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Arny DM
@arny_dm
Carnivore athlete | Ex-tennis | Beach volleyball competitor | I ditched carbs & seed oils — gained energy, strength & clarity | Beef. Salt. Water. | Not medical
USA Katılım Mayıs 2022
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Constipation isn't a fiber deficiency. It's a fat deficiency. A salt deficiency. A "you've been given the wrong advice for 30 years" deficiency.
Here's what's actually happening:
No fat = no movement.Animal fat stimulates bile production. Bile triggers peristalsis — the wave that moves everything through. Remove the fat and the colon slows down. Food dries out. Stool hardens. The low-fat diet didn't just make you hungry. It broke your plumbing.
No salt = no water in the colon.The large intestine reabsorbs water via sodium-potassium pumps. Low salt diet = body hoards sodium = pulls maximum water from stool. Result: dry, hard, "rabbit pellet" stool that goes nowhere. The low-sodium advice your doctor gave you made your constipation worse. Not better.
More fiber = more problems.Fiber increases bulk, stretches the colon walls, disrupts mechanoreceptor sensitivity. Mechanically damages the mucosal lining causing chronic micro-inflammation. Creates fermentation, gas, and bloating. Can actually slow peristalsis and cause stagnation. The "eat more fiber" prescription is making IBS patients sicker. The fiber industry knows this. Your gastroenterologist keeps prescribing it anyway.
What the colon actually needs:The large intestine has one job — reabsorb water, electrolytes, and compact waste. It doesn't need roughage to do that. It needs fat. It needs salt. It needs real food.
The actual protocol:— Animal fat at every meal. Meat, fish, eggs, butter. — Salt to taste. No artificial restriction. — Water when thirsty. Not by schedule.
No psyllium husk. No green smoothies. No "colon cleanses." No fiber supplements. No laxative dependency.
Just the food your colon was built to process.
The gut doesn't need cleaning. It needs feeding correctly.
Not medical advice.
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Waking up starving every morning isn't normal. It's your blood sugar crashing at 3am while you sleep. And the carbs you ate for dinner caused it.
Here's exactly what happens: You eat carbs at night. Blood sugar spikes. Insulin floods in to clean it up. Insulin stays elevated while you sleep — especially if you're insulin resistant. Elevated insulin blocks gluconeogenesis — your body's ability to make new glucose overnight. Blocks the liver from releasing glycogen properly. By 4-5am your brain is running on empty.
Emergency mode activates. Cortisol. Adrenaline. Panic signals.
You wake up with: — Ravenous hunger — Irritability — Anxiety — Weakness — Sometimes sweating or dizziness
And everyone told you this was normal. "Your body needs breakfast." No. Your body needs to fix what dinner broke.
Then you eat carbs for breakfast because that's what you're craving. Blood sugar spikes again. Insulin floods in again. Crashes again by 10am. Hungry again by 11am.
You've been running this loop every single day for years. Thinking you have no willpower. Thinking you're addicted to food. Thinking this is just how you are.
It's not you. It's reactive hypoglycemia. A biochemical trap nobody explained to you.
The exit: Eat animal fat and protein at dinner. No carbs. No spike. No crash. No 3am cortisol dump. Your body evolved to run on this.
Wake up calm, stable, actually not hungry. If you're not hungry in the morning — don't eat. Let your body learn to use its own fuel. That's metabolic flexibility. Most people lost it years ago.
When hunger does arrive — eggs, meat, butter. Real human food. Not oatmeal. Not fruit. Not the fake "heart-healthy breakfast" the food industry sold you.
You're not broken. You're just running on the wrong fuel. And the right fuel doesn't come in a cereal box.
Not medical advice.
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Colleague: "Beef at nine in the morning."
Me: "Yes."
Colleague: "That's not really a breakfast though, is it."
Me: "It is. I'm eating it. At breakfast."
Colleague: "Beef is dinner food."
Me: "Where is that written down."
Colleague: "Everyone knows it."
Me: "Everyone also knew margarine was healthy. Everyone is a committee."
Colleague: "I've got my overnight oats."
Me: "Sounds ominous."
Colleague: "Oats, almond milk, maple syrup, chia, blueberries, a sprinkle of granola."
Me: "So that's oats, sugar water, more sugar, lawn clippings, more sugar, and a biscuit on top."
Colleague: "It's a superfood breakfast."
Me: "It's a pudding you left in the fridge to age into something serious."
Colleague: "At least it's not heavy."
Me: "It's got more sugar in it than a Twix. The Twix is just honest about it."
Colleague: "..."
Me: "Enjoy your dessert."
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Exactly. People forget that "natural" grocery store fruits are just biological inventions engineered for maximum fructose. Evolutionarily, we didn't grow a massive, complex brain by munching on bitter, seedy wild berries once a year. We built it on nutrient-dense animal fat and meat. Believing our ancestors survived on modern cotton-candy grapes and engineered seedless watermelons is peak historical illiteracy.
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@arny_dm @AruGanesh Not to mention that ancient fruits and vegetables were small, bitter, and had almost no carbs. Bananas and melons were small, tasteless, and full of seeds. Decades of selective breeding and genetic engineering turned them into the sweet, calorie-dense fruits we know today.
