Is this EX-CARNIVORE DOCTOR right? Should we quit carnivore? (FULL BREAKDOWN) - Doctor Reacts

Dr Westman shows us how to carefully review Dr Saladino's path without resorting to insults, like so many of us seem inclined to do. Bravo, and thanks, Dr. Westman.

Every time I add back “healthy carbs” I gain weight and my chronic illnesses come back. I also start obsessing on carbs. I have to abstain.

2025: "Why I went back to a carnivore diet"

Eating carbs leads to eating more carbs.

I know what works for me. Couldn't care less about what works for Paul Saladino.

If you go on the carnivore diet and finally get healthy, why on earth would you go back to eating in an unhealthy way!?! That's asking to get sick again.

I did so well for 6 months and I blew it and started eating fruit and I gained all my weight back. Now I’m back on carnivore day 5 and looking forward to feeling better😊

Paul's new way of eating is fine if your metabolically healthy, but 95% of us aren't. And if you are, you won't be for long unless you exercise like a maniac to burn off all that excess glucose.

Dr. Westman,you are awesome! This is a reliable comment!

Carb creep is a danger here. I was diabetic diagnosed 21 years ago. Cutting out carbs and now carnivore. Diabetes is in remission. I had to cut out fruit especially here in tropical Malaysia. We binge on fruit! That has to stop

I agree that carnivore is a great elimination diet. Some can then add back healthy carbs once healed, some cannot. I stay low carb/keto due to glucose issues. But all must find their own path.

Many influencers need to continually change their message otherwise no one will watch. Dr. Westman gives you the facts…. Keep what works for you…

Information are to be based on facts and evidence as Dr Westman always presents. He is the clinical expert in this field so he is the best person to listen to. Respect Dr. Westman that you have an innocent and honest face that is helping a number of people to improve their health conditions.

I stopped listening to Paul years ago. He’s OCD and chases many different things. He obsesses one thing after another and was 100% convinced of each thing. Paul is a super smart guy, but you can’t follow him down one rabbit hole after another. He obsessively exercises as well. He can consume a lot of carbs because he is lean and not metabolically sick.

I’m so glad to see that Doc Westman noticing Paul’s failings with is self prognosis.

For me, “a little fruit” leads to a 3 month carb and sugar orgy. Same as a lite beer would lead my father to a 3 month bender ending in a trip to the emergency room and rehab. RIP 🪦 dad ❤

I'm sticking with carnivore... It has brought on a massive improvement in my health and well-being

For me personally, as a former type 2 diabetic, I find I do best when I flatline my blood glucose levels. I can eat one pound of a fatty ribeye steak and my glucose level would rise less than 10 points one hour later and would be down to premeal level after 2 hours. I once ate 1 tablespoon of raw honey once while testing my blood sugar. My blood sugar went from 101 to 167 in 30 minutes. At 1 hour my glucose was 144. At 2 hours my blood glucose was 171. It went down some and then jumped even higher. I respect Dr Saladino, but I know I can not eat more than a few carbs per meal or my blood sugar levels go up. Tonight I ate 2 double hamburgers for dinner, both on 25 grams of carbs buns, for a total of 50 grams of carbs. I used 73/27 ground beef and I slathered mayo and organic catchup on the buns. My beginning BG was 107 and 1 hour after eating my BG was 116. I was scared my blood sugar would jump eating 50 carbs at one meal, but adding lots of fats help slow the speed of the sugar spike. I know this information is boring and uninteresting to most who read it, but for me, someone obsessed with flatlining my glucose levels, I'm impressed. But I'm not going to press my luck, I'm not going to break my body again. I plan to eat as close to zero carb as possible just like always. But I am thrilled to know that once every other week of so I can splurge and enjoy 2 big fat juicy hamburgers with real buns and still not spike my blood sugar. Everybody has different definitions of sugar spike, I consider a jump of more than 30 points a spike. Keep this in mind people, the average human body had 10 pints of blood. The amount of sugar, or glucose in the blood is about one teaspoon, 4 grams. Please understand that sugar is a toxin, too much will kill you. When you eat a high carb diet you overload the blood with sugar. Say you ate a bowl of heart healthy Quaker Instant Maple and Brown Sugar Oatmeal, before you add any butter or sugar, a 43 gram single serving packet contains 33 grams of sugar spiking carbs. Now add 13 more carbs for the 0% fat milk and that is 46 grams of pure sugar. This is 11&1/2 teaspoons of sugar. When you eat that bowl of heart healthy oatmeal you dump 11.5 spoons of sugar in your blood. Your body, fearing it is about to die from the poison, dumps loads of insulin into the bloodstream to grab the sugar, convert it to fat as quickly as possible and store it as fat. It does this so quickly the sugar rush you felt quickly drops to low numbers because the body is crappy at calculating how much insulin you need. So to err on the side of caution the body produces more than it needs and this causes your glucose levels to drop. This causes you to become "hangry" and interferes with ghrelin regulation in your body. This forces you to continue with the repeating cycles of carb load, fat storage, and repeat. I firmly think keeping glucose levels as flat as possible works best for me because I damaged my bodys metabolism. People who have never been obese may can eat 300 carbs a day, but I know I cant.

I find it interesting that a surfer would blame a carnivore or keto diet for the physiological adverse effects of not consuming enough salt. If there is anyone who will burn through electrolytes, it’s someone who is an avid surfer. 😂😂

He apparently could not conquer his carb addictions .