𝐉𝐎𝐑𝐃𝐀𝐍 𝐏𝐄𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐎𝐍’𝐒 𝐃𝐀𝐔𝐆𝐇𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐇𝐀𝐒 𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐍 𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐘 𝐁𝐄𝐄𝐅 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝟖 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐒, 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐓𝐒 𝐈𝐓 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍
Mikhaila Peterson has eaten essentially one thing for eight years: 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐟 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐭. No butter, no seasoning. She calls it the Lion Diet, and she didn’t arrive there casually.
She had battled severe juvenile arthritis — hip and ankle replacements at 17 — plus crushing depression and anxiety. Paleo helped until she came off psychiatric medication, and her sensitivities exploded. Every reintroduced food, even olives, triggered brutal flare-ups: arthritis so bad her wrist buckled, neurological depression, the works.
Five months into all-meat, she says, “𝘐 𝘧𝘦𝘭𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘐’𝘥 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘦𝘭𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦” — even the lingering anxiety gone. It’s one person’s anecdote, not a prescription, but the pattern of people finding relief by 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐬 is getting harder to wave off.
𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐰 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐥𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠.