Mikhaila Peterson On SSRIs, The Lion Diet & Finding God
Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
Turning Point USA
4.8 • 15K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2026
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
MONSTER episode with Mikhaila Peterson on the lasting damage people are getting from SSRIs, dating, faith, her dad Jordan Peterson’s current health situation, plastic surgery, and healing chronic illness with The Lion Diet.
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| 0:00.0 | I remember looking at my purse at one point and the zipper was open and seeing teeth. |
| 0:04.4 | You'll see on side effects for SSRIs and psych meds may cause restlessness. |
| 0:08.6 | That's the term they're using for acetygia. |
| 0:10.3 | Everything I saw looked pixelated. |
| 0:12.5 | Everything was terrifying. |
| 0:14.3 | Everything hurt. |
| 0:15.5 | Sound hurt. |
| 0:16.8 | Smells were weird. |
| 0:18.3 | Panic and discomfort in my own body to the point where I was like, I kind of wanted to hold myself and rock back and forth. |
| 0:25.1 | And this is what your dad has? |
| 0:26.5 | Yeah. And he had two years of this. You hear about people having a week of this and killing themselves. |
| 0:33.1 | Do you think that there's millions of people who believe that they're mentally ill for life and really they're Why are millions of people being told that they're mentally ill for life when they may actually be inflamed, malnourished, chemically dependent, sleep deprived, spiritually lost, or reacting to the food that they eat every single day? |
| 1:25.6 | Today's guest is one of the most polarizing and |
| 1:28.1 | recognizable women in wellness and mental health conversations online. Michaela Fuller, or you may |
| 1:32.8 | know her as Michaela Peterson. Yes, she is Jordan Peterson's daughter. She is the co-founder and |
| 1:37.5 | CEO of Peterson Academy, an online education platform built to make learning accessible, affordable, |
| 1:43.2 | and ideology-free. |
| 1:48.3 | She also hosts the Michaela Peterson podcast and became internationally known after developing what's now called the Lion Diet, an extreme animal-based elimination diet that she says |
| 1:53.7 | helped reverse devastating autoimmune disease, depression, chronic inflammation, and |
| 1:57.9 | severe psychiatric symptoms. But this conversation goes way beyond diet. |
| 2:01.8 | I mean, Michaela and I get into what's going on with her dad lately and his health issues, |
| 2:06.6 | antidepressant withdrawal, whether SSRIs are creating a generation chemically dependent on medication, |
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