Today, we have an impressive carnivore diet success story to share, which offers valuable insights and inspiration for anyone considering this unique dietary approach. Travis Statham’s story is a testament to the transformative power of the carnivore diet, showcasing the remarkable benefits one can experience by following this unconventional path. As we dive into Travis’s journey, we will analyze the reasons behind his success and discuss how the carnivore diet might help others with similar health concerns.

Travis Statham’s Carnivore Diet Success Story

Travis Statham, a tech worker from New York City, shared his intriguing experience with the carnivore diet. Travis previously followed a meat-based ketogenic diet before transitioning to a full carnivore diet. As a dedicated carnivore, he consumes two meals a day, primarily consisting of meat, cheese, and eggs. Travis has experienced numerous benefits since starting the carnivore diet, including increased energy levels, better sleep, and improved physical and mental well-being.

Travis’s journey began after reading several books on low-carb dieting, such as “Good Calories, Bad Calories” by Gary Taubes. He adopted a low-carb diet for weight loss and health reasons, eventually transitioning to the carnivore diet after being inspired by Dr. Shawn Baker’s Nequalsmany.com carnivore study group.

Benefit 1: Weight Loss and Improved Body Composition

One of the most significant benefits Travis experienced from the carnivore diet was effortless weight loss and improved body composition. The carnivore diet can aid weight loss due to its focus on consuming nutrient-dense, satiating foods like meat and animal products. These foods are high in protein and healthy fats, which help to keep hunger at bay and prevent overeating.

Additionally, the carnivore diet is naturally low in carbohydrates, which can lead to reduced insulin levels and increased fat burning. As the body transitions into a state of ketosis, it begins to utilize stored fat for energy more efficiently. This process promotes weight loss and improved body composition, as Travis experienced in his journey.

Benefit 2: Enhanced Mental Clarity and Focus

Another significant benefit Travis reported was improved mental clarity and focus, which he referred to as “Zerocarb Zen.” The carnivore diet’s emphasis on high-quality protein and healthy fats provides the brain with essential nutrients for optimal functioning. In contrast, the absence of carbohydrates and sugar in the diet helps to stabilize blood sugar levels, reducing energy crashes and brain fog commonly associated with high-carb diets.

Moreover, the state of ketosis induced by the carnivore diet has been linked to enhanced cognitive function and increased production of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), a protein that supports brain health and mental acuity. This combination of factors likely contributed to Travis’s improved mental clarity and focus while following the carnivore diet.

Conclusion:

Travis Statham’s carnivore diet success story demonstrates the transformative power of this unique dietary approach. By adopting the carnivore diet, Travis experienced significant weight loss, improved body composition, enhanced mental clarity, and an overall improvement in his quality of life. His journey serves as an inspiration for others struggling with similar health issues and highlights the potential benefits of the carnivore diet.

Disclaimer:

Please note that the carnivore diet success story featured in this review is an older post. We wanted to review it and provide additional information on how the success might have happened. We do not know if Travis Statham is still following the carnivore diet or if he has maintained the benefits he experienced. We are not doctors, and this review should not be considered medical advice. Always consult with a healthcare professional before making significant changes to your diet or lifestyle.

Original post: Travis’s Astounding Carnivore Diet Transformation: The Success That Will Make You Rethink Everything!

Interview with Travis Statham

1) Introduce Yourself.

My name is Travis Statham and I’m a 29 year old tech worker living in New York City but born an hour away in Connecticut. I am a metal-head who loves going to live shows in the area and I like all sorts of sub-genres of death metal and the associated mosh-pits. I’ve also been doing Brazilian Jiu Jujitsu for the past 5 years at Clockwork Jiu Jitsu in Manhattan and cannot recommend the sport enough to fellow adults looking for some interesting physical activity. I rowed for 5 years from high school to college and played some soccer and ran the mile in middle school. I admit I never understood anything about nutrition until I read Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes when I was 22 and slightly overweight after graduating college. It was a book that my mom recommended to understand low carb diets and I’m super glad I read it because it exposed layers of reality that I’m not sure many know how to cope with.

2) How did you eat before Carnivore.

