Shawn talks to Dr Shawn Baker a doctor, athlete, father, and proponent of a carnivorous lifestyle. Dr Baker is a world-class athlete, with several titles of Champions and Record Holders to his name. He has managed to break three world records in an age of 50 plus after turning a full carnivore. He talks about the Carnivore diet in detail, about its nutrition and health benefits. He talks about the sleep benefits he has received from the diet and an overall feeling of feeling good and pleasant. He is coming up with a book where it contains in-depth about adapting and living a Carnivore diet lifestyle.   KEY TAKEAWAYS A conventional doctor who has done a lot of work in Orthopaedics talks about his work beyond that. I am a trainer as an Orthopaedic surgeon in the United States. I definitely was a conventionally trained allopathic doctor, MD. I did that for a number of years, quite enjoyed that, had some interesting experience for a time. I wanted to practice military surgeon, spent a lot of time doing war trauma in places like Afghanistan. I have been a nuclear weapons officer, an athlete for most of my life. I was World Champion in Highland Games for the Masters Class, All American Masters Athlete Track and Fuel Athlete, I was National Record Holder and Powerlifter. So I have had a different background than a lot of people. In my 40s my health started to go not in the way I wanted it to with regards to putting on weight, blood pressure, metabolism and so forth. Despite the fact that I was still training intensely, being in athletics I started running in issues with health, nutrition, lifestyle and that's what has brought me to where I am today, nearly a decade later.  Journey around nutrition. You learn about vitamin nutrient deficiencies, you learn the basics about macronutrients, amino acids and essential fats. In medical schools, you don't really get much as far as how nutrition potentially has a role in mitigating or treating or even potentially curing certain diseases. You are told people eat junk food, they eat too much, you're lazy, no exercise. That's the kind of background information you take away from medical school. As I came to find out with myself that nutrition has a much greater role in not just maintaining some healthy body weight but in every single disease process we deal with. In even acute diseases, nutrition plays a role in healing potential surgical patients. Nutrition plays a tremendous role with chronic diseases like epidemics, pandemics. Even some genetic disorders seem to respond to nutrition.  Nutrition led to carnivorism. That was being objective about what was going on with my personal health. It was experimenting to see what actually works for me and be open enough to explore what things are out there and what things I can try. It was not like one day I decided I'm gonna eat a bunch of meat. This is an evolutionary process. It took 7, 8 years. I was never happy with a low-fat diet, I was hungry constantly, never satisfied with the food. Therefore I thought this is not sustainable for the long term. With my desire to compete athletically I started to look into the potential benefits of animal source nutrition. I started looking into how the weightlifters and bodybuilders had done it. I came across a community of people who were doing a carnivore style diet. They have been doing it for close to two decades. They were seemingly doing extremely well in exhibiting vitamin health, no medical issues. I thought I'm gonna try it for a short period of time, for a couple of days a steak and eggs diet. I did that for a few days in a row and then change it up. In late, 2016 I thought I would do it for 30 days. I went back to my standard diet after 30 days and after a day or two, I did not feel as good. I felt fatigued, I felt pains started to come back. I went back to the meat-based diet. For me, it is