It's not that easy to start just for a book. I really wanted a doctor who has my case, my blood marks, and who will help me do this in a safe way because here in Mexico where I live, I think I am the only carnivore here. I saw so many doctors and not one could even join the dots. Not one asked for my HDL, my vitamin D, my homocysteine, not one addressed nutrition and

It changes the way you see life. It changes the way you react. It has shown me to appreciate simple life, the simple things in life. You have to be fat adapted and then you have a lot of energy. I don't have mine. And if I had the answer in that time, my life would have been really different.

People that are older, they need that doctor to tell them to do this. Not me. You need a doctor or you need scientific evidence.

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Well, good morning and welcome Beatrice. I guess you're going to share a interesting success story with us today. So Beatrice, I guess let's just start out just maybe just telling us a little bit about who you are and your background, if you don't mind. Sure. Well, my name is Beatrice. I have been struggling with rheumatoid arthritis and hypothyroidism since I was 23. I'm 43 right now. So it was 20 years struggling. I had four knee scopes.

in my right knee, and then I had a knee replacement. And then I had a knee replacement on my left knee too. Okay. From rheumatoid arthritis. Yeah. Yeah. I had swollen elbows, one wrist, hips, ankles, one shoulder, a jaw, fingers. And when I had flare-ups, I couldn't move.

In the beginning of those years, I could do my life. I used to limp, like walk strange. I used to have stockings in my leg. Part of my life was going to the doctor, to his office to take off my synovial fluid. They do it with a big syringe. And every time I went, like there was this goal that let's see how much

liquid I could take off and there were like four or five. It was like a soccer ball in my knee. It was horrible. And then the elbow too. I had to take out the fluid so I can do my normal life. I have three kids. During my pregnancies, I was doing excellent. But after I gave birth, 15 days after, I had terrible flares and it stopped my life. And then one joint

One joint is added every time I had one kid. And I, like in my daily basis, after my third child, which was my worst flare, my worst years, I couldn't even stand up from bed because I didn't have the energy. I didn't have, I lost all my muscle mass. And if I wanted to get up while my elbows hurt, it was very difficult for me to stand

to move. And I had to walk down the stairs once a day. My little girl even learned how to go down the stairs like her mom, one step at a time, very slowly, not facing forward from the side. Well, that was my life. I got several diagnosis, misdiagnosis. They told me I had venular synovitis that I had, ankylosing spondylitis.

I had depression. I had panic attacks who led me to the hospital several times. I was medicated for all of that. Hypothyroidism, arthritis, methotrexate, chloroquine, sulfasalicin, prednisone. I used short of cortisones too. I had a pill for a panic attack, pill for anxiety. And there were years and years of medication and I felt really alone. And I felt afraid because I didn't...

get my health back with all these medications. So what I should do, and then the last resource after my second knee replacement was taking Humira. But I, something inside of me told me not to take it because it was my last resource. I was 38. And if it didn't do its job, like all those medicines I have taken, there was no other answers in the medical field.

So I was really afraid. I said, no, I didn't knew anything about metabolic health. I didn't find any doctor who addressed nutrition, exercise, vitamin D, nothing. But I started to find the way. Thank God. I, I, after that, I found a health coach who told me to do keto. Beatrice, let me just, this is all in Mexico that this was happening. Is that right? Or where was this? Yeah.

I had two knee scopes in Mexico and when they told me I had venular synovitis, I went to Scottsdale. I look for better medical advice. I had my knee replacements were done there in Scottsdale and my rheumatologist was there too. So in Arizona. Okay. Yeah. And then, well, I found a health coach here in Mexico who told me do keto. And I was okay. I have seen a lot of documentaries about

who had autism and who had epilepsy, who did very well in keto. So I was like, maybe I can do something about my health. And I started. And then my physiotherapist of the second knee replacement here in Mexico was inside a CrossFit gym.

