Dr. Anthony Chaffee - 'Plants are trying to kill you!'

Dr Anthony Chaffee is an American medical doctor specialising in Neurosurgery who over a span of 20 years has researched the optimal nutritional habits for athletic performance and health. It is his assertion that most of the so-called chronic diseases that doctors treat these days are actually caused by the food we eat, or don’t eat, and can in many cases be reversed easily with dietary changes.

Dr. Chaffee began his University education studying Molecular & Cellular Biology with a Minor in Chemistry at the University of Washington in Seattle at the age of 15, which culminated in attaining his MD from the Royal College of Surgeons.

Dr. Chaffee is an All-American rugby player and a former professional athlete in England and America, having taken several years off from his education for the pursuit of sports between his undergraduate degree and medical school. Throughout his athletic career he saw first hand the monumental difference that diet makes to performance and recovery.

Dr. Chaffee almost accidentally came across and practiced a fully carnivorous diet from age 20 to 25, having first learned of the toxic nature of plants during his University education. Since then he has rediscovered this truth and more and has dedicated many years and a large part of his professional practice to the study and education of diet and nutrition. He personally practices a fully carnivorous diet and currently resides in Perth, Australia where he does private consultations and clinics in functional medicine and nutrition.

[leematherly]

I was vegan for over 10 years and recently started seeing these lectures on plants. I dropped the vegan stuff a year ago and went carnivore. To my surprise my health has done a 180 turn around. No one believes me when I tell them what I am doing. No vegetables now and I am IBS free, lost almost 40 lbs and now type II free. I have thrown away my juicer and no longer tell anyone to eat a salad. Thanks Dr Chaffee.

[brittenihart]

As a nurse, one of my greatest frustrations is that doctors/healthcare in general completely ignore nutrition. All they know is pharmaceuticals. Problem = 💊. If you even bring up looking at the patient’s diet, you get a blank stare.

[vikingmountainranchlife]

I've been 99% carnivore for over 20 years and have perfect health. I'm 54 yes old and work 16 hrs a day in my ranch. I raise my own cattle, goats, turkeys, ducks and chickens! This was an amazing video! Thank you!!😊👍

[jb]

I studied horticulture after high school. I remember on a tour of a extensive walled garden estate here in Ireland and we asked the head gardener how he kept the walk ways so clear. He said walk past them daily brushing into the growing plants, trees etc and they will inevitably start to avoid the interaction and shoot off in different uninhibited directions. Plants are wired to avoid us.

[panamafred]

Thanks Dr. Chaffee! I've been strict carnivore for eight months. No cheating. I used to eat a lot of dark chocolate every day. A couple weeks ago I saw and bought a bar of 100-percent chocolate. No sugar, no dairy, no soy, nothing but chocolate. I ate two squares. Within an hour every joint in my body hurt and muscles felt sprained. This lasted for three days. That's enough proof for me to never try this again! I'm 74 and have no time for aches and pains.

[lindamclean]

I used to tell my husband to eat his say that the cows have already done that ! Gawd. He is right!

[petercherry]

I suffered from Chronos for 43 years. Awful disease. Decided to try carnivore 6 months ago and within a week my Crohn's resolved. For me it's a miracle. Sometimes I get scared I might wake up. Never going back. Meat and eggs for me.

[internalpeace]

I was vegan for 7 years and saw a decline in health. I really felt like my life was over. I switched to Carnivore 7 months a go and wow. Still wow. 82 pnds weight loss. IBS gone. Bags under eyes gone. Best part is the lack of pain. All of it everywhere gone. Muscle tone that looks like I work out. Clear skin. My stomache hates veggies. I also went from being afraid of my large porch steps and being very slow to running and now leaping down them. Im looking forward to 2024 and more meat. Thank you carnivore community for helping me live again.

[margoqu]

I was very skeptical about this diet. But then saw Dr. Chaffee and Dr Baker on YouTube and it changed it for me. If these huge handsome men can be healthy on diet why I can’t? It’s my 3rd week on pure carnivore. I never hungry, always happy, my asthma is gone (I went from 4 times per day inhaler usage to zero), my constipation is gone, I dropped few extra pounds I gained and couldn’t lose, I have more energy in the gym and at work. And I am happy. And I actually like to eat meet and don’t think about food anymore. I eat when I am hungry, but most of the time I actually not hungry at all

I love this way of eating. I hope I will remain on it till the end of my life. Thank you all people on the internet who continue to share this knowledge and your stories. ❤️ it helps others make the right decision for their health.

[toni]

I was very ill for thirteen years from vegetables and when I asked my doctor if my sickness could be something I was eating, he laughed his head off.
An immunologist saw immediately what all my problems added up to and took me off almost everything except plain meat, white fish and eggs. Salt of course is absolutely necessary, you can't live without that. My ills vanished in a few days.

