Your Way Back
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The Carnivore Diet Isn’t for Everyone. Here’s Why | Dr. Andre Williams, MD
Ready for a different conversation about your cancer care? Apply to be on The Gonzalez Protocol®: https://thegonzalezprotocol.com/how-to-apply-to-meet-a-gonzalez-certified-doctor/ and meet a doctor who listens first. A man in his 40s ate carnivore for eight months and watched his cholesterol climb past 1,000 while deposits broke through the skin of his hands and feet. Welcome back to Dr. Andre Williams, MD, a board-certified oncologist and certified Gonzalez Protocol® doctor, because he lives in both worlds and sees what happens when people copy a diet off TikTok instead of matching it to their biology. Here's the part the internet leaves out. For more than 40 years, from Dr. Kelley to my late husband Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez, we've recommended carnivore-leaning diets on purpose, for the right people. The all-meat, no-vegetable, no-labs version you see online is not even close to what we teach. A published case shows kidney stones worsening after a YouTube-inspired switch to meat. Published carnivore studies found people falling short on vitamins C and D, magnesium, calcium, and iodine, and getting less than one gram of fiber a day. So who actually belongs on a carnivore-leaning diet, and who will slowly wreck their health trying it? If you've been guessing, this episode is the pause before the mistake. You’ll Learn: [0:00] Introduction [8:03] Telling real guidance apart from a carnivore sales pitch [12:34] JAMA Cardiology case of cholesterol over 1,000 breaking through the skin [15:45] Vitamin and fiber gaps the internet version never mentions [21:05] Why our carnivore diet is never purely carnivore [26:52] Why red meat matters for a parasympathetic dominant person [31:16] What happens when a sympathetic dominant person goes all in on meat [32:45] Weston A. Price’s findings and a vegetarian patient who needed animal protein [40:26] Moderate carnivore versus balanced carnivore explained [45:15] Source of the meat matters as much as the amount [51:42] Red flags that the carnivore diet is wearing you down Resources Mentioned: Nutrition and the Autonomic Nervous System by Dr. Nicholas J. Gonzalez | https://newspringpress.com/book/nutrition-and-the-autonomic-nervous-system/ Gonzalez Metabolic Type Test | https://gonzalezguidance.com/gonzalez-metabolic-type-test/ Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston A. Price | https://www.amazon.ca/Nutrition-Physical-Degeneration-Weston-Price/dp/0916764206 The Gonzalez Protocol® Cookbook by Mary Beth Gonzalez | https://createmycookbook.com/products/457190_468643_R This Cancer Patient Stopped Chemo & Went Into Remission (Here's How) | https://open.spotify.com/episode/2zTB4tMup5qbhKMTNpVFo4?si=788691bee70344f4 or https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/34-this-cancer-patient-stopped-chemo-went-into-remission/id1879791979?i=1000796062804 Find more from Dr. Andre: Dr. Andre Williams | Intro Video (https://thegonzalezprotocol.com/meet-dr-andre-williams/) | https://www.facebook.com/wellnessdocjamaica | https://www.instagram.com/wellnessdocjamaica Healthy Reasonings | https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBd7HFhsckj0q_atMkr9xFkHxuKFEFmu- Teshuva Wellness | https://www.teshuvawellnessja.com/ Find more from Mary Beth: The Gonzalez Protocol® | https://thegonzalezprotocol.com/ The Gonzalez Protocol® | https://www.instagram.com/thegonzalezprotocol/ Join the Truly Thrive Membership (https://thegonzalezprotocol.com/truly-thrive-membership-program/) for just $60 annually, and get full access to exclusive members-only content, including bonus content and product coupons. You'll experience how The Gonzalez Protocol® is helping people understand the root causes of disease and live their lives to the fullest. Step into a new paradigm of medicine where ancient nutritional wisdom and modern science converge. References: Lietz A, Dapprich J, Fischer T. "Carnivore Diet: A Scoping Review of the Current Evidence, Potential Benefits and Risks." Nutrients, 2026; 18(2):348. | https://bit.ly/4kd3kHG Lennerz BS, Mey JT, Henn OH, Ludwig DS. "Behavioral Characteristics and Self-Reported Health Status among 2029 Adults Consuming a 'Carnivore Diet.'" Current Developments in Nutrition, 2021 | https://bit.ly/4zNgWho JAMA Cardiology case report — xanthelasma in a man in his 40s after 8 months on a carnivore diet (Jan. 2025) | https://bit.ly/3U8Jcw0 The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition — "You are what you eat — should it be all meat? Impact of the carnivore diet on the risk of kidney stone development" (Feb. 2025) | https://bit.ly/4z5dmiN 2025–2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans — coverage and debate (Jan. 2026) | https://bit.ly/4yzdaqT "TikTok's Liver King, touted an ancestral diet, apologizes for steroids." The Washington Post, Dec. 2022 | https://bit.ly/4ixwOil Disclaimer: The information shared on Your Way Back is for education, not medical advice. Please work with your physician or healthcare provider when making decisions about your health.
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Your Way Back is for people who sense there is more they can do to support their healing. If you’re facing illness, chronic stress, or simply don’t feel like your body is working the way it used to, this show offers calm, trustworthy guidance in a noisy health world.
Each episode helps you understand how the body is designed to repair and rebalance — and what may be getting in the way.
Rooted in decades of clinical experience and the work of Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez, Mary Beth Gonzalez will share whole-body wisdom, nourishment principles, faith-informed perspective, and practical ways to reduce burden and support the body’s natural capacity to heal.
Your Way Back is about clear understanding, steady support, and giving your body what it needs to recover— so you can participate in your healing journey with intention instead of overwhelm.
You are not broken. You are finding your way back to your health.
