Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

What If You Ate ONLY Meat for 30 Days?

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Jul 17, 2025

Discover the fascinating world of a meat-only diet and its surprising benefits! This discussion reveals how going carnivore can lead to rapid weight loss, improved gut health, and even clear up symptoms of insulin resistance. They challenge common dietary beliefs, arguing that eliminating grains and sugars transforms your microbiome. Plus, learn how a short-term carnivore experience can yield profound effects on your well-being, while exploring the long-term implications that experts often warn about.

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Carnivore Diet Works Short-Term

The carnivore diet is effective short-term for weight loss though long-term safety is less studied.
Short-term benefits include weight loss and improved well-being with few adverse effects observed in studies.

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Meat Diet Heals Gut Health

Eating only meat helps heal the gut by reducing inflammation and balancing bacteria in the digestive system.
Meat consumption supports bile salt activity which cleans the small intestine and reduces bloating.

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Keto State on Carnivore Diet

Dropping carbs to zero triggers ketosis leading to rapid weight loss and fluid reduction.
Excess fluid from high-carb diets is lost, which is a healthy effect when starting meat-only eating.

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“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.