 The buff dudes are a fitness channel with over two million YouTube followers had recently tried a vegan diet for 30 days And now they're going carnivore for 30 days. I reached out to them via email about two weeks ago Didn't expect a response and I didn't get one as I speculated they were going to completely Bosch the diet and Let's just say Frankie boy was right before we go into what they did Why is there so much publicity around the carnivore diet? Pretty simple actually after years and years of the media saying oh meat is bad for you fear mongering Suddenly no one's eating meat. It's going bad on grocery store shelves sales have plummeted There was even a media blitz several months ago towards the end of September saying that red meat is suddenly okay hmm Apparently that wasn't enough because now they're shoving the corn of war diet down our throats get it corn Ivor someone has to eat their cheap feedlot meat Let's see what the buff dudes are up to we tried the carnivore diet. Here's what happened But first the carnivore diet. What the hell is it? Carnivore is a zero-carb diet restricted to beef fish poultry and other animal products like eggs that means no greens Nuts beans or really anything that doesn't bleed benefits of the carnivore diet may include weight loss improved mood mental clarity and blood sugar regulation However, the diet is extremely restrictive and some say it's possibly unhealthy in the long term Although some will consume products on the carnivore diet such as coffee and dairy We're going hardcore just meat and water for 30 days And we'll be doing it from two perspectives one from the family man and two from the bachelor. Here we go wish us luck Where meat is found especially in bulk, I mean that thankfully something like this you it simplifies your shopping Because you're really only looking for a few things no nuts There's no greens. There's no carbohydrates of any sort We don't know nothing just meat meat pretty simple shopping, but there's a few things you have to remember When even chopping for me some meats are a little bit better than others meat So chicken for us is normally on the menu, but with the carnivore diet You want to remember the fat seeing as you're cutting out carbs You're gonna want to up not only the protein, but the fats as well have a healthy mix have fats higher than protein So these are 99% protein We're gonna want something a little fattier which is what we're gonna grab now salmon wild caught really good stuff plenty of protein But a lot of fat which is what we're after so one down, but we got a lot of meat to go So you're gonna have your go-tos and ribeye is definitely one of them as Brandon was saying earlier the nice thing about this diet There's really only a couple things to get ground beef and When selecting all these meats You're really gonna want to go for grass-fed because you're gonna be eating a lot of it So you're gonna want to make sure it tastes good more meat, but Sometimes you got to check the back than nutrition facts because there's a little bit more than just meat The first ingredient is gonna be chicken the second bacon But after that the third one is sugar, which is what we want to avoid There's more than one ingredient on the list You probably shouldn't grab it and that's a good rule to go by because we're really trying to stick with just protein Just fats just the bare essentials meat a lot of this because that's gonna be our breakfast staple bacon and eggs Really simple very tasty Gonna need a lot of it Me doesn't get any more free-range than this you buy this you get everything. This is a carnivore carnivore practitioners dream Me I feel like we need Brandon right now to say something a particular four-letter word Me Sakeye salmon is not fatty at all It's actually one of the leanest species of salmon rib eye steak is not a staple of the carnivore diet I guess if you're cornivore Sean Baker or Michaela Peterson Possibly, but it's not practical. It's very expensive and it doesn't have enough fat They did recommend grass-fed organic free-range ground beef I'm assuming that was more because it just happened to be what they had in their cart as opposed to understanding the importance Because they didn't mention it was 85% lean 15% fat again to lean for the carnivore diet I can't believe they jumped into this without a basic understanding of macronutrient ratios that 80% of the calories in your diet Should come from energy i.e. Carbohydrates or fat and about 20% from protein this greatly depends on your lean body mass So in their cart they purchased pork rinds bone broth hot dogs rib eye steaks smoked salmon ground beef eggs and bacon overall low-quality Fidla meat the chief concern being the agrochemicals mainly estrogenic herbicides in the meat secondary concerns being omega-3 to omega-6 ratios especially considering they didn't buy that much fish and last concern being a lack of Nutrients from not eating higher-quality foods and a larger variety of shellfish organ meats high-quality dairy day five on the carnivore diet and Have we done a 180 our last experiment was vegan so now jumping into the carnivore Of course the whole game has changed and I have to say up until this point as far as an eating schedule goes It could not be simpler and I am definitely enjoying that aspect for breakfast. I'm having bacon and eggs for lunch I'm having ground beef and for dinner. I'm having rib eye. That's it. There's nothing else to it I was tracking my calories in the beginning, but then I very quickly learned well I really don't have to because I'm having the exact same thing over and over again So I'm not sick of having those three things yet, but it is only day five So time will tell I mean, yeah This meal plan could be a lot worse if you threw some more pork and chicken in there At least they're having liver on occasion, but so much room for improvement You know not getting enough fat soluble vitamins, especially vitamin K2 vitamin D3 Omega fatty acid ratios are definitely off This fats a protein ratio might actually work for these guys as they have a bit more lean body mass Well, it's way too much protein for an average person day 10 and I am still alive But I do feel like I'm kind of in