400: Dr. Paul Saladino on The Carnivore Code
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2021
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Paul Saladino (IG: @carnivoremd) is the leading authority on the science and application of the carnivore diet. He has used this diet to reverse autoimmunity, chronic inflammation and mental health issues in hundreds of patients, many of whom had been told their conditions were untreatable.
In addition to Paul's personal podcast, Fundamental Health, he can be found featured on numerous other podcasts.
Paul's book is The Carnivore Code: Unlocking the Secrets to Optimal Health by Returning to our Ancestral Diet.
In this episode, we discuss:
- What is the nose to tail carnivore diet?
- Paul’s health is thriving on an animal based diet
- Studying the diet of the Hadza hunter-gatherer people
- The raw vegan diet and then eating paleo didn’t heal Paul’s eczema
- Including honey on the carnivore diet
- How reintroducing squash caused Paul's eczema to return
- The plant toxicity spectrum
- Animal defence mechanisms vs. plant defence chemicals
- Plant seeds are full of digestive enzyme inhibitors
- Spinach is not your friend
- Paul’s daily time restricted feeding window
- What to do if you experience muscle cramps or heart palpitations on the carnivore diet
- Eating the fruit of the plant not vegetables (roots, stems, & leaves)
- There are nutrients not found in plant foods
- Heme iron is required to correct anemia
- Consuming 4-6 ounces of liver a week is totally safe
- Your body craves animal meat more than plant food
- How to include organ meats into your daily routine
- The reason Paul created Heart and Soil
- What Paul eats in a day
- Source good quality meat from regenerative farms
- Aim for “grass fed, grass finished” meat not “grain finished”
- There is no evidence to support that cows contribute to climate change
- Hunting and the beautiful cycle of life
- Eating foods celebrated by our ancestors
- The benefits of colostrum
- Coffee is a plant seed… and why you shouldn't drink it
- A plant molecule is a medication with a side effect
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Related links:
Dr. Paul Saladino - The Carnivore Code (book)
Dr. Paul Saladino's (Carnivore MD) website
Follow Dr. Paul Saladino (Carnivore MD) on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Fundamental Health with Paul Saladino, MD (podcast)
Dr. Paul Saladino on The Joe Rogan Experience (podcast)
Loren Cordain - The Paleo Diet (book)
Will a ketogenic diet wreck your hormones? Jaime Seeman, MD on Fundamental Health (podcast)
The Weston A. Price Foundation
Robb Wolf & Diana Rodgers - Sacred Cow (book)
Listen to Robb Wolf previously on TUHP (episode #364)
Listen to Ryland Engelhart previously on TUHP (episode #372)
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376: David Bronner – Dr. Bronner’s Is More Than A Soap Company
370: John & Molly Chester – The Biggest Little Farm
249: Dr. Anthony Gustin – The Carnivore Diet • Setting & Tracking Goals • Breaking Down Keto
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on the Ultimate Health podcast. |
| 0:02.4 | There's amazing studies looking at |
| 0:05.2 | the cognitive performance of vegans and vegetarians |
| 0:08.1 | and the improvements in that cognitive performance |
| 0:10.2 | when they're supplemented with creatine. |
| 0:11.9 | And if that's not just an absolutely clear indication |
| 0:16.4 | that there are nutrients not found in plant foods |
| 0:18.3 | that you need from animal foods, I don't know what is. |
| 0:20.0 | I mean, these vegans and vegetarians |
| 0:21.7 | have better working memory, card sorting tasks, |
| 0:23.7 | recall when they're given creatine, |
| 0:25.8 | but there is no creatine in plant foods. |
| 0:28.6 | Now, the human body can make a small amount |
| 0:30.6 | of creatine, carnitine and carnicine |
| 0:33.5 | and a little bit of coline, but we cannot make enough. |
| 0:36.4 | And there are lots of studies looking |
| 0:38.0 | at vegans and vegetarians showing significantly |
| 0:40.4 | decreased levels and it adequate production of these things. |
| 0:49.1 | Hello and welcome to Ultimate Health Podcast episode 400. |
| 0:52.7 | I'm Jesse Chapis and I'm here to take your health |
| 0:54.8 | to the next level. |
| 0:56.0 | Each week I'll bring you in-depth conversations |
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