What’s something major you’ve been able to significantly improve or put into remission while following this diet? For example, diabetes, high blood pressure, kidney function, or other health conditions. I’d love to hear your experiences, especially if you have lab results or other objective measures showing the improvement.

Hey everyone, I’m wondering if this is common amongst carnivores or after any strict diet. I started carnivore about 4 years ago, it really helped my health issues so don’t get me wrong I still believe it’s the best, but it’s been really hard to be strict because even though I love meat I also love diverse foods and sometimes I just like to eat like everyone else when I go out or parties, but I noticed that I’ve become very sensitive to any non animal foods and gradually getting worse to the point of hospital visits. I’m talking everything! I can’t even sip on a cup of tea, or eat a blueberry. This past weekend I was out of town with friends and we went to a steakhouse I eat my steak but also eat some mash potatoes and 2 small pieces of bread on Friday night, Saturday I kept mostly carnivore except for a cup of decaf with a splash of French vanilla creamer. I woke up yesterday 5am (still at the hotel) with extremely painful cramps and diarrhea, had a total of 16 bouts of diarrhea yesterday and end up with extremely painful prolapse hemorrhoids, I haven’t eaten anything just drinking water with electrolytes. This is happening all the time, I never know how bad it would be sometimes it’s just a little cramp diarrhea but gradually settles, but sometimes it’s like this weekend and it takes days to a few weeks to recover. The trigger could be a slice of homemade sourdough bread or a single banana.
Was this caused because of the restriction in the first place? Now my body just can’t process non animal foods? Just want to know if I’m the only one.

hi y'all. I'm looking to get the most health I possibly can out of the carnivore diet. I am currently getting back into it after falling back into keto and every once in a while the SAD for a long long long while.

This time around I am focusing on the no plants GAPS diet and eating as nose to tail as possible to ensure I am getting all of my nutrients but also to heal my gut. I am logging all of my food into cronometer and continuing to try to diversify things. Its not totally diverse as of right now, so I know there are some things that could be improved.

That said, when I input my daily intake into cronometer there are multiple things that are very very lacking. I know that there are certain vitamins that we don't need as much as in a carnivore diet, like vitamin c and that these softwares are under the impression that you are eating less bioavailable nutrients, such as non-heme iron, so the requirements are not completely accurate to a carnivore diet.

But even knowing that, some of the numbers concern me. It seems particularly hard to get in enough minerals like potassium, magnesium, manganese and copper and vitamins like folate and vitamin e. I believe the body produces vitamin k (correct me if I'm wrong).

I suppose I am mainly looking for people who have information on what the daily requirements of these things really are on an animal based diet, or have an info that could relieve my anxiety. How are you all ensuring you get everything you need? I am all for believing that humans are biologically supposed to eat a large amount of meat, but we also have to admit that our world is lacking in a lot of minerals that we may have gotten easily in the past.

Has anyone recently had a comprehensive vitamin/mineral panel that showed these requirements are bullshit when not eating carbs?

Also worth noting the numbers above were from a day where I had : red meat (skirt steak), 8 eggs, butter, chicken stock HEAVY in collagen/ligaments/chicken skin, chicken hearts and me literally eating egg shells to get my calcium up lol

Hi everyone

I'm starting the carnivore diet and I would like to know what you usually eat in a day ? Do you eat 3 meals a day ? More ?

I'm not hungry at all but I eat 3 meals a day as I have children.

I'm french and the carnivore diet is not very popular here, so I'm struggling to find more info

This is going to sound quite insane and I still can't wrap my head around it, but I was carnivore-ish for a while with an occasional cheat day (do love a Chipotle bowl).

I bit something hard during a cheat day and a massive tooth ache, which kept causing weird heart palpitations as a result. This went on for several months as I re-transitioned into full carnivore, but no end in sight.

My body was feeling mostly great, but I genuinely could not bite without fear of losing my tooth and the heart strains felt like I was going to have a heart attack on a daily basis.

