Summary

- Meat, fish, and poultry contain so-called carninutrients (‘meat nutrients’).
- Carninutrients serve as energy buffers, energy transporters, and managers of the water-mineral balance.
- The carninutrients are creatine, carnitine, taurine, and carnosine/beta-alanine.
- The human body also produces these substances, but it does so sparingly. The production is limited because it is relatively ‘expensive’ for the body.
- Eating meat, fish, and poultry with ready-made carninutrients increases their levels in your body.
- Higher levels of carninutrients in your body enable better physical performance.
- Levels of these substances can also be increased and potentially maximized through supplementation with (vegan-produced) carninutrients.

This supplement is also available under the name Vega Booster.

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Meat = Power?

The traditional view is that in order to get strong, you must eat meat. Everyone knows the clichι images of muscular men hunting big game. Not very woke, but is there any truth to it?

Many large, muscular animals are herbivores. But herbivores are also eating all day long. And, not unimportant, their digestive systems can handle that bulk of food.

Plant-Based Nutrition

Processing food through methods like grinding, cooking, and baking makes it easier for humans to absorb energy and nutrients. Through food processing, we make it work with plant-based foods, even though we humans have suboptimal digestive systems.

With plant-based nutrition, the amount of calories isn’t a problem. You primarily take in carbohydrates. However, getting enough protein from your plant-based food becomes more difficult. Plant proteins are harder to digest. They deliver less than animal-based proteins.

Getting sufficient intake of certain minerals is also ‘tricky.’ Often, minerals in plant foods are bound in hard-to-digest complexes. And when it comes to fatty acids, you can forget about the essential EPA and DHA unless you know how to get the right algae(oil).

We can hardly avoid it: meat, fish, and poultry are the most nutrient-dense foods. They are rich in minerals, trace elements, fats, and definitely proteins. Furthermore, the absorption of all those nutrients from animal sources is easier for our digestive system.

Your Biochemical Balance

The human body requires a wide variety of substances to function optimally. Many more than just the essential ‘micro- and macronutrients’ listed above.

All these other substances must be produced by the body.

Your body is essentially a biochemical factory operating 24/7. The ‘products’ from this factory are, in some cases, quite costly to produce. The production requires a lot of building blocks and a lot of energy. Some of these substances are needed in relatively large amounts. The body chooses to make less than the amount that would lead to maximum physical performance because the maximum setting is simply too ‘expensive.’

Carninutrients

Fish, birds, and livestock also produce valuable substances that are directly ‘bio-compatible’ with your body. You only need to take them in through your food, and your body can more or less use them immediately. The most important of these substances are called carninutrients.

When you take carninutrients from your food, the levels of these substances in your body are increased. This is beneficial for the functioning of your body.

When a lot of meat, fish, or poultry is eaten, the levels of carninutrients become maximal. Physical performance is no longer limited by a suboptimal concentration of these substances.

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Creatine

The most well-known carninutrient is creatine. The human body contains hundreds of thousands of different substances. About half a percent of all solid matter is creatine. That’s a pretty large amount. Almost all creatine is found in the muscles and the brain.

Creatine is crucial in energy supply for cells that have high peaks in energy consumption. In muscle tissue, it’s mainly the so-called ‘white’ explosive muscle fibers that have a high creatine content.

To function well, a moderately muscular person weighing 75 kg has about 120 grams of creatine. This is not the maximum concentration possible. Every day, about 2 grams are lost, and the body re-produces this amount.

For the production of creatine, the body uses another substance: SAM-e. As much as 50% of the available SAM-e is used here, while SAM-e is also needed for the production of many other substances like neurotransmitters and DNA.

When you consume extra creatine through food or a supplement, the body will produce less creatine as long as this intake continues. This makes more SAM-e available for other purposes. Some of the positive effects of creatine might be explained this way.

If you eat 3 grams of creatine per day or more, the muscle concentration of creatine can rise by up to 20%. You’ll be better able to perform intense, repeated efforts (strength training, sprints). You can achieve this by eating one and a half kilos of beef daily or by using a creatine supplement. Six Carnivore Power capsules provide as much creatine as the human body produces daily (2 grams).

Salmon and tuna are rich in creatine. Three Carnivore Power capsules contain about the same amount of creatine as a meal with 220 grams of these types of fish.

Taurine

In addition to creatine, the carninutrient taurine is also present in large amounts in the body, although it’s about half the amount of creatine in grams.

Taurine performs a variety of different functions. Many of those functions involve ‘stabilizing’ cell membranes throughout the body. Taurine helps maintain the mineral balance of cells via those membranes, thereby preserving the water balance and electrical charge.

The water balance in cells is crucial for athletic performance. Dehydration makes it harder for the body to perform exertion. And after exertion, dehydration in cells sabotages the building of body proteins. Shrinking cells due to dehydration is a strong catabolic signal, meaning that cells begin to break down proteins. Therefore, drinking enough is important. Holding onto that water is equally important. This requires a coordination where water, minerals, and taurine play key roles.

The effect of taurine supplementation is more noticeable for people over 40 and athletes who eat little meat.

Pork is rich in taurine. Three Carnivore Power capsules contain approximately the same amount of taurine as eating half a kilo of pork chop.

Carnitine

Carnitine is an amino acid known primarily for its role in fat burning. It transports fatty acids from the cell to the mitochondria, the ‘furnaces’ of the cell.

There is still much uncertainty about other functions of carnitine. It is involved in various bodily processes. But how carnitine works in those cases is often unclear.

Young children cannot yet produce enough carnitine on their own. For them, it is an essential nutrient. Older adults and people with diets low in meat have lower carnitine levels. They will notice the most benefit from carnitine supplementation.

Beef is rich in carnitine. Three Carnivore Power capsules contain approximately the same amount of carnitine found in 170 grams of lean ground beef.

Carnosine / Beta-alanine

Carnosine is a substance that can buffer the acidity in muscles and the brain. This is important when lactic acid is produced during intense exertion. Carnosine prevents excessive acidification. A high concentration of carnosine allows muscle performance to be sustained for longer during intensive efforts of medium duration.

Like creatine and taurine, the body contains a fair amount of carnosine. The previously mentioned well-built athlete weighing 75 kg with 30 kg of muscle mass can have about 30 to 40 grams of carnosine. It's slightly less than creatine and taurine, but it still ranks high among the substances that the human body uses in large amounts.

The amount of carnosine in muscles can be increased by as much as 50%. This can be achieved by training to the point of acidification, eating a lot of meat (especially poultry), but most effectively by taking an amino acid called beta-alanine. You can also supplement with carnosine directly, but taking beta-alanine works better. By attaching the amino acid histidine to beta-alanine, your body creates nearly twice as much carnosine as you consume in beta-alanine. For this reason, Carnivore Power contains beta-alanine instead of carnosine.

Chicken is rich in beta-alanine. Three capsules of Carnivore Power contain roughly the same amount of beta-alanine as 250 grams of chicken breast.

Slow but Steady

It takes some time before the levels of carninutrients noticeably increase. Allow Carnivore Power at least a month at a dosage of 6 to 9 capsules per day. Or longer if you opt for 3 capsules. Higher dosages lead to a greater increase and thus a stronger effect on physical performance.