Kelsey Fernandez is a husband, father of seven, homesteader, and founder of Tenfold Tallow in Southern California. His journey into animal-based living began with a desire to improve his own health and feed his family better. After years of dealing with asthma and other health issues, Kelsey turned to a carnivore diet and experienced significant improvement in his asthma, inflammation, sleep, digestion, and overall health. That experience reinforced his conviction that many of the foods modern nutrition has taught us to fear—particularly red meat and animal fats—can instead be deeply nourishing. His approach has also been heavily influenced by the research of Weston A. Price and his study of traditional cultures, nutrient-dense foods, and the relationship between diet and human health. For Kelsey, those ideas aren't merely theoretical. On his one-acre family homestead, his family raises and processes pigs, chickens, rabbits, and ducks while learning traditional skills like butchery, curing, fermentation, cooking from scratch, and whole-animal utilization. That commitment to using the whole animal eventually led beyond the dinner table. After rendering tallow and lard from the animals they raised, Kelsey began experimenting with traditional animal-fat skincare for his wife and children. That eventually became Tenfold Tallow, an animal-based skincare company built around regenerative suet tallow, pastured pork lard, raw beeswax, and simple ingredients. Underlying all of these pursuits is a larger goal: figuring out how families can build sustainable food systems at the household scale. Rather than viewing food independence as something reserved for large farms or rural acreage, Kelsey is interested in what an ordinary family can produce, raise, process, preserve, and regenerate on a relatively small piece of land—and how those skills can create healthier, more resilient households. Through Tenfold and his online content, Kelsey documents that process: raising and butchering his own food, recovering traditional foodways, embracing animal fats, building a business from agricultural byproducts, raising a large family, and working toward a family economy increasingly connected to the land. Socials: Instagram: @kelseybeckfernandez Tenfold Tallow: www.tenfoldtallow.com Timestamps: 00:00 Trailer 00:36 Introduction 06:44 Struggling with asthma while active 08:18 Carnivore diet adaptation 11:02 Realizing the diet's impact 16:45 Diet, asthma, and heart disease 18:44 Adjusting workout routine 22:38 Benefits of Costco beef 27:13 Embracing local and seasonal ingredients 30:25 Overcoming asthma struggles 31:59 Starting a tallow skincare brand Join Revero now to regain your health: https://revero.com/YT Revero.com is an online medical clinic for treating chronic diseases with this root-cause approach of nutrition therapy. You can get access to medical providers, personalized nutrition therapy, biomarker tracking, lab testing, ongoing clinical care, and daily coaching. You will also learn everything you need with educational videos, hundreds of recipes, and articles to make this easy for you. Join the Revero team (medical providers, etc): https://revero.com/jobs #Revero #ReveroHealth #shawnbaker #Carnivorediet #MeatHeals #AnimalBased #ZeroCarb #DietCoach #FatAdapted #Carnivore #sugarfree Disclaimer: The content on this channel is not medical advice. Please consult your healthcare provider.
