An Update on My Bloodwork After 5 Years on the Carnivore Diet

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0:00 What is going on
8:58 my next steps, negative symptoms, & risks

What does my full bloodwork after 5 years on the carnivore diet? We go over cholesterol, NMR, VLDL, Remnant, Blood sugar, Inflammation markers, vitamin deficiencies, nutrient levels, and CAC Scan Score. I am not a doctor, please consult a physician before implementing major changes to your diet.

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It is mind-blowing it’s devastating it’s wow I’m going to have a heart attack what am I going to do quit the Carnivor diet hey carnivores welcome back to the channel I’m Bella the steak and butter gal I have been carnivore for 5 years now and before it was carnivore I was

Vegan for 6 years and if you’re new to this channel I absolutely love sharing everything that I’ve learned everything that I experiment with here on my channel steak and butter gal if you are already a subscriber I want to check in on you how are you doing how’s your

Carnival progress going are you currently struggling with anything in particular or have you recently celebrated any exciting victories I would love to see all of your updates Down Below in the comments so today’s video I want to keep it very concise straightforward uh because I want to

Share with you something that I really had to open my mind to and also I want to ask for your advice your opinions your thoughts on this matter I got to spend some time talking with Dr Philip ovia he is a board certified heart surgeon to actually show him my blood

Work and I will link the video down below in the description box if you want to watch it it is a phenomenal video because he breaks down everything on like what to look at what to pay attention to what’s important what’s not important and he looked at my blood work

I actually provided my vegan blood work compared to my Carnivor blood work the reality check happened when he got to my vitamin D levels and he did give me recognition that hey I definitely improved it a lot from My Vegan vit D levels which was 12 and let me just

Check to make sure okay it was 12.1 when I was vegan after going carnivore it jumped up to 23.5 by the way if you are still believing that high total cholesterol high LDL in your blood work is a big red flag or if your family is pressuring you telling you these things

And scaring you Dr ovadia explains so well why the LDL is not what one should focus on it’s the triglycerides the HDL The Remnant cholesterol and he teaches us how to um calculate all of it even though my cholesterol really spiked up from 173 total cholesterol when I was vegan to a whopping

365 total cholesterol when I became carnivore that to anyone is shocking Dr ovadia reassured so plainly and simply that that total cholesterol is not a Rel reliable accurate marker of where your heart health condition is with that your LDL cholesterol went from 81 to 264 and you know this is something to

Point out that one of the main Health metrics that’s used to promote and push you know vegan diets is LDL cholesterol but as I said earlier LDL cholesterol is a very lousy predictor of heart disease risk I am not concerned with my cholesterol numbers in fact I am proud

Of my triglyceride and my HDL numbers and the ratio that I got you have the lowest triglyceride level I believe seen at 15 uh certainly you know probably some genetics and uh everything else going on there and my Remnant cholesterol after ovadia calculated it for me Remnant cholesterol to calculate

Remnant cholesterol you take your total cholesterol and then you subtract your HDL cholesterol and then you subtract your LDL cholesterol what’s left over is what’s considered your Remnant cholesterol your Remnant cholesterol would be three so wow again you know one of the lowest I’ve seen But what I am concerned

And what I kind of had to wake up to is my vitamin D levels so the ideal vitamin D levels you want it between 50 to 70 you know somewhere ballpark around there of nanog per milliliter I gave carnivore diet a chance for the past 5 years to

Just raise that vitamin D level up to 50 at least well my recent lab work clearly shows that I’m still quite deficient now your vitamin D level as a vegan was exceptionally low at 12.1 it’s gotten better 23.5 uh but again I would tell you that you probably still want that to be

Higher right now where you live uh even when the sun’s out for much of the year it’s going to be at too low of an angle to really be effective for vitamin D synthesis so you’re someone else that may need to supplement vitamin D now that I’m 5 years into the carnivore diet

I think I can say that I have a pretty good idea about what’s working with the foods that I’m eating and what’s not working as well as I thought it would with the foods that I’m eating I’ve been eating carnivore and high high high fat carnivore I never shy away from sharing

And saying just how much fat I love to eat not because I force myself to eat more fat for any reason it’s because I know my body craves for it I know how great I feel when I eat more animal fats and it has healed so much already for me

My hormones it brought back my period it has completely upped um the quality of my skin it’s healed my autoimmune issues I know that it must have also been in conjunction with sticking to a carnivore diet lifestyle but clearly it’s just not giving me enough where my body can

Convert it to quality vitamin D3 one of the biggest improvements when it comes to sunlight and getting that vitamin D3 is I don’t burn anymore if you eat animal foods and you cut out the seed oils peanut oil sunflower oil canola oil all of those rancid seed oils when you

Cut those out completely and instead eat delicious saturated fats animal fats and just animal Foods your skin is able to tolerate the Sun not only do I no longer burn in the Sun I notice that I don’t get sensitive irritated uh itchy even when I am out in direct sunlight for

Long periods of time so I can tolerate the sun I can properly enjoy that gorgeous sunlight and how wonderful it feels on our skin but my skin and my body does not react or get this allergic reaction where it becomes inflamed red flaky dry itchy sometimes I used to get

Itchy just by being out in the sun and now I’m understand why my vitamin D levels were 12 so I am now going to make it a proper goal and a commitment to see how high I can get my vitamin D3 levels I will be taking my blood work in a

Couple months definitely by the end of this year just to see how effective taking vitamin D3 not in sunlight form can possibly be so why do I mention not in sunlight form I am not actively avoiding the sunlight in fact I have understood the power of being in the

