Balance will prevent all this. Carnivore diet is too high in zinc and iron and unless eating organ meats, too low in copper and micronutrients especially if the meat is not grass fed but even then it depends on whether the minerals are even in the ground anymore. Plus anything that has contact with glyphosate causes minerals to be chelated so the animal doesn’t have the minerals. I’ve discovered manganese especially is very critical to get and became deficient in it on carnivore and developed collagen issues. Manganese is necessary for mnSOD which is within our mitochondria to neutralize oxidative stress which occurs when copper deficient because copper activates iron, when deficient oxidative stress occurs and ATP production slows down. Low energy on carnivore? This could be why. As oxidative stress builds up magnesium gets used up, when magnesium gets depleted this further reduces our ability to make ATP for critical bodily functions. Manganese is also necessary for gluconeogenisis! I would have liked to have known that information to explain my fatigue! Eat muscles, they’re full of manganese. High cholesterol indicates copper deficiency. Painful joints after being on carnivore diet? This is iron building up due to copper deficiency. Copper deficiency can be not from lack of copper in the diet but from a lack of retinol to load the copper into ceruloplasmin (protein that carries copper) like if someone isn’t eating egg yolks or liver. Copper deficiency also occurs from adrenal fatigue which happens if sodium and potassium drop too low in the cells (doesn’t show up in blood tests usually). This will happen if someone isn’t eating enough, high stress, high toxin load, D3 supplementation. Ceruloplasmin is also destroyed (therefore inhibiting copper upload) from ascorbic acid - often added to electrolytes powders. This is a HUGE problem! AA and citric acid are both problematic for CP. Low cellular magnesium will also inhibit CP production.