RED MEAT Should be Baby’s First Food

Baby's First Food should be nutrient-dense, full of vitamins, minerals, amino acids & fatty acids.
Infant's first solid food should be rich in iron, B12, B6, choline, and a long list of nutrients every baby's brain & body needs. In this video, I talk about only a few of the needed nutrients that are found best in red meat.
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[@honkymonkey9568]

When I was growing up my parents luckily never made me "eat my broccoli." They let me just eat what I wanted and what I wanted was mostly meat. I wouldn't touch bread and even rarely cared for sweets, but I loved me some ribeye steak. I eat the same to this day; I'm 69, practice taekwondo, am in optimal health, and take no medications.

[@EvolverWellness]

Sooo great!!!!

[@icantseethe7680]

Are these jewish bots??????

[@natebrook]

Does meat help you grow taller? What is your height?

[@icantseethe7680]

@@natebrook Just the high quality protein intake will help during childhood and adolescnece. And you cant grow after your plates fused no matter what.

[@areez22]

@@icantseethe7680 You can grow after the plates are fused. Thousands of such cases. Some even grow a bit in their thirties.

[@tickytootoo453]

my babies ate deer, moose , elk ....perch, pike fish , anything we could catch or hunt! I grew up that way my whole family did! we live well into our 90s!! by that I mean at 90 my people still can take care or themselves!!

[@monicacollins8289]

Are you in Alaska?

[@tickytootoo453]

@@monicacollins8289 what? Lol we gotta be in Alaska to hunt and fish?! I feel sorry for u girl...

[@terrimendenhall1473]

My children are all grown up now, but man, i wish I would have known this way back when. Always great info. Thx Doc Berry.

[@Qjemuse]

Can you adopt me? I'm doing it right for my future kids

[@monicacollins8289]

@@tickytootoo453 wow, thanks for the snarky reply. I was asking a serious question. I don't know where moose are. Never mind. I'll ask someone nicer.

[@ralanbrinson]

I am a pediatrician and I agree with you.

[@a206h]

Baby led weaning introduced us to the concept of baby eating meat off the bone. He didn’t need any instruction. It was in his dna how to gnaw on the bone with meat on it. 😀

[@THEANIMALGUY]

True i literary saw that with my little brother he just knew how to do it and cleaned the whole thing

[@Kamaria0045]

Brilliant teething tool too!

[@MarioJehdra-uv5vg]

Thank god for you ! I was pregnant watching your videos and I started baby on bone marrow at 4 months teeth popped in then started steaks and he’s been walking since 7 months with a full mouth of teeth . Unbelievable strides and I believe it’s because this information you have given thank you so much !

[@marilynkhuu8007]

@@MarioJehdra-uv5vg where do you find bone marrow and how do you cook it?

[@bernicejenyin]

I totally agree with you, Dr Berry. I was actually doubting myself at first because I didn’t listen to my paediatrician to feed cereal to my baby. My baby was on the small side and my paediatrician was blaming me for not feeding my baby proper food. I felt really guilty sometimes but still insisted to only feed my baby whole foods. Now with this video uploaded and explained by you, I feel at ease, and I’m glad I didn’t give in to the cereal. Thank you so much for this video!

[@tymom9313]

Meat, Avocado, eggs, & goat milk seem like the perfect diet!?

[@ahabrawgaming1289]

@@tymom9313 not perfect diet, it is the natural diet what everyone should be eating and a lot of it.

[@glenholmgren1218]

@@tymom9313 just add FISH, TOO😃

[@ericpistole8763]

U hang n hun yore doen a great Job (mom) Thx for shareing

[@areez22]

@@tymom9313 Why avocado? Why not beef tallow, butter, ghee?

[@annimclaughlin7520]

As a homebirth midwife I have already shared this with several of my clients!!! Thank you!

[@buffandbrindle]

Yeeesss thank you

[@paolamolinari364]

That’s awesome!!

[@emmaschauer5409]

Bless you. I wish someone would have told me that.

[@eatmeatandliftweights5754]

Kudos to you👍👏

[@the51project]

My ancestors are from Scotland, which looks pretty, because the last ice-age created all the glens. It gets dark at 4pm in winter. Summer's are short, 'warmish' and wet. Not a lot of plant-based foods available until mechanization, and today the range is still limited due to short summers and cold. Absolutely makes sense when you look at our ancestral roots. I was vegan 2 years - did my health a lot of harm. And when you look at veganism/vegetarian cultism (I was in it once - it's a cult!) - that 'choice' for westerners in Europe only became viable when aeroplanes and refrigeration was invented. Take away planes and refrigeration, vegetarian/vegan becomes quickly impossible, and that's before the b12 shots.

[@dianamills3830]

Scottish highlanders were much stronger and bigger than other scotts and most europeans during that time. They had a higher resistance to infections and recovered from injuries faster. They mostly ate meat, milk, and what they could gather. In times of famine they drank blood. Unfortunately, the British realized this and made Scottish highlanders fight in their military. They would put Scottish armies of 600 against 6,000 French and they won! They attribute this to diet.

[@MrRabiddogg]

Yep. and most pure vegans need to take supplements. Carnivores don't. Even Omnivores with a Animal base don't need the supplements. I'm not full carnivore yet, but at this point I am mostly carnivore and I have never felt healthier.

[@Ev-vh3pf]

@@dianamills3830 All true except for the part about the drinking animal blood during times of famine, in the highlands of Scotland and in the mountainous regions of Greece, Italy etc. and all over Africa it was very common (and still is in some places) to drink animal blood, sometimes mixed with milk/cream. I think it was called blood pudding in Scotland, in Italy they made blood, cream, fat sausages called Morcilla, (I think). In certain parts of Africa still, there are tribes that will "tap" their cattle for blood which they mix in gourds w/ cream from the same cow and drink to fortify themselves daily. They are among the healthiest humans on the planet. Shockingly, the elderly (great and great-great grandparents) look younger than many westerners of half their age.

