The Mikhaila Peterson Podcast - Q and A! I’m back! Wtf happened!？

00:00:00.040 How'd your dad react to meeting the first guy you brought home to meet him?

00:00:03.720 This is a good one. So, how was Pierce off-camera? How has the family adjusted

00:00:11.600 to the move? What's your skincare regimen? Breast explant? Piece of advice you'd

00:00:16.080 give your younger self. What would you do if you found out your husband was

00:00:19.500 sleeping with a trans woman? Please talk about how you keep your face so 1.00

00:00:24.840 beautiful of course steaks but also fillers question mark here's one I'm social my girlfriend

00:00:31.360 is not we generally stay in and I'd like to go out more how do I do this best and worst thing

00:00:37.540 about being newly married hey guys long time no talk I'm back I did a podcast with my dad a couple

00:00:50.720 weeks ago it came out last week and I figured before I started podcasting again I would do a

00:00:56.440 Q&A because I disappeared for kind of six months kind of it wasn't terrible but basically what

00:01:03.760 happened was I moved from Canada to Nashville last when was it it would have been 2021 and I started

00:01:14.100 not feeling great in Nashville and I thought it was tree allergies and I started getting insomnia

00:01:20.840 and heart palpitations and general weakness and fatigue and my joints started hurting kind of in

00:01:27.460 an arthritic way and my skin was breaking out and my stomach was upset. It took quite a while to

00:01:32.500 figure out whether or not I was just sick because we moved there and I got strep throat that wasn't

00:01:37.960 treatable with antibiotics for about three months and it just kept going up and down and up and down

00:01:43.060 that turned into pneumonia anyway figured it was the tree allergies because nashville's in kind of

00:01:48.420 a bowl and i'm extremely allergic to trees like ferging on anaphylaxis if i really get covered in

00:01:54.920 pollen and so we moved from nashville i thought that was a terrible decision we moved to miami

00:01:59.580 which can be better florida can be better for people with tree allergies certain areas and then

00:02:04.000 i moved to florida and things were okay and in november last year i moved into a house that my

00:02:11.620 parents had purchased and then just got over the next four months got sicker and sicker and sicker

00:02:19.020 and in about January so last January 2023 I was lying on the couch and I thought okay this is

00:02:28.360 abnormal this isn't just colds that Scarlett's bringing home like I don't even have enough

00:02:33.240 energy to like raise my arms I was waking up in the morning with mucus like a toddler's level of

00:02:39.160 mucus. And it occurred to me February that I was reacting to mold in the house. And the house was

00:02:47.300 basically new. It was from 2018, this gorgeous waterfront house. And it turned out there was

00:02:52.840 mold in the HVACs and that the roof hadn't been sealed properly. So there was mold in the drywall

00:02:58.820 that you couldn't see. Thank God I figured it out eventually. And I clued in because there was one

00:03:03.940 area by the front door or the back door that I actually could eventually see mold coming out

00:03:11.220 from behind the drywall. So we left. I stopped podcasting then. I actually took a break from

00:03:17.020 work, which I never do because I couldn't think anymore. I had no internal dialogue,

00:03:24.640 serious brain fog, a whole bunch of autoimmune symptoms. I cut out salt from my diet because

00:03:31.380 I was only eating lamb and salt at that point. And I was like, I've solved all my other problems

00:03:37.140 by using diet. So maybe I'm suddenly reacting to salt, which is ridiculous, really. But we figured

00:03:43.420 out it was mold. I moved out. I took a break from work for two weeks till I got my internal dialogue

00:03:49.640 back and could actually focus and write emails. And six months we spent in hotels because we had

00:03:58.120 to renovate the Miami house in very dramatic ways. And we're selling it now because we've

00:04:05.420 moved out of Florida, but we didn't want to poison the next people who moved in. So we had to

00:04:10.120 remediate it first, which I think most people would just lie and not do. But we got so sick.

00:04:16.060 Scarlett was sick. My husband Jordan was sick. And so I paused the podcast because I really

00:04:22.240 wanted to focus on the work that I have to do. And I could barely do that. So that's where I

00:04:29.840 went for six months. And we went from like hotel to hotel. First, we went to Arizona to do mold

00:04:35.880 treatment to try to get better. And the mold treatment that I'm currently doing, it's for

00:04:41.340 chronic inflammatory response syndrome. It's called SIRS. And I think it makes sense that

00:04:47.780 the reason I'm allergic to everything is from mold exposure throughout my life because when I was

00:04:53.680 little when I was about eight I don't really know what happened before that age but I know that when

00:04:58.960 I was eight we had a massive leak in our basement which is where I was living and there was black

00:05:04.380 mold all over the basement and I got just sicker and sicker and sicker and sicker eventually managed

00:05:09.620 to put most of those symptoms into remission with the lion diet and the lion diet worked for a long

00:05:14.040 time. And then over the last couple of years, it's been kind of, I've been much better than I

00:05:19.280 was as a teenager, but it's just been, I've had these weird symptoms. And so I started taking

00:05:23.860 cholestyramine, which is this binder that you drink. It's not systemically absorbed. It just

00:05:29.480 goes into your gut. It binds bile. And then theoretically the toxins that are circulating

00:05:34.940 around your body that are recirculated with bile, because you don't necessarily excrete all the bile

00:05:40.280 are bound up or binded it's probably bound by cholestyramine and then you poop them out

00:05:47.820 and that has worked very well but what really has worked was moving out of that house I threw away

00:05:55.660 all my clothes we got rid of all the furniture which was recommended by the doctors we're

00:06:01.220 working with I'm working with Dr. Scott McMahon who deals with SIRS specifically and then we

00:06:08.240 moved to Arizona so it took a while to find a house in Arizona we got it tested thoroughly

00:06:13.880 made sure there were no leaks because I'm I'm pretty certain I would say like 90% sure and

00:06:19.840 hopeful that the reason I'm allergic to everything is because of mold exposure as a child and that

00:06:24.880 I've been using diet and eliminating all these things from my diet to mitigate this inflammatory

00:06:29.880 response that my body's just chronically in and so hopefully in six months or so I'll be able to

00:06:37.520 tolerate more foods because I had one question. This is a Q&A. That's just the update part.

