📣 He was hospitalized in the Netherlands with diverticulitis and told it was a mechanical condition — inevitable, permanent, and something he'd just have to manage. Twelve years into keto and one year into carnivore, he has a different answer.
📋 Olaf Kock is a self-described nerd from Hamburg, Germany who found the ketogenic diet in 2012 through a software security podcast and never stopped experimenting. When a CRP of 129 landed him in the emergency room in 2023, he finally went all the way to carnivore — and the inflammation stopped. He also built a free online simulator at butterbei.de that visualizes what food does to your blood sugar and insulin in real time, because he got tired of explaining it on paper.
🔑 What You'll Learn
- Why a doctor told him his diverticulitis was mechanical and inevitable — and what changed that
- How going zero-fiber carnivore ended years of unpredictable flare-ups
- What a CRP of 129 actually feels like and what it finally took to act
- How his free simulator shows both blood sugar and insulin response — something a CGM can't do
- Why the German Nutritional Society's own guidelines technically don't apply to him
💡 Key Insight
"My motivation is I can stay this way and have no symptoms, or I can continue to eat the way I did before and add in antibiotics from time to time." — Olaf Kock
🌐 Connect with Olaf Kock
https://butterbei.de
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⏳ Chapters
0:47 Introduction
1:36 How Olaf and Robyn Connected Through Metabolic Collective
3:07 Starting at the End: Olaf's Origin Story
4:39 Diverticulitis Diagnosis in the Netherlands
8:16 Finding Keto in 2012 Through a Software Podcast
10:03 Mental Clarity and the Experiment That Never Ended
11:15 Identifying Food Triggers and the Almond Butter Test
12:34 A CRP of 129 and the Decision to Try Carnivore
13:54 The Parents' Dinner Flare-Up and Going Strict
26:49 What Carnivore Changed — and What Keto Already Fixed
37:02 Why Olaf Built the Butterbei Simulator
48:24 Live Demo: Watch the Simulator in Action
48:24 ▶️ Watch the simulator demo as a standalone short: https://youtu.be/VQhl6n8SImw
1:00:11 Olaf's Articles and the German Nutritional Society
1:08:36 Where to Find Olaf and Final Thoughts
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