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After more than ten years of treating patients with a carnivore diet and studying the relationship between diet and chronic disease, I have learned that most of what we are told about healthy eating is not only wrong but is actively making people sicker.
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Core protocol
- The carnivore diet is simple: water, fatty meat, and nothing else.
- Simple execution keeps results from breaking down through added complexity.
- "Everything in moderation" is poor guidance because some things are harmful at any dose.
- Junk food, sugar, alcohol, drugs, and cyanide do not become good because the amount is small.
- Most failure happens in the margins, not from one obvious week of eating cake all day.
Margins and re-exposure
- People often miss results because they eat too little meat, eat too little fat, or fear fat.
- The body can only absorb so much fat before excess fat leaves through stools.
- Soft stools without loose stools are the practical sign that fat intake is high enough.
- Meat is not magic; the major benefit is removal of substances that cause harm.
- Small returns to stevia, pop-tarts, salad, asparagus, grains, broccoli, sugar, or alcohol can matter.
- Sensitive people can relapse from a small trigger, especially with Crohn's disease or other autoimmune issues.
- A relapse after re-exposure is like lead poisoning returning after drinking from lead pipes again.
Why the diet works
- Fatty meat gives the vitamins, minerals, proteins, and fats needed in bioavailable forms and useful proportions.
- Supplements, powders, pills, and fortified junk cannot make Coca-Cola, dirt, or cereal into proper food.
- The issue is not only missing nutrients; harmful compounds also arrive with the wrong foods.
- Plants use defensive chemicals, and those compounds can be a problem for humans.
- Meat supplies needed nutrients, while plants do not supply anything necessary that meat cannot supply.
Disease mechanisms and examples
- Chronic disease comes from toxic exposure plus malnutrition caused by a species-inappropriate diet.
- Low B12 can damage neurological development and neurodegeneration even when values sit near common ranges.
- High blood sugar glycation damages arteries and blood supply, which drives diabetes complications called carbohydrate poisoning.
- Ketosis and ketones can improve cardiac output and heart contraction in heart failure.
- Lean mass hyperresponders challenge the cholesterol model because some high-LDL ketogenic patients do not progress and some reverse plaque.
- Saturated fat is not the heart-risk story taught in medical school; the JACC work supports that point.
- Autoimmune conditions fit plant-toxin and lectin mechanisms better than the idea that the body simply attacks itself.
- Crohn's disease can improve when diet removes suspected triggers, including through elemental or exclusion-style diets.
Species-specific diet logic
- Every other animal has a species-appropriate diet and gets sick when fed inappropriate food.
- Zoos and parks warn people not to feed animals because wrong food makes animals sick.
- Humans also have specific nutrient needs and specific things that harm us.
- The modern rise of diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and obesity followed major dietary changes in recent decades.
- A sick lion is not fixed with carbs, processed food, vegetables, or broccoli, and humans are not fixed by reducing nutrient quality.
Practical finish
- Plants can work as medicine because medicine is a toxin that can bring more benefit than harm under the right circumstance.
- Outside that circumstance, those toxins still cause harm.
- Poor results require checks on strictness, enough food, enough fat, sleep, stress, and fresh air.
- Some autoimmune cases need only red meat and water, and some need grass-fed and finished red meat and water.
- The answer is not adding toxins or lowering nutrition; the answer is fixing what remains in the margins.
References
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- [03:00] Saturated and Unsaturated Dietary Fats Differentially Modulate Ethanol-Induced Changes in Gut Microbiome and Metabolome in a Mouse Model of Alcoholic Liver Disease — https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajpath.2015.11.017
- [13:00] Carnivore Diet: A Scoping Review of the Current Evidence, Potential Benefits and Risks — https://doi.org/10.3390/nu18020348
- [13:00] The evolution of the human trophic level during the Pleistocene — https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24247
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