00:06:44.120 But I had one question about whether or not I think the lion diet is a species-appropriate diet

00:06:49.460 or if it's just used for people with chronic health issues. And I think anybody with chronic

00:06:55.240 health issues should try it as an elimination diet to see if diet's playing a role in their

00:06:59.680 symptoms because it certainly wasn't mine. But I do think that the reason certain people gravitate

00:07:05.340 towards it is because they have so much gut damage that what they're eating is leaking into

00:07:10.240 their body through their gut and causing inflammatory responses. And I do not believe

00:07:16.260 that humans didn't evolve to tolerate like blueberries and carrots and things. So I shouldn't

00:07:22.900 be having these massive inflammatory responses with carrots. And I always thought the diet would

00:07:27.380 just heal that. And then I was just stuck on this diet, which has been life-saving for me,

00:07:33.680 and I'm going to continue it but I would obviously like to be able to branch out a bit and just not

00:07:40.180 have these massive inflammatory reactions if I introduce a food. So currently I'm still on the

00:07:45.520 lion diet. I'm now eating beef which I didn't do for a couple years because of histamine intolerance

00:07:50.980 so digestive issues with aged meat. That seems to have gone away but I still can't do things like

00:07:57.760 chicken without having inflammatory reactions so like digestive upset pretty much right away.

00:08:02.980 My skin breaks out. I get brain fog for the next couple of days. I get really irritable.

00:08:07.760 It's not super dramatic like reintroductions were five years ago because I've been on the diet for

00:08:13.160 five and a half years now, but still not doable. So that's my update. So I spent the last six

00:08:20.140 months working on other things I do. So we've been working very diligently on launching Peterson

00:08:27.580 Academy, which should be launching at the end of November. And I think we're just going to let

00:08:33.360 about 3,000 people onto the platform and then work out all the kinks. So if you're one of the people 1.00

00:08:39.380 that signs up early, there might be kinks on the platform. We're hoping there won't be, but we're 1.00

00:08:45.020 going to do the major launch for New Year's and let anybody come to the platform. Anybody in the

00:08:51.100 world is going to be able to sign up. We're going to have eight-hour courses taught by just incredible

00:08:56.960 professors from all over the world. We have quite an array of courses, and we're going to be

00:09:01.780 offering a general education course with the goal of teaching people how to think. We're not going

00:09:08.280 to force ideas on people, and the platform looks great, I think. You can take notes. You can comment.

00:09:15.580 You have a profile, so you can communicate with other students. You can form study groups.

00:09:19.760 We're going to enable locations, so that if you're in a course and you want to meet other people

00:09:24.700 taking the course you can actually meet up in person there's a lot more that goes into the

00:09:28.740 platform and once we have all the UI done I'll probably do an overview on YouTube running people

00:09:34.960 through the platform but it'll be easy to use and intuitive so you won't have to learn it or

00:09:40.220 anything so I spent a lot of time on that and then I also managed my dad's brand that takes up

00:09:45.520 still takes up about 80% of my time just sorting out problems because there are always people that

00:09:50.540 are trying to take advantage of him and so I'm kind of a wall that says no to that what else oh

00:09:58.140 and then Fuller Health which credit to my husband for coming up with that name but his last name's

00:10:05.440 Fuller my last name's now Fuller so he was obviously inclined to go with Fuller Health

00:10:10.260 we're launching supplements so we started with a hangover supplement because I've had real

00:10:16.660 intolerance issues with supplements otherwise I'd probably be taking them but I've been able to take

00:10:20.840 this one supplement called dihydromyricetin and the product that we're putting out is called

00:10:26.160 after party but it helps you break down acetaldehyde if you drink I'm not contoning drinking

00:10:31.640 obviously drinking isn't a healthy thing to do but if you're going to do it and I do enjoy my

00:10:37.080 vodka sodas and bourbon from time to time if you are going to do it you might as well get some help

00:10:42.760 breaking down the toxic byproduct of alcohol, which reduces hangovers. And I've been using it

00:10:48.420 since I was 20, sourcing it from like sketchy Chinese websites. And now we have it actually 1.00

00:10:54.300 manufactured. There are no fillers. There's nothing added. They're just in cellulose capsules

00:10:59.540 in this like nice amber jar. Hey, just to step in real quick, we have launched after party.

00:11:06.540 This is so much better than the sketchy powder I've been sourcing from China,

00:11:10.280 third-party tested the pills are literally heavy with dihydromyricetin these are them you can't

00:11:16.900 tell but they weigh a ton 30-day money-back guarantee free shipping in the u.s we just

00:11:22.400 launched three days ago give them a shot i swear these will make you more productive following

00:11:27.020 drinking they reduce nausea actually reduce

00:11:30.440 I think in the reviews, you can go to fullerhealth.com and use code MP for 15% off, and they end up

00:11:44.000 costing less than $2.40 per avoided hangover. Enjoy. So I've been working on Fuller Health,

00:11:51.660 Peterson Academy, my dad's brand. Oh, and then, you know, finding a house, setting up that house,

00:11:57.820 moving and I have a six-year-old so it's been a bit busy but now that I'm in a house and we're

00:12:05.420 kind of just like living in a box right now with no furniture but it's so nice to not be in a hotel

00:12:09.740 now that I'm here I have time to podcast again and put out more content and if you guys are

00:12:18.300 interested I think I'm going to do more personal vlog type content vlog for lack of a better word

00:12:24.160 but just more personal background stuff because I've focused on podcasting, which I love and I

00:12:29.960 get to learn from people when I'm podcasting. But I haven't gone into a lot of personal life stuff,

00:12:35.260 I think, because my life was such a shit show, for lack of a better word, for so long with dad 0.96

00:12:42.720 getting famous and then trying to get a handle on that and people coming in and really taking 0.98

00:12:47.360 advantage of my family and then a divorce and it was just I was like maybe we don't touch that for

00:12:57.640 now but things are much more stable now I'm extremely happy in my relationship I got remarried

00:13:03.600 you guys know that married somebody named Jordan which you can all laugh at I can laugh at too

00:13:09.460 and things are much better now so I'm going to be putting out a podcast I'm going to try to go to

00:13:13.960 twice a week. I'm going to try to go to in-person and I'm going to be doing more vlog stuff. So

00:13:20.000 with that rather lengthy introduction, I'm going to answer some questions. Okay. First to get the