I was with him for a year, for one month. And then he told me, you know what? You have to go with a personal coach, even though it hurts, even though you can't walk. Sometimes he went to my car and helped me walk in the crossfit. I started, I had to use compression stocks for my ankles. I couldn't move while I started. And I didn't, I felt like I was doing something for me. So I went daily. I found people who cheer me up.

Then I started fasting. My sister used to fast and I did a group with two friends. We read the book Beyond Fasting and I started 16 hours, 18 hours, 24 hours, twice a week. I did mimicking fasting and then I did the five-day fast. And then I started CrossFit in February. In September, I was running.

And I have that video of my coach, like taping me while I started to run, I started to jump. I was achieving a lot of stuff that was out of my league for me. And it was a really speed recovery. But in 2023, I started certifications in keto fasting, and then I did a certification as a health coach.

And I got confused there because they talked about all these different kinds of nutrition and how it's very good to take two carbohydrates and keto was one class, eat the rainbow. So I started to do that. Before that I had my Keto Mojo and I was tracking my cytosis every day.

And then I started to relax. I did prescribed myself. I was doing great. And I started to make this big salad and sweet potatoes, potatoes, squash. It's seasonally. I did all this stuff. A few months later, I had, this was last year. I had a really bad flare and I was like,

There's no way I do fast. I do two meals a day. I'm kind of low carb keto, but I was not tracking my ketones. And then it started in my back. And I got really, really afraid. And I said, you know what? That doctor who told me I had ankylosing spondylitis was right. It's in my back. And well, my fear invaded me again. Then I don't know how I got your book. I found out about Keto Board Carnivore.

And I said, I'm going to give it a shot. But it's not that easy to start just for a book. I really wanted a doctor who has my case, my blood marks, and who will help me do this in a safe way. Because here in Mexico, where I live, I think I am the only carnivore here. So everyone, my family can tell me like, really red meat for how long? Or really, you're not eating veggies?

And when I started, I started meat, eggs, bacon, and sometimes I have to add something there, arugula, a bunch of berries. And then I was convinced. I read your book again, convinced myself I have to do something different. I've always done the contrary about my doctors have said, so I'm going to do this. I started in May. I

PCR and my ESR, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, and C-reactive were really high. Those were the markers that were my, I always struggled with them when I was sick. And I had it in like really high, in three months, carnivore, they went really down.

I found a doctor in Mexico because I know this carnivore thing. I started to follow and study. Carb addiction dog. I fixed hearts with Dr. Philip O'Reilly. I saw there his podcast on reading blood markers because I didn't knew I was going to find a Mexican doctor who was a specialist in metabolic health. And I found one, he's friends with carb addiction dog.

And I make an appointment with him and he congratulated me to being a carnivore. He's a carnivore too. And he read my markers and he says, three months. We see this every day on a daily basis, these little miracles in carnivore diet.

And then I went to Boca Raton in January with Low Carb USA. And in that time, I also found Michaela Peterson. I saw that you eat only meat. She eats only meat. And most of the Dr. Kielk eats meat. And I said, you know what? I'm going to do only meat. And here I am. Last Friday, I did my blood tests and I'm doing...

really fine. My erythrocyte segmentation rate is at 18. I had never had it like that before. And my C-reactive is fine. My cholesterol is fine. And well, I'm really happy with it. And I wanted to like show how we can make a lot of mistakes and when people that has autoimmune diseases cannot do an open keto diet and you have to be strict and strict and strict.

And now I have my Keto-Mojo again with me, high ketosis, and I have my symptoms on hold and I hope I'll stay there for a long time. Well, that's good to hear that you found something that's working for you. Did you, so are you off medications now? Because remember, I think you mentioned cortisone, methotrexate, and then you were, you know, at one point they were thinking about Humira. So you're not on any medicines at all now? Any medicines at all.

