Rose Rimler

Yeah.

Experts told me that if ketosis is the thing that's making you feel good, you don't have to go on such a restrictive diet to get there.

Bottom line, you don't have to be this hardcore.

The whole hog.

Right.

You don't have to go whole hog.

Also, Wendy, a lot of people lose weight on this diet and that could be why they feel better because, you know, weight loss can sometimes help with chronic diseases.

Is that right?

That's what I would expect.

That's what experts told me.

There's no studies of weight loss on people on the carnivore diet.

We could look at studies of people on the keto diet if we want.

That's probably the closest we can get.

And there's a meta-analysis that found that on the keto diet, people lost on average about 11 pounds over at least a year.

But yeah, Wendy, I think it's as simple as that.

No, I think it is a very stupid idea.

Okay.

That's because studies have shown over and over again, thousands and thousands of people, that eating plants is good for you.

My favorite of these studies is the Seventh-day Adventist studies.

They followed people who were either vegan or vegetarian or vegetarian except they ate a little fish or they were meat eaters.