The Carnivore Diet and Myths

Fork U with Dr. Terry Simpson · Oct 10, 2021 · 3m

The Carnivore diet is the most extreme of the low-carbohydrate diets, with its expressed point that humans did great on a diet of flesh and evolved to eat a diet high in fats.

While we cannot make up what people ate in the past, we can see about the diet of the Yupik’s of Alaska. These people have been studied extensively by the Center for Alaska Native Health Research (CANHR) at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks who partnered with Genetics of Coronary Artery Disease in Alaska Native people.

First the CANHR found that Alaska Natives who ate processed meats (hot dogs, lunch meat, fried…