Yeah, that's got to be good because they have a lot of, you know, as you know, they have a lot of side effects and not that, not that methotrexate and cortisone cost a lot, but they're, they're, they can damage your body in different ways. Are you still doing the exercise? Cause you mentioned the CrossFit was something you started with. Yes. It's part of my life. I cannot miss one day without CrossFit. I'm, I, I,

I didn't believe that I was going to do what I'm doing today. Those power cleans, I started with 35 pounds and now I'm 105 and I want to do much more. Yeah, I started jumping 12 inches then 19. I'm starting to do things I didn't think I was going to do in my life. So yeah.

Well, that's, that's amazing. Awesome. And it's gotta feel good. And, and cause you still are your, cause your kids are still around. I mean, I imagine they're still young enough. They're still in the house. Correct. The little one, like after her, she was born, she's seven. Like I have been well, like two years, three years. Yeah. She's a small and all those times she, well, she saw her mom sick. The middle one, she's 13.

She cries at night and she told me, "My mom, I want you to die." They knew I was not normal because when I went with them to Disneyland or some vacations, I used scooters. I was like an old lady. I couldn't walk. I was in scooters every time and I was young. I didn't have that energy to play with them or run with them or carry them, nothing.

Do you still, are you still in contact with the rheumatologist that diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis or any of that stuff? Is that? No, I haven't. I haven't been back. I would love to, but no, I haven't. Not even, I just...

I guess you don't need them, right? You don't need the doctor for that stuff. Cause you're no, I, I, I change my doctors and I, I, I do it in one. This, this Dr. Ren he's he's special. He's a, a, a same HP practitioner. And I'm, I was, I was why I saw.

I saw so many doctors and not one could even join the dots. Not one asked for my HDL, my vitamin D, my homocysteine, not one addressed nutrition and not one asked for my HCL, my vitamin D.

When I, for example, after my 15 days, I gave birth and I have my big knee. Why not? The gynecologist said, you know what? This is not normal. This has to do with your autoimmune disease. Because when with my first child, I didn't knew I had an autoimmune disease and I did that, but that, that happened. So why, why?

I didn't have answers. I felt so alone. That's why I had panic attacks. I don't have one doctor to trust on and to connect everything. And my orthopedist in Phoenix was really, really good, but he was an orthopedist. He did a great job doing my scopes, but he's the one that sent me to a rheumatologist. And these rheumatologists

It was really hard for me because he said, "Or Humira, if this disease progresses, it can cause unreversed damage like my knees, but it can go to an organ and you can die." And I knew that because when I was really, really bad, well, it feels like this disease is consuming you. At the beginning, no.

As it progresses, you stop to live. I can't even wash my face, brush my teeth. And I was 35, 38. I couldn't move. So, yeah. What a change in quality of life. I mean, it's like a new person in many ways. I mean, your kids have to see that, correct? Yeah, they see that. And I'm sorry for them, but here everybody eats a lot of carbs and very different. And yeah, I let them, but...

In the breakfast, lunch and dinner in my house, there are no carbs. Sorry for you. Maybe on Fridays. And there, although I know they eat junk food behind my back. Every time I became, I become more strict.

Because that's the way in, as I study more and more, I told them I'm sorry. I was all through this and I'm starting, I'm at SMHP studying my, my for health coach right now. And I re I, well, sorry, I got the information and I have the example of myself. I'm going to, you're going to eat protein and fat.

Obviously this has changed your life in many good ways. I mean, first going from ketogenic diet and now to a carnivore diet, it's helped you with your rheumatoid arthritis, your ankylosing spondylitis. What else has it helped with? I mean, it sounds like maybe your mental outlook. What are the things that's helped in total? It changes the way you see life. It changes the way you react to stressful events. And I surely have stressful events.

It has shown me to appreciate simple life, the simple things in life. And I think it's because, yeah, I really wanted to be able to walk and go for a cup of coffee. And now I am really grateful for that. But I have spoken with a few carnivores that also they change their mindset. I don't know why. There's...

