Your body makes creatine from three amino acids — arginine, glycine, and methionine — all abundant in meat and eggs.

If you’re on a carnivore or high-meat diet, you’re already topped up. A pound or two of red meat gives you 3–5 g daily, the same dose most supplements use.

Top food sources:

🥩 Beef

🐖 Pork

🐑 Lamb

🐟 Tuna

🐂 Bison

If you eat plants, supplementation helps.

If you eat animals, you’re built on it already. 💪

You have it, so why not use it? It's healthy and natural. I'm OMAD carnivore, I train very hard, and I do not use supplements. I drink electrolytes because I sweat so much, but that's it.

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Good insights. I'm less carnivore lately.

Be more carnivore always. There is no downside.

I agree with all of this.

I’m pretty religious about Fish oil since I don’t eat enough and I’m worried about soil depletion so I supplement small amounts of zink. Magnesium, calcium etc.

I've started eating sardines more often for the same concerns you have - we need those omegas.

I don't think there's any harm in a little supplementation with most things.

The philosophy I'm going with is trying to develop my body's natural abilities to their highest level. I want my body to manufacture the creatine it needs from the abundant amino acids I give it. I want it to manufacture the energy it needs from the abundant fat sources I give it. That kind of thing.

So I'm trying to do everything naturally if I can.

I do drink electrolytes because they taste better than water and I do get muscle cramps sometimes if I don't. But I train hard and sweat a lot. So I could just salt my foods more and be fine, but I like the electrolytes.

If you watch animals, they all crave salt. Put a salt block outside and everything will lick that thing. My dog licks my arms when I'm sweating. If you pee in the mountains and there are goats around, they'll lick it for the salt.

So for some reason all animals seem to crave salt in addition to what they get from food. I'm not sure why. But it happens to me, as well. I have to add a little extra.

But after years of doing this I've found that most of the exercise and nutrition rules are actually just myths. You don't need carbs for energy. You don't need to eat ahead of time to 'fuel your workouts'. You don't need fiber. You don't need three square meals a day and breakfast is not the most important meal.

It's all designed to sell more products, not make you more healthy.

I've put in the work to find out for myself what is true. Turns out almost nothing we're told is factual. It's advertising.

Salt is pretty rare in nature.

It must be, at least on dry land at ground level. No shortage underground or in the oceans. It's super critical to our function but most animals seems to seek out additional sources.