5 Benefits of a Carnivore Diet (+Bonus Content)
Summary
TLDRIn this video, Dr. Barry discusses the carnivore diet, which consists of only animal-based foods like meat, dairy, and eggs. While it may seem extreme, thousands have reported benefits such as improved skin conditions, reduced joint inflammation, better gut health, fat loss, and enhanced brain function. The diet is seen as a subset of keto, focusing on very low carbs. Dr. Barry emphasizes that anecdotal evidence from thousands suggests the diet’s effectiveness and encourages trying it, especially for those facing health challenges with their current diet.
Takeaways
- 😀 The carnivore diet consists of eating only animal-based foods like meat, organ meat, dairy, and eggs, with minimal to no carbs.
- 😄 The diet may help people sensitive or allergic to plant-based foods improve their health by removing these triggers.
- 🥩 The carnivore diet is considered a subset of the ketogenic diet, with a focus on extremely low-carb intake.
- 🩺 There is no definitive scientific evidence proving that any particular diet, including carnivore or plant-based, is the healthiest for all humans.
- 🌟 Thousands of anecdotal reports suggest that a carnivore diet can improve skin conditions like acne, eczema, psoriasis, and skin tags.
- 💪 Joint inflammation, including conditions like osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis, may improve on a carnivore diet.
- 🥚 Many people report significant improvements in gut conditions such as IBS, Crohn's disease, and ulcerative colitis with this diet.
- 🔥 The carnivore diet may lead to rapid fat loss, particularly for those who are obese or morbidly obese, by optimizing hormone levels like insulin and leptin.
- 🧠 Brain function, including mental clarity and focus, can improve, and symptoms of anxiety, depression, OCD, ADHD, and autism may lessen with the carnivore diet.
- 💡 People with metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, or insulin resistance may benefit significantly from a carnivore diet, helping lower blood sugar and insulin levels.
Q & A
What is the carnivore diet as explained by Dr. Barry?
-The carnivore diet involves eating only animal-based foods, such as meat, organ meats, dairy, and eggs. Everything consumed comes from animals, except for added salt, water, and sometimes coffee or tea.
How does the carnivore diet compare to the ketogenic diet?
-The carnivore diet is a subset of the ketogenic diet, which is already low-carb. Carnivore takes it a step further by being extremely low-carb, almost zero-carb, focusing entirely on animal-based foods.
What are the five main benefits of the carnivore diet mentioned by Dr. Barry?
-The five benefits Dr. Barry mentions are: 1) Improvements in skin conditions, 2) Reduced joint inflammation, 3) Better gut health, 4) Fat loss, and 5) Enhanced brain function.
Why does Dr. Barry believe the carnivore diet is effective for some people with skin conditions?
-Dr. Barry explains that many people with conditions like acne, eczema, and psoriasis have seen improvements on the carnivore diet due to its low-carb, zero plant-based food approach, which may eliminate certain plant-based irritants.
What does Dr. Barry suggest about people sensitive to plant-based foods?
-Dr. Barry suggests that some individuals may be highly sensitive or allergic to certain compounds found in plants, and removing them through the carnivore diet can lead to significant health improvements.
How does the carnivore diet affect joint inflammation?
-Dr. Barry reports that many people with joint issues, such as osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, or even gout, have experienced reduced inflammation and pain when following the carnivore diet.
What kind of gut health improvements have been reported by people on the carnivore diet?
-People with chronic gut issues, such as constipation, irritable bowel syndrome, Crohn's disease, and ulcerative colitis, have reported significant improvements in symptoms after following the carnivore diet.
How does the carnivore diet help with fat loss?
-The carnivore diet, much like the ketogenic diet, works by regulating hormones such as insulin, leptin, and ghrelin, which helps the body burn fat more efficiently, particularly for those classified as obese or morbidly obese.
What mental health benefits are associated with the carnivore diet?
-Many people on the carnivore diet report improved mental clarity, focus, and reduced symptoms of conditions like anxiety, depression, OCD, ADHD, and even improvements in autism symptoms.
What does Dr. Barry mean when he says there is no research proving any specific diet as the 'proper human diet'?
-Dr. Barry points out that no randomized controlled trials definitively prove that any diet, whether plant-based or animal-based, is the ideal diet for humans. Most of the existing research is either anecdotal or based on observational studies.
