The Carnivore Code: Unlocking the Secrets to Optimal Health by Returning to Our Ancestral Diet

Everting was as ordered

Difficult to decide if this is a religious guide to Evolution or a book about nutrition. It's a pity that so much time is spend on trying to convince on the religion of evolution instead of just explaining nutrition. I end up leaving out large parts of the book because of the evolution propaganda and indoctrination.

Wow, just wow, this book is sensational, I started a Carnivore diet after coming across Paul on a Bulletproof Radio podcasts, many of my family and myself have autoimmune conditions. I had been using the bulletproof diet to try and treat my autoimmune issue with no resolve. After dropping the broccoli, spinach, cauliflower and cabbage, a few weeks later my psoriasis had greatly reduced. after a few months it was gone. And being a hard gainer with a small appetite the nutrient density of animal foods makes sense and makes eating much less work. Paul goes into great detail in his book and no matter what you are eating now this book is worth the read, he has done a great job laying out difficult topics in a way for everyone to understand. GET THIS BOOK, you will thank yourself.

Attention, le livre est bien 100% en anglais ! Ce que j'apprécie beaucoup : L'auteur est médecin psychiatre et il a obtenu un diplôme en nutrition aussi. Il est très pédagogue et très terre-à-terre. Il ne s'avance jamais sans preuves. Il justifie tous ses dires et bâtit ses hypothèses sur des études scientifiques (en ne confondant pas corrélation et causalité. Il n'aime pas du tout les études épidémiologiques mais préfère des études en double aveugle et des études interventionnelles laissant les causes apparaître clairement). C'est parfois très technique mais l'effort de vulgarisation est bien là. C'est franchement bien écrit et structuré. Je suis bluffé, j'ai appris plein de choses et mes croyances sont franchement ébranlées. J'ai d'ailleurs décidé d'essayer.

When I discovered MD Paul Saladino a year ago and started listening to his podcasts I fell directly in love with his deep knowledge of biochemistry and his engaging enthusiasm for the carnivore diet as the optimal path to health. In his book, he covers absolute everything about the subject. From our ancestral origins, evolution, about plant toxins, autoimmunity and why meat is the most bioavailable nutrition for our body even going into the depth of sustainability. He makes a clear case of why meat can save the planet and not agriculture. If you love to challenge your mind and love science this book is for you! I love it big time! His podcasts are a blast...If you have issues with your health go and check them out. Cheers Eckhardt

Thumbs up! Having ready so many books on diet and nutrition, this one from Paul Saladino is the most convincing with sound reasoning and science. The historical / evolutionary context and the scientific references makes carnivore diet very compelling. In many ways, this book has been very liberating for me because I'm no longer bound by the rubbish nutritional advice we've been given all this while, and the fact that the advise is so simple and practical to implement. Paul is great at writing, speaking, analysing, articulating and elegantly breaking down complex subjects into a narrative that is easy to comprehend. I've never missed a single podcast on fundamental health, and I look forward to them each week. The book is awesome. Highly recommend because it has all the basics covered. My only recommendation for Paul is to use a few more visuals in the book (like use chats / diagrams when explaining some of the cellular pathways like MTHFR, cholesterol transport, etc) since these concepts are best illustrated using flow diagrams, rather than text alone.

Read this book ONLY if you can consider an idea while holding a very different one! I'm a type 1 diabetic and it is important to me that I maintain normal blood glucose. I already know how to do this. However, it's also important to me to avoid acquiring any additional autoimmune conditions for which I'm at high risk and if plant foods are potential triggers for another condition, I certainly want to think long and hard before maintaining triggers in my environment. This was my primary motivation for reading this book. Second to that was the concern that I may need to incorporate different parts of the animal into my family's meat-based diet. Dr. Saladino makes a compelling case for doing so. I don't have the scientific or medical knowledge necessary to properly review many of Dr. Saladino's scientific arguments. I'm certainly going to follow any criticism of the book closely. All I have to go on is my experience, which sounds a lot like the purported benefits Dr. Saladino has seen with meat-based diets. Here's what I've observed over the years regarding the power of food choices: a) my health dramatically improved when I lowered blood sugars with a low carb diet b) continued improvements were observed when I dropped all grain consumption entirely, c) no more kidney stones since severely reducing oxalates (tests confirmed I was making the calcium-oxalate kind), d) When I ate carnivore (plus coffee) for 3 months, joint pain greatly decreased, skin improved (eczema), energy increased, mood was the most stable it's ever been, and more. e) I have since been eating mostly meat with limited plant foods over the last 3 years and tendonitis and frozen shoulder have almost disappeared, f) menstruation cycle has normalized for the first time EVER. f) digestion is good for the first time ever and stomach pain which used to be frequent is completely gone. g) Depression is gone. (This is a biggie). h) normalized lipids, lowered bp and heart rate, and normalized liver enzymes and weight. My family has done better, too. My husband has cured his severe sleep apnea and gained muscle. Our son has had a marked improvement in his mood and he is no longer underweight, and our daughter, who recently was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, has been using a small amount of insulin and keeping normal blood sugars. It appears she still is maintaining some beta cell activity of her own, which is an asset to any diabetic. We particularly hope to maintain that in the case future therapies work via that route. All this improvement stated above is admittedly severely confounded by improved blood sugars and metabolic health during the same time period which undoubtedly make an impact on one's mood as well as many numerous bodily functions. I don't know how much can be attributed to anything outside of improved blood glucose, actually. Though it may just be that blood sugar is among more critical factors compared to plant toxins and other health nagging agents. Either way, I'd recommend a carnivore-ish way of eating to anyone with diabetes, excess weight, or metabolic dysfunction in a heart beat because we've got rampant metabolic disease going on and a ton of autoimmune conditions making people suffer greatly with no adequate relief other than medications with high costs and serious side effects and if a carnivore or carnivore-ish diet can help one or both of these issues, I say this book deserves a chance. Yes, you have to weigh so much against what you've been programmed to believe, but there's nothing dangerous in merely hearing Dr. Saladino out. (Some will say there is and you should be veryyy suspicious of these types.) In the book, Dr. Saladino walks you through the biology, chemistry, and human physiology so you can follow along to the best of your ability. His tone is like man's best friend, super enthusiastic and positive but straight forward and honest. If you're worried about getting through this large book, don't. It's an easy, pleasant read. I can't wait to observe the wonderful debates this book will surely spark. I think we're going to keep learning a lot!! As for me, I'm going to try refining my diet a bit more using this book as a guide. Because if you've been really sick as I have in the past, trust me, nothing tastes as good as healthy feels and experimenting with food has paid off for me. And funny thing about humans is that when we reach a goal, we tend to make a new, higher one. So I'm far from done with my health journey. I want to get better and better. Good luck in your health journeys.