Nutrition

Paul Saladino Animal-Based Macros: Protein, Fat, Fruit Carbs, and Liver Dosing

Site calculator norms: ~1.0–1.2 g protein per lb goal weight, activity-scaled fruit/honey carbs, liver ~2–3 oz/week. Elimination diet—not medical nutrition therapy.

BY MARCUS CHEN 4 MIN READ 3 SOURCES

Measuring tape beside steak, fruit, and small liver portion on kitchen scale, no people — Illustration: Health Canon

In short

Animal-based macros: protein ~1.0–1.2 g/lb goal weight, fatty-meat fat, fruit/honey carbs ~0.7–1.7 g/lb by activity, liver ~2–3 oz/week. Elimination diet with weak hard-outcome proof versus Med/DASH.

Before debating philosophy, inventory the plate: meat, organs, fruit, honey, optional dairy—and explicit exclusion of grains, legumes, most vegetables, seed oils, and ultra-processed foods. Macros are the operational form of the brand.

This article is informational and editorial only. It is not medical advice, diagnosis, or a treatment plan. Numbers and literature ranges cited here are not personal prescriptions. Consult a qualified clinician before changing medications, supplements, diet, equipment, or management of a diagnosed condition. Seek urgent care for emergencies.

What foods define the current animal-based pattern?

Core foods on official pages: meat, organs, fruit, honey, and raw dairy if tolerated.

Paul’s example days often show large fruit loads, fatty meat, organ products, and raw milk volumes—useful as illustration, not as a prescription for your labs.

Desiccated organ capsules appear as adherence bridges; separate food composition from supplement marketing.

How are macros scaled on the calculator?

Protein multiplies goal body weight; fat is supplied by fatty cuts rather than seed oils; carbs scale with weekly activity bands from fruit and honey.

Sample mid-calorie plates can land near ~2,300–3,000 kcal depending on targets—energy still matters for weight change.

Never treat calculator outputs as individualized medical nutrition therapy for CKD, pregnancy, or eating-disorder history.

Key reference points
Parameter	Site-class norm	Caveat
Protein	~1.0–1.2 g × goal lb	Not individualized MNT
Meat heuristic	≥1 lb / 100 lb BW	Quality + total energy matter
Carbs	~0.7–1.7 g/lb fruit/honey	Activity-scaled
Liver	~2–3 oz/week	Retinol/pregnancy caution
Raw dairy	Optional marketing	FDA pathogen warnings

What gaps and excesses should readers watch?

Fruit improves vitamin C and potassium versus strict cooked carnivore; magnesium and iodine still depend on food choices or fortification/supplements.

Chronic heavy liver raises retinol and copper ceilings; men with iron overload risk need ferritin vigilance.

Raw dairy is optional and pathogen-risk; pasteurized is the safer default framing.

How should the pattern be graded as a whole?

As universal human optimum: Grade D. As UPF-removal simplification that may improve short-term markers for some: Grade C with monitoring.

Hard-outcome defaults remain Mediterranean/DASH-class high-fiber patterns until animal-based RCTs with events exist.

If used experimentally, pre-specify labs (lipids/ApoB, ferritin, CMP, hormones as indicated) and stop rules.

Sources: Animal-based diet + calculator; PREDIMED 2018; FDA raw milk dangers.

Readers should dual-source primary literature, translate slogans into exposure units and effect sizes, and rank interventions by expected value under uncertainty. Cheap reversible steps often outrank extreme protocols. Opportunity cost is real: hours spent on unvalidated tests are hours not spent on sleep, training, protein adequacy, and primary care. Sex, life stage, comorbidities, medications, and geography change interpretation. Prefer falsifiable claims with named endpoints over multi-disease cure lists. Update beliefs when stronger trials appear rather than freezing identity around a single paper or influencer narrative. Measured curiosity beats both panic and complacency. Further reading should prioritize primary sources and consensus documents over secondary social summaries. When evidence is mixed, state both the signal and the limits in the same paragraph. When evidence is strong, still avoid overclaiming universality across populations.

Context, dose, endpoint, and population must travel together; slogans that drop any of those four are not finished claims.

Sources & citations

Frequently asked

Questions & answers

What protein target does the animal-based calculator use?

Published calculator copy targets roughly 1.0–1.2 grams of protein per pound of goal body weight, with a meat heuristic of about one pound of meat per 100 pounds of body weight. A 150 lb goal example often lands near 150–180 g protein (~1.5–1.8 lb meat). These are influencer protocol norms—not ISSN sports-nutrition prescriptions individualized by a dietitian.

Where do carbohydrates come from?

Primarily fruit and honey, scaled by activity (site multipliers roughly 0.7–1.7 g carbohydrate per pound goal weight from low to very high activity). Medium activity examples may show ~150–225 g carbs for a mid-weight adult. Vegetables, grains, and legumes remain largely excluded. That is a structured elimination pattern, not balanced omnivory.

How much liver is recommended?

Protocol pages commonly cite about 0.5 oz liver per day or 2–3 oz per week, plus rotation of other organs (heart, kidney, marrow, etc.), with desiccated capsules as an alternative for people unwilling to cook organs. Food-composition density is real; disease-cure claims for capsules are not. Pregnancy requires separate retinol limits.

Is raw dairy required?

No. It is optional in animal-based marketing and high-risk from a food-safety standpoint. FDA warns that unpasteurized milk can carry serious pathogens. Fermentation does not erase the raw-milk risk narrative. Pasteurized dairy if tolerated is the safety-aligned default—especially for pregnancy, infants, and immunocompromised people.

How does this compare to Mediterranean evidence?

DASH and Mediterranean patterns emphasize vegetables, whole grains, nuts, and olive oil with hard-outcome trial and cohort support (e.g., PREDIMED). Animal-based is orthogonal: meat-forward, plant-sparse by design. Grade “optimal for humans” as D; grade “structured whole-food elimination that may help some via UPF removal/weight change” as C at best.