Dr. Anthony Chaffee addresses two critical concerns carnivore dieters face: avoiding undereating and managing electrolyte issues. He explains how natural hunger signals work differently on carnivore compared to processed food diets, where food scientists have engineered products to override satiety mechanisms. The key insight is that wild animals naturally self-regulate their food intake without obesity issues, suggesting humans can do the same when eating species-appropriate foods.
The episode covers practical guidance for recognizing true satiety signals and troubleshooting electrolyte supplementation for those with autoimmune conditions. Dr. Anthony Chaffee shares his clinical experience reviewing thousands of blood tests, noting he's never seen actual potassium deficiency in carnivore dieters, and emphasizes the importance of choosing supplements without artificial ingredients that could trigger autoimmune flares.
Key Takeaways
- Eat fatty meat until it stops tasting good - your taste buds will naturally signal satiety as nutrient receptors in your stomach communicate fullness to your brain via the vagus nerve
- Aim for a 1-2 grams fat to 1 gram protein ratio and eat at least once daily for maintenance, twice daily for weight gain
- Most carnivore dieters don't need potassium supplementation despite feeling they have electrolyte issues - clinical blood work rarely shows actual deficiency
- Choose magnesium supplements with high bioavailability and multiple forms, but avoid any products containing artificial sweeteners, flavorings, or chemicals that can trigger autoimmune responses
- How to Avoid Under-Eating on Carnivore Diet - Hunger Signals and Fat Requirements
- Why Modern Food Disrupts Hunger Signals - Insulin, Leptin, and Food Industry Manipulation
- Natural Appetite Regulation - How Your Brain Controls Taste and Satiety
- Electrolyte Issues on Carnivore Diet - Magnesium and Potassium Supplementation for Autoimmune
- Organ Meats and Blood as Natural Electrolyte Sources - Nature's Multivitamin
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[Music] Ral says how do you avoid under eating on a carnivore diet um by eating enough pretty simple answer but um uh really just have to make sure that you're eating fatty meat until it stops tasting good your hunger signals are going to be very very different that's why it's easy to undereat on a carnivore diet because normally we're trying to limit what we're eating we're trying to eat just enough to take the edge off so we don't have to keep eating because if you just keep eating as much as your body's telling you to well then you're going to get fat well that doesn't make sense because that doesn't happen to any other animal in nature you know koalas sit in trees made out of their food they have no natural Predators they're not hiding and scurrying and then just desperately trying to get enough food they have nothing but abundance uh in their in their food food supply typically and um you don't see differences in these animals you don't see like koalas that have more abundant supply of of food that get all fat and Bloated because they just don't know how to stop eating and others that are all skinny and straggling because they're just desperate for for resources now you can get the you know the latter the former doesn't really exist you know fat overweight you know you you don't see some fat bloated koala just like oh that's Dave just got no self-control no they they all look like I mean you you tell me you try to tell me the difference between two koalas you see in nature it's not going to happen like they look identical right so it's um uh it is the case that you're you're you should be able to self-regulate animals in the wild do uh we don't see different things you know obese and skinny and this is and that's all all across nature you just don't see that and the art people say oh well everything's scarce than nature that's a bloody copout that's an excuse and a dumb one you know that's something that that I was told as a kid too and it doesn't make it doesn't even pass the smell test I mean just just think of koalas I mean just starts and stops there you know they don't have a scarcity in their resources typically and and when they don't have scarcity they don't get fat and Bloated so you know that that's just a a non-starter there um but because we're eating garbage food and carbohydrates it raise insulin that blocks leptin that causes reactive hypoglycemia and we say oh we need to eat we need to eat you have all these very clever food scientists that have spent the last 40 years making food as a addictive and compulsive as possible you need to be able you need to stop yourself and say like no I'm GNA I'm gonna stop even though I want to keep going my body's telling me to keep going I need to stop because your body's getting screwed up mixed signals right so if you cut all those things out and you're just eating carnivore diet you don't get those screwed up mixed signals anymore you're just getting real signals your body's saying yeah yeah you you could do that and you're saying oh no no I got to stop so you're stopping way too early you need to keep going until fatty meat stops tasting good your hunger signals are going to be very different you have to relearn these things and but a a fail a good fail safe uh for the vast majority of people unless you're on medications like cortical steroids like you know prazone pricone hydrocortisone