Thread by @SBakerMD

What does the scientific literature about the carnivore diet say?

A thread!

Although many like to assume that a carnivore diet must be “bad for you” because they try and extrapolate low quality epidemiological studies on eating some meat in the context of typical junk food laden Western diets. This is akin to saying a pure Oreo diet is a vegan diet!

So to be fair there are not a lot of studies on this diet but there are several and also several more on the way! Let’s see what’s out there

This one was a case series looking at carnivore versus SIBO (small intestinal bacterial overgrowth)

assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-14850…

Results showed 100% cure and no negative outcomes

This one looked at some of the motivations behind choosing a carnivore diet

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

This showed the motivation was health and the outcomes saw that by in large everyone got healthier

Here is one looking at an autoimmune condition called hidradenitis suppurativa

cureus.com/articles/11919…

Once again excellent result and no negative outcome

This was a large study looking at several thousand folks doing a carnivore diet for up to 28 years!

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34934897/

Once again very good results and of note 92% of diabetics came off all insulin!!

This one is concerning brain cancer

paleomedicina.com/en/glioblastom…

In this case an all meat diet was associated with long term survival of a very aggressive brain tumor

This is one of the original studies on the all meat diet from 1928

asset-pdf.scinapse.io/prod/150571280…

Again this showed both men to be in very good health at the end of the year long carnivore diet

Here is a study looking at the nutritional adequacy of a carnivore diet

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32833688/

The conclusion was that a carnivore diet is nutritionally complete with the one concern being possible calcium

My experience with now 10s of thousands of people doing this diet is that for the vast majority they be e much healthier and certainly when compared to the typical diet it is a vast improvement!

The hypothesis based on actual literate on this diet should be that it appears to be safe, well tolerated and an improvement over what people typically eat!

So far zero negative studies on the carnivore diet, several positive ones and several that are in the works- we will have to see what they show, but at the end of the day there are zero well controlled long term studies of any diet- and the best study for you is your own n=1