379: Dr. Shawn Baker - The Carnivore Diet
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2020
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Shawn Baker (IG: @shawnbaker1967) is an orthopedic surgeon, a world record holding athlete, a father and a proponent of the carnivore diet.
He’s the CEO at MeatRx and author of The Carnivore Diet.
Shawn is an international speaker, podcast host and consultant.
In this episode, we discuss:
- The carnivore diet
- The evolution of Shawn’s diet over the years
- The carnivore diet isn’t reverse veganism
- Living on leaves and lean protein doesn’t work for everyone
- Shawn eats 4500 calories/day
- Following a time-restricted eating (TRE) schedule
- Increasing daily protein intake improves strength
- Elite & endurance athletes find success on the carnivore diet
- Breaking down Shawn’s lab results
- Ground beef from grass-fed and grain-fed cattle
- Degenerative monoculture vs. regenerative farming
- Regenerative agriculture can offset carbon emissions
- Who’s controlling our food supply?
- Plant-based/vegan diets do more harm to the environment than people realize
- The history of all meat diets
- There is no evidence that shows you’ll die of a heart attack from eating a carnivore diet
- Is a carnivore diet what our ancestors ate?
- The hybridization of food over the years
- The anatomy and physiology of a carnivore
- How Shawn’s digestion changed on a carnivore diet
- Animals are tremendous sources of nutrient intensification
- Can you get adequate vitamin C on a meat-based diet?
- Is salt a supplement?
- The facts about gout & the carnivore diet
- How to properly transition to the carnivore diet
- Craving meat-based nutrition
- A sustainable diet is one where you enjoy the food
- How Shawn cooks the meat he eats
- Experimenting with raw meat
- Are there any health benefits from eating nose to tail/organ meats?
- Is there any evidence that our ancestors consumed organ meats?
- Subsistence eating vs. surplus eating
- Shawn’s thoughts about hunting
- Is iron overload a concern on a carnivore diet?
- Do your own research
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Related links:
Dr. Shawn Baker - The Carnivore Diet (book)
Follow Dr. Shawn Baker on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Human Perormance Outliers Podcast
Stephen B. Smith, Ph.D. - Ground beef from grass-fed and grain-fed cattle: Does it matter? (article)
Food Climate Research Network - Grazed & Confused (article)
Dr. Allen Williams, Ph.D. - Joyce Farms
Alderspring Ranch Grass Fed Beef
Joe Rogan Experience #1050 – Dr. Shawn Baker
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on the ultimate health podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | If the US would adopt up to 50% of its animal agriculture |
| 0:07.6 | finished in a region of where we could all set all carbon emissions |
| 0:11.0 | the country meds through transportation, through industry, through energy sector, |
| 0:16.0 | just by grazing more cows in a region of way. |
| 0:19.3 | We could also have all the carbon becomes carbon net neutral with our cows and incidentally or |
| 0:24.9 | coincidentally you can actually do it in a way to where you can increase your |
| 0:29.7 | production yields per acre a lot of these guys are running three or 400% more head of cattle on the same |
| 0:35.6 | acreage by doing it in a regenerative fashion. |
| 0:45.0 | Hello. Hello and welcome to the Ultimate Health Podcast episode 379. |
| 0:48.0 | I'm Jesse Chappas and I'm here to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:52.0 | Each week I'll bring you in-depth conversations with health and I'm here to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:52.6 | Each week I'll bring you in-depth conversations with health and wellness leaders from |
| 0:56.1 | around the world. |
| 0:57.8 | This week I'm speaking with Dr. Sean Baker. |
| 1:00.3 | He's an orthopedic surgeon, a world record holding athlete, a father, and a proponent of the carnivore diet. |
| 1:06.2 | He's a CEO at Meador X and the author of the carnivore Diet. |
| 1:10.1 | Sean is an international speaker, podcast host, and consultant. |
| 1:15.0 | And up until this point, we really haven't went deep into the carnivore diet on the podcast. |
| 1:19.0 | We had Dr Anthony Guston on talking about his experiment with the diet, but today we're going super deep. |
| 1:25.5 | Some of the highlights include how the carnivore diet isn't reverse veganism, breaking down |
| 1:30.1 | Sean's lab results, the history of all meat diets, can you get adequate |
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