A yoga instructor and professional equestrian turned personal trainer, Kem Minnick noticed a decline in her physical and health after years of veganism.

Her personal quest for health revealed the importance of tryptophan, which is necessary for the production of serotonin in the brain. She realized that insufficient serotonin was a  root cause of her chronic physical ill-health and lack of mental clarity.

Further personal experimentation proved to her that her vegan/vegetarian practice was the cause of her low serotonin.

Something had to change.

The Original Carnivore Swedish Bikini Chef, ex-Playboy model Kem Minnick talks her journey from being a cannabis user and vegan/vegetarian, tryptophan deficiency, why a carnivore diet helps produce serotonin, and how she was introduced to the carnivore diet by the  man who was not only the brains behind the Grateful Dead's massive wall-of-sound speaker system, but also the country's largest LSD distributor, Stanley Owsley.

Quick Guide
1:03 Introduction
03:24 What is tryptophan and how it functions in the body
12:38 The relationship between carbohydrates and serotonin
16:49 What her research with Wurtmans of MIT led her to discover
20:57 Stanley Owsley
25:57 Her switch from vegan to carnivore
40:44 Lessons from her research to write a book on serotonin
49:29 The wisdom of Temple Grandin

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The Swedish bikini chef, Kem Minnick became a Playboy model at age 41. She advocates the carnivore diet and celebrates being marijuana-free for 12 years. She shares her journey in her book, "Eat Meat, Be Happy! Recipes for a More Meat Diet."

“There are two different types of iron, non-heme iron, heme iron. We only get heme iron from animal proteins, meat, red meat, lamb and beef are our best sources. We've got to keep that in the female diet. We got to keep it in the diet of children in elementary school, junior high school, and we need to start talking about the absolute importance of it in preventing depression, in preventing anxiety with young women today.” - Kem Minnick

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