I Owe You An Apology: I Got Carnivore Wrong
In a Nutshell
The speaker apologizes for wrongly insisting carnivore is "all about fat" (or "fatavore"), as optimal fat-to-protein ratios vary by healing stage, body fat levels, and goals—e.g., 55% fat/35% protein when overweight (using leaner 95/5 beef), 70% when lean/maintaining (ribeye, butter), 75% for mental health, and 80% for therapeutic ketosis. Fat is measured by calories (9 cal/g vs. 4 cal/g protein), so even ribeye is 55% fat despite fewer fat grams than protein. Ratios evolve (e.g., more dietary fat as body fat depletes); use tools like GKI for tracking, and consult practitioners.
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I want to apologize for some information about carnivore that I got very wrong. I've been eating a proper human diet and talking about it on my YouTube channel for over 3 years. I've repeated something that in retrospect led people down the wrong path.
I've been eating a proper human diet for 3 years. I'm down over 100 pounds since my heaviest. I overcame IBS, arthritis, gout, horrible depression, and reversed my congestive heart failure.
I have been saying since the beginning, carnivore is all about fat. I repeated many times it should be called fatavore because fat, fat, fat. It is all about the fat. You've got to get more fat. You should be eating more fat. Really, fat is all that matters.
Fat is critically important for carnivore, but there's nuance. The advice I was giving may have led some people to think it's all fat all the time, and that's all we need to worry about. That is really not true. It depends on the stage of your carnivore journey and your why or goals for doing carnivore.
For example, if you have cancer or major depression, it can be beneficial to maximize fat and get into a deep therapeutic level of ketosis. It should be less about maximizing fat and more about getting into that deep therapeutic ketosis.
The problem is when we say this is just fat, fatavore, all about consuming tons of fat. It's not true depending on what part of the journey you're on.
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