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The carnivore diet is on the trend, with multiple personalities claiming it to be beneficial. In an episode of ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’, featuring Mikhaila Peterson, it was revealed that a carnivore diet could fix arthritis.

Mikhaila Peterson claimed to have been cured of a myriad of diseases. She suffered from juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, depression, and had multiple allergies. Her claim that the carnivore diet had a role in relieving her arthritis had Joe Rogan amazed. 

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Joe Rogan’s experience with the carnivore diet

Joe Rogan‘s interactions with Shawn Baker and Jordan Peterson helped put some positive light on the trending diet. This diet had helped Joe Rogan himself, as he claimed to have lost his love handles after eating only meat for an entire month.

 

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He claimed to be relieved of his aches and pains. His vitiligo improved, as per his Instagram post. Although he saw multiple benefits, he was unsure of whether to continue the routine or not. His likeness towards organ meat isn’t unknown to his followers. However, Rogan was amazed at Mikhaila Peterson’s recovery with the all-meat diet.

Joe Rogan talked about the diet with Mikhaila Peterson

“So you and your dad are both on this wacky diet. You’re both on this wacky carnivore diet”, Joe Rogan said. He also said that it was probably one of the most controversial things in relation to food. Rogan pointed out that people get skeptical when they hear about the carnivore diet. “People don’t think that it’s a good idea”, he said. However, there are certain occasions where such diets were competent of curing auto-immune diseases, e.g., arthritis

In the episode, Joe Rogan talks about a friend who underwent a couple of hip replacement surgeries at the young age of 36. Mikhaila Peterson confirmed that she had her hip replacement when she was 17 years old. She further talked about her ankle replacement at that age. Peterson was diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. Although she didn’t have the general symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis, she said that it was like her joints disintegrated. 

Joe Rogan talks about Peterson’s transition to carnivore diet

Rogan enquired, “How did you go from these medications, pharmaceutical medications to getting into this carnivore diet thing?” Peterson described that she didn’t take up diet as a path of treatment initially. She claimed that there was no scientific evidence for it. Her sickness got worse over the due course of time, and she went into depression. She had rashes and acne, too. Although her trip to a dermatologist was unsatisfactory, she found out that she had celiac disease. After much research, she cut gluten, and it saw some positive results. 

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She went on an elimination diet to check her compatibility with the food. “And then in the next month, my joints got way better and my skin healed. And that was just on like relatively low carb diet. It was still mostly meat and vegetables”, Peterson mentioned. She later discovered that she was allergic to most things except meat.

Carnivore diet was the key for Mikhaila Peterson

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“So, we’re both on a meat and greens diet. Mostly because we didn’t realize that you didn’t need greens to survive”, said Peterson. She was allergic to everything. But then Peterson had an encounter with Charlene Anderson on the internet that put her on the carnivore diet. “I found this story about Charlene Anderson who’s been mentioned a couple of times and she’d been diagnosed with Lyme disease, and has been eating nothing but red meat”, she said. Further, she credited Joe Rogan and Shawn Baker for finally putting her on the carnivore diet.   

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Mikhaila Peterson ate just meat after that. She said, “At six weeks of just doing this, my diet, the bloating went away, the diarrhea went away and everything started to improve.” Additionally, she said, “I thought maybe the reason the carnivore diet worked for people was that because they accidentally cut out everything that wasn’t working for them.”

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Many other personalities promote the carnivore diet, and the Liver King is the most trending of them all. Brian Johnson has also claimed that carnivore diets and primal diets have a good and beneficial effect on the human body. With Mikhaila Peterson’s testament, it seems like the carnivore diet has a lot more insight for humankind.

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