Dr. Berg Goes Carnivore for 2 Weeks

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 29 February 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

I switched to the carnivore diet for 2 weeks. Here's what happened.

In this podcast, I’m going to share my opinion of the carnivore diet after following it for 2 weeks. Not everyone does well on the same diet, so it’s important to experiment with different diets to find the right one for you.

Many people do very well on the carnivore diet! The carnivore diet can be very helpful for people with gut issues and autoimmune conditions.

While on the carnivore diet, I ate beef, pork, eggs, seafood, shellfish, and dairy. I discovered that I had been experiencing bloating due to my nut consumption. I didn’t experience any energy changes because I already have high energy.

For the first few days, I didn’t have any bowel movements. This was probably because my gut microbes needed to adjust.

Some people wonder about vitamin C intake on the carnivore diet. When you go on the carnivore diet, your need for vitamin C decreases.

I do not plan to continue the carnivore diet. I will continue eating the same proteins along with salads made from high-quality ingredients. I’ll also consume fermented vegetables like sauerkraut, kimchi, and pickles.

I love to add extra virgin olive oil, parmigiano reggiano, nutritional yeast, and feta cheese to my salads. The calcium in cheese binds to any oxalates that are in your salad, removing them from the digestive system.

I’ll also add berries to my diet, but I won’t be eating any nuts!

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0:00.0	So today I'm going to discuss what happened when I tried the carnivore diet for two weeks.
0:05.9	Okay, I think it's very important for everyone to experiment and try different diets because not every single person does well on one diet.
0:15.9	This concept of one size fits all that every single person needs to be on the same diet
0:20.8	is just not real because the body is very, very different. You have different
0:23.9	genetics, you have different environments, you have different body problems, what's good
0:28.4	for one person might not be the best for another. That being said, the
0:31.6	carnivore diet produces some really amazing results
0:34.8	for a lot of people and I'm talking about anyone with gut issues, autoimmune problems,
0:40.5	so what did I eat on this diet? Well, beef, pork, eggs, seafood, shellfish, and I did do dairy on this program as well. I did a lot of sheep cheese and I did a little
0:54.5	Kiefer and I didn't do a lot of organ meats. I just I don't like organ
0:59.8	meats but I did do fish liver as in cod liver and so this two-week test wasn't necessarily
1:06.3	a before and after in a blood test or anything like that it was mainly a
1:09.8	subjective test just to see how I felt.
1:13.0	And one thing I did really benefit from which I'm going to get into
1:17.0	is I did have some bloating that I didn't even know I was having.
1:21.0	And I'll tell you where the bloating was coming from. It wasn't coming from the vegetables that I was eating. It was coming from the nuts I was eating. I was doing an experiment trying to test out, would it be better to eat in the morning versus the afternoon
1:34.7	etc and what I basically concluded from all that is that to keep it simple I'm just
1:39.9	going to eat when I'm hungry now as far as some other things I've noticed, did I notice much change with
1:45.7	my energy? Not really because I normally have very high energies. Did I notice any change with my
1:52.0	bowel movements? And yes I did. In fact, the first few
1:55.2	days I didn't really go to the bathroom and then I started going. So I think what happened was there
2:01.5	was a bit of an adjustment by my microbes in my gut and this is always the big question that people want to know
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