I am a doctor and an engineer…and I totally agree that doctors are unhelpful regarding nutrition.

In fact, my secret weapon to outperforming all my medical school classmates on the pathology mini-board exam was to study the nutrition chapter in a pathology course outline from a different institution. We simply never covered nutrition in our pathology class, and the best way to perform better than those who know everything you know is to learn something they didn’t.

That said, carnivore is not a realistic diet for many people because of the cost. Even if it works great, which I feel it does for me these past two years, it’s not medically appropriate to recommend if it’s unrealistic for the patient…and it’s not clear that adding saturated fat to an otherwise shitty American diet is safe; there’s evidence to the contrary in fact…also, as doctors we are first and foremost there to make recommendations that have a chance at helping. Otherwise it’s wasted time/money/effort.