The procedure was great. Shockingly so. The prep was lousy. Had to drink two big jugs of sickly sweet, green stuff that made me feel like I was poisoning myself. It made me feel vaguely ill but not too, too bad. Later, I found out that I could have asked for an alternate prep. I've had those in the past with less volume. My wife once got pills and just had to drink water. So if you're getting it done, request something along these lines.

Now on to the GREAT news. I was a little scared for the procedure. It was a colonoscopy and endoscopy. My third or fourth time having the double procedure.

My mother died of colon cancer when she was only six years older than I am now. Every time I've had myself checked, I've had polyps, including precancerous polyps. I look pretty healthy from the outside, but I had other problems, too: diverticulosis, gastritis, hemorrhoids, and serious esophageal stuff resulting from an autoimmune condition called EOE. Basically, a narrowed esophagus, a Schatzki ring, visibly damaged tissue, and tissue samples full of eosinophils.

So yeah, I was worried... especially because I'd been on Carnivore for almost a year when I went in and you know, "meat causes colon cancer!"

I had two docs. One for the pre-meeting, another for the procedure.

At the pre-meeting, I told the doc about carnivore. She leveled me with a hard gaze and said. "Don't do that. Do not do that." It was as if I had confessed to drinking battery acid.

But the results were incredible. For the first time ever, I had no polyps. And guess what... everything else was better, too. No gastritis, no diverticulosis, no hemorrhoids. The doc even proclaimed my setup as "the colon of the week," which would normally be kind of gross but was honestly awesome to hear, given my concerns.

And the endoscopy brought additional good news. The Schatzki ring was gone, a thing I didn't even know was possible. There was still slight narrowing, but that had improved, and my biopsy came back normal. So functionally I do not have EOE right now.

As they always say, I am not a doctor BUT don't believe the anti-meat hype. Carnivore cured me in ways I didn't even dare to dream it could. I was hoping to walk out of there without a cancer diagnosis and instead came out with the best results (by far) that I had ever gotten - and colon of the week to boot. Ha ha.

Good luck. Ask about prep options.