6 months on Carnivore - Blood Work Results - Vlog

Hey guys, it's Ella. I'm in Latvia. It's summertime. It's cold. I'm wearing a hoodie. It's not even my hoodie. It's my sister's hoodie, but don't tell her. She's not here. Anyway, I haven't done a vlog in a while and I thought I'm going to do this vlog about the blood work comparison that I did last year and carnivore diet and what results I actually had carnivore diet um i'm just gonna kind of dig into it straight away because basically when i first heard about carnivore diet i was actually doing uh juicing like raw juicing for two weeks and then i was trying all sorts of cleansing and fasting and everything and then i met my friend and he was like you know try the carnivore diet and at first i didn't know what it was and it seemed a really bizarre thing to me you know especially because i had bloating inflammation and i was in a really really bad place last year compared to where i'm now of course with more bloat um you've seen my journey throughout the videos and i mean if you haven't if you're new to this video you can have a look how badly my stomach was inflating anyway it took me about i would say six months to get comfortable with the idea that's why i'm never gonna when people ask me you know what works for you and generally carnivore has been the only thing that actually has worked for me in a sense of me not feeling as bloated feeling better light some more energy and like all the other benefits that i had but i'm still a bit of a geek and skeptic and so i wasn't like 100% convinced and then when i actually was convinced i did i went fully into it i was a very strict carnivore for three months and then i think i started adding other foods into it to see if i'm gonna have any allergies um so i was probably been doing carnivore now for six months and it's still ongoing i had a couple of weeks where i messed up not that i messed up i just started eating whatever and straight away i start noticing like allergies like reactions in my nose in my eyes and again as soon as i eliminate all the other stuff and i've been back on full carnivore for the third day now no allergies nothing no stuffy nose so i definitely realized that i think i have either allergy or reactions towards gluten um it can be the gluten or dairy i'm not 100% yet convinced which one it is but i think it's probably more gluten because every time i've had you know back in latvia i'm having some buns and piroshkis and pancakes and whatnot um but anyway the reason why i want to do this video because first of all i want to tell you about my blood work uh if you're a bit of a geek like me and you like science you know i i love i'm a bit of um i'm very open-minded let me put it this way i'm open-minded to lots of ideas i'm always open-minded to try new things I'm always going to try anything and everything to heal myself so you know I was a raw vegan at one point now I'm a full meat eater you know like things change and every decision that you make whatever path you go it's always the right path right because you're on it and you believe in it and as long as you believe in it it either works eventually maybe it doesn't so you try a new path and so for me this was really really important to see like my results with blood it was really important for me to see and understand like have i actually improved via blood work because if i haven't then kind of i would be a bit more skeptical about the raw diet sorry carnivore diet because then okay i do feel better but it's not really that amazing like everybody was telling me so i have right here on my laptop uh over here and both comparisons i've literally just made some notes i went through it and i have massively improved in a lot of things and the reason why i want to do this video as well because i've been studying nutrition and all of this stuff about vitamins and all these names that seemed foreign to me before now i know it and in case anyone is watching this video like and you don't feel good or you don't even if you're not bloated but maybe you feel tired or whatever i would highly recommend doing these blood tests because they tell you so so much and like again i've paid for so many consultations um and now i'm kind of getting the picture why these things are important and i didn't actually write it out but i'm gonna kind of go through here but one one of the most important things that you need to get tested for right is your iron iron is literally so so important then another thing is your vitamin d basically everybody pretty much 90 percent of people are deficient in vitamin d and so when i started doing this this was even two years ago when i did my vitamin d i was a 10 so the measures for vitamin d are from 10 to 90 10 is like a critical situation when you basically your body is like in shock when you don't have enough vitamin d you just basically don't function it's really i don't know all the scientific things behind it because i'm not a nutritionist but it's basically really bad and nowadays we just don't get enough vitamin d and guys i lived in mexico for over a year and i still don't have enough vitamin d so i'm trying to tell you that this is so important i guarantee if you've never checked your vitamin d like book an appointment right now and test everything i'm going to tell you um so vitamin d is really really important then all your especially for women vitamin b okay b12 b6 the whole complex because that is your beauty your hair your face everything right how we function um folic acid that's where a lot of people are deficient which is again really really important you can read up online why these things are important i'm not gonna bore you with scientific things plus i don't really know i have to google myself but i i've read them before it's just i don't know from top of my head um so and another thing is your ferritin level which a lot of people don't test ferritin is literally so so important it's basically energy source in your body if your ferritin is low um your whole body cannot get energy which means it can't process it can't do things you know how we use energy for everything sitting talking whatever so these are like really really important um i said your iron um ferritin uh your i forgot what's called in english but hemoglobins it's um i'm gonna have to google it but it's also really important um another thing that a lot of people don't test is your level of um level of protein in your body because a lot of us are protein deficient and if you're protein deficient again there's a lot of issues so the reason why i'm also telling you about this is because you know when i started having my bloating and issues i