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You could try recipes from the paleo or Whole30 crowd, they are whole food based and don’t use any refined sugars or grains.

If you haven’t had dairy in three years or more, I wouldn’t go straight in to drinking milk again. Try cultured dairy products like kefir or yogurt in small amounts until you find you can eat them or not

Don’t fear fat, it’s vital to brain health and organ function.

I follow the principles outlined in this book. They discuss eating a wide range of whole food using traditional preparation methods to improve overall health and digestion

Best wishes

Braaains

In southern California I was able to purchase bison heart from 'buy ranch direct' diamond valley ranch,they may be able to work with you on getting brains 🐔🐓

Fried the heart in its own fat, delisous

Simply Local - Farmers Market, Android

This is an app a redditor made for people to get in contact with suppliers, put in a location & see the closest ranches, etc

Happy trails

Of the 3 groups, the vegans had the lowest vitamin B-12 status. In subjects who did not consume vitamins, low holotranscobalamin II (< 35 pmol/L) was found in 11% of the omnivores, 77% of the LV-LOV group, and 92% of the vegans

Vegans should be careful whose thinking they decide to call insane.

This is a sub for ex vegans. We've been through veganism and all its brainwashing propaganda and come through the other side. We've heard all the vegan talking points many times before. They don't work here.

You putting regenerative farming in scare quotes tells me you know nothing about farming at all, or where your food really comes from. Regenerative farming was the natural method of farming that humans used for tens of thousands of years before the last hundred years or so, when large agribusiness corporations began to buy up all the farmland and industrialize it.

Was vegan for 4 years, and recently began incorporating beef into my diet. I agree with the significance of energy levels!

I started by drinking beef bone broth in small quantities (0.5-1 cup) daily for a few days leading up to my first real steak meal. I also started taking a digestive supplement with my meals to help my stomach better handle the meat proteins - here's what I used (https://www.amazon.com/Doctors-Best-Betaine-Gentian-Digestion/dp/B000NRTXGW/ref=sr_1_8?dchild=1&keywords=pepsin&qid=1620931247&sr=8-8)

Hello and welcome. I had gastroparesis before I had weight loss surgery, and one of the only consistent pieces of advice I was given by multiple practitioners was to reduce fiber intake. As the vegan diet is very high in fiber, it is not optimal, or even suitable, for someone with gastroparesis.

Let me say that I also felt very guilty about eating meat and even fish, but after doing some personal research, I realized that....life IS death. They are opposite sides of the same coin. You cannot have life without death, because all organisms are consuming something in order to live. That is just the natural law of life. Many of us assume that the most compassionate thing is to eat only plants, but in reality, growing plants is very resource-heavy work, too. Harvesting plants kills many animals, particularly in industrial agrilculture. Industrial agriculture also relies mostly on fossil fuels, which pollute the land and destroy watersheds. You really can't have sustainable plant agriculture without animal input from manure....the system isn't a closed loop.

I highly recommend this book: https://www.amazon.com/Vegetarian-Myth-Food-Justice-Sustainability/dp/1604860804 It is NOT perfect, and there are some logical flaws and hyper-emotional arguments made, but I think there is valuable information for those of us struggling with the ethics of eating meat.

The best advice I can give you is to eat soft eggs and nice flaky fish to start. Your body is going to be SO happy - and my guess is, it's going to tell you LOUD and clear what it needs.

Be well.

Look up Nom Nom Paleo or Cordain's Paleo recipe book! Those have become my favorite recipe sources for when I am feeling fancy (most of the time I'll just throw a cut of meat in a pan and steam some veggies for my OMAD, admittedly).

As for healthy specific recipes, that depends on where you are and where you want to be. Are you planning on keeping saturated fat intake low, and want to go for lean poultry, or do you not think sat fat is as bad as claimed? Are you underweight and looking for calorie dense foods, or overweight and looking for the opposite? What kitchen apparel do you have available - can you get your hands on a slow cooker, or an instant pot? Are you doing keto, or carni, or do you have to exclude certain ingredients for any reason?