I ate predominantly a meat-based ketogenic diet before going full carnivore. Interestingly, I remember hearing about it when I read Good Cal Bad Cal and thought at the time that it was too crazy to be considered useful or necessary, but over the course of the book I became convinced I could cut carbs to zero and be healthy as ever. I ate keto or a very guilty SAD diet ever since. I was one of the few doing it at work way back in 2013, finding good keto friendly meals while looking for lunch with my coworkers in Manhattan, at first to lose a bit of weight and then because I felt better on it. A lot of those meals by necessity were meat-only, but I wasn’t avoiding plants, just realized they are sometimes hard to get with lunch. I talked about it on Facebook back then and took a lot of heat and realized how big a battle I’d have to fight to do low carb for life, but I like doing the seemingly wrong things when I know I have the right reasons, so it’s been a natural thing for me to do as a rebel. That said, over the years, I’ve read more books, studied more material, and become more confident that a low carb diet is the natural human diet, but only in the past year have I truly questioned whether humans are facultative carnivores.

I’ve read many books on low carb dieting, including

• The Art and Science of Low Carb Living by Phinney / Volek
• Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes
• Why We Get Fat by Gary Taubes
• The Case Against Sugar by Gary Taubes
• The Big Fat Surprise by Nina Teicholz
• Lore of Nutrition by Tim Noakes and Marika Sboros
• The Paleo Diet by Loren Cordain
• The World Turned Upside Down by Dr Richard David Feinman

After becoming a carnivore

• Not by Bread Alone by Vilhjalmur Stefansson
• Fiber Menace by Konstantin (gutsense.org)
• The Stone Age Diet by Walter Voegtlin (justmeat.co)
• The Hypercarnivore Diet by Don Matesz (reading now)
• The Carnivore Diet by Dr. Shawn Baker (upcoming)
• Strong Medicine by Dr Blake Donaldson

On my List

• Chasing Antelopes by Dr Robin J Willcourt (need to start)
• Doctoring data by Dr. Malcolm Kendrick
• Dr Newbold’s Type A Type B Weight Loss Book
• The Diet of the Mountain Men
• The Relation of Alimentation and Disease by Salisbury
• Pure White and Deadly by John Yudkin
• Healthy Eating: The Big Mistake by Dr. Verner Wheelock
• Lies My Doctor Told me by Dr. Ken D Berry
• The Diabetes Code by Dr Jason Fung
• The Salt Fix/Superfuel by Dr James DiNicolantonio
• Deep Nutrition
• The Story of the Human Body by Daniel Lieberman (reading now)

Books I’ve started Recently

• Cancer as a Metabolic Disease – On the Origin, Management, and Prevention of Cancer by Dr Thomas Seyfried
• The Obesity Code by Dr Jason Fung

3) Why did you try Carnivore to begin with

Nequalsmany.com carnivore study group 2 is the first video I saw by Dr. Shawn Baker and I thought it was really cool that we could collect anecdotes and create hypothesis about how nutrition affects humans and outcomes. The video came out in middle September of last year and I was just finishing up The Case Against Sugar and was 100% committed to going strict keto and thought that carnivore was worth investigating. I found r/zerocarb, read a bunch about Charles Washington, The Bear’s advice and forum posts, and joined Zeroing in on Health and Principia Carnivora on Facebook. The anecdotes fascinated me and I was moved by the science saying that fiber should stay in a role where we don’t know if it’s really good for us.  I gradually reduced all plant consumption from August until December as I was researching and experimenting with shorter stints and then went pretty strict Carnivore around January 1st.

4) How do you personally approach the Carnivore Diet.

Personally, I approach the Carnivore diet as the best long term and the best short term diet. I don’t think there’s any reason to feel guilty over not eating any plants and I think keto should be the desired metabolic state by a majority of people. I treat any cheats I have now as experiments to see how they change my baseline. I know that cheating makes me gain 4-6 pounds for about half a week. On the whole I don’t cheat and stay strict Carnivore all the time.

Routine: 2 meals a day Lunch and Dinner.

