Over the time experimenting with all sorts of foods, i naturally ended with a diet very similar to his. I feel great doing this nutritional approach, i pretty much eat red meat, eggs, fruits. no milk thought, because i feel it gives me skin issues. Try it for yourself and see how you feel.
Rule of thumb about nutritional zealots: follow them for entertainment, not education.
Saladino’s expertise is in psychiatry and the Carnivore Diet defies what nutritional science suggests everyone should do for general health, which is increase plant intake.
He definitely has an extreme approach to dieting. However he does offer great advice when it comes to picking quality nutrient dense foods.
Best bet for you is to try different approaches and see what diet works best for you as everyone is different. Some people thrive on keto, some carnivore, some vegetarian etc.
Paul Saladino is a man who makes tiktoks from the grocery store, shaming people for buying Skippy peanut butter, or baby food. There is nothing wrong with those foods.
The man went to a children’s hospital, cherry picked the restaurant situation by buying fried chicken and soda, glossing right over the salad bars and other healthy options, to make a point that we are “poisoning our kids” and inferred that the children were sick because of the fried chicken.
The man doesn’t even bathe. He even has his own tirade against soap.
Someone who is THIS out of touch with reality, and who is THIS insensitive towards the fact that not all families can afford to buy the most expensive ingredients in the store, who parades around a children’s hospital like that, doesn’t have the right to lecture anyone on nutrition - or to lecture anyone on anything.
His content only exists for people to gawk at. He makes money every time you watch his content just to gawk at it, or leave comments. The best thing you can do is stop watching his content, stop watching his tiktoks, stop watching his stories or reels. Let him die in the shadows
I have found following his advice of emphasizing meat and fruit to be useful.
However, I also like fiber from vegetables.
In general, he is correct that the absorption of nutrients from vegetables is quite poor relative to animal products. Consider how little iron one absorbs from spinach relative to liver.
Absorption from plants is also hindered by all sorts of things like oxalates and so on.
But things like cooked vegetables, fermented vegetables and so on are nutritious for other reasons. Mainly because of volume and fiber.
I agree personally with Saladino when it comes to raw vegetables, which I would never eat due to the chemical defenses that plants have. I also just think they taste gross.
At the same time, you have to remember that he is a brand manager for a supplement company, while also being a doctor. Saladino is obviously incredibly intelligent, but if you do a meat and fruit only diet, then you should know what you’re doing. It’s easy to go months on an obvious deficiency of some kind, and end up with problems as a result. My two cents.
I don’t think he’s a grifter. People just call everybody a grifter nowadays. Saladino pays his bills, which isn’t a crime. A lot of stuff he says makes plain sense and lines up with my own experience. But extreme diets require a lot of planning. For instance, if you eat too much liver, your omega 3/6 balance can get out of wack. Check out Stephen Cabral’s video on this very subject of somebody who was eating a ton of liver. With extreme diets, you really have to know what you’re doing.
I like him- I think while some of his viewpoints are questionable (I.e. vegetables), his overall message is positive (cut out processed foods, which I think we can all agree is good advice). He’s definitely not a charlatan and backs up his videos /claims with evidence from RCTs and research. In myOpinion, anyone following a standard western diet can benefit from his guidance (but please for the love of god- eat your greens!!)
He has some good advice for cutting processed sugars and oils out of your diet, but he is using a marketing gimmick to sell supplements.
He promotes the crap out of eating liver, but he knows liver is hard to find at most people’s local grocery stores, tastes terrible and doesn’t stay fresh very long, so he suggests his “desiccated organs” supplements, which provide nowhere near the same nutrition as raw liver, as an alternative.
You might as well be taking a multivitamin at that point, but the desperate and misinformed people who treat his word as gospel throw money at him.
He can say some whacky shit regarding vegetables that’s for sure. I will say though, he’s admitted that even if he’s wrong about vegetables, his main point is that meat is not as bad as we have been led to believe.
I was just reading his book review today. Not very highly rated according to the review. If you want to look that up and see the specifics, it’s here.