Both Keto and Ketovore indicate a high-fat diet. Therefore, a Carnivore diet should be high in fat, too.

So, if you’re transitioning into a Carnivore food plan and you find you’re not going as often, there are a couple of things to keep in mind:
​1. You will go less often when eating only animal products because you absorb 98% of the meat. This is a very efficient way to eat.
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2. If you FEEL backed up, then it’s time to increase the fat.

If you don’t take in enough fat, your bowels will slow down. If you take in just enough fat plus a little more, the overflow will lubricate the bowels, allowing for a smooth, soft, snake-like bowel movement that is easy to pass.

Hot fat will get the bowels moving more quickly than cold fat, which means you can eat a LOT of cold fat without having diarrhea. If you’re constipated, eat more hot fat. Hot rendered fat is the fat at the bottom of the pan that comes off the meat you are cooking. If you’re constipated, pour this fat over your meal.

Most people reach the point with Carnivore where they desire about 80% of their diet to come from fat. The body will move you in this direction. Quality animal fat is a healthy food for the heart, the brain, hormones, mood, digestion, and basically every cell in the body.

The fat in grass-fed beef has as many omega-3s as fish! Pastured egg yolks are like multivitamins, containing selenium for the thyroid, choline for the brain and fat digestion, Vitamin D, B vitamins, and more. (As long as you don’t overcook them!)

EAT MORE FAT!!

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​So yes, I am still digging into why carnivore works for so many people. See my previous blog on whether or not we should be eating our veggies. HERE I was reminded recently how acidic the human stomach is. Human stomach acid pH is around 1.5 (between 1 and 2). And it made me wonder what the stomach pH of other carnivores would be versus the pH of herbivores. What I’ve come across is an article that I’ve linked below. 
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0134116

This article suggests that the stomach acts as a filter. If the species’ specific diet of an animal is closely related to itself, the stomach pH would be low like ours. Versus an herbivore with a more neutral pH between 4.5 and 7, eating plants with little resemblance to their own physiology. This has to do with the need to digest and breakdown certain parasitic organisms that we don’t want in our system. You may have heard me say in previous talks or blogs that some of the parasites inside us closely resemble our own DNA, so the immune system might not always recognize them as foreign invaders. There are some carnivores who eat species completely unrelated to themselves and therefore do not need as a low a pH as we do. This is another piece to the puzzle of figuring out whether we are truly carnivores or omnivores. We are certainly not Herbivores.