Lunch = 1-1.5 pounds of meat (McDonald’s, Wendy’s, hot deli assorted fatty meats, skewers, etc)

Dinner: 1-1.5 pounds of meat, cheese, and eggs (Ribeyes, NY Strip, slow cooked corned beef or chuck roasts or pork butt/shoulder, salmon or what’s on sale, pork chops, ground beef burgers, duck, lamb. I post most of my meals to instagram : houseofcarnivores

I only drink black coffee, especially redeyes (coffee + espresso), seltzer, water, and rarely diet soda. I almost never drink beer or wine but will have liquor like single malt scotch or vodka. I consider milk no better than sugar water, and I consider fruit juice as worse than soda because it is touted as being healthy.

I don’t think we need to eat organ meats, but I’m open to the possibility that they help give us better nutrition. I would like to get to a spot where I can recommend optimum meats in optimum quantities to hit some sort of optimum feeling of best, but I can’t really say what that is yet, I just have an idea of what variables can be tested in the process. Those include omega 3 / omega 6 fat ratios, organ meats, quantity, eating windows, spices, salt, liquids, and coffee.

5) What benefits have you seen since starting the Carnivore Diet.

• Clean, level, constant energy, and optimistic outlook – I call this Zerocarb Zen
• No hunger, effortless intermittent fasting, diminished cravings, iron will.
• No bloating, indigestion, GERD, constipation.
• Better sleep (deeper sleep, no digestive pain during sleep)
• A general litheness – very in tune with myself

6) What negatives have you found with the Carnivore Diet.

Sometimes loose stool, but usually due to coffee.

7) Do you exercise on the Carnivore Diet, if so how do you find it and what do you do.

I do 2-4 hours of intense Brazilian Jiu Jitsu per week. I keep saying I should do some sort of basic bodyweight exercise in the morning (pushups, squats, jumpies, dips) and use it to gain a couple of pounds of muscle, but I don’t lift and I’m not sure if I want to start. I’m tentative about gaining muscle, getting injured, or having to maintain the muscle, and I’m not convinced I must gain more muscle just for benefits of insulin resistance when I have a diet that crushes that into the parking lot. Generally I’ll do BJJ on weekdays 6-8 pm, so I eat lunch at noon and try to keep it a basic meat without a lot of spices(simple cheeseburger) to encourage digestion. I find I feel bad if I have coffee 2-3 hours before BJJ, so I usually have my last cup at 2 pm if I’m planning on rolling (what we call going to BJJ). When I roll, I almost never drink water, and often don’t drink water until I get home, but I sweat a great deal and get absolutely tired. I have really great endurance when I roll, and will use it to exert a lot of control which tires out my opponents, and I think my diet helps me, but it’s hard to say for sure. Generally, I have a feeling of calmness, a quiet fortitude perhaps, that emanates out when my ketones are flowing.

I wish I could go back in time to when I was a rower in high school and college and try the carnivore diet then. I think it would be super interesting to see how being fat adapted changes endurance or oxygen requirements. My recovery would probably have improved, my soreness would be reduced, and I’d stay healthier with a better immune system. Instead, I ate a lot of carbs and never considered them a factor to tweak for performance.

8) What piece of advice would you give someone who is interested in trying this diet, but hasn’t taken the leap yet.

Use your skepticism to your advantage. There’s more to unlearn in terms of what you already think you know than there is to learn about how the carnivore diet. If you start from a point where you say “I know nothing” and use intuition to work your way forward, you’ll be pretty surprised how un-intuitive a lot of our nutritional advice is. That said, the indoctrination is strong and it will take years for you to realize the full scope of the agenda waged against your health in competition for your wallet. You don’t need to rush into trying this diet, but I think it’s extremely safe, hard to mess up, and ready for prime-time. So start it today and give yourself homework so you can understand it. Read a new non-fiction book you would have never considered reading. Download a PDF on your iPad and read a book during commercials while watching Football. Subscribe to some carnivore or keto themed podcasts and listen during your commute to work. Join the Facebook groups (World Carnivore Tribe, Zeroing In On Health, Principia Carnivora, 100% Carnivore And Beyond), join Twitter and the community of doctors and people who care to discuss health and the #MeatHeals message publicly. Join reddit, read the latest science at r/ketoscience (or beat me to the punch in posting it) and post your experience at r/zerocarb or ask for tips. Follow some hashtags on instagram like #carnivore or #carnivorediet if that’s the only social media network you use.

