vendredi 31 août 2018

Jordan Peterson's all-meat diet

You guys know about Jordan Peterson, right? For anyone who hasn't heard of him, he's a Canadian psychologist and a professor. He's also a bit of a "self-help guru" if I can use that term. He recently wrote a best-selling book called 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, and he has a popular YouTube channel, or so I hear.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Peterson

But this thread isn't really about all that. It's specifically about this new diet he says that he's following. He has a daughter (named Mikhaila, age 26), and she's actually the one who came up with this diet first, and he adopted it after seeing how well it worked for her. She has an autoimmune disease. The diet consists of meat, salt and water. In the case of his daughter, the meat is specifically beef only. She also says that she can drink alcohol such as vodka or bourbon.

The Jordan Peterson All-Meat Diet

A lot of things about this diet make me skeptical, and some claims they make seem hard to believe.

Quote:

In a July appearance on the comedian Joe Rogan’s podcast, Jordan Peterson explained how Mikhaila’s experience had convinced him to eliminate everything but meat and leafy greens from his diet, and that in the last two months he had gone full meat and eliminated vegetables. Since he changed his diet, his laundry list of maladies has disappeared, he told Rogan. His lifelong depression, anxiety, gastric reflux (and associated snoring), inability to wake up in the mornings, psoriasis, gingivitis, floaters in his right eye, numbness on the sides of his legs, problems with mood regulation—all of it is gone, and he attributes it to the diet.

“I’m certainly intellectually at my best,” he said. “I’m stronger, I can swim better, and my gum disease is gone. It’s like, what the hell?”

“Do you take any vitamins?” asked Rogan.

“No. No, I eat beef and salt and water. That’s it. And I never cheat. Ever. Not even a little bit.”
Well, he's only been following it for "the last two months" so it seems a little odd to claim "I never cheat. Ever. Not even a little bit." especially since he goes on do describe what happens when he "cheats":

Quote:

“Well, I have a negative story,” said Peterson. “Both Mikhaila and I noticed that when we restricted our diet and then ate something we weren’t supposed to, the reaction was absolutely catastrophic.” He gives the example of having had some apple cider and subsequently being incapacitated for a month by what he believes was an inflammatory response.

“You were done for a month?”

“Oh yeah, it took me out for a month. It was awful ...”

“Apple cider? What was it doing to you?”

“It produced an overwhelming sense of impending doom. I seriously mean overwhelming. There’s no way I could’ve lived like that. But see, Mikhaila knew by then that it would probably only last a month.”

“A month? From ******* cider?”

“I didn’t sleep that month for 25 days. I didn’t sleep at all for 25 days.”

“What? How is that possible?”

“I’ll tell you how it’s possible: You lay in bed frozen in something approximating terror for eight hours. And then you get up.”

The longest recorded stretch of sleeplessness in a human is 11 days, witnessed by a Stanford research team.
So he's been following the diet for 2 months. Two months. And he claims that he's never felt healthier and that it cured him of a laundry list of maladies ("depression, anxiety, gastric reflux (and associated snoring), inability to wake up in the mornings, psoriasis, gingivitis, floaters in his right eye, numbness on the sides of his legs, problems with mood regulation"). And he "never cheats, ever, not even a little bit" except that when he does cheat, the results are "catastrophic" and last for a month. Hmmmm?

So out of these two months that he's been following this diet, one of those months was spent having a "catastrophic" reaction that prevented him from sleeping for 25 straight days. But presumably for the other month he was is superb health?? How do these claims add up?

Presumably he hasn't been following it long enough for symptoms of scurvy to set in. Not sure how long his daughter has been following it.


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