things like that that that will screw up your hunger signals barring that if you're eating just fatty meat and water it has to be fatty because lean meat starts tasting Bland pretty quickly so you need you need the fat it's very important but as long as you're just eating that you listen to your taste buds if fatty meat tastes good you're hungry keep eating each bite will taste slightly less good until finally it doesn't taste good at all that's because you have um receptors in your stomach that track up the vagus nerve to your brain and tell your brain how many nutrients are in your stomach because your body tracks nutrients it does not track calories and so if you're getting enough nutrients and nutrition your brain says hey we have enough of this we don't we don't need any more of that and so your taste response dampens down so you can have a a big steak and the first bite it just tast it's the best thing you've ever eaten in your entire life and after your while it's just tastes a bit Bland like cardboard well why is that it's the same state cooked at the same time in the same conditions it's still warm and yet it first bite tasted fantastic and there was a gradient sort of slowly getting uh less amazing still finally just doesn't taste good at all why is that that's because your brain controls what what experience you get on the tongue right because it's trying to tell you something right if something is bitter and is awful your brain is telling you don't eat that that's there's something harmful in there there's something bad in there don't eat it right and um it could taste good because you these food scientists have designed things to taste good sugar is a drug and it's addictive we say like oh this is something safe and gives me energy but we we've refined that and put that in garbage and and that's obviously ly not the same thing and um you know and while we we you know may have found fruit every now and then it would have been seasonal on local and then we would have had to Face winter and you you know we're going to have have scarcity throughout the winter right so you know getting a bit of putting on a bit of you know weight in the in the summer and putting on a bit of extra fat to get into the winter probably not a bad idea but you're eating that every day all day not a good idea so you eat fatty meat until it stops tasting good and that's how you you make sure you you don't um undereat uh it's the same thing if you're losing weight gaining weight putting on muscle doing whatever dealing with autoimmunity it's always the same thing you apply the same principles and your body will tell you how much to eat you eat fatty meat until it stops tasting good try to get one to two grams of fat to one gram of protein you eat as many times during the day as your body's telling you to eat and that's it but you try to at least you at least try to eat once a day if you're trying to put on weight you try to eat at least twice a day and um and that's pretty much it and you'll do fine um but just make sure that you keep eating until you get that bite they sort of just tastes like cardboard and stops being interesting and you'll do fine and good luck with that hey everyone really happy to announce a new sponsor for the show for everybody down in Australia Stockman steaks who are delivering highquality grass-fed and finished pasture raised beef and other meats Flash Frozen and vacuum sealed to your door something that I've been enjoying a lot of myself recently as well they also have a great range of specialty items such as 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actually test it on a blood test you actually have hypokalemia you have actually have low pottassium um you know uh if so I mean there's there's a lot of different kinds of potassium and things that we would use in the hospital things like slow K you can even just get uh things called low salt um which is a mixture of sort of a 50-50 mixture of sodium chloride and potassium chloride and it sort of tastes a bit weird it's sort of a different tasting saltiness but you know it's uh it's fine and and that's and that's a a way to get it as well magnesium there are a number of different kinds of magnesium they seem to be better for for sorts of things for on helps with sleep and then cramps and then this is and then that um some of the best magnesium supplements are the ones that have a mixture of a lot of those and so they all all come together um you want to get ones that that have high high bioavailability as well um it can the in inactive ingredients can also matter as much as the active ingredients to do with absorption Etc um I'm not I'm you know I don't have sort of like a sort of list of all these sorts of things I exactly what to look out for but these are the principles you need to watch out for um there you know there there are like in Australia they have like prescription grade supplements which I think is bizarre but it but what that does for you is uh at least is what it it's um is um is that it it at least goes under better regulations and controls and and you know so it gets checked and saying it says that it has this amount of these things it has those amount of those things because they're they're checked and regulated whereas most over the-counter supplements just don't have that uh check you know they might have some independent Labs that sort to check these things and quite often those independent Labs show