Ever heard of the secret world of the Bitcoin Carnivores? Another extreme diet? A secret Illuminati cult? Or a revolutionary lifestyle with a strong statement regarding society, politics, money, and philosophy overall. This article talks about the Bitcoin Carnivore Diet. Yep…Eat Meat. HODL Bitcoin…



The Most Searched Google Search

When you go online and read the news, then the I guarantee you that you’re going to find some variation of the following headlines: „Bitcoin rises to the moon as the US Dollar cowers in fear, Kim Jong Un hovers his finger over the bomb after failing to hijack cryptocurrency tradings, OR A popular cryptocurrency trading platform closes down, disappearing with most of the user’s money…#BitConneeeect!

Over the last year, the volume of Bitcoin search on Google has correspondingly increased with an increase in Bitcoin’s price, and one of the top search terms for 2017 was ’how to buy Bitcoin’.

It’s true that cryptocurrencies get a lot of publicity nowadays because they’re innovative, revolutionary, and just full of massive action 24/7. #Pricesgoupanddown #HODL

But in the world of cryptocurrencies, there’s a small group of people who are not only expecting to take the financial world by storm but are also following a very controversial diet.

Meet the Bitcoin Carnivore Diet.

The rules on the Bitcoin Carnivore Diet are simple: „Use only Bitcoin. Eat only meat.“

At first, it may look like another crazy diet that doesn’t really make sense, but it actually has a much more complex philosophy than just eating steak and watching your coins go up.

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are a more decentralized form of currency that you can use without the need for centralized banks and the financial system. You can trade with anyone without paying massive transaction fees, and the transactions are all stored in an open ledger that everyone can inspect. This actually gives you more control and responsibility for your money and protects your privacy.

Cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology are a way of decentralizing society and giving more power to the people over their wealth. It’s almost like a revolt against the centralized government and financial institutions.

An all-meat carnivore diet is also an attempt to insult industrial food and centralized healthcare.

Michael Goldstein, the founder of the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute, who’s also a Bitcoin Carnivore, wrote an email to a journalist where he said: „Bitcoin is a revolt against FIAT money and an all-meat diet is a revolt against FIAT food.“

A World of Meat and Bitcoin

It’s true that the rise of central banking and industrial food has dramatically changed people’s dependency on the government for the worse. Education, your job, access to medicine, security, privacy – all of them are being more and more monopolized by the state.

The most enthusiastic true believers of Bitcoin are often libertarians who say that the governmental system is being run by a small group of imposters, crooks, and greedy bastards who are manipulating the population to their advantage by controlling their money and controlling their food.

FIAT currency is very vulnerable to inflation and there are many examples in history where the state simply starts printing out more money. That’s what’s happening to some degree in many countries of the world at the moment as well as the US dollar has lost a lot of its value.

Modern money and modern food are both artificial, controlled, and inflationary, and Bitcoin carnivorism is supposedly going to solve this problem.

I’m not a Bitcoin Carnivore or a low carb elitist but I simply want to investigate this fascinating phenomenon of crypto-carnivory. So, in the remainder of this article, I’m going to look into what the diet actually looks like, is it healthy, and what are the potential implications.

What Does the Bitcoin Carnivore Diet Look Like

In essence, the carnivore diet is a very restricted version of the Paleo diet with the exception that you’re not consuming any plant foods.

All hunter-gatherer societies consumed a variety of vegetables, tubers, nuts, and seeds, but they definitely ate a lot of fish, eggs, and meat. An all-meat diet would’ve occurred under very specific circumstances, such as during the long winter months or in colder regions like the Arctic.

The Inuit or the Masai are probably the closest you can get to an ethnic carnivore diet that sustains itself only on meat, fish, and a ton of saturated fat. Their health is also quite robust in comparison to modern societies.

Over the last few years, diets like the Paleo and Keto have become increasingly more popular as well. However, recently, the biggest trend has been an all-meat carnivore diet. There are many people who’ve lived this way for years and they show no signs of poor health.