00:13:25.760 mold out of the way, because wow, I almost never wanted to talk or say the word mold again. I'm so

00:13:32.380 tired of learning about mold and what it does to the body. I put together a website. It's at

00:13:38.340 biotoxin.com, which somehow I managed to snag biotoxin.com. And you can follow along with my

00:13:46.220 journey, trying to get better from mold and bacteria, biotoxins, which like I said, I think

00:13:54.580 is what caused my autoimmunity. So all the information's at biotoxin.com. I linked a ton

00:14:01.680 of studies. There's studies done from all over the world, linking biotoxin and mold exposure to

00:14:07.200 things like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, neurological syndromes, Crohn's disease,

00:14:12.180 autoimmunity, just terrifying studies. And I wasn't aware of the role. I knew the environment

00:14:20.840 played a role in health. And I always had air purifiers in my house. I've been advertising

00:14:25.460 for rapid air for a while because I know the importance of air purifiers and keeping things

00:14:30.060 clean. But I didn't realize how little mold some people's immune systems need in order to start

00:14:37.000 this chronic inflammatory response that they can't get over. So all the information is at

00:14:43.140 biotoxin.com. It also links you to practitioners that can help, actual doctors that are knowledgeable

00:14:47.880 about this, testing. You can read all the studies and you can follow along there. So check out

00:14:53.340 biotoxin.com. I put that partly together so that I could answer questions properly for you guys

00:15:00.340 and partly so I could organize exactly what chronic inflammatory response syndrome was

00:15:05.300 in my brain because it's complicated on a biological level it's multi-system it's weird

00:15:11.560 all the information is there so if you think if you have random autoimmune symptoms or digestive

00:15:17.640 issues or insomnia brain fog I would take a look at it and make sure that's not your problem because

00:15:25.600 diet works like this lion diet saved my life but if that's the actual problem underneath things

00:15:33.480 that might be causing the food sensitivities in the first place.

00:15:36.580 So you need to get a handle on that.

00:15:38.380 So if you're having mold issues, I would say try the Lion Diet right away

00:15:42.600 because it'll help mitigate symptoms,

00:15:43.960 but then address the root cause by basically getting out of exposure from mold.

00:15:49.440 This is a good one.

00:15:50.540 This is how'd your dad react to meeting the first guy you brought home to meet him?

00:15:55.360 So the first person I brought home was like a young teenage, like romance,

00:16:01.260 just somebody I was dating going to movies with and things and that guy told me he loved me and

00:16:07.760 I told my dad and my dad was like you should bring him over and I should meet him so he came over and

00:16:16.160 we had this incredibly uncomfortable talk in our living room where we both sat down and dad just

00:16:21.720 grilled him about why do you love my daughter what is it exactly and so that's how my dad reacted to

00:16:27.560 the first person I brought home. It was really stressful as like a 14 year old. So that was

00:16:34.400 pretty funny. Here's one. I'm social. My girlfriend is not. We generally stay in and I'd like to go

00:16:41.460 out more. How do I do this? So my dad's got this personality test. You can take it understand

00:16:49.240 myself.com. It's $10 or something ridiculously underpriced in my opinion. And you can link

00:16:57.280 other people to your personality. So if you both take it, you can link each other and then see how

00:17:04.280 you see the areas you might have issues with. In my opinion, if you,

00:17:10.520 if you're dating somebody who's super high in certain personality aspects, so there's openness,

00:17:19.380 conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. If you skew way different on

00:17:25.440 extroversion or conscientiousness or openness I would say those are the big three there's

00:17:31.920 definitely going to be issues you have to figure out like if you're highly conscientious so super

00:17:36.420 organized super work focused and you're dating someone who scores really low in those they're

00:17:41.680 probably going to drive you crazy I don't even know if those relationships can work

00:17:45.400 so I'd be careful who you date based on conscientiousness um two neurotic people

00:17:52.060 that might be an issue if one person's really neurotic and one person's low in neuroticism

00:17:57.400 I think that can work because the more stable person can calm down some of the neuroses in

00:18:03.080 the neurotic person and then for extroversion I'd say definitely talk to your significant other

00:18:10.800 about wanting to go out more and if she really doesn't want to then you should do it anyway go

00:18:16.100 out with your friends and try and fulfill that extroverted part of yourself with other things

00:18:21.780 so doing a podcast for instance for me I'm very extroverted I scored 98 or 99th something like

00:18:30.100 that and doing a podcast really fulfills the extroversion part of me even if I'm just talking

00:18:36.240 to a camera like fills that bucket a little bit so I'd go out more with friends and make sure

00:18:42.860 you're doing it enough otherwise you're going to get resentful and I think that relationship's not

00:18:46.780 going to work out but I would definitely recommend anybody single or anybody in a relationship but

00:18:52.940 see what your personality is and then get other people to check what theirs is and see if you

00:19:01.000 guys can work like some of the mistakes I've made is I've gone on dates with other extroverts

00:19:07.300 who are really low in conscientiousness and so it's super fun and then you find out later oh

00:19:14.280 you really don't have any drive, that's going to be a problem. And that's like an unfixable

00:19:19.480 problem, I think. What are some misconceptions about being divorced slash remarried? One of the

00:19:26.000 misconceptions I had is I'd listened to a lot of the red pill stuff online. So I figured, okay,

00:19:31.440 I have a kid, I'm divorced. I'm going to have a very difficult time finding somebody because I

00:19:36.920 have all this baggage. And it wasn't just that baggage. It's also, um, my life's a bit dramatic.

00:19:43.000 I work all the time, and I was hoping to find somebody who would help me with work.

00:19:48.720 So I also needed to look for someone who was interested in helping me with work.

00:20:00.440 With somebody at home.

00:20:02.400 So it was kind of a tricky niche to fill.

00:20:05.120 I was either really lucky, I think that was part of it, I was really lucky, but it wasn't

00:20:09.440 as difficult as I thought it would be.

00:20:10.960 having a kid and being divorced didn't actually hinder men's interest in me and I've talked to

00:20:17.120 other women who've been through something similar where they were divorced and have a little kid

00:20:23.260 and were very worried about being devalued and not being able to be happy again with anyone

00:20:28.940 and they found it a lot easier too so I would say if you're in this that situation as a woman

00:20:36.300 make sure that you're valuable in other ways, right?

