#67 Anthony Benedettini – Carnivore, Fasting, Perfect Keto

Meet Anthony:

Show Notes: 

ABOUT ANTHONY

• I am 25 years old
• I have a partnership over at Perfect Keto
• I have been in nutrition space for a long time – 4 or 5 years
• I started health coaching for a bit and that led me into the low carb keto space where then I got in touch with my previous job
• I worked in a keto friendly wine company for 2 years and that all led me to here
• Over the past couple years, I have been going to pretty much all of the major health conferences and health events – keto focus and non-keto focus
• So, I got a pretty good grasp on what the current trends are
• I got certified by Precision Nutrition and John Berardi is the founder of that
• I tried early intermittent fasting where you eat breakfast and lunch, and then skip dinner
• I tried this for a little bit about a year ago and it was awesome
• It takes a little bit adjusted at first, but if you have someone to do with it is a lot easier
• Fasting into that window really helps accelerate the deep sleep and get those more hormonal benefits
• Physically, I slimmed down a bit
• I think it’s because if I do it traditionally, I tend to eat more at night
• It was a couple of weeks experiment
• I was naturally hungry in the morning, which is good because I haven’t felt that in a while and at night, I was not hungry at all
• I usually stop around 1:00 or 2:00 and I was not hungry anymore
• I was really into nutrition because growing up, my dad was a body builder
• Technically, I got into fitness around 15 or 16 years old and that started my journey
• I lost 15 pounds one summer and that kind of really just kick in my journey to health
• I cooked for a family all throughout high school and just being in touch with cooking got me so much closer to food
• So, that kind of lead me into nutrition
• You can exercise all you want, but you can’t outrun about diet
• We’ve gotten so focus on some of the macro elements too much in these diets
• But for me, it all just boils back to quality. I make sure that all my food has the highest quality source
• I am a firm believer that quality is more important
• 89% of my shopping is done at the farmer’s market
• Most people think that farmer’s market is more expensive, but it’s really about the same
• I love quality food and I have gotten sick so for me, I just invest for my health
• People have no problem spending $50 at a bar, but make a hundred excuses on why they can’t spend the extra $3 for quality
• I got into Keto 3 years ago, and so I have been doing it for 3 years now
• I was pretty low carb and did intermittent fasting way back
• And I got in bulletproof diet and really focusing on the quality
• I really started Keto because my grandmother was diagnosed with lymphoma
• So, I went to a Keto conference in Tampa where Dr. Dominic D’Agostino was speaking and a bunch of the leading researcher in the field
• Since then, I never really looked back
• I just love the way I feel about it
• I have always eaten a lot meat and vegetables, so it’s really easy for me to eliminate the rest of the things
• The health benefits that I got are, I never really get sick, and the focus during the day is a lot more better as supposed to eating more higher carbs
• I also think that it’s a mind over matter case in a lot of instances where people negatively affirm this thing that’s going to happen in your body
• I think we get into this trap of self-causing this food allergies, because we are just constantly affirming the negative things
• The mind is one of the strongest tool in the body, and I think that I have been able to get more in touch with my mind by being keto
• Keto is a really great reset for your mind. It helps get your mind into a stable point
• I think Keto is an investment for your health
• Cancer kind of run in my family and I don’t want that to happen ever again in my family, I don’t want it happen to me or any of my friends
• If it starts to happen, I want to point them to the right direction and that’s why I have been going to these conferences for a lot of years
• The carnivore diet is such a great reset for the body as well especially for the gut
• For me, it’s the ultimate elimination diet
• I started doing it back in March
• I tried it out, had amazing results and I felt great the whole time
• It took a little bit of time for my energy to get back up, but it did
• I leaned out to the lowest weight I have been since college and even high school
• It was nice because I was getting a lot of protein
• So, my strength at the gym seem to increase because I was eating so much protein
• Our founder here in Perfect Keto, Anthony Gustin, he did carnivore and had amazing results too
• The people I see always have the best results even on their blood work are all doing it in a way that’s quality carnivore
• With carnivore, your body has to get used to of a lack of fiber and other fats coming from different sources
• Other than that, I love it
• My diet right now is 80%-90% carnivore
• I focus in quality meats and eating liver too
• There’s a bunch of different ways to make the liver taste good and I think it’s picking the right liver too
• In my experience, I have tried every type of liver now
• Lamb and venison have the mildest flavor to me
• In cooking it, mushrooms and onions are a great pair with liver
• Then, I sauté them up with ghee, add rosemary and salt
• I am a weirdo and I can eat it raw
• You can find a lamb liver at the farmer’s market
• The other 10% are food that I really enjoy
• I will have wine and when I am having wine, I will make sure that it is sugar free and it is a dry farm wine
• And I love coffee and a 100% chocolate too
• I feel like with carnivore that, if you are having trouble with your bowel movements, having one meal with fiber can end up flushing that out
• If you are really struggling with a health issue, then you should probably do grass-fed meat and water for 30 days
• Give it a shot and see how you feel
• But, if protein powder is to increase your protein or calories, then that’s carnivore
• I can’t wait for the day that tai chi and qi gong will become widely practiced
• I have done a couple of qi gong exercises too and I really like it
• It’s like very gentle and meditative movement which is really awesome
• I think that macros can be a really good tool to help you hit various specific goals
• But, I think at first, being intuitive and kind of just eat when you are hungry and really just stick to quality food would be the most helpful
• It’s really important to listen to your body and eat as much as you want
• I think realizing that it’s not a lot and your body is going to use that calories in a different way is a good perspective to have going into it
• When you get more mineral density from something, it will really help set the foundation
• When I was coaching people, I noticed that the number one thing people struggled with is energy, but it wasn’t anything food related, it was a salt thing
• I told people to increase their salt and as soon as they did, everything changed
• Making sure you are getting enough electrolytes is really good
• People think water is hydration, but you don’t stay hydrated if you don’t have electrolytes to hold into place
• People always know me as the “salt guy”

PERFECT KETO

• It depends on what the flavor you are drinking
• The chocolate is my favorite
• If you are mixing it with a good amount of water, it should not have some bitterness
• The vanilla does not have any bitterness too
• That’s one of my favorite supplements too because you can use it any time of the day and it helps me focus
• If I want the same type of mental energy, I’ll just go an entire glass of ketones
• It’s really easy to make a chocolate smoothie with anything we have
• If you do morning workouts, instead of getting a coffee, I would just grab a ketones and drink that during my workout or before
• The new flavors are just going to take it to the next level
• It’s crazy to me how a lot of people attribute with how they feel with the food that they eat
• Another way that people can test the way they react to food is blood sugar itself and really cheap too
• The first that I have done was the pinner test
• And then I have another done and it did not show any major sensitivities at all
• I think food sensitivity tests are all over the place because your gut bacteria changes depending on you ate could really impact that as well
• With carnivore, you just get back to that baseline
• Just eliminate everything and see how you do with quality and you can go from there by adding back in slowly
• You can measure something when you are in tuned with your body

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