Know that if you put in the homework, you will come away with a deep and nuanced view of what it means to be human, and you will be ready to test whether you are a facultative carnivore. That’s the question I think this diet is trying to answer. Are humans the best they can be when they eat only meat? Right now, it appears this is still very subjective, I’m wondering at what point we say that is true objectively. Overall, I find the evolutionary side of the diet one of the strongest reasons to try a meat only diet – it is hard to imagine us depending on any source of plants in our diet and all too easy to understand that we preferred being facultative carnivores when we had the meat supply intact.

9) Do you think Carnivore will ever be accepted as a mainstream diet.

Yes, I absolutely believe that Carnivore will be accepted as a mainstream diet – the question is how long does it take. I’m really inspired by the growth of our Facebook group reaching 21,000 in 10 months and having mostly new carnivores, but I think the spate of news articles didn’t really delve deeply enough to show the benefits. It’s going to take some sort of other exposure to get the media coverage the movement needs to get exponential growth. It needs more doctors taking public positions in support of it. It needs some sort of controversial TV event that makes it past the health / biohacking / millennial sphere and into the greater media landscape – but I can say first hand that the Good Morning America exposure I had was not that event. I believe Shawn’s new book The Carnivore Diet could be huge, elevated with some aggressive marketing, and another round of media blitzes. We could suggest some sort of 30 day carnivore challenge that is as popular as the Ice Bucket challenge.. I’m hoping it gets used in science experiments / diet studies but I doubt anything useful will arrive within five years, unless it’s tested for short 3 month stints as a basic elimination diet for people who suffer gastrointestinal issues. I think ‘keto’ has finally hit mainstream and you can get away with saying it and witness some level of awareness. That said, I don’t think most people could name what makes a diet ketogenic beyond restricting carbs in general. I think keto and it’s subgroups, including zero carb will continue to evolve, and there will likely be factions within zero carb as well (strict beef & water or raw only) that will present their best version of health, but the cat is out of the bag and I think we’d be very surprised to hear that any ketogenic diet is unsafe or dangerous in the long run, especially compared to the uncontrolled junk food binge fest we call modern eating.

10) Anything you would like to add, and where can people follow your journey.

I don’t think I have any particular remarkable story to tell, just that I became convinced by the science and then experienced it for myself. Until you do the same, you just won’t know if you’re a facultative carnivore. I’m not sure I can convince you that you’re one until you add your own vote by trying the diet out yourself, but if you do the homework, you will likely near a conclusion that many of us have arrived at.

I’m very approachable on social media. I appreciate interesting content and links and stories of all sorts – so if you have them – share them! I contribute a ton of time to organize links and content, submit well formatted and constructive posts (ketoscience), and always be reading and learning and connecting the dots.

Tweets by Travis_Statham

https://www.instagram.com/houseofcarnivores/

https://www.reddit.com/user/dem0n0cracy

https://www.reddit.com/r/ketoscience/

https://www.reddit.com/r/zerocarb/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/worldcarnivoretribe/

I originally made a star chart of diet advice, then made a chart of books I recommend, then I conducted 15+ polls in WCT and made this gigantic graphic. You have to click to zoom in and pan about – but it has as much carnivore advice as I could fit. I really wanted to get across that we all have different ideas on how we think of the diet and that there isn’t too much consensus once we get past the basics. Obey the basics, experiment until you find your optimal diet.

All this stuff is in here:

https://pastelink.net/carniwoe

I also got some media exposure this year

https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Wellness/trendy-meat-carnivory-diet/story?id=56856367

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/may/11/the-carnivore-diet-all-meat-health-benefits-dangers

https://nypost.com/2018/07/24/new-diet-claims-you-can-lose-weight-eating-only-steak-and-burgers/

And have done a couple of podcasts

https://www.carnivorecast.com/podcast/travis

The My Sugar Free Journey Podcast – Episode 95: Travis Statham

One for HVMN that hasn’t been released, as well as one for On the Bus which hasn’t been released. (KE edit – HVMN is out now).

Thanks for reading, Steven

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