Jenny Mitich: Complete Carnivore: Achieving Better Health Through a Meat-Based Diet

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Speaker 1 (00:12):
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Speaker 2 (00:30):
We are in the world of diet wars. Is a carnivore,
the sugar diet, veganism, paleo keto. It's also confusing. All
we want are some results. I don't know about you,
but I've tried everything, and when it comes down to it,
it might just be that you react differently than others.

(00:52):
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(01:14):
to detoxing to balancing hormones and everything in between. So
let's dive in. I'm so excited to have my guest,
Jenny Mittich, who is the author of Complete Carnivore hint
of what we're going to be talking about today, achieving
better health through a meat based diet and a passionate

(01:34):
advocate for metabolic health and sustainable weight loss. And you know,
it's not even just about weight loss. Weight is a
symptom of the deeper problem going on. So I know
Jenny is talking, I'm going to talk about all of
that as well. But welcome, Jenny. I'm so excited to
be talking about this my own personal experience before I

(01:55):
knew anything about all of these different tactics of I
always felt good when I ate a higher meat diet.
I don't know. It's amazing what the body will tell
you if you just listened to it.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
Right, Yeah, exactly. Thank you, Thank you Sarah so much
for having me. I'm very excited for this conversation today.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
I am too, And so I wanted to start with
just your journey and what brought you here because we
all have hit a rock bottom. We've all said, you know,
I got to dig in and figure out what's going
to work for me. And maybe it's not coming from
somebody else, but you figured out yourself.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
Yeah. So I have been on Carnivorre for almost three
years now, And I was not one of those like, oh,
I'm just gonna switch. I wasn't the one that came
up with it. It took me a while to finally
try it. My husband was the one that found carnivore.
He found doctor ken Barry's videos on YouTube, as so
many of us do, and he started watching them. He

(02:53):
had already lost one hundred and thirty pounds using keto
and water fasting, so before we had met, he had
been over four hundred pounds down to two seventy, but
still had some weight to lose. So he was a
strong believer in doing a dietary philosophy together with your partner,
because it's so much easier when you don't have to,
you know. So I told him he was crazy and

(03:16):
that doctor Kenberry is probably a cult leader, and that
there's no way that you can get all of the
vitamins and minerals you need eating only meat, because I
at that time still believed that I was getting all
of that from plants, because that's what we've been taught
by mainstream dietary guidelines for decades. But I still watched
the videos with him every night when we put our

(03:38):
babies to beds. We had twin twin newborns at the time.
We would watch these videos occasionally and it started to
sink in. So after about six months of watching those
I was on my own weight loss journey. I had
gained seventy pounds with my twin pregnancy, and I was
not having an easy time losing that weight, lost like

(04:00):
twenty pounds in a year, and so finally I was like,
you know what, I'm going to try this crazy carnivore diet.
I'm just I was very curious to see how much
weight I would lose, and I had been wearing a
continuous glucose monitor for about three months at that point.
I'm a big data nerd, so I was really curious
to see how going carnivore from like a I get

(04:22):
a low fat, heavy plant diet, lean protein to see
what the differences would be. So weight loss, glucose levels,
that was my goal. I gave it thirty days, and
the first thirty days I lost eight pounds, which was
the most I'd ever lost with any kind of diet,
and my glucose went from averages of the low one

(04:42):
hundreds down to the eighties. So at that point I
was like there's something to this, and so I gave
it another month, and then another month, and now that's
kind of turned into turned into almost three years. I
can't believe it, but I too feel my best when
I'm eating a heavy meat based diet. I have experiment
with a few other things throughout this three year period,

(05:03):
but I always come back to carnivore because I just
feel my best.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
Yeah, you know, I talk a lot. I'm not strictly carnivore,
but I'm very specific with what vegetables I allow into
my diet, and I look at those vegetables as taste,
as enjoyment, not as the nutrition. I'm getting my nutrition
from my meat. I rotate my meats. I try to get,

(05:29):
you know, different different vitamin and mineral profiles. And then
of course, in our day and age, we have to
supplement because I don't care if you're on a carnivore
or a vegan or a paleo diet. And I wrote
an article about this. It doesn't matter what diet you're on.
Our soils are depleted, so even our animals that we're
eating are not. They don't have the nutritional profile that

