📣 Drew Kriese spent 32 years watching his wife Christy fight depression, anxiety, and a mental health crisis that brought their family to its knees. He wasn't the one going carnivore — she was. But when he finally tried it himself, everything changed.
📋 Drew is the husband of Christy Kriese, who shared her remarkable recovery story on Episode 51. In this conversation, Drew takes us to the other side of that story — what it looked like from where he was standing. He watched Christy go from sleeping around the clock and unable to eat, to 900+ days into a carnivore lifestyle that changed not just her life but his, their kids', and their grandchildren's. He also shares his own journey: the carnivore January that turned into two and a half years, unexpected improvements in a degenerative eye condition that had him getting injections in both eyes every six weeks, and what it means to maintain this lifestyle while traveling constantly for work.
Note: Drew is a field representative who received work messages during our conversation. You may notice brief visual interruptions, but he can be heard clearly throughout.
🔑 What You'll Learn
- What it's actually like to be the spouse of someone in a severe mental health crisis, and what helped
- How Drew went from zero faith in carnivore to two and a half years in
- Why he started sharing Christy's story with his own employees — and why it matters
- How a degenerative eye condition that required injections every six weeks has responded since he changed his diet
- How to stay carnivore on the road when airport food is working against you
💡 Key Insight
"When you see your best friend struggling and you can't help her as a husband — that sucks." — Drew Kriese
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For Christy's story, listen to Episode 51: https://youtu.be/9CwpyS_2k0w
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⏳ Chapters
0:47 Introduction
3:15 Thirty-Two Years Together
4:33 When the Big One Hit
8:04 Finding Carnivore
10:54 A Lesson for the Kids
22:35 On Being a Caregiver
25:25 The Friends & Family Support Group
35:47 Carnivore January
39:06 Mental Clarity and Unexpected Changes
43:10 The Eye Condition
49:16 Staying Carnivore on the Road
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