The Carnivore Code: Unlocking the Secrets to Optimal Health by Returning to Our Ancestral Diet

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This means that ancient humans could have consumed starch-rich foods prior to salivary amylase gene duplication. Given that the diet avoids nearly all common foods in favor of pasture-raised meat and mineral water, it would be hard and expensive for most people to follow. The grilled marinated lamb chops with roast squash would fit into many, many recipe selections, paleo, this-o, that-o or whatever. But does this lack of correlation in observational studies really mean high LDL doesn’t damage arteries in Japan?

Page 103: “One of the more positive effects experienced by those on a carnivore diet is weight loss. The first clear evidence of animal food consumption by our distant ancestors is bones with cut marks from tools that date to around 2. Across four trials, supplementing fiber increased the likelihood of successful constipation treatment by 71%.The recipes do level up as you go and include some delicious embellishments (pear chutney, sliders with buns made with pork rinds (genius!

Given that coronary artery disease usually takes decades to accumulate and he’s only been on the diet for 3-4 years, this is hardly reassuring. In support of the idea that fiber is not beneficial, The Carnivore Code cites a 2012 meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials in which people with constipation were given fiber as a treatment.The recipes are unlike I've ever seen, with pizza made entirely of animal products - that's real meat lover's pizza for you!

Humans evolved as carnivores, only occasionally eating plants as “fallback foods” to avoid starvation.The findings haven’t resulted in a peer-reviewed scientific paper since they were posted in 2018, which is unusual and raises major questions. Does high LDL cholesterol have a different impact on people eating a carnivore diet than on the general public? Whether the same would happen on a carnivore diet is unknown (and we note that changes in fasting insulin are not a reliable indicator of changes in insulin sensitivity in the context of low-carbohydrate diets). We aren’t aware of evidence that the carnivore diet increases insulin sensitivity, and The Carnivore Code doesn’t provide any.

I skipped all that because I didn't really expect any of it, and because I was looking at a copy to judge the recipes, although I did like that it requests we interrogate the source of our meats as they're going to be so dominant in our diet, which is never a bad thing for any of us to be doing. We don’t know how much saturated fat the participants ate, and we don’t know whether outcomes would have been better or worse with a different type of fat. Page 182: “I’m sad to say that we’ve been led astray with regard to the true character of LDL, which is much more of a superhero than a supervillain. The oldest human-ish poop ever identified, from Neanderthals living about 50,000 years ago, also suggests that they ate both plants and animals (but probably mostly animals).It supports the book’s argument, although it has a number of problems that make it a weak piece of evidence. It reports that in a consecutive series of 102 patients with diverse autoimmune diseases who were advised to eat Gundry’s diet, 95 “achieved complete resolution of autoimmune markers and inflammatory markers within 9 months”. It’s a paper reporting that in biopsies of breast tissue, calcium oxalate crystals are associated with lobular carcinoma in situ, a pre-cancerous lesion. The second study cited by The Carnivore Code is a randomized controlled trial that compares two different high-fiber diet interventions in children with constipation.