Philomath
Member
I just listened to Mikhaila Peterson's youtube Q&A regarding her five years on the modified carnivore diet she calls the Lion Diet.
Many of you already know from previous posts that Mikhaila and her dad, Dr. Jordan Peterson, have been eating a carnivore diet for years.
Mikhaila has had many health issues that she attributes mainly to a leaky gut from poor food, depression medication, environmental toxins and allergies. She admits to it being an "elimination diet", which is how it started, and even got her dad to do it after he was hospitalized for pain medication addiction.
So my point here is that she's been doing this for over five years and looks good, sounds better and says she is "healthy". After a few years, she has learned what works and what doesn't. To me, what she's doing doesn't seem to be that different from what Dr. Peat suggest.
The lion diet - her idea of a starter elimination diet consists of:
Beef Steaks
Bison
Lamb
Salt
Electrolytes (sodium, magnesium, potassium)
After a few weeks of eating the above, you could begin adding the following:
Wild fish/Salmon, herbal tea, and herbs are great first options to begin reintroductions, just don’t add them all at once so you can get an understanding if any of them are causing you trouble. It’s not recommended to reintroduce grains, dairy, sugar, or legumes. These foods continuously cause a wide range of problems for people. -Mikhaila
She does say in the interview that she has eaten honey without much issue. I believe the no sugar policy is because it can feed bad bacteria like candida. She also said she has a huge soy intolerance so that would explain why she won't eat eggs and certain olive oil that's likely cut with soy oil. She advocates for avoiding aged beef while choosing fattier cuts.
So for any of us on the forum that continue to have health issues (like sinusitis for me), could this "lion" type diet be a good "elimination" diet that works within the Peat framework?
Eat only non aged, grass fed beef, bison or lamb - with as much gelatin as possible, range fed (no soy/grain) egg yolks, maybe occasional liver, and just enough carbs in the form of honey or fresh squeezed organic fruit. If you go without dairy, then a supplement of calcium would be necessary.
To me, the Lion Diet just seems like a distilled and rigid "peat diet" (I know, there's no such thing as a Peat diet) that servers as a functional elimination diet. One could start with the above and add dairy, sugar, tubers, shellfish, rice etc. and see what agrees with them or not.
Your thoughts?
Many of you already know from previous posts that Mikhaila and her dad, Dr. Jordan Peterson, have been eating a carnivore diet for years.
Mikhaila has had many health issues that she attributes mainly to a leaky gut from poor food, depression medication, environmental toxins and allergies. She admits to it being an "elimination diet", which is how it started, and even got her dad to do it after he was hospitalized for pain medication addiction.
So my point here is that she's been doing this for over five years and looks good, sounds better and says she is "healthy". After a few years, she has learned what works and what doesn't. To me, what she's doing doesn't seem to be that different from what Dr. Peat suggest.
The lion diet - her idea of a starter elimination diet consists of:
Beef Steaks
Bison
Lamb
Salt
Electrolytes (sodium, magnesium, potassium)
After a few weeks of eating the above, you could begin adding the following:
Wild fish/Salmon, herbal tea, and herbs are great first options to begin reintroductions, just don’t add them all at once so you can get an understanding if any of them are causing you trouble. It’s not recommended to reintroduce grains, dairy, sugar, or legumes. These foods continuously cause a wide range of problems for people. -Mikhaila
She does say in the interview that she has eaten honey without much issue. I believe the no sugar policy is because it can feed bad bacteria like candida. She also said she has a huge soy intolerance so that would explain why she won't eat eggs and certain olive oil that's likely cut with soy oil. She advocates for avoiding aged beef while choosing fattier cuts.
So for any of us on the forum that continue to have health issues (like sinusitis for me), could this "lion" type diet be a good "elimination" diet that works within the Peat framework?
Eat only non aged, grass fed beef, bison or lamb - with as much gelatin as possible, range fed (no soy/grain) egg yolks, maybe occasional liver, and just enough carbs in the form of honey or fresh squeezed organic fruit. If you go without dairy, then a supplement of calcium would be necessary.
To me, the Lion Diet just seems like a distilled and rigid "peat diet" (I know, there's no such thing as a Peat diet) that servers as a functional elimination diet. One could start with the above and add dairy, sugar, tubers, shellfish, rice etc. and see what agrees with them or not.
Your thoughts?