What does it take to walk away from everything you’ve been told about food and bet your health on something completely different? For Robyn Herron, aka CarnivorousGrama, it took courage, and the results were nothing short of remarkable.

In just 31 days on the Carnivore diet, Robyn eliminated the eczema that had tormented her skin, silenced the daily anxiety that had become her normal, ended her seasonal allergies, and finally got relief from the IBS that had controlled her life for years. No shots or diet drugs. No complicated protocols. Just meat and eggs.

But Robyn didn’t stop at healing herself. She became a certified metabolic health coach, and made it her mission to bring Carnivore to the people who need it most and hear about it least - adults over 40 and the Black community - two groups that are wildly underrepresented in the Carnivore space, and have the most to gain from it.

In this spirited conversation we dig into her transition story, the Carnivore principles she teaches her clients, and why courage isn’t just a nice word to her, it’s the foundation of every transformation she’s ever witnessed, including her own.

If you’ve been sitting on the fence about Carnivore, or you’ve felt like this way of eating wasn’t made for someone like you, this episode will change your mind.

Courage is contagious. Hit PLAY.

CONNECT WITH ROBYN RENEE HERRON:

On Instagram, YouTube and @BlueSky: @CarnivorousGrama

On TikTok: #CarnivorousGrama

iMPACT 2026 Meat-Up & Eat Up

Join CarnivorousGrama & Friends for an engaging day focused on health, community, and expert insights.

Date: September 5, 2026

Main Event Time: 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM EDT - local time

Location: Drake Farmstead Carriage Barn

927 N. Drake Ave, Kalamazoo, MI 49009

Special Inclusion: A screening of the Healing Humanity movie is included with your ticket.

Event Schedule & Activities

Main Event (11:00 AM – 4:00 PM): Featuring fun and movement, expert learning sessions, music by The Nubien Brand, and a delicious clean carnivore meal.

Family Affair After Party: 4:30 PM – 7:30 PM

Featured Influencers and Guests

The event will feature appearances by:

* CarnivorousGrama

* Kerry & Emma Mann

* Dr. Kiltz

* Dr. Nelson Vazquez

* Nurse Laura Russell

* Arianna Herron (PAC)

* Sherrod "Meat Man" Brown

* Julia Greenblatt (@meatjulia)

Ticket Information

General Ticket: $65

After Party Ticket: $15

To secure your spot, please click this Event Brite link:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2026-impact-meat-up-and-eat-up-with-carnivorousgrama-and-friends-registration-1979534961357

CONNECT WITH US:

Mark Ennis, health and fitness coach

[email protected], and on both Instagram and YouTube @fitnessbeyondtime01 and @carnivoreevolution2024

Victoria Olson, health coach and author of ‘Troubleshooting Your Carnivore Diet’ on Amazon https://a.co/d/00WnRF0I , can be reached at [email protected]

And on Facebook in the group: Carnivore Diet After Age 40.

Thank you for listening. Please Like, Comment and Subscribe. We make no profit. Your input helps us get the word out about the Carnivore diet.

#CarnivoreDiet #WeightLoss #ZeroCarb #AnimalBasedDiet #CarnivorousGrama

“There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream, and find out why they’re falling in.” - Nelson Mandela

Hello Beautiful Human! Dr. Jocelyn Foran’s story is different. She’s not just a physician, she’s a longtime patient, too.

As a child, she watched and helped her mother battle rheumatoid arthritis. That’s what pushed Jocelyn toward medicine in the first place.

As an adult, she developed ulcerative colitis herself. Doctors told her diet had nothing to do with it, aside from one ingredient in processed dairy (carrageenan). Meanwhile, she had a career as an anesthesiologist and was raising three children, all while unintentionally losing weight, losing sleep, struggling to control her bowels, and watching her medication grow less effective by the day.

Then a colleague mentioned the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, developed to help with celiac disease and inflammatory bowel disease. She tried it. Within days, everything changed for the better. She moved on to Paleo, then Keto, and finally Carnivore.

Her gastroenterologist was supportive, but still promoted drugs. Jocelyn wishes the medical system understood diet as a foundational treatment, not an afterthought.

She mentions how Abraham Flexner’s 1910 report, reshaped medical school curriculums across North America, and locked in the “pills only” approach we still see today.

