carnivore diet

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Got Milk? The Pros and Cons of Dairy

5 Jul 2020 4 minute read 0 comments savagezen

  Within the Paleo / Keto / Carnivore circles, there’s a bit of controversy about dairy. It is an animal product (carnivore), but not a paleolithic (pre-domesticated cattle) product. Yet, many forms of dairy are very popular on ketogenic diets due t...

Carnivore 75 Hard: Challenge Weeks 5 - 7

23 Jun 2020 5 minute read 0 comments savagezen

This review has several weeks combined because I was trying to get to the bottom of one of Robb Wolf’s favorite topics – poop! I’ll start with a discussion and leave the original notes to myself intact below. So, what did I learn in the past three w...

Carnivore Diet: Recovery and Performance, Part 3

14 May 2020 1 minute read 2 comments savagezen

Previously I’ve looked at correlations regarding performance and recovery. In this last section I will check for covariance of potentially confounded relationships as well as recap previous posts in this series. ANOVA Results: Var 1 Var 2 Var 3 p IGF...

Carnivore Diet: Recovery and Performance, Part 2

14 May 2020 1 minute read 0 comments savagezen

I specifically wanted to look at caffeine / performance and cold / recovery so, before we move on let’s see what those relationships looked like: Var 1 Var 2 p r Cold.Time RHR 0.4925 +0.13 Cold.Time AWQ 0.277 +0.20 Caff.Dose Kb.Load 0.8278...

Carnivore Diet: Recovery and Performance, Part 1

14 May 2020 3 minute read 5 comments savagezen

Finally, the data are in! As a reminder, you can see the raw data on GitHub. Let’s jump right into it and see what kind of correlations we find: This is a plot of correlations with significance (p) < 0.05. However, that’s only 95% confidence and 5%...

Caffeine and Performance

13 May 2020 2 minute read 0 comments savagezen

Introduction: I specifically wanted to study the use of caffeine as a performance enhancing drug as well as the use of cold shower for recovery. I soon found that there were a lot of confounding variables and secondary and tertiary interactions that...

Carnivore Diet: Carnivore 75 Hard (challenge)

21 Apr 2020 2 minute read 0 comments savagezen

Sixty something days into my carnivore journey I came across a new challenge – enter #carnivore75hard. I like a good challenge, be that fitness or nutrition. 30 days “sprints” can be a good way to reset, re-calibrate, and get back on track if you’ve...