Not to mention Carnivore is much less expensive to experiment with than the immunosuppressive shots at $16K a pop.

I know two people with Crohn's and they have to convince the county/state they make no money so that the state pays for it.

It is incredible how digestion works when you ingest only meat and zero fibre, as experienced by someone with IBS: digestion is simply a non-event. Bowel movement are rare (once every 3 days after adaptation) with no fuss and no constipation. Sit and go. Farts stop being a thing. There is very little undigestable residue in meat.

And in general the whole low carb biology feels completely different: I literally feel my heart and circulatory system working with much less effort; it's difficult to explain. A decent comparison is that it's as if fatty acids and ketones are a much cleaner fuel than glucose, which is excellent at short-lived bursts of energy (and the body can create by itself through gluconeogenesis) but not for daily, low-effort maintenance of the body. Let alone the mental calm and lowered anxiety of it: I take ADHD meds and they are more effective on low carb, and in general my mood is more stable (fatty acid seem to activate the GABAergic system, reducing neuronal excitability, IIRC)

I empathise with the plight of animal suffering, but my theory is that diet and sustainability are clashing against a truly uncomfortable reality: homo sapiens is made to live on animal flesh, with rare and seasonal fruits and honey to fatten up for the winter (with fructose being an actual obesogenic sugar). I get why people want to feel in control over their impact on the world, and it's admirable, but my body is very clear on what works and what doesn't.

Yeah, I went vegetarian for 2.5 years and had similar issues (maybe not as bad as what you describe). I reintroduced meat maybe 1 or 2x a week and it's just... so much better on my digestive system...

This is interesting. How about cholesterol problems with the carnivore diet? How do you handle it?

Cholesterol is a red herring. It is a terrible marker of cardiovascular disease, only somewhat applicable on a standard high carb diet, but there doesn't seem to be any correlation between health and cholesterol whatsoever. The real health marker everybody agrees on are triglycerides, and those tend to go down pretty quickly on a high fat diet (which often surprises people that underestimate how complicated metabolism is, thinking dietary fat = fat in the arteries)

In any case, in my experience, cholesterol drops slightly, triglycerides drops to very healthy levels quickly, HDL raises slightly in the normal range. Also, blood pressure and pulse rate drop in a week.

Something to get you started: https://youtu.be/rdgS3PuSuyg