The plate is the main lever.

Healing already runs an inflammatory phase on purpose. Cleanup crews arrive. They send messages so the next crew knows where to work. That fire is supposed to peak, then quiet, so new tissue can line up instead of knotting. A second fire from what you eat keeps the first crew shouting. The audio series gives the mind a true picture of the repair. What you eat decides whether the body agrees.

Food is the number one way to stop feeding extra inflammation.

Sugar, white flour, packaged snacks, food fried in seed oil, and alcohol keep the alarm ringing. The blood stays busy writing the same inflammatory messages the injury already sent. Take those foods out of daily eating and the cleanup crew has a chance to leave so the builders can work.

Why keto, and carnivore

A ketogenic pattern keeps carbohydrate low enough that the body makes ketones. Ketones are not only fuel. They quiet the cell’s alarm. That is a mechanism, not a slogan.

Carnivore is the stricter end of the same move: animal food, almost no plant starch, no packaged snacks, no sugar, no seed-oil junk. Many people who last on it are in ketosis a lot of the time. The meat also gives the tissue what it is built from. We lean here because both patterns do the first job this page exists for: they stop feeding the second fire.

People worth starting with: Dr. Georgia Ede is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist. She is part of a group of doctors and researchers who published guidelines in Frontiers in Nutrition for using ketogenic eating in mental illness. She says sugar, starch, and seed oils raise inflammation in the brain and the body. Dr. Chris Palmer is also a Harvard psychiatrist. He treats mental illness as a problem of how the brain is fueled. Ketogenic eating can lower inflammation in the brain, not only change mood. Dr. Dominic D’Agostino’s research showed that ketones lower inflammation. He is a coauthor on the 2015 paper that measured that. Then Dr. Anthony Chaffee, on carnivore as a human diet. Talks and papers are below.

This is not a meal plan we sell, and it does not take the place of the physician who already knows your body. Anyone considering ketogenic or carnivore eating needs to speak with that physician before they start, including people who take no medication at all. These ways of eating change the body’s fuel and can change the effect of medicine already in use, so that conversation is required, not a courtesy.

Studies

Read the papers if you want the details. They show that ketones and these ways of eating move inflammation down, after the first cleanup is done.

• Youm, D’Agostino et al., Nature Medicine, 2015Ketones lower inflammation. That is why this way of eating can reduce extra inflammation.
• Ede, Palmer, and colleagues, Frontiers in Nutrition, 2026Dr. Georgia Ede, Dr. Chris Palmer, and a group of doctors and researchers who published guidelines for ketogenic eating in mental illness. Extra inflammation is part of what those brains are dealing with.
• Rondanelli et al., Nutrients, 2024A review of randomized trials in overweight and obese adults. Ketogenic eating lowered a common blood marker of inflammation.
• Lennerz, Mey, Henn, Ludwig, Current Developments in Nutrition, 2021Survey of 2,029 adults on a carnivore diet for at least six months. Most said they felt better. Some who shared bloodwork said their inflammation marker had dropped. This is people reporting on themselves, not a randomized trial. It is still the largest published look at carnivore so far.
• O’Connor et al., Advances in Nutrition, 2021A review of randomized trials: plain red meat, for up to 16 weeks, did not raise inflammation in adults without heart or metabolic disease. The meat is not the fire. The packaged starch and sugar around it often are.

Talks and first-person reports

Stories are not trials. They are still how a lot of people first notice the fire going out: pain easing, swelling dropping, sleep returning. Watch, then read the papers above if you want.

• Dr. Georgia Ede — what the experts agree onShe helped write clinician guidelines in Frontiers in Nutrition for ketogenic eating in mental illness. She says sugar, starch, and seed oils raise inflammation.
• Dr. Georgia Ede — metabolic psychiatryHow ketogenic and carnivore eating can lower inflammation in the brain.
• Dr. Chris Palmer — brain energyHow the brain is fueled. Ketogenic eating can lower inflammation in the brain, not only change mood.
• Dr. Chris Palmer — the metabolic mindA longer talk. Ketogenic eating next to usual psychiatric care.
• Dr. Dominic D’Agostino — ketone metabolic therapyHe is a coauthor on the paper that showed ketones lower inflammation.
• Dr. Anthony Chaffee — why doctors resist carnivoreAmerican physician (The Plant Free MD). Why he thinks chronic inflammation and chronic disease start with what you eat, and why animal food is the proper human diet.
• The State of Carnivore with Dr. Anthony ChaffeeHow he uses carnivore and ketogenic eating in clinic: meat, fat, what to drop, and what people get wrong.
• Carnivore Medicine — Dr. Shawn Baker and Dr. Ken BerryTwo clinicians who treat with meat-based eating, on why they use it and what they see.
• Dr. Shawn Baker: carnivore beginner guideWhat the diet actually is, what people get wrong at the start, and why animal food is the whole meal.
• Dr. Ken Berry on carnivore, coffee, and dairyA family physician’s practical version of “proper human diet,” including where keto and carnivore sit.

This page will grow. If a video or paper belongs here, say so. The audio series is still the product: a true picture of what the tissue is supposed to do. What you eat is the other lever you actually have.