Joe Rogan Reports Back After a Month on Carnivore Diet

Rebel Wilson is committed to losing weight. She's lost a ton of weight and people are mad at her. Are they really? Yeah, they're mad at her. Because she's... They like her being big. They like her being big because she's big and I'm big and everyone's big and it's okay to be big. And I heard it's healthy to be big. And so like people are criticizing her for losing weight. Oh, come on. They're criticizing Adele as well. Oh really? Yeah, they said Adele, they're angry that Adele lost weight because they love the fact that she was this huge musical superstar and she was obese. So she wanted to take care of her health. She's trying to be healthy. Live a little longer and then... You're turning on us. Well, she became a role model for certain people, I guess. And they... Good, be a role model for you to get healthy. We can all get healthy. Yeah, come on. Stay away from Tom's bread. Eat only meat. Just don't eat it all the time. You just don't eat this all the time. Yes. Well, I didn't gain any weight this weekend. I didn't gain any weight. I ate all that shit and then I fasted Sunday night until Monday. I went to yoga Monday morning. Didn't eat until right before my first podcast and I didn't gain any weight at all. It's great. Yeah, but it's a cool... Moderation, moderation. It's eating like shit over... But what was interesting was the pains. Back pain, knee pain. What is that? It's inflammation. It's inflammation. Your body does not want to have to process all that stuff. They think that may be the root for many people of a lot of causes of pain and discomfort is just inflammation, heavy diet, sugar. Sugar is the big one. If you get all of that out of your system, your body can go to work on stuff it has to go to work on? Yeah, you get all that shit out of your system and your body doesn't experience inflammation from your food. If you're eating food like grass-fed beef, or in my case, elk, or I'm sure veg, you know, vegetables are not bad for you. I just did it to try to find what it's like to only eat meat. When you have no carbohydrates, one of the things that's most amazing is that there's no crashing. You would eat and you don't feel any different after you ate other than the fact that you don't feel hungry. Like you don't crash. There's no ups and downs and peaks and valleys. My energy levels were amazing. Really? How quickly? Extra energy. How quickly? Two weeks in. It felt amazing. Really? And I was shedding weight. I was shedding a lot of weight. I think it was like seven pounds down, two weeks in. Jeez. Now I'm 12 pounds down, 12-ish, something like that. I was 193 this morning. I was weighing about 205 before I started this diet. Really? Yeah. Man, oh man. I feel a lot better. Like a lot better. Really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So what would you recommend? Would you recommend people just do that or do you think you moderate that? I think for people who have an autoimmune disorder, there are... I do believe there are certain people that have an adverse reaction to some plants, some foods. That's what an elimination diet is all about. It's like trying to find out what are the things that bother you. But for me, it's like what I did is I just took a lot of multivitamins. I took a bunch of different vitamins and nutrients and supplements on top of this carnivore diet. So I'm only eating meat, but then I'm taking all the essential vitamins and amino acids and I'm also taking fish oil. So I'm covering all my nutritional bases, but I'm not doing it with food. I'm not doing it with plants. I'm only eating grass-fed meat or elk. And then on top of that, I'm taking in fat from bacon. Like bacon, I needed fat because elk in particular is very lean. Really? If I'm only eating elk. If I eat grass-fed beef, I'm fine. But with things like elk, you really do need some extra sources of fat. If you don't have fat, would you start to feel bad? Yeah, your body doesn't like it. Your body does not want a low-fat diet with low carbohydrates. There's a thing called rabbit starvation. Have you ever heard of that? People got that in Antarctica. I think it was Antarctica. In the cold climates where they were shooting rabbits and eating rabbits and they were literally starving to death even though they were eating all these rabbits because rabbits have no fat on them. So they're only eating this lean protein, but with no fat at all and you start feeling like shit. Even explorers have found that too. When they were living in places and trying to eat only the foods that they could harvest off the land, they're eating animals, they had to take in fat. If you don't take in fat, you feel really bad. So a little bit, so you could balance it. Would you say maybe 80%? This is what I would say. Try it. Just try a carnivore diet. Try it straight out. I think you'll be amazed at how good you feel. Now here's the thing. Is that a honeymoon thing? What is it like if you extend that to 90 days or 365 days? You're going to feel like shit eventually? Is it going to start breaking your body down? I don't know. I only have experience in 30 days, but in my experience in 30 days, it was enormously beneficial. You did say something in your post about a explosive diarrhea. It needs to have a new name. Diarrhea is not strong enough for what I was experiencing. For real? Yeah, it was like someone was tapping into an oil well. Ah, jeez. I have pictures. So why was that happening? Well I talked to Dr. Sean Baker. He wrote a book on the carnivore diet. He's a physician that's a carnivore diet