started obviously doing a lot of tests and that's how i discovered that i'm deficient here and there and there and don't get me wrong nothing is going to go wrong right now like because a lot of these markers as well when they give you the doctors like it says you're in a range but that's not really the that's not really like they basically tell you that because there's nothing dramatically going to happen right now but if you're going to carry on like this in a month in a year you will get sick and so when you get sick that's when they treat you so you know i realized that the idea here now is to prevent yourself from getting to the point where you get so sick that you can't you know it's already too late and you have to go on some serious medication by knowing your you know basic things in your body, like your, you know, electrolytes, another thing, you know, your magnesium, your calcium, all of that stuff. By knowing where you are at the deficiencies, you can either supplement with, you know, natural supplements, or you can change your diet, you know, because a lot of the diet that I've changed has given me a lot of these vitamins, and I'm very happy about it. But the biggest thing for me, okay, so which I want to amplify again about vitamin D. so when i started two years ago i was at 10 then they told me that it was in a critical condition and i had to take the you know vitamin d supplements which i did and in a year's time it went up to 25 so it took one year to go 15 decimals okay which is literally so slow and so this year when i tested last year it was i was i'm looking at it now it's 24 90 so basically 25 which is still very very low it's it's deficiency okay and so they prescribed me very strong ones where you actually drink through your mouth like the the oily bits and i was on top drinking 10 000 units of vitamin d because a lot of you guys buy vitamin d you don't look at how many units are on the packaging because it just to maintain your vitamin d level it should be around two to three thousand units okay um and if you're in a deficiency you have to drink way more and so i'm drinking 10 000 units a day plus i was living in mexico where it's exposed to sun every day for over a year plus taking really strong vitamin d capsules that they prescribed me and guess what it only went up by 25 units in a year so now i'm at 50 and here they're saying that it's a good range you know it's optimal but the optimal range is actually 90 or 80 so if you're ever going to get tested your vitamin d for you to be super healthy and functioning well and everything it should be around 80 or 90 and you know and again this all of this surprised me when i was starting you know getting into it so i just kind of want to share my knowledge it might help someone it might not um again this video is not probably if you're healthy and you never get tested and you think you're fine you know that's fine it's almost for those who are like you know again like when i started having an issue i went starting to researching this i wish i knew this before so then i just keep myself always healthy and then of course you have to test your hormones because your hormones are everything in your body right your thyroid and i've been testing my thyroid for the last maybe six years when they started uh first like finding some uh i don't know how it's called in english but they started finding some issues in my thyroid um and they told me to get monitored every six months okay so um it's always been kind of the same it kind of got worse a little bit better worse little better nothing like serious that i have to take any medication for thyroid or anything but because i've been exposed to so much stress in my life um i actually have you know an issue but it's been monitored so nothing serious and then last year when i got checked they told me that it got worse so they told me i think i did a video about this because i got upset um i actually remember that day because i called uh my friend my best friend at the time i was in a car and they told me that I have Hashimoto's, an autoimmune disease that is in a very early stage, and that my body is attacking my own cells, because that hormone that is produced in my body, now my body is recognizing it as a foreign object, so it's attacking it, so it's basically my own cells are attacking my own cells, and eventually they destroy your thyroid, and once that happens, you have to obviously take medication to replace the thyroid that doesn't work anymore, and then you're more likely to develop more autoimmune illnesses which are very serious and then you know hair falls out everything basically goes to to poop um so obviously initially i got really upset um and of course the doctors told me that it's not curable you can't you know you can't heal it whatever i went to three different doctors because you know i just didn't really believe that it's really that serious you know but then they all kind of confirmed it that it's not that serious but it's forever you're never gonna get rid of it your body's attacking you now and it's just gonna get worse um so the marker that i had right was 108 um it's again it's very beginning some people have thousands but that's when it's like really serious it's too late like not too late but as in like it's bad you might have to take medication then um at my level so you're supposed to have under 32 okay the marker under 32 that means you know you're fine mine was 108 which is of course three times more and that was like already gave me a diagnosis and of course they checked ultrasound my thyroid and they said you know that the i don't know how you call them like holes are growing bigger we call them they call them um anyway so i was like really determined to get better and that's why i said i went to a carnivore diet not only because i had issues with my gut but because i was like bloody hell like i'm also now developing an autoimmune illness like what is going on like obviously all this stressful life that i've had in my 34 years it's just not been kind to me anyway the point i'm trying to make is that i got all my tests back today and i've been analyzing i'm still gonna go to the doctors but i've just kind of you know i i'm starting to understand more or less what's going on so i've just been analyzing everything like all of my hormones became better like all of the you know t3 t4 uh tsh sorry spelling uh all of them lowered which is really good um and again a lot of the issues happen from hormones and guess what has happened that hormone that was attacking my body not only decreased it's now below the range like it's 12 it went from 108 to 12 so i'm under 30 whatever 35 32 