[@KellyeR1970]

Same here I'm English/Scottish/Swedish and bit of Irish. Very WASP and don't do good on carby foods anything Animal tho just does the body good. Getting ready to turn 52 in May and not a wrinkle yet and besides some great genetics I think it's the nutrient dense animal foods. I grew up eating bone marrow any time it was around and with all the avid hunters in my family we had it alot.

[@MrRabiddogg]

@@BriarRoseA I should have mentioned "for the most part" there are always exceptions to every rule.

[@Sweetest_of_Seven]

I wish I had know this when my babies were little! But my granddaughters are 3 & 5 and live with us… we are definitely a meat based family and they love it! Now, when they spend time at their dad’s house they tell him that they can’t eat the food with sugar in it 😂 and if he gets them cheeseburgers from a drive thru they take the bun off themselves 👍🏼

[@Eirlys0104]

Awesome 😂

[@ElPapacitoGrande]

My first baby food was elk steak scraped into a paste with a serrated knife. My fathers side were all California hunters. My mothers side were Carolina crunchers and loved the carbs with their vinegar bbq. Meat based childhood with a heavy influence of the crunch. Past 3+ years I’m over the crunch and all about the animal foods. I’ve never felt better and even my doctors take notice of my impressive blood and health markers. I’m 47 years young and feel like I’m in my teens. Thank you to Doc B and all of the others who are educating people about true health! 🥩💪🤙

[@pattuck6096]

AMEN! Elk, beef, pork, venison, wild turkey, and fish in our freezers. Thank you DR. BERRY for all the info you pass along to us.

[@carolynoconnor8567]

As a great grandmother I will be passing this on to my granddaughter. Thanks so much and keep it coming!

[@rheac953]

Liver was my babies first food. Cooked lightly in butter. That is the nutrition they need. They loved the mild sweetness. Begged for more. Just had to watch them around crunchy cat food, it smelled right.

[@101kidneybean101]

LOL, probably not good for the cat or the baby .

[@mokshalani8414]

Hahaha thanks for the heads up! My kids (twins) are almost ready for food

[@julieErickson1960]

Delicious! For cat and baby!!

[@Eirlys0104]

Babies definitely need liver.

[@marilynwillett804]

Liver was my German shepherd's favorite food. Human infants need milk, not liver and then cereal, their digestive system and stomach is brand new.

[@amyb6747]

My grandson has always been on the smallish side and is a very picky eater, but when I offered him steak he devours it. I make sure when he gets home from school that I have one ready and cut up for him before he starts looking in the cupboard for cookies.

[@dhirenm3173]

Well done grandma . Feed him well like that and watch him grow.

[@ich8159]

I fully agree with you! I grew up in Germany on normal food. Eggs, butter, meat, vegetables, fruit. We got the same food that our parents were eating. In the first year they would make sure that the food had less salt and they wouldn’t feed raw cheese, fish or beef, but everything else was perfectly fine. Then they introduced all the processed food.

[@annmiller5729]

In the summer i sun bath on the beach,a large family are always there,grandmom would chew the foods and feed the babies( like momma bird feeding its babies) it grossed us out untill we thought about it, grandmoms pprechewed food also gave the babies greatly needed bacteria! Grandmom was from Russia,old school child care❤💯

[@Lovepeacejoy..]

Wish I would have known this when my kids were babies, instead of feeding them jarred baby food. I had no idea about good nutrition for babies back then……Gerber’s rice cereal was the first food my babies ate 🤮

[@louisegoins7630]

Mine too! Rice cereal as Doctor prescribed, we didn't know better.

[@luvfunstuff2]

My daughter's pediatrician was *livid* when I wouldn't follow her strict instructions to only do rice cereal & jars of baby food early on. She also wanted me to supplement with fluoride-laced vitamin drops which we resisted. By my second child doc had suddenly reversed direction on vitamin drops & said it wasnt a good idea! Ha! Our instincts were right on! Instead, we just offered a variety of first cereals but also minced whatever foods we ate.

[@tymom9313]

Same!

[@lunanacho]

rice and oat cereals have arsenic

[@afrouzmoghimi9250]

Counting down days to starting solid foods for my daughter. I will start with liver, egg yolk and red meat!!! 🎉

[@xo7454]

Bone marrow

[@GodAlwaysWins]

How will you feed it to them. My baby is 5 months but I'm sure he can't just start chewing meat.

[@decolonizeEverywhere]

Two years later and I'm wondering how your daughter made out with the vitamin A toxicity from feeding her liver.

[@AmyLSchulte]

Video hasn’t started and I totally agree. My kids are 21 and 31 and I nursed them for 2 1/2 and 1 1/2 years (4 and 6 months exclusively), respectively, and they are almost never sick, but if I were having babies now, they would be keto after weaning.

[@c_b5060]

You are the best mom!

[@user-od4op6ng9y]

I had some Samoan friends growing up. The entire family both male and female were built like tanks and extremely strong. They had an aura of dominance which i know comes from their warrior ancestors. When I boy had his kid I didn't think much of it. Then one day while at his house I saw his kids eating program on the calendar. The main item was "pureed meat" which I instantly thought to myself the kid is way to young to eat meat. At least that's what we've been conditioned to think. When I asked him about it he told me "how else you think us Islanders get big n strong". We feed our kids like our ancestors did, its just what we do. Its like the conditioning is buried so deep in our minds that even if we know the massive propaganda against red meat is lies, we still at times question it. Just know when the demons running this world are trying to remove something from our world. its more than likely a massive benefit that dont want us to have. Like the current push for electric vehicles which is complete non sense. EAT MEAT

[@lyndawallace8741]

I come from New Zealand and most Tongans Samoans islanders and the like are not necessarily strong but very fat and prone to heart disease

[@Kamaria0045]

@@lyndawallace8741 The Standard American Diet has spread world wide. Were they originally fat and prone to heart disease when they were eating their ancestral diet?

