What is up you guys welcome to another edition of Controversial Thoughts. I just got

done recording a podcast with my friend after this past month, George St. Pierre,

who is currently looking pretty damn ripped on an animal-based diet. So I thought

that this was a good time to do a Controversial Thoughts episode about how to

use an animal-based diet for performance. I get a lot of questions, how do I gain

weight on a carnivore or animal-based diet, how do I gain muscle, how do I use

this if I am a performance athlete? I guess all athletes are performance but if

I'm a CrossFit athlete, if I am a competitive Jiu-Jitsu athlete, I'm sure I have a

lot of MMA athletes and aspiring MMA athletes and martial artists finding

interest in this way of eating after George's experiences. So when it's talk a

little bit about that in this week's episode of Controversial Thoughts, I will

start out with a picture of George. He's looking pretty freaking shredded after a

month on an animal-based diet. In the podcast that we just did, he said that he

lost about four to five pounds of probably water weight related to inflammation

and overall just swelling and water retention that happens when you are eating

foods that are causing inflammation foods that are probably causing some

degree of leaky gut, foods that are causing some degree of immunologic

activation. So look for the podcast with George St. Pierre coming out on Tuesday

of next week. Interestingly, he also talked about the fact in the podcast that

he has a big toe injury that has kind of nagged him for a while and he was

training throughout his month on an animal-based diet and he eventually after a

week or two noticed that the big toe wasn't bothering him anymore, especially

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