Carnivore DietEvidence & Dosage
An all-meat diet — anecdotes vs. missing long-term evidence.
Evidence at a glance
- Total studies
- 459
- With abstract
- 46
- Meta / Systematic / RCT
- 0
- Highly cited
- 2
- Publication years
- 1965–2026
Carnivore Diet in the context of Methods
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Ranked by influential-citation count and publication year.
Ketogenic Diets for Body Weight Loss: A Comparison with Other Diets.
Nutrients2025review85 influential citationsWith the prevalence of obesity and overweight increasing at an alarming rate, more and more researchers are focused on identifying effective weight loss strategies. The ketogenic diet (KD), used as a treatment in epilepsy management for…
Assessing the Nutrient Composition of a Carnivore Diet: A Case Study Model.
Nutrients2024n=2,000E30 influential citationsThe rise in chronic metabolic diseases has led to the exploration of alternative diets. The carnivore diet, consisting exclusively of animal products, has gained attention, anecdotally, for imparting benefit for inflammatory conditions…
Subjective Experiences and Blood Parameter Changes in Individuals From Germany Following a Self-Conceived "Carnivore Diet": An Explorative Study.
Cureus2025n=8E1 influential citationsAnimal-based, or so-called carnivore, diets largely exclude all plant-based foods and are gaining increasing popularity, mainly among individuals suffering from chronic diseases. This study aimed to explore subjective experiences and blood…
Carnivore Diet: A Scoping Review of the Current Evidence, Potential Benefits and Risks.
Nutrients2026DBackground: The Carnivore Diet (CD) is an almost exclusively animal-based dietary pattern that has gained increasing popularity on social media. Despite numerous health-related claims, a standardized definition is lacking, and scientific…
Fecal Material of Captive Wild Animals as Source of CAZymes With Application Potential.
Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology2026n=36EGastrointestinal systems of mammals and birds host taxonomically complex and functionally diverse microbial communities. Microbial activities contribute to community functioning and interaction with the host but can also be exploited as a…
Carnivore and Animal-Based Diets in Sport: A Critical Evaluation of Current Evidence and Future Perspectives for Precision Nutrition.
2026The increasing popularity of carnivore and animal-based diets among athletes has generated substantial interest, despite limited direct scientific evidence supporting their efficacy and safety in sport-specific contexts. This narrative…
DIY: A Practical Field-to-Sequencer Workflow for Metabarcoding the Diet of Terrestrial Carnivore Species.
Molecular ecology resources2026Metabarcoding of faecal samples is a powerful, non-invasive approach for investigating the feeding ecology of carnivores, revealing prey diversity and unexpected dietary components with greater resolution than traditional methods. However,…
The isotopic ecology of East African mammals
Oecologia1986n=238The stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios of bone collagen have been used to trace diet and habitat selection of the larger mammals of East Africa. 238 individuals of 43 species from montane forests and grasslands in Kenya and Tanzania…
Evidence of cellulose metabolism by the giant panda gut microbiome
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences2011The giant panda genome codes for all necessary enzymes associated with a carnivorous digestive system but lacks genes for enzymes needed to digest cellulose, the principal component of their bamboo diet. It has been posited that this…
Competition and intraguild predation among three sympatric carnivores
Oecologia2000n=6We examined the relative roles of dominance in agonistic interactions and energetic constraints related to body size in determining local abundances of coyotes (Canis latrans, 8-20 kg), gray foxes (Urocyon cinereoargenteus, 3-5 kg) and…
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