Rose Rimler

I'll show you some pictures, Wendy.

Pretty much, yeah.

Scroll down and look at the pictures of his hands.

Ooh.

It wasn't actually oozing out of his skin.

It was just built up under it.

That's fine then.

Well, this got reported as like, look at what the carnivore diet will do to you.

But I think that's unfair.

In addition to the not oozing, it was also probably a genetic condition this guy had where his body couldn't clear out cholesterol very efficiently.

So this is kind of, we expect this to be rare.

This is not going to happen to most people on the carnivore diet.

Right.

That's a more reasonable thing to worry about.

And the reason that idea is out there is because a lot of us have heard that when you eat a lot of saturated fat, cholesterol, it'll clog your arteries and that will kill you.

Now, these days we know that that old story is not quite true.

It's actually a lot more nuanced than that.

But some people on the carnivore diet will take this a step further and they'll say, not only will it not increase your risk of heart disease, it should actually protect you from getting heart disease.

Oh, how, how?

Well, they say that this diet is really good for your blood sugar.