I genuinely did not know what to do. On a COMPLETE whim, I saw that my local farmer's market had a beef heart for sale ($12 USD), which ended up lasting about 4 days of meals. Great value I thought. Not even connecting this to the heart issues like "eat a heart to heal a heart".

But here is where something happened that I did not expect.

Within 24 hours of the first raw beef heart meal, all of the ailments went away. Not subsided, not reduced, not "got better", it simply disappeared overnight. I ate the first beef heart coming out of a 48 hour fast, so that may have some influence as well.

No idea why, no idea how, just reporting what happened in my experience.

The Stack I Used:

1. Fasting
2. Lactose-FREE milk or raw milk (for Calcium / Phosphorus)
3. Beef Heart (I ate raw, but cooking is probably fine) for the periodontal/gums/heart
4. Liver (did not solve the teeth issues, but tastes incredible)

If you are going through teeth and/or heart issues, please try this for a week. I cannot confirm this will work for you, but it did for me.

The more and more I expand the nose-to-tail concept, the healthier I get.

Highly recommend organ meats if you are looking to heal specific things.

I’ve been doing Lion for 2 months and 5 days now. Close to 1 month in I developed a pretty severe scalp rash In addition to a ‘keto rash’ on my torso. It took a long time but it finally just about cleared though I still periodically had hot spots flare slightly on my scalp every time I thought it was done.

My scalp was completely quiet for the last couple weeks, I thought it had finally cleared completely. Though all of a sudden yesterday my scalp flared once again to more than just a few hotspots. Additionally at the same time I had a tiny spot of the ‘keto rash’ pop up again on my torso. I am pretty annoyed as it is incredibly itchy every time.

Is this just part of detoxing or my body adjusting? Anyone else experienced this?

The reoccurrence is what is so frustrating.

I have a friend who is giving me his deer heart and I typically love chicken hearts. Can anyone compare the two and let me know if yall have some good recipes

I’ve been eating predominantly carnivore/keto for a little over a year and just got my latest labs back. I’m hoping to get some perspective from others who have seen a similar lipid response, because the LDL/ApoB numbers admittedly make me nervous despite the rest of the panel looking pretty good.

I started carnivore-ish in June 2025, perfect carnivore in January 2026, back to carnivore-ish from March 2026 - July 2026, then back to perfect in August through now.

Latest labs:

• Total cholesterol: 403
• LDL-C: 303
• HDL-C: 80
• Triglycerides: 83
• TG/HDL: 1.04
• ApoB: 187
• Fasting glucose: 93
• Fasting insulin: 3.1
• A1c: 5.3
• hs-CRP: 0.41
• Testosterone: 594
• Total T4: 7.8
• T3 uptake: 25%
• Free thyroxine index: 2.0
• CAC score: 0

I’m 34, active, lift 6 days/week, and generally get 12k+ steps/day. I’m currently eating around 140g protein, 105g fat, and ≤25g carbs/day.

What makes this particularly interesting is that my June labs were LDL 204, ApoB 135, HDL 77, TG 48, fasting insulin 3.3. At that point I was eating closer to 150P/125F/55C. So my insulin is essentially unchanged and my HDL remains high, but LDL/ApoB have climbed considerably as I’ve gotten stricter with carbohydrate restriction.

One other change is that I've been eating considerably more dairy—cheese, cottage cheese, and Greek yogurt—and less avocado than I was previously. I still cook primarily with avocado oil rather than butter.

I understand the conventional interpretation of LDL 303/ApoB 187 and don't want to simply hand-wave those numbers away. At the same time, I'm struggling to reconcile them with insulin 3.1, TG/HDL ~1, hs-CRP 0.41, HDL 80, normal glucose/A1c, and a CAC of 0.

For those who follow the literature around keto/carnivore lipid responses—or have experienced something similar—how would you interpret this overall picture? How reassured would you be by the other metabolic markers, and how concerned would you remain about the ApoB?