You start to appreciate the little things. You think clearer. You take decisions slowly. I feel great in many ways. I sleep perfectly fine. I have, I don't know, I had a purpose in life and I'm really grateful for that, which is help people who struggle with this too. And what else I can tell you, but my focus, my attention, my...

character, my way to respond to things. Maybe that, yeah. And I'm stronger. And I didn't even have muscle in my whole life, even in my teens when I was not sick. I couldn't have like my legs with the muscle and stuff. And right now I'm gaining muscle and you can see it. And that's very cool to me.

Yeah, it's got to feel good. You'd mentioned a cardiologist at one point in there. What was the cardiologist seeing you for? Because when I had the second knee replacement, I had severe palpitations. I don't know why. They sent the therapist to my house and he, he, he do your markers and my heart was, you know what? I think you have a clot. He told me. So I went to emergency room three, three, 4:00 AM.

came back, my doctor told me, you know, maybe it's COVID. I don't know what you have, but my palpitations were very high. And I went to the cardiologist. He told me that he didn't know why. He gave me a pill for like a pacifier. I think it's a stress, but I thought, I think that it was pain. I had a lot of pain. That surgery, knee replacement is really painful. And

I had this surgery and then I have my elbows swollen and then I have an ankle swollen. So I have pain everywhere. Maybe it was that, I don't know. And I asked him about his opinion on Humira and he told me that there was the best invention in the world and that I should took it. And then I got up out of his office all unweaved. And I didn't put it on.

Yeah, I mean, all these biologic drugs with embryo, Humira, and many, many others now, they can be helpful, but they come with a cost. The first are they're very expensive medicines to start with, and then

They just depress your immune system in many ways. And so you have greater risk for cancer and infections and they tend to stop working over a period of time. And, and so it's not really addressing the problem. So do you have any joint pain now? Are your joints feeling good now? I mean, your wrists and elbows and knees. The only thing that why.

I started to get like smaller and smaller in my keto-cardio is what that flare. And sometimes I had a little bit of inflammation in my elbow, a little bit of inflammation in my ankle. And at the beginning it was okay because I didn't lift that much weight. But now if I have a little bit of inflammation, I can't do the power cleans, for example, with the same amount of weight that I want.

So I wanted to be, to do this the perfect way, not just to settle down for having a little bit of symptoms because it's not normal. The girl in the side of me doesn't have any symptoms. I do have them. So I got to address them. That's why I, this year I haven't, yeah. Well, we're in March. Yeah. In January. So because I was doing the carnivore diet with

Dairy and I love dairy, but as I started doing the lion diet, my mother Peterson, she says that I react to eggs. I react to dairy. So I have started to wash my brain and say, you know what? Stop dairy. And I saw a lot of difference in my face. I also had a stress induced dermatitis.

really red, big and like the water things in here, it looked awful and it's gone two months after or one month without the area. So yeah, that's why I have to be straight and straight because I have sometimes those symptoms I take an Advil, they're gone. Nothing, nothing bad, but I want it to be normal.

and not have any kind of symptoms by myself, not without Aleve or Advil. So now you're basically doing a very strict version of carnivore diet and it's doing well for you. What do you eat on a daily basis now? What does it look like? I have breakfast and lunch, dinner, like at 10 and 4, I do two meals a day.

I have any kind of meat I buy or New York. I bought, I buy the big pieces and I cut them in like 300 grams. I eat like 700 grams a day of meat with ghee because I really love the flavor of water, but cause it's also kind of dairy. I opted for ghee and I'm doing good. Salt, water, coffee.

And I'm also taking Delta ketones or the nutritious ketones for CrossFit. And I think I'm improving a lot. Yeah. And so you're, since you've gone carnivore, has your ability in the gym gotten better as you're performing? Yeah. Yes. And I have videos of that and I'm tracking my ketones and I don't know why I have this obsession of being high therapy ketosis.

But I'm doing that. I have a glucometer to see how flat my line is. And that's how I am today. - How's your appetite? Do you find that your appetite is pretty well regulated now? - Everybody says that I eat like a man.