(05:52):
they once did. So, but do they have a higher
nutritional profile than your broccoli. Yeah, because then also some
of those vegetables are actually ripping up your gut, so
you're not even absorbing the vitamins that they have in them,
and you're actually then hurting the absorption of the good
quality meat that you're taking in. And I always laugh

(06:16):
when people say, oh, I had my green drink and
I'm bloated. But that's normal, right, You're not supposed to
be normal. You're supposed to listen to your body. Your
body is your best doctor, and how do you feel best?
And I've done strict carnivore as more of an elimination

(06:36):
diet temporarily, I honestly, you know, just for variety, I
need more food. And I do okay with certain vegetables
and fruits, but a lot of them. I don't anything
with sulfur or oxalates, which we talk about. So what.
But there's so many different ways to do carnivore, just

(06:59):
like there are so many need different ways to do
keto or paleo or veganism or whatever. Why don't you
talk about what the traditional carnivore diet looks like for
most people and then what your take is on it.

Speaker 3 (07:14):
Sure. There's so many different varieties of carnivore depending on
how strict you need to be. So the strictest is
going to be the lion diet. Most people that are
doing that, it's like beef, salt, and water. Sometimes people
include other ruminants as well, and a lot of people
think that's what carnivore is, but that's really, really, really strict.

(07:36):
I think that is reserved for people that are the
sickest and that need to do like a pure elimination
diet in order to heal. I personally have never done
the lion diet, and I've been on carnivore for three years.
I think for most people coming to carnivore, you could
do all meat, all seafood, eggs, and butter, and then
there's some people that can include liquidairy and cheese as well.

(08:00):
So it just depends on why, what are your whys?
Why are you coming in to carnivore in the first place,
And then you can always switch your strictness depending on
what you're trying to achieve. So I've evolved a little bit,
you know. Sometimes now I'm not doing any dairy. I
have been experimenting with raw dairy I have hashimotos, so

(08:20):
I can't tolerate conventional dairy. I can do butter, I
cannot do liquid dairy or cheese. So you kind of
have to like tailor it to your metabolic health profile
and what goals you're trying to achieve. In addition to that,
you know, like Atkins, A lot of people think Atkins
is carnivore, and perhaps in the first phase of it,

(08:41):
but then even in Atkins they reintroduce carbohydrates and things
at different levels, and then another commonly like a common
misconception of what is carnivores, like the meat and fruit
diet that like Paul Saladino and some others do that
I would consider an animal based diet. When you start
including fruit or other plant material, it's no longer carnivore technically.

(09:06):
And some people do include spices, some people include sauces,
and I would still consider that to be carnivore as
long as you know you're reading the ingredients labels, it's not.
You know, those things aren't full of sugar and things
like that, so you can really tailor it to your
specific needs.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
Yeah, and I think he said something very important and
key is that you don't have to be super strict,
and you can tailor your diet, whether it's strict carnivore
to a little more relaxed, depending on your current state
of health. So it's not just your genetics, but it's hey,

(09:45):
I just traveled and got hit with the spike protein.
I may need to pull in the reins a little
bit and be a little more strict with what I'm
putting in my mouth versus Gosh, I'm really feeling good.
My hormones are on point, my thyroid's on point, my
liver is functioning well. I can eat a little bit
more freely and not be worried about it. And so

(10:07):
there's also this mindset regardless if you're talking about carnivore
or veganism, where people identify themselves as their food plan
and you aren't just what you eat, right. You are
a real person and what you eat supports that. But
you don't have to be I'm strict carnivore or I'm

(10:29):
a strict vegan. There's some play in it and listening
to your body and everyone has different individual needs. One
of my mentors is definitely all into wild animal protein
and an animal based diet. She has to be vegan
right now because her health has taken a turn where

(10:51):
her liver cannot process animals right now. But does that
mean it's forever. No, So as we're talking about, I
just want to keep emphasizing you want to listen to
your own symptoms and if it's not working for you,
then that's when you change, just like Jenny did. Right
and your husband. You talk a lot about lipotoxicity, and

(11:16):
I want to make sure we touch on that. Can
you define what that is and then we'll dive into
it because I have my own experience with it as well.

