Peter Attia

How do you think about all of those things as they factor into a ketogenic diet?

Did you feel different?

So before we go to the exogenous or synthetic ketones, I want to now ask you about an even more extreme form of diet, which I'm sure you get asked a lot about.

I know I do, and I have no insight clinically, nor do I have any personal experience with it.

So let's talk about this carnivore diet.

I realize there are different ways people go about doing this.

There are some versions that are incredibly strict where you literally are just eating meat.

and nothing but meat.

And then there are others where you expand that into, well, you can eat other animal products, you can eat eggs, you can have dairy and things like that.

Let's start with just the meat only version of that diet.

First of all, what do you think is happening metabolically?

How does one achieve ketosis with just meat?

Because even the fattest serving of meat, even if you were eating just ribeyes,

I suppose it's possible that you could get 30% of your calories from protein and 70% from fat.

Does it produce a ketotic state as well, typically?

Couldn't do it if it was a New York strip or a filet.

You just don't have enough fat in it relative to the protein, right?

You're getting a lot.

I mean, I got a ton.

I had two salads a day when I was on a ketogenic diet.