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@mojsterr In my opininion you can TASTE the difference. If it's organic, it's prbably tastier! Your microbes will let you know

@John Paul oil squeezed out a vegetable ain't natural in any shape or form lol

bad in what way?

Animal fats are things like beef tallow, beef suet or pig lard. Organic soy, like tofu, natto or tempeh can be fine in moderation, it just depends because soy has xeno-estrogen in it which could potentially disrupt your hormone levels, flaring your acne. Plant protein isn't absorbed as well as animal protein. But if you felt good then it should be fine. If you're eating veg and meat, you should be getting all the nutrients you need. For calcium you could eat bone broth. Maybe supplement with vitamin D as well if you don't get much sunlight. If your concerned about vitamin levels just get a blood lab test done to check.

Yeah, or animal fats are even better if you can be bothered.

Nothing's 'wrong' with carbs exactly. In fact you need them for intense exercise and energy. Carbs just happen to spike insulin more than fat or protein, and if you're wanting to get rid of your acne, and it's still there after removing all the processed crap, as well as dairy and grains from your diet, then cutting back on carbs could help. Lamb/mutton is perfect actually, especially if it's free haha.

It's hard to say exactly because im no dietitian and you'll need to find what works for you. But, aside from protein the best carbs are fruit and honey. Sometimes white rice can work or potatoes, sweet potatoes, squash. In terms of veg, what veg do you have now? Just experiment with the usual veggies, whether it's broccoli, carrots, cauliflower etc and you can steam them or boil them it doesn't make a huge difference.

Sure, just experiment and see how you react after certain foods. Try and keep it simple and keep a note of what you eat. It's likely some veg will agree with you, and some veg won't. Just trial and error your meals until it works. When you increase the protein content of your meals you'll actually eat less frequently, so you probably won't need any 'quick healthy meals' anymore.

@Yoremo There are lots of dairy alternatives that you can get like milk, cheese, butter alternatives and it would be best to avoid all grains also because of the gluten in them. Fats shouldn't really be your concern, it's the dairy and grains mainly, then maybe the sugar. But, like we've said, avoid the processed stuff because that will have rancid seed oils in them which are the bad fats. Good fats for cooking would be beef tallow, suet, or olive oil, coconut oil, avocado oil.

Yeah do whatever you are able to with what you have, maybe ask or suggest things with your family on what you want to eat. Sure a reverse approach could work. I'd say first try to cut out all the processed stuff, then if your acne is still there you could try cutting out carbs. To answer your question, of course that would most likely be the case, one thing will either directly or indirectly benefit another thing. Actually what you'll probably find is that when you start to see and feel the benefits, you'll never want to go back to what you were doing before. A bit like awakening actually lol.

@Yoremo I literally just posted a topic on the forum earlier about this haha, it might seem like somewhat of a bizarre recommendation but you should take a look at the elimination diet, it's helped many people with skin problems. Basically you remove everything from your diet except meat (go carnivore) then you gradually reintroduce certain foods back in to your diet to see which foods cause your acne to flare up. https://carnivoreinsider.com/beat-acne-and-skin-problems-with-carnivore-diet/ https://community.revero.com/pyroxidine-improved-skin-ibs-anxiety-carnivore-diet/ This guy, Rob Stuart is also pretty good. He got rid of his skin issues with a similar dietary approach: https://www.youtube.com/c/robstuart Hope this helps.

@aurum Lol yeah there's way too much debate about what is the perfect diet. I can see it how makes sense for a lot of people to cut out certain foods that are inflammatory or whatever but most people haven't even heard about carnivore, let alone considering even trying it out. Like you said, we've been brainwashed through advertisements and marketing to make us believe red meat will somehow give us colon cancer and we'll die young from cholesterol that clog up our arteries. Long-term keto is definitely not the way to go but something that's more like a whole food paleo diet would help most people, its just sad hardly anyone knows about it or wants to try it out. Like put health first then everything else falls into place after that. That study just came out of Harvard at the end of 2021, the area of research is still way under studied and i think they're starting to research it a lot more now because of it's apparent benefits.

Just read this interesting article about the health benefits from a carnivore diet. https://academic.oup.com/cdn/article/5/12/nzab133/6415894 Do you think this is one of the legitimate healthy diets out there? (Curing autoimmune diseases, diabetes, obesity etc) I'm curious to hear what everyone else thinks about this.

@kieranperez Great video, thanks for sharing. It's scary how much so-called 'facts' can be skewed in such a way to achieve a certain agenda.

https://consilienceproject.org/how-to-mislead-with-facts/