00:20:39.960 I mean, having a kid, kids are amazing, right?

00:20:42.540 So if you're dating someone and they're disgusted

00:20:44.820 at the fact you have a kid, don't go out with that person.

00:20:48.300 And if you're driven and you're smart and you're capable

00:20:51.980 and you take care of yourself

00:20:54.180 and all these other areas of life,

00:20:56.080 then that I think overrides it.

00:20:58.140 At least that's my experience.

00:21:00.040 So that was a big misconception I had

00:21:03.320 because I probably stayed in a relationship I shouldn't have been in for longer because I thought

00:21:09.680 if I don't want to be in this I have to be prepared to be alone forever so I kind of had

00:21:15.620 to get to the point where I was like being alone would be better I'm okay with that and once I got

00:21:20.120 to the point where I was okay with being alone I wasn't as anxious about it and things just

00:21:25.220 worked out beautifully okay breast explant so I haven't talked to you guys about this but I had

00:21:32.560 a boob job years ago and I got them I didn't have it in for very long it was about a year and a half

00:21:38.900 and I got them taken out partly because I was so sick from mold I thought some of the symptoms were

00:21:44.740 coming from the boob implants and what I'm going to do is actually a separate video on plastic

00:21:51.200 surgery that's not part of this Q&A I'm going to put it out in the next month so I'll address that

00:21:56.260 there and I'll just leave it at that. How did you deal with feeling sorry for yourself when your

00:22:03.060 health was at its worst? So I probably had help from my parents because I was told at a really

00:22:10.680 young age, like when I got diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, I was in grade two and my

00:22:18.220 dad told me never use this as an excuse. And so I think growing up, I knew I couldn't exactly feel

00:22:24.600 sorry for myself. And for whatever reason, that included, but for whatever reason, I didn't really

00:22:31.020 feel sorry for myself. I was just angry, really angry. So livid at not being able to play sports

00:22:39.160 that other kids could bowl very well because my thumb would get stuck in the bowling ball because

00:22:48.420 I had like really thickened joints and I didn't really feel sorry for myself I was just

00:22:55.520 lividly angry so is that feeling sorry for yourself I don't know maybe kind of but what

00:23:04.960 I would say as someone who's been chronically ill for way too long is that you have to remember

00:23:13.900 it's not useful it doesn't actually get you out of the situation so if you're laying in bed being

00:23:19.260 like why me which is a fair question when you have an autoimmune disorder and part of your body is

00:23:25.160 deciding to die on you you're like oh why me it self-pity and try to turn it into anger because

00:23:36.400 anger is more of a positive emotion you can actually do something with it like get angry

00:23:40.560 get frustrated, and try to fix it. And when you're that sick, the likelihood that you're

00:23:48.480 going to go to a doctor and they're going to fix you, from my experience, is zero. It just doesn't

00:23:53.980 work. The medical system is broken. So do as much research as you can and try things and just try

00:24:02.620 them and try them and try them until they get better. You have to get into the mindset of,

00:24:06.500 I will do anything to get better before I think you can get better.

00:24:11.080 So a lot of the people that are drawn to the diet I'm on

00:24:13.760 have tried everything for a very long time, like years and years.

00:24:18.940 And at some point they switch into the mode of I'm going to try anything.

00:24:23.900 And then they try the diet because you really have to get to that point

00:24:27.300 before you're willing to only eat meat.

00:24:29.380 Because nobody really wants to only eat meat.

00:24:32.700 I don't know anyone who's just like, I'm going to do this for fun forever.

00:24:36.500 Um, that being said, I did see this interview with, I think she was an 82 year old woman

00:24:42.320 on the carnivore diet by Dr. Anthony Chafee.

00:24:47.000 I hope I'm saying that right.

00:24:48.040 Chaffee who looked incredible. 1.00

00:24:50.700 So she was a farmer and she ate mostly meat for 65 years.

00:24:56.040 And she looks like, I would say like a 55 year old, but she's 82.

00:25:01.760 So I might get her on the podcast because that was pretty impressive.

00:25:04.820 but instead of feeling sorry for yourself get angry and try and fix the problem and if you need

00:25:11.440 to spend a day in bed moping about you can do that from time to time watch some movies try to

00:25:16.960 get yourself out of that funk but try to change that into anger and fix it because i think these

00:25:23.740 health problems are fixable hey guys brief interruption i'd like to introduce you to

00:25:27.940 carnivore snacks if you don't already know them these are what my parents live off of on tour

00:25:32.320 this is what scarlet asked for in the mornings these are so much better than chips they're worth

00:25:36.700 giving a shot if you want to get skinny eating chips these are the chips to eat i like them

00:25:42.480 because they're literally just beef and salt so they fit in perfectly with my restrictive diet

00:25:48.300 but then i've tested them out on my normal friends too that eat normal people food

00:25:52.200 and they're hit there too so there's no additives no seasonings marinades no sugar just clean

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00:26:03.940 they're linked in the description at carnivoresnacks.com that's s-n-a-x.com

00:26:10.840 code mp15 at checkout crunchy goodness and the meat they use is from regenerative farms

00:26:17.120 so no environmentalists can logically come after you not that they're known for their logic enjoy

00:26:22.600 the rest of this episode see here's here's another question there were a couple questions like please

00:26:27.640 talk about how you keep your face so beautiful of course steaks but also fillers question mark

00:26:33.080 there's more to it than fillers which I'm going to update you guys on now that I'm doing more

00:26:37.180 personal stuff very soon but the key thing for me was making sure my diet was good because dying

00:26:44.580 of autoimmunity is very unattractive and so that was the main thing but there are other other things

00:26:50.660 that I will tell you guys all about soon oh this is fun travel first kids later or have kids then

00:26:58.760 travel trying to figure my life out but does one plan this stuff I don't know if somebody plans

00:27:04.920 this stuff I always had it in my head that I wanted to have kids early and then that happened

00:27:09.780 for me and I have one my best friend she had kids when she was 28 which is early compared to the

00:27:20.440 average person now and I think it's better to have them early one because you don't risk as much you

00:27:27.040 don't risk not being able to have kids which can really hit women in their mid-30s sometimes earlier 0.52

00:27:33.860 if they're not healthy and that's a huge risk you don't want to take and you have a long life to

00:27:40.280 live and so I think it's better to have kids sooner even though having kids is really hard and

00:27:46.420 it does dampen your ability to do things, have kids, and travel later. That's what I would do.

