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Okay, so today we're going to talk about the carnivore diet, specifically, and Hashimoto's. So, the carnivore diet. So, background. Okay, I'll tell you what I share with my patients. When we're treating them, it's diet, it's lifestyle changes. There's herbs, there are botanicals. There's a lot of triggers that can be pulled. There just can be so many things that are being flaring up your immune responses and there's 40 something triggers and all that type of stuff. But diet's huge. In the beginning, diet's very, very, very important to calm down inflammation, to dampen things.

But most of my patients come in here, they have a variety of different things and one diet doesn't fit. Sarah Ballantyne wrote the Autoimmune Paleo Diet and that was a great thing at the time because it acknowledged that there was autoimmunity and that there were certain foods that flared up autoimmunity. There's the anti-inflammatory diet, except the problem was a lot of people had food sensitivities. And at that time there was no good way to test them. The problem was some people had small intestine bacterial overgrowth and you would get on that diet and all of a sudden your stomach would start bloating and you'd go, "What?"

So here, at Power Health Chiropractic in Reno, we use 15 different diets. But we never use one diet, never, because one diet is never appropriate for the people who are walking in here who's got small intestine bacterial overgrowth, food sensitivities and gastritis, or ulcers. Or who's got [inaudible 00:01:46] and who's got ulcers and who's got blood sugar, diabetes type II. And a lot of times what happens is functional practitioners will have a diet to help them and they'll make that their baseline diet for everything and then they wonder why things haven't worked. So that's just the background about what I'm going to say.

And frankly, I was just doing a seminar on vascular diseases not long ago and interestingly enough, the presenter went over... And it was the first time I ever heard this. It was our idea here. I work with another doctor here on the nutritional aspects of it. About five years ago, he said, "Look, one diet's not working, okay?" We have to figure out what diets to put together and we did so, and we started with putting these together based on our workups. Excuse me. And lo and behold, this gentleman, who I consider my mentor, came out and he started talking about how one diet didn't work, and you have to do [inaudible 00:02:54]. It's the first time I'd ever heard it. First time I've ever heard it in a seminar setting.

So one diet doesn't work. So we'll start off with that, with the carnivore diet. And a lot of people say, "Well, it made me feel so much better." And it can make you feel better. There are people who can't do the carnivore diet because they don't have enough hydrochloric acid in their stomach. They can't do it because some people that the diet is actually inflammatory to them and you're trying to dampen inflammation.

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