Speaker 3 (11:24):
Yeah, so with lipotoxicity, it's popular. It was popularized by
doctor Nadir Ali. I had watched some videos on it
a few years ago, but it wasn't until my husband
began experiencing it, and even then we didn't even realize
what was going on until I talked to doctor Ali.
Lipotoxicity is when you've reached your personal fat threshold and
your fat cells can no longer store any more fat

(11:47):
inside of them. They are inflamed, and at that point,
regardless of the dietary philosophy that you're trying to eat,
you will have a hard time losing weight. Bio markers
will begin to decline, your metabolic health will begin to decline,
and you will start depositing fat, visceral fat in your

(12:08):
body cavity. It's a unique phenomenon. It does not happen
to everybody. Most people when they go to an ultralow
carb diet or seeing health improvements and weight loss, visceral
fat tends to go down. But for my husband it
was not. He and I started carnivore right around the
same time, and after eighteen months, I'd lost almost fifty
pounds and he had lost nothing, at times gaining, and

(12:31):
his blood pressure was going up, his triglycerides fasting insulin
fasting glucose were going up, his HSCRP was through the roof,
his HDL was super low, Vitamin D super low, and
he had nine pounds of visceral fat eating no carbs.
It was wild. We had no idea what was going on.
So yeah, we ended up doing water fasting and exercise

(12:54):
for him, and then I presented we did a little experiment,
you know, with blood work and DEXA scans, experiments that
I'm that I'm known for. I presented all of the
data at the Collaborative Science Conference in Vegas in February
of this year and doctor Ali was in attendance, and
he came up to me afterwards and said, I think
your husband is experiencing lipotoxicity. And that's when everything clicked

(13:15):
for me. I'm like, oh wait, that makes sense. So
then I interviewed him Craig Emeric, and then kind of
boiled everything down into a lipotoxicity I guess one oh
one video for people so that if they are experiencing
similar symptoms, they will be able to figure out exactly

(13:35):
what to do. It's not a hard fix. But if
you don't know what the problem is and you keep
throwing a high fat carnivore diet at it, that's not
going to solve it. So yeah, very interesting journey and
rabbit hole that he and I, my husband and I
have been going down for the past year.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
Yeah. So I had my genetics done and I, like
I said, I've always loved animal protein. I always love
the gristle, give me a ribbi. Every bit of fat
is eaten, especially if it's nice and burnt, which I
know is not good for me, but it's so good.
But I never liked putting oils on my foods and

(14:13):
a lot of high fat anything. So when keto came around,
I tended to be more high protein, not so, and
it was still low carb but not such high fat.
So I was listening to my body intuitively and then
learn more about the fact that my body genetically can't
handle a lot of fat, and I do better on

(14:35):
a higher protein, low carb diet. And I actually do
better if I increase my carbs more than my fat.
So that's just individual where within my family of five,
I would say three of us are like that and
two of us need to be more low carb and
higher fat. And protein is the stable we want to

(14:55):
keep prioritized protein. But one thing that we've been introduced
to in the last five years is this great spike
protein from the pandemic that has hit our livers, and
our fat metabolism and protein metabolism happen in the liver.
So people will find that they're doing the keto or

(15:19):
high fat carnivore diet lately and going I'm not getting
the results that I'm used to get or I want
to get, and my insulin resistance is going up and
I'm still not eating any carbs. So it's this, it's
mind blowing where you know, the game keeps changing, right,

(15:39):
and you have to keep tweaking. And also it might
be the quality of the protein, the quality of the
animals you're getting. What did they eat? Are they grain fed?
Because I would argue, if you are carnivore, but you're
eating grain fed beef, are you eating the corn and

(15:59):
the skittles and the junk that the cow is eating? Right,
I don't know what your take is on all of that,
but you know where what is your emphasis on the
actual quality of the animal you're eating. And then also
organ meats, muscle meats.

Speaker 3 (16:18):
So I eat conventional meat eighty percent of the time. Okay,
grass fed, grass finished is marginally better nutritionally for ruminants,
for single chamber stomach animals, chickens, pork, it's it is
a better idea to work on the quality because they're
not able to process out as much of what they're eating.