Outlines
🥩 Introduction to the Carnivore Diet
Dr. Barry introduces the carnivore diet, explaining that it involves eating only animal-based foods, such as meat, organ meat, dairy, and eggs. He acknowledges that while this diet may seem extreme, many people report significant health improvements. The carnivore diet is a subset of the ketogenic diet, which is extremely low in carbs. Dr. Barry also discusses how some people are sensitive to plant-based foods, and removing them from the diet can lead to dramatic health improvements. He shares his personal experience, having been on the carnivore diet for over a year, initially as a one-month experiment that he extended due to the positive effects on his health.
🧪 The Role of Anecdotal Evidence
Dr. Barry emphasizes the lack of conclusive scientific evidence proving that any specific diet, including plant-based or carnivore diets, is the 'proper human diet.' Most nutritional research is based on observational studies or anecdotal evidence. While individual cases (anecdotes) may not provide strong evidence, Dr. Barry explains that when thousands of people report similar positive effects from a carnivore diet, it’s worth investigating through controlled studies. He stresses that anecdotes, in large numbers, deserve attention and further research.
🔍 Benefits of the Carnivore Diet
Dr. Barry discusses five key benefits of the carnivore diet, based on anecdotal evidence. He explains how skin conditions like acne, eczema, and psoriasis can improve with a zero-carb carnivore diet. Joint inflammation, caused by arthritis or other conditions, can also be reduced. Gut conditions such as Crohn’s disease and irritable bowel syndrome can see significant relief. The diet is effective for fat loss by optimizing hormone regulation. Finally, mental clarity and brain function improve for many, with some people reporting reduced anxiety, depression, and symptoms of ADHD or autism. A bonus benefit includes improved metabolic health for those with insulin resistance or type 2 diabetes.
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Keywords
💡Carnivore Diet
💡Anecdotal Evidence
💡Zero-Carb Diet
💡Skin Conditions
💡Joint Inflammation
💡Gut Health
💡Fat Loss
💡Mental Clarity
💡Randomized Controlled Trials
💡Metabolic Syndrome
Highlights
The carnivore diet involves consuming only animal-based foods, such as meat, organ meats, dairy, and eggs, with the addition of water and salt.
The carnivore diet is a subset of the ketogenic diet, being extremely low in carbohydrates, potentially providing many of the same benefits as keto but more amplified due to the absence of plant-based foods.
Some individuals are sensitive or allergic to substances in plants and vegetables, and removing these from their diet has led to significant health improvements.
There is no randomized control research proving one specific diet (plant-based, carnivore, keto, etc.) is the healthiest; all current nutrition research is either anecdotal or observational.
The speaker has followed the carnivore diet for 13–14 months after initially planning a one-month trial, reporting that they feel their best when eating a fatty red meat-heavy diet.
Thousands of individuals have reported benefits from a carnivore diet, particularly in skin conditions such as acne, eczema, psoriasis, and skin tags.
The carnivore diet has been reported to alleviate joint inflammation associated with conditions like osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, gout, and ankylosing spondylitis.
People with gut conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, and chronic constipation have seen improvements in their symptoms while following a carnivore diet.
Fat loss, especially for individuals classified as obese or morbidly obese, is often reported to occur rapidly when following a carnivore or ketogenic diet due to hormonal regulation (insulin, leptin, ghrelin, thyroid, etc.).
The carnivore diet has been linked to improved brain function, with individuals reporting better mental clarity, focus, motivation, and reductions in symptoms of anxiety, depression, OCD, ADHD, and even autism.
There is anecdotal evidence from thousands of people who report health benefits after switching to a carnivore diet, suggesting the need for further research and randomized control trials.
The carnivore diet might benefit individuals with metabolic syndrome, prediabetes, type 2 diabetes, and insulin resistance due to its effect on lowering blood sugar and insulin levels.
The speaker suggests a three-month trial of the carnivore diet to see if it improves health conditions for individuals who are not seeing results from their current diet.
The speaker has linked resources such as Facebook groups, blogs, websites, and books that provide additional information and support for those interested in the carnivore diet.
The speaker encourages sharing information about the carnivore diet with others who might be suffering from the health conditions discussed in the video to help improve their lives.