Sunlight I no longer fear sunlight I was raised to believe that sunlight is cancerous it is toxic it is dangerous and so I grew up as a child avoiding the sun my mom didn’t let me play out in the sun she didn’t ever let me out of the

House without just slathering tons of sunscreen on and she always made sure that I wore hats covered up even when I was out in the sun she was not well informed about how important sunlight actually is but one thing that I do stand by is look if you care about your

Face if you expose your face skin which is very thin uh sensitive skin to the sun too much for too long your skin will be more prone to develop sunspots freckles uh premature aging and wrinkling of the skin I think freckles are beautiful I see in my parents even

That their Sun freckles when they were younger were little dots little tiny little cute little Freckles but the more they age those sunspots and freckles become large brown patches and they’re very pigmented so I would prefer to not have to develop bigger sunspots on my

Face so that is why I do wear a sunscreen on my face only when I have to be exposed in the sun over the summertime I make it a point to get sunlight every single day I live in Seattle Washington the Pacific Northwest our Winters here

Uh have no quality Sun this is where I had to face reality it’s time it’s time to supplement in some shape or form and this is where I’m going to share with you what I’ve learned which types of supplement you want to take a D3 plus a

K2 a vitamin D3 as a post of vitamin D2 because D3 is Cola calciferol and that is the best form of vitamin D for our bodies the second option obviously is to just eat lots of foods rich in vitamin D3 and K2 I tried as best as I can in

The past 5 years I eat 12 to 18 eggs a day yolks are known to be very high in vitamin d i frequently eat seafood ranging from oysters salmon tuna hbet just all types of seafood as frequently as I possibly can I eat so much grass-fed butter and unfortunately it’s

Not enough for my body to produce enough vitamin D to get to that optimal level range so besides getting more sun obviously which I already ruled out I live in Seattle there’s no sun there’s not going to be any sun for the next four 5 6 months I ruled out eating

Vitamin D Rich carnivore food if you also want to up your vitamin D levels and you also feel like the two that I ruled out applies to you we can either supplement with a really good vitamin D3 K2 supplement or we can get an invest in

A spy lamp the sparity lamp is not affordable by any means I checked on Amazon it is hundreds of dollars so I’m thinking about that still and the third one is move somewhere with quality amazing sunlight or go on vacations to places with sunny weather I don’t think

I will have the time this coming winter I definitely will not be moving anytime soon I really think since I’m going to get married soon I just got engaged we are probably going to settle down in Seattle Washington here’s where I did research on what brands of supplements

Do carnivores love seeking health and and naturewise okay so I’ll put up photos on the screen seeking health is in drop form I decided to go with drop form because the ingredients were the most minimal it was literally just D3 and olive oil those were the only

Ingredients and it’s in drop form so you don’t have to take in the supplement casing which usually has glycerin in it and glycerin is a form of sugar and the other brand is uh nature wise and this is in supplement form but the down sides

Of this one is it only gives you vitamin D3 they don’t put any K2 in it and there is a supplement casing uh with the ingredient glycerin I was not able to find a supplement D3 K2 supplement that used an animal fat in the ingredients but because so many carnivores on

Instagram when I asked for recommendations um brought up seeking health and naturewise I went ahead and just ordered both of them now I do want to share that I’ve only started implementing vitamin D3 K2 sub uh just very recently about 2 to 3 weeks ago pretty much right after I had the

Interview with Dr ovadia where he told me I should supplement with vitamin D3 the one that I actually decided to just go for was the seeking Health brand something else I do need to know is quantity of vitamin D how many iuse should one take this is obviously best

To ask your health practitioner but it usually ranges from 200 IU to 10,000 IU so I’ve been taking this vitamin D3 K2 drop every single day one single little drop is 500 IU worth of vitamin D3 if any of you guys watching this video are wondering why did you give carnivore

Diet 5 years such a long time to try to up your vitamin D why didn’t you supplement any sooner this is why I go by how I feel I am very hyper aware of my energy levels how it fluctuates dayto Day My Sleep Quality how my cycle experiences are every single month and

There just have been no concerns in How I Feel dayto day for the past 5 years where I felt like hm something something is off signs of very low vitamin D are the following bone AES chronic fatigue lowered immune system so getting sick often uh depressed mood muscle aches

Okay these are just a few serious symptoms of extreme vitamin D deficiency well I didn’t get any of these symptoms so I just wonder if even though the number on my vitamin D level s are not optimal my body must still be doing great with the Vitamin D it is getting

From the food that I’m eating and from the days that I do go outside and absorb all that quality sunlight I would absolutely love to hear your thoughts on the case that I brought up today and on the flip side some of you may be wondering well if everything is going

Great why take supplements now this is where I want to share some studies and I have linked all of these studies Down Below in the description box but as you can see studies say that vitamin D supplementation improves cognitive function vitamin D deficiency is associated with an increased likelihood

Of incident depression vitamin D deficiency also increases mortality risk vitamin D deficit is associated with accelerated brain aging so more than anything I am excited and curious to see how taking Vitamin D supplements in addition to a carnivore diet can affect how I feel my energy and my brain

Function something else that we should be aware of is keep an eye on your magnesium levels you may need to even supplement with magnesium when you start supplementing with vitamin D so as I experiment with my seeking Health vitamin D I will be keeping tabs on whether or not I’m getting more muscle

Cramps muscle aches signs of depleted magnesium levels any signs of electrolyte imbalance and electrolyte imbalance tends to be the culprit for a lot of adaptation symptoms like fatigue headache muscle cramping lower endurance in the gym and I always recommend leaning on salty heavier on all of your

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