[@LulaJake]

@@lyndawallace8741 Mutton flaps. NZ cant sell them to their export markets and so send them to Tonga.

[@scrollkidsylable6793]

I'm niuean cookisland samoan, and yes we ate lots of meat and fish growing up.. but i think the issue with the island diet is the Taro and cassava and fruit and sugar which we eat lots of... I just eat fish meat and eggs, liver most the time thanks to dr ken berry..

[@healingwisdom6727]

That's awesome! I wouldn't want to be built like a Samoan woman tho... Some of them look like hulk

[@Realrenshealthystuff1967]

It breaks my heart. My grandkids eat so horrible. I have talked to the parents they think I’m wacko. Ugh. Thank you for helping educate people!

[@c_b5060]

In the beginning, I too, was skeptical as I listened to the many KZbin doctors. What convinced me were the hundreds (now thousands) of comments below each of Dr. Berry's videos. Show the parents some of those comments then ask them these questions. Do you think all those comments are fake? Do you think all those comments are made by people lying to themselves? Many people report that after taking multiple medications for years, that they've been able to reduce the dosage or even eliminate the meds altogether. The big food corporations are starting to experience lower sales because keto is becoming mainstream. You can easily see that by walking through a grocery store and noticing all of the boxes and plastic bags that have KETO boldly printed on them. (Dr. Berry says we do not need to buy any of those to be on the keto way of eating.) So that might convince the parents that you are not "wacko".

[@nicholejohnson9070]

My oldest’s first food was blended bacon mixed with breastmilk. My second I tried to feed smooth sweet potatoes mixed with breastmilk because we lived on a remote cay in the Caribbean during her first foods. She refused it and would only eat shrimp, lobster, or sausage (when we could get it) mixed with breastmilk. My third went the bacon route too because we were back stateside again. All of them only wanted blended meats and had the least amount of digestive upset with meats. PSA- If you want your baby to stop having diaper blowouts, eat a keto or carnivore diet Mamas, and give your babies meats as first foods. It’s a night and day difference! ***climbing down off of my soapbox*** I can’t stand the smell of store bought baby food meat. It’s baby’s first frankenfood in my opinion. Homemade baby food was way easier to make too. Whatever meats we were eating got blended with breastmilk (and butter if needed). Then I put the blended mixture into baby food ice cube trays. I personally love the OXO tot baby food freezer trays because they work a lot better than silicone trays and have a great shape to remove the foods easily.) I’d store the cubes in freezer ziplock bags (name and date the bag, and then I’d have fresh foods to simply reheat in the microwave whenever the baby got hungry again. Sometimes I’d mix different meats or add other proteins like eggs or full fat yogurt for a different meal experience for the baby. All three of my kids have been served well by prioritizing protein first. They’re all healthy and abnormally strong. How many toddlers have you had to continually remind not to move the couches around the living room? We’ve had this struggle with our boys especially.

[@AveryMilieu]

Yes. My son had a continual diaper blow out until we converted to carnivory. There is no going back.

[@lisapop5219]

I would have never thought of that. My kids are adults now so I can't go back. Our kids first food was cereal followed by vegetables because I was advised to do that first before introducing a variety of foods. I wish I knew about this. I have to disagree that real foods rot & can't be shelf stable. I'm a single ingredient canner with a focus on meat. If you're talking about commercially prepared, I agree. Edit lol I have to correct myself. Commercially canned meat won't rot but can contain ingredients that you might not want. Lots of real food can be preserved through various methods so they don't rot. Fresh is best obviously but preserving it at today's prices will help you hedge against inflation when meat might be out of your price range

[@gullinvarg]

There are (rare) commercially canned meats that are just water, meat and salt. The other 2 shelf stable things I can think of are jerky and pemmican (which is still jerky, just mixed with fat).

[@HappilyCarnivore]

Real foods rot and aren't shelf stable unless you MAKE them shelf stable. Perhaps that's what he meant?

[@HappilyCarnivore]

@@gullinvarg Yes, Keystone brand has canned chicken, beef, and pork and the only ingredients are meat and sea salt.

[@gullinvarg]

@@HappilyCarnivore That's exactly the brand I was thinking of. 😉

[@lisapop5219]

@@gullinvarg you can pressure can most meat at home safely. There is also salting & that is ancient.

[@tjkasgl]

I wish I could go back and change how I fed my children. Instead I'm crusading to change how my grandchildren eat

[@c_b5060]

In the beginning, I too, was skeptical as I listened to the many KZbin doctors. What convinced me were the hundreds (now thousands) of comments below each of Dr. Berry's videos. You could ask the parents: Do you think all those comments are fake? Do you think all those comments are made by people lying to themselves? Many report that after taking multiple medications for years, that they've been able to reduce the dosage or even eliminate the meds altogether. Show them some of the comments and ask them to help you identify which are the fake comments.

[@devonsipe1617]

Such an important topic that’s not talked about enough! Awesome as always Dr. Berry ❤️

[@RestingBitchface7]

YES! YES! YES!!! Thank you! I love this. It’s tradition for good reason. 💖💖💖

[@sherrihf833]

I wish I had known all of this when my babies were born. I did make my own baby food and my kids are mostly what we ate, but it was still carb heavy (and Gerber cereals😳) and more processed than what we eat now. Can't beat yourself up over what you didn't know. Live and learn and do better... And to the best of your ability, pass what you've learned on.

[@FastingWell]

Red meat is SUCH a nutritious food, especially if you include organ meats (like liver)! 💪 It's unfortunate how trendy plant-based diets have gotten, since they're usually MUCH worse for health, due to refined sugars & starches, lack of quality protein, and lack of other nutrients (as you alluded to). Thanks for excellent video! 🙏

[@trashukun3787]

I dont agree that liver should be common in a baby or toddlers diet, the vit a content is wayyyyyyy more than what they need and theres no downside to not feeding it to them, but there is a risk if you do. Muscle meat alone is 100% sufficient with no risks of hypervitaminosis.

