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- It is widely accepted in
the scientific community
that diet has an enormous effect
on one's day to day productivity.
It's for that reason
that I scoured the
internet for obscure diets
that might supercharge my workday.
And a diet that intrigued me
was legendary Apple founder, Steve Jobs'
carrot mono-food diet,
so to see if Steve was onto something,
Holly and I tried the
all-carrot diet for a week.
It was a part of this very
famous mans mythology.
- People will do pretty much
anything Steve Jobs did.
I did have an experience
where I was texting my friend
and complaining about the challenge
and my phone froze, and I have an iPhone
and I was like, I feel like
Steve Jobs is pissed at me.
- I'm the king of carrots, I'm Steve Jobs.
- I'm the king of carrots.
- That's what everybody remembers him for.
- You asked us to eat carrots
for four days straight.
I tried to just add some
humanity back into the challenge
by looking up every version of
a carrot that you could enjoy
which like, spoiler
alert, is like four types.
You can basically roast them,
you can boil them,
you can pan fry them
and that's, I've literally
just gone through your options.
Bon appetite
Everything was more
palatable than raw carrots.
You really went hard on the raw carrots.
- Yup, I was lazy
so I just cooked big things,
wished for the best.
I had a winner with some
of the baked carrots
and I had a loser with the soup.
- Your soup looked
mostly like carrot juice.
- It was a white--
- Mine was chunky
- Carrot soup.
- and yours was water-y.
- Yours, there was a sad moment
when I tried your carrot soup
and it reminded me of garlic bread.
- I was like, this has a
flavor that's not water.
And I therefore feel
really good about myself.
- I feel like you should make a cookbook
for people who only eat carrots.
- Coming for ya,
Food Network.
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In terms of productivity,
you had a lot going on this week.
Did the carrots actually help in any way
or were like, just a hindrance?
- The first day or two,
I definitely had moments
where I was very clear headed
and I didn't crash
from, like, a big lunch.
Today it's grilled carrots.
By day three, I had run
out of things in my body
and I got very sick.
- It's like there's a sluggishness
and quite honestly, you
are paler than usual.
- [Mark] Yeah, that's true.
- [Anna] And I have been concerned.
- It was a little dangerous.
- Like you could have fainted?
- I was feeling very frail.
Yeah, definitely dropped, I
don't know the exact amount,
but five to 10 pounds seems right.
And it was to the point where
I felt like a very old man.
Like, I was going up stairs
and my feet were kind of shuffling.
There's a part of me that's kind of like,
oh, that's an interesting preview,
now I won't be surprised when I'm 80
but it did not help me
do the work that I had to do.
How'd it go for you?
- I felt really tired when I woke up
and really tired at night
so I definitely got more sleep
for, I don't think in a good way.
I guess during the day
I drank way too much coffee
to supplement the lack of flavor
but, in a sense, just
not worrying about food
made it not as big of a factor in my day
so in some ways I had more
time to do other stuff
but also not the energy to do stuff
that was even useful.
