Kristina Carrillo-BucaramBA kinesiology and health sciences · raw vegan creator and author
Plants, raw, are the whole diet. Nothing cooked and nothing animal for 20 years.
What it rests onPersonal experience over two decades, plus her account of reversing an early type 2 diabetes diagnosis.
Source: magazine.rice.edu ↗
Shawn BakerMD · orthopedic surgeon and strength athlete
Plant foods are not required for human health; an all-animal diet is sufficient and for some people better.
What it rests onClinical claims of symptom resolution in his own practice and community, framed around elimination of plant compounds.
Source: carnivore.diet ↗
She is talking to generally healthy people looking for energy and prevention, and her strongest personal evidence is a metabolic one. His strongest claims are about people with autoimmune and inflammatory conditions who have not responded to other approaches. They are not describing the same patient, and pretending they are would mislead in both directions.
Both eliminate ultra-processed food entirely and both reject calorie counting as the organizing principle. Both make an eat-until-satisfied argument. Both are describing whole-diet commitments, not tweaks.
A long-duration randomized comparison of whole-diet patterns with hard endpoints, which does not exist and is not going to. Failing that: better cohort data on the specific deficits each pattern produces, and on adherence beyond five years.
You do, and your call is dated, kept, and yours to change. Follow the people you already trust and what they publish turns into a short daily practice.
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