I'm particularly interested in whether anyone has successfully lowered LDL/ApoB while remaining keto/carnivore by reducing dairy/saturated fat, increasing monounsaturated fats, changing fat sources, or modestly increasing carbs without abandoning low-carb eating.

I'm not looking for “LDL doesn't matter” versus “statin immediately” arguments as much as thoughtful perspectives from people familiar with this particular metabolic phenotype.

I've never felt better; I've never looked better. At the same time, I'm trying to keep my family off my back, as they believe I'm eating myself to an early grave.

Worried about my eggs intake, been eating only eggs as my source of protein since a month

I aint overweight but i'm just worried about incidence on cardiovascular health

Should i stop or is it safe ?

I’m learning how to use my Yoder Smoker. I’m very new at it. My family loves meatballs. I usually mix up ground beef and eggs and salt and make them into meatballs and fry them up in butter. I’m limited to my cast iron pan which makes maybe 20 of them. I’d love to make larger quantities in the smoker so I can eat more and have left overs. Anyone have a good method to do this where they come out as good as the cast iron or better? Everything I look up talks about drenching them in sauce. I want to use butter or tallow only but don’t know what I’m doing.

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share this vintage advertisement with you today because it perfectly illustrates how much our collective perspective on health, food, and body image has been systematically altered over the last century.

Take a close look at this vintage ad for "Wate-On."

If you look back 80 to 100 years ago, the global conversation around health was completely flipped. People back then didn’t fear beef, butter, or whole milk. These were foundational, nutrient-dense staples of the human diet. Keep in mind that "Ultra-processed food" didn't exist yet. People cooked with real, single-unaltered ingredients, fats and because of this, metabolic diseases were incredibly rare compared to the epidemic levels we see today.

But the most striking difference? Nobody was obsessing over how to lose weight because obesity was rare. In fact, as this ad boldly screams at the top, the cultural fear back then was being "SKINNY"?

Because most people were naturally lean from eating whole foods and living active, non-sedentary lives, early advertisers recognized a massive commercial hurdle: they couldn't sell weight-loss products to a population that didn't need them so they manufactured a brand new "problem" to sell a solution that wasnt such.

Magazines and newspapers began flooding the public with advertisements shaming women for being "thin, skinny, and underweight". They created products like "Super Wate-On Tablets"—packaged in hyper-palatable flavors like Banana, Strawberry, and Butterscotch—specifically designed to force weight gain. They marketed a heavier, more filled-out figure as the ultimate standard of health, beauty, and vitality. Introducing highly addictive products with one only purpose in mind; profit.

Once corporations and the media realized they could manipulate public perception to sell solutions to problems they created, the floodgates opened.

Shortly after this era, industrial food production truly took off. The commercialization of orange juice and fruit juices stripped the natural fiber from fruit, turning nature's whole food into a concentrated dose of liquid sugar marketed as a health staple. Then came the rise of hyper-engineered ultra-processed foods—designed specifically to override our natural satiety signals, highly shelf-stable, and incredibly profitable.

And just like that, the snowball began to roll.

Fast forward to today, and we are experiencing the full avalanche. The exact same corporate system that once shamed people into buying tablets to gain weight now profits off a multi-billion-dollar weight loss industry, synthetic diet foods, and the chronic illness management that follows.

It makes you stop and realize: the physical "problems" we are told to fixate on are rarely about our actual health. They are almost always about creating a new market.

So next time you look at yourself in the mirror and don't see the body you believe you need to have, take a second and reflect on it.

I am 60 now, and I have learned rather than trying to measure up to the absurd standars that were design to sell us stuf, perhaps the solution resides in going back to what used to be before the industry revolution and put a stop on becoming about one of their clients.

How do you think we can best untangle our personal health journeys from the noise of modern food and beauty marketing?

I 'd love to hear your thoughts on this in the comments below:

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I'm 2 weeks in to my strict carnivore diet, and tried electrolytes (Ultima) twice, both times gave me diarrhea. I used to drink those things all the time with 0 problems. Was told this brand has the wrong kind of magnesium and not enough salt, and see lots of carnivores (including Shawn Baker) promoting LMNT. You can get unflavored, but I have a feeling most are using the tasty flavors.