00:27:54.440 That's what I'm doing. Although I'm traveling at the same time, but I'm in a

00:27:57.980 position that I'm very grateful for that allows me to do that.

00:28:03.100 How has the family adjusted to the move? Okay, so there were a couple questions about Scarlett

00:28:07.200 because she's had such a crazy life for a six-year-old. She was with me when we went to 0.86

00:28:15.460 Russia with my dad. She was with me in Serbia with my dad. We've probably lived in a different

00:28:24.180 place every six months for a number of factors, mostly my dad being sick and us hopping around

00:28:31.060 the world trying to figure out who could help him. And she's had lots of different babysitters

00:28:37.420 because I work so much. And rather than that, turning her into this neurotic child, she's

00:28:46.500 actually really stable. She's really stable. So I basically explained the mold situation and I was

00:28:54.540 like, you know, cause she got sick too. She had bronchitis almost all the time. Every time she'd

00:28:59.740 get a cold, she'd get bronchitis. And I was like, Oh no, this is what used to happen to me as a kid.

00:29:03.460 that's no good. She has tree allergies. She has all these allergies, even though I've been so

00:29:07.360 careful with her diet, um, which I think is from mold. And so she was very excited when we moved,

00:29:13.520 very excited when we got a new house and we put her in an Acton school and Acton is this type of

00:29:22.660 education from like, I think they do preschool all the way to grade 12 in different areas

00:29:29.340 that isn't like the public system or even the private system in America.

00:29:34.020 I'm a huge fan of it.

00:29:36.180 It's not ideological.

00:29:37.660 It teaches kids the Socratic method.

00:29:40.720 They have discussions in class about what they're grateful for.

00:29:45.380 And she's brought a couple of things home that I thought,

00:29:48.040 okay, this is the right place.

00:29:49.280 She's also made, she just started grade one a month ago, less, less, two weeks ago.

00:29:57.940 she said I have five friends and I think when we were in Miami she was at this bougie private school

00:30:03.440 and the people there were

00:30:05.740 not my people exactly not that I have a type of person but I don't think maybe I do have a type

00:30:14.660 of person but she only had two friends that she liked because she said everybody in her class was

00:30:19.600 kind of bratty and they were we went to a couple birthday parties and they were bratty and so the

00:30:25.140 fact that she's made five friends in two weeks. She loves the school. And the school is so different

00:30:30.080 from her old school. The old school looked like a university campus. It had this huge pool outside.

00:30:36.000 I was blown away. I was like, this doesn't even exist in Canada. And this new school is in like

00:30:41.500 the back of a building because it just started and it's not that big. And I was like, well,

00:30:47.760 this is going to be a change from her bougie private school and she loves it. So she's done 0.96

00:30:55.360 really well. There hasn't really been a transition period, honestly. And I'm feeling better. My

00:31:01.820 husband's feeling better. So the family has adjusted very well. Remind us again, we can

00:31:07.740 get through SSRI withdrawal. These doctors should be in jail. So just real quick, SSRI withdrawal

00:31:15.780 does end there are things you can do to mitigate it it is horrible it is it's one of the worst

00:31:23.340 no no i it's one of the worst things i've been through other than watching my dad try to get

00:31:29.440 off of psych meds me actually getting off of them wasn't as bad as watching him because he had such

00:31:35.180 a harder time it was awful but it does end it's your brain adapts to these psych meds and then

00:31:42.720 if you remove them rapidly, your brain's in withdrawal. You've like structurally changed

00:31:47.820 your brain. You can see this on MRIs. So if you go to a doctor and they go, oh, that doesn't happen,

00:31:53.340 get a new doctor. It happens. But that does heal. Your brain does heal. And a lot of the symptoms

00:31:58.860 can be mitigated through diet. It seriously changed my life, the diet. That's why I went to

00:32:05.400 the Lion Diet in the first place was because I was having such terrible SSRI withdrawal.

00:32:09.740 So use diet.

00:32:11.480 I would recommend the Lion Diet or at least a ketogenic diet.

00:32:15.200 But the ketogenic diet by itself wasn't good enough for me or my dad.

00:32:19.260 And remember that it seems to be about two years of healing.

00:32:24.300 The first year is significantly worse than the second year.

00:32:27.120 And you can get through it 100%.

00:32:29.460 And when you're through it, it'll be hard to imagine what it even felt like.

00:32:34.140 So stay strong.

00:32:36.060 don't suddenly stop taking SSRIs or psych meds wean down very slowly and try to mitigate the

00:32:43.040 side effects with diet and not everybody gets these horrible withdrawal syndromes but people

00:32:49.580 who've been on them at high doses for a longer period of time are more prone to them so just

00:32:53.600 stay strong get through it stay alive it ends things get better how do you get your folic acid

00:33:01.440 during pregnancy on carnivore diets to avoid neural tube defects. Okay, so I didn't supplement

00:33:07.200 for a really long time on the carnivore diet. I've been doing it for five and a half years,

00:33:11.700 lion diet specifically. And my vitamins were all good until I moved into that Miami mold house. 1.00

00:33:17.700 And then I was trying to see what was wrong with me. And I was like, diet doesn't seem to be 0.97

00:33:21.320 helping as much anymore. What's going on? And I tested all my vitamins and they were almost all

00:33:26.340 out of whack. And we tested my dad's vitamins and his were almost all normal, even though he's been

00:33:31.240 on the diet for the same amount of time as me. So I think it was mold that did it. I started

00:33:36.820 supplementing folate by injection. So there's a company, I'll link it, I don't remember what it's

00:33:42.800 called, but I'll just link it, where you can order injectable folate. So if you have a sensitized

00:33:47.760 immune system that doesn't tolerate oral folate or folic acid, like me, you can do it by injection.

00:33:56.300 Anybody who's doing any type of diet, or even any random person who's not doing a diet, I would

00:34:01.160 recommend doing vitamin testing and making sure that's all good and supplementing when you're not

00:34:05.240 so just how to get your folic acid during pregnancy i would just out of an abundance

00:34:12.500 of caution supplement now a lot of people will be like oh eat more liver and do these things but

00:34:17.580 you want to take folate deficiency seriously so i'd supplement and i'm supplementing with

00:34:25.800 injectable folate because my folate was very low. And it's hard to say what caused that.

