Fat Absorbtion · Carnivore Coach International

Fat Absorbtion

Hey CARNIVORES 🥩

I wanted to share a small update here in the Facebook carnivore group, since a while ago I asked for advice regarding salt intake. I’ve managed to improve that situation a lot, and I’m much more stable now with minerals and hydration. However, I’m still experiencing another issue and I wanted to ask for your opinions, because I’m trying to understand what’s really going on.

For the past year I’ve been strictly carnivore, and only recently I’ve started to understand a pattern that has been affecting me for months. About a month and a hall months ago, I noticed that every time I ate, something strange happened: within about ten minutes after finishing a meal, I would suddenly develop an extreme, uncontrollable thirst. I’m talking about drinking two to two and a half liters of water almost in one shot, as if my body couldn’t stop. This would always leave me exhausted, drained, and never energized after meals. On top of that, if I pushed the water too far, I often ended up with diarrhea or very liquid stools shortly after. This happened throughout all the demands that I have done carnivore but a bit less than what is been in the last month.

At the time, I didn’t understand why. I didn’t link it to the fat I was eating or the minerals I was adding. But looking back, I realize that I was consuming a lot of liquid fat — melted butter, rendered animal fat, or fat that naturally liquefied in my meals. I didn’t just cook with it; I actually ate all of the melted fat. Only later I understood that liquid fat can create a bit of problems to the stomach or intestines much more than solid fat.

Another thing that made everything worse was salt. I was taking 5–6 grams of salt per day because after drinking so much water I felt extremely dehydrated, so I assumed I needed more minerals. But when I reached Chapter 13 of the CCI course, he explained how excessive salt or mineral intake can create this cycle of abnormal thirst, unstable hydration, pressure fluctuations, and even diarrhea. So I removed all salt and magnesium supplements completely, and surprisingly the constant dehydration feeling disappeared, my thirst became normal again outside of meals, and my mineral balance felt much more stable.

The problem is: even after removing salt, the issue after eating fat remained. I tested it very clearly. When I eat only chicken breast, I feel perfectly fine. No extreme thirst, no diarrhea, no crashes. But as soon as I add fatty foods — ground beef, steaks with visible fat, anything with a higher fat percentage — the extreme thirst returns. I immediately drink huge amounts of water, I get unstable digestion, and my energy crashes.

SOMETHING INTERESTING HAPPENED: 2 weekend ago while i was trying to put things in order with salt and fat intake ago I went through an acute episode of very severe diarrhea. For about a 4 days, every two hours I had to rush to the bathroom, and the stools were extremely liquid. This happened just after dinner that was ground beef with melted butter. Toward the end my stool were literally water. I became extremely dehydrated, but I had no fever, no abdominal pain, no nausea, nothing except this constant watery diarrhea. During that week I was also trying to understand why I was drinking so much water after meals, so the timing made me think the two things were connected.

At that point I stopped all fat for a while and ate only chicken breast for a week. Slowly the diarrhea resolved, my hydration normalized, and I felt stable again. But the moment I reintroduced fat — even solid fat, not liquid — the same pattern came back: extreme thirst after meals, drinking huge amounts of water, loose stools, and a general sense of digestive instability.

So now I’m trying to understand what’s going on. My suspicion is that after a year of carnivore, especially with the habit of consuming so much liquid fat, I may have irritated my stomach or intestinal mucosa to the point where fat digestion is now compromised. It feels like I’m not handling fat properly anymore — maybe poor fat absorption, maybe irritation, maybe low bile tolerance after the acute diarrhea episode. The truth is that this issue was probably always there, just milder, and I never paid attention to it until it became severe.

That’s why I’m trying to figure out the real cause. Could this be fat malabsorption? Could the acute diarrhea episode have damaged or irritated something that now makes me extremely sensitive to fat? And why do I tolerate lean meat like chicken breast with zero symptoms, but react so strongly to fat every single time?

I’d really appreciate hearing your thoughts or experiences with anything similar.

In one of the models, I found that also Coach Raymond’s had got problems with liquid fat and liquid butter. Curious to know your experience guys.

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