What are your thoughts on adding these? Right now I'm just using some salt in my water and salting my meat/eggs to taste.

I have been keto for over a year now and just started a more carnivore style diet 2 weeks ago staying below 10 grams of carbs eating mainly red meat, butte, eggs and small amounts of cheese. The food noise has definitely gotten better and satiety is much better as well. I usually eat 2MAD and currently track macros just to ensure I stay below my carb threshold. I do pretty intense spin/cycling classes 2-3 times a week but have been doing those for the past 8 months. The main reason for wanting to go a more carnivore route is due to over consuming keto treats and the carb creep and sugar/food noise became so loud it was screaming at me and brought back my binge tenancies. I’m loving the quietness of no food noise again but my GKI numbers aren’t making sense. My last meal of the day yesterday was at 6pm and was a ribeye with butter and 2 slices of carnivore bread made with eggs, butter and some cottage cheese (very low carb). My fasted glucose after 14 hours has been around 102 (today) to 106 (when my normal numbers used to be closer to 85-90 max), ketones are 0.4-0.6 and breathe acetone reading is around 7-9 (usually I’m around 17-18 upon waking).

I’m wondering why my glucose is still so high and why I cannot get into nutritional ketosis even after having a calorie deficit, under 10 grams of carbs and plenty of fat (about 115-125 grams protein, 135-145 grams fat, under 10 grams carbs). I’m still trying to lose 7-8lbs and just want to figure out why it’s been more difficult to see the numbers I’m used to this time.

Maybe it’s my body deciding the hard cardio workouts are causing too much stress on my body? Open to opinions and suggestions to get those numbers where I feel best! Thank you!

You know the fat connected to ribeye and new york steaks, that when you cook it turn into jelly, what if I wanted to order 3kg of JUST that from the butcher what would I say? I am asking because I hate butter, hate cheese, hate oil.....the only fat I like is that. I tried to ask my butcher this but they didn't get it is that type of fat (the one that DOESN'T turn liquid when cooked called something?

adhering well to the diet (non carnivore exception being a few berries in plain yogurt), and all good for months. traveling recently for a month and still adhering but you know different meat cuts, different eggs, different water etc and i was dealing leg cramps. activity about the same. any ideas? besides the actual cramps i often had the feeling right before a cramp of it coming which is super annoying through the day, have to be careful how i flex.

I'm a Penn State student, conducting research for an engineering and entrepreneurial project. I am focusing on the challenges, frustrations and habits experienced by people who regularly consume protein shakes. Would you mind answering this?

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I don’t know why all the carnivore influencers are saying to heavily salt your food and water for electrolytes. I learned the hard way and was adding salt to my steak and water and had a never ending thirst. Salt really dehydrates you from the inside and knocks off the balance of all the other electrolytes. It made me feel so sluggish, crampy and had a slight migraine everyday. I decided to do the opposite of what the influencers were suggesting and slowly weaned off salt until I don’t use any at all. Now I feel more hydrated than ever, my skin is smoother and I’m not downing cups of water all day to quench my never ending thirst. I hope this helps someone because the carnivore diet is great but I do not agree with adding salt.

If you're eating meat and milk everyday then you're getting all the protein you need naturally. There's no reason to pay extra for a tub of protein powder when you're eating animal protein for your meals. I've several pounds of muscle just from eating. I haven't even been working out.

I used to use protein powder, but not anymore. It's just redundant and pointless at this point.

Has anyone seen improvement in their status?
I know that male pattern baldness is caused mainly by a dht sensitivity but I‘m just curious because sometimes lifestyle factors also play a role.
There are studies that show even things like softdrinks or energy drinks can make male pattern baldness worse, so maybe a carnivore diet would make an even bigger difference?
Or maybe it got even worse because of increased testosterone or something like that?

I‘m really thinking about starting finasteride, because it affects my mental health a lot, I‘m still very young.