Paul Saladino, MD, is an American physician and health influencer known for his advocacy of specific dietary approaches and his company, Heart & Soil. He gained prominence as a leading proponent of the carnivore diet, a primarily or exclusively meat-based diet, which he detailed in his 2020 book, *The Carnivore Code*. This book was described by *The New Yorker* as the closest thing the Paleo diet movement has to a manifesto, with Saladino famously describing plants as "poison.