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AskCarnivores is a free, community-first index of the people, channels and stories that the carnivore world actually reads and watches. We don't sell you a protocol — we point you to the source and let you judge it.
What this is
A directory, not an authority.
The carnivore conversation is scattered across a thousand videos, podcasts and forum threads. This site collects the entry points in one place — free, no account, no newsletter, no upsell.
Everything here is a position held by somebody, not a settled fact. Doctors in this space disagree with each other, and long-time carnivores disagree with the doctors. We link out to what they actually said so you can read the original and make up your own mind.
This isn't a balanced survey of nutrition science, and it doesn't pretend to be — the name tells you whose voices are in here. Mainstream medicine says different things about a lot of this. We're not hiding that; we're just not the site that covers it. Read what's here as one side of an argument you're free to go check.
Nothing on this site is medical advice.
Starter directory
Where the conversation is happening
A starting set — not a ranking, not an endorsement. Each of these people publishes publicly; the links go straight to them.
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Dave Mac
Interviewer · No Carb Life
Records conversations with carnivores about their own experience — several a week, well over a thousand so far. The largest open archive of first-person accounts in this community, and the same channel the stories below point to.
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Amber O'Hearn
Long-term carnivore · researcher-writer
Has eaten a nearly plant-free diet since 2009 — her own account — and is one of the most analytical voices in it: peer-reviewed papers on ketogenic and all-meat eating, conference talks, and a blog she has kept for over a decade. Closer to the "why it works" end of this list than the motivational one.
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Dr. Anthony Chaffee
Medical doctor
Argues that plants aren't required in a human diet. Deep, hours-long interviews if you want the full argument rather than the summary.
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Bart Kay
Former academic · nutrition science
Reads nutrition studies closely and argues the field's methods rarely support the conclusions drawn from them. Blunt and adversarial by style — which is the appeal for some viewers and the objection for others.
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Ben Bikman
Metabolic scientist · Brigham Young University
Runs a university lab on insulin and metabolism and argues that insulin resistance sits underneath much of what gets called chronic disease. Wrote "Why We Get Sick". Explains mechanisms rather than asserting conclusions.
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Carnivore Teacher Alpha
Teacher · daily practice
Short, frequent videos on the day-to-day of eating this way — which foods, what he thinks they do, and where he believes the common advice goes wrong. Wrote a book on it. Speaks with certainty, which is the draw for some viewers and the reservation for others.
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Coach Carnivore Cam
Cameron Glover · health coach
Works the fitness end of this — fat loss, training, and a steady run of recipes aimed squarely at the food people say they miss. Practical rather than theoretical, and the closest thing on this list to a cooking channel.
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Coach Stephen
Coach · The UK Carnivore
A coach with a physiology degree who spends his time on the people actually attempting this — sleep, training, bloodwork and the daily practical questions. Closer to the how-do-I-do-this end of the list than the debate end.
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Dr. Elizabeth Bright
Osteopath and naturopath · Italy
An American osteopath and naturopath based in Italy who makes the case for high-fat, animal-based eating, with a particular focus on women, hormones and thyroid. Argues most people — women especially — eat far too little fat. Wrote "Good Fat is Good for Women". Direct and practical.
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Dr. Gary Fettke
Orthopaedic surgeon · Tasmania
Came to nutrition through orthopaedic surgery, arguing that much of what he was operating on — diabetic amputations among it — traced back to diet. Makes the case for lower-carb, real-food eating through No Fructose.
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Dr. Georgia Ede
Psychiatrist · nutrition and mental health
A psychiatrist who argues that what you eat shapes mental health as much as physical, and that diet belongs in the conversation about depression, anxiety and brain fog rather than medication alone. Wrote "Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind". The one voice here aimed at the brain rather than the body.
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Judy Cho
Board-certified holistic nutritionist
Nutrition with Judy. The practical end of the spectrum — how people structure elimination-style carnivore eating, and what tends to go wrong.
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Kelly Hogan
Long-term carnivore
Fourteen-plus years eating this way. Interviews other people about what long-term zero-carb has actually been like for them, day to day.
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Dr. Ken Berry
Family physician
Makes the case for what he calls a "Proper Human Diet" and is openly critical of mainstream dietary guidelines. Short, practical explainers.
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Laura Spath
Long-term carnivore · author
Lost a hundred and twenty pounds on carnivore in 2018 — her own account — and has been unusually open about the years since, the stretch where the weight came back and she lost it again included. Co-wrote "The Complete Carnivore Diet for Beginners" with Judy Cho. The how-do-I-start end of the list.
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Lisa Wiedeman
Optometric physician · long-term carnivore
An optometrist who has eaten this way since 2009 and now coaches other people through it, under the name CarnivoreDoctor. Posts her own experience, her recipes and the practical detail of keeping it up over years — the long view rather than the first ninety days.
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Maria Emmerich
Keto and carnivore cook · author
One of the most prolific recipe writers in the low-carb world — the practical answer to "what do I actually cook". She leans keto rather than strict carnivore, so she is here for the food and not as a protocol, but the recipes-and-cooking end of this list is largely hers.
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Dr. Paul Mason
Sports and exercise medicine physician
Works through the primary literature in unusual detail and argues the mainstream reading of it doesn't hold up. Dense, citation-heavy talks — the closest thing in this list to sitting through a lecture.
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Dr. Philip Ovadia
Cardiac surgeon · metabolic health
A heart surgeon with more than three thousand operations behind him, arguing that most of what reaches his table is metabolic and was preventable. Wrote "Stay Off My Operating Table". Talks about insulin resistance and inflammation rather than cholesterol alone.
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Richard Smith
Nutritionist · UK
Went from clinically obese with a type 2 diagnosis to competing as a British and European men's physique champion — his own account, told at length. Now a UK nutritionist and Noakes Foundation ambassador who works through the biochemistry rather than selling the before-and-after.
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Dr. Robert Kiltz
Fertility doctor · founder of CNY Fertility
Runs a large fertility practice and argues for high-fat, animal-based eating with long gaps between meals — what he calls the Kiltz Method. Posts daily, and is the most relentlessly upbeat voice on this list.
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Robert Lustig
Professor emeritus of Pediatrics · UCSF
Argues the problem is metabolic dysfunction rather than obesity itself, and that processed food and sugar are what drive it. Wrote "Metabolical" and "Fat Chance". Comes at this from public health and biochemistry — he is not a carnivore advocate, and is here as background rather than as a protocol.
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SHAPEFIXER
Lifestyle and nutrition coach
A lifelong athlete who put on weight in middle age, turned down heart surgery and a hip replacement, and went at it through diet instead — his own account. Now coaches, and spends much of his airtime pulling apart nutrition claims he thinks do not hold up.
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Dr. Shawn Baker
Orthopaedic surgeon · author
One of the most visible advocates for meat-based eating. Long-form interviews and a community where people document their own experiments.
Stories
What people say happened to them
Read these as personal accounts, not as expected outcomes. They are unverified first-person stories told by individuals about their own lives. They are not evidence that anything will happen to you.
We don't rehost anyone's story. The best archive of them is already public: Dave Mac has recorded well over a thousand conversations with people about what changed for them after switching, in their own words.