this mental purgatory in a way. I'm not dead yet I don't quite feel alive either. I'm kind of almost in this mental haze Now this kind of brings me back to when we try Keto. It's a very low carbohydrate diet around 20 to 30 grams but with carnivore it is zero carbs and there's a process in the body called gluconeogenesis where in the absence of carbohydrates the body starts processing other means to get its energy from Specifically glucose now glucose is the main source of energy for the brain and since that's pretty much gone I kind of feel a little just out of it mentally out of it Now I don't know if the process of the gluconeogenesis my body isn't quite efficient at it Or maybe it's just taking a little bit longer So it's only day 10 so hopefully as I progress in this diet. I'll feel a little bit better But the good thing is I do feel very satiated eating just meat, which is kind of surprising I thought maybe eating meat alone. I would be very hungry all day long each meal wouldn't really satisfy me that much But I feel like it's going pretty good in that area, you know with the energy a little bit lower the mental kind of Kind of haze The workouts have been okay. I don't really feel quite as motivated. They don't really feel as strong You don't really get the pump you usually do if you do have carbohydrates, so but I'm kind of just holding out for the extra days To hopefully feel a little bit better and see how this plays out So there's quite a few possibilities to why he isn't feeling so hot most likely the large amount of cooked meat Which greatly stresses your body's enzymes It's important to have raw cooked and fermented animal foods present in your diet to establish a healthy microbiome it could also be a vitamin D3 deficiency I actually mentioned this to vegetable police and He did have one, but he never really fixed the issue when you go on a low-carbohydrate diet you're not getting those frequent blood sugar spikes and a vitamin D3 deficiency becomes more apparent as You know fatigue is the chief factor We can't discount the fat to protein ratio, you know he might feel better eating more fat and There is a definite possibility that consuming several pounds of highly Estrogenic feed lot animal products took a dump on his testosterone day 15 And even though I have a limited amount of food available I'm probably gonna have to get rid of one and that's gonna be ground beef Unfortunately, I've just cooked so much The grease is spraying everywhere. I end up smelling like ground beef. I burp ground beef I dream about ground beef. I just got to get rid of it because for me personally I'm over it and that's one of the hard things that I'm struggling with at this moment as a family man with two kids and a Wife, of course, they're eating greens. They're eating beans knots grains all that good stuff And there I am stuck with the same thing over and over and in a weird way I'm very torn because I like the way I'm eating. It's very easy It's kind of a meal preppers dream because you don't got to think about what you're gonna eat How much you're gonna eat just eat the same thing day in and day out if maybe this was 10 years ago It would be perfect because as a bachelor I wouldn't really have to think about it much But now I am for instance, we just have Thanksgiving Everyone was eating a variety of foods and there I was stuck eating meat and variety of course is the spice of life unless you're on the carnivore diet because then you can't even have spice so There's some things I like. There's some things I dislike, but I've got another 15 days. So Let's see how this goes. You can't really complain about variety when you didn't put any effort into your food sourcing There's dozens of different types of fish meat dairy products available in most markets Even just cuts of beef off a cow. You could have a different cut every night for like three months straight I guess they decided to stick to the feed lot carnivore version of the diet It is day 20 and I am kind of surprised I've made it this long because it has been a pretty tough road day 10 I was talking about kind of that mental haze and I feel like it's kind of carried on into the This today the day 20. So I was kind of hoping to have things change a little bit energy levels I mean, I am feeling pretty exhausted night 8 p.m. Comes around I'm basically ready for bed and even when I do get around at 8 to 9 hour Sleep I still feel a little tired in the morning. So I'm not quite sure if it's because of the zero carbs But I'm kind of thinking that's probably the case because normally when I'm having a more rounded diet I'll feel good, but if I get good rest and ready to go So that's definitely a big con in that area. I There's also Something I'd like to talk about maybe something that not a lot of people like to talk about poop and a lot of doctors will say that A good sign of health you can tell by looking at your stool when you go to the bathroom You can see the consistency of it also the regularity of it The regularity is pretty much gone and maybe going once every other day if that and the consistency is really Not good. So I don't know if that's a dude. Just eating meat. I would suppose it probably is You know science has shown that humans don't have an extremely long intestinal tract But they don't really have a short one either if you look at carnivorous animals like lions or wolves They have a very short intestinal tract so they can eat that meat and they can pass it through very quickly without it getting Spoiling basically in their intestines. They don't get really backed up with humans having a little bit longer of an intestinal tract since we are omnivores It might be blocked up a little bit. So I'm kind of a little concerned about that I'm thankfully it's getting close to the end. We only have another 10 days left So I'm just gonna tough it out and we'll see where this goes. You know what's funny I guarantee you if you go on any cornivore forum or Facebook group They'll tell them to just eat more feedlot beef because stuffing yourself full of four pounds of crappy animal products is better than three His bowel issues are likely due to the high omega-6 intake in addition to a large amount of