00:34:32.740 I'm sure part of it was mold and who knows, maybe part of it was being on the diet for five and a

00:34:39.040 half years. But I just, for anyone, because these things are so new for anyone doing any type of

00:34:45.080 diet, monitor them, monitor the vitamins and supplement. Just make sure you don't react to

00:34:50.420 the supplements. And if you do try to find the injectable ones and those work for anything that's

00:34:54.440 not fat soluble. For the fat soluble ones you actually need to inject them into a muscle and

00:34:58.820 so then I'd go in somewhere and get them injected. How was Pierce off camera? So I did Pierce Morgan

00:35:05.160 which was fun because you had to go to a studio and get like dressed up and it's a studio so

00:35:12.240 that's fun. He was super polite and nice. There wasn't a lot a lot more to that. He was super

00:35:20.000 polite and nice to me. So that was really fun. I was very grateful to be on there.

00:35:25.860 Biggest motivator to stay disciplined. My biggest motivator to stay disciplined

00:35:31.700 is to really envision what I want. So say for working on Peterson Academy and pushing that

00:35:39.120 forward, I'm, you know, visualizing the platform and what that looks like. And then just working

00:35:45.780 towards that. So I think if you're not motivated, you probably don't have a well-visualized end

00:35:52.020 goal. So really think about what your end goal is, whether that's for health, say you want to get

00:35:56.760 fit, like picture yourself like that, and then just keep working towards it. Or if you have some

00:36:04.120 sort of autoimmune disorder or chronic disease, really try to believe you can get better because

00:36:08.600 I believe you can get better. I don't think bodies are just made to be broken. They're reacting to

00:36:13.140 something and you have to figure out what that something is whether it's the environment you know

00:36:18.320 like issues from from mold or from growing up around mold when you were a kid leaky gut from

00:36:26.120 what you're eating or from too many antibiotics as a kid addressing all those things just picture

00:36:33.120 yourself healthy believe that like I don't believe in manifesting I'm not a manifester person but

00:36:39.820 But having a goal, a well-visualized goal, really helps with motivation.

00:36:45.080 You have to really want it.

00:36:46.840 You're not going to be motivated to do something unless you really want it.

00:36:50.160 And if you're working on something you don't really want, you should probably find something else to work on.

00:36:55.040 What do you think about functional medicine?

00:36:57.400 Anybody who needs a doctor, I would say, go to a functional doctor, functional medicine doctor.

00:37:02.660 They're going to have experience from the more mainstream medical side,

00:37:07.820 and they're going to look at what natural paths they're looking at.

00:37:10.960 So I'd say functional doctor is the way you want to go if you need a doctor.

00:37:15.620 Piece of advice you'd give your younger self.

00:37:19.400 So a couple. 0.98

00:37:20.440 One, stop eating garbage.

00:37:23.760 It's impacting you way more than you think.

00:37:26.100 It's impacting your ability to sleep.

00:37:28.580 It's giving you chronic fatigue.

00:37:30.080 It's making you depressed.

00:37:31.680 It's changing your reality.

00:37:34.140 It's making you gain weight.

00:37:35.900 stop eating foods that are bad for you which means processed foods in general and probably

00:37:45.120 grains and dairy that would be my number one piece of advice my second piece of advice would be

00:37:50.920 if you're trying really hard at something and it's not working out and it feels like

00:37:56.200 everything you're doing isn't working maybe it's not working right maybe those are universal signs

00:38:04.340 signs from God that this isn't the path you should be taking and I guess the third piece of advice

00:38:09.440 would be if you're having a really hard time have faith that you can get through it and that it's

00:38:16.620 going to end and that that difficult time is going to teach you something that's so valuable

00:38:21.440 that the difficult time will be worth going through now when bad things happen so when I

00:38:27.240 got quite ill from mold and was it was scary because I didn't have an internal dialogue and

00:38:33.160 I started to literally not be able to think enough to answer emails in my inbox which is scary I was

00:38:40.240 too weak to go upstairs in Miami which was crazy so Jordan was helping me go upstairs and I was

00:38:46.100 like I have no energy in any of my muscles it feels like I've been working out but I haven't

00:38:51.060 been working out when when that kind of thing happens to me because bad things are going to

00:38:55.420 happen even if you have your life organized have faith that you've gotten through bad things before

00:39:01.360 you can get through this one that things will get better and that this is just a period of

00:39:06.300 almost think about it like a test that's what I do now is I go okay there's something here that I

00:39:12.180 need to learn and I believe that so there's something here that I need to learn I really

00:39:16.180 hope it doesn't take me two years to learn it I hope this is more of a three to six month process

00:39:20.560 and that you'll come out on the other side wiser and stronger maybe humbler so yes those are my

00:39:27.820 three pieces of advice what's your skincare regimen okay so I'm gonna just stick this in

00:39:33.060 the plastic surgery episode because there's lasers involved and there's a lot of things involved

00:39:39.100 my main skincare regimen was fixing my diet because my skin was a mess before diet I really

00:39:45.920 mean a mess and diet basically fixed it I wasn't using any skincare products I was glowing then I

00:39:52.020 moved back into the Miami house and like my skin died again even though my diet was the same it was

00:39:57.640 very frustrating. I tried to reintroduce chicken last week because I didn't want to eat steak

00:40:04.240 anymore. And then my skin broke out. That was last week. So diet's huge. If you can get rid of grains

00:40:10.540 and dairy and processed foods and eat whole foods, and if you're just a regular person that doesn't

00:40:15.240 have any serious autoimmunity or depression or insomnia, major symptoms, Max Lugavere is a really

00:40:22.300 good guy to follow. He kind of teaches what people should eat like. And I'm kind of torn at the

00:40:28.360 moment whether or not I believe what Max says. I think his nutritional information is very solid

00:40:35.780 for the average healthy person. Or if you're interested, I'd go more animal-based where

00:40:40.940 you're primarily eating meat, but then you have these other non-processed foods to eat.

00:40:46.880 That can really help your skin. And then I'll talk about all the other things soon.

