The carnivore diet is a meat-based diet that eliminates all carbohydrates from your food intake. This means it's recommended you eat meat, poultry, fish and eggs with no vegetables, fruits or starchy carbohydrates.

This approach is similar to the ketogenic diet in that it also relies on fats for fuel, but there are some key differences: no sugar or fruit allowed! The carnivore diet was popularized by Shawn Baker and Steve Phinney in 2016 when they published their research paper “Atherosclerosis: A Potential Risk Factor For Obesity” which highlighted many benefits of this type of eating pattern. 

Find out why Dr Kevin Stock started the carnivore diet.

Dr Kevin Stock wanted to know if a meat-only diet would help him build lean muscle and improve mental clarity. Kevin had done my research, and it seemed like this approach could be the best way to get lean. A lot of people have started doing it because they feel like they’re not getting results from other diets.

You may be able to lose and gain muscle simultaneously, or ‘body recomposition’.  

You can gain muscle while losing fat by increasing your calorie intake, just as you can lose fat while gaining muscle by reducing your calories. 

You could have more energy throughout the day.

When you are on a carnivore diet, your body is not getting any carbohydrates. As a result, your body no longer has to process carbs and can focus more on fat burning. This means that you can potentially have more energy throughout the day than you did before going zero carbs.

Carnivore diets also help with brain fog by improving insulin sensitivity in the brain. A study done by a team at the University of California Davis found that low-carbohydrate diets were effective at reducing inflammation in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). The researchers concluded that "dietary interventions may be useful for managing symptoms associated with [MS]."

There are lots of reasons that people choose to go on the carnivore diet, so find out if it is right for you!

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