Transcripts
hi I'm doctor Barry in this short video
I want to talk with you about a diet
that you may have heard about in the
media lately to a lot of people this
sounds like a crazy diet option but
thousands of people are deriving
multiple benefits from this diet and so
in this short video let's discuss the
five benefits of a carnivore diet there
are thousands of people who are eating a
carnivore diet now and actually
thousands of people who have been eating
a carnivore diet for decades a carnivore
diet is when you eat only animal-based
foods so that could be meat that could
be organ meat that could be dairy that
could be eggs but everything you eat
comes from an animal except for the salt
that you add to your food which is good
for you you need to add salt that's a
good thing and then maybe you drink some
coffee or tea or something like that but
otherwise every single thing that goes
in your mouth is either an animal
product or water and so that sounds a
little bit extreme but let's talk about
some benefits that I've heard about from
thousands of people I consider the
carnivore diet to be a subset of the
ketogenic diet
teto is very low carb carnivore is very
very low carb but essentially is close
to zero carb as a diet can be and I
think part of its strength and part of
its power comes from the super low carb
part of the diet but then I think
another part of the power of carnivore
comes from the fact that some people not
all people but some people are very very
sensitive or even allergic to things
that are found in plants and vegetables
and when they remove those things from
their diet either for the short term or
for the long term their health improves
dramatically then I think that it's
completely fine and appropriate and
natural and healthy to eat a carnivore
diet for the rest of your life I also
think it's also perfectly fine and
ancestrally appropriate to eat a real
whole food keto diet and then do one
three-month carnival cycles throughout
the year I think both of those things
mimic the way we've lived and eaten on
this planet for hundreds of thousands of
years and so I think you're going to
derive benefits from either one of the
other some people will do better with
one and not the other my experience I
have been a carnivore now for about
thirteen or fourteen months and I
started out as just a one-month
challenge I was going to do carnivore
this crazy diet and at the end of that
month I felt so much better that I
decided to do another one and at the end
of each month I keep tacking on another
month because I feel my very best when
I'm eating a fatty red meat heavy
carnivore diet and so I'm not saying you
should do this but I am saying you
should consider this and look into this
especially if the diet you're currently
eating is not giving you the health
benefits both physical and mental that
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video I'm going to tell you five
benefits that I've heard about from
hundreds if not thousands of people both
in person as patients and online as
online friends I'm going to give you a
bonus benefit at the end and then at the
very end of this video I'm going to tell
you about multiple different resources
Facebook groups blogs websites that you
can actually sign up for join for free
and learn about all the amazing benefits
that some people are gleaning from the
carnivore diets when a patient tells me
so and so let's talk about evidence
there is no evidence in the world that
proves that any diet is the proper human
diet that there is no research that
proves that plant-based is the best diet
or that animal-based is the best diet
all of the nutrition research we have
out there is either anecdotal or it is
epidemia
logic it is food frequency questionnaire
x' that are then used to look at data
observational II there is no randomized
control research that proves that
vegan/vegetarian keto carnival or any of
these diets are the proper way that a
human seed in our lab it are the
healthiest there's just no research out
there and so we're left with falling
back on either observational research
studies or anecdotes and then a notice
when one person says hey I did this and
I got better and so I've been practicing
medicine for almost twenty years now and
so I've heard many anecdotes come from
patients for example I had a patient who
said you know my grandmother used to
make an appointment out of tree frog toe
jam and when I rubbed that on whatever
whatever gets better so that's an
anecdote that's a that's an N equals one
and you don't put a lot of faith in that
because quite likely tree frog
toe jam doesn't have any medicinal
qualities whatsoever she believes that
in her grandmother made it [ __ ] that we
have the placebo effect going there and
so therefore you don't have to start
catching tree frogs and collecting their
toe jam that's probably not going to
help you but here's the thing when you
start having hundreds of any total cases
or even thousands of any total cases
each case is saying hey when I eat this
way this happens when you have one or
two people saying that you don't pay
that any attention but as a as a
practicing physician and even as a
researcher when the anecdotes start
numbering in the thousands and they all
kind of say the same thing you should
probably look into that and you should
start looking to design some randomized
or some controlled trials to look into
that way of eating because there may be
something to that and so currently in