I use Ancestral Supplements for organ meats since I don’t have access to quality fresh organ meats. (I don’t actually eat beef otherwise either.) Here is their liver supplement.

https://www.amazon.com/Ancestral-Supplements-Grass-Liver-Desiccated/dp/B01MSBZYQW?ref_=ast_sto_dp

Hi! Okay a few things. 1.) Ferret's Ferritin (the white and red bottle on Amazon) helped me immensely with my iron levels. So did taking 2 encapsulated beef liver supplements from Ancestral Supplements (serving size is 6, 2 was my max). 2.) If your thyroid is LOW, you have hypothyroidism (not hyper). Everyone's thyroid condition is different. Approximately 90% are autoimmune (mine is, started as sub-clinical hypothyroidism and then years later turned into hashimotos which I have in remission). I do not believe that my thyroid condition was caused by being plant based - my bloodwork for thyroid was actually better while I was vegan and when I went paleo, it got a lot worse. Now I'm *mostly* plant-based aside from wild caught fish and grass-fed red meat like beef, bison and venison. Also, fish won't provide iron as much as supplementation and grass fed red meat.

Are you eating red meat or just fish? And were you supplementing? How is your stress level? Do you drink coffee or eat a lot of soy or gluten?

A vegan diet tends to be high starch. It should reverse as your diet changes. This book was very helpful to me for similar reasons, the doc runs a metabolic health clinic at Duke.

https://www.amazon.com/End-Your-Carb-Confusion-Customize/dp/1628604298

Carnitine is found in avocadoes, asparagus, and whole wheat bread. The human body also manufactures it in the kidneys.

Here's a vegan carnitine supplement if he wants to supplement carnitine, which might be necessary.

Joe Rogan (in an interview with Jordan Peterson) talked about going mostly carnivore. He said he had bowel issues the first week or two.

I always wondered if taking a probiotic would help with this transition. This is a good one: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CZFZTCW?th=1 . Try taking once a day on an empty stomach with some milk or kefir.

That’s understandable. Most supplements are garbage and are barely absorbed by the body. I’ve switched to naturopaths over the last 10yrs and they’ve helped me more than conventional doctors ever have. They really push the pure encapsulations brand. It’s from Europe and properly vetted. Pure Encapsulations Digestive Enzymes Ultra | Supplement to Aid in Breaking Down Fats, Proteins, and Carbohydrates for Digestion* | 180 Capsules https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0016X8Y0S/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_287FC0CY9PRGJ75YRCDS If you don’t want to take supplements I highly recommend putting the collagen protein in fruit smoothies. Fruit has lots of digestive enzymes. So does anything in the brassica family(mustard included). I also will make big batches of bone broth soup with rotisserie chicken carcasses from the store. You need lots of water to break down animal protein. Slow cooked soup with lots of veggies will heal you gut inflammation. And if you can find it in your area get some authentic Vietnamese Pho. It’s my go to when I’m sick.

I looooooove adobo seasoning on chicken! Oven baked thighs are my favourite as it’s super juicy and delicious.

I also love this soup.

I’ve dealt with perforated gut and intestinal inflammation from nutritional deficiencies. It took me years to work my way back to eating meat after being vegan most of my life. Bromalain is an enzyme produced by fresh pineapple that helps you breakdown protein. We need a varied diet because paints produce enzymes that help us break down our food and absorb nutrients. If you haven’t eaten animal protein for a long time you may need some help. This is the one I have at home but there’s lots of choices out there. Digestive Enzymes with Probiotics & Prebiotics - Digestive Enzyme Supplements w Lipase, Amylase, Bromelain - Support a Healthy Digestive Tract for Men and Women – 90 Vegetarian Capsules https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076MDX648/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_ZF363GPNZEKW71BB8835?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1 I still live on beef broth collagen because it’s more affordable and easier on my guts. I can put it in anything Bone Broth Powder, 2lb Pure Grass Fed Beef Bone Broth Protein Powder. Unflavored, Contains Collagen, Glucosamine & Gelatin, Paleo Protein Powder, Keto, Gut-Friendly, Non-GMO, Dairy Free. 32oz https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07X8YXLDJ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_RTS2CQ3J4G8D6XTCRBVY?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1 My mom is in her 60s and has been vegetarian for over 30 years. She started using this in a protein shake once a day and her insomnia and fatigue has drastically improved in under a month.

