I'm absolutely amazed at how critical a role insulin plays in our health and how many medical conditions evolve when things go wrong.

"Hence, a reproductive and survival advantage appears to exist in individuals with a greater degree of insulin resistance on a low-carbohydrate diet. This inherited insulin resistance may involve different genes/enzymes than dietary-induced insulin resistance. Insulin-sensitive subjects seem to find a low-carbohydrate, high-protein diet difficult to tolerate, with side effects such as nausea and headache [32, 33]. On the other hand, insulin resistant subjects [34, 35] and genetically obese animals [36] appear to tolerate a high-protein diet very well. Studies have shown high-protein diets produce the most desirable metabolic profile in individuals with type 2 diabetes [37–39"

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3253466/

Edited Friday at 05:33 PM4 days by Copper
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I can’t access your link but as someone who is insulin sensitive I have no problems eating carnivore. I’m thriving on it and it has been super easy for me.
The problem I’m seeing is that they seem to be reporting on “High Protein” studies and the way we eat is no High Protein but high fat and moderate protein.


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When people say carnivore/think carnivore it is always meat first. That can give the allusion that it is a high protein diet when it truth it is higher fats/moderate protein.

I would think those studies are probably spot on when the protein content is high/really high. Your body only needs X amount fo sugar but it will make and store XX amounts if it is fed that way. If high protein leads to a regular state of gluconeogenesis I can see where sugars would be higher followed by higher need for insulin and in time becoming insulin resistant.

Attaching a high protein diet to the carnivore community can be a tad bit misleading.

Scott