00:40:51.160 ooh what are your thoughts on blueprint from brian johnson okay so you guys probably have

00:40:57.160 heard of brian johnson but he's this tech entrepreneur guy super smart and he's put

00:41:02.260 millions of dollars into rejuvenation and anti-aging and he's on a vegan diet he does

00:41:08.020 like lasers all the time red light therapy he has biometrics of almost everything in his entire

00:41:14.560 body which is really cool that's something i would have really liked to do but i didn't have

00:41:18.540 the money to be able to measure everything but I think following him is very interesting I don't

00:41:25.560 agree with the vegan approach I think most of the research done on diet and the longevity research

00:41:30.480 done on diet is done on vegan diets and calorie restriction and fasting and I think there's

00:41:36.920 really something to calorie restriction and fasting but I think this high protein leading to

00:41:42.640 health issues is incorrect. And I know there's, there's somebody else who

00:41:49.620 you guys will know him. There's another longevity guy that, that says he, people should use a vegan

00:41:57.540 diet. And I don't think that is scientifically accurate or up to date. So other than that,

00:42:04.440 but he's going based off of scientific papers. So I can see how he got there. Other than that,

00:42:08.700 I think he's a very interesting human being.

00:42:11.000 I was actually supposed to interview him in January and I canceled twice because I couldn't

00:42:15.820 think, my internet wasn't working because I couldn't think really.

00:42:20.540 Ah, no, that was actually by chance.

00:42:22.220 That was because of a storm in Miami.

00:42:24.260 But I would like to interview him.

00:42:26.200 I think he's very interesting.

00:42:28.700 Best and worst thing about being newly married.

00:42:31.580 So I've almost been married for two years now to Jordan.

00:42:35.400 and the best thing is I don't feel lonely anymore and I was so lonely even though I was okay with

00:42:44.060 being alone I was so lonely and I'm not lonely anymore so that's one of the best things and that

00:42:51.680 isn't like a position that anybody could fill I couldn't just get married to someone and not be

00:42:55.460 lonely because you can certainly be lonely in a relationship so that's because I found the right

00:43:01.140 person but that's probably the best part and the worst part I think because we got married so

00:43:07.560 quickly the scariest part for me has been did we get married too quickly do I even know this person

00:43:13.320 well enough um and sometimes I can get some like existential angst of the world kind of feels like

00:43:22.360 it's falling on me and is anything I believe real I don't know if you guys get that but I certainly

00:43:28.460 get that sometimes and that's me being existential and so that's been I guess the worst thing is me

00:43:33.460 second guessing myself but I'm I'm pretty positive this is this was the right decision so

00:43:40.560 there haven't really been bad things about it it's basically just been good this is a tricky one

00:43:47.840 unplanned pregnancy and deciding whether you should be with the partner after that so

00:43:53.460 So I had an unplanned pregnancy when I was 24, Scarlett, and I probably should have not stayed with that person.

00:44:13.900 I think it would have been better for everybody, including Scarlett.

00:44:16.060 but at the time I thought that if you had an unplanned pregnancy it would be better to

00:44:21.560 have a stable family and just be with that person. I think it's really dependent on the situation

00:44:27.280 so if you can make it work if you can figure out any way to make it work you should try as hard as

00:44:33.100 you can to make it work even if you don't know that person very well like try as hard as you

00:44:37.320 can to make it work. If it really doesn't work then I don't think it's better for a family to

00:44:43.440 stay together um if if everybody's miserable why would anyone want to grow up in a miserable

00:44:51.360 household so i can't help more than that i think you should be supportive regardless through the

00:44:57.200 pregnancy and present and then honest with the other person about talking about how your future

00:45:02.180 could look it's a very complicated situation and ideally this is also why christians and people

00:45:09.180 who are religious say don't have sex before you get married because the ramifications of an

00:45:14.840 unplanned pregnancy are you're impacting another person's life that isn't yours you know and you're

00:45:23.740 all tied up in this unplanned pregnancy and it's a mess or it can be a mess sometimes it can just

00:45:30.680 be a blessing but sometimes it can be a mess and so I can understand why people say don't have sex

00:45:36.500 before marriage but I think it's very dependent on the person if you can make it work try to make

00:45:43.080 it work if it's really not working don't just force this resentful family on a little kid I

00:45:48.840 don't think that's better for them than having two separated people that are happy with different 0.74

00:45:53.420 families what would you do if you found out your husband was sleeping with a trans woman 0.50

00:45:57.420 get a second divorce it's not even nothing to think about there don't even delve into the 0.98

00:46:06.640 why's there be like oh okay bye what do you think about a zempic maybe i'll stick this into that

00:46:14.060 other video about plastic surgery that i'm going to do i don't know a ton about a zempic i think

00:46:19.640 weight loss is healthy for people i think there are other ways you can do it like the keto diet

00:46:24.300 works so well for weight loss that I do the keto diet first I think Ozempic should be left to people

00:46:29.800 who aren't honestly disciplined enough to do a keto diet because I think you should tackle it

00:46:36.720 from that angle but if you're not disciplined enough to do the keto diet and you do want to

00:46:42.680 lose weight and you're really overweight Ozempic might be worth a shot I saw some studies on heart

00:46:49.180 issues and it's pretty new and you want to be careful about injecting or taking anything new

00:46:55.200 that doesn't have a lot of research on it so be careful be careful with that one and just honestly

00:47:02.780 have some self-discipline and go the diet route but being extremely obese is very unhealthy so

00:47:11.540 I would assume the I would assume it would be better to take Ozempic and not be obese than it

00:47:17.740 would be to do nothing and stay obese, but use diet instead if you can do that. Have you looked

00:47:23.720 into high-dose IV stem cells for autoimmunity? I have. I plan on doing them. I'm going to have

00:47:29.840 Dr. Kahn back on my podcast. I did a podcast with him like right before I kind of died in Miami,

00:47:35.160 and we talked about stem cells and, ooh, and NK, natural killer cell infusions. I'm definitely

00:47:43.000 going to look into those. Mom and dad actually had stem cell infusions recently. I don't know

00:47:48.040 if they've noticed anything yet but seems super promising. I don't think it's this cure but

00:47:56.680 maybe it is. I'm going to try it out anyway but I mean it seems unlikely that you can just keep