The vegan diet lacks a lot of nutrients and many experience health problems as you can see here from posts. It is very high in carbs and tends to be heavy on processed foods.

This book turned my health and weight around, highly recommend. I was vegetarian for years and kept gaining, my PCOS got really bad and I started losing hair. By following the approach of the doc in the book I reversed PCOS symptoms, GERD, migraines, lost skin tags, tendonitis, chronic sinus infections, etc. I got more metabolically healthy and was finally able to lose weight and keep it off. https://www.amazon.com/End-Your-Carb-Confusion-Customize/dp/1628604298 The doc who wrote it heads the Obesity Med Clinic at Duke and he has honed a super simple and straightforward path back to health and normal weight. He teaches intuitive eating within a framework and took all the guesswork out.

Aww thank you it's out of stock though for where I am. I bought these hopefully they will be just as good! Seemed like 2nd best alternative

Ancestral Supplements Grass Fed Beef Liver (Desiccated) — Natural Iron, Vitamin A, B12 for Energy (180 Capsules) try this?

base powder is some kind of alkaline mix of minerals idk :D https://www.amazon.de/tri-balance-Basenpulver-Classic-300-S%C3%A4ure-Basen-Haushalt/dp/B002UJIMFY/ref=sr_1_23?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=1P4UK34JWZO5H&keywords=basenpulver&qid=1640384249&sprefix=basenpulver%2Caps%2C220&sr=8-23

im drinking a lot of water (approx 1.8 liters/day)

idk if i have zinc in my supplements i will look into that thank you for that. The headaches already got a little better today.

Why not start with red meat? Try some instant pot recipes, they are easier to digest. Chew a lot too! And if you're having trouble digesting protein (bloating) try this supplement, it worked wonders for me.

I recently found out as well via Amazon here. I think it's a new product. Check your local grocer because it might be cheaper.

This book might be good: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1538711680/

Nourishing Diets: How Paleo, Ancestral and Traditional Peoples Really Ate

Sally Fallon Morell

But I haven't read it.

If you want to heal your gut, you need to eliminate what's making it ill. Start with Lion Diet, and, after you heal, one-at-a-time add foods back in to find out which make you sick: https://mikhailapeterson.com/the-lion-diet/

Yeah pure lanolin would be pretty gross, I was more meaning something along the lines of this but like I said I've never used it myself so who knows

> What I am a bit cautious about is that it's not always easy to say which studies have undisclosed conflicts of interest, but it's also lazy to dismiss anything that doesn't support someone's preconceived assumptions as corporate-funded.

I completely agree!

> Peer review is the minimal standard, enforcing transparency is something that could maybe be improved, but I'm not a lawyer.), but ...

Even Peer Review is imperfect. And the way Science is done is often imperfect. These are value judgments, of course. Not hard facts. You may have gathered that I am a beekeeper, and there is a fascinating book on the subject of how bee research is done. It's a quick read (I read it in a day), so it's a high ROI if you would like some information about how the sausage is made: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vanishing-Bees-Science-Politics-Honeybee/dp/0813574595

> On Reddit?

No. I saw Hayes display Monsanto's perspective at a conference for Beekeepers.

> Another of the worst exported british legacies. I don't even see the aesthetic compared to even the most unkempt field of flowers, what's the point of owning non-functional (playing field etc.) turf if you're not going to plant anything on it?

