The utility and scientific definition of carnivore diets are being reverse-engineered from anecdotal evidence of benefits like weight loss, eczema clearing, and autoimmune disease remission.

“so many people are doing carnivore and saying it helped me lose weight it helped clear my eczema it helped cure this autoimmune disease but why but why it works and what the boundaries of you it's utility are is something where we need to sort of reverse-engineer from what people are doing at an anecdotal level”

“And I get I get an inbox full of people that say, "Hey, look, I had this condition or that condition. I follow carnivore and here's my blood work." And I can't argue with that. >> Yeah. No, I I I I would I find that stuff pretty compelling from an elimination diet perspective. And and I've certainly met a number of folks who who feel that way. And um yeah, I mean I I think again it's quite binary. It either it works or it doesn't. And for many of these people, they're so debilitated on any other form of diet that it's a no-brainer. You're going to stick with that type of restriction. >> Yeah. The influencer voice is also amplified. like Joe Rogan for example uh had vitilgo and you know that's an autoimmune disorder and I know people who have that and saying it's the only thing going on a carnivore diet you know cured my vitilgo like so I have you know people that are interested in that so there's a wide variety of things you know that it can be therapeutic for there's a group in uh Budapest Hungary called Paleo Medicina and I went to their clinic and they pulled their files and I saw everything from type 1 diabetes to cancer to different uh different neurological disorders, >> you know, and these are all but they're showing me blood work longitudinally over time and um could be cherrypicked the cases, but it was pretty convincing and they probably have a dozen or more publications out case series and things like that.”