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Review: Nothing Tastes as Good as Healthy Feels - Read this book ONLY if you can consider an idea while holding a very different one! I'm a type 1 diabetic and it is important to me that I maintain normal blood glucose. I already know how to do this. However, it's also important to me to avoid acquiring any additional autoimmune conditions for which I'm at high risk and if plant foods are potential triggers for another condition, I certainly want to think long and hard before maintaining triggers in my environment. This was my primary motivation for reading this book. Second to that was the concern that I may need to incorporate different parts of the animal into my family's meat-based diet. Dr. Saladino makes a compelling case for doing so. I don't have the scientific or medical knowledge necessary to properly review many of Dr. Saladino's scientific arguments. I'm certainly going to follow any criticism of the book closely. All I have to go on is my experience, which sounds a lot like the purported benefits Dr. Saladino has seen with meat-based diets. Here's what I've observed over the years regarding the power of food choices: a) my health dramatically improved when I lowered blood sugars with a low carb diet b) continued improvements were observed when I dropped all grain consumption entirely, c) no more kidney stones since severely reducing oxalates (tests confirmed I was making the calcium-oxalate kind), d) When I ate carnivore (plus coffee) for 3 months, joint pain greatly decreased, skin improved (eczema), energy increased, mood was the most stable it's ever been, and more. e) I have since been eating mostly meat with limited plant foods over the last 3 years and tendonitis and frozen shoulder have almost disappeared, f) menstruation cycle has normalized for the first time EVER. f) digestion is good for the first time ever and stomach pain which used to be frequent is completely gone. g) Depression is gone. (This is a biggie). h) normalized lipids, lowered bp and heart rate, and normalized liver enzymes and weight. My family has done better, too. My husband has cured his severe sleep apnea and gained muscle. Our son has had a marked improvement in his mood and he is no longer underweight, and our daughter, who recently was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, has been using a small amount of insulin and keeping normal blood sugars. It appears she still is maintaining some beta cell activity of her own, which is an asset to any diabetic. We particularly hope to maintain that in the case future therapies work via that route. All this improvement stated above is admittedly severely confounded by improved blood sugars and metabolic health during the same time period which undoubtedly make an impact on one's mood as well as many numerous bodily functions. I don't know how much can be attributed to anything outside of improved blood glucose, actually. Though it may just be that blood sugar is among more critical factors compared to plant toxins and other health nagging agents. Either way, I'd recommend a carnivore-ish way of eating to anyone with diabetes, excess weight, or metabolic dysfunction in a heart beat because we've got rampant metabolic disease going on and a ton of autoimmune conditions making people suffer greatly with no adequate relief other than medications with high costs and serious side effects and if a carnivore or carnivore-ish diet can help one or both of these issues, I say this book deserves a chance. Yes, you have to weigh so much against what you've been programmed to believe, but there's nothing dangerous in merely hearing Dr. Saladino out. (Some will say there is and you should be veryyy suspicious of these types.) In the book, Dr. Saladino walks you through the biology, chemistry, and human physiology so you can follow along to the best of your ability. His tone is like man's best friend, super enthusiastic and positive but straight forward and honest. If you're worried about getting through this large book, don't. It's an easy, pleasant read. I can't wait to observe the wonderful debates this book will surely spark. I think we're going to keep learning a lot!! As for me, I'm going to try refining my diet a bit more using this book as a guide. Because if you've been really sick as I have in the past, trust me, nothing tastes as good as healthy feels and experimenting with food has paid off for me. And funny thing about humans is that when we reach a goal, we tend to make a new, higher one. So I'm far from done with my health journey. I want to get better and better. Good luck in your health journeys.