(16:41):
That being said, I still eat conventional pork and chicken
most of the time, So I think you got to
figure out what works best for you. Yeah, when you
do the higher quality meats, it's much more expensive, and
meats already expensive right now, So I would hate for
people to not do a carnivore diet just because they
can't get grass bed grass finished. Get what you can

(17:01):
afford and what you prefer taste wise, because they also
have a slightly different taste. Some people don't like that.
Wild game is amazing. And as far as organ meats,
I used to think that you did not need to
include them, and I still think people can thrive. But
there are specific vitamins and minerals that only exist in

(17:25):
organs that you need. And if you're exclusively eating muscle meat,
you're not going to be get getting that. Now. If
you hate the taste of organs, you can always do supplements.
You can always do. There's Pluck is a seasoning brand
that's made out of organ meat. Yeah, eat Pluck. It's

(17:47):
an amazing brand. James Berry is the owner. Celebrity chef
turned turned organ meat supplement spice purveyor. But here amazing.
You can't even taste them and you're just seasoning your
food with them. It's a great way to get organ meat.
But that's something that I've been experimenting with a bit more.
There's you know, beef liver is like the best source

(18:10):
of vitamin C and vitamin a that you can get.
So it's kind of like, even if you don't like
the taste, just have it maybe once a week. A
little bit like one to three ounces is enough to
get to where you need to be. But yeah, yeah,
I mean in a perfect world, all animals would eat
what they are supposed to eat and be raised humanly

(18:30):
and correctly, and it would all be very inexpensive. But
I you know, you know how it is nowadays. So
I think it's just important to include as much meat
as possible, regardless of if it's grass fed or conventional
because you know, like cows, they're grass fed most of
their lives, their rain finished if they're going to be

(18:51):
you know, conventionally raised for like a few months tops.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
Yeah, so it's unfortunate our whole food system in America
has and hijacked, you know, and seventy percent of the
American diet is processed food, so it's not even real food.
And then when we look at our vegetables, they are
plant poisons but then covered with GMOs and other stuff,
and then you know, that gets into the meat system

(19:15):
and so we you have to do what you can
and you can't stress over it because the stress is
more detrimental to your health than anything that we're talking about. Right,
If you in the stress and the sleep, those two
things are more important than diet supplements or anything else
we're doing. Let's talk about the benefits of the meat

(19:37):
based diet, so energy, digestion, skin. You know, everyone wants
to anti age and they're looking at all of these
anti aging supplements. Well, maybe we should just actually start
with our food first.

Speaker 3 (19:52):
Yeah. You know, it's so funny because I don't know,
maybe five years ago. I'm looking back at videos that
I made from like twenty twenty, when I was drinking
heavily and I was eating not great, and my skin
looked like crap. I am now forty one. I've been
a carnivore for three years, and my skin looks great now.
I do other stuff for my skin too, I get treatments,

(20:13):
I do other things, But the baseline is just so
much higher because of all of the collagen and connective
tissue and all of those vitamins and minerals that I'm
getting from the meat and the animal products. I really
do think that plays a huge part. I mean other
benefits just lowering inflammation. So there's so much misinformation out

(20:35):
there about how eating meat makes you inflamed. It's quite
the opposite. I saw drastic reductions in all of my markers,
like inflammatory markers, my HSCRP, homocysteine, all of those things
when I went meat based. It's also excellent for lowering

(20:56):
overall glucose levels. So insulin resistance is huge issue in
today's world. Almost everybody has high glucose levels, which leads
to just a cacophony of a million horrible you know,
chronic diseases. We do not want those things. And like
I said, when I started carnivore, it was so quick.
It was within a couple of weeks, my glucose levels

(21:18):
went from the low one hundreds down to the eighties.
And when I'm doing a strict carnivore diet, Mike glucose
is between seventy five and like ninety five most of
the time. It is amazing how quickly it regulates. So
for anybody, I mean most people are suffering from inflammation
and insulin resistance. So just trying carnivore, even for the

