I did RFK's carnivore diet for a month
What this video covers
Comedy-documentary YouTuber Eddy Burback spends 30 days eating the way he understands Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to eat — a meat-heavy, near-carnivore diet — and films the results. Kennedy has discussed eating a protein- and meat-forward diet in interviews, and Burback treats “RFK’s diet” as a cultural dare: what happens when an ordinary person adopts the health secretary’s way of eating?
The month, as Burback tells it, is defined by restriction. His allowed foods narrow to meat, eggs, salmon, and fermented foods; even seasonings are out, on the logic — which he presents with comic exasperation — that seasonings are plant-based and therefore non-compliant. He describes the experience as joyless, wonders aloud at one point whether the rigidity was nudging him toward disordered eating patterns, and documents the social weirdness of explaining the diet to friends.
The video reportedly ends on a contemplative note about the state of American health — less a verdict on carnivore than a reflection on why extreme diets appeal in a food environment Burback finds broken. A follow-up reaction video from the carnivore community (“2 Million People Just Watched Carnivore ‘Wreck’ His Bloodwork”) disputed his framing by focusing on his lab results.
Key points
- Burback frames the experiment around Kennedy’s public persona as a fitness-and-diet figure, treating the health secretary’s eating habits as a 30-day challenge.
- The diet as he practices it is extremely narrow — meat, eggs, salmon, fermented foods — with no seasonings, which he presents as both absurd and psychologically taxing.
- He reports the month felt joyless and socially isolating, and openly questions whether the restriction was fostering unhealthy patterns around food — at one point asking, “do I just full-blown have an eating disorder right now?”
- His post-month bloodwork showed cholesterol “way higher” than his January baseline; his doctor’s message called his LDL “super high,” recommended a statin in all caps, and urged a follow-up with his primary care doctor.
- The video’s ending is reflective rather than triumphalist: Burback uses the experiment to meditate on America’s broader health and food-system problems.
- The carnivore community pushed back via reaction content focused on his bloodwork, arguing the experiment was misrepresented — the standard lifecycle of a diet-challenge video.
- As a cultural document, it shows Kennedy’s personal health habits becoming a genre of YouTube content in their own right.