Dr. Foran tells us why glucose is so toxic to the body, and how Carnivore works by keeping carbs and insulin as low as possible. As her own health improved, she was able to taper off the now-failing medications she’d relied on for years.

Her larger point? Modern medicine is incredible at acute care. Broken bone, get it fixed. But chronic illness is a different story. They treat symptoms, not root causes. That’s exactly why she brings up Mandela’s “going upstream” quote.

Today, Dr. Foran has a metabolic coaching practice through her website Upstream Metabolic Medical (link below), and shares videos on Instagram, YouTube and TikTok about how very low carb and Carnivore diets can transform chronic illness.

Dr Foran is heading upstream, and she wants to bring all of us with her.

I’m on board. Are you?

CONNECT WITH DR. FORAN:

Website: Upstream Metabolic Medical

https://www.metabolicmedical.ca/about

Instagram and TikTok: @metabolic.medical

CONNECT WITH US:

Mark Ennis, health and fitness coach

[email protected], and on both Instagram and YouTube @fitnessbeyondtime01 and @carnivoreevolution2024

Victoria Olson, health coach and author of ‘Troubleshooting Your Carnivore Diet’ on Amazon https://a.co/d/00WnRF0I , can be reached at [email protected]

And on Facebook in the group: Carnivore Diet After Age 40.

Thank you for listening. Please Like, Comment and Subscribe. We make no profit. Your input helps us get the word out about the Carnivore diet.

#CarnivoreDiet #WeightLoss #ZeroCarb #AnimalBasedDiet #metabolicmedical #Foran

We sat down with the esteemed Dr. Anthony Chaffee for one of the most wide-ranging conversations we’ve had on the channel.

Dr Chaffee shared his own Carnivore origin story, which goes back further than most, then we dug into some science and real-world applications across several topics of interest to our community: Carnivore athletic performance (including Dr Chaffee’s own experiences), thyroid health, carbohydrates, insulin, fitness training, and the exploding GLP-1 conversation. If you’ve been waiting for an episode that covers the clinical side without losing the human side, this is it.

HOW TO FIND DR CHAFFEE:

His excellent website: dranthonychaffee.com

LEARN out about Dr Chaffee’s 90-day Carnivore Challenge at

https://community.dranthonychaffee.com

His YouTube channel: Dr Anthony Chaffee @dranthonychaffee

His podcasts on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, ‘The Plant-Free MD with Dr Anthony Chaffee’

CONNECT WITH US:

Mark Ennis, health and fitness coach

[email protected], and on both Instagram and YouTube @fitnessbeyondtime01 and @carnivoreevolution2024

Victoria Olson, health coach and author of ‘Troubleshooting Your Carnivore Diet’ on Amazon https://a.co/d/00WnRF0I , can be reached at [email protected]

And on Facebook in the group: Carnivore Diet After Age 40.

Thank you for listening. Please Like, Comment and Subscribe. We make no profit. Your input helps us get the word out about the Carnivore diet.

#CarnivoreDiet #WeightLoss #ZeroCarb #AnimalBasedDiet #chaffee

Kazumi Evener tried everything to get healthy, including Whole 30, Keto, and Atkins. She was a dedicated runner and a lifelong dieter, but something was always off.

When she found Carnivore, she didn’t get it right at first. She restricted fat, limited her food intake, and kept herself undernourished without realizing it. She was running during the day but binge eating sweets at night, still fighting a sugar addiction she couldn’t shake.

The turning point came when she finally gave her body the animal fat it was asking for.

Adding adequate fat to her Carnivore diet changed everything. Her hormone balance stabilized, and after years of missing her menstrual cycle on and off, it returned on a regular basis. Her anxiety calmed. Her energy came back. The nighttime sugar binges stopped.

Kazumi’s story is a powerful reminder that Carnivore isn’t just about cutting carbs. It’s about nourishing your body completely, and animal fat is the piece most people get wrong at the start.

She now shares her journey and ongoing Carnivore success with a growing community on Instagram, showing others what’s possible when you stop restricting and start healing.

🥩 FOLLOW Kazumi on Instagram: @optimallifewithkazumi where she welcomes and answers questions about the Carnivore diet.

CONNECT WITH US:

Mark Ennis, health and fitness coach

[email protected], and on Instagram and YouTube @fitnessbeyondtime01 and @carnivoreevolution2024.