they were like yeah this doesn't have um exactly what it's saying it does or maybe doesn't have anything at all to do with what it says it does so those sorts of things like the supp supplement industry is really not regulated and so you need to be you need to take that with a um a grain of salt and and be careful with that as well um someone in the comments mentioned that um potassium citrate um is is sort of the best form and that's sort of what shows up in food great um I really have just never seen anybody that needed to take potassium but if if you do and you're showing that low on your blood test you know sure you know take uh uh take take what you need but um um you know there are there are also other you know there's the what are they they're different brands there's different sorts of brands that do it if you are going to take these supplement Brands though just make sure that they're you're not the ones that have the artificial sweeteners or the uh artificial flavorings or even the natural flavorings what just no flavorings no flavorings no sweeteners because they're awful they're they're not good for you you don't want them and uh they're they're not uh what you want in your body so they you know whether or not they have calories it doesn't matter they have chemicals they are chemicals and you're a chemical Factor you're not a combustion engine you're not a steam locomotive you're not burning things for heat energy to boil a tank of water and create steam energy right you have chemicals and you have chemical reactions with those chemicals so um you know things like Stevia and monk fruit sugar oh but it's natural yeah so is arsenic and so are all the plants that we're trying to avoid because they have all these natural toxins that we don't want um you know most natural things on earth will kill you okay so natural Is Not Great uh just because it's natural our natural diet that's a very different thing entirely right it exists in nature you know lions exist in nature they're not they're not good for you take typically um but what your natural diet is meaning what you're biologically predisposed to benefit the most from that's that's a very different story hey guys just want to take a second to thank our sponsor at carnivore bar I don't promote many products because honestly all you need to be healthy is to just eat meat for those times that you're out hiking road tripping or stuck at work and you want nutritious snack that is just meat fat and salt if you want it the carnivore bar is a great option so I like this product not because it's just pure meat but also because I want the carnivore Market to thrive as well and the more we support meat only products the more meat only products there will be available in the main stream so if this sounds like something you'd like to get behind check it out using my discount code Anthony to get 10% off which also applies to subscriptions giving you 25% off total all right thanks guys so um I don't think that you're going to get a a flare up by taking those supplements as long as you don't have any artificial ingredients or sugars and sweeteners and anything else besides the actual uh electrolytes that you want so just be very careful with that um but those flavors and sweeteners can definitely trip up your autoimmune condition so just be very careful with that so just take exactly what you need don't do anything else hopefully be able to get what you need uh from meat trying organs and things like that um liver is one of the best supplements on Earth it's Nature's multivitamin and it's going to have all the things all these different sorts of things that you uh will do very well with in the correct most bioavailable forms so that's something to think about as well um kind of creepy blood has a lot of really good electrolytes in the right forms you can get these from a butcher i' I've gotten blood from a butcher and just sort of drink the plasma if you get it fresh enough before it clots you can just drink it down if it does clot different story then it then there's just like the plasma that separates off and you can drink that but plenty of electrolytes plenty of uh plenty of nutrients as well so um good luck with that hopefully a bit of organs can help with that if you need some magnesium and some potassium you know go for it take it I I've really not seeing anybody have to take potassium on a carnivore diet typically no one does your body has to really perfectly regulate potassium or you die and so it's uh hopefully something that uh that you you're not you're not in a position you actually do need to to supplement that because that that probably means something else is going on you might need to take a look at that's you know outside of the carnivore but either way um good luck with that hopefully that was helpful the brand that I was talking about that that um that's like prescription strength is called it's called metagenics and and they're more regulated and so you can you can sort of trust more what's in them you know and um and uh hopefully yeah uh hopefully that um tells you what you need have any autoimmune issues I don't have any specific health issues that I um have have to deal with I just feel better in general so I just naturally gravitate uh there anyway um but yeah if you find that you're doing better um with a bit of other other things mixed in that could be a reason why and either way if that's what you feel the best then do that