[@FastingWell]

@@trashukun3787 I I don't necessarily disagree, my comment was about nutrition in general, although I know the OG video is about babies. On the other hand, in modest quantities I suspect it would be more beneficial than harmful for a toddler to have some cow liver (a small amount, perhaps mixed together with the other muscle meat), especially since soil is so nutrient depleted nowadays and most kids probably aren't getting the vitamins and minerals they need. But as you touched on, you'd want to carefully consider the quantity, the age of the child, etc.

[@reneelandis1067]

Everything you’ve stated is absolutely true!! I’m soooo glad I found your site!! All your topics are enlightening!! Thank You!!

[@celesteinman56]

Yup Gerber rice cereals is what I fed my son 40 years ago. I so wish I knew better.

[@firepower7654]

One interesting thing about puffs that I read is that there is one in Israel called Bamba that contains peanuts and almost all babies and kids there eat it. When an American doctor was at symposium in Israel, he was talking to a fellow Israeli doctor about kids with food allergies and when he asked the doctor if he saw a lot of kids with peanut allergies, he said almost none. That in his entire career he had only seen a few. The American doctor was so shocked by this when he stood up to give his scheduled talk, he did a quick poll of his physician audience regarding peanut allergies and found that American and European physicians had a lot of patients with peanut allergies and the Israeli doctors had very few. He believes it is because the American and European doctors have been telling parents not to expose their children to peanuts until older which makes it harder for them to form an immunity, while the Israelis expose their babies to peanuts very early in Bamba. Not pushing for puffs, but interesting that we created the current peanut allergy rage in our own children.

[@happyapple4269]

No one should be eating peanuts anyway they are toxic.

[@firepower7654]

@@happyapple4269 While I don't eat peanuts myself, I did when I was a kid and am grateful that I have an immunity from them now. I would think it's better to build a kids immunity to peanuts when they are a baby and then just slowly remove them from their diet as they age. The alternative is they most likely do develop a peanut allergy and are under constant fear for the rest of their lives of going into anaphylactic shock if they accidentally eat a peanut, something made on the same equipment peanut products were also produced on or even someone opening a bag of peanuts anywhere near them.

[@marysutliff7681]

I wish I knew this when my daughter was a baby. 35 years later she is a type 2 and I could have helped stop that. I share all your videos, but today it is her choice on how she eats. If you are parents to young children make the right choices for them starting today!! Train up a child in the way it should go and it will not depart.

[@miltonbates6425]

Heck yeah, my 4 year old boy loves eating rare striploin steak. He's thriving.

[@jamescalifornia2964]

~ I believe the B-complex in red meat & liver are likely very good for growing children 👍

[@KellyeR1970]

My sons first solid food was ribs. He could hold it and just naw on it. It was baby back pork ribs but just really easy for a baby because the meat was so tender and easy to chew. My daughters first solid food was scrambled eggs and her first meat was venison tenderloin. We've always been mostly meat eaters I did carnivore 20 years ago before it was really even a thing. I'm not %100 carnivore now but a good %85 animal foods %15 plant and fruit.

[@rythmicwarrior]

Good on you

[@Joannabanana1989]

I loved baby back ribs as a baby too. My dad was always smoking something out back. He made the best jerky!

[@LulaJake]

Thanks, I always wondered why they call them baby backs.

[@YeshuaKingMessiah]

Hardboiled Egg yolk, mashed with breastmilk Puréed Liver

[@DebraRN1195]

My children ate whatever we ate. Smashed peas, oatmeal, etc. (this was 28-29 years ago) My daughter’s first meat was Venison, from acorn-eating deer in Northern Michigan.

[@ryanmarshall6692]

Not only is this great advice, but it's gonna trigger vegans 😂

[@ninawildr4207]

🤣

[@dianamills3830]

Yes!! My baby's first food was pot roast. Preach Dr. B

[@easypeasy1216]

I sure wish I had know this when my kid were babies. Thanks for your dedicated effort and research in teaching the masses the PHD.

[@mothersheart9177]

When i was raising my children in the 80's and early 90's they ate what we ate . I had a little grinder to turn whatever we were eating into baby foods. There were 3 different blades to change how much the food was ground up depending on age. i would cook roast beef, and then just grind it up. We didn't have a lot of money so we didn't buy Gerber or other baby food. I had no idea i was actually doing the right thing. Now after hearing this i am glad we were poor.

[@henrytang2203]

This explains why I loved meat as a toddler and hated bread and rice. And my palette hasn't changed. I guess some kids are easier to grainwash than others. Now my young daughter never goes a day without eating some meat.

[@natebrook]

Does eating meat make you grow taller?

[@godsdozer]

I am almost 60 years old now. Back then, living in Austin Texas as a child, we went to KFC to eat chicken, Yay!, I love KFC original recipe. I had a issue swallowing that meal, it hung in my esophagus I could not swallow my salvia and had to spit in a cup, I could not eat or drink for two days . My parents did not know what was happening, nor did I. I spent the the next several years having "Steakhouse syndrome" not knowing what that term meant at the time. I would choke on most any foods even ice cream. When I say choke, i do not mean I could not breath (unless I tried to drink or eat more), that has happened several times in my life. Now that I have medical insurance, I have to go each year to have my esophagus stretched so I can eat without much fear. It is not perfect but much better. I posted this, not to call into question Dr. Berrys advice about good and heathy eating habits ............ but many people have small esophagus and cant swallow things others can.

[@monicacollins8289]

@ Godsdozer: have you ever been diagnosed with Schotsky's Ring? My dad and sister both had to have the procedure you mentioned. More than once.

[@Cooking4me_928]

We ate liver as kids, because my dad said it was great for our development. It was easy to chew and delicious. Thanks doc.

[@1LittleBigSister]

This is amazing. I gave my son egg yolks and liver first. Shortly after, garden grown and mashed myself applesauce and also mashed pumpkin. I don't remember when I first gave him other meat, but he was 7-8 months old and I just mashed what I ate for his food. So glad to hear I was doing mostly the right things!! Didn't know there is arsenic in baby foods!!! HOW IS THAT ALLOWED??!

