What You'll Find In Joe Rogan's Daily Diet

Podcaster Joe Rogan likes his meat. He's not shy about posting pics of his various eats from Austin restaurants. Rogan also likes to keep fit, talking about workouts and how to stay fit with his many personal trainers, athletes, and martial arts experts on his podcast. He even has a kettlebell named after him.

You won't find Rogan at the local bakery sampling a delicate lemon scone. When it comes to Rogan's diet, it's all about getting the most nutrients from foods. That means wild game that hasn't been overly processed (he usually shoots it himself). It also means getting vegetables that haven't been processed, either. If hunting and gathering comes to mind, that's Rogan's main theme. He's all about whole, unprocessed foods.

Sure, Rogan enjoys some french fries and burgers. He's all about freedom. But when trying to be health-minded, he sticks to a meat and vegetables diet. But that doesn't mean he's a meat-and-potatoes guy. You'd be surprised at the meat he eats when he's trying to be healthy. And despite his being one of the top stars in bro culture, he knows the importance of vegetables. If you could sum up Joe Rogan's diet, it would be a mix of intermittent fasting and a dirty carnivore diet.

For a few years, people were told to eat several small meals a day, especially if they were physically active. The idea was that eating small meals staves off hunger and keeps the metabolism stoked. Intermittent fasting came along and challenged this idea. Although there are different intermittent fasting styles, they all involve periods of refraining from food for a given number of hours so your body turns to fat stores for energy. In a 2020 meta-analysis in Nutrients that involved 19 clinical trials, intermittent fasting can lead to improvements in body composition, lower blood pressure, healthier cholesterol, and improved blood sugar control.

Rogan will post on Instagram some of his breakfasts and dinners, which suggests he's more into the 16:8 intermittent fast. You won't see him gorging on eggs and pancakes, but instead, Rogan likes his sausage – elk sausage, that is. Another Instagram post features a breakfast of elk liver, bacon, and Nilgai patties. What is a Nilgai patty? That's meat from antelope. Dinner might include elk steaks cooked on his grill with a side of jalapeño peppers.

If Rogan's breakfast and dinner sound a little unbalanced when it comes to food groups, it's on purpose. He's interviewed Dr. Paul Saladino and Dr. Shawn Baker, who are proponents of the carnivore diet. If you're not familiar with the carnivore diet, it advocates eating only meat and animal-derived foods such as butter and cheese. Rogan first tried the carnivore diet in 2020, where he was rather candid about describing his diarrhea as his body adjusted. He stuck it out for a month and said he had more energy.

He described his food philosophy in his interview with Saladino, "It just makes sense that your body would fare best on the things that it evolved with...mostly animals, fish, and fruits." He now follows a "dirty" carnivore diet, which means he eats a few vegetables that mostly serve as flavoring or garnishes on his meat-focused plates.

If you haven't guessed it, dietitians don't recommend the carnivore diet because it's missing many essential nutrients. Rogan takes 10 different supplements, including vitamin D, fish oil, glucosamine, adaptogens, resveratrol, and a multivitamin with creatine and glutamine to support his workouts (per Fast Life Hacks). He also takes testosterone injections and human growth hormone.