You're touching my heart. I include this fact in greater detail when I give a presentation about lawn reduction / lawn elimination. I pin the initial blame on the Anglo-French elite, who could show off how much land they could waste by having their servants maintain a field of nothing but grass. The reason why it became an American cult is much deeper than that, though. In some parts of the USA, you can be charged with a crime if you don't "maintain" your lawn. It's insane.

You didn't fail. The people that mislead you did.

A plant based diet is not actually very ethical.

Read The Vegetarian Myth and you'll learn how multiple colluding industries have leveraged your good intentions, ultimately robbing you of your health.

> Conventional produce is sprayed with tons of toxic pesticides which are known carcinogens and will ruin your gut.

Magical thinking. There's no conclusive evidence for your claims.

> Shop local, connect with farmers

Farmers are introverts. They hate this bullshit: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1586489402/

The Locavore's Dilemma: In Praise of the 10,000-mile Diet

This isn't what I bought but it would work. 1.5 pounds for $20.

https://www.amazon.com/Grass-Fed-Anti-Aging-Friendly-Collagen-Unflavored/dp/B071GCY1LM/ref=mp_s_a_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=gelatin&qid=1612816672&sr=8-5

I hate cooking meat because I hate dealing with food that isn't supposed to touch other food before it's cooked. Except for eggs; I can deal with eggs for some reason.

Getting something like this helped tremendously:
https://www.amazon.com/Circulon-Momentum-Hard-Anodized-Nonstick-12-Inch/dp/B00ZCKODNI/

I found one like it at Target for under $40. Now I just buy bags of frozen chicken breasts at the store, empty the bag into the pan, fill it halfway with water, put it on the stove, lid it, and heat it on high until the water starts to boil, then turn it down to a simmer. Once the chicken breasts are (really fucking) cooked in the water I take them out, pat them dry and refreeze them. For people who actually enjoy cooking meat this probably sounds lazy and gross, but I usually just reheat it in the microwave (in a bowl of water) and break it apart to eat over spaghetti. Throw enough olive oil on it and it tastes acceptable.

This kind of thing also makes cooking ground meat/chili very easy. Just saute onions and peppers in olive oil, then add whatever else you like: mushrooms, tomatoes, a can of beans if that's your thing. Then I just dump fresh ground meat on top and mix it up/season it. Plenty of room for plenty of leftovers for the freezer.

this is another great video about oils https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvKdYUCUca8

This is a pretty good documentary too if you have Amazon Prime

https://www.amazon.com/FAT-Documentary-Vinnie-Tortorich/dp/B07SQ7NZCQ

I remembered my grandmas cooking for the whole family with fresh ingredients, no additives, all local. So much different from the generation of my parents that had to feed seven children.

I didn't want to take that path.

And even if for some people I ''take too much time'' to prepare a delicious meal or a ''french restaurant dessert'' I don't mind.I love cooking and is so wonderful how much I learn, that I can make an expensive "restaurant dish" at home, and not pay so much for it.My family feels the difference when I cooked unprocessed food. And that's kind of a reward :)

Of course I cannot cook "perfect" every day. If I'm tired I allow myself to order a pizza, or make some local sausages, or pasta. Or If I can afford, I go out for dinner.

I learn a lot from THIS book.It's about France and the food with some interesting facts and recipes.

The post about low carb diets causing IR is misinformation and should be deleted. Dr. Ben Bikman is a professor who has studied and written extensively on the topic of insulin resistance.

He follows a low carb diet and IF schedule for himself.

https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Get-Sick-Disease_and/dp/194883698X

I do not think meat was a delicacy to the majority of the world. The majority of the poorer classes throughout history have eaten pork, because pigs were easy to raise. But don't take my word for it. You can read the fascinating story of how pigs have interacted with human culture throughout history in the enormously readable and informative book "Lesser Beasts": https://www.amazon.com/Lesser-Beasts-Snout-Tail-History/dp/0465052746