People with diabetes who ate only meat lost weight and lowered their blood sugar enough that most stopped taking their diabetes pills or insulin.

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Behavioral Characteristics and Self-Reported Health Status among 2029 Adults Consuming a “Carnivore Diet”

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2021 Dec

This study asked people who ate only meat for at least 6 months how they felt, and many said they lost weight and their diabetes got better — even stopping their medicine. That’s exactly what the claim says.

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Behavioral Characteristics and Self-Reported Health Status among 2029 Adults Consuming a “Carnivore Diet”

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DOI: 10.1093/cdn/nzab133

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