Well, it stimulates addiction.

Sans dairy, skin looked clearer [what? blemish-free?] and feels better.  

Improved body composition.  He leaned out even more, dropping a little more body fat, and muscles looked sharper, more defined, more ripped, more toned.  Same workouts.  Same over-all way of eating.  The only variable changed was removing dairy.  Got so excited he posted a picture on his YouTube page.  Saw definition he'd never really had before and that got his attention.  Showed him that even dairy is carnivore, it can still slow things down for some people; it can gum-up the works.  

WHY DOES DAIRY CAUSE THAT?

A few possible reasons.  One, dairy contains lactose, a sugar.  It can stimulate insulin in some individuals more than they realize.  It also contains proteins, like casein, which can be inflammatory or harder to tolerate for some people.  Casomorphin.  Sounds like morphine, doesn't it?  Well, it stimulates addiction.  There's a reality.  Dairy is very easy to over consume.  It's hyperpalatable.  It's easy calories.  And it can quietly stall fat-loss without you even noticing.  So he removed it, and everything tightened up.

IMPORTANT PART

I'm not saying that dairy is bad.  I'm not saying this.  For me, removing it leveled me up.  That's it.  And now I have a choice.  I can have dairy if I want, but I choose not to most of the time because I'm experiencing a big difference, a positive difference.  And once you feel that difference, you don't want to unfeel it.  So if you're on carnivore, and you're feeling a little stuck, or your skin isn't where you want it to be, or your body composition isn't dialed in, try it.  Take dairy out for a week or two.  Not about rules, it's about results.  Eat the proper human diet and fine tune it to you, that's when you become the optimized version of yourself.  

IF NOT FROM DAIRY, WHAT'S A GOOD SOURCE FOR CALCIUM? 

I want to get calcium. I'm getting it in my carnivore diet.  I used to think I was getting it from all of my dairy, which I was, but I don't need that much calcium personally.  If you need calcium, a little more, dairy may be good for you. I'm getting mine from my sardines because I get the bones in and the skin on, and there's my calcium right there in the tiny bones.

DR. SHAWN BAKER: Dairy is a highly absorbable, digestible protein worldwide. Whereas dairy consumption is up, milk drinking is down

Shawn references these farmers off the bat. 

Scandinavian countries are the largest consumers of dairy, and the average life expectancy there is 81.79 in 2019.  So not bad, not bad at all.  The purpose of dairy is growth.

TDF Honest farming.

IowaDaryFarmer.

Tara Vander Dussen.

Big_Farmer_Andy.  

Scandinavian countries are the largest consumers of dairy, and the average life expectancy there is 81.79 in 2019.  So not bad, not bad at all.  

The purpose of dairy is growth.  The protein and macronutrients of dairy is one reason why it is so good for promoting growth. 

Digestible Indispensable Amino Acid Score., DIAAS. 

Dairy is a highly absorbable, digestible protein worldwide.  There's no doubt about that.  Even lactose-intolerant folks are still able to obtain lactose-free dairy products.  

Dairy is not very satiating, particularly drinking calories, so people tend to overconsume and that is one factor of weight gain with dairy.  Drinking calories to lose weight is a poor choice.  

Dairy consumption has gone up, but milk consumption has gone down.  "American Dairy Consumption Reaches an All-Time High: Cheese, Butter, and Yogurt Continue to Drive Growth for Dairy Industry," September 16, 2020. 

Plant milk products when you compare them nutritionally, they're not even close.  "They're complete garbage in my view, but some people like them."

If people have issues with dairy, it's plain old milk, which can cause bloating and digestive issues, and some people develop rashes.

Raw dairy is illegal in many places in the United States, I'm not sure where