Hey, Angela here also known as The Carnivore Gal.
I have been following a carnivore lifestyle since October 2023 after exhausting all options to recover from Lyme Disease.
Just a little over one year ago I acquired Lyme Disease from a tick bite…
I live on a 6-acre wooded lot with my husband and lots of animals. We frequently have deer that pass through our yard. Deer ticks are in abundance.
One morning I woke up and I was running my fingers through my hair, I found a tick attached to my scalp.
I have no idea how long it had been there.
In that moment I told myself to look out for symptoms and then I quickly forgot about it.
2-weeks later, I started getting the following symptoms:
Within two months I was fully bed bound and could barely stand or walk.
I didn’t realize it was the tick until I got the stiff neck and then suddenly remembered.
I used the igenex testing with a naturopath to determine I was recently infected with the borellia bacteria.
I did a full 8-week detox which included using the anti-biotic doxycycline along with several other supplements for detoxing.
I suffered horrible “herx reactions” that made me feel like I may not make it. It made all symptoms 10-fold worse.
I was getting horrible dizzy spells and racing heart.
It was a chore to just walk from my bedroom to the kitchen. I barely had the strength to even brush my hair.
One morning I got up to let my dogs out and I felt extremely dizzy, then I got a stabbing pain in my side and blacked out.
I fell on my face and split open my eyebrow and my chin.
I had to go to the ER to get stitches and then I was admitted for 3 full days:
All of my bloodwork came back fine.
The MRI of my brain showed a lesion or change in the white matter, and they said that could indicate Lyme Disease or the beginning stages of MS.
While I was there the nurses would not allow me to get out of the bed without assistance because when I stood up my heart rate went up rapidly.
In the end they sent me away with a recommendation of Tylenol as needed.
They also referred me to physical therapist and a neurologist.
I decided to see neither…
I was following a plant-based diet and not getting better. That’s when my husband encouraged me to listen to Mikhaila Peterson’s testimonial.
At first, I thought it was the craziest thing I ever heard.
But the more I listened to carnivore doctors, nutritionists and others on the journey, the more intrigued I became.
I did months’ worth of research on the carnivore diet and decided to try that first.
Within 30 days I saw such drastic improvements I felt like a new person.
Here I am 60 days in feeling energetic for the first time in a long time and ready to celebrate Christmas with my family:
Within 90 days I was even better than before I got bit by the tick, and I thought I was fully healed.
I tried adding foods back in and that is when I realized I wasn’t actually healed but I was just in remission.
Fruits, Vegetables, Gluten and Grains all bring back my spine pain and I go back to barely being able to walk or function.
Eating this way has allowed me to be fully functional as if I do not have this. So, I decided to create a community to support one another on this very unique journey.
I wanted to pay forward my experience and everything I have learned along the way… while keeping myself accountable to my goals.
All of this aside, the energy and vitality that eating a carnivore diet provides, cannot be matched (in my opinion).
Yes, I tried the plant-based route and that is not for me. I don’t think this way of life is for everyone… But it is for a lot of people.
Eating a carnivore diet is the ONLY thing that helped me.
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