Why We Get Sick (2020)
Dr Ben BikmanThe case that insulin resistance underlies most modern chronic disease, the strongest scientific scaffolding for meat-first eating.
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The carnivore bookshelf.
The books these figures wrote — from first-week primers to the science behind the protocol. Read their work before you take their word.
How Not to Get Sick (2024)
Dr Ben BikmanBikman's research turned into a practical low-carb cookbook and guide, co-authored with Diana Keuilian.
View bookChange Your Diet, Change Your Mind (2024)
Dr Georgia EdeA psychiatrist's evidence-led look at how diet shapes mood, anxiety and cognition, including ketogenic and animal-based approaches.
View bookLies My Doctor Told Me, 2nd edition (2019)
Dr Ken BerryBerry's challenge to conventional dietary advice, and the book that leads many readers toward meat-first eating.
View bookCommon Sense Labs (2023)
Dr Ken BerryA practical guide to reading your own routine blood work, co-authored with Kim Howerton.
View bookThe Carnivore Code (2020)
Dr Paul SaladinoThe most readable case for an all-meat diet. The metabolic and anthropological argument that introduced many readers to carnivore.
View bookThe Carnivore Diet (2019)
Dr Shawn BakerThe most-cited introductory text in the space, with Baker's case for an all-meat diet and the practical how-to for starting.
View bookToxic Superfoods (2023)
Sally K Norton, MPHThe most rigorous public case on dietary oxalates, and why plant foods like spinach and almonds can drive poorly diagnosed symptoms.
View bookNot by Bread Alone (1946) — Internet Archive
Vilhjalmur StefanssonStefansson's book-length argument, from direct Arctic experience, that humans can thrive on animal foods alone.
View bookThe Friendly Arctic (1921) — Internet Archive
Vilhjalmur StefanssonHis account of years living among the Inuit on a meat-only diet, the observational basis for everything that followed.
View bookLieb, "The Effects on Human Beings of a Twelve Months' Exclusive Meat Diet", JAMA (1929)
Lieb, "The Effects on Human Beings of a Twelve Months' Exclusive Meat Diet", JAMA (1929)
Vilhjalmur StefanssonThe clinical write-up of the year-long Bellevue meat-only experiment. Subjects remained in good health throughout.
View bookMcClellan & Du Bois, "Clinical Calorimetry XLV. Prolonged Meat Diets with a Study of Kidney Function and Ketosis", J Biol Chem (1930)
McClellan & Du Bois, "Clinical Calorimetry XLV. Prolonged Meat Diets with a Study of Kidney Function and Ketosis", J Biol Chem (1930)
Vilhjalmur StefanssonThe detailed metabolic study from the Bellevue experiment, covering kidney function and ketosis on a prolonged meat diet.
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