[@cherylbroadenax1006]

I am a realtor and have clients who are having a baby next month. I forwarded the video to them.

[@Ry_ooK]

Thank you, Dr. Im having a baby soon and was wondering for months about proper solid foods. I hope you make more baby nutrition videos in the future 😊

[@soldieroftoughlove7635]

Search.. Barbara O'Neill child nutrition.

[@robinbeers6689]

Check out Dr Berry's wife's channel too. She's an RN and is pregnant with their second carnivore baby. Her channel is called NeishaLovesIt . She talks a lot about pregnancy and weaning.

[@soldieroftoughlove7635]

@@robinbeers6689 Primates are omnivores not carnivore.

[@carnivorecaveman]

@@soldieroftoughlove7635 True. But omnivore means: vegetables, fruits and meat. And humans are such an omnivores which eat 99% meat, and 1% other things... So, yes, theoretically omnivores, but "in brief" and in practice, carnivores... Yes, we eat plants, in scarcity. And for short term. Plants are survival foods, when there are no animal prey.

[@carnivorecaveman]

Give lots of brain (preferably raw brain...) to your baby if you want (s)he to be smart... that kid needs the Omega-3 fatty acid in the eaten brain... and give her/him raw liver... and make her/him to drink fresh BLOOD...

[@AlbertoGonzalez-tc2ju]

Totally agree my Father was a farmer/ rancher so all eight of us grow up this way!!! Till this day!!! So yes oh yea we ate eggs every day also!!! Now mine too!!! It’s the only way!!!

[@Christina-sj2fn]

Agree 100%! I believe if you start with red meat they will know what real food and proper nutrition is for life. I am guilty 😔 of giving some of that crap to my son when he was little. I didn't know any better and that's what everyone else said to do. But if I could do it all over I would have gave him red meat first. Because all he wants now is junk food and mostly refuses to eat red meat now. We have stand offs and he won't eat sometimes, but I still take that as a win because now I have him fasting!😆😁 Thanks Dr.Berry for all your advice!

[@XOChristianaNicole]

LOL

[@sherrihf833]

My husband used to joke "archeologists never found baby skeletons next to full bowls of food". LOL Kids will eat when they are hungry. We never gave in to food standoffs. I wish I could say that we ate as clean then as we do today. Live and learn and do better. Most of my (4) kids have good diets now... And if they don't, they are aware they are slipping.

[@Ev-vh3pf]

Dr. Berry, I'm in total agreement. All babies are born in a state of ketosis. I firmly believe that if all children were kept in a mild state of ketosis we'd see an end to childhood obesity, and diabetes as well as a slew of autoimmune disorders.

[@rogerwilcojr]

As a kid, every time I visited my grandparents I was fed calf liver for lunch. Also Braunschweiger and cheese and crackers for snacks. I thought both were pretty tasty.I have no idea what I ate as a baby.

[@alliegee9985]

I'll watch the ads all the way to the end just for you Dr Berry! I agree completely with this ❤️ carbs destroyed me as a baby, now I'm coming back 💪

[@Mrs.TJTaylor]

I completely agree. Same for our fur babies. Why in God’s name would we feed rapidly growing bodies and brains the poorest quality foods available? Yesterday I was in a grocery store and there was a very sweet young mother encouraging her 6 or 7 year old daughter to pick out her own groceries. Care to guess what the child was putting in the cart? Yep, everything you see marketed to children on television. I felt sad. . .and a little sick.

[@lorenacnp]

We always gave our daughter the proper human diet. She loves steak with fat, bacon. Today she ate lots of shrimp because she loves it. Actually she will prefer steak with fat 100000% more that chicken 😂. This video needs millions of views because this is a necessary and a basic for parents.

[@richmiller4626]

Spot on Dr. Berry-excellent information for all the people who just don’t know this necessary information.

[@AveryMilieu]

I was vegevore when I had my children. The youngest didn't seem to be able to assimilate *anything* from legumes (diapers) and we tried everything we could find to correct the flow into his diapers. He was three when we decided it was time to start eating meat. I was hungry all the time and 40 pounds overweight... That FIRST flesh meal on the table got the usual table grace and then my barely verbal three year old added, "Thank you for being dead!" I knew I made the right choice. Went out and got a freezer and started buying grass fed beef (seriously allergic to corn) to fill it - we bought by the COW and ate massive amounts of meat for several years, until the protein deficit was filled. Both kids finally showed normal growth...

[@lydiakessler7579]

As a mom of 3 young kids, this video made me cry. Baby food has never sat well with me and we thankfully did mostly baby led weaning with all of our children, but I don’t understand how these baby food companies can be okay with poisoning and harming the most innocent beings in the world.

[@Eirlys0104]

They need our babies to grow up sick and dependent on medication = more money for them.

[@marilynwillett804]

What poison? I fed my infants strained Gerber green beans, peaches, pears, etc. all 4 are grown and extremely healthy. good teeth too. They did not however live on fast food.

[@marleneharden544]

Very interesting 🤔 breast milk has always been on the menu 🤷‍♀️ and back in the days of our ancestors, they had to chew the meat and feed it to their babies to survive...great video 🙏 thank you for bringing that to our attention...😇

[@sawa1067]

Maybe they didn't have to chew meat for their baby. Maybe the baby just gnawed on the meat. Do you have sources? I don't, I think it something our culture teaches us, is that babies have such limitations. Our ancestors probably ate everything raw as well. But in the modern world, people are shamed for eating raw meat. What do you think?

[@keithjohnson2863]

@@sawa1067 The main systems that use blood are muscles, digestion and the brain. We generally digest food when we're at rest, so not much competition for blood between the muscles and digestion. However the brain is always on. When our ancestors learned to cook with fire their brain development took a great leap forward because digesting food became easier so there was more blood available for the brain.