so I'm in the back in a healthy really really healthy range where my cells are not attacking my immune system anymore and this is crazy to me right and I think I healed by doing the obviously carnivore diet and also by just changing my mindset I've been you know kind of not every day but I've been telling myself that I'm healing I'm healthy I'm healing I've also went to do the meditation retreat you know with Joe Dispenza for a week and I think there I was focusing on healing my body but the blood work obviously is not lying I might have to redo it just to be sure because I'm like what the hell how did this happen but this means that my body's not attacking my cells anymore so my Hashimoto's or whatever is not going to progress anymore right now of course it can always come back I think how it works is if you get stressed again it's like a cold that obviously is gonna live with you forever um but i actually now believe that i can heal fully so when i did the ultrasound she said there were no changes in my ultrasound like she said it became a little bit smaller actually because now i have something to compare you know it's so weird like it looks um i don't know how to say it's like ultrasound i'm not having a baby don't worry it's for my neck um she said it it's not as deep anymore so i genuinely believe that i'm on a remission and i'm healing so i'm gonna carry on with carnivore not only that like all my all my vitamins like vitamin b12 folic acid all of them have become better like all of my results are better the only thing that's not better and that one thing that concerns me and i don't know much too much about it i've googled this already it's called esr so it's um it's called um erythrocyte oh my god i can't spell it erythrocyte sedimentation rate esr and basically it's it's a marker so it's saying here that it's a type of blood test that measures how quickly electro um these erythrocytes red blood cells basically settle at the bottom of a test tube that contains a blood sample and normally red blood cell settles relatively slowly a faster than normal rate might indicate inflammation in the body surprise surprise i'm inflamed my stomach has been inflamed for two years and that has actually uh it's high it's gone up okay um and i'm not sure if it's like related or not to to what's been happening but i think like my inflammation in my body it started two years ago and i still haven't resolved it so obviously it's getting worse it's logical right so that kind of concerns me and my ferritin level has I've been eating so good that my ferritin level is really high now um so yeah so that's kind of basically an indication that i have inflammation in my body and i do feel it like you know my my colon is inflamed but i've done more tests now so i've done a repeated test of ct scan so i'm doing i'm gonna get results next week and I'm checking my heart as you remember like a year ago I was supposed to I had like water around my heart which seemed very serious and I just don't know for some reason I feel like it's gone now like I'm definitely I'm definitely healthier like and I think I need to celebrate the fact that yes I'm not fully healed I'm not there but like I'm so much better than last year and actually makes me happy because I've been really down recently and now I'm just thinking you know what like I'm actually healing like results are amazing yes it's not where I want to be and i still have inflammation but everything else became so much better so yeah i don't know i just wanted to share in case this was useful for anyone and i know so many of you going through the bloating and inflammation and stuff and i just yeah make sure you do the inflammation test as well another thing that um surprised me as well is that um i did the insulin test on a empty stomach and if anyone knows anything about insulin do message me i'm going to google it as well but my insulin is showing like 8.3 the range is saying from 3 to 25 but when I you know listening to nutritionists and like speaking to professionals they say actually it should be around 3 to 4 so mine is still pretty high I know it's not like super high but eight is high so I don't really know how to reduce my insulin um because you know that's not good because if you have a high insulin by the way if you don't know the higher the insulin the more risk of you developing diabetes now all of these things that's what I mean blood work is amazing because it basically is an indicator it's your diary to preview where your body can go if you don't take or make some changes right now and this is like what's wrong I guess in a in a doctor's industry you know they don't really have time to sit down with you and discuss like your results and tell you what you can do to become better they just look at the range and if it's fine unless you're dying and something serious already developed they're just going to tell you you're okay so we really need to start educating ourselves more reading into this looking into this maybe looking at other professionals who can you know nutritionist or whatever but again there's you have to pick the right ones there's so much you know so many by the book which uh not a wrong thing but what I mean is that they will not really look into it and they will follow exactly the same thing what the doctors are saying you really want someone like a naturopathical doctor functional medicine doctor somebody who is open to the you know modern scientifical methods plus also understanding the root cause understanding the whole body only that way you can actually heal yourself because by just shoving yourself with more tablets and things they're gonna heal you right now you're just gonna develop other issues okay we're just plastering over rather than fixing the issue and you know at the end of the day I'm still trying to dig in like what's the issue I'm not really thrilled that my inflammation markers have gone up that's the only negative thing so i'm gonna see like what i can do and like what other tests i can do because you know it can be serious it can be signs of any other serious illnesses um but i generally think it's just inflammation in my gut and in my stomach and probably it's going to take me a lot longer than six months or you know to heal um but I'm on the way okay so yeah anyway kind of like a positive video I thought today with the results that I got hopefully that will um inspire you to go and do your blood work leave me comments let me know if you know your markers I'm just such a geek right now like I read all my grandma's my granddad's indicators like go and do more tests and um yeah I'd love to hear from you guys anyway lots of love bye