Well, in my house, everybody thinks that women have to eat a little bit. And no, I eat the whole steak. And if I go to a steakhouse, I don't give, I don't share. I like my whole steak. If it's a bigger, the better. One of my mistakes before, I think I was overeating or I missed fat.

So I'm taking more fat and I like 400 grams of steak to try to try to take. That's that's why I mean, but it's not it's not normal for the people around me.

Yeah, I can see that. I mean, I get it. Most people are used to eating a lot of carbohydrates and just grazing all day long. And that's kind of been normalized. And I feel super. I'm not hungry. I feel with energy the whole day. I feel really good. I really would like people to try this thing because women are supposed to be hungry or to eat a little bit. So no, it's not that way when you eat nutrient-dense foods.

Yeah, you fill up what you need and your body handles it quite well. So as far as sharing this story, do you talk about this in public, on social media or how to, what's been the response to that? I have done two conferences in another state here in Mexico with a health coach that I work with right now.

And a lot of people came back. It was just in that city and I received like various several messages of "please help me, please help me". That's why I started this journey on health coaching and SMHB and things. And I actually am going to start the CardioNord certification tomorrow. No, today. It started yesterday, today.

And so I don't like to speak a lot in public. I don't know why I'm here, but I have done one podcast with this help, which I work with. And I post, but I post what I eat. I post CrossFit because you can really see the difference, how I started and this. But this is my second podcast I'm doing.

I haven't, I shared my story in Boca. I sent Dr. Cho this story and he put it on the first day they had a workshop. And he, we talked a little bit. He told me that was a very interesting story.

Yeah. I mean, over the years I've seen a number of people with rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis get better with carnivore. So it's not surprising to me, but it's very, it's interesting to see that it continues to happen. Do you, you know, I mean, I imagine at some point, you know, maybe after your third child, when you're, you know, they're saying you got to replace your knees. That had to be sort of depressing, correct? I mean, was it kind of just what's going to happen to my life or all my joints?

you know, you can replace the knees and the shoulders and the hips and ankles and, and I mean, fingers or there's, I mean, they don't, they're not very good. And when you start getting the finger replacement, you know, joint replacement, those don't work well. And you see a lot of people with rheumatoid arthritis, they get a lot of deformity, like their hand starts to, you know, migrate. I don't have that. That's weird. My hands are good.

But they were my big joints. And of course, I had like depression and anxiety and everything because people around me in the doctor's office were people with white hair everywhere. I was very young for a knee replacement. And he told me that you have to wait the most you can because they are like 15 years or 20 years and then I have to have another one. So, well, yeah, hopefully I'm going to need two more knees.

Yeah, well, I think that, you know, obviously with a good nutrition and the CrossFit, you're going to hopefully those knees that you have will last you for 20, 30 years, you know. I hope so. Yes.

Yeah, because as you know, those are big operations. Do you find that, well, some people say, well, you know, if you don't have carbohydrates in your diet, how can you do CrossFit? How can you do all these exercises? Are you struggling with that or are you just fine? No, not at all. I'm fine. You don't need them. And you know what? I argue with my coaches.

There is one that is studying nutrition. He always says to me, if you had carbs, you will be stronger. And I was like, no. And we're just always debating and just showing him that in my situation, I don't need carbs. I can do the whole class and

Like there are better days than others, but I can lift like my partners that have been doing CrossFit for years, that are above my age, I'm on the same level or maybe a little higher of the ones that are starting. And for me it's too much because I started in 2021. I have a few and I started like an old lady.

So, it's a really big improvement in ketosis was involved and to have ketosis, you cannot eat carbs and yeah, you don't need it. And I have seen a lot of classes with explanation and what is you have to be fat adapted and then you have a lot of energy. So, yeah. Yeah. It's something that I think as you adapt to it over time and in your case, carbs,

are just going to make your joints hurt. You're not going to have, you're not gonna perform better with that. I mean, that's, you know, that's, that doesn't make sense. And so people don't know that if you eat carbs or veggies, you're going to have joint pain. It's I just read that book toxic superfoods and thank God I found it. But it's hard to understand that if your whole life they have telling you that you have to, you have to eat carbs and veggies.

