According to the campaign group Veganuary, more than 300,000 thousand of us will begin the year by trying out a vegan diet. Considering there are only 600,000 vegans in Britain to begin with, that's an awful lot of new converts. But one man who won't be adopting a vegan diet this month is podcaster and comedian Joe Rogan, who has decided to stick two figures up at the whole idea and instead will be celebrating World Carnivore Month by eating nothing but meat and eggs for the whole 31 days.
Writing on Instagram, Rogan revealed that he would be following the carnivore diet, which, like its name suggests, requires its devotees to eat all animal, all of the time. "As an experiment for the entire month of January, Im not eating anything but meat and eggs," wrote Rogan.
Rogan's version of the diet will include lean wild game, eggs and fattier cuts of meat like bison ribeye steaks. And what will the diet do for him? Well, so far, so good according to the Joe Rogan Experience host who has claimed that after just five days on the diet he has already noticed himself becoming leaner, while his energy levels have also received a boost. Still, to make sure that his initial findings on the diet aren't a mistake or down to the placebo effect, Rogan will be comparing samples of his blood from the beginning and end of the month.
But what can Rogan expect to find when he gets his results back? Well, at best, the carnivore diet is an extremely restrictive diet that may lead to some weightloss because it excludes foods that are low in beneficial nutrients but high in calories. More likely though, Rogan will have, for one month, followed a diet that is high in fat, cholesterol and sodium that doesn't provide fibre and also lacks necessary micronutrients and beneficial plant compounds.
Still, research on the carnivore diet is limited so we'll be waiting to see the results of Rogan's month-long carnivore experiment like the rest of his audience.
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Joe Rogan Reveals He Will Be Following an All-meat Diet this January - Men's health UK
