Intro

• The carnivore diet has been becoming more mainstream as of late and gaining attention over media

  • Some attention has been positive, some negative, and like always with nutrition there is a lot of conflicting evidence.
  • Let’s straighten this out

  • The Keto Project Movie- Phase 3 in full force

  • Dr. Mike is living this lecture with Organic End Grass fed beef to compare to the Burger King burger diet for a month

What is it carnivore diet

• Potentially a form of a Ketogenic diet

  • Similar to how pescatarian, lacto-ovo, vegan, etc, are all similar sub categories of vegetarian

  • May cancel some out of ketosis if protein is high enough, hence the “potentially a form” of a ketogenic lifestyle

    • The concept is that high enough protein can cause the body to go through gluconeogenesis which will increase blood sugar levels and potentially negate ketosis

    • Literature is mixed so larger and longer studies required

      • If unsure, cover everything is butter, coconut oil, and cheese to increase the fat to protein ratio to increase ketogenic effects
      • What do people eat?

  • Anything from a meat/animal source

    • Beef, chicken, organ meats, fish, eggs

    • Bone marrow/broth, lard, dairy

      • Inuits are the gold standard example

    • Incredibly low levels of heart, liver, and kidney disease

    • Eats a crapton of blubber and organ meats
    • Higher fat content in meat than many that practice the carnivorous approach
    • What Don’t people eat

  • I have had this argument before

  • Alcohol, coffee, chocolate

    • What animal does hobbs, rye, coffee beans, and chocolate nibs come from?

Potential benefits from it

• Weight loss depending on dietary lifestyle prior

  • Higher satiety from high fat and protein so less likely to over indulge

  • Can increase testosterone levels

  • High healthy animal meats, specifically red meat and more on the medium rare side

  • Can increase RBC’s and heme-iron stores for a better cardiovascular system

  • Quality of meat is a huge factor

  • Metabolism may increase by up to 10-20%

  • Protein take more energy to digest and takes more effort to breakdown

  • More thermogenic activity

    • The body gets hotter when doing high metabolic processes; The Meat Sweats
    • It can help blood pressure, glucose regulation, cholesterol levels, and gut flora balances
    • Mild evidence suggests it can increase autophagy if protein is high enough over fat ratios

Why you may not want to do it

• Majority of lifestyles may not be the best with specific health conditions which is why medical history should always be a part of deciding the best lifestyle for one to follow
• We know that we can eat up to 4.4g per kg of body weight and cause no short term health issues
• If your religion is against eating meat

• If you have a current kidney or liver condition

  • Research have suggested that high protein/meat diets do not cause organ damage but may worsen it if already present

    • It’s like running on a broken leg compared to a healthy leg

    • Running takes a larger toll on the leg than sitting but won’t be an issue if the limb is healthy

      • Wouldn’t recommend jogging if leg has an issue

      • Same with the kidneys, liver, and high protein/meat based lifestyle

        • High protein makes them work a little harder, but the body will handle it fine as long as it’s healthy
        • Gout- Red meat is one of the main things suggested to avoid due to uric acid build up

Better than vegan?

• Depends on the health status and goals of the individual.

  • Oddly easy to compare carnivorous to veganism
  • Polar opposite but similar caveats
  • Both may require specific supplementation

  • Both heavily differ on effectiveness of a healthy life style depending on what quality of food you intake

    • Vegetarian can eat just cakes and chocolate
    • Carnivore can eat just Burger King
    • Having organ meats, bone broth and marrow, preparing meat in quality oils and not deep frying, etc
    • Organic grass finished will have higher levels of omega 3’s, and more abundant supply of micro nutrients

Likely supplementation to assist

• Bone collagen or bone broth could help keep bacteria at a healthy ration compared to just meat portions of animal products

  • They will have the SCFA (short chain fatty acids) butyrate

    • Helps protect the intestinal wall for leaky gut prevention and assistance
    • May need to add vitamin c

  • Also will help the iron absorption and avoid scurvy if this life style is done long term

    • Can be found in liver and eggs

    • Organ meats and bone marrow/broth will stop most potential deficiencies

      • Like seaweed for B12 and vegetarian based diets
      • Prebiotic/fiber

  • High protein diet will offset bad bacteria that was acquired through high carbohydrates and process foods

    • Needs prebiotics to feed the good bacteria

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