Yeah, we've all been taught that vegetables are the superfood and we all need to eat lots and lots of vegetables. That's the way that's the key to health. And you know, it's, I mean, to be fair, eating a lot of vegetables, you might lose weight because you can't absorb them. You know, they just all end up in the toilet. And so, yeah, you're going to lose weight by eating vegetables, but they're not, I don't think they're inherently all that special. I mean, meat is far, far better nutrition in my view.

What have you encountered any negatives since switching over to a to an all carnivore diet? Have there been significant negatives that have occurred? No, no, just positive. First of all, I do my my food really fast. I'm not thinking what I have to eat.

savoring my meal like if it's time to eat breakfast I after when I'm in CrossFit I say it's time to have breakfast nice I'm really craving meat and it's really easy for me and in my house too because dinner and breakfast is some kind of protein or eggs no more stuff it's really easy it's really helpful with time and with the kitchen and everything it's

And it appears to be more costful, but it's not. I didn't buy any peppers, any cauliflower, any Brussels sprouts, any kind of, I don't eat cheese right now. So any cheese, any dairy, nothing, just coffee and meat, salt, butter, ghee, that's it.

And there's no negatives for me. And I think my face is better. My skin's better. I'm, I know how my muscle is. I can see I'm, I'm, I'm, how would you say marked in Spanish is not like you see yourself, your muscles just positive, breathing.

Yeah, that's and you know, just when you're feeling better physically, it's got to make you feel better. Mentally, maybe more confidence, maybe less anxiety, you're not fearful. I imagine when your joints were always hurting, you're probably scared to do things I would imagine. Is that fair to say? Yes, yes. I think about jumping. It makes me I'm fearful of jumping. I still have that respect to the box. But I do it anyways.

Yeah, that's one thing. The one thing I will say about jumping, and I do a lot of box jumps, you know, in my own training, but I always jump on a foam box. I don't like those hard metal boxes or the wooden box because, you know, you miss and you, you know. Yeah, I bought my box. I have the one that if I do something wrong, I'm not going to open up because I'm not going to open up my knee again. No, thank you. Yeah.

Do you still, I mean, as an orthopedic surgeon, you know, I was somebody who's an orthopedic surgeon, I used to replace knees and stuff. We would sometimes follow up with our patients every year, you know, to see how the knee is doing. Are you still getting follow up on that or were you out with any orthopedics? No, no, I haven't seen my orthopedist since...

I remember when 2020, maybe two years because I had one and then the other one, one year apart and was the same. And then it came back at six months. Then one year I sent him a picture of my first trail, high K trail run. He like cheer me up and look at you. And that's, and I haven't returned. Great. I was sick and tired of doctors.

I, I, it was a lot, a lot of doctors that was my whole life. I I'm tired, but I have, I have to go. I know that to see that everything's good and on its place and say, hi. Yeah. I don't know how you're doing. Yeah. I mean, it's, and it's interesting because, you know, you mentioned this as a problem with the healthcare system is that

At no point during your journey from rheumatologist to cardiologist to obstetrician to orthopedist, did anyone say much about nutrition? It was all just pills and drugs and procedures, correct? Nothing, correct. Nothing. And it was like, if I knew this...

A few years before, maybe I will have my own knees. And even though I'm thankful, I cannot do things like the back squats. And they're simple things, but I cannot go that down because they are not my knees. So I could have saved them. And even though I hope they're going to last for 30 years, maybe not. And I'm going to need another two painful surgeries because I'm

I don't have mine. And if I had the answer in that time, my life would have been really different. And it really, I'm thankful. I'm good where I live, but there were a lot of times that it was not easy. It was difficult.