(21:40):
short term, just to get your metabolic health back in order,
it can really do wonders. I've seen amazing stories.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
And when we talk about weight loss and you have
all of these weight loss drugs out there, the glp
ones ozebic, eating meat triggers your brain to say, hey, hey,
I don't need anymore. I want to see I want
to meet somebody who binges on Ribby steaks like I
could have maybe three, but it's hard to do right,

(22:11):
But you could eat a big bag of Costco laised
potato chips with Ben and Jerry's. And the whole idea
behind the golp ones is to shut off the appetite
so you don't eat. And I've got friends that are
on it and they're like, Sarah, it's amazing. The food
noise is gone, and I don't even think about food anymore.

(22:33):
And I go, well, have you tried eating a steak
because it'll do the same thing. And you're feeding your
muscles to maintain that muscle mass, and you're forty one.
I'm looking at fifty in January, and at this age
you want to preserve that muscle mass. And my friends

(22:54):
in this area, which is worse than Beverly Hills as
far as Vanity goes, everyone needed to lose that extra
ten pounds and jumped on o zembic. So now two
years later, what do they look like. They look skinny, fat,
their faces look old, and believe me, they're doing the
botox and the fillers. And that's a weird look because,

(23:16):
like you said, yes, you and I might be doing
the outside stuff, but it's the health that comes from
the inside that makes you, gives you the glow, gives
you that feeling, that look of anti aging and youthfulness.
But it's also the muscle, right, and you can't maintain
muscle without proper protein. And the vegan proteins do not

(23:41):
provide the same amino acid profiles that animal based you
know that profile does. Maybe you want to dive into
a little bit of that.

Speaker 3 (23:50):
Sure, Yeah, well, I mean for plant proteins, they're just
not as bioavailable. Our bodies just don't break it down
and utilize it. It's basically useless. I get all of
my protein from an animal products. I will say. You know, glps,
I think when they're used in standard dosing, they can
be devastating. Microdosing or low dosing can be an effective strategy,

(24:15):
but you have to have the food and exercise dialed
in first. You have to be eating a lot of protein,
and strength training for at least thirty minutes a day
for at least three days a week hard. Not this
like three pound stuff. I'm talking lift heavy because then
you can maintain your lean mass, and doing it in
very low doses can be effective for people. I have

(24:36):
seen a lot of people have some success with that,
But I would say that's a last ditch effort, last
resort kind of thing. Like you said, if you go carnivore,
give yourself ninety days on it, and your sugar cravings
and the food noise go away. It's pretty amazing. So yeah,
that's a much cheaper route than going GLP, that's for sure,

(25:00):
because that stuff can be really expensive. I'm not opposed
to it, though. I think it can be used in moderation,
very slowly ramped up avoid the side effects strength training
and eating a very high protein diet.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
Yeah, some of the misconceptions about animal protein in general,
and then of course it would be emphasized or amplified
in the carnivore diet. Kidney heart cholesterol issues, Do we
have anything to be worried about?

Speaker 3 (25:30):
I really don't think so. I do blood work once
a month and I'm constantly posting carnivore blood work videos
on YouTube because when I started, there weren't that many
and I didn't I didn't know how to read simple
blood work pat panels. So in my experience and with
thousands of people that I talked to on YouTube monthly,

(25:53):
what typically happens when you go on a carnivore diet
on a lipid panel is your triglycerides drop, which is good.
You want your tripblysterrites under one hundred. Most people see
a rise in their HDL, which is good, you want that.
The LDL cholesterol, which is the boogeyman of the cholesterol panel,
is it can do many things. It really depends on
your BMI and your metabolic health profile, and also how

(26:17):
much you're eating and how much you're fasting. I've seen
my LDL cholesterol as high as two hundred and seventy
five and recently I saw it as low as sixty
depending on what I'm eating. I can be a lean
mass hyper responder if I'm eating a really high fat
carnivore diet. So I honestly don't even look at LDL

(26:37):
cholesterol because it's not causal and heart disease. So then
if I'm looking at blood sugar related markers. Oh my lord,
carnivore does amazing things for blood sugar regulation. We touched
on that earlier drop in your fasting glucose, your fasting insulin,
which is I think fasting insulin is one of those

