DR. ANNETTE BOSWORTH: That means 70 to 80% of your calories should be coming from fat. Think oxtail, or duck with skin on it, sausage, pork bellies, sardines in olive oil.

If you're doing carnivore and not getting results, you're probably missing the most important piece.  Step #1 is simple: eat meat.  

That gets you zero carbs fast and kickstarts you into ketosis.  Here's the trap.  Most people stop there.  They eat only steak or ground beef and they ignore the real secret to success.  To heal with carnivore, you need to eat fat, a lot of it.  Fat isn't optional, it's therapeutic.  Without enough fat, you won't make ketones, and without ketones you will not trigger autophagy, which is your body's repair system.  That means 70 to 80% of your calories should be coming from fat.  Think oxtail, or duck with skin on it, sausage, pork bellies, sardines in olive oil. Butter, lard?  Yes, they keep ketones circulating, and that's where the magic happens.  And don't forget salt.  Ketosis dumps sodium without replacing it, and you'll crash. I even put salt in my coffee.  But the bottom line is carnivore isn't just cutting carbs, it's about fueling ketosis, and that means that means fat first

DR. SHAWN BAKER: when your body makes ketones, it doesn't just burn fat for fuel, it actually reprograms your liver. In people with fatty liver disease, ketogenesis kicked in, and boom, liver inflammation dropped, metabolic dysfunction reversed.

Scientists make a groundbreaking discovery about ketosis and your liver 🤯 pic.twitter.com/1svaoFUEXc

— Dr Shawn Baker 🥩 (@SBakerMD) July 12, 2025

All right, scientists have just discovered that ketogenesis, yes, the process your body uses when you're in ketosis, does something far bigger than we ever thought.  A new study in the Journal of Clinical Investigation found that when your body makes ketones, it doesn't just burn fat for fuel, it actually reprograms your liver.  In people with fatty liver disease, ketogenesis kicked in, and boom, liver inflammation dropped, metabolic dysfunction reversed.  And it wasn't just fat burning, it was cellular healing.  We are talking about a natural metabolic shift that corrects liver disease from the inside out without drugs.  It's about triggering your own biochemistry to fight disease, and the punchline,  it worked through mechanisms beyond fat oxidation.  This is next level metabolic medicine.