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Of course not. That’s why animals have legs and horns to defend themselves physically. Once the hunt is over, the meat is 100% safe and bioavailable. Plants can't run, so their defense is purely chemical, and that battle continues inside your gut. For your own general education, just google human stomach acidity and compare it to other animals. You’ll quickly see our acidity matches scavengers. Our stomach acid is incredibly strong—closer to battery acid—designed to dissolve meat, bone, and kill pathogens, not to ferment fruit and seeds. It really makes you think about what we actually are by nature. We also have a gallbladder built specifically to release bile when we eat animal fat, allowing us to absorb essential vitamins. If you eat a low-fat plant diet, that bile just sits there, stagnates into gallstones, and gets surgically removed. Also, think about real nature. If you walk into the wild, you won't magically find year-round blueberries, avocados, and bananas. That’s a supermarket illusion. Modern fruits are just sugar bombs so drenched in pesticides that even insects refuse to eat them. In the real wild, you might stumble upon some berries once a year for a tiny seasonal window. And if you gorge on them? You’ll just end up with diarrhea, absorb almost nothing, and go right back to hunting for the real fuel your body actually demands. And ethically? To grow your "cruelty-free" grains and fruit, modern agriculture clear-cuts forests, sprays toxic chemicals, slaughters billions of insects and field animals, and destroys the topsoil until it turns into a dead desert. We are biologically designed to eat meat and regenerate the earth, not destroy entire ecosystems for plant monocrops.
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Yes, absolutely. Since you don't have a gallbladder to store and release large amounts of bile all at once, digesting high animal fat can be tough at first. Ox bile is a total game-changer for this—it acts as the exact replacement you need to properly emulsify and absorb the fat. I'd also highly recommend eating smaller, more frequent meals at first rather than one huge fatty meal. This gives your liver time to handle the fat load and adapt smoothly.
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@arny_dm I don’t have a gallbladder. Would you recommend adding ox bile?
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Constipation isn't a fiber deficiency. It's a fat deficiency. A salt deficiency. A "you've been given the wrong advice for 30 years" deficiency.
Here's what's actually happening:
No fat = no movement.Animal fat stimulates bile production. Bile triggers peristalsis — the wave that moves everything through. Remove the fat and the colon slows down. Food dries out. Stool hardens. The low-fat diet didn't just make you hungry. It broke your plumbing.
No salt = no water in the colon.The large intestine reabsorbs water via sodium-potassium pumps. Low salt diet = body hoards sodium = pulls maximum water from stool. Result: dry, hard, "rabbit pellet" stool that goes nowhere. The low-sodium advice your doctor gave you made your constipation worse. Not better.
More fiber = more problems.Fiber increases bulk, stretches the colon walls, disrupts mechanoreceptor sensitivity. Mechanically damages the mucosal lining causing chronic micro-inflammation. Creates fermentation, gas, and bloating. Can actually slow peristalsis and cause stagnation. The "eat more fiber" prescription is making IBS patients sicker. The fiber industry knows this. Your gastroenterologist keeps prescribing it anyway.
What the colon actually needs:The large intestine has one job — reabsorb water, electrolytes, and compact waste. It doesn't need roughage to do that. It needs fat. It needs salt. It needs real food.
The actual protocol:— Animal fat at every meal. Meat, fish, eggs, butter. — Salt to taste. No artificial restriction. — Water when thirsty. Not by schedule.
No psyllium husk. No green smoothies. No "colon cleanses." No fiber supplements. No laxative dependency.
Just the food your colon was built to process.
The gut doesn't need cleaning. It needs feeding correctly.
Not medical advice.
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@jagaraajadheera Thanks! Glad it resonates. The truth is always much simpler than what the mainstream narrative tells us.
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Sure, that reduces them. But look at what you just described. If a food requires overnight soaking, heavy boiling, and frying just to make it safe enough to swallow without destroying your gut, it's not optimal human fuel. You're doing a 24-hour chemistry experiment just to remove the poison. Meanwhile, a steak is perfectly safe and 100% bioavailable right off the fire. Why fight nature?
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The salt is the real MVP here. When you drop carbs and run on fat, your body flushes sodium fast. If you don't replenish it, your energy and digestion will crash. And for anyone recovering from a heavy plant-based diet, that citric acid is a great tool to help clear out oxalate dumping (kidney stones). Proper hydration with heavy salt is non-negotiable for elite performance.
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Spot on. The whole "eat your fiber" and "breakfast is the most important meal" thing was literally a marketing scam from the 1900s to sell cheap grains. They boxed up dirt-cheap crops, slapped a "heart healthy" label on them, and demonized real meat. Now the world runs on cardboard food and wonders why everyone is sick and bloated.
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@arny_dm The fiber lie and the cereal market that went with it
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@dr_ericberg Dropping all fiber and plant toxins, and switching to strict meat and high animal fat. My energy went from a rollercoaster of afternoon crashes to dead stable all day. Joint pain vanished, no more balloon stomach, and the constant hunger completely disappeared. Pure elite fuel.
