Dr. Layne Norton

Like why would you put that in you?

Well –

Fiber isn't just like toilet paper.

Like there's this thing called soluble fermentable fiber that actually is the main fuel for the gut microbiome.

And of all the things we know that actually help with the gut microbiome, that's like the biggest lever is fermentable soluble fiber.

And that produces things like butyrate, propionate, which have positive metabolic health benefits in many randomized control trials.

So that's one, but he pulls out this study that I'd never heard of before.

And it was a study where people who had constipation eliminated fiber and a lot of them reported improvement in their symptoms.

So it's self-reported and there's no control group.

I'm like, okay, but the meta-analyses show overall that fiber helps with like going to the bathroom with pooping.

Like it helps.

Okay, maybe some people feel better by eliminating it, right?

Okay, I can see a place for that.

But again, it's not that carnivore has this magic.

It's that you're taking things out of your diet that were probably aggravating you.

They were aggravating your digestion, producing excess gas.

You're having pain, bloating.

And again, this is another one where people go, I was very inflamed.

I'm like, yeah, what was your CRP?

What was it?