Victoria Olson, health coach and author of ‘Troubleshooting Your Carnivore Diet’ on Amazon https://a.co/d/00WnRF0I , can be reached at [email protected]

And on Facebook in the group: Carnivore Diet After Age 40.

Thank you for listening. Please Like, Comment and Subscribe. We make no profit. Your input helps us get the word out about the Carnivore diet.

#CarnivoreDiet #CarnivoreCommunity #HormoneHealth #SugarAddiction #CarnivoreDietForWomen #AnimalBased #CarnivoreDietResults

Fourteen years vegan. Ulcerative colitis. Chronic acne. And a body that kept sending her signals she finally couldn’t ignore.

Josie Lieder, aka The Ex-Plant Eater, did everything the plant-based world told her to do, and paid for it with her health. When she made the switch to carnivore, her colitis symptoms vanished and her skin cleared and tightened up. Bloating, bleeding gums, brain fog and anxiety cleared. Now she has great energy, better sleep, and heals quicker than before from minor cuts and bruises, and more.

What started as a last resort became a complete transformation, and now she’s one of the most compelling voices speaking out about what the vegan diet can do to a body over time.

Josie is the author of the upcoming book ‘Coming Around to Carnivore’, releasing August 11, 2026 (link below), on several YouTube channels, and she’s set to take the stage at Meatstock 2027 in Nashville on a panel of former vegans. Her story isn’t just about food. It’s about what happens when lived experience finally overrules ideology.

In this episode, Jodie walks us through her 14-year journey, the health crisis that forced her hand, the moment carnivore changed everything, and why she’s now dedicated to helping others find their way out of the same trap.

If you’ve been plant-based and something feels off, this conversation might be exactly what you’ve been waiting for.

Link to Amazon for ‘Coming Around to Carnivore’, available for pre-order, dropping August 11, 2026

https://a.co/d/01diDAUz

CONNECT WITH JOSIE:

On Instagram and YouTube: @theexplanteater

CONNECT WITH US:

Mark Ennis, health and fitness coach

[email protected], and on Instagram and YouTube @fitnessbeyondtime01 and @carnivoreevolution2024.

Victoria Olson, health coach and author of ‘Troubleshooting Your Carnivore Diet’ on Amazon https://a.co/d/00WnRF0I , can be reached at [email protected]

And on Facebook in the group: Carnivore Diet After Age 40.

Thank you for listening. Please Like, Comment and Subscribe. We make no profit. Your input helps us get the word out about the Carnivore diet.

What does it actually take to lose fat and keep it off on Carnivore? Michele Andrews has been in the trenches coaching real people through real transformations, and she’s not holding back on the secrets that are actually moving the needle.

Michele is a Carnivore fat loss coach, fitness coach, and dancer who brings a whole-person approach to what most people treat as a numbers game. In this episode she pulls back the curtain on the key secrets inside her coaching program, and it’s a lot more than just “eat meat and lose weight.”

She tells us about her individualized coaching and why cookie-cutter plans keep failing people, nutrition education that actually sticks, and the eating disorder and body image baggage so many of us are quietly carrying into this lifestyle.

Michele doesn’t skip the hard stuff. Mindset and mental healing aren’t a side conversation here, they’re central to the whole process. She understands that the psychological weight we carry is often heavier than anything showing up on the scale.

We also cover HRT and peptides, what Michele thinks about fasting for fat loss, and the fitness and movement piece that ties it all together. She’s a dancer as well as a coach, and that shows in how she talks about the body, not as something to punish into submission, but as something to work with.

We dig into body recomposition, meal timing, metabolism, and why so many women especially are under-eating and over-struggling without ever getting the results they’re after.

If you’ve been spinning your wheels, if you’ve tried everything and still feel stuck, or if you’re just starting out and want to do this right from the beginning, this conversation is for you.

CONNECT WITH COACH MICHELE:

Instagram:

@coachmicheleandrews

YouTube:

@CarnivorePowerDuo

CONNECT WITH US:

Mark Ennis, health and fitness coach

[email protected], on YouTube and Instagram @fitnessbeyondtime01

Victoria Olson, health coach and author of ‘Troubleshooting Your Carnivore Diet’ on Amazon https://a.co/d/00WnRF0I , can be reached at [email protected]

And on Facebook in the group: Carnivore Diet After Age 40.

