What is up you guys? Welcome to another edition of controversial thoughts.

I thought that for this week I would address this question, which I think is an interesting one for me at this point, which is,

am I an omnivore is carnivore MD an omnivore?

So let's dig into this. I want to start this with a little bit about my story.

And then I want to tell you the story of two different hominid precursors,

Perinthropus and homo habilis or homo erectus. But first my story.

So you guys may know this if you follow me for a while, but I grew up in a medical family.

My dad was a physician. My mom was a nurse. I've always been fascinated by food and interactions

between food and chronic illness. I had my own chronic illness, specifically exama and asthma,

conditions of ATP, which really hampered my ability to do the things I liked throughout my life,

whether it was jujitsu in medical school or surfing in residency. I had severe severe exama at times,

based on what I believe were different foods that I was eating. So that was the genesis of my

interest and the genesis of my carnivore diet experiment. Over three years ago now,

I cut out all the plants from my diet and I ate only meat and organs and fat and salt and water

for about a year and a half. And this was great. It really improved my exama. It went away

completely. I never had any recurrence of exama unless I tried to introduce certain plant foods from

for me, specifically it was squash that seemed to trigger my exama when I reintroduced it.

And things were great except that long-term ketosis didn't work well for me.

I've done previous videos about why I'm not a fan of long-term ketosis. And in short,

it was that for me, it caused really severe electrolyte deficiencies, which manifested as

heart palpitations, muscle cramps, and sleep disturbances. A lot of people get this. We hear

emails from you guys and messages from you guys all the time at heart and soil.

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