What I Learned After a Month on the Predator Diet

When you ask someone what their diet is today, you’ll probably hear one of two responses: Intermittent Fasting or Keto. You may have given one or both of these diets a shot as well — they are popular for a reason.
There are both as well as the lifestyle benefits (save money, save time). After doing IF over the past year, I decided to start experimenting further and seeing how far I could push myself with fasting.
After following the bodybuilder lifestyle for years, trying to pack 4-6 meals in per day, workout 2 hours per day, I re-evaluated my choices and determined that this was not a healthy lifestyle for my goals. Most of my lifestyle changes around the past year have been in accordance with this one question in mind: How was the human body designed to perform?
In the United States, we have a ridiculous level of access to food, anytime we want it, and the majority of it is garbage and does not deliver the proper amount of micronutrients that we need. On the flip side, in “hunter / gatherer” times, people would have to live off of a few meals, sometimes being forced to fast for days, even, if there were no animals to kill.
So then, working under the assumption that the eating habits of Americans are not ideal, I made the shift to return to a more biologically efficient version of eating. There are a number of benefits that you will notice almost instantly when you start IF, and I’ll explain later why taking it up a notch to OMAD (One Meal a Day Intermittent Fasting) is an even superior version of the diet. Just a few of these benefits, first:
- Less time spent eating. Time = Money. Also, more money saved since you pack all of your calories into one or two meals!
- Improved mental clarity and focus. By not eating any lunch, you won’t have that post-lunch crash that is caused by the body processing gluten. (This is another reason to try keto and use fats as your body’s primary source for fuel).
- It’s nearly impossible to overeat. Personally, I do a modified version of OMAD called the 20:4 diet, where you have 20 hours of fasting, followed by 4 hours where you can eat. This usually means that after getting back from the gym at around 6:30, I eat a meal (a huge one), wait an hour and then eat another one.
- Promotes cellular autophagy. Autophagy is the process of degrading and recycling cellular components. The word itself means “self-eating” in Greek! This is going to increase your longevity through caloric restriction (anti-aging), protect your brain from neurodegeneration, promote insulin sensitivity, and more!
- Live longer. Caloric restriction is one of the only proven ways -across all species- that is proven to increase longevity.
- Increase metabolic flexibility. This is the body’s ability to swap between different fuel sources and perform well on low fuel. Your body will learn how to use both fatty acids and glucose, by alternating between Keto and IF — the best way to do this is by following the Bulletproof Diet.
There are a lot more benefits you’ll start to notice as you try the diet out. If you want a way to hack the diet and make it easy to fast, try out the Bulletproof Diet (bulletproof.com). This diet centers around putting MCT Oil (Medium-Chain Tryglicerides) in your coffee in the morning, which will signal to your body that it is full and make you not crave food! Doing a tablespoon of this oil in your coffee (I drink one cup around 8 am, and another at 10) will make it easy to fast.
Not just any MCT Oil will do — you need C8 and C10 MCT oils. They are the most ketogenic type of MCT Oils. You can find these on Amazon fairly easily. Drinking MCT oil will put your body into a state of Ketosis, without you having to give up carbs altogether! Your body, until you break your fast, will burn fat for it’s fuel source.
Since starting this diet, I’ve felt healthier than ever, have incredible mental focus all day at work, and hope you give yourself the chance to feel the same! Other than following this diet, I’d recommend trying out other changes, like giving up gluten and dairy. I found that these are two highly processed fuel sources that cause me to crash after eating, and my skin and hair were less healthy as well. You need to try out minor changes like this on your own to see what works best for you.
Humans are the apex predator, and it’s time we started eating like it. There’s a lot more to the diet than can be summarized in an article I wrote in an hour, so leave a comment if you have any other questions!
