@agadfly I’ve only seen all upsides. Nothing bad about it so far. No inflammation, sleep better and less interrupted, less gut issues if any, better skin and hydration, less water weight, you feel stronger while getting leaner (especially when you’re fully fat adapted), lower insulin levels. I realized that 99% of people who think carnivore diet is bad has used what they HEARD over actually doing their own research. Even then I would think that carnivore diet is what they side with considering pretty much everyone who has tried it has improved so significantly.
The only downsides I can see are negligible ones like “it’s boring”. I will say that bulking with this diet can prove to be hard because the body will naturally get full quicker. If you’re thinking about “a balanced diet”, that’s a standard American diet myth to get people to assume that carbs are supposed to be in our diet. Organ Meat (#1) and then Meat(#2) happens to be the most nutrients dense foods in the world. You will find all essential minerals and nutrients needed from those two alone, and it happens to be the only food that humans can live off alone and thrive. The Inuit Tribe are a perfect example of this. They are some of the healthiest people with the some of the lowest amounts of Cancer, Diabetes, and Heart Disease cases per capita that we have seen. They also happen to live in the cold and eat in a carnivore based diet pretty much all their lives. Those three sickness that I just named, happened to be all the leading causes of death in the west, especially in the US. People will argue the same about being a vegan, but it isn’t true. You will start seeing the downsides of a true vegan diet soon after the first couple of months. The lack of adequate protein and fats causes issues down the line and they need to eat stuff like tofu to supplement for all that. Carbs are the only Macro that aren’t needed at all, and the amount of insulin that the body requires is usually already produced by the liver. You don’t need to eat carbs or sugar to make it, the body converts fats and protein into it already. So knowing that, there is no point in eating these processed poisons that the SAD (Standard American Diet) as brainwashed the public to consume.
General Idea: in the end, you can be HEALTHIER by switching to any form of eating that cuts off sugars and processed foods completely. I don’t think potatoes or rice is evil. Cookies and soda and candy is evil. The sugar that we have normalized is what is really killing us, so these elimination diets help us because of that alone.
Here is a great video by Dr. Robert Lustig about the effect that sugar has on your health and why it is literal poison:
Take care of your body folks. Don’t take your temple for granted, this is coming from someone who was 325lbs just a year ago to now 200.