(26:58):
blood tests. It's very inexpensive and it is a canary
in the coal mine. You can see pre diabetes risk
for like two decades before you start to see elevations
in your A and C and your fasting glucose in
a fasting insulin. So when you do with the fasting insulin,
it's like a fourteen dollars test online. You can go
to like own your labs or walk in labs, or

(27:20):
all to lab tests if you're in the United States.
In most states you can order your own blood work
online or you can ask your doctor to run it
for you. It's not an expensive test. You want that
to be between two to six optimally. This is in
US numbers. Under in the single digits for most people
would be fine, but when you start to get up
into the teens and twenties, that's dangerous. Stuff on Carnivore

(27:44):
goes right down. A one C tends to decline. What
was the other we said cardiovascularies the kidneys and parties kidneys.
That's such a common misconception. Protein does not hurt your kidneys.
Typically what happens. What's hurting kidneys is high blood sugar, glycation,

(28:07):
insulin resistance, things like that. Our kidneys are not built
to deal with the high levels of sugar that are
in our diets today, and with that also comes like
high blood pressure and things like that, and our vessels
are not meant to withstand pressure like that. It's just
not how we're built. So what happens on a carnivore
diet is you tend to see kidney improvements. And this

(28:30):
is even in people that have compromised kidneys. Now, work
with your physician, your doctor to raise your protein levels
and things like that. But in some of the studies
that I've read, people can handle like I think one
to two grams of protein per kilogram, and that's with

(28:50):
like the most compromised kidneys. Like, you can still eat protein,
get the sugar out of your diet, get the ultra
processed foods and vegetable sea oils out of your diet,
and that will help improve your kidney health. Cardiovascular health.
It goes along with everything else we just talked about.
When all of your biomarkers are, you know, where they're

(29:13):
supposed to be, your heart is going to be pumping
efficiently and doing exactly what it's meant to do. So
many people are concerned that carnivore is going to cause
placking in their hearts, and it's just that's not the case.
Placking is not just caused by eating fat. That's a
common misconception. Plaqing is typically caused by You had to

(29:36):
have damage in your heart arteries in the first place,
and what's causing the damage is high blood sugar, high
blood pressure, glycation oxidation, smoking cigarettes, doing drugs, drinking a
lot of alcohol, eating a high sugar ultra process food diet.
If you live in a very polluted area, if your
environment is very polluted, that can cause damage to your

(29:59):
heart arteries. That's what's causing the placking in the first place.
Placking is not a bad thing in general. Placking comes in,
it's it's the firefighter. It's trying to put out a fire,
it's trying to heal you. But what the problem when
the problem comes in is when the damage keeps happening,
and the firefighter has to keep coming in every day

(30:19):
to patch up that hole. So you got to stop
the damage. You got to stop the root cause, which
is typically for most people to installin resistance and all
of that kind of stuff. So no, yeah, there's a lot.

Speaker 2 (30:33):
These myths come about because people are eating the hamburger
with the bun and the French fries and the shake
or the beer, not just the hamburger, and so that
this is where the misconception comes in. If you get
rid of food that's not real food, the ultra processed foods,
a lot of these issues are going to go away

(30:53):
in the first place. What about fiber? Do you need
fiber in your diet for bowel movements day meat? Fiber
for intestinal health?

Speaker 3 (31:06):
Technically, no, carbohydrate is not a required macro nutrient. You
have to consume protein, you have to consume fat, But
you can live forever without consuming carbohydrates. Does that mean
that everybody shouldn't consume carbohydrates. No, of course not. We
talked earlier. You thrive with some carbohydrates. I like to

(31:28):
have a salad from time to time. I like it.
It tastes good. But as far as like moving bowel
movements through your intestines. I have bowel movements just fine
without eating any fiber, And some people, especially with particular conditions,
eating a lot of fiber can harm them, can make

(31:49):
it worse. So again, I think it boils down to bioindividuality.
You need to figure out what works best for you.
But is fiber necessary for every single human being? I
don't think so. Well.

