I’ve seen some discussion about the need to occasionally spike insulin on a carnivore diet. That some people will have issues if they don’t eat a large bolus of protein, but break up their eating into many small meals and thus never have a occasional insulin spike.

I haven’t seen any research on this, just speculation by Bart Kay. Mechanistically it is appealing, but I wonder what experience or data other people have seen?

TLDR its better to eat one big protein meal then many small protein snacks while doing carnivore.

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    5 days ago

    Always having elevated insulin is bad

    Never having a insulin spike is also bad (research? where?)

    Therefore the ideal scenario is mostly low insulin with very infrequent spikes.

    Something like that, I’ve seen this as a mechanistic explanation for why some long term carnivores like Saladino had issues