Hometown Meats

02/16/2025

The store will be closed today. Will reopen on Tuesday 18th. Have a great long weekend!

02/14/2025

Did you know that the Salisbury Steak was invented by a man known as Dr James H Salisbury? He used the Salisbury steak as a treatment for his patients who were experiencing gout and other digestive problems. Believe it or not, he successfully treated many many patients using this strict mince meat diet with his patients.

He wrote a book, which is available for free titled The Relation Of Alimentation and Disease(1888), and if you are a deep thinking person and wish to challenge your beliefs on health and wellness I would strongly recommend the book to everyone.

Here is the link to save you the time:

02/12/2025

I'd like to talk to everyone today about a biological function many of us know exists but we seldom understand. The action of breaking down fat into energy for our cells and cellular health.

Lipolysis is the bodies function of breaking fat down into energy for the body. This process only happens in a fasted state. Doctor Benjamin Bikman, a microbiologist and professor of cell metabolism, states that Fasting is achieved in the absence of insulin in the body. This means we will not begin breaking down stored fats in our body when insulin is elevated in the blood.

Lipolysis is one of the most important functions of our body which we will never do while eating a high frequency carbohydrate based diet. It is for this reason our bodies BEST respond to fatty meats in our diets, in the absence of Carbohydrates. Carbohydrates will clog us up over time, and switch our bodies functions around enough that we create dysfunctional metabolic cellular states from over consuming carbohydrates. This will lead to auto immunity, IBS, Chrohns, T2 Diabetes, more recently discovered is cognitive impairment such as Dementia and Alzheimer's (they refer to this as t3 Diabetes) and even reproductive problems like PCOS(some classify now as T4 Diabetes) in women and ED with low or nearly zero s***m counts in men. There is absolutely no human requirement for a carbohydrate in our diet.

Most of us can see that none of our friends or family are healthier today than they were 10 years ago. Many of us are young, and we have seen family or friends who have had less problems than others. Does it make sense that if we were all doing the right thing since we were young and taught to eat the rainbow that we'd all be sicker as a whole population than we ever were in 1960?

The solution? Restrict your carbohydrates, and eat meat!

Just food for thought.

02/12/2025

Today I want to take a moment to thank all the ranchers who never take a day off to raise livestock. Without your efforts, we wouldn’t have easy access to fresh meat like we do. Thank you for your service!

02/10/2025

Have to run to the city today. Apologies if this affects anyone today! I’ll be open tomorrow at regular hours.

02/08/2025

Do you enjoy a nicely marbled steak?

AAA beef is certainly delicious, and not to sound too morbid, but human muscles also become marbled this way!

In fact, our muscles can be replaced completely by fat if our muscles aren't used frequently enough, and by eating too many of the wrong foods. This process is called Myosteatosis, or human marbling. There are a great many factors that promote the growth of fat in the human body, but most important of all is poor nutrition! It's really important that we try to move our bodies and get exercise but all that effort will mean nothing if you fuel your body improperly. Eat meat and keep your insulin levels low and you will see big improvements to your overall health!

02/07/2025

Today I am sharing with you information about fasting!

Most of us are told before we get blood tests from our doctors to fast for at least 8 hours. What does that mean exactly?

Has your doctor ever explained to you what fasting is?

Most of us take for granted the belief that after 8 hours of not eating we are fasted and good to go for our blood tests. But are we?

Dr and Professor Benjamin Bikman is probably one of the worlds leading experts on metabolism and fat metabolism and his definition of a fasted state is the state our bodies are in with the absence of insulin. Insulin is another discussion, but its our energy storage hormone and we cannot store or metabolize fat without it.

So then the question becomes, what raises insulin and keeps it elevated in our blood? And, is 8 hours always enough time for it to leave our blood stream?

Insulin's main function is to move energy, mainly glucose, from our blood into our cells for later use and storage. This means we experience spikes to our blood sugars first after eating, and then our body secretes insulin to deal with it. Our body wants to protect itself and return to a normal and healthy rested and fasted state after a meal and so during digestion and processing of the glucose molecules in our blood, insulin lingers and hangs around for a little while after we have digested our food fully. Not necessarily fully leaving our bloodstreams before we go get blood work. Sometimes insulin can be elevated for longer than 8 hours and indeed longer than even 10 or sometimes 12 hours. This is a result of a very carbohydrate heavy meal.

Since insulin requires time to work, and it sticks around for sometimes hours after we finish eating, then by eating every few hours and always keeping our insulin high, we are layering insulin spikes on top of insulin spikes. This can lead to a condition known as insulin Resistance, which is where your cells will stop responding to insulin properly and that's where many of us get hung up. We start taking prescription Metformin to bring our blood sugars down, without changing how we eat.

What this means is that there is a high probability that your blood test will be inaccurate in diagnosing your health if you over consume carbohydrates regularly, because when you were checked you potentially still had higher than fasted levels of insulin. This is a problem that requires education for us all to understand our bodies and where we are sitting in our metabolic health.

Eat well and be healthy!

02/06/2025

Did you know:

The human brain is comprised of approximately 20-25% of our entire bodies cholesterol. Most of which is located within the Myelin sheath around the brain. This is a thin membrane that protects our nerves and allows for nerve transmission, which our brain does a LOT!

Without adequate levels of cholesterol in the body our cells do not reproduce new cells very well and it can lead to cellular degradation, cellular dysfunction, and even nerve problems.

Every single part of our nervous system has a myelin sheath protecting the nerves. It's basically what ensures our nerves can continue to work! Experiencing numbness anywhere? It might be a lack of the essential nutrient, cholesterol!

Cholesterol is not the enemy we were led to believe it was in the 70s. Don't be afraid of meat. We have eaten meat as a species since before we discovered fire. It's what we are best suited to eating.

02/05/2025

Did you know:

The human liver produces bile that is stored in your gallbladder at a rate of approximately 800-1000ml per day. If your gall bladder has been removed, you will still produce bile.
Bile is used to emulsify and help the body absorb fats. When you eat something fatty like a steak or pork chop your gallbladder is signalled to excrete bile into digestive tract to mix with the fats and basically create a slurry that your body can then more easily absorb. Excess fat leaves the body in a hurry. This is a normal human biological function.

If we didn’t use or need animal fats, would our bodies have evolved to have these organs and this function?
Organisms evolving in nature are as energy efficient as possible and never do more than they need to do for survival and reproduction. For this reason it should stand to reason that a low fat diet and high Fiber is not the appropriate human diet.

02/05/2025