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

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By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. The findings haven’t resulted in a peer-reviewed scientific paper since they were posted in 2018, which is unusual and raises major questions.

A meta-analysis that pooled 29 studies from the Asia Pacific region reports that higher total cholesterol is associated with higher cardiovascular disease mortality. Paul Saladino has experienced the incredible benefits of a meat-based diet firsthand, and has helped hundreds of patients transform their health using his diet plan. Even if you are not planning to switch to the carnivore "diet", this book is interesting and contains gorgeous recipes and photographs. However, the participants’ zinc status appeared to be fine, probably because zinc bioavailability in the diet was sufficient: “The estimated average zinc absorption of the participants in the present study (30% of 12 mg/day) may be considered sufficient to meet total endogenous zinc losses.The evidence is sparse, but overall it suggests that most of our distant ancestors probably ate plants regularly, although some groups probably did have meat-heavy diets. This study reports that the diet of early Homo “was based more on meat products” than Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus robustus, which are more distantly related to us. The intervention received a score of 2, meaning that there is very little evidence supporting a beneficial effect of the diet but it may be helpful for some of the conditions it discusses. Yet, since plant foods don’t preserve as well as animal bones, this doesn’t tell us how much animal food they ate relative to plant food.

Although it wasn’t a randomized controlled trial, the Virta Health study was a high-quality non-randomized controlled trial that reported that a very-low-carbohydrate (ketogenic) diet plus intensive support is helpful for managing type 2 diabetes. There are possible explanations for this other than diet, such as indoor smoke exposure, but the nearly-carnivorous diet certainly didn’t prevent them from developing cardiovascular disease. In the first, a “J-shaped association” is reported between LDL cholesterol concentrations and heart disease mortality risk. This is the first time I've ever seen a recipe that uses bone marrow as the main ingredient in a frosting, and I can't see myself ever becoming the kind of person to eat that way.In addition, The Carnivore Code says gut peristaltic waves “occur every 45-180 minutes between meals”, but the paper says they occur every 90-120 minutes. Reference accuracy ranged widely, from three passages that scored 4/4 to two passages that scored 0/4. We think the diet is likely to be helpful for obesity and type 2 diabetes, but beyond that we really don’t know. With step-by-step guidance, complete with sample meal plans and frequently asked questions, The Carnivore Code is the only plan you need to experience the incredible benefits of the carnivore diet for yourself. Case series are at much higher risk of bias for several reasons, which is why they’re usually viewed as a way to generate hypotheses rather than test them.

The paper reports no correlation between fiber intake and blood zinc level: “No significant correlations were found between plasma zinc and the intake of dietary zinc or any other individual nutrient.Third, a review of The Carnivore Code was fully funded by generous donors in our November 2021 funding drive (we provided a list of 10 books and donors gave to the book they wanted to see reviewed).

The claim received a score of 1, meaning that the book presents the evidence as substantially stronger than it is. Current and historical hunter-gatherer groups are rarely carnivorous, and those that eat very little plant food are usually located in the arctic where plant foods are scarce. It concludes that “Foodprints teach us that early hominin diets varied over time and space and that we mostly likely evolved to be flexible eaters, driven by ever changing climates, habitats and food availability.The largest and most recent meta-analysis of fiber and constipation we found reports that fiber supplementation does improve treatment outcomes in adults with constipation, and larger amounts of fiber yield better results. In this context, we think it’s relevant that the book’s author Paul Saladino has publicly shared that he has extremely high LDL cholesterol (533 mg/dL) and LDL particle number (3,283 nmol/L). The Carnivore Code also states that “epidemiology studies of women, Canadian and Russian men, Maoris, and Asians do not show associations between total cholesterol and or LDL levels and incidence of heart disease or all-cause mortality” (p. This is consistent with the findings of a survey of 2,029 people who are currently eating a carnivore diet, which reports that in a subset of people who measured it before and after, LDL cholesterol averaged 126 mg/dL before the diet and 172 mg/dL while on the diet. It was during this time that he saw first hand the shortcomings of mainstream Western medicine with its symptom focused, pharmaceutical based paradigm.