We randomly selected ten references in The Carnivore Code and evaluated whether they were used accurately in the book.

The essential companion to the best-selling The Carnivore Code, featuring more than 100 delicious recipes to help readers reap the incredible benefits of an animal-based diet. and Rosemary-Lemon Roasted Lamb Leg with Pear Chutney (I adore anything with pear), Amongst others I am itching to make Sweet and Sour Duck Legs, The Real Meat-Lover's Pizza (intriguing crust) and Alaskan Ice Cream with a secret ingredient. It was during this time that he saw first hand the shortcomings of mainstream Western medicine with its symptom focused, pharmaceutical based paradigm. Page 298-299: The Carnivore Code describes an experiment in which two people ate a carnivore diet for approximately a year in 1928 and 1929. As previously discussed, there are several strong lines of evidence supporting the idea that high LDL increases cardiovascular risk.The idea that dietary lectins could affect gut permeability, and ultimately autoimmune disease risk, is intriguing and certainly not out of the question. The paper reports that at 6 months, 41 patients were still following the very-low-fiber diet, while 16 were on a reduced-fiber diet, and 6 were back to their previous diet. Among those who remained on the very-low-fiber diet, no one experienced any recorded symptom of constipation at 6 months. It also manages to give lots of suggestions for people taking a high-protein diet on, for whatever reason – I have the idea of a body-builder bulking up and putting their own herby butter mix under chicken skins for the first time ever so as to not have them plain. One approach is to use Mendelian randomization, which uses the random distribution of gene variants in a population to measure the causal impacts of LDL.

For any given level of LDL, people who have healthier blood pressure, better blood sugar regulation, a healthier level of body fat, don’t smoke, and have higher physical fitness will be at lower risk than people without those advantages.Effects were consistent across different types of fiber, and high-dose fiber supplementation was more effective than low-dose. We haven’t deeply evaluated these meta-analyses, but it seems that there is at least some evidence that fiber is beneficial for constipation. It also lists immune system problems and anatomical abnormalities as other possible contributing factors. The claim received a score of 1, meaning that the strength of the claim is substantially overstated. The years I spent indulging in what was very close to this cookbook's recommendations were some of the most unhealthy years of my life.

The Carnivore Code uses these graphs to argue that LDL only matters in people who have low HDL, which is correlated with insulin resistance.The graphs show that there is a correlation between LDL cholesterol and risk of coronary artery disease, but that at any given level of LDL, people with higher HDL (“good cholesterol”) are at lower risk. There’s not much information on the impact of a carnivore diet on LDL, but we would expect LDL to increase in most people, and a survey of carnivore dieters suggests it increases LDL quite a bit. Had we waited for the ‘objective facts’, we would have failed every pandemic —hence the value of epidemiology.