For Roberto, the simple pleasure of wearing a t-shirt in the summer was a luxury he couldn’t afford. Since the age of seven, he had been at war with his own skin, battling a severe and extensive form of psoriasis that covered his elbows, his back, and his entire scalp.
“It was not pleasurable,” Roberto recalls with quiet dignity. “I had to hide it.” Even though he was athletic and fit, the fiery red patches made him feel anything but healthy. The stigma was perhaps worse than the physical pain. “When people used to meet me… I had people ask me, ‘Roberto, what do you have on your head? What is that?’ They feared it was contagious.”
“A Nightmare of Seven Cold Showers a Night”
As he entered his thirties, a new terror emerged: Urticaria, commonly known as hives. This wasn’t just a simple itch; it was an all-consuming, unbearable fire that made sleep impossible. “I used to take seven or maybe 10 cold showers a night,” he shares. “Every 15 to 30 minutes, because it was unbearable.”
Like millions of others, Roberto sought help from specialists. He saw dermatologist after dermatologist, and the script was always the same: stronger cortisone creams, more antihistamines. “No doctors were ever able to tell me what I could do to improve my condition,” he says. “They were all prescribing meds… it was always about treating the symptoms, but not the cause.” The drugs would work for a week, then the effect would vanish, leaving Roberto more desperate than before.
Desperation and the “Sea of Red”
He began to intuitively understand that the standard medical approach was a dead end. Roberto realized he had to “figure out all by myself” what was poisoning his body. He started looking online and discovered stories of people healing through radical dietary shifts. He tried Keto, but even then, his body was so “desperate” that “every vegetable that I used to touch and eat gave me a reaction.”
That was the turning point. He realized he needed to clear the slate completely. There could be “only meat on the table, and animal fat.”
Week One: The Fire Goes Out
Roberto committed to a strict “Lion Diet”—ruminant meat, salt, and water. The results were nothing short of miraculous. “The urticaria started going away after a week.” The unbearable itching, the seven cold showers a night—all vanished, almost overnight.
The psoriasis, his companion for 25 years, was the next to go. It “disappeared completely after around 3 months.” For the first time in his adult life, Roberto’s scalp, elbows, and back were clear. “This was something completely unexpected for me,” he admits.
But the physical healing was just the beginning. The constant fatigue and “mental fog” he had accepted as normal lifted. “I soon realized that I started to sleep like a baby,” he says. “The mental clarity that I experienced was unbelievable… I don’t know what depression is. I’m always happy.”
A Global Message
Today, at 36, Roberto is in the best shape of his life, a visual refutation of all the warnings his family, friends, and doctors once gave him about eliminating carbohydrates. He runs a successful Italian YouTube channel, Diario Carnivoro (Carnivore Diary), where he documents his journey and shares historical research about the meat-only diet. He has even appeared on Italian national television to share his story.
For Roberto, the carnivore diet isn’t just about clear skin; it’s about claiming a species-appropriate way of eating that allows for optimal human function. He no longer wears long sleeves in the summer to hide his skin. Instead, he uses his platform to inspire others to look past the symptoms and finally find the cause.
