What If You Ate ONLY Meat for 30 Days?
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 17 July 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
“Experts” often discredit the carnivore diet by planting seeds of doubt and uncertainty. Claims that the carnivore diet could be dangerous in the long term discourage people from trying it. Amidst claims that a meat-only diet could be dangerous, our current dietary standards leave the population riddled with chronic disease.
When first starting a meat-only diet, most people lose excess water weight. Your carbs are essentially dropped to zero, so you quickly get into ketosis. A 30-day carnivore diet can also improve gut health and digestion, and boost weight loss.
Plants and fiber are not the best options for healing the gut. Adding fiber to an inflamed gut will only make matters worse. Plants also do not contain vital amino acids.
When you go on a 30-day carnivore diet, you stop consuming grains, the source of most of our sugar consumption. Refined starch made from grains will spike your blood sugar even higher than actual sugar. Most grains are genetically modified, sprayed with chemicals, and contain traces of glyphosate, which is classified as an antibiotic.
When you eliminate sugar and refined grains from the diet, you stop feeding the pathogens in your microbiome. This can starve and eliminate an overgrowth of fungus, candida, and yeast.
Insulin resistance is primarily caused by the consumption of sugar and starches. You may notice that diseases or symptoms related to insulin resistance will disappear after only eating meat for 30 days.
As your gut heals and inflammation decreases, you can absorb more vitamin D. Healing your gut also positively affects your brain, improving mood disorders such as anxiety and depression.
For the best carnivore diet results, consume the whole animal, including bone broth, skin, and organ meats. Incorporating fish, shellfish, and eggs in a 30-day carnivore diet is also beneficial.
Dr. Eric Berg DC Bio:Dr. Berg, age 60, is a chiropractor who specializes in Healthy Ketosis & Intermittent Fasting. He is the Director of Dr. Berg Nutritionals and author of the best-selling book The Healthy Keto Plan. He no longer practices, but focuses on health education through social media.
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| 0:00.0 | What would actually happen if you consume only meat for 30 days? |
| 0:05.0 | I think the best way to figure this out is to go to the experts. |
| 0:07.0 | This is my big fear for these people. |
| 0:09.0 | If you do it for a month and you lose 20 pounds and you feel better, great. |
| 0:12.0 | But 20 years from now, your risk of heart disease and cancer and other medical problems are going to be very significant. |
| 0:18.0 | It's very difficult, if not impossible, to debunk the carnivore diet or eating meat short term because people lose a lot of weight. This is what they do. This is just like a playbook that even the tobacco industry used, and that is to seed doubt or uncertainty. Yes, it works in the short term, but we don't know long term, it might be very dangerous. |
| 0:37.9 | If you are a carnivore lover and you really love the carnivore, please organize a randomized |
| 0:41.5 | control trial and please show us somehow that A, it's going to help in the short term, |
| 0:44.9 | but B, more importantly, the long term. |
| 0:47.0 | A year long investigation of two people in Bellevue Medical Hospital who are eating an exclusive |
| 0:52.8 | carnivore diet. And during that |
| 0:54.6 | period of time, these people experience no negative effects, no dangerous changes in blood pressure, |
| 0:59.1 | kidney function. They only experienced good things, a little bit of weight loss and came out of the |
| 1:03.0 | study saying that they felt better than when they started. Has there been anything since 1930 with |
| 1:07.5 | more than two people? Discourging people from even trying it. While we spend $4.7 trillion |
| 1:12.6 | on our health care and what do we have to show for it? A lot of chronic disease. We've tested this |
| 1:18.5 | balanced diet for decades. And then the flip side, we have the longest trial ever in history. |
| 1:25.0 | It's called evolution. Hunter gatherers ate a lot of meat for a very long time, and we survived. In fact, we thrived. What's new in our diet is Pop-Tarts. It's the seed oils. When someone starts to eat just meat, okay, nothing else. The first thing that's going to happen is they're going to lose a lot of excess fluid. Some people say that's a bad thing if you're losing too much |
| 1:44.9 | fluid, but you have to realize that if you're on a high-carb diet, you're carrying around a tremendous |
| 1:49.6 | amount of extra fluid. So getting rid of that is actually a healthy thing. Because we drop our |
| 1:54.4 | carbohydrates down to zero, we enter into ketosis. We start losing weight like we've never lost weight before. That's just the tip of the |
| 2:02.7 | iceberg. There's something actually even bigger that happens. You heal your gut. vast majority of people |
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