00:48:02.800 living your life the way you're living it eating whatever you want and take IV stem cells and just

00:48:07.320 be fine. I think you have to tackle health from way more angles than that. How can I meet people

00:48:12.460 for dating who understand my crazy diet yeah so I kind of I'm doing too many things right now

00:48:19.500 but I like doing too many things or I get bored and I like being able to hop from project to

00:48:24.680 project so I'm like okay I finished my inbox finished everything on dad's side let's do a

00:48:29.620 bit on PA how's fuller health going I'll stick a podcast in there I kind of want to put out a

00:48:37.100 dating app and this biohacker named Melanie Avalon is interested in doing it too I've been talking

00:48:43.780 about a dating app for people who are on the paleo diet or keto diet or carnivore diet for a long

00:48:48.440 time we could potentially incorporate dad's personality test in there and then you could

00:48:53.720 join it even if you're not on a diet you could say I'm not on a diet so that's not a factor

00:48:57.880 but you could figure out your personality so that can show up on your profile so you can be linked

00:49:03.520 to other people with similar personalities that mesh or personalities that mesh. They don't have

00:49:08.260 to be similar in all the different traits. That kind of sounds like a fun side project if we're

00:49:14.160 going to pursue that. So I'll keep you guys posted, but you can tell me if you think that would be

00:49:19.100 useful. But I know, especially if you're on one of these crazy like keto diets or vegans aren't

00:49:23.980 allowed on the platform though. Sorry guys, I'm not doing plant-based on it. But if you're on a

00:49:28.440 keto or a carnivore diet, it is pretty hard to date without finding other like-minded people.

00:49:33.120 it just makes you kind of into a weirdo so okay a bunch of people asked about scarlet is she on

00:49:40.040 the lion diet how's she doing is it okay to put kids on the lion diet and scarlet's not on the

00:49:44.900 lion diet she's on an animal-based diet so she's a ton of meat but she eats like fish and chicken

00:49:50.740 and mostly beef and then she eats certain fruit um a little bit of vegetables and she's i mean

00:49:59.520 she's doing very well she gets stomach aches like one of the mold symptoms she had was stomach aches

00:50:06.960 and kind of urgency issues running to the bathroom and then bronchitis all the time and I'm hoping

00:50:12.020 that with mold treatment she won't get stomach aches as much so we'll be able to expand her diet 0.54

00:50:16.020 more the only reason that it's as restrictive as it is although I would never introduce processed

00:50:21.780 foods and sugar back in I'm debating whether or not we want to give raw milk a shot because I've

00:50:28.500 heard mixed things about that i just don't want anything to go badly but i think she'll be able

00:50:35.440 to tolerate more things in about maybe even sooner than six months maybe like three months so we'll

00:50:40.340 try and expand out but for kids on the lion diet if your kid has an autoimmune disorder so like

00:50:45.940 kids get diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis when they're two if that's happening

00:50:51.440 i think the dangers of that getting worse and multiple joint replacements and like a crippling

00:50:57.980 disease forever. People with autoimmunity also die sooner. It's really bad. That compared to a

00:51:05.020 diet that might, most people are worried it'll make them into a, like a weird kid. I don't think

00:51:11.360 kids care. Scarlett hasn't been bothered at all. I've taught her, hey, like a lot of people eat

00:51:16.460 pizza and a lot of people eat lollipops and candy and they don't really know how bad that is for

00:51:21.220 them, but that's bad for them. She has these little fruit snacks. They're still in, not plastic, but

00:51:27.360 probably plastic that you undo but it's just pure fruit so she has these snacks that she can eat

00:51:33.040 other kids like them too she eats jerky she doesn't feel weird or restricted she just thinks

00:51:38.940 she's eating healthy so i think if if your kid is really sick i would put them on elimination diet

00:51:44.980 right away scarlet's been scarlet was basically on a line diet for the first three years of her

00:51:49.840 life before we started reintroducing foods we reintroduced some foods a little bit earlier than 0.99

00:51:54.080 that. It's obviously something you can do long-term. I don't think it's necessary for children. I think

00:51:59.560 it's a good way to reintroduce food or to introduce foods in the first place, to start a baby off on

00:52:04.420 meat and then introduce a food one at a time and monitor for like eczema and stomach aches and all

00:52:09.400 these things. Um, and I think it's way safer than having a kid with autoimmunity and letting them

00:52:14.400 eat whatever they want. So it's going to depend on you as a parent and what you want to do. But I

00:52:21.820 know we did food sensitivity testing when I was in grade two after I got diagnosed with arthritis

00:52:27.820 and everything showed up in red except for meat and it was really bad it was like oh your body's

00:52:34.000 reacting to everything and my dad said well we can't first of all that's ridiculous that can't

00:52:39.400 possibly be true and second of all she's gonna be an outcast at school what is she gonna do at

00:52:44.940 birthday parties and it would have been in my best interest to just put me on all meat right away

00:52:50.400 because like having my ankle and hip replaced when I was 17 made me into an outcast more than

00:52:59.280 having a restricted diet would have. So depends on how sick your kid is. I hope your kid isn't sick,

00:53:05.040 but it's not that big a deal to put your kid on an elimination diet. It's not. It might feel like

00:53:10.840 one, but it's not. They might squawk for a couple of days because they miss sugar, but they'll get

00:53:14.900 over it in a couple of days. Kids love meat, generally speaking. So try it out for six weeks,

00:53:20.480 see if you can figure out the symptoms and then reintroduce foods back in. Don't think about it

00:53:24.560 as this lifelong thing, like me being on it for five and a half years. I feel like if people had

00:53:30.580 started it, if I had started it earlier, then I wouldn't be in this kind of situation. Although

00:53:35.360 who knows what role mold was playing in that. So that's my Q and A. I will see you next week

00:53:41.760 on a podcast about narcissism that is great I think I learned a lot not that I was great but

00:53:48.160 the guy I was talking to is great and I will do another Q&A in about three weeks specifically

00:53:55.860 it's going to be more of a like a info video on plastic surgery so see you then thanks for

00:54:04.060 hanging around and waiting for me to recover from mold and I'm very glad to be back

00:54:11.760 We'll be right back.

The Mikhaila Peterson Podcast - October 03, 2023

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