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Plants don't want to be eaten. They can't run. They can't fight. So they made lectins instead.
Lectins are biochemical weapons plants use to damage anything that eats them. And we built an entire food pyramid around them.
Here's what they actually do:
They destroy your gut lining.Wheat agglutinin and bean lectins bind to intestinal cells and punch holes through them. That's leaky gut — undigested food particles, toxins, and bacteria entering your bloodstream directly. Your immune system sees foreign invaders and declares war. On you.
They wreck your microbiome.Lectins are toxic to beneficial bacteria. Dysbiosis follows. Chronic inflammation follows. Then your doctor calls it IBS and hands you fiber supplements. More lectins. More damage. Repeat.
They trigger autoimmune disease.Once the gut is leaky, your immune system starts misidentifying your own tissues as foreign. Rheumatoid arthritis. Hashimoto's. Psoriasis. Lupus. Multiple sclerosis. The connection to lectins isn't fringe science. It's basic immunology.
Where they hide:— Every grain. Wheat especially — WGA is one of the most aggressive lectins known. — All legumes. Cooking doesn't fully destroy them. Red kidney beans eaten raw can hospitalize you. — Nightshades. Tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, potatoes. — Nuts and seeds. Peanuts, cashews, sunflower, chia. — Dairy from grain-fed cows. The lectin problem travels through the feed.
The solution nobody wants to say out loud:Stop eating the things built to defend themselves from being eaten. Meat has no lectins. Eggs have no lectins. Fish has no lectins. They weren't trying to survive being eaten. They're just food.
The autoimmune epidemic, the IBS epidemic, the leaky gut epidemic. All exploded at the same time we were told to eat more whole grains and legumes. The timing isn't subtle.
Not medical advice.
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If you want actual anthropology instead of myths, listen to Mary Ruddick. She lived with indigenous tribes and explains exactly why the "Blue Zones" longevity data is largely a myth and how real traditional cultures thrive on animal products, not just leaves.
youtube.com/live/QhQVETLSd…

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@MasalaFry69 @arny_dm Some of the oldest people in the world are from India. India has over 30% vegetarians. If we are to believe you they'd all be unhealthy when in fact they look healthier than the average American.
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Looking "healthier than the average American" is the lowest bar imaginable since the standard American diet is pure processed garbage. But let's look at reality. India is currently the diabetes capital of the world, dealing with a massive metabolic syndrome epidemic. Secondly, traditional Indian vegetarians don't just survive on leaves—their diet is historically carried by massive amounts of animal fat like pure ghee, raw milk, and paneer. Take away the animal fat, and they crumble. And just like the whole "Blue Zones" myth that anthropologists are exposing right now, a lot of those extreme longevity records in plant-based areas come down to terrible birth record keeping and pension fraud, not a magical plant diet.
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@HandlerRabbi Exactly, the old school got it right. When you drop carbs, your body dumps water and sodium fast. Without adding proper salt to those high fats, your digestion slows down and your performance crashes. Salt and animal fat are the ultimate baseline for a healthy gut.
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@arny_dm ABSOLUTELY TRUE. THE ATKINS DIET SPECIFICALLY DEMANDS SALT, TO GO WITH THE HIGH FATS!
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I’m so glad to hear you found relief. Crohn’s is no joke, and stripping away all that abrasive fiber and plant toxins is the best thing you can do to let your gut lining finally heal. Animal fat and protein are literally medicine for a damaged gut. Keep crushing it, your story will definitely help others realize they don’t have to suffer.
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@arny_dm Having crohns and switching to carnivore diet i believe this
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Yeah, completely off the menu for my normal routine. I used to think sweet potatoes and blueberries were healthy, but they just kept me in a constant cycle of hunger crashes and joint pain, not to mention the balloon stomach from all the fiber. Now for hitting the gym or a regular 2-hour tennis session, pure meat and fat are more than enough to keep my energy dead stable with zero cravings and a perfectly flat stomach. But I'll be honest: if I’m doing brutal, elite-level physical labor or training like a pro tennis player all day long on court, that's when I'll strategically reach for things like berries or fruit for that extra explosive power. For 95% of my life, pure animal fuel keeps me flawless, but it’s all about listening to your body and matching your fuel to the actual workload.
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@arny_dm @AlpacaAurelius So blueberries and sweet potatoes are off the menu for you?
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Evolution actually sorted us out as apex predators. Humans survived on plants during ice ages and famines when they couldn't get meat, but survival food isn't optimal fuel. Our brains grew because of nutrient-dense animal fat and meat, not from chewing on wild roots all day. Seriously, just google human stomach acidity and see what animals we actually match with. You’ll be surprised to find our stomach acid is closer to scavengers and lions, not herbivores. Our bodies were literally designed to break down meat and bone, not ferment massive amounts of fiber. We ate plants so we wouldn't starve, but we thrived on meat.
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@arny_dm @MasalaFry69 How the heck have humans lived millions of years on this planet by eating plants then (among other things)? Evolution sorted this out long ago. It does work.
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