Peter Attia

Get your protein to X grams and then limit your total calories to whatever, 3,000 with fat filling the rest.

In other words, what is it typically working out to in terms of grams per pound of body weight in protein?

At that level of protein, you're not undergoing so much gluconeogenesis that you're making too much glucose that's offsetting the ketone process?

The RDA for you is 80 grams.

Exactly 80 grams.

You're 100 kilos.

The RDA recommends you have 80 grams of protein, not 220 grams.

Yeah.

At 80 grams, you would not be able to maintain your muscle.

Any other quick do's and don'ts around things like fruit, berries, artificial sweeteners?

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.