The Bile Acid Bottleneck
The number one cause of carnivore diet diarrhea is bile acid overflow. Your liver produces bile to emulsify dietary fat, and when you triple or quadruple your fat intake overnight, your gallbladder simply can't release enough bile fast enough to keep up. Undigested fat spills into the colon, triggering loose stools, urgency after meals, and the burning sensation many new carnivore eaters describe in the first two weeks. On the other end of the spectrum, insufficient bile combined with the dehydration of a low-carb transition causes the opposite problem: stubborn constipation. Both symptoms come from the same underlying issue. Your body has not yet built the bile and enzyme capacity required to handle a sustained high-fat, fiber-free diet, and it needs time to catch up.