Dr. Shawn Baker has been the most popular carnivores on social media and he’s 50 years old, holds world records in indoor rowing, lifts heavy weights, does backflips and eats about 4 pounds of steak a day. Not sure how involved he is with cryptocurrencies but there are many people who follow the same diet as he. Michael Goldstein who we mentioned earlier says he’s been a carnivore since 2015 and only eats animal products, mostly fat.

Is a Carnivorous Diet Healthy

Meat is a big part of the hunter-gatherer diet, but is an all-meat diet healthy for you? Let’s look at the nutritional profile of meat.

Red meat gives you practically all the essential nutrients for survival. It has plenty of protein, essential amino acids, essential fatty acids, iron, B vitamins, fat-soluble vitamins, and choline. If you eat plenty of organ meats, bone marrow, and other tendons, then you can also get enough essential minerals, like magnesium, phosphorus, calcium, and potassium.

It has plenty of protein, essential amino acids, essential fatty acids, iron, B vitamins, fat-soluble vitamins, and choline. If you eat plenty of organ meats, bone marrow, and other tendons, then you can also get enough essential minerals, like magnesium, phosphorus, calcium, and potassium. Red meat doesn’t have much vitamin C, but it’s still rich in a much more powerful antioxidant called glutathione. Also, the body’s need for vitamin C has been shown to decrease significantly in a ketogenic state with low consumption of carbohydrates. In fact, high levels of blood glucose inhibit the uptake of vitamin C because both of them use the same membrane transport chain.

Also, the body’s need for vitamin C has been shown to decrease significantly in a ketogenic state with low consumption of carbohydrates. In fact, high levels of blood glucose inhibit the uptake of vitamin C because both of them use the same membrane transport chain. Recently, the carnivore diet has become quite popular amongst people who aren’t even in cryptocurrencies because of its said anti-inflammatory properties. Even people who’ve eaten only meat for several years don’t suffer from scurvy, heart disease, or diabetes.

Fiber from plants is non-essential and it’s not needed for absorbing nutrients from food. On an all meat-diet, you’d still break down all the meat in your gut and it’s not going to be left rotten in the colon. In fact, animal products and meat are much better digested than plants because of the absence of fiber. You’d simply have less frequent bowel movements because of your intestines not getting filled up with that much plant matter and dead bacteria.

On an all meat-diet, you’d still break down all the meat in your gut and it’s not going to be left rotten in the colon. In fact, animal products and meat are much better digested than plants because of the absence of fiber. You’d simply have less frequent bowel movements because of your intestines not getting filled up with that much plant matter and dead bacteria. Red meat’s association with heart disease also comes from combining high amounts of sugars and carbs with saturated fat. This raises blood sugar and insulin a lot more if you’d consume fat in a low carb context, and it also promotes glycation, leading to the creation of damaging advanced glycolytic end products that promote oxidative stress. In the case of eating meat as your only source of calories, you’d most likely avoid these health risks and there are many people who are perfectly healthy after eating only meat for many years.

Eating just meat may not be ideal in terms of getting the other unessential vitamins and minerals, but you’d probably be able to survive very well by eating just red meat and drinking water.

Why the Carnivore Diet Is Healthier Than a Balanced Diet

Although the carnivore diet sounds crazy and it has some controversy, it’s probably much healthier than the Standard Western Diet or a „balanced diet“.

More and more research is showing that a lot of the diseases most people suffer from like diabetes, obesity, arthritis, hypertension, and heart disease are linked to the consumption of refined grains and carbohydrates, processed food and over-eating in general. On a carnivore diet, those problems are practically non-existent as the food is natural and nutritious.

Saifedean Ammous, a Bitcoin carnivore and a professor of economics at the Lebanese American University, said in an email:

“The people who tell you to eat your 6-10 portions of indigestible toxic grains a day ‘for a healthy and balanced diet’ are the same kind of people who tell you central banks have to determine interest rates for a modern economy to function. You can choose to listen to them and watch your wealth and health disappear, or you can think for yourself.”

I’m not saying an all-meat carnivore diet is the most optimal human diet, but it does make you think why the governmental dietary recommendations are making people sicker and more inflamed than they were ever before. All of these diseases don’t exist in hunter-gatherer societies, and they only became prevalent after the adoption of agriculture, which coincidentally, also marks the creation of a much more institutionalized state and government.