Thank you for watching and listening. Please Like, Comment and Subscribe. We make no profit. Your input helps us get the word out about the Carnivore diet.

What does it take to completely transform your health when your back is against the wall? For Scott French, it wasn’t a resolution or a wellness trend. It was survival.

Scott spent his younger years active and healthy, but by 50, the picture looked completely different. Morbid obesity. Chronic AFIB. Severe obstructive sleep apnea. Degenerative disc disease. Joint pain that made daily life a grind. The message from his body was clear: get healthy or die.

In this powerful interview, Scott walks us through the full story of his transformation on the Carnivore diet, and what it actually took to claw his way back from the edge. This is not a highlight reel. This is a raw, honest account of what rock bottom looks like, and what it feels like to come out the other side, alive and well.

But Scott’s story doesn’t stop with his own health. He also opens up about his daughter, who is currently recovering from brain cancer surgery and using a ketogenic diet as part of her healing journey.

Scott’s transformation is remarkable. His daughter’s story will break your heart open. If you’ve ever wondered what this way of eating is truly capable of, this conversation will stay with you.

Whether you’re just starting out or years into your own journey, Scott’s story is a reminder that it is never too late to fight for your health.

Watch the full interview and let us know in the comments how his story resonates with you.

CONNECT WITH SCOTT:

Facebook: Scott French

TikTok: Carnivore4Life

CONNECT WITH US:

Mark Ennis, health and fitness coach

[email protected], and on Instagram and Tiktok @fitnessbeyondtime01

Victoria Olson, health coach and author of ‘Troubleshooting Your Carnivore Diet’ on Amazon https://a.co/d/00WnRF0I , can be reached at [email protected]

And on Facebook in the group: Carnivore Diet After Age 40.

Thank you for listening. Please Like, Comment and Subscribe. We make no profit. Your input helps us get the word out about the Carnivore diet.

#CarnivoreDiet #CarnivoreCommunity #CarnivoreEvolution #CarnivoreDietSuccess #HealthTransformation #WeightLoss #AFIB #SleepApnea #KetogenicDiet #BrainCancerRecovery #MeatHeals #ZeroCarb #MeatBasedDiet

What if your body isn’t failing you? What if it’s actually trying to save you?

Victoria and Mark sit down with Patrick Coles to challenge what you think you know about disease. That tumors, obesity, and fatty liver aren’t random chaos. They may be the body deliberately isolating toxins, capturing and encapsulating them to prevent them from spreading throughout your system.

Diabetes and autoimmune diseases may also be protective reactions to the toxins we ingest.

And those toxins? They’re not just the microplastics and forever chemicals you already know to avoid. They’re hiding in your everyday diet.

Find the root cause. That’s the message.

Patrick writes about all of this and more on his Substack, ‘Patrick Coles’, and has a book about it on the way. If this conversation resonates with you, give him a follow on Substack.

CONNECT WITH PATRICK:

Substack.com or the app

Patrick Coles

@nutritionalphysicist

YouTube

@OxalateWarrior

Email: [email protected]

CONNECT WITH US:

Mark Ennis, health and fitness coach

[email protected], and on Instagram and Tiktok @fitnessbeyondtime01

Victoria Olson, health coach and author of ‘Troubleshooting Your Carnivore Diet’ on Amazon https://a.co/d/00WnRF0I , can be reached at [email protected]

And on Facebook in the group: Carnivore Diet After Age 40.

Thank you for listening. Please Like, Comment and Subscribe. We make no profit. Your input helps us get the word out about the Carnivore diet.

What if the root cause of dozens of unexplained physical and psychological symptoms is not in your mind or your genes, but in your blood? Brendan Reesor, author of the book, ‘Beyond the Pale’, joins us to make a compelling case that anemia is one of the most underdiagnosed and misunderstood conditions driving a wide range of ailments that conventional medicine keeps failing to resolve.

Brendan walks us through the foundational role of oxygen in every system of the body and explains how even a moderate reduction in oxygen delivery can quietly erode your physical health, your emotional stability, and your mental clarity. When your cells are starved for oxygen, the downstream effects are far wider than fatigue. He connects anemia to somatic disorders, the very real physical symptoms that arise from physiological dysfunction, rather than psychological origin, and makes the case that this connection is consistently overlooked by practitioners who are simply not looking for it.

