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Robb Wolf - The Paleo Solution Podcast - Paleo diet, nutrition, fitness, and health

Episode 409 - Amber O'Hearn - Carnivore Diet

Robb Wolf - The Paleo Solution Podcast - Paleo diet, nutrition, fitness, and health

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Robb, Crossfit, Health, Intermittent, Paleo, Fasting, Wolf, Diet, Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Fitness

4.6 β€’ 1.5K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 11 September 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

On Episode 409 of the Paleo Solution Podcast we have guest Amber O'Hearn. Amber is a data scientist by profession with a background in math, computer science, linguistics, and psychology. She has been studying and experimenting with ketogenic diets since 1997, and more recently writing and speaking about her findings. Her review on the evolutionary appropriateness and benefit of weaning babies onto a meat-based, high fat, low carb diet, was included as testimony defending Tim Noakes in his recent trial. Amber has been eating a plant-free diet since 2009.

Show Notes

00:48 – Summary/Pre-Intro
1:50 – Amber O’Hearn’s story and background
7:46 – Process of getting into a carnivore diet
11:31 – The stories of transformation and autoimmunity treatment with the carnivore diet
14:08 – Variance in the carnivore diet and what foods it consists of
18:25 - Experimenting with food removal and where to start
22:18 - Exercising while very sick
25:43 – Depression
28:23 – Fecal transplants and gut microbiome
34:50 – Individual results are what matters
38:06 – Comparing drug response efficacy to diet
40:20 – Risk/Reward for a carnivorous diet
43:18 – Who should not do a carnivore diet
45:50 – Social Ostracism
47:52 – Anaerobic exercise, carnivore, and keto
48:30 – Chasing ketones and good protein intake
55:30 – Gluconeogenesis
57:26 – Carnivore diet resources

Website: http://www.empiri.ca/
Amber's Guide: http://www.empiri.ca/p/eat-meat-not-too-little-mostly-fat.html
http://justmeat.co/
http://www.diagnosisdiet.com/

Twitter @KetoCarnivore
Facebook: L. Amber Ohearn
Instagram: @Ambimorph

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey folks, thanks for tuning in to another edition of the Paylor Solution Podcast.

0:07.0

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0:45.0

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0:51.0

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0:52.0

hey guys how are you? Hope all is well. Been

0:54.8

trying to put this podcast together for a long time. It is with Amber O'Hearn.

0:59.3

She is well known within the carnivore diet community.

1:03.5

She has been eating this way for over 10 years

1:05.5

and just a fascinating woman.

1:07.6

She is a computer scientist and mathematician

1:10.0

by training, struggled with a host of health issues ranging from depression to just

1:17.0

kind of a weird systemic malaise that kind of an incremental approach to exploring ancestral eating, starting off with a low-carb

1:26.2

and ketogenic and ultimately carnivore has transformed her life.

1:30.8

So I know the carnivore diet topic is both hot and controversial, but I think

1:36.8

Amber brings just a remarkably balanced and thoughtful approach to the whole thing so I think you'll really

1:44.5

enjoy this one, give it a listen.

1:47.0

Amber, how are you doing?

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