Been carnivore for 4 months, dropped 20 pounds, feeling great, never have the cravings for any sugar or carbs, when i see people eating "regular food" its like seeing meth/heroin addicts in denial
I've got maybe 10 pounds of Trader Joe's in my pantry, and now this! I eat 2 squares of that stuff every day. I'm turning into the tin man. I'm wondering if TJ's will take it back. California sticks Prop 65 labels on everything, but not TJ's chocolate. 🧐
I know for a fact that Paleo man was walking around eating chocolate. Every second cave shop was selling pure organic free range chocolate bars. If it wasn't for chocolate the human brain wouldn't have developed. Behave like a human. EAT HUMAN FOOD.
@@goldenratiorob4907 Not really. Have you ever taken a pod off a cacao tree? It's not edible without a lot of processing. The seeds have to be extracted, dried, and ground to a fine powder. The cocoa butter has to be extracted from the fibrous pulp that surrounds the seed. Then you put the butter and the powder back together and you have 100% cacao chocolate. If you are adding any sugar, that is again highly processed. You can't just toss a sugar cane stalk or sugar beet in the mix. This is not a level of technology that pre-agricultural hunter gatherers would have had.
You ate dark chocolate and then, Two. Days. Later. You felt depressed but you KNOW that it was the chocolate? Seriously, Petra? Nothing else happened in the intervening two days? You didn't eat anything else, the weather didn't change, you didn't have a stressful personal event, miss some sleep? I'm not saying it wasn't the chocolate, just that you are waaaay to certain that it was. That's just not sound science. That is the most tenuous of associations, not a causal link. Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending chocolate. It is not carnivore and it is probably not optimal for the human body. It has stimulants (theobromine which is a close cousin to caffeine) plus it has sugar unless you are eating the 100% cacao bakers chocolate. I would just like to see you either do a more controlled study or else state your results with a few more caveats. Yes, heavy metals are bad for you but any crop based food can be contaminated depending on the soil where it was grown (and the factory with peeling old paint where it was processed). It's not a specifically chocolate "thing'.
What you don't understand is that people who are in tune with their bodies can easily pinpoint what creates an issue, especially if the issue is never normally felt. I'm this way too. For someone like Petra, who has been in tune with her body for years, was likely eating her regular carnivore foods until the chocolate, added the chocolate and felt a reaction, it's easy to KNOW it was the chocolate. Whether it was the sugar, the caffeine or whatever, something in that chocolate caused an adverse reaction. For me for example, I have very naturally clear skin, I don't eat a lot of sugar and no artificial foods. If I eat a basic chocolate bar, like a Snickers, within a day or two I will develop a blemish or find really tiny bumps on my face and I've nicknamed them "sugar bumps" because I know exactly where they come from. It's not rocket science and you don't even need science to know what foods cause your body to feel a certain way or react a particular way. It's basic observation. Eat healthy for long enough and you will know when something you eat makes you feel off.
@@lhughes6656 I've been keto for fifteen years and carnivore for ten. Yes, one does get better, clearer signals when the "noise" of carbs is removed. Your "sugar bumps" are a tangible thing that you have observed multiple times and I have no doubt that you are right about their cause. Notice that I didn't tell Petra she was wrong just that she shouldn't state it so emphatically as a fact without more controlled experimentation. Depression is something that can be caused by multiple things (sometimes simultaneously) some of which have nothing to do with diet and it is also definitely something you feel but not something you can observe externally. This all makes it harder to nail down causality especially when this was a one time thing with a two day time lag in between the chocolate and the depression. Too many confounding variables.
@@robinbeers6689 I do see your point. I don't think it's odd that she would know the cause though. There could be other variables at play but if you never get depression, it's probably safe to assume what brought it on. Plus it takes 3 days for something you consume to fully process out of your system so the two day window makes sense. But u do have a valid point, I get what you're saying.
@@lhughes6656 Different things process out at different rates. "Probably safe to assume" is cool if you are staying away from something that is not carnivore and is potentially problematic for some people. But safely assuming is not the same thing as knowing it for a fact. I just think that we, as the keto/carnivore community need to be careful with our scientific pronouncements if we would like to be taken seriously. Just as we make fun of causality-free studies by vegans being touted as fact, we should either do studies that are better or refrain from stating things as fact when we only have a perceived association.
Been carnivore for 4 months, dropped 20 pounds, feeling great, never have the cravings for any sugar or carbs, when i see people eating "regular food" its like seeing meth/heroin addicts in denial
I've got maybe 10 pounds of Trader Joe's in my pantry, and now this! I eat 2 squares of that stuff every day. I'm turning into the tin man. I'm wondering if TJ's will take it back. California sticks Prop 65 labels on everything, but not TJ's chocolate. 🧐
This made the decision to quit dark chocolate that much easier.
