Rose Rimler

So you ordinarily go, well, those things potentially do jump out.

We need folate to make red blood cells and to keep our brains running smoothly.

And we need potassium and other electrolytes for all our cells to make them, you know, just work.

So not having enough of those things is a big deal.

Right.

But this idea that you will not get them and will be deficient in these things on the carnivore diet, like from what we just talked about, that's all theoretical, just like written down on paper.

It feels pretty non-theoretical, I'll say.

Well, I mean, well, here's why I say it's theoretical.

We don't have many studies on the carnivore diet.

It's pretty new.

It's very specific.

It's not like the Atkins diet or the paleo diet where you're restricted, but you're not that restricted.

Like you can still eat lots of fruits and vegetables.

So I kind of had to go digging.

And I did find this amazing study that I am delighted to tell you about.

It's a study of two Arctic explorers.

Their names were Stephenson and Anderson.

Stephenson claimed that he had lived in the Arctic for months eating nothing but meat.

And he said that it had gone just fine.

Back then, people were as skeptical as today about this.