“I found myself feeling more aggressive and more inclined to use recreational insults.” Joe Rogan on his month on the carnivore diet (JRE#1422)

January 2020 marked the month that the man himself, Joe Rogan, publicly went on a carnivore diet.

One month into the diet, Joe gave us an update about the pros and cons he experienced. Beside the usual ‘more energy’ and ‘feeling healthy’, one thing fascinated me:

Joe admitted to feeling more aggressive and more likely to use insults. His guest, MIT research Lex Fridman, took this one step further: “That sounds like an academic paper: the rate of fu**face goes up“

Lex, if you read this, please peer-review our scientific analysis of whether Joe became more aggressive during the carnivore diet.

C’mon fu**face! Joe Rogan explains his increased aggression on the carnivore diet (1:19:38s).

Academic paper: The rate of f**kface goes up.

Here at JREfacts, we have a history of analysing Joe Rogan’s favourite words (And for that matter, also Alex Jones’s, Joe Diaz’s, Jordan Peterson’s, and Brian Redban’s). Not surprisingly, even without carnivore diet a few swear words snuck into his top words.

But let’s go back to our scientific hypothesis:

Did the carnivore diet make Joe more aggressive and more inclined to use insults?

Back in 2019, we analysed the JRE subtitles: fuck, shit and fucking made the top 10 of most used words. Fucking was mentioned on average 61 per episode – that’s once every 2:30 minutes.

In 2020, we looked at all 17 JRE episodes during Joe’s carnivore diet (including #JRE1422 with Lex Fridman, who inspired our scientific hypothesis).

Below are our comparative results:

The JRE’s favourite words largely stayed the same during the carnivore diet. However, the rate of favourite swear words actually went down. The exception being “f**kface”, which tripled in usage.

Conclusion: The rate of swear words goes down

At least during the podcast Joe uses his favourite swear words less. This would suggest that his overall aggression is lower on the carnivore diet, too. Interestingly, Joe felt like both aggression and swear words increased.

However, if we strictly answer Lex Fridman’s question: “Does the rate of f**kface go up?”. We can with absolute certainty answer that, yes, it has tripled during the carnivore diet.

Have you ever tried a carnivore diet? What was your experience?