Nick Norwitz
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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keto carnivore who are or in the uh medical community yeah i mean they not just sort of like studying history but no i know senior attendings who are like carnivore lean mass hyper responders and they're not out about it because it's stigmatized they don't want to have to deal with the headache that has that comes with like putting that target on your back so most of the time like a paper will come out and they're like did you see this bs about red meat will you like respond to it i'm like you want to get up there with me
And they're like, nah, nah, you do it. It's true, it's a very stigmatized dietary pattern, keto and to a greater extent carnivore. People generally, be they, you know, your person in the general public or, you know, a senior MD, PhD, are gonna do what makes them feel good. And so if that helps them function and feel good for whatever reason, they're probably gonna do it.
They might not be out about it, but.
I would say are more important.
But I am being scientific insofar as that we can quantify the risk associated with different biomarker changes, and LDL is not the most important biomarker. It doesn't mean it doesn't matter. I didn't say that. That doesn't mean that it shouldn't be treated, you know, in certain patients. But in terms of, is it the most important biomarker? I feel like we can say no pretty confidently.
I think it's even more. I think the, this might've even been in a documentary you were in, but you're talking about the women's health study. And I think the hazards ratio for a high lip lipoprotein insulin resistance score was six plus. And for LDL it was like 1.38. And since one is nil, a lot more than six. Whatever, you know, 500 divided by 38.
That's a complicated sphere.
The fact of the matter is people don't need to wait. for authority's approval before trying something when it's a dietary therapy. They have access to it.
Now, I think people should do it in a nuanced and responsible manner, but in order to empower people today, what I love is exciting people about this metabolic health journey and getting them to engage in the process of what I call like N equals one science on themselves.
where you identify an outcome you want to change in yourself what do you care about it could be you know you improving brain fog it could be your weight it could be depression it could be your gi symptoms it doesn't matter what it is choose your outcome then hypothesize what might improve that outcome like a scientist create a hypothesis then execute on that and collect your data.
Your data could be something objective, like a biomarker or a weight on the scale, or just subjective data, and evaluate the outcome without judgment on yourself, but curiosity with respect to the data, then iterate forever on yourself.
that is what is living the n equals one lifestyle and that is i think how every individual even today even in the ecosystem with like the food booby traps we have everywhere platitudes around health misinformation if you really adopt that mindset and engage on that learning journey you will achieve
incredible health results that are beyond your wildest dreams i truly believe that i've seen it happen again and again including in people who don't have any scientific or medical background one of my favorite examples is i don't know if you've come across dave dana on uh social media but he was a guy that i met must have been 2022 maybe it was 2023 i think it was 2022 but when i met him he had poor mental health depression was over 400 pounds
and he wanted to improve his lot in life you can imagine like a lot of people he tried a lot of different diets that hadn't worked and was just kind of in a place of learned helplessness but also like a lot of people had this fire in his belly to get better he just didn't know how to direct his energy so we started working together a little bit um i did honestly very little for him other than give him just a little bit of support encouragement and information but i saw this light flick in him at one point where he got that mindset where he's like actually my metabolic health journey is a
curiosity and a privilege, not a chore. And I'll fast forward to where he is now, which is he's lost more weight than I am as a fully grown adult male. I don't know how much weight at this point, but a lot, probably close to 200 pounds. He got his, you know, financial books in order. He cured his depression. He got married. He finished an MBA. He is just announced that he's going to be a father.
Oh, and by the way, just as an aside, he's partying with Arnold Schwarzenegger on Venice Beach and at Arnold's house. He's become such a fitness icon among people that struggle with similar journeys. The point here is I genuinely believe that the gas achievable for every single person.
If we construct supportive communities and encourage people to engage in metabolic health learning and try to meet them best where they are.
You said something interesting where you said environmental impacts, and we're going to leave this aside for now. I don't want to leave it aside. I actually want to bring it up because
I think the reason that there's such a great PR machine around a vegan diet, or let's even just broaden it to say why a lot of people are very attached to certain ways of eating, is because food is such an emotional thing that Topics bleed into each other under the surface.
So it becomes very difficult when we're talking, say, about a carnivore diet, and I'm like, you know, this actually might be an incredible therapeutic for people with inflammatory bowel disease. People don't hear that. People don't hear that I'm saying.
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