Wagyu-Only Diet Experiment

A story about Julian Shapiro's extreme 8-month diet consisting only of wagyu steak and boiled eggs to fix his gut health issues.

"For the last 8 months, all Julian has eaten is wagyu steak and boiled eggs. He had some gut health issues and the doctors weren't helping him, so he decided to fix it himself. He had read about the carnivore diet - Jordan Peterson had a similar issue and claimed it healed him.

He started doing it and felt better, then fully committed. He orders $3,000 a month of wagyu steak from one particular farm. His freezer is full of bricks of steak - imagine when you see piles of cash in movies, but it's wagyu steaks instead.

He said it was miserable for 6-8 weeks. He craved carbs and sugar badly. But after that period, he said 'I can't even imagine eating sugar or carbs again - I don't crave them at all.'

The reason this works is because in your microbiome, different bacteria feed off different foods. When you eat carbs, the carb-eating bacteria multiply while the meat-eating bacteria die out. When you switch to low carb, those carb-eating bacteria signal to your body that they need their fix. But if you starve them out for about 7 days, they die off and only the bacteria that feed on what you want to eat remain."