The Carnivore Diet: A Sledgehammer Elimination, Not a Destination

Summary

The carnivore diet "works" short-term for the boring reason every restrictive diet does — it is an **aggressive elimination protocol** that strips ultra-processed food, sugar, alcohol, seed oils, FODMAPs and most trigger antigens at once, so the relief is **real but explained by what was removed, not the meat** — but there is a genuine affirmative half the critics miss: fatty meat *with organ meats* is one of the very few single-food bases you can actually **survive on long enough to run the experiment** (you could not on lettuce), which is the real, non-magical reason it works where plants co