Am I a “mis-influencer” and a paid puppet of the meat industry? You be the judge. 🧵

@SBakerMD @bigfatsurprise @KenDBerryMD @fleroy1974 @JoannaBlythman @GHGGuru @Mangan150 @drjasonfung @fructoseno @CarnivoreKeto In September 2025, Changing Markets Foundation released a 68-page document entitled Meat vs. EAT-Lancet naming me as a “mis-influencer” who participated in an “industry-orchestrated online backlash” to the 2019 EAT-Lancet report.

The original EAT-Lancet report was commissioned and published by The Lancet –one of the world’s oldest and most respected medical journals—and penned by an international group of 37 scientists led by Dr. Walter Willett of Harvard University. The product of three years of deliberation, this 47-page document envisions a “Great Food Transformation” which seeks to achieve an environmentally sustainable and optimally healthy diet for the world’s people by 2050. Its core recommendation is for all people over the age of two to minimize the consumption of all animal foods –to as little as zero grams per day in many cases.

The section of the new Changing Markets Foundation report pertaining to me and my work is copied verbatim below, and my inline responses and commentary are noted.

“The psychiatrist and former Harvard professor"

👉 I have never been a professor; my position at Harvard was a clinical position, not a faculty position

"Georgia Ede is the author of ChangeYour Diet, Change Your Mind, a book which calls for animal-based diets to treat mental health conditions."

👉 More accurately, the book offers three dietary patterns for people with mental health conditions to consider: a moderate-carbohydrate Paleo pattern, a whole foods ketogenic pattern, and a dairy-free carnivore pattern. I do emphasize the nutritional importance of animal foods but ultimately leave the choice up to the reader and even include nutritional guidelines to support people who prefer vegetarian and vegan diets.

"Ede describes her struggle with health problems, which she claims to have resolved through six months of diet experimentation, finding a high-protein diet with few plants.75"

👉 I did not describe my diet as “high-protein;” I described it this way: “a high-fat, high-cholesterol, low-fiber diet consisting primarily of meat, seafood and poultry, with very few plant foods.” I advocate for moderate-protein diets, not high-protein diets; but I am convinced by the science that the highest quality protein sources are animal foods—a position with which the EAT-Lancet authors explicitly agree in their report:

“Protein quality (defined by effect on growth rate) reflects the amino acid composition of the food source, and animal sources of protein are of higher quality than most plant sources. High-quality protein is particularly important for growth of infants and young children, and possibly in older people losing muscle mass in later life.” [page 8]

"In 2018, Ede left academia to focus full time on speaking, consulting and writing on nutritional psychiatry. She treats private clients for psychiatry and nutrition, and is available for speaking slots and training on ketogenic diets for mental health.76"

👉 I am also a researcher who has published a number of academic articles in the field of metabolic and nutritional psychiatry including the first inpatient study of the ketogenic diet for serious mental illness in 2022. I am actively involved in ongoing and planned clinical research studies of the application of ketogenic diets to psychiatric conditions around the world including ADHD, Major Depression, PTSD, Schizophrenia, and pediatric Bipolar Disorder.

"On 19 January 2019, Ede posted an opinion piece in Psychology Today (Eat-Lancet’s Plant-Based Planet: 10 Things You Need to Know) in which she claimed the EAT-Lancet diet is ‘vague, inconsistent, unscientific, and downplays the serious risks to life and health posed by vegan diets.’77 Psychology Today is a popular outlet which, although not peer-reviewed, does have internal fact-checking, lending a false sense of legitimacy to her claims."

👉 Which of my claims are illegitimate?

The article was shared more than 40 times overall and seven times within the mis-influencer network.

👉 Social media exists so that people can share ideas with each other, and the number of shares doesn’t necessarily correlate with the quality or validity of the content—it is simply a measure of popularity. Surely the number of times that posts supportive of the EAT-Lancet report have been shared on social media can’t tell us anything about the report’s credibility…

"Mis-influencers sharing the piece referred to it as the ‘Ede Effect’, praising it as a ‘devastating critique.’"

👉 There is no source cited here, so I don’t know who may have characterized my article this way, but I appreciate the sentiment.

"Ede has also engaged in more legitimate debate about the importance of reducing ultra-processed foods, and is more of a proponent of the keto diet, than the carnivore diet."

👉 This is a fair statement, but to be clear, I devote an entire chapter of my book, Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind, to the carnivore diet as I view it as one of three dietary patterns worth considering for people with mental health conditions.

"Nevertheless, her commentary has featured in carnivore outlets such as The Primal Podcast, in an episode with over 1.5 million views on YouTube.78 Ede also promotes sign-ups to the ‘Go Carnivore’ app – in which participants can ‘purchase a subscription to access keto and carnivore diet doctors to answer your questions, meal plans, and weight loss challenges to support your journey into the carnivore world for just $40 dollars a month.’79"

👉 This citation link is broken, but I believe gocarnivore.com is a service run by Dr. Anthony Chaffee. While I have been interviewed by him on at least one occasion, I don’t recall ever having promoted his services, and have no financial relationship with him or any of his services.

"There are fewer inflammatory posts on Ede’s Twitter/X than other mis-influencers’"

👉 This phrasing implies that I do sometimes post “inflammatory” content without giving examples

"but she has a more extensive reach: for example, in 2025 she was interviewed on Steven Bartlett’s Diary of a CEO podcast, which has 11.9 million subscribers,80 as well as on far-right news outlets such as GB News.81”

👉 I have agreed to interviews by hosts of programs from across the political spectrum and strongly believe that this approach is critical to reaching a diversity of communities. My nutrition messaging has always been strictly apolitical. I want all audiences, regardless of their politics, to have access to information that I believe could benefit their mental and physical health, because I want everyone to be healthier. I’m a big fan of respectful, constructive dialogue that helps build bridges and seeks common ground.

1/ @globeandmail As a (former) college psychiatrist specializing in nutrition, I'm convinced rising mental health problems on university campuses may be driven in large part by modern dietary trends: processed foods and plant-based diets. HT @hbelfry theglobeandmail.com/canada/article… 2/ Shared root causes of psychiatric disorders are inflammation, oxidation, insulin resistance, nutrient deficiencies, and imbalances in hormones and neurotransmitters.