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It's OK, he can still practice as a vet. So koolpc will be OK.
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Dr. Ken Berry has not had his medical license revoked.
Dr. Shawn Baker got involved in a dispute with a hospital system because he began curing people through the carnivore diet rather than through extremely expensive surgery (he is an orthopedic surgeon). This led to the hospital system losing a lot of money. They insisted that he stop curing people, but Dr. Baker refused. They retaliated against him by getting a fraudulent fellow to badmouth his work and get his license revoked. He then went to court and won and his name was cleared completely.
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Wooooooof!
Youre right, he was on probation for improper prescription of controlled substances.
Something tells me you haven't read more than his YouTube channel. An orthopedic surgeon who gave up his license because he was going to lose it for 'incompetence to practice'. Not just bad practice but flat incompetence, wow.
I had most of the problems he mentioned and all cleared up on a very low carb diet. Acid reflux was a bitch, ended up on omeprazol but not had it at all since starting. Blood pressure normal, blood sugar normal. It seems like going completely carnivore isn't necessary. If you research into what are low sugar / high fibre carb foods you can add quite a bit without getting away from the benefits of being low carb. For example onions, mostly fibre carbs. Adding some greens doesn't take you away from the benefits and if nothing else helps with stopping the diet being too boring. For the last couple of years my breakfast has been 10% fat yogurt with high fat nuts (hazel, almond, walnut) with various seeds. Sometimes a small bit of fruit on it. Adding coffee to the yoghurt. Olives and olive oil. Mushrooms. All the benefits, less boring diet
But back to the topic, there is no longer term data to show what impact the carnivore diet has on your health, but the Atkins diet, a less extreme version of it, showed a 5% increase in heart attacks for women in one very large scale study.
https://www.bmj.com/press-releases/...ficant-cardiovascular-risk-atkins-style-diets
You'd expect that to fall for people following an effective diet, to see a rise is a bad sign. Still I'm sure it's not a problem for men following the carnivore diet as men are famously not at risk for heart attacks.
I do find it interesting that the same people who promote the carnivore diet, which has no meaningful scientific testing, are normally the same people who object to medicines that have extensive testing. It's an odd disconnect.
https://www.bmj.com/press-releases/...ficant-cardiovascular-risk-atkins-style-diets
You'd expect that to fall for people following an effective diet, to see a rise is a bad sign. Still I'm sure it's not a problem for men following the carnivore diet as men are famously not at risk for heart attacks.
I do find it interesting that the same people who promote the carnivore diet, which has no meaningful scientific testing, are normally the same people who object to medicines that have extensive testing. It's an odd disconnect.
Extensively tested medicines that have significant side effects are taken by millions of people who might not need to take them if they changed their diets. Diabetes kills, hypertension kills, obesity kills slowly with countless secondary complications
From that study "Although the actual numbers are small (an extra 4-5 cases of cardiovascular disease per 10,000 women per year)" and "In the meantime, they suggest that any benefits gained from these diets in the short-term "seem irrelevant in the face of increasing evidence of higher morbidity and mortality from cardiovascular diseases in the long term."
I find this ridiculous. Millions could turn their type 2 diabetes around if they followed a very low carb diet. 4-5 of every 10,000 of them having a heart attack is more irrelevant.
chronic acid reflux can cause oesophageal cancer. just looked up the numbers between 100-400 per 10,000 per year.
If those diets work, yes.*
But fad diets like Atkins and the carnivore diet generally don't work. Any fad diet will typically work for a short while, but then stop working as the unrealistic meal plans, side effects and high costs mean people fall off the diet. From memory Atkins (and let's face it this is just a manosphere reinvention of Atkins) had a fairly high drop out rate.
There's nothing to suggest the carnivore diet is better than the Mediterranean diet, and there is reason to believe it is worse for you.
*If you're thinking of Statins that's been studied heavily and diet changes just dont work in practice and are less effective than the medication.
I wouldnt suggest the carnivore diet long term, i have been doing just very low carbs but not into ketosis. Just not eating the big plates of carbs making that the main part of the meal. Most diets fail because its denial but in this case i've just changed to more rich diet. Fat instead of carbs so i'm not hungry and have more flavour. My hypertension corrected, blood sugar perfect, acid reflux gone, eye sight seemed to improve, skin issue improved, lost 20kg, feel 10 years younger, not hungry and dont feel like i'm missing out as i can have a little bit of everything just not based around carbs as the main food. EG a couple of roast spuds with the roast. Like i said somewhere the government/NHS will never recommend this because they have to think macro and staple food is spuds and wheat.