Review: A Thought Provoking Book - I don't say that a lot of diet books are thought-provoking, but Dr. Saladino managed to write a book that is both informative and thought-provoking. Personally, having followed a vegan diet (6 months), paleo diet/keto (1 year), and the standard American diet, I have always felt better on a paleo diet, full of vegetables, fruits, meats, nuts, and seeds. When I heard about the carnivore diet about a year and a half ago my skepticism was high and I thought that all carnivore dieters were fad following crazies, until I read this book. I don't agree with 100% of what Dr. Saladino hypothesizes and I believe that our body's more than capable of handling some plant foods; I do not think they are this evil thing that is wreaking havoc in our bodies. However, below are the reasons why I believe this book is one of the best books towards honest discussion towards optimal human health and wellbeing. 1) Dr. Saladino promotes a holistic view of the human body. He says that the current medical establishment's paradigm is to treat only the symptom and never addresses the root causes of chronic disease. Do you have high blood pressure? Here are some beta-blocker. Do you have acne? Antibiotic and Accutane. Do you have eczema? Steroid cream. Dr. Saladino's journey to writing this book was to find the root cause of chronic illnesses and how we may be able to address those illnesses through diet (point of this book) and exercise. 2) Focus moe on interventional studies, rather than epidemiology. Dr. Saladino prefers to cite interventional studies rather than making his correlation claims from epidemiology. Most of our health advice comes from epidemiology which is never a good source of causative thinking. An example in the book uses the consumption of margarine to divorce rate: lower the consumption of margarine, lower the divorce rate. So can we say that consuming less margarine leads to a lower divorce rate? Of course not, but most of the health advice out there utilize this logic to come to the conclusion: X is good for you. Interventional studies, however, apply the interventions and measures the outcome and Dr. Saladino does an excellent job in providing both epidemiological and interventional data to justify his claims. 3) Not too dogmatic. Let's be clear, Dr. Saladino probably has a natural bias towards carnivorous eating, but he is never dogmatic about it. He makes his claims, cites studies after studies, and lets us, the audience, a chance to scrutinize his resources for our own evaluation. This amount of transparency, over 300+ studies cited is rare amongst the dieting book genre. His book is about him telling us why he thinks we should eat animal products, and encourages us to think for ourselves. 4) Addresses the ethics of eating meat. This is huge. He addresses the impact of agriculture and meat consumption when it comes to ethics and climate change. It doesn't matter which camp you are in, but Dr. Saladino does an excellent job to be as objective as possible here. For example, according to 2016 (before Trump, so Obama) EPA report, agricultural livestock only accounted for 3.7% of U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emission. Followed by agricultural crops (plants) accounting for 5.2%. The top two GHG emissions came from transportation and electricity generation, 26.4% and 30.3%, respectively (p. 274). I had no idea, I though agricultural livestock would be way more than 3.7%. Dr. Saladino also states that he advocates for humane, pasture-raised animals and how this can be sustainable and scalable. In many of his talks, he dives into ethics such as why do humans think that a bigger animal's life is worth more than smaller animals, microbes, and insects that are killed for crop farming? I appreciate Dr. Saladino writing about this subject, it is definitely rare in the diet books genre. All in all, this is one of the best books I've read on topic of optimal human health and diet. I don't agree with 100% of the things Dr. Saladino states, but I appreciate his work and his passion to look at health holistically. This book will not preach at you, but it will teach you, guide you, and make you ask questions so that YOU can decide for YOURSELF what diet and lifestyle is best for YOU. Highly reccomend. Approach this with an open mind, it may change how you view a lot of things other than diet.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
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| Best Sellers Rank | #36,146 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #56 in Low Carbohydrate Diets #61 in Weight Loss Diets (Books) #273 in Other Diet Books |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 5,526 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Nothing Tastes as Good as Healthy Feels
*by S***M on February 24, 2020*

