Will Maule

Does Jordan Peterson’s carnivore diet work?

  • From Spectator Life

Jordan Peterson has spent much of the past few years eloquently torpedoing all that the liberal progressives hold dear, and he’s not done yet. Citing a profound health transformation, the bolshy Canadian psychologist is now piling into the opinion-saturated arena of diet, and the vegans aren’t happy.

But Peterson’s latest revelation is not about culture wars or the eroding of free speech. This is about his own mental health, which has at times been unspeakably grim. Controversial as ever, Peterson is now claiming to have beaten away his regimen of antidepressants through the excessive consumption of a rather more rudimentary substance: meat.

A sworn ‘carnivore diet’ convert, he was first introduced to the beef-only regime by his daughter, Mikhaila, who spent years suffering from a serious autoimmune disease.

In an interview with Joe Rogan, Prof. Peterson explained how, by the time she’d reached her teens, his daughter’s excruciating arthritic condition had corroded 40 of her joints and forced her into a deep depression.

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