I was invaded of fear. My kids, well, I was present, but I was not mentally. There were events, holidays that, okay, I have to go and get an MRI or I have to go and take this pill. I always needed to go to some kind of doctor, always.

Mexico City, everywhere. I had to drive to another city when I lived in Mazatlán to go and see one doctor and then the other and then the specialist in thyroid and then the other. It was too much. And it's addressing the same thing. They don't connect the points that this hypothyroidism has to do with my ultimate disease too and it has to do with the thing in my face and everything can relate.

One of the things, you know, a lot of folks with rheumatoid arthritis, they're not over, many of them are thin. They're not like over a lot of weight. Did you have a lot of weight to lose or did you not, were you already thin? No, no, I didn't have a lot of weight to lose, but I'm sure I had insulin resistance when I was younger.

I had a high carb diet. I was always that girl that needed to lose five kilos and then eight, or I went to study to a boarding school and I gained 10 pounds, like no 10 kilos. And then came back and I always struggled like this, not being with a lot of weight to lose. No, I was not obese, not, but chubby maybe. Yeah. Yes.

Yeah, because a lot of people will say, well, it's just because you lost weight. That's the only reason. But I see it like things like what you have with autoimmune disease. There's a lot of people who lose weight with a high carb diet and their autoimmune disease doesn't go away like it has for you. And I think that's unique about that.

Are you, do you work or are you a full-time mom? What is it? I'm working as a health coach in the mornings and in the afternoons, I'm a mom because I have two teens and a little one. So I kind of work three hours in the morning and then I study my SMHB and then I vote for them to school in the afternoons. I'm a mom.

What of your friends and family and, and cause they've had to have a senior transformation going from, you know, having to be in a scooter and not hardly able to walk or move and always in pain to what you are now doing CrossFit and happy and moving. What have they said? And what do they think about your diet? Even though they have seen it, I have a dad, sorry, dad, dad had a liver transplant and a kidney transplant.

And it's very difficult for me to change his way, his habits. And he got the hemoglobin glycosylated, it's in English, in six. And then he's starting to hear my instructions. He started to change his habits. For my mom, it's very difficult, very difficult to eat, like to understand more protein, more fat,

Fat is a problem in my house. I have a sister who is keto for very, very cute since all of years. She's keto, she fasts. When she's in her pregnancies, she's keto, she fasts. But my parents is a deal. My uncles, everybody does their own life the same way. I don't know why you are not, there's like a...

saying that you are not a prophet in your territory, something like that in Spanish. And it's true because I have a lot of people who follow my steps, but they're not from my family or people around me. They're from other cities and other towns.

Yeah, it seems like they won't, you know, they won't take advice from their own family members because, you know, they know all the things you've done wrong. And so it's hard to convince people that are too close to you sometimes. Let's see. So no medications, doing CrossFit, getting stronger, getting healthier. Gosh, what in, in, in, you said you're planning on, oh, this is a question. So in, in Mexico, right?

What has, what is the general perception that is carnivore growing in Mexico and your, in your experience, is it still a keto or is it still very much? Not very many people. No, I think this is still keto with its struggles that maybe keto is not so good in the future because maybe your kidneys, you can hear that. I don't know carnivore. I started with a friend and then she, I prefer keto. Okay.

But no, I found this doctor and we have a chat. My health coach is carnivore, well, the health coach which I work, she's carnivore too. And we have a chat with a few carnivores that we have known in this journey. But no, I hopefully it's going to

grow because no, and I don't know if in the States, but that society of metabolic health practitioners was for me great because all those doctors that were speaking there were the doctors I was looking for when I was sick. And now there are, and you know, for my mom, I think, and for

And for people that are older, they need that doctor to tell them to do this. Not me. You need a doctor or you need scientific evidence. A doctor who tells them to do that. I'm a health coach. They need a doctor. And here in Mexico, I just know three or four of them.