Read this book ONLY if you can consider an idea while holding a very different one! I'm a type 1 diabetic and it is important to me that I maintain normal blood glucose. I already know how to do this. However, it's also important to me to avoid acquiring any additional autoimmune conditions for which I'm at high risk and if plant foods are potential triggers for another condition, I certainly want to think long and hard before maintaining triggers in my environment. This was my primary motivation for reading this book. Second to that was the concern that I may need to incorporate different parts of the animal into my family's meat-based diet. Dr. Saladino makes a compelling case for doing so. I don't have the scientific or medical knowledge necessary to properly review many of Dr. Saladino's scientific arguments. I'm certainly going to follow any criticism of the book closely. All I have to go on is my experience, which sounds a lot like the purported benefits Dr. Saladino has seen with meat-based diets. Here's what I've observed over the years regarding the power of food choices: a) my health dramatically improved when I lowered blood sugars with a low carb diet b) continued improvements were observed when I dropped all grain consumption entirely, c) no more kidney stones since severely reducing oxalates (tests confirmed I was making the calcium-oxalate kind), d) When I ate carnivore (plus coffee) for 3 months, joint pain greatly decreased, skin improved (eczema), energy increased, mood was the most stable it's ever been, and more. e) I have since been eating mostly meat with limited plant foods over the last 3 years and tendonitis and frozen shoulder have almost disappeared, f) menstruation cycle has normalized for the first time EVER. f) digestion is good for the first time ever and stomach pain which used to be frequent is completely gone. g) Depression is gone. (This is a biggie). h) normalized lipids, lowered bp and heart rate, and normalized liver enzymes and weight. My family has done better, too. My husband has cured his severe sleep apnea and gained muscle. Our son has had a marked improvement in his mood and he is no longer underweight, and our daughter, who recently was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, has been using a small amount of insulin and keeping normal blood sugars. It appears she still is maintaining some beta cell activity of her own, which is an asset to any diabetic. We particularly hope to maintain that in the case future therapies work via that route. All this improvement stated above is admittedly severely confounded by improved blood sugars and metabolic health during the same time period which undoubtedly make an impact on one's mood as well as many numerous bodily functions. I don't know how much can be attributed to anything outside of improved blood glucose, actually. Though it may just be that blood sugar is among more critical factors compared to plant toxins and other health nagging agents. Either way, I'd recommend a carnivore-ish way of eating to anyone with diabetes, excess weight, or metabolic dysfunction in a heart beat because we've got rampant metabolic disease going on and a ton of autoimmune conditions making people suffer greatly with no adequate relief other than medications with high costs and serious side effects and if a carnivore or carnivore-ish diet can help one or both of these issues, I say this book deserves a chance. Yes, you have to weigh so much against what you've been programmed to believe, but there's nothing dangerous in merely hearing Dr. Saladino out. (Some will say there is and you should be veryyy suspicious of these types.) In the book, Dr. Saladino walks you through the biology, chemistry, and human physiology so you can follow along to the best of your ability. His tone is like man's best friend, super enthusiastic and positive but straight forward and honest. If you're worried about getting through this large book, don't. It's an easy, pleasant read. I can't wait to observe the wonderful debates this book will surely spark. I think we're going to keep learning a lot!! As for me, I'm going to try refining my diet a bit more using this book as a guide. Because if you've been really sick as I have in the past, trust me, nothing tastes as good as healthy feels and experimenting with food has paid off for me. And funny thing about humans is that when we reach a goal, we tend to make a new, higher one. So I'm far from done with my health journey. I want to get better and better. Good luck in your health journeys.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Thought Provoking Book
*by D***E on February 26, 2020*

I don't say that a lot of diet books are thought-provoking, but Dr. Saladino managed to write a book that is both informative and thought-provoking. Personally, having followed a vegan diet (6 months), paleo diet/keto (1 year), and the standard American diet, I have always felt better on a paleo diet, full of vegetables, fruits, meats, nuts, and seeds. When I heard about the carnivore diet about a year and a half ago my skepticism was high and I thought that all carnivore dieters were fad following crazies, until I read this book. I don't agree with 100% of what Dr. Saladino hypothesizes and I believe that our body's more than capable of handling some plant foods; I do not think they are this evil thing that is wreaking havoc in our bodies. However, below are the reasons why I believe this book is one of the best books towards honest discussion towards optimal human health and wellbeing. 1) Dr. Saladino promotes a holistic view of the human body. He says that the current medical establishment's paradigm is to treat only the symptom and never addresses the root causes of chronic disease. Do you have high blood pressure? Here are some beta-blocker. Do you have acne? Antibiotic and Accutane. Do you have eczema? Steroid cream. Dr. Saladino's journey to writing this book was to find the root cause of chronic illnesses and how we may be able to address those illnesses through diet (point of this book) and exercise. 