utomp3.com - Dr Berg Goes Carnivore for 2 Weeks

The speaker discusses their experience trying the carnivore diet for two weeks. They emphasize the importance of experimenting with different diets as not every diet works for everyone. The carnivore diet has shown positive results for people with gut issues and autoimmune problems. The speaker mainly consumed beef, pork, eggs, seafood, shellfish, and some dairy. They noticed some bloating from nuts, not vegetables. They did not experience significant changes in energy levels but noticed changes in bowel movements. The speaker mentions the complexity of the microbiome and the need for further research. They also discuss the reduced need for vitamin C on the carnivore diet and the potential benefits and drawbacks of dairy consumption. They mention that the carnivore diet aims to minimize carb intake. The speaker mentions personalized testing to determine if the diet is suitable for an individual. They discuss the importance of metabolomics in predicting health conditions. The speaker co So today I'm going to discuss what happened when I tried the carnivore diet for two weeks, 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. This concept of one size fits all, that every single person needs to be on the same diet, is just not real because the body is very, very different. You have different genetics, you have different environments, you have different body problems. What's good for one person might not be the best for another. That being said, the carnivore diet produces some really amazing results for a lot of people, and I'm talking about anyone with gut issues, autoimmune problems. 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 kefir, and I didn't do a lot of organ meats. I don't like organ meats, but I did do fish liver, as in cobb liver, and so this two-week test wasn't necessarily a before and after on a blood test or anything like that. It was mainly a subjective test just to see how I felt, and one thing I did really benefit from, which I'm going to get into, is I did have some bloating that I didn't even know I was having, 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, et cetera, et cetera, and what I basically concluded from all that is that, to keep it simple, I'm just going to eat when I'm hungry. Now, as far as some other things I've noticed, did I notice much change with my energy? Not really, because I normally have very high energies. Did I notice any change with my bowel movements? Yes, I did. In fact, the first few days, I didn't really go to the bathroom, and then I started going, so I think what happened was there was a bit of an adjustment by my microbes in my gut, and this is always the big question that people want to know. If you're not feeding your microbes fiber, what are they living on? Well, the microbiome is an extremely complex topic, and time will tell. We don't have that figured out. I mean, there's people doing this carnivore diet for many years, and they do very well. As far as vitamin C goes, where am I getting my vitamin C? I think when you do the carnivore, the need for vitamin C goes way, way down, and I haven't heard anyone developing scurvy or any type of scurvy problems or vitamin C deficiency problems when they're on carnivore. In fact, they do have a lot of energy, and they have huge improvements. I also know people who do not do dairy on carnivore. I did it because I love dairy. I don't see and have a problem with dairy. I like European cheeses. I like goat's cheese. I like sheep cheese. I do not like processed cheese, and I don't have any of that, and I don't go crazy with excessive amounts, but I think there's a lot of benefits to high-quality cheese, but many people have reactions to that, and if you have gut inflammation, that might not be the best thing for you. Some people might say with dairy that there's a bit more carbs, and carnivore is zero carbs, but you can also make the argument about seafood. If you're doing shrimp or lobster or something like that, there's carbs in that. There's also carbs in organ meats too, and not a lot, but there is some. So when you're doing carnivore, we're basically bringing our carbs as close to zero as possible, and then there's a group of people who are doing the carnivore that then switch to meat, honey, and fruit, and et cetera. Personally, I'm not going in that direction. I don't recommend it for most people, so it doesn't make sense to me that that would be recommended to the general public. We have to look at the diet as something individual. If our mitochondria is healthy, and it can use various fuels, if someone's doing more carbs, they're burning those fuels, and it's not creating a problem, but for the majority of the population, you're going to create a problem if you start overwhelming that mitochondria. I've done some videos on this topic. I'm going to do more on this topic of metabolomic testing. That's basically a unique type of technology that allows someone to, instead of just looking at several biomarkers in your blood, you're looking at the entire picture of your biochemistry. So you can really visualize that Krebs cycle and each stage in the assembly line from food to energy. You can find out the specific areas that are bottlenecked, and from that, determine really what's going on so you get a much better picture of if the person is on the right diet. This is kind of like an individualized test that you can test yourself against yourself over time with a lot of data, and you can look into your biochemistry and see what's going on. It gives you prediction on various things because you can even predict diabetes decades before you get diabetes versus looking at your blood, thinking that, oh, yeah, I have normal blood glucose, so there's no chance of ever getting diabetes. Well, are you looking at insulin? Oh, no, we omitted that. You're just looking at blood glucose. So metabolomics, I think, is going to be the wave of the future as far as medicine and health care versus just focusing on your LDL or your other lipids. So getting back to the carnivore diet, the question is, will I continue the diet? No, I'm not going to continue it. I'm going to continue the same proteins, but I really miss my salad. And some people react with salad, and I'm not talking about consuming a lot of broccoli, which bloats the heck out of me, or certain vegetables that create more bloating, but I'm talking about arugula, high-quality romaine lettuce that I grow in my garden. I also miss the fermented vegetables like sauerkraut, pickles, kimchi, things like that. On my salad, I like to put the extra virgin olive oil. The one I like is from Italy. And I love to put the real Parmesan cheese. I think it's called Parmigiano-Reggiano. I probably butchered the pronunciation. I also like to put nutritional yeast on my salad. I love to put a side of cheese on the salad. And plus, when you add cheese on it, any oxalates that are left in there are bound with the calcium in the cheese, and they're taken right out through the digestive system. And I'm also going to include berries in the diet, but I'm not going to go back to the nuts. Anyway, I wanted to give you a quick update on what happened with my version of the carnivore diet, and I would love to hear your successes. If you're doing it as well, please comment down below. And since we're on the topic of the carnivore diet, I think it's really important to understand the health benefits of red meat. And if you haven't seen this video, check it out. I put it up right here.