Rose Rimler

And you'd expect people eating no fiber would be constipated.

But Stephenson and Anderson said that their bowel movements were fine.

In fact, the scientists actually collected their stool and said not only were they fine, they were great.

It was like it had no odor.

And it's kind of funny because like there's that expression like, oh, he thinks the shit don't stink.

And like, wow, they really don't stink.

Totally.

The paper does say that their poops were actually smaller than average, which does make sense if there's no fiber to bulk it up.

Well, this all brings me to my next question, which is, okay, maybe these people are okay, surprisingly okay in the short term, a year, whatever.

But what about long term?

What are the long term risks?

Yes.

So let's start with heart disease.

Yeah, right.

I think this is like a really visceral fear people have of this kind of diet of eating so much meat.

Because when you're eating a lot of meat, you're probably eating a lot of saturated fat and cholesterol.

And a lot of us just have this like feeling about that, like, oh, so much grease building up in your body.

I think that's why this particular case report went viral recently.

Yeah, this guy had been on the carnivore diet for eight months.

He showed up to the doctor because he noticed something interesting.