Liz Smith

A gentleman I've been counseling for several years w/ a long history of type 2 diabetes, food addiction, overweight, and struggling mightily to stay on a low-carb diet, agreed to try carnivore in November. "I feel full for the first time in 60 years." #WorldCarnivoreMonth

As a psychiatrist, I became intensely curious about the relationship between food and brain health and began to wonder whether dietary changes might help some of my patients. 🤔 As a middle-​aged woman, I became concerned that my strange new mostly-​meat diet was going to kill me. 😱 ☠️ Since the diet that restored my health was high in animal protein and animal fat, and contained only small amounts of the few plant foods that didn’t seem to bother me, my head was full of new questions. Will I get cancer if I don’t eat enough vegetables or fiber? Are some fruits and vegetables more important than others, or do I need to eat a wide variety for best results? Which ingredients within red meat make it more dangerous than white meat? How do cholesterol and saturated fat damage the heart— and do they damage the brain as well? I needed to get to the bottom of these questions, so I started studying nutrition.🔬 I share what I've learned in my new book, Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind, available for pre-order. #metabolichealth #brainfood