advocate. He's been eating this way for two years. Two years? Yep, and he seems to think that it has to do with the colon adjusting to the fact your body doesn't have any dietary fiber. So you're not taking in any rice or bread or anything that's going to absorb the water. So your body's like, what do I do with all this liquid? It's going out the asshole. How long did that last? Around two weeks. Two weeks? Two weeks of rocket fuel coming out of your booty hole. Ah, jeez. But if you get through it, you get through it. And Tom Segura's going through it right now. He is? Yeah, yeah, yeah. He sent me a text the other day saying, this diarrhea is astounding. Oh, no. Oh, astonishing. That's what he said. Astonishing. It's not coffee, is it? Because you guys both drink coffee. I'm just asking just a general question. I mean, some of you guys both intake a lot. Bro, it could be all kinds of liquids. Whatever kinds of liquids are coming out of your butt, it's not normal. I was really getting excited about trying this. But here's the thing. At the end of that, it all goes away. Right. At the end of two weeks, my body adjusted and now it's not a problem at all. Really? Yeah, not a problem at all. Now... So what's breakfast? Steak. Or eggs. Sometimes, like this morning, it was steak. Yesterday morning, I ate six eggs. Right? Yeah. Just woof those down. Lunch? I don't eat lunch. Don't eat lunch. Just usually two meals a day. Right. And then the second meal is usually steak. No, steak. Either elk or a beef steak. I think I've asked you this before, but whenever I think about these diet things, I always picture my family looking at me while they're eating pasta or eating... Do you feel like an outlier at dinner with your family? No, they knew what I was doing. They didn't make fun of me and shit. No big deal. Oh, what are you eating, steak? Eat steak again? Right. My kids are hilarious. Yeah, that's what I always... My kids mock me too. It's good. That's healthy. Yeah. Yeah. You know, they didn't mind. Yeah? No, nobody bothered. My wife didn't care. Everyone knew I was doing it, so it was okay. Right. Yeah. Your wife's not like, come on, have ice cream with us. No. Boy, that'd be a problem if she was. Yeah. You know? If it looked so good. No, ice cream looks good. Yeah. Yeah. No, it was an eye-opener, but here's the thing... Yeah. Sorry, here's the thing about that kind of stuff. You kind of have to commit. Right. Like if you just say, I'm going to try to eat healthier, it's too loosely defined. I know. I know. I was doing the intermittent fasting and lost a good amount of weight, and then it just kind of plateaued, and I feel like I'd like to be 10 pounds lighter. And I'm working out, I'm doing all that stuff, but I feel like it needs something to shock my system to go to it. Nothing will shock your system like this carnivore diet, including your butthole. But you will lose a lot of weight. I lost a legitimate 12 pounds of fat. Just fat. My face got thinner. Yeah, you look thinner. My face, I would feel... Actually, it feels a little fatter now because I went through Disneyland. Some Disney chunks. Disney ice cream. I ate a lot of dessert. And you just had bread. Actually, not really any fatter, but joking around. Maybe I'm a little swollen. No, you look leaner for real. I was getting fat. I was developing a gut. We did this weigh-in thing, and so many people mocked me. I was getting a gut, though. My stomach was hanging out. Also, when we came in here to do that, it was December 23rd, and my family was in town, and we had eaten pigs that day. I was considerably bloated with food as well. Because it was nighttime. We had a nighttime podcast. It was like 10 o'clock or something like that. It was a pretty late podcast when we all took our clothes off and got on the scale. I knew I was probably going to do the carnivore diet anywhere, but that was like, yeah, let's just do it. Let's just do it. Set it in my head. Let's just do it. Knowing that for the month of January, that was all that I was going to eat, that really helps if you're going to try to stick to something, to have a real solid schedule. Right. This is the month. Like sober October is another perfect example for me. Lent. Yeah, when we do sober October, we have one month, no booze, no pot, no nothing. There's something good about that. We have that month. Because it takes it out all that mushy brain stuff of, oh, but maybe I'll just now, or we're celebrating. Yeah. You need a certain amount of rigidity occasionally. That's how you get shit done. Yeah. And I mean, even if you are writing, if you said, I am going to write every day for the month of February. Yeah. Every day. Yeah. There's something to that. It's the routine. Yeah. So something really beneficial. I'm going to write for one half an hour every day. If you do that, you get things done. It's really true. If you just decide, I'm going to go on a carnivore diet for the next 30 days starting right now, and just count down on your calendar 30 days from now. You will fucking lose weight and you'll feel amazing. Yeah. I just don't know if it's a way to eat all the time. No, that's the thing. It's like, it seems like an extreme thing that I would not be willing to maintain. Well, you're the bread master. Well, that's the thing. You're the Sultan of Sauer. That's why I want balance. I'm always searching for the right balance. I think a great move is six days on, one day off. That's what I think. Six days on a rigid diet, one day where you look forward to eating bread and pasta and drinking whatever you want and having ice cream. One day.