Navigate Select ESC Close

🔴 From Rock Bottom to Healing: How the Carnivore Diet Saved My Life | Valerie Anne Smith

2024-11-20 Howto & Style
31.4k
2.0k
329
Anthony Chaffee MD
Anthony Chaffee MD
549.0k subscribers

Unlock all features

FREE: Get instant access to 10 AI summaries, chats, or transcripts per day.

Description

Valerie Anne Smith is a health advocate whose story highlights the transformative impact of the carnivore diet. She struggled with anorexia nervosa for over 40 years, alongside other severe mental health challenges like schizoaffective disorder, depression, and body dysmorphia. Despite various treatments—including psychiatric medications and high-carb, low-fat diets—her health continued to decline, leaving her severely underweight with a BMI of 11 for much of her adult life. In 2018, Valerie decided to try the carnivore diet, focusing on nutrient-dense foods like beef, salt, and water. This dietary change brought dramatic improvements, helping her achieve remission from both mental and physical health issues. Six years into the diet, she reported a complete transformation, leading a healthy and fulfilling life as a mother, wife, and advocate for dietary intervention in mental health recovery. Her journey has been featured in the Journal of Metabolic Health and shared through podcasts and interviews to inspire others facing similar challenges. ✅ Don't forget to like, comment, share, and subscribe for more insightful content! ✅Join my PATREON for early releases, bonus content, and weekly Zoom meetings! https://www.patreon.com/AnthonyChaffeeMD ✅Sign up for our 30-day carnivore challenge and group here! https://www.howtocarnivore.com/ ✅Stockman Steaks, Australia Discount link for home delivered frozen grass-fed and grass finished pasture raised meat locally sourced here in Australia! Use discount code "CHAFFEE" for free gift with qualifying orders! http://www.stockmansteaks.com.au/chaffee ✅ 60-minute consultation with Dr Chaffee https://calendly.com/anthonychaffeemd/60-minute-consultation ✅ Dr Chaffee's new website: www.thecarnivorelife.com Contact and Follow Dr Chaffee: ✅INSTAGRAM: @anthonychaffeemd www.instagram.com/anthonychaffeemd/ ✅TWITTER: @Anthony_Chaffee ✅ 60-minute consultation https://calendly.com/anthonychaffeemd/60-minute-consultation Linktree at: ✅ https://linktr.ee/DrChaffeeMD ✅For collaborations, email at the below address: [email protected] Sponsors and Affiliates: ✅ Stone and Spear tallow and soaps referral link https://www.stoneandspeartallow.com/?ref=gx0gql8b Discount Code "CHAFFEE" for 10% off! ✅ Carnivore t-shirts www.plantfreetees.com ✅THE CARNIVORE BAR: Discount Code "Anthony" for 10% off all orders! https://the-carnivore-bar.myshopify.com/?sca_ref=1743809.v3IrTuyDIi ✅X3 bar system with discount code "DRCHAFFEE" https://www.kqzyfj.com/click-100676052-13511487 ✅Schwank Grill (Natural Gas or Propane) https://glnk.io/503n/anthonychaffeemd $150 OFF with Discount Code: ANTHONYMD Song Credit: Music by https://www.bensound.com License code: AICYC10EIJRDKB3A Music: Bensound.com/free-music-for-videos License code: XVJWRBKZE2S2L0TE Music by: Bensound.com/royalty-free-music License code: JG7TBNKWXVPITRKG Music by Bensound License code: MKUTDEGUU6VFETQV Music: Bensound License code: ZHL5IEJZPXHWXDYJ This podcast is for general informational purposes only and does not constitute the practice of medicine, nursing or other professional health care services, including the giving of medical advice, and no doctor/patient relationship is formed. The use of information on this podcast or materials linked from this podcast is at the user’s own risk. The content of this podcast is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Users should not disregard or delay in obtaining medical advice for any medical condition they may have and should seek the assistance of their health care professionals for any such conditions. Dietary and lifestyle changes are only part of the complete health picture, the impact of which will depend on each person’s individual circumstances. It is important to stay under the care of appropriate health care professionals, whose advice should be sought before making any substantial dietary or other changes. #ckd #pkd #weightloss 🔑 #CarnivoreDiet #DrAnthonyChaffee #PlantFreeMD #Nutrition #Health #Wellness #Lifestyle #Diet #LiveQandA #YouTubeLive

Top Comments (10)

@KathleenMottinger 2024-11-20

The decades of promoting low fat is probably why so many have been put on antidepressants and other psych drugs. WE HAVE been starving our brains for many years and getting even sicker. We need a complete turn turnaround!

142 6 replies
@zoeshannon9509 2024-11-21

This woman is unbelievably courageous. And so articulate. I hope she gets to live the most amazing life going forward!

116 2 replies
@theplanelife4097 2024-11-20

The best thing for me is knowing that even if I fall off the wagon, relief from my RA is just a few days away. That knowledge is priceless.

106 6 replies
@CRt-d3h 2024-11-22

Amazing testimony! Thank you ma'm. 55 years old guy. I was dying, literally, the ridiculous amount of accumulated health issues. Although not as extensive, was nevertheless debilitating in several aspects of daily life. Boils, fistulas, inflammations and terrible pains of all sorts. A damned big list. Just to paint a simple image. Fistulas and boils getting full of blood and pus for days, sometimes weeks. And painfully swallowing more and more. Until one fine day. They burst. The pain, disgust, embarrassment...etc. Until all that blood and pus drains out. And slowly start the "healing" process. Until some random time after the cycle start all over again. The looks in my doctors eyes, shouting silently: "You are dying and I don't know what to do with you". I'll never forget. For the record, nowadays I call carnivore a MIRACLE! Yes, with capital letter. 🙂

71 2 replies
@livelylioness 2024-11-20

This is the most gripping interview I've ever heard. I'm so glad we got the full version now.

61 1 replies
@sandiblythe4508 2024-12-03

Valerie what a beautiful miracle carnivore has been for you. You are beautiful & such an inspiration for us all. Live well & happy dear lady ❤

16
@BarrengerFynar 2025-05-26

If ever there was a clear case of the medical system failing...this is it.

9
@jds3656 2025-07-20

My story is so similar to this Lady but something inside me knew not to trust the system. So I tried to do it all in my own and tried a million alternative practices and after 20 years then carnivore 😢

8
@antoniacarolinasilva4604 2025-09-24

I already watched a lot of testimonies about carnivore diet but this video was amazing . That really touched mu heart.

7 1 replies
@kellykirkpatrick4416 2025-11-02

I am absolutely convinced that these awful foods we've been presented with are the cause of mental illness all of it and all of them

1

Unlock the Data Inside
Turn Videos into Knowledge

  • Get FREE 10/day: transcripts, summaries, chats
  • Chat with videos, export text & PDF
  • $1 free API credit for RAG, chatbots & research

Free forever plan • All features unlocked

App screenshot