Scientific studies on the carnivore diet

The beginnings of the popularization of the carnivorous diet were somewhat convulsive, generally its followers used to be grouped in a sectarian way, and the results of this seemed more a matter of faith and not of science. However, over the years, the scientific community has been increasingly attracted by the thousands of positive reports that have come from patients and lovers of healthy food, and not a few scientists have been encouraged to further study the reality of this diet.

Throughout this guide we will go into the analysis of the scientific support that the carnivorous diet currently has, in order to be able to discern with the right arguments whether we are in the presence of a healthy diet or not.

Food theory of elimination

The carnivorous diet is famous for its marked monotonous character when it comes to food variety, it can be summarized in "you can only eat meats" so the so-called "elimination theory" makes sense in a diet that consists of eating only one type of food. Food elimination is a clinical method of elimination, focused on accurately diagnosing which foods may be negatively influencing certain pathologies in our body.

The doctor seeks to progressively eliminate foods from our usual diet until he finds out which one is causing harm to our organism, in this way it is easy to know if a specific food should be eliminated from our meals because it is harmful to our health condition.

All this comes to the case with the studies conducted by the renowned professor of the University of Toronto, Jordan Peterson. Who in the efforts to treat his daughter's rheumatoid arthritis, which by the way is a disease defined by medicine as incurable, decided to implement an elimination diet in order to find certain foods that could be affecting the health of his daughter.

In this process she ended up leaving meat, salt and pepper as the only foods allowed in her daughter's diet. The results were not long in coming, completely disappearing all the symptoms caused by this painful disease, being so that if her daughter breaks the diet only one day, the discomforts appear, while if she limits herself to eating only meat, pepper and salt it is as if the disease did not exist.

Jordan Peterson's case has stunned the international scientific community, causing many to ask the question: How many diseases could be avoided if we eliminate many of the socially accepted foods?

Another similar case would not take long to appear, the comedian Joe Rogan would give his experience to the public light after commenting that inspired by the story of Jordan Peterson and his daughter, he decided to undertake the carnivorous diet to treat certain ailments of his body, and to his surprise it did not take long for his gastric reflux, gingivitis and psoriasis to disappear. She also commented that her anxiety problems and her inability to break up with sleep in the mornings have improved a lot.

Anti-inflammatory diet

The scientific results on meat intake and stomach inflammations are surprising. The people who decide to undertake this diet due to inflammatory problems achieve that they disappear in a short period of time. The results of the studies carried out in this regard, highlight carbohydrates as the source of stomach inflammation par excellence.

While the ketogenic diet had already taken steps in this regard, pointing to carbohydrates as dangerous and causing severe inflammation, the carnivorous diet goes further in this regard. Carnivores also extend the inflammatory effects to plants as carriers of pesticides, toxins and antinutrients that are harmful and poisonous to our organism.

It is true that the detractors of plants being harmful because of the compounds described above have rightly argued that these compounds do not present dangerous quantities for the human organism. However, the most modern scientific studies highlight the presence of lectins, which are nothing more than a protein found in many vegetables. What happens with this protein is that it decreases our body's ability to absorb nutrients, causes stomach inflammation and various digestive