Speaker 2 (32:02):
What's funny is we're talking. There's some days where my
gut feels really good and I'll have a salad and
it will seamlessly go through my system, no problem. And
then there are days where things feel a little sluggish
and I have three bites of the salad and I
blow up like a balloon and my body's like, no,
this does not work for you today. But same person,

(32:24):
same food, different outcomes, right, So it really does depend
on your current state of health, your stress level, your
gut health, and the carnivore diet is the most basic
elimination diet that a lot of people use for gut health.
So how do you explain that? Right? Okay, So tell

(32:49):
us what your day looks like for food intake. What
does this look like?

Speaker 3 (32:55):
So it really depends because I follow my hunger. I
don't eat like specific meal times at specific times, but
I'm typically eating twice a day. I normally eat a
little something in the morning. With my boys. I have
twins that are almost four, so they don't follow carnivore.
They're more of an animal based diet. They eat meat
at every single meal. They drink a lot of milk,

(33:16):
and they eat a little bit of fruit and some
other foods. Not really much ultra process stuff, really any
ultra process stuff unless they're at their grandma's right, you know,
And that's fine, you know, I don't want they got
to have that experience too. It's all good. I don't
want to deprive them and then have them like binge
on stuff later when they're at their friend's houses or something.
So for me, I don't know. Like this morning, I

(33:38):
had a couple of hard boiled eggs, a piece of
sausage from what I gave my boys, and I had
a can of sardines, and then I went and did
a workout, and then before I jumped on with you,
I had a protein shake. I did a really good
strength training workout, so I'll do a protein shake. I
do use protein powders occasionally. I think it can be

(34:00):
a really easy way to get the protein in. Typically, though,
you know, pulverized protein, it can be a little in
but I still use it sometimes. Tonight we're going to
be eating probably a twelve ounce rabbi and I got
one of those trays of shrimp from Costco yesterday, so
I'll eat some of those too, and that'll be my day.

Speaker 2 (34:22):
And you feel great and right, I mean, yeah, besides
the fact that you have two twin four year olds,
is sleep pretty steady?

Speaker 3 (34:32):
Yeah? Yeah, you know, they're a little older now. Last
night was a little iffy because we just took the okay,
we took the front of their cribs off. We're going
to be getting them real beds here soon, but like
we've been traveling a lot. Don't judge me, okay, but
last night they kept getting in and out of bed,
so that was a little annoying. But typically they sleep

(34:54):
through the night, so I really really try to be
asleep by nine thirty to ten because they will wake
me up around five, five or six. So yeah, I
am very I'm kind of a psycho about my sleep
because with the hashimotos, if I don't get enough sleep,
I don't feel good.

Speaker 2 (35:09):
Yeah, And speaking of hashimotives and thyroid, your thyroid is
going to listen to your body if it feels safe.
And the one food that tells your body that you're
safe and you're not going to be facing a famine
is animal protein, if that's what it is, because oh, well,
food's abundant. I've killed an animal, I'm eating it. I'm safe.

(35:32):
I'm going to keep my metabolism up. So the thyroid
and your metabolism and your liver all play together, but
they're really listening to your food intake. So when you're
eating a ton of vegetables on a vegan diet, your
body's like, Okay, keep eating because I'm not getting what
I need. I need those amino acids for my brain

(35:53):
and my hair and my muscles and my organs, all
the important things Jenny tell us about your bad.

Speaker 3 (36:00):
Complete Carnivore, Oh man, it's at the printers as we speak,
and so excited I should be getting my hands on
the first copy here in the next couple of weeks.
So Complete Carnivore. It is a complete, in depth guide
to the carnivore diet. Along with eighty carnivore recipes, so
I endeavored to write like the encyclopedia for the carnivore diet.