the the carnivore community there are no
randomized controlled research studies
or it really no observational studies
that look at just the meat only diet so
we have to fall back on the anecdotes
and I think that we have enough
thousands and even tens of thousands of
anything
now that we should pay this some
attention now let's talk about the
benefits benefit number one is for skin
conditions I have had literally
thousands of people share their story
about how their skin conditions and by
skin condition I mean acne I mean eczema
I mean psoriasis I mean skin tags and
I'm talking about a can't though cyst
nigricans all of these skin conditions
get dramatically better when you're
eating as as close to a zero carb diet
as you can eat which is a carnivore diet
there are multiple people who have
reached out to me both in the clinic and
online who said you know I thought that
carnival were challenging it was crazy
but after I did it for a month or two or
three or six all of a sudden I have no
acne or my skin tags all fell off or my
eczema got dramatically better that's
the kind of anecdote anecdotes that I've
heard in the thousands about skin
conditions when it comes to eating a
carnivore diet
number two is joint inflammation it can
be any joint in your body and the joint
inflammation can be caused by a
diagnosis of degenerative joint disease
or osteoarthritis the joint pain can
come from rheumatoid arthritis psoriatic
arthritis it can come from gout yes
eating lots of fatty red meat can
actually help your gout even the canoe
some people who reached out and said my
ain't closing spondylitis the symptoms
of it are dramatically better when I eat
a fatty meat heavy diet and so if you
have any of these joint conditions I
would seriously consider giving giving
carnivore a carnivore try for one to
three months and see what happens number
three is good conditions now a huge
percentage of people who are eating
carnivore now are eating a carnivore
diet because they found that either
their chronic constipation their
irritable bowel syndrome their irritable
bowel disease their Crohn's disease or
their ulcerative colitis got
dramatically better I'm not saying that
these conditions are cured I'm just
saying that the symptoms are 50 75 90
sent better when these people eat a
carnivore diet so if you have any of
these gut conditions you might give this
a try
from one to three months and see what
happens number four is fat loss if you
qualify as obese or morbidly obese
there's no diet that I've found that
reverses that quicker than keto and as I
said earlier carnivore is a is a very
very low carb subset of the ketogenic
way of eating and so if your current
diet that you're eating if you're not
having as much fat loss as you'd like
then I would definitely give the
carnivore diet a three month trial and
see what happens
the way this works is the carnival diet
much like the ketogenic diet exactly
like the keto diet actually it hacks
your hormones your insulin your leptin
your ghrelin your thyroid hormones your
testosterone and your human growth
hormone it puts all of them in the sweet
spot so that you can burn the maximum
amount of fat you're burning his energy
but then you're also burning it out off
your belly and off your booty you can't
go wrong with that
number five is brain function so many
thousands of people have told me that
their mental clarity their motivation
their ability to think through and to
stay stable II focused on it on a task
is much much better with the carnivore
diet I've also had thousands and this is
the other big thing that people come to
carnivore if they have anxiety if they
have depression if they have OCD if they
have a DD ADHD and then even the parents
of children with severe autism all of
these people notice that their symptoms
get dramatically less severe when
they're eating a carnivore diet and so
this is not just one or five or ten
people this is thousands of people who
are reporting this benefit and with that
many anecdotes we probably ought to give
this a serious look now the bonus
benefit is if you have metabolic
syndrome
you have pre-diabetes if you have type 2
diabetes if you have insulin resistant
resistance we're all we're finding out
that really all these conditions are
basically hyperglycemia and
hyperinsulinemia chronically and so the
diet you're currently eating gives you
high blood sugar and high blood insulin
levels for a large percentage of your
day you're not going to be able to
reduce any inflammation with that kind
of diet and you're not going to be able
to burn any meaningful amount of fat
with that kind of diet unless you're
miserably starving yourself every single
day for the rest of your life and so if
you have any of those conditions I would
highly recommend the three-month trial
of the carnivore diet to see how that
goes
now in the show notes below I have
linked Facebook pages there's two
Facebook pages one that has over 50,000
members another that has over 20,000
members I've linked to a couple of blogs
I've linked to a youtube channel linked
to a couple of books that are about the
carnivore diet that you can check out
and see if this thing might be something
you want to try for a month or something
you want to try for a year or something
you want to try for the rest of your
life now if you know someone suffering
from any of the conditions I talked
about in this video please consider
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