Should you try the Carnivore Diet before you die or will it kill you? Part 5/?
Discovers Holy Grail of diet. Quits.
Part 5 of a multipart series of an unknown quantity (of parts)...
Just tuned in to this EPIC quest? Here’s a link to part 1
If you’re just tuning in; my experience by day 21 of being on the Nose to Tail Diet (a strict variant of the Carnivore Diet) is summed up by the following Meme: https://ibb.co/w0s49yH
Yep; I’d discovered my Holy Grail.
Even had a little sup. Why not? You would!
Only to then ‘Indiana Jones it’ out of there, when the going got… sad.
The Carnivore Diet was just too goddamn depressing to stay the course longer than 21 days!
So where did that leave me?!
I’d learned that the connection between our skin and digestive system (aka Gut-Skin Axis) is not a furphy (A furphy is Australian slang for an erroneous or improbable story that is claimed to be factual - Wiki). Not only is it not a furphy; it has the potential to provide a better outcome than modern medicine.
Within 10 days I’d experienced a significant (90%?) reduction in my hypersensitive skin issues.
Within less than 3 days; total eradication of gut bloating and typical discomfort.
To give the gravity of this outcome some context; In the several years prior and myriad modern medical professional consultations, experimentations and exasperations I’d found no sustainable solution to my symptoms.
“That’s some ShamWow sh*t!”
Yes, it is, dear reader. I found it hard to comprehend myself.
On the flip-side; I’d discovered that living on such a restrictive diet just wasn’t sustainable.
Or rather it wasn’t sustainable for me.
In a nutritional sense, over a relatively-short-but-felt-long-AF (21 day) duration I had received sufficient sustenance needed in order to function. Admittedly to function at about 65% that of Pre-diet Mikey but I was, for all intents and purposes, alive and well (enough).
What the negative ramifications would be in the long term, having completely removed all plant-based nutrition/antioxidant goodies from my diet, remained to be felt. A question potentially already answered by Evel Knievel and Elvis (RIP, homies).
The kicker was the insufficient soul-stenance the Carnivore Diet provided.
This diet and the lifestyle it demanded, was depressing enough for me to call it quits, even though It had a radically positive influence on my gut and skin issues.
Perhaps, in my case, subtraction was only ever going to be part of my solution?
‘Eh?’
Much like Dr (of Archaeology?) Indiana Jones; I’d finally found the answer I had long quested for, only to realise I wasn’t willing to be The Lonely Old Crusader in The Cave in order to hold onto my (Gut-Skin) Grail.
"Shitake!!"
Stay tuned for the next episode…
Be your EPIC
We out. 🙇
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