That’s the reason why an all-meat diet serves as a revolutionary banner amongst the Bitcoin enthusiasts. It literally flies straight into the face of the public dietary recommendations and is unorthodox just like cryptocurrencies at the moment.

A Return to Ancient Food and Money

The Bitcoin Carnivore Diet represents a return to a more ancestral way of dealing with food and money. Like we mentioned, hunter-gatherers ate plenty of meat and animal products but not all of them.

An all-meat-diet is like an over-emphasized statement – a revolutionary return to arms – of the Cromagnon man who spearheaded mammoths, fought the wild elements, overcame adversity, and survived despite the opposition of natural selection. Although I’m not sure how well that’s represented by people who simply go to Supermarkets and stack up on industrial meat. Those are some serious carnivorous hunters! Real lions…

Using cryptocurrencies is also a statement – a spit in the face of FIAT money – and a return to a more decentralized way of bargaining. Although Bitcoin is digital and it doesn’t have a physical basis other than the computer code, the idea behind decentralizing currencies is indeed more similar to a hunter-gatherer way of trading.

Shawn Baker has tweeted: “Before there was money before there was gold, there was meat! The original bitcoin!” He’s right in saying that meat was probably a very primal decentralized form of currency during the Paleolithic era. A hunter who was successful in catching game would also give out a lot of the meat to other families as a means of reciprocation and making sure someone else will return the favor in the future.

At the same time, who knows how many of the leading Bitcoin Carnivores who are actually involved with improving blockchain technology are actually eating an all-meat diet. It’s definitely a great PR stunt and brings a ton of publicity to cryptocurrencies. Many people doing the carnivore diet as an experiment themselves aren’t probably die-hard crypto protectors.

Goldstein often tweets very provocative things on Twitter:

I haven’t found a problem that can’t be solved by increasing meat, decreasing carbs, lifting weights, HODLing bitcoin, and disregarding govt

(The acronym HODL is used in cryptocurrency lingo to mean Hold On for Dear Life, meaning to not sell your coins when the price drops thus lowering the trustworthiness of cryptocurrencies in general.)

All in all, Bitcoin Carnivores make a strong statement and hodl against the population control of the state.

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Keto Carnivores

There may be another reason besides politics why certain Bitcoin enthusiasts aspire towards an all-meat diet.

First of all, it’s simple and very easy to stick to. You don’t have to think about what you’re gonna eat or when. All you eat is meat, fish, or eggs. As far as following your natural hunger goes, you could eat only once a day and be done with it.

Although an all-meat carnivore diet isn’t a ketogenic diet, you’d still maintain stable levels of ketosis most of the day. Being in ketosis can increase your focus, reduce cravings for food, give your brain a lot of energy in the form of fat, keep you satiated, and help to burn more fat with less effort. Combine that with checking charts all day and you’ve got yourself a lifestyle that can be very fitting for someone who day trades cryptocurrencies. Goldstein tweets:

Eat meat. Lift weights. HODL Bitcoin.

In my opinion, a well-formulated ketogenic diet that incorporates vegetables, some fermented foods, healthy fats, and enough animal products is probably more superior to an all-meat carnivore diet. Both in terms of health and sustainability.

You can survive on eating just steak but you’ll get a much higher supply of other micronutrients from a good keto meal with maybe beef, eggs, salmon, sauerkraut, broccoli, olive oil, and maybe some avocadoes. You’d be very well off if you just had to eat something like that for the rest of your life.

Should You Go Bitcoin Carnivore?

In conclusion, should you go Bitcoin Carnivore to fight the state and reclaim your financial and metabolic sovereignty?

I think not and there are still many flaws in both Bitcoin and an all-meat diet. The entire society isn’t ready for a widespread adoption of cryptocurrencies yet and they’re definitely not prepared for eating just meat. You can check out this guide to carnivore diet if you want to try it out.

Although the carnivorous diet is still seen as an extreme diet, the ketogenic diet itself that I think is a better alternative has also become more popular as it’s one of the top Google searched diets.

If you want to know how to start the keto diet and achieve greater metabolic sovereignty over your health and wellness, then check out my video course on Udemy called Simple Keto. It has hours of video content on starting a low carb high fat diet.

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