Shawn BakerMD · orthopedic surgeon and strength athlete
Yes, and it treats chronic disease
What it rests onClinical practice and a large collection of member success stories, sold alongside membership, coaching and an online clinic.
Source: carnivore.diet ↗
Joe SchwarczPhD · chemist, director of the McGill Office for Science and Society
No
What it rests onNo trial evidence for the diet, plus expected harms from absent fibre (colon cancer risk), raised LDL and TMAO, protein-load kidney stone risk, and vitamins available only from plants.
Source: mcgill.ca ↗
Baker's evidence is drawn from people who came to him with chronic conditions and self-selected into the diet. Schwarcz is reasoning about the general adult population over a lifetime.
Both accept that people report short-term weight loss and symptom improvement on the diet. They disagree on whether that survives as a long-term outcome and at what cost.
A controlled trial with hard endpoints, which neither side has. Failing that, cohort follow-up of long-term adherents.
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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