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If I Started a Carnivore Diet in 2026, I'd Do This

Name: If I Started a Carnivore Diet in 2026, I'd Do This
Uploaded: 2026-04-26T16:18:17.000Z
Duration: 15 min 54 s
Channel: Sean OMara, MD JD, Health & Performance Optimizing

Sean OMara, MD JD, Health & Performance OptimizingApril 26, 202615m

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Introduction to Carnivore Diet and Seven Steps0:00 Step 1: Establish Your Baseline Starting Point0:30 Step 2: Choose Your Version of Carnivore Diet3:01 Step 3: What to Buy5:31 Step 4: What to Expect and How to Handle8:00 Step 5: Track What Really Matters10:02 Step 6: Navigating Social Situations12:00 Step 7: Memorialize Changes for Long-Term Commitment14:32

In a Nutshell

If starting the carnivore diet in 2026, follow these seven steps: (1) baseline photos and MRI to track hidden disease reversal; (2) pick "living carnivore" (animal products + fermented fruits/veggies, no sugars) for sustainability over stricter versions; (3) buy bulk grass-fed/grass-finished meat (e.g., pmnni.com with code alphashanx30), wild seafood, full-fat dairy; (4) expect 1-2 weeks of fatigue—hydrate, electrolytes, eat fat; (5) track photos, MRIs, energy, sleep, effortless poops (3-5s type 4 stool), strong urine stream—not scale or cholesterol; (6) handle social scenes with portable fermented foods and MRI proof against skeptics; (7) memorialize changes with ongoing photos/videos for lifelong commitment. Grass-fed meat reverses visceral fat/disease (e.g., spider veins, balding, heart fat) visible in MRIs and performance gains. Ignore carb cravings; it's disease loss, not weight loss.

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The carnivore diet is one of the most talked about diets today. Most advice is either wrong or missing what actually matters. As a medical doctor and researcher who has worked with patients from baseline labs to months in, here are the seven steps to follow if starting the carnivore diet in 2026.

Understand your baseline as a critical starting position. Most people skip it, which is a mistake. Think of it as a road map—you need to know where you are to know where you're going.

Start with photographs of your body, face, chest, abdomen, back, arms, legs, hands, and feet to track skin, hair, body lines, contours, shape, arteries, veins, even spider veins.
Example: Ankle spider veins in 2015 vs. 3 days ago (captured over 11 years). They were raised, high, swollen, purple; now flat, light pink, barely evident because blood flow improved.

Get an MRI to see disease inside your body that you and doctors don't know about—disease filling abdomen, surrounding heart, filling muscles. Capture it as a starting point to see it reverse and resolve later.

As a researcher for the National Science Foundation, discovered that when disease leaves a body, people look much better and performance improves—never learned in medical school because nobody got really better.

Four basic versions:

Lion diet: Beef, salt, water. Nothing else. Ruminant beef, salt, water.

Standard carnivore diet: All animal products—anything from an animal origin, nothing else. Seafood, chicken, pheasant, duck, etc. Lots of choices.
Animal-based carnivore: Animal products plus fruit and honey. Problem: Adds fructose, which accelerates glycation (tissues age). Long-term adherents age their skin, thin subcutaneous fat, big veins like an 80-year-old.
Living carnivore diet: Animal products only, no fruit unless fermented, no vegetables unless fermented. Adds living food.

Start with basic carnivore (animal products) for variety and choices (many cuts of meat). Avoid starting with honey/fruit as it holds back results from eliminating carbs, especially fructose. Best: Living carnivore with animal products and fermented fruit/vegetables (no carbs)—sustainable, easier.

Buy grass-fed, grass-finished meat—best is game meat (get from sellers). Grass-fed/grass-finished is very lean, almost no marbling. Grain-fed has disease-like marbling.

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If I Started a Carnivore Diet in 2026, I'd Do This

Introduction to Carnivore Diet and Seven Steps00:00

Step 1: Establish Your Baseline Starting Point00:30

Step 2: Choose Your Version of Carnivore Diet03:01

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