2) Focus moe on interventional studies, rather than epidemiology. Dr. Saladino prefers to cite interventional studies rather than making his correlation claims from epidemiology. Most of our health advice comes from epidemiology which is never a good source of causative thinking. An example in the book uses the consumption of margarine to divorce rate: lower the consumption of margarine, lower the divorce rate. So can we say that consuming less margarine leads to a lower divorce rate? Of course not, but most of the health advice out there utilize this logic to come to the conclusion: X is good for you. Interventional studies, however, apply the interventions and measures the outcome and Dr. Saladino does an excellent job in providing both epidemiological and interventional data to justify his claims. 3) Not too dogmatic. Let's be clear, Dr. Saladino probably has a natural bias towards carnivorous eating, but he is never dogmatic about it. He makes his claims, cites studies after studies, and lets us, the audience, a chance to scrutinize his resources for our own evaluation. This amount of transparency, over 300+ studies cited is rare amongst the dieting book genre. His book is about him telling us why he thinks we should eat animal products, and encourages us to think for ourselves. 4) Addresses the ethics of eating meat. This is huge. He addresses the impact of agriculture and meat consumption when it comes to ethics and climate change. It doesn't matter which camp you are in, but Dr. Saladino does an excellent job to be as objective as possible here. For example, according to 2016 (before Trump, so Obama) EPA report, agricultural livestock only accounted for 3.7% of U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emission. Followed by agricultural crops (plants) accounting for 5.2%. The top two GHG emissions came from transportation and electricity generation, 26.4% and 30.3%, respectively (p. 274). I had no idea, I though agricultural livestock would be way more than 3.7%. Dr. Saladino also states that he advocates for humane, pasture-raised animals and how this can be sustainable and scalable. In many of his talks, he dives into ethics such as why do humans think that a bigger animal's life is worth more than smaller animals, microbes, and insects that are killed for crop farming? I appreciate Dr. Saladino writing about this subject, it is definitely rare in the diet books genre. All in all, this is one of the best books I've read on topic of optimal human health and diet. I don't agree with 100% of the things Dr. Saladino states, but I appreciate his work and his passion to look at health holistically. This book will not preach at you, but it will teach you, guide you, and make you ask questions so that YOU can decide for YOURSELF what diet and lifestyle is best for YOU. Highly reccomend. Approach this with an open mind, it may change how you view a lot of things other than diet.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Renewed Health - Get This Book!
*by R***N on May 8, 2022*

I've previously gone paleo and felt great for a few months. Then tapered off and never knew why. This book gives a comprehensive overview of what we need to be eating if we are going to switch to a meat (and fruit) diet. ORGANS. You have to have organs to complete the nutritional profile for your body's needs; this is what I missed when I went paleo- plus I was eating spinach which wreaked havoc on my guts. When DR Saladino wrote the book he focuses on the nose-to-tail of the animal. However, if you follow him on social media he has included seasonal fruit (without seeds), Raw Honey and Raw Dairy. Hopefully he'll update the book with these at a later date. But this book covers the most important aspect of an animal based diet. One thing I found out from my own research, that I'd love to see added to this in an update, is that a whole cow harvested breaks down to 50 percent muscle meat and 50 percent ground beef. Then organs and bones and tallow. That helped me design my meal plan. So that I got a good balance of fat and blends in the ground beef and didn't overdo it on all muscle meat. That helped. I'd love to see a chapter on that in an updated edition, too. Switching to animal based w fruit and raw dairy and honey changed my health radically. My energy levelled. I stop peeing through the night. Zero bloating, gas and unpleasant gut issues. Healthy stool. Better mood and outlook. Clear head and stamina. Zero cravings. Far more in touch with my actual hunger and what my body wants. It took me 2months to get my meals balanced to cover all nutrition for the day. I used the organ supplements (heart and soil) during that time whilst I sourced local suppliers. Once you get past that the rewards speak volumes to better and transformed health. Grateful that a medical doctor made it his life's work to bring this to ppl. I can't recommend this book enough. This is the longest review I've ever written. Because it works and hopefully this will sway you to give it a try.

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