Alternatives to Rebuilding & Maintaining Superior Health

I will be adding a new video to the FacelessFatloss channel soon covering both my distilled water experiment as well as the dietary fat experiment.

In the meantime, I wanted to chime in on some youtube creator fodder in the vegan world of late.

Although I am not vegan, I utilize a vegan-style diet in a detox/cycling manner, and have for years.  Usually implementation of it is based on either how I feel, and the time of year so that I can best take advantage of produce that is available.

So I follow a good bunch of vegan channels in an effort to keep up with their community, and see what the latest/greatest finding are in this area, and because I support their ethics on the whole.

Kasey Stern is a mid-thirties youtuber who can be found via a search for “Vegetable Police” on youtube.  I have been following him for quite some time, his subscribers enjoying both his unique sense of humor as well as his honesty in his dietary journey.  On the latter point, much like me, he has dealt with chronic illness, doctors being of absolutely no help to him, and he used diet to help bring himself back to a state of health.  A concept, by the way, that doctors insisted was not possible.

He was a vegan, a strict one but with some minor cheating here and there, for ten years.

He then decided to go carnivore in the past month, in an effort to resolve the persistent gut issues that he has never been able to completely eliminate.

He had substantial success doing this.  He resorted to cow meat to do this, but has not elaborated much on exactly what he’s doing.  It is possible he is even exploring raw meat in this process.

I’ll admit I was disappointed in this new direction, even as a non-vegan.  I personally still do not eat cow meat, and haven’t for almost 30 years, but do consume dairy…which Kasey knows for certain he has a sensitivity to.

I am not making any judgements regarding his new direction.  Although disappointed, it’s mainly due to the vegan community being a unique one, an unfortunately maligned one as well, but for what I feel are often the wrong reasons.  So any time the community loses one of their own, it has a ripple effect across the board.

I thought perhaps some folks would be interested in hearing about his experiments and experiences.  He has not settled on a carnivorous diet as an end-all solution.  And I think most people understand that a vegan diet, especially under many conditions of illness, has tremendous potential to help restore health, as has been demonstrated repeatedly both anecdotally with online bloggers/vloggers, but also in institutional research and studies.

Check him out if ya get the chance, especially if you have any gut-related issues that are chronic and painful.  What works for him may not work for you!  But you can benefit from his experience just by learning from his experience.

The article in the video referenced a study done on human participants whereby a group of 39 consumed extra calories over time in two forms: that of polyunsaturated fat, and that of saturated fat.

The awesomeness here is that the conductors went the length of getting MRI’s from each participant, and were able to demonstrate the decreased visceral fat levels after two weeks of reducing or dropping most saturated fat from the diet.

Wow.

Are you gettin’ this folks?

This is a huge breakthrough.

Note an interesting side line here: In the 80’s low-fat foods were all the rage. I used to know kids back then who were avoiding dietary fats at all costs as an extreme measure towards accomplishing their body goals.

When the Atkins low-carb diet started gaining steam again in the 90’s, a near complete reversal of the low fat diet stance was taken; along the lines of dietary fat having little to nothing (in some circles) to do with body fat accumulation.

YET…look at the bodies in the 80’s, as compared to the 90’s.

Now I’m not claiming this is the SOLE cause; I personally DEFINITELY blame GMO foods in large part for the gargantuan obesity problem we’ve seen since around the early to mid 90’s…when, of course, GMO’s were introduced into commercial foods.

(Kinda an obvious “cause and effect” in my book).

And yes, there were other contributors.

But the above factors are worth noting and putting in your back pocket.

So I got to thinking…

We NEED dietary fats; I believe the research bears this out well, especially as it applies to brain health. I like my brain, so I want to keep it healthy.

Dietary fat can also help with satiation.

SO: In a radical stroke of brilliance unseen since the advent of the vegan hotdog-eating contests, I thought to myself: “HEY! What if I CYCLE my dietary fats in the same way I CYCLE my carbs?!?”

I squeezed out one of the last of my cheese-eating farts and began then and there dropping certain saturated fats from my diet…starting with the cheese.

Literally cut the cheese.

Then: I’m not real big on red meats (occasional bison), and I never eat cow, pork or lamb, so that wasn’t an issue.  Although poultry isn’t as much a concern (unless with skin), I decided to reduce that consumption, as well as eggs.  I do dairy only on the weekend anyway, so that is a part of my “on” cycle, as well as my “on carbs” cycle; mainly that of ice cream cheating and perhaps other fatty-carby cheating like occasional cheese cake.

You get the idea.

Another video and post coming soon with more details about my tactics and the supplement that I sincerely believe helps expedite results.

(source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140224110017.htm)