Perhaps most thought-provoking is Brendan's personal experience and research into gender dysphoria as a potential somatic expression of chronic anemia. It is a perspective rooted in his own journey and one that challenges us to ask harder questions before accepting a diagnosis as fixed or permanent.

Brendan also takes direct aim at the current standard of blood testing, arguing that the reference ranges used today are not sensitive enough to detect true anemia in many of the people who have it. He believes the entire framework for evaluating iron status and oxygen-carrying capacity needs to be overhauled, and he explains exactly why that matters for anyone who has been told their labs look fine while they keep feeling anything but.

We also dig into how a carnivore diet can dramatically shift the picture. The bioavailable iron, B12, and heme nutrients found in animal foods are precisely what a depleted body needs, and Brendan explains why whole food nutrition delivers results that no supplement protocol can fully replicate.

If you have been dismissed, misdiagnosed, or simply told to live with symptoms no one can explain, this conversation may change the way you think about your health entirely.

RESOURCES FOR BRENDAN

Reach Brendan through his website:

https://www.brendanjreesor.com/contact

Follow and dm him on Instagram @brendan.reesor

His YouTube channel: @SubstituteProfessor

‘Beyond the Pale’ Amazon book page:

https://a.co/d/0jhEUfqy

CONNECT WITH US:

Mark Ennis, health and fitness coach

[email protected], and on Instagram @fitnessbeyondtime01

Victoria Olson, health coach and author of ‘Troubleshooting Your Carnivore Diet’ on Amazon https://a.co/d/00WnRF0I , can be reached at [email protected]

And on Facebook in the group: Carnivore Diet After Age 40.

Thank you for watching and listening. Please Like, Comment and Subscribe. We make no profit. Your input helps us get the word out about the Carnivore diet.

What happens when decades of chronic pain, endometriosis, and a Hashimoto's diagnosis during pregnancy finally meets the one thing that works? Alia Wells found out.

In this lively episode, we talk with Alia, a woman in her early 40s who spent years navigating the relentless cycle of endometriosis pain, debilitating migraines, and joint inflammation that left her searching for answers mainstream medicine couldn't give her. Then came a Hashimoto's thyroiditis diagnosis during a pregnancy, and everything changed again.

What followed was her introduction to the Carnivore diet, and a transformation she describes as life-altering. Today, her endometriosis symptoms are under control, her joint pain is gone, and her Hashimoto's is managed without the struggle she once knew. And now, she's expecting again, this time stepping into a fully Carnivore pregnancy with confidence and excitement.

Alia brings a unique perspective to this conversation. As executive assistant to Dr. Rob Kiltz and administrator of the Kiltz Mighty Tribe community on Mighty Networks, she lives and breathes this space every day. She's not just a patient success story. She's someone embedded in one of the most active Carnivore communities online, watching thousands of people walk the same path she did.

This episode is for anyone dealing with hormonal conditions, autoimmune disease, chronic pain, or fertility concerns who wonders whether food could actually be the missing piece.

Topics covered:

- Alia’s years-long battle with endometriosis pain and migraines

- Developing Hashimoto's during pregnancy and what that journey looked like

- How she found Carnivore, and what the transition was like

- Managing an autoimmune thyroid condition through diet alone

- Preparing for a carnivore pregnancy and what that means for her

Connect with Alia, administrator of Kiltz’s Mighty Tribe on Mighty Networks

If this episode resonated with you, share it with someone who needs to hear it. And if you're navigating endometriosis, Hashimoto's, or any hormonal condition and wondering where to start, drop your questions in the comments below.

CONNECT WITH ALIA:

Instagram: @aliajaswells

Dr Kiltz Mighty Tribe:

https://kiltz-mighty-tribe.mn.co/

Dr Kiltz’s website

https://www.drkiltz.com/

CONNECT WITH US:

Mark Ennis, health and fitness coach

[email protected], and on Instagram and Tiktok @fitnessbeyondtime01

Victoria Olson, health coach and author of ‘Troubleshooting Your Carnivore Diet’ on Amazon https://a.co/d/00WnRF0I , can be reached at [email protected]

And on Facebook in the group: Carnivore Diet After Age 40.

Thank you for watching and listening. Please Like, Comment and Subscribe. We make no profit. Your input helps us get the word out about the Carnivore diet.