(36:21):
This book is good for beginners. People that have been
on it for a bit, people that have been on
it for fifteen years will find value in it. There's
a complete, in depth starter guide. There's a complete guide
to troubleshooting, so people you're inevitably going to run into
issues on carnivore, and I have taken everything that I've
learned from my YouTube channel and also from all of

(36:42):
the doctors and experts that I interview on a regular
basis and have boiled that down into a full troubleshooting
chapter that gets into everything, so you'll be able to
figure out what's going on, make your tweaks, and keep
moving and achieving the goals that you want to achieve
on carnivore. I also have a full chapter on monitoring
your progress. Talked a lot about blood work and different
things that you can test in this interview. I'm very

(37:05):
passionate about that. I think you need to do testing
to track your progress. You know, don't guess test. So
I have an entire chapter that talks about functional medicine
blood work ranges that you can aim for where to
get all of these things done. Talk about different scans
like DEXA scans, cacs, all these different things, so you
can do KEYTNES continues, glucose monitoring. And then it goes

(37:28):
into eighty carnival recipes. You know, most people when they're
doing carnivore, you can just do beef, butter, bacon and eggs.
You can just do some chicken, some pork. But sometimes
it gets boring and you want to have something to
mix it up. So I have created eighty recipes to
do just that. There's some basic things, there's some more
fancy things, holiday recipes, desserts, there's even a few breads

(37:48):
in there. Breads, I say, because they are fully carnivore.
But yeah, it was I've never written a book before.
It was a lot of work, but it was so
much fun and I really can't wait for people to
read it. I really hope helps a lot of people.
That was my goal. My passion is to get everybody
in the country, in the world really to optimal metabolic health,

(38:11):
just baseline, because if we can all be there, our
brains are working well, our creativity is working well, can
you just imagine the things that we can do as
a society, as a world of humans that are healthy.
I think the world will be our oyster at that point.
So that's one of the reasons I wrote this book.
I'm very, very excited for it to come out.

Speaker 2 (38:32):
Well. I love that you bring up the brain because anxiety, depression,
mental illness, all these things, I would say people are
malnourished right. Their brains are not getting what they need.
And if we're all there in our brains, we will
be a happier population, a nicer population, a more productive population,

(38:53):
and the world will be a better place. So I
love this. I cannot wait to get my hands on
your book. Thank you and your YouTube. Your podcasts are amazing.
I highly recommend everyone follow and subscribe to Jenny's podcast.
And why don't you tell people where they can find you.

Speaker 3 (39:13):
Sure, all of those things are over on my YouTube channel,
which is just my name, Jenny Mittich. I also have
an Instagram page that's Mama Miditch, and I'm on TikTok
and Facebook and all the others as well. So but
if you go to my YouTube channel, you can find
links to all of those things.

Speaker 2 (39:29):
I love it. Thank you so much for everything today. Jenny.
You are a breath of fresh air in this really
crazy world as we as we sit, so hopefully people
start listening, feeding their brains and their bodies, feeling better
and living their optimal, optimal lives.

Speaker 3 (39:47):
So thanks again, thank you so much Sarah for having me.
This was so much fun.

Speaker 2 (39:52):
What amazing information Jenny shared with us in the carnivore diet.
And you know I always say prioritize protein right now,
whether we like it or not. All diet, including meat,
puts pressure on your liver and your detox pathways, and
our livers need some extra support so that we can

(40:13):
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(40:36):
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(40:59):
Number two, Jenny talked about hashimotoves. Most of us are
suffering from suboptimal thyroid. The accelerated thyroid comes in because
a lot of times you're doing the carnivore diet because
you have a weight issue or you've gained weight out
of nowhere. That's your thyroid. Your thyroid is in charge
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(41:22):
that T four to T three conversion, supports fat burning
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cold hands and feet, your hair is falling out, your
eyebrowsers thining, all signs that your thyroid is suffering and

(41:42):
going along with the accelerated thyroid is the acceleradine iodine.
This is so important for everybody. Pregnant women, fetuses, the
toddlers are teenagers, you're in your fertile years, you're in
your menopaus. You need iodine not just for your thyroid,

(42:04):
but it boosts mitochondrial health, so you turn that protein
and fat into clean fuel. Detox's toxic halogens that block metabolism,
supports stomach acid production, which is crucial for digesting those
heavy meat meals. So these three supplements are no brainers.
And you know what, they're no brainers. If you're in

(42:25):
a vegan diet or a palaeo diet, or a carnivore
diet or a sugar diet, that's a different turn. But really,
our soils are depleted. We are needing this extra support
in this modern world with so many, so many toxins, microplastics,
fluoride in the water, the smog from the air, all

(42:47):
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