(The answer is no 😉 Every species, including humans, has a single optimal diet. Now certain individuals have slightly differing sensitivities/ability to sway slightly outside of that diet without experiencing as many negative effects, but that doesn't mean it's optimal.)

This is true on the thousands-of-years-back time frame. I, and other carnivores, tend to lean toward looking at the millions-of-years-back time frame, before the agricultural revolution began. This is key, because we believe that the introduction of plants was the variable that started screwing things up for modern humans, and we must look a bit further back than that for the true key to our optimal human form. Check out this presentation for a more in-depth explanation of this.

I have not heard of a single case where someone had better health outcomes, regardless of condition, on a plant-inclusive diet vs. a strict carnivore diet. All cases where people say "pLaNtS mAdE mE bEtTeR" are cases when people are coming from a place of shitty processed foods, so of course they see some improvement, but they NEVER try the carnivore diet as well. Once they do, they NEVER go back. But like I said, if you know of any strong testimonials of folks that have, I'd be happy to check it out.

Why not? I believe we should continue to strive toward reaching peak optimal form, so we can bring modern society to its happiest, healthiest possible potential. And building off my earlier point, I haven't seen any cases where anyone has achieved better health outcomes by adding plant matter back into their diet after going full carnivore, which to me, is pretty damn good evidence that carnivore is indeed the best human diet.

Absolutely. There's an ongoing war of information on this topic all across the internet, as you could expect, because people get very emotionally-attached to their dietary habits. But consistently, as I dive into the background/motivation behind the people on different sides of this debate, I continue to find that the carnivore "team" has simply done the greater amount of homework, and have an answer for every FUD point there is. (Very similar to Bitcoiners in a fight with crypto people; the more you research, the more it starts to look like a fight between adults and children who don't really understand what they're talking about.) This is all based on my own observations and amateur psychological analysis skills of course, so take that with a grain of salt, but I trust my researching skills, and I simply get more convinced of carnivore's superiority the more time I spend researching it.

Hope that answers your questions! Appreciate the skepticism, always!

Women have the same organs as men except for one organ. (Gonads) funny word. There is a way to find out how good the diet is. Try it.

Awesome! What's been your biggest benefit?

He's the GOAT in the space as far as I'm concerned. Lots of great candidates for that title but I'd honestly put his body of work above them all when it comes to signal ratio.

No onions, sorry ;)

I don't use any oil, just butter, ghee, and tallow. Rule of thumb is no plants in any shape or form, so while olive oil is certainly better than seed oils, I'd still consider that breaking the carnivore code.

Eggs are another gray area depending on if you're doing the hardcore "Lion Diet" variant of carnivore, (see Mikhaila Peterson videos, she talks about this as she's very sensitive to basically everything outside of just meat, salt, and water, including eggs.)

But for the majority of carnivores, eggs are fine. It's mostly just recommended you do 30-90 days ultra-strict first, then start adding things back in one at a time, so you can really feel which things your body doesn't like, and which things you're fine with.

Q1: I did not, although I partially credit that to taking fairly gradual steps toward carnivore (I was meat + fruit only for ~6mos. before going full carnivore). My buddy I did it alongside with definitely felt a drop in energy as his body transitioned out of carb energy to fat adaptation; i.e. the "keto flu", however it only lasted about 1-2 weeks.

Q2: YES. This has been a huge benefit. During the last 3 months of carnivore, I've worked out far less than ever before in my life (I explain why here), yet have become more cut than ever before. This has been wild, as before, if I didn't work out fairly regularly, I'd always have a little bit of puff on my stomach. Now I have that defined line down the middle without needing to work for it; it's just there by default, which rocks. For the rest of my body, the muscle on my arms/legs definitely stays there much better than it did when I ate plants. It's quite wild how eating the proper human diet just keeps you rock solid naturally.

Q3: I hate awkward social situations, especially when I'm the cause of them. This happens a lot on this diet; I have to be the "difficult one" anytime I'm out eating with friends, giving the poor waiter a laundry list of things to not do (no seasoning, no seed oils on the grill, no sides, etc. etc.). It's not easy. But if you truly care about being your absolute best, it's worth it! This is a big reason why so many Bitcoiners are able to maintain carnivore; we have a reputation for proudly rejecting clown world and all its rituals, which you definitely have to do in order to remain dedicated to this way of eating. Also diarrhea for a while in the beginning lmao, that's a classic, and not the most fun, but quite common as your gut adapts.

Also I have no down sides yet. Way cheaper, way easier, way less time consumed, my guts feel way better, way less stiff in the morning, aches and pains are gone and I feel way less bogged down.

I have only been doing it for a few weeks and have had way more energy and after 2 days, my lingering lower back injury that was 6 months old was basically gone.