Dark chocolate is also high in oxylates.
Thanks Petra, hope you guys are ok you've been quiet for a while
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The scary thing is people have forgotten all about this. Halloween is coming up soon and this should be brought back up..
Dark chocolate isn’t a carnivore food so I’m good.
Thank you.
metal can be found in some iron fortified cereals too.
You’re glowing.
yes, she could easily find herself in modeling
Dark chocoloate makes me high so I'm having some once a week. 😋
This video is difficult to watch due to it being cut every 5 seconds!
I know for a fact that Paleo man was walking around eating chocolate. Every second cave shop was selling pure organic free range chocolate bars. If it wasn't for chocolate the human brain wouldn't have developed.
Behave like a human. EAT HUMAN FOOD.
prove it!
@@wally6193 "Show me the studies" - Vegan AF.
LOL hahaha
@@goldenratiorob4907 Not really. Have you ever taken a pod off a cacao tree? It's not edible without a lot of processing. The seeds have to be extracted, dried, and ground to a fine powder. The cocoa butter has to be extracted from the fibrous pulp that surrounds the seed. Then you put the butter and the powder back together and you have 100% cacao chocolate. If you are adding any sugar, that is again highly processed. You can't just toss a sugar cane stalk or sugar beet in the mix. This is not a level of technology that pre-agricultural hunter gatherers would have had.
You ate dark chocolate and then, Two. Days. Later. You felt depressed but you KNOW that it was the chocolate? Seriously, Petra? Nothing else happened in the intervening two days? You didn't eat anything else, the weather didn't change, you didn't have a stressful personal event, miss some sleep? I'm not saying it wasn't the chocolate, just that you are waaaay to certain that it was. That's just not sound science. That is the most tenuous of associations, not a causal link.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending chocolate. It is not carnivore and it is probably not optimal for the human body. It has stimulants (theobromine which is a close cousin to caffeine) plus it has sugar unless you are eating the 100% cacao bakers chocolate. I would just like to see you either do a more controlled study or else state your results with a few more caveats.
Yes, heavy metals are bad for you but any crop based food can be contaminated depending on the soil where it was grown (and the factory with peeling old paint where it was processed). It's not a specifically chocolate "thing'.
Yes I agree. Premature conclusions
What you don't understand is that people who are in tune with their bodies can easily pinpoint what creates an issue, especially if the issue is never normally felt. I'm this way too. For someone like Petra, who has been in tune with her body for years, was likely eating her regular carnivore foods until the chocolate, added the chocolate and felt a reaction, it's easy to KNOW it was the chocolate. Whether it was the sugar, the caffeine or whatever, something in that chocolate caused an adverse reaction.
For me for example, I have very naturally clear skin, I don't eat a lot of sugar and no artificial foods. If I eat a basic chocolate bar, like a Snickers, within a day or two I will develop a blemish or find really tiny bumps on my face and I've nicknamed them "sugar bumps" because I know exactly where they come from. It's not rocket science and you don't even need science to know what foods cause your body to feel a certain way or react a particular way. It's basic observation.
Eat healthy for long enough and you will know when something you eat makes you feel off.
@@lhughes6656 I've been keto for fifteen years and carnivore for ten. Yes, one does get better, clearer signals when the "noise" of carbs is removed. Your "sugar bumps" are a tangible thing that you have observed multiple times and I have no doubt that you are right about their cause.
Notice that I didn't tell Petra she was wrong just that she shouldn't state it so emphatically as a fact without more controlled experimentation. Depression is something that can be caused by multiple things (sometimes simultaneously) some of which have nothing to do with diet and it is also definitely something you feel but not something you can observe externally. This all makes it harder to nail down causality especially when this was a one time thing with a two day time lag in between the chocolate and the depression. Too many confounding variables.
@@robinbeers6689 I do see your point. I don't think it's odd that she would know the cause though. There could be other variables at play but if you never get depression, it's probably safe to assume what brought it on. Plus it takes 3 days for something you consume to fully process out of your system so the two day window makes sense. But u do have a valid point, I get what you're saying.
@@lhughes6656 Different things process out at different rates. "Probably safe to assume" is cool if you are staying away from something that is not carnivore and is potentially problematic for some people. But safely assuming is not the same thing as knowing it for a fact. I just think that we, as the keto/carnivore community need to be careful with our scientific pronouncements if we would like to be taken seriously. Just as we make fun of causality-free studies by vegans being touted as fact, we should either do studies that are better or refrain from stating things as fact when we only have a perceived association.
Wow that's not good