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Hello, everybody. I am doing the carnivore diet for about 2 years. It has been great for my energy, weight maintanence, muscle pain, tooth sensibility, etc. But I spent the great majority of this time with diarrhea or constipation, in the last times only constipation. I tried every tip in the internet, without success. I was afraid I would have to abandon the carnivore diet, because I was even with pain and bleeding when "going to the bathroom". But finally i discovered something that made effect.

It is Brewer's yeast powder. I started using it about two months ago and it is literaly saving my a#@. I know it is not a carnivore food and has fiber, that generate a lot of gas depending on the quantity... but for me it has being a real miracle. I ate about 150g per day in the biginning. Many days even more then 200g because it is really delicious mixtured with melted butter, with a pasty consistency. Now I am trying to limit it to about 75g to not surpass the 20g of carbs per day and stay in ketosis.

I am not sure if it is healthy. But maybe, if like me, you tried everything and is about to give up, it could be of some help.
 
Hello, everybody. I am doing the carnivore diet for about 2 years. It has been great for my energy, weight maintanence, muscle pain, tooth sensibility, etc. But I spent the great majority of this time with diarrhea or constipation, in the last times only constipation. I tried every tip in the internet, without success. I was afraid I would have to abandon the carnivore diet, because I was even with pain and bleeding when "going to the bathroom". But finally i discovered something that made effect.

It is Brewer's yeast powder. I started using it about two months ago and it is literaly saving my a#@. I know it is not a carnivore food and has fiber, that generate a lot of gas depending on the quantity... but for me it has being a real miracle. I ate about 150g per day in the biginning. Many days even more then 200g because it is really delicious mixtured with melted butter, with a pasty consistency. Now I am trying to limit it to about 75g to not surpass the 20g of carbs per day and stay in ketosis.

I am not sure if it is healthy. But maybe, if like me, you tried everything and is about to give up, it could be of some help.
I just noticed that I only go to the bathroom every couple of days. Wouldn’t say it’s constipation though. On the watery end of the spectrum I feel you on that...
 
I've been 90 % carnivore for the last year and a half. Strict for the first 10 months or so. What helped me with toilet issues were two things:

-Adding fat to my diet. NOT processed/rendered fat, but raw animal fat. When I ate ONLY meat, and even fatty meat at that, I had runny/loose stools. Eating suet in place of some of it helped a lot.
-Eating fermented veggies: krauts, kimchi, etc. I didn't even eat these in very large quantities.

These days I still eat ~2-2.5lbs of meat a day, but also eat small amounts of berries, goat cheese, and pureed squash, pumpkin, or sometimes sweet potato. My daily carb intake is easily below 30g still. But the small amount of variety helped me.

Go find a holistic health doctor. If you're still experiencing these issues then you likely have some messed up gut bacteria that needs to be addressed.
 
Abandon the diet, it is just another stupid fad. There is no basis for it, no human beings would have ever eaten nothing beat meat, or even close to it. Long-term you may well be putting your health at risk. If you have blood in your stools for gods sake stop.

Don't see a "holistic health doctor", if you are continuing to have these problems see a real doctor.

The quality of dietary advice on this forum is often dreadful. People need to stop fuelling this eating-disorder nonsense. Take a leaf out of Pavel's book.
 
It’s been 2 day having fever chest infection and body aches it’s a viral infection. Should I keep eating meat or stopped carnivore diet till I fully recover. I had no one to talk about carnivore diet so I came to you guys kindly help
 
It’s been 2 day having fever chest infection and body aches it’s a viral infection. Should I keep eating meat or stopped carnivore diet till I fully recover. I had no one to talk about carnivore diet so I came to you guys kindly help
Two days with a fever and chest infection is a call to the doctor! Carnivore isn’t going to fix a viral infection. Please contact a doctor for your health.
 
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It’s been 2 day having fever chest infection and body aches it’s a viral infection. Should I keep eating meat or stopped carnivore diet till I fully recover. I had no one to talk about carnivore diet so I came to you guys kindly help
For sure go to the doctor.
I’ve eaten carnivore through being sick but I’m also super open to trusting my body. If I really feel like I need a sweet potato I’ll have one. Going off won’t stop long term progress.
If the goal here is to stick to the diet as much as possible just don’t go overboard with sweets or anything. Stick to real food.
 
"Everything in excess is opposed by nature" (Hippocrates 400 b.c.)

@BladesFanUK states a good point and people should start knowing that choosing a diet and self apply it without consulting to real specialists are damaging themselves, its risky and harmful and sometimes damages are irreversible. Instagram / Tiktok / facebook and all those medias are not helping btw as misinformation is even greater.
 
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