Rose Rimler

And so you're not going to end up getting diabetes, type 2 diabetes, and therefore you're not going to get heart disease, which comes with type 2 diabetes.

Well, okay, it's true that diabetes increases your risk of heart disease.

It actually doubles that risk, according to the CDC.

Okay.

But as far as does the carnivore diet have a protective effect on your diabetes risk, the thinking here comes from the fact that this is a low-carb diet, right?

I mean, it's actually a zero-carb diet.

So as I mentioned, we don't have much in terms of studies on the carnivore diet specifically, but we can look at studies of other low-carb diets to get some clues here.

And those studies do find that cutting out carbs can improve people's insulin sensitivity and have even been shown to reverse diabetes in people who already have it.

Well, that's the thing.

When researchers have compared people on a low-carb diet who eat a lot of meat versus people on a low-carb diet who eat a lot of plants, guess who does better?

Yeah, the plant eaters.

They do better.

So that led a group of heart health nerds who looked at that study, and they put a lot of other evidence together.

They concluded that it's okay for people to follow low-carb diets for their hearts, but if they do, their doctors should, quote, encourage the consumption of vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, legumes, and whole grains.

And hold grains?

Maybe they'll ease off.

I have some good news here for the carnivores.

It's about cancer.

So when I looked at the link between red meat and cancer, that's squishier than I expected it to be.

The best evidence that meat is linked to cancer is for processed meats.