The Joe Rogan Experience - #2069 - Dr. Shawn Baker

Dr. Shawn Baker is a physician, athlete, author of "The Carnivore Diet," host of "The Dr. Shawn Baker Podcast," and co-founder of online medical clinic Revero. https://carnivore.diet/shawn-baker-links/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration: 2h 15m
Broadcast on: 28 Nov 2023
Audio Format: other

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You're still alive, you've been eating nothing but meat and you're still alive. I am still alive. Fucking doubters be gone. Yeah, yeah. Hey Joe, before we get started, I just want to say thank you for one for the stem cell stuff, but also for just having the conversations that other people are not willing to have. I see where they try to cancel you and all the BS and you didn't have to do that, but you let other people have disgust, so we're not being censored, so just in case other people out. I'm sure you've been told that before. Well thank you, I appreciate that. It's a weird time, man. It's first of all, it's a weird time that a guy like me has a show, which is bizarre, is that I'm a source of information in some sort of strange way, because that's certainly not what I set out to do. Just along the line, I'm curious, I wanted to talk to people, including you and this diet. I tell people, I'm not strict with my carnivore diet, like Saturday night I had sushi, but I'll tell you, I felt like shit afterwards, I ate a ton of it, I ate so much, I'm a glutton, and all that rice. I was like, oh, it just makes me realize how much better I feel when I only eat carnivore. When I just eat mostly meat, I feel so much better. Maybe it's anecdotal, maybe it's just me and you, and many other people that do it, but there's something to it. But you're an extreme example, because you have been doing it now for how many years? Well, I'm starting my eighth year, so just eighth year. Yeah, so when I came to see you last time, it was almost six years ago, so I had just finished seven years now, so yeah, it's been a while. And people should know that you're actually a doctor, you're an orthopedic surgeon, and you didn't at one point in time, they took your license away because you were providing medical information, but you got it back? Yeah, it was kind of an interesting thing, so when I was practicing medicine, busy orthopedic surgeon, plugging away, doing the thing, and then I started realizing, hey, I can have people avoid surgery by changing their diet and their pain went away, and I was like, you don't need surgery. Well, that is not what hospitals want you to do, they want you to keep the engines turning so to speak, and so I said, hey, look, I want to practice some lifestyle stuff, and that ended up leading to a long battle with myself in the hospital. The hospital basically suspended my privileges and went to the state, the state said, hey, you can fight this in our state medical board situation, or you can get independently evaluated, and I said, well, let me just get independently evaluated because I don't see how I'd have the hospital, and so that was done, it was like right at the time when I saw you a couple of days before, and they came back and said, there's nothing wrong with you, go back to work, and so I got that, I got that, and then I had to reapply to the board, reapply for a license, a grant of my license, and I renewed it three times since then, so I'm a licensed medical, licensed doctor, you know, but I just, you know, right now I'm not actually actively practicing because I got frustrated with the medical system, I think our healthcare system has some serious, serious problems, you know, some serious conflicts of interest, some serious, I think the incentives for providing what I think is appropriate in healthcare is misaligned, and so, you know, over the last few years, so we set up a company which is called Rivera, and we were licensed in all 50 states, we have physicians all across

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