[@sawa1067]

@@keithjohnson2863 I don't know about that. I have studied anthropology, we probably agree on many things but this where we might differ. I think cooking brought people together because it smelled so good. And when we were brought together we changed to communicate. But I bet if a baby when from breast milk to raw meat for its entire life, it would be so smart and so healthy.

[@keithjohnson2863]

@@sawa1067 I would be inclined to agree with you under certain conditions. The meat would have to come from fresh wild game. To much of a potential for disease from farm raised meat. And it would be mostly organ meat and fat to be consumed rather than muscle meat.

[@sawa1067]

@@keithjohnson2863 I agree about the fat. I am going to think about organ meat part. I care about this stuff, so I am glad we are talking about it challenging my beliefs. :) I think that we humans cause meat diseases with greedy farming practices. For now, I eat gf ground beef because I have access to it. I want to eat it raw but I can't because of our culture and embedded fears. I try to cook it medium. rare.

[@noemimartinez8262]

I definitely agree with this advice. I have three children and I followed the doctor's advice on giving them baby cereal. They suffered with bouts of constipation, iron deficiency, and diaper rash. However, the third child was started around 6 months on full fat goat milk yogurt, coconut water (no sugar added), and 1 tsp cod liver oil mixed into her bottle while still being breastfed. Then homemade chicken broth and raw egg yolk at around 8 months and has had much better digestion, hardly gets constipated, and hasn't shown signs of anemia. Woohoo! Finally nailed it!

[@lindah629]

It’s amazing what they told us to feed our babies, mine are 25 and 22 . There is such junk in the so called foods!! Thank god for KETO!!

[@jamescalifornia2964]

~ Many baby foods are loaded with sugar ... 😒

[@texastrustedoralsurgeon6830]

Dr Berry, bravo. Not only should red meat be baby’s first food. Babies as young as 1 year old should be CHEWING WHOLE FOOD. The act of kissing is a mocking of a mother feeding her infant by first chewing the food and transferring the chewed food to the baby’s mouth. Why it is mocked by grown men to their love interest is another deep psychological topic for later. But, as a baby grows and gets more teeth the baby needs to chew very tough foods to develop their jaws. Modern orthodontic care is the result of a lack of chewing Whole Foods as a baby. Dr. Mike Mew of Great Britain has developed the reasoning behind baby’s eating soft puréed foods and a lack of room for the teeth causing crowding. I don’t know the whole story but it makes sense that in our modern world ‘Big Food’ has destroyed yet another human developmental pathway, like heart disease, ‘Big Food’ is to be destroyed.

[@stanrobertson]

WildBill, yes, and also the complete nutrition of red meat and organs have a significant impact on the health of the teeth, and ensures room for all the teeth.

[@MrCheesywaffles]

Excellent point at the end, remember candy companies made candy and chocolate cigarettes to allow children to immitate their parents, TV, and comic book characters in smoking, training them for a life of smoking and healthy profits for big tobacco. Now big food is targeting children for a variety of destructive habits, getting food addictions started as early as possible.

[@honeybear4502]

Thank you! My parents used to give us little ones the fat and bone to chew on. I just forwarded this video to my daughter. Once again, thank you.

[@zazaiwon87]

I'd love to see a whole series about this topic

[@joannemartin1874]

My oldest son who was born in 1965 his pediatrician had his first food as beef. Today he is a healthy 58 year old carnivore

[@joannemartin1874]

I was lucky to have a pediatrician that was beyond the scope of what was thought healthy at the time

[@edithnell227]

When I was a baby in the 1940s there was no such thing as baby food. I loved gnawing on chop bones. I've since learned that if kids exercise their jaws chewing on hard foods they develop wider jaws and straighter teeth. See Dr. Mike Mew.

[@dhirenm3173]

Strangely I have to agree.

[@edithnell227]

Breastfeeding requires more muscular effort and thus also helps develop wider jaws. Less need for orthodontic work.

[@kevinedgar3766]

You people that have comments about choking do realize how small ground beef is right. I'm sure Dr. Berry is not telling people to give their kids a whole ribeye.

[@pax9864]

I'm an adult, and will sometimes gag and wheeze when little bits of food tickle down my throat. No explanation for that. If that happened to a child, or anyone else who couldn't speak for themselves, why would anyone insist on giving that food to them again, just because it's small enough? A body can say "no!" And no means no. A parent's instincts can be spot on, when no one else has a clue.

[@healthcowboy1255]

Right on Doc! I hope lotsa parents get this message.

[@lenorataylor7940]

Homemade ground beef patties, babies love them

[@leslieking4755]

Wow I set up my kids for diet failure 30 years ago doing what everyone else did with baby foods and cheerios! I have apologized to my kids for not presenting them with carnivore style foods. Had lots of breads, fish sticks, and casseroles; and went head to head in battles trying to get them to eat them. One of my daughters is 36 years old and only eats pizza, hamburgers, and chicken nuggets, and is diabetic, super overweight, and is on several meds. She works at a pediatric diabetic specialist doctor office and is a new patient coordinator. I have viewed the doctor's youtube vids and he is very astute addressing proper foods for children so she should know better now but I blame myself for giving in to her obstinance to eat well when it was presented. I am caring for another daughter of mine's 3 kids while she is in school and I give them what I can in the way of carnivore and a little veg and they go for it! Put bacon on that burger!!! AND the nearly 1 year old she has I am serving ribeye, salmon, ground beef, and straight avocado. He shovels it in and Im so tickled!!! It is hard to get through to these kiddos' mama though. She has alot of processed quick "foods" in her house and they go out to eat ALOT! I think it takes LESS time to grill and serve meats and the kids behave better. One cannot load a kid up with oatmeal, pancakes, and fruit and expect them to sit down and behave in school. The school lunches are pathetic as well. Dr berry, I saw you first on Primal Blueprint and found all your Educational videos. Such a wonderful doctor giving out all this free advice. people have no excuse to not eat well and be healthy. We must send the message to the "food" industry that we dont want these factory created convenience "foods" and they need to created more space for nutrient dense meats and a little veg! Shame on WIC too! I raised all my kids on the juice, cereal, peanut butter, and milk. Efforts to get kids off of these are sabotaged by these sweet taste-inducing foods! Its an uphill battle trying to convince the parents that "foods" with so much sugar and chemicals and dyes in them are POISON. Thank you for ALL of your videos!!! I had tried for YEARS to lose weight and what a FREEING Way to eat! All the meat I want!!! This 63 year old has lost 51 pounds this last year implementing the method you teach as well as several other doc on youtube. I remember what I ate as a kid, though mostly home cooked, i had alot of bread, potatoes, and koolaid. Hence I had allergies, excema, a bit of chunkiness, not REAL bad because I played HARD outside, but later had diagnosed hashimotos-thyroid is working well now but Im working on getting the antibodies down- I know tthis is too long but THANK YOU SO MUCH for all of your teaching. It is discipline that spills over into every area of my life. Its like sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ, or cures for every disease, I want to shout it out!!! God bless you and your sweet family!!!