Yeah, we, you know, one of the things I like about our company, Rivera is we have doctors that actually help people with this stuff. Cause you know, you go to the doctor and they don't know about it. They don't know how to do anything about it. They don't know how to guide people correctly. They don't support them. So it's nice to see that in Mexico. How hard is it to do carnivore? Is it, is it pretty easy to get super easy where I live? There's a bunch of very good meat and local ones and meat here is delicious.

So it's really, really easy. Yeah, I mean, a few times I've been to Mexico, I had no trouble getting good meat. I thought it was fine. I mean, it was, you know, I mean, you went to the north part of Mexico or the south. So I was in gosh, where I was, I was in near Cancun and I've been to what's the other one?

Oh, gosh, I'm blanking now. Puerto Vallarta and those both those places. It was pretty easy with every tour. Obviously, there are tourist beach towns. But my wife is in Mexico City recently. She had to get out for business and she said it was lovely. And there was lots of good stuff there as well. I mean, I hear great things about Mexico City. I've never been, though.

It's really big. It's nice. No, it's very easy. Where I live is really easy. Here in Sonora, in New Arizona, we have a lot of meat and very good meat. So, easy.

Yeah. There's a lot, a lot of farming goes there. Well, do you have any kind of website or anything you want to share with my Instagram? And I just have my, well, in my Instagram is T I C H I N a U V H. And there, can you say that again? T T I C H I N a P. Yeah. V

Oh, I see it with a V. Okay. Yeah, it's T-I-C-H-I-N-A-V-H. Yeah, Valenzuela Hernandez. Does that mean anything? I don't know what that means. No. Okay.

- My name is Beatrice, but they call me, my friends call me Peachy, Peachina, and my- - Yeah, I'm looking, I see you in there doing CrossFit, here you are, you know, starting out. Yeah, you look like you're a lot, you know, I see a video from 2001, 21, 35 pound deadlift, and you look a lot more, maybe more frail then. And then here you are- - If you see over there, my elbows are, I cannot straighten them.

yeah i can see that i can yeah i can see that yeah you can definitely tell it's it's good for you doing that work and then and then there you are a few years later doing way more weight and looking better and putting on muscle so that's awesome to see yeah and usually the the advice that i get from doctors is don't move or rest or just swim or do pilates or

And I don't know, but there's something about lifting weights and this CrossFit thing that changed my life. That was hard. Yeah. Yeah, I see you there. There you are barely able to step over the rope and now you're doing double unders. Look at you. Yeah. That's awesome. So when I have a little bit of inflammation and I have to do double unders, I can't. So that's why you have to be very strict and really don't have any flare or any inflammation.

anything in my in my joints but because it's not normal the girl next to me doesn't have it why me so that's why I'm I'm now I don't know how long it's going to take but I have been like this two months and I hope soon I will say I don't have any any symptom when I walk long distances my ankles hurt

Well, you certainly have come a long way and it's got to give you hope, because I can imagine you thinking about maybe I'm going to spend the rest of my life in a wheelchair with deformed arms and hands. Gosh, it's so much better.

Well, I'll tell you what, Beatrice, thank you for doing this. I really appreciate this. It should hopefully inspire a lot of other people that might have rheumatoid arthritis or some other inflammatory arthritis to know that there is hope and you can change your life. It's so exciting to see that. Thanks for doing this. I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you for your book. It changed my life. That was the path.

then you and then I start following the other doctors, Michaela Peterson. And thanks to that, what you're doing, I, well, I'm here. And I think a lot of people too, because I have seen your testimonies and the testimonies of her too. And thank you for your book. Here it is. Yeah. Well, thank you for doing that. And I always recommended it to everyone. We got to get a Spanish version. I'm trying to get the publisher to do a Spanish version.

Thank you, Beatrice. Have a wonderful day. This will come out in about two weeks. So, and you'll inspire more people. So thanks for doing this. Appreciate it. Thank you very much, Doc. All right. Bye-bye now. Bye.