Wow Dr. Perlmutter seems to be advocating a plant based diet now

[Rebj]

Funny thing happens when I go to the the local health food stores and ask them if they have any soil based probiotics; they get this blank look on there face and ask me what is that…lol

Garden of Life does produce a soil based probiotic…last I knew Dr Perlmutter endorses their brand…his name is even on some of their products.

[JohnH]

I imagine it’d be really healthy eating a chicken I know only got grass, worms, bugs, flax seed

I posted a pic of a typical dozen eggs we get from my wife’s best friend who lives in the country and keeps chickens. You will notice the variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. These are also fresh out of the hen, not washed or anything, so still have the “bloom” on them.

https://www.ketogenicforums.com/t/johnh-progress-updates-observations/80161/288?u=johnh

These are certainly well pampered hens, free range, eating whatever they want to eat - bugs, grass, plus whatever supplemental chicken feed they are given. We save the egg shells, which are washed, crushed up, and fed back to the chickens for calcium supplement. True recycling.

When they retire from egg laying, they are allowed to live out their lives with the rest of the flock. These are well cared-for chickens. I have met some of them in person.

As far as how they taste? Pretty much like any other chicken eggs taste, to be honest. Sometimes when my wife hasn’t visited her friend in a while, we run out of eggs, and I end up buying some in the grocery. I do try to pay up for the cage-free organic stuff, so perhaps I am just getting good quality eggs at the store. I can’t tell much difference.

[Shortstuff]

I can’t remember what store bought eggs even tasted like now… but my girls are way happier than they were in their previous life of cages.

[atomicspacebunny]

I used to use them, though I found no benefits.

I’m assuming you have SIBO?

I only take 8 pills (gel caplets) a year that’s all you really need. They come from a Doctor who custom makes them. What is also interesting about this particular doctor is that she cured cancer in all of her patients but I cannot name, names. She uses special rare electron microscopes to study cancer.

[atomicspacebunny]

How cute!

[Fangs]

I want to actually see what an egg tastes like where the hens eat grass, bugs and worms, along with a bit of flax seed.

oh boy. huge diff in taste and nutrition actually. farmer gal here. I know and can tell the diff…you can’t go wrong getting some hens and going for it!

[Shinita]

I want to actually see what an egg tastes like where the hens eat grass, bugs and worms, along with a bit of flax seed.

Probably nice. I have very little memories of “normal” eggs, I only buy good ones from houses and they are very, very, very tasty. At one point, I actually knew and saw the hens, they had a pretty great life (until their freedom caused their death. there are lots of foxes around here). The eggs tasted just like the ones I eat now. Eggs from a shop, I had some at a relative, they are sometimes okay I guess but sometimes their taste is very little compared to the eggs I eat.

[PaulL]

Ohhh I could never do that – I couldn’t eat my pets --I love chicken and eat it all the time, but I couldn’t eat my pets.

No one can eat a pet, it just isn’t possible. One of my cousins grew prize-winning tomatoes (literally, they won first-class ribbons at the fair) for his 4H project one year, and we would eat the lesser-quality ones. It really creeped me out that he gave them all names, and would tell us “who” we were eating at supper. And those were just plants!

Another set of cousins lost a beloved bull (yes, that’s right) to an accidental fall. I was intrigued to note that although the kids had no real objection to other people’s eating meat from Eli, they were unable to do so themselves. I don’t believe my aunt and uncle had any problems in that regard, since they never got attached to the animal the way the kids did.

In some ways, although I appreciated the farm life when we visited, and the fresh food tasted great, I am glad I grew up a city boy, where there’s not a chance of knowing your meat socially.

[Jennifer72]

I guess I’ll have to not get attached to the hens. Because since I am in the city I am limited to 6 hens. If only half a producing eggs what’s the point of having hens in the first place? I have a dog for a pet and don’t need any more pets.

But I might end up getting attached I dunno. Never raised livestock before.

[lfod14]

Don’t give them names. Don’t pet them, Don’t spend time with them. Feed them, give them a good home and a good life and when the time comes that’s how it is.

[Jennifer72]

If I can slaugther them I really do think I can eat them. It’s $10 / lb for truly pastured chicken from what I’ve seen.