Author name: Dr. Chen

Doctor who advocates for taking control of your health through lifestyle changes.

Pregnancy

Forging and bringing an entirely new life into this world, the very idea of pregnancy can be quite anxiety inducing. Understandably, the desire to do everything right so that the baby has the best of everything is incredibly overwhelming. Here, I discuss the details surrounding pregnancy on keto/carnivore. The Placenta The placenta along with the […]

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Lipovore

Previously, I have discussed the fact that mammals across the spectrum get over 70% of their energy from fats. So in some sense, we could consider ourselves lipovores. Let us explore why that might be significant. Energy constraints Both the brain and the gut are very metabolically expensive tissues to operate. We traded in organ

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Carnivore

I realize this is a huge leap for people to make, especially considering all the prominent messages around meat these days. Be it on our evolutionary physiology or the nutritional content of meat, hopefully with this article, I can clear up some misconceptions about meat. The knee-jerk reaction Why are people so vehemently opposed to

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Fiber

Fiber is not essential or necessary. In fact it makes bowel movements/GI symptoms worse. This idea that fiber was good for the body was born out of religious zealots from the Seventh-Day Adventist church. The most notable being one John Harvey Kellogg, yes, the cereal Kellogg. Their belief was that a plant-based/vegan diet cured impure

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What should we really be eating?

In the previous post, it was demonstrated that across mammalian species, the energy composition was uniformly weighted towards fats. Here, we further explore other pieces of evidence that elucidate what exactly should we be eating. Areas we can investigate: The physiological metabolic constraints and stable isotope analysis of early ancestors. Expensive tissue hypothesis Kleiber’s law

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Ketones

Ketones are metabolites formed from the breakdown of fats. These are produced in the liver and only occurs when insulin levels are low enough. Consequently, many people use fasting as a means of getting into a state of ketosis, liberating energy from bodily fat stores. However, ketosis can also be achieved by eating a low-carb

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