[@JoanneMacg]

In South Africa, prof Tim Noakes suggested (on Twitter) that babies weaning off breastfeeding should move to banting (keto), and was vilified by the medical profession, had charges laid against him for unethical and unprofessional conduct by dieticians, and spent the next few years of his life embroiled in legal battles with our Health Professions Council. Ultimately he won, because there is no sound, unbiased evidence for the virtue of the “heart-healthy” diet. But I hope you’re spared a similar backlash!

[@rubyzarraga9574]

Thank God for a doctor like you

[@SarahsAtticOfTreasures]

Common Sense. Bobby ate what I ate growing up. Formulas were not given. I made his food, except for trips. I do wish I knew about Keto and Carnivore 42 years ago. We lived on a form. We raise or grew our food. He had goats milk.

[@frostygal]

I hear goats milk is great! When did your son start on goats milk?

[@SarahsAtticOfTreasures]

@@frostygal Almost from the time he was born. I breastfed him as much as possible. I didn't have a lot so I supplemented with the goats milk. He did great.

[@frostygal]

@@SarahsAtticOfTreasures I have been wandering this. After 6 months of breast milk I didn’t do well keeping my supply up so I supplemented with organic formula. Very expensive! I wandered if goats milk was good but didn’t really educate myself

[@SarahsAtticOfTreasures]

I had trouble at first producing enough breastmilk. We had plenty of goats milk. I handled goats milk better than cows milk so it was the logical choice. I didn't know anything about Keto or Carnivore. I just knew I didn't like the sound of formula. I didn't know any of the ingredients. It smell bad. That was enough for me. Goats milk was free.

[@elizabetha2056]

My parents found an excellent outstanding pediatrician when I was only 6!! At 19 I had my first baby who would be 46 now. (she passed away in a car accident) We drove 60 miles to see him with her and eventually her siblings saw him too. At 19 he told me to feed my new baby hamburger and chicken for her first foods. So here's a 19 year old telling much older experienced parents what my baby is eating besides breast milk and they ......well you can imagine. They thought I was killing her. We gradually added veggies- not fruits per drs orders a new one each week later on. I can remember thinking maybe the older "wiser" skeptic parents are right- this is nuts, meat for babies, not baby food? Also she had no teeth so that really bugged them! LOL! Everyone said she'd choke to death. Of couse I chopped it up. My parents let me eat (when I had teeth) a chicken drumstick, grissle and all down to the bone at 1 year, so I knew she wouldn't choke if food was chopped! Sadly I was a "wise" 22 yrs old when my next was born and it was the late 70s, I was a modern mom. Jars of baby food first and all the SAD diet she'd eat. Oh I am ashamed now. But we learn don't we! God Bless from a Great Gran in MN

[@femme7097]

My 5 year old baby girl is thriving, I make it my business (it is) to make sure she eats wild salmon or steak or chicken when she comes home from school. The only regret I have is that I didn't start sooner, we gave her plenty of veggies when she was younger cause I thought that was better , not enough meats even tho we cook meat everyday. Our next baby will be even smarter and stronger because I know better. Thx Dr Berry.

[@jenn_jean_kent_artist]

Thank you, Dr Berry. We love you, Neisha, BB and BG to come!! I wish we had known then what you share for us in the now. It’s never too late to turn our health around though!! My husband and I are ketovore. He is 25 lbs down, off all type 2 meds(after only a few months under Dr Westman’s care at Duke), and I am 72lbs down and been keto since 2017, more ketovore this past yr. You and Neisha help me/us tremendously. We’ve followed y’all as long as we have followed him. Several years now. So the hubs and I holding the line, and not giving up! We have one adulting son doing ketovore and keep hoping our adulting daughter will get on board. She has serious deadly autoimmune (GPA Disease with lung involvement), and she has to make that decision and we hope and pray she will SOON. She has to take chemo and other drugs to keep her alive and in remission, yet cause her many other issues and side effects.🙏🏻 God bless you and your family. (Jenn)

[@donnabrown7239]

Thank you dr Berry for all your knowledge you share with use

[@agentk4332]

there should be a class action law suit against gerber foods for poisoning babies!

[@kathyfanchi2557]

Thank you, Dr. Berry for this valuable information! Planning to feed our new grandbaby this way!! Need to work on his big brothers and transition them to Keto!!

[@aphroditeg2712]

Yup, spring lamb chop. Great for bone, teeth and jaw development. My grandma made meat purees for my cousin back in the day

[@redtillimdeadsmithsmith4437]

Absolutely !!! Another great , truthful , video Doc ! Love From Oklahoma !👍❤️

[@elizabethgridley8587]

Love it…’Guess what doesn’t have any arsenic in it? Red meat!’ Keep sharing the truth Dr. Berry!