[skydengelis]

I had immune issues, had skin problems, candida overgrowth, adrenal fatigue. All gone since carnivore diet. I'm not a doctor, but it's been way beyond what I could of hopped for. Pretty crazy experience.

[Savannah-edrv]

This is so interesting to me because I used to be a strict vegetarian back in the 90s and early 2000s, and after about three to five years of that I became extremely sick, and I think there are different reasons for it but when he said that some plants destroy your mitochondria that struck a nerve with me because I had severe chronic fatigue syndrome. And chronic fatigue syndrome is a mitochondrial problem! I literally wanted to die when I was sick with that illness because every system in my body was messed up. I was getting chronic infections, I could barely get out of bed every day and I was trying to work full time. I had hormone problems intestinal problems. You name it, and even neurologic symptoms that was suspect to be MS . Thank God I didn't have that Illness but when I began to eat meat again I did a complete turn around within 2 weeks after a 10-year disastrous illness! However I've gone back to eating less meat and more plants and I am having more health issues. Thank you for posting this video because I'm seriously considering going full carnivore.

[Somebody-Somewhere-In-NY]

Started strict carnivore April 13 2023. Got off bp meds 3 days later 9 days later did not need maintenance inhaler breo 200 mcg. May 2nd 2023 still no meds feel great sleep great no more chronic fatigue
No longer pre-diabetic. Life is great. This very doctor is one of the reasons i chose to go all in on strict carnivore. And never looked back. Weight has also gone down significantly. If you need that extra push i hope my testimony did it for you. If not keep reading the thousands of life changing before and after comments.

[melbaburrows]

Love this channel! I went vegan at the beginning of the year thinking it was the healthy thing to do🥴....within 2 weeks I was aching all over and feeling very depressed. A PT told me about oxalates and Sally Norton. I watched...I learned....and went Carnivore. This has been one of the best years of my life. I am feeling like a new person! Down 3 dress sizes and becoming the person I remember I used to be. This channel so helped me to understand the science and I appreciate the doctors like Dr Chaffee and Paul Mason who are trying to shift the thinking about how we should eat and why. So grateful for all your knowledge and the time you take to share it.

[flej]

This makes sense to me, I've been vego fir over 12 years, I have cancer eat a lot if fruit veg and mushroom and can not understand why I feel sick all the time, I'm going to give this a go. Thank you

[garethhughes]

I am 52 year's old, very active in martial arts and calisthenics. Always been on point with nutrition and Supplementation of essential vitamins and plant derived minerals. Me and my partner even set up a Organic Groceries business, so we could easily have the best fruit and vegetables available for our selves pluss friends and families.
In the last 5 years my health and training as been on the decline. I could not understand it im doing everything right. Or i thought i was been delving down the exact things this Dr is saying and it appears he's 100% correct from what ive found. Ive been adapting gently into carnivore because my issue was oxalates creating all sorts of autoimmune issues and if you come off them to quickly it can be very dangerous because of oxalate dumping.
Its a slow journey but i feel like ive been duped. Vegetables are not our friends.
We definitely live in the upside down, everything is not as it seems.

[dutyofcall]

That's why our ancestors fermented plant foods like grains to sourdough bread or vegetables like cabbage to sauerkraut to neutralize the toxic chemials and only eating them in moderation.

[karlball]

I started bodybuilding at 13 yrs old, the bodybuilder that 'took me under his wing' one of the subjects was nutrition and he told me 43yrs ago not to eat fruit and veg, I listened and sure pleased he knew his stuff to pass onto me.

[lorrainetryon]

I have been a vegetarian since I was 15. I am now 61 and I feel great. Very youthful in my body and mind. I actually could not imagine eating an animal, but I do eat a bit of cheese and eggs here and there.
I am not surprised to hear about the various plants having toxins. I have studied this in my various research on healthy eating. I am not effected by the various nightshades and think that everyone is different in their cellular makeup and their microbiome. Maybe some people can digest lots of different veggies and not get cancer and then some could be on a carnivore diet and get cancer. I am not so sure our bodies are so black and white. I think their is much room in between for diversity of our digestion.

[richardjarrell]

My mother told me that I ate everything in baby food form but when I switched to solid food I would not eat vegetables or fruits; it must’ve been all the salt in the baby food that made it palatable. When eating at other people’s houses I would sometimes be forced to eat vegetables. Beaver Cleaver as a kid balked at brussels sprouts but as an adult foisted them on his kids. I never wanted to go to camp for fear they’d push veggies and fruits on me. My wife ate fruits and veggies and died of cancer at 38; I’m 76. When people tell me I’m damaging myself by omitting plants I point out that there is no agriculture in the far north but people have lived there for millennia. Coming across this video has been SUCH a comfort.