rendered Aka cooked fat both can cause loose bowel movements on a carnivore diet I have a great video carnivore constipation that you should check out, okay? So I was weighing in at 225 before starting the carnivore diet and let's see What we got here Wow just below 214 pounds I haven't been that light quite some time so goes to show you the carnivore diet Definitely works when you want to lose weight at least at least for me So I'm kind of looking forward to after doing carnivore to carve back up and get a little bit higher in weight Because you know I need to be back to my buff dude self So I started off in the beginning a little lighter than Brennan is now about 212. I'm gonna weigh in see where I'm at Whoo about 206 so as you can see we both lost a pretty decent amount of weight and I felt satiated The craziest thing is I never really felt like I was trying to lose weight through the duration of this experiment I just ate until I got full and I still ended up losing six pounds So in that way carnivore definitely works both of the buff dudes claim they lost about 5% of their body weight Very likely. It's mostly water weight. I don't understand why they didn't do a before and after body comparison It's nice to know your weight, but you can't just step on the scale We need to see your appearance as well So it's day 30 and it's time to offer my verdict and I'm not gonna lie when beginning a carnivore diet It scared the hell out of me because your whole life your grandparents your parents They're always saying eat your greens eat your veggies. So you think to yourself What's gonna happen when I remove all of that and our last experiment was veganism. So doing a whole 180 into carnivore It was just you felt like you're kind of going into the great unknown and 30 days later I feel like I know much more than I knew before and I'm very happy that I've experienced this I really enjoyed researching more and getting to know the online carnivore community things such as snout to tail or consuming the whole animal and Also getting to know your local butcher getting to know where your food comes from I feel that's very important Because sometimes we go to the store. We don't really think about it much We don't look at the ingredients list and we don't see the main ingredient But then maybe like the 45 ones that come after it a lot of processed foods and doing carnivore You're really focusing on one single ingredient grass-fed organic that part of it I really enjoyed now the part of it that I didn't enjoy quite as much is Honestly, I would consider myself a very healthy person mentally and physically And I didn't have to go to this diet to search to better myself in any of those areas So for some people when they do vegan when they do carnivore when they do what have you They're trying to better themselves in those area and for me. I didn't need to I enjoyed the lack of sugar The single ingredients those are all great things, but for me. I also enjoy the variety So fruits veggies nuts grains those are things that I did miss and then I do want to go back to so all in all I'm very happy I experienced it and I even kind of struggled as I said earlier with moments of carnivore thinking Maybe if I would have tried this ten years ago, I would have stuck with it for longer But me being a family man me kind of craving that variety I'm gonna have to give it a no-flex. I don't really understand why he even mentioned snout to tail or talked about food sourcing Because all these two guys did was take a trip to Costco We made it to day 30 and it's a little bit of a shocker because at day 10 I was feeling like I probably wouldn't make 30 days. It was pretty tough You know when you switch something up so drastically and have a diet that's so restricted with absolutely zero carbohydrates and eating only meat That's something that seems kind of impossible at the time But as you go on it gets a little bit easier and easier I really didn't have major cravings for carbohydrates when I was having only meat and it really kind of teaches you to not Only look at the ingredients also to see how many sugars or in other stuff So it really minimizes the kind of processed foods, which I do enjoy very much with something like this, but I will definitely not be continuing on the carnivore diet I'm gonna start introducing greens fruits nuts and grains back into my diet because I feel like that really just works the best for me I found out early on that having those time of foods the more well-rounded and moderation It just I feel the best on it in my body reacts to it the best as well But I know some people out there really need to try new things because that might not work for them So we always encourage people to try new things to switch things up to make sure they're getting the most out of their food and their Nutrition because that's that's a huge part of living if you're curious try it But in my opinion, it's gonna be a no-flex I'm going back to the boring diet. They do have a fair point about removing processed and inflammatory foods from your diet But it's pretty clear these videos aren't actually Intended to educate or inform people in order to get them healthy if you've noticed Whenever the carnivore diet gets a lot of media attention, they're pretty careful not really glorifying it Somewhat dismissing it. This allows them to gauge how much of an impact they have on meat sales without everyone going crazy Obviously if they put Frankie Boy Roman statue on Fox news Everyone and their grandmother would be shoveling steaks down their throat and raiding local farms You know the people that have been in the spotlight pretending the carnivore diet Aren't doing that great of a job at being salesman There were some funny skits throughout the video which I omitted for time's sake But I guess when your YouTube channel is that large you can't really tell the truth about anything I guarantee you that all of the other cornivores are going to be fanboying Like ecstatic over these guys and really excited about the publicity. They're bringing to cornivore Cargill has to keep collecting those fat feedlot paychecks So thank you guys for joining me today. 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