#364 – AMA #75: Diets: how to evaluate and implement any diet including keto, carnivore, vegan, Mediterranean, and more

Hey, everyone. Welcome to a sneak peek. Ask me anything or AMA episode of the Drive podcast. I'm your host, Peter Attia. At the end of this short episode, I'll explain how you can access the AMA episodes in full along with a ton of other membership benefits we've created. Or you can learn more now by going to peterattiamd.com forward slash subscribe. So without further delay, here's today's sneak peek of the Ask Me Anything episode. Welcome to Ask Me Anything AMA episode 75. In today's AMA, we're taking a closer look at how to choose a diet for yourself rather than which diet is the best of them all. I start by laying out the five nonnegotiables every sustainable eating pattern must hit. Energy balance, metabolic health, adequacy of protein, micronutrient sufficiency, and long term adherence. From there, we introduce a simple rubric. First, define the diet's rules, then pinpoint its strengths and ideal users, and finally, surface the potential pitfalls so you can make corrections when necessary. With that framework, I walk through the four diets you asked about most, ketogenic, carnivore, vegan, and Mediterranean, to show how to apply the framework. We discuss why I'm aiming this episode at the majority of people who feel confused, not the diet zealots, so everyone has a common sense road map, a deep dive into each of the five nonnegotiables for any diet and how missing even one can sink long term results, applying the define strengths weaknesses rubric to keto, carnivore, vegan, and Mediterranean diets, highlighting metabolic effects, micronutrient gaps, and adherence hurdles, Practical ways to track progress, DEXA scans, important lab metrics like fasting insulin, hemoglobin a one c, CGMs, and simple symptoms to log so you know whether a diet is actually working. Why there's no single perfect diet and instead the best diet meets those five core needs and your current goals, and how to iterate as life changes. If you're a subscriber and you wanna watch the full video of this podcast, you can find it on the show notes page. And if you're not a subscriber, you can watch the sneak peek of this video on our YouTube page. So without further delay, I hope you enjoy AMA seventy five. Peter, welcome to another Ask Me Anything. How you feeling? I'm honored to be back. Thank you for having me. Do you ever think about just sleeping in the podcast studio so you can just be ready at any given moment if we need you to record something? I think there are times when my wife would like that. We should just, on the other side of the table in the studio, just put a tent, and every now and then, you and the boys just camp in the studio. Could work. That could work. Alright. Speaking of the boys, quick chess update. We had a little chess tournament, in house chess tournament this weekend. I made it to the finals with the …