[@mariamchaghtai2381]

Iam a grandma visiting my daughter she has a daughter aged 15 months since i have come i have started giving her home made food she loves it i even give her veils meat ie small young cows meat thankyou sooooo much your video is amazing iam sharing it with moms with one plus babies many thanks once again

[@mariamchaghtai2381]

I have come from pakistan to toronto

[@krystalstarnes818]

As a family practice NP and lactation consultant this is me ad nauseum! Just look at the Clean Label Project. It's so sad and disheartening. A couple things I don't agree with in your video. The natural and recommended age for introduction of complementary foods is around 6 months. This age dropped to a scary 6-8 weeks in the early-mid 1900s with the industrialization of baby food, but has slowly gone back up to around 6 months. This is when infants are generally meeting those "ready to transition" milestones. Prior to this babies need the complete nutrition provided by breastmilk. After 6 months iron stores are waning, so this is a great time to introduce a good source of heme iron. Also, no teeth required! My 3 youngest had red meat as their first food between 6-7 months and did not cut teeth until 10-11 months? Infants don't need teeth to eat solids.

[@YeshuaKingMessiah]

Freeze liver 14 days, grate and mix with breastmilk to make gruel Hardboil eggs and mash with breastmilk Two good iron sources

[@kyragerber7468]

New carnivore doc here! (formerly vegan, 3 years ago for 3 years)… I’m sharing this video with my new moms/pregnant women and friends. THANK YOU!!

[@deniselang2137]

Doc Iove your sense humor. My son is 50. He knew what he wanted. 3 months old. He would pitch a fit at dinner tume. I would take a bite & chew it up & feed it to him. He ate hamburger. Had to get a blender. All our meat was medium rare & he lived it. How can you chew it and feed it to your baby. Why not I asked? Thanks I have lost 20lbs. In one month.

[@annieridesagain3262]

That's what the cave women did and they gave their babies a , "kiss," which was really a food spit. Sounds a bit gross to us , but it was already partially digested for them by the mother's saliva.

[@wagnerlopes5360]

Red meet, sardines, fishes, pastured eggs, liver, etc. Lots of very cheap and high nutritional value! We are not herbivores to eat soy, corn, rice, beans, these are for the birds!

[@ariel.1302]

My niece was starting on solid food and just spitting it out and uninterested. Mushed zucchini and peas. In a packet. Probably watered down and probably no salt or anything, yuck! I took it away and ground her up some of my leftover steak and bound it in butter to make it softer and added either a little salt and sweet potato or avocado (whatever I needed to use up) and she LOVED it, she would get a mouthful and kick and grunt all excited asking for more, and there actually wasn’t a mess all over the high chair where half the food didn’t make it into their mouth like with the mashed veg purée. Hmm wonder why. Edit: I made sure the second child had eggs and meat as a first food. She’s a much more confident, less picky eater.

[@marylou7230]

I wish I knew this when my son was young😔 likely explains when he is allergic to everything.

[@markhatfield5621]

68 y.o. I was told that when very young I was such a picky eater that my mother asked our family doctor about it. He asked 'What does he like?' 'Meat'. 'Then he'll be ok'.

[@pattuck6096]

AMEN!! AND NEVER GIVE THEM A TASTE OF SUGAR!

[@carolynja5470]

My babies are all grown now.wish you and all the other good doctors like you had been around back then but at least you're here for my grand kids. Can't tell you how much your truth and knowledge mean to us. Thank you so much for your time and effort to spread the news and dispell the lies we've been fed by the greedy food companies and big pharma. God bless you

[@tiredlookingforname]

Thank you very much Dr Berry! Please continue! Proper human food for proper human babies!

[@robinbeers6689]

Yes, babies are human too. :)

[@bruce350]

Spot on. I wish my parents had known this and I wish I had known this when we had our two!

[@Neddy540]

You and me both, but its never to late brother

[@sevendeadlycats]

Please share some example meals for new parents to follow along with so we can feed our kids wonderful healthy carnivorous meals! 🥰

[@AlphaSierra375]

Completely agree! I would caveat to add some small amounts of liver for the insane levels of B12, B6, folate, Vitamin A & K2. I would only say they should get a source of calcium and gradual sun exposure to begin making Vitamin D but obviously not too early. I think some folks think their infants mustn't be exposed to anything in life for fear of deleterious effects, its an unfortunate fact that too many of them are unaware of what a human NEEDS everyday to survive optimally.

[@mrsbettytracy6669]

The first solid food my mom gave me was hamburger. I'm 54 and reasonably healthy, so I guess it was ok ☺️

[@jlondon158]

3rd hand reference .. young mother ( vegan ) -- not breastfeeding due to job priority ( her choice ) fed baby rice milk ... ended ( nearly ) with comatose child in intensive care from nutritional starvation . Recovered -- ?? -- didn't die -- but I don't understand the total ignorance of supposedly educated people ( she was / is a techie .. ) .

[@louisegoins7630]

My babies are all grown with their own babies now. I agree with you & have shared this video on 2 platforms. Please continue getting the truth about food out.

[@rodhorton851]

Breast milk is 54% saturated fat. But infant formula has none, and I have yet to see any without vegetable/seed oils. Garbage. My children were all breastfed.

[@jessw6617]

Agree, meat is a must. We started our little boy off with with meat and a ton of different veg that included brussel sprouts. In later years I was often asked how did I get him to eat so many vegies, what was my secret.

[@XOChristianaNicole]

Brussel sprouts have many known carcinogens - as do many other fruits and vegetables. I believe the number is well over 20. Check out Dr. Anthony Chaffee’s video “Plants Are Trying to Kill You.” Kids whom don’t eat vegetables instinctively know they’re not good for ‘em. And let me tell you.. I love fruits and vegetables. So, I don’t share this information joyfully.

[@paolamolinari364]

@@XOChristianaNicole Yes many vegetales are toxic with oxalates and lectins. Specially spinach and almonds! 😣

[@gracefortoday1702]

My children ate what we ate, real whole foods. Powerful education! Preach and teach Dr. Berry!