Valuetainment - ＂Another Realm Of Pain＂ - Carnivore MD WARNS How Benzos DESTROYED Jordan Peterson's Health

00:00:00.000 A man who impacted tens of millions of men around the world, Jordan Peterson, whom you and I both know about.

00:00:06.600 And he has dealt with certain challenges.

00:00:09.120 I remember in 2019, when I had an event with him, the late Kobe Bryant and President Bush and Billy Bean.

00:00:15.720 That was the event I had at Mirage, I believe.

00:00:19.120 And he was one of the guys that we had there.

00:00:20.840 Right after the event, that's the last interview that he did.

00:00:23.540 Stories have now come out, which his daughter's spoken about.

00:00:26.360 Now his wife is openly talking about this.

00:00:28.020 So this is public information.

00:00:29.860 Jordan Peterson's wife says he's in another realm of pain from psychiatric medication injury.

00:00:34.860 If I'm not mistaken, that's your major in school was psychiatry, an element of it, right?

00:00:40.580 I did my residency after medical school in psychiatry.

00:00:43.260 I never really practiced, but I was interested in mental health.

00:00:45.920 Okay, so if you go a little bit lower with this, Rob, on what we see here.

00:00:50.020 So neurological injury is suffering from medication-induced neurological injury.

00:00:55.660 Dr. Peterson is at home with family and healthful companions.

00:00:57.880 He's not talking about going back to work yet.

00:01:00.260 Feels like if it's another realm of pain,

00:01:02.120 his mornings are brutally painful and discouraging for him.

00:01:04.480 Later, much later in the day, he sometimes feels some relief.

00:01:08.720 The damage to him from the psychiatric medication from over six years ago

00:01:13.060 takes patients' time and loving attention.

00:01:15.360 Go a little bit lower, Rob.

00:01:17.760 It's been well documented.

00:01:19.140 His medical struggle with benzos,

00:01:22.680 which there's many different types of benzos that he openly talked about.

00:01:25.940 His family has previously drawn attention.

00:01:27.880 to the severe difficulties he experienced from the withdrawal.

00:01:30.940 So a lot of people are using medication today, a lot of them.

00:01:36.360 Michaela's posted multiple videos to see what's happening while she gives the updates.

00:01:42.260 And so whether it's Xanax, whether it's Klonopin, whether it's Valium,

00:01:46.840 whether it's a lorizopam, whether it's a lot of this stuff,

00:01:49.680 what have we learned from the side effects of this?

00:01:54.140 This is a public figure that we all follow.

00:01:56.680 billions and billions of views online what do we not know about it yet that we're starting to learn

00:02:01.840 these benzodiazepine medications commonly prescribed for anxiety over prescribed very

00:02:08.220 addictive and very habit forming they oftentimes as we're seeing here can semi-permanently change

00:02:14.400 the structure of the brain at the level of neurons they affect a neurotransmitter called

00:02:18.980 GABA GABAergic transmission in the brain and this is a it's generally an inhibitory neurotransmitter

00:02:24.140 And so the benzodiazepines make the ability of this inhibitory neurotransmitter more in the brain.

00:02:32.620 And so it's calming.

00:02:33.960 It's a similar mechanism to alcohol.

00:02:35.720 And if you know, alcohol is one of the things that you can die from the withdrawal.

00:02:38.980 There are very few things that you can die from withdrawal.

00:02:41.500 You know, somebody comes in, they're addicted to cocaine or they're addicted to meth.

00:02:45.440 They're not going to die when they withdraw.

00:02:47.180 When you stop taking benzodiazepines or alcohol, you can die from the withdrawals because of the way it changes your brain.

00:02:53.680 So what Jordan appears to be suffering from now, it's unclear to me why he originally started

00:02:58.520 using benzodiazepines in the first place, whether it was anxiety, but they're prescribed far too

00:03:04.700 commonly by physicians. They're just, you know, it's easy to get Xanax. It's easy to get Valium.

00:03:10.280 Xanax is very quick acting. It's very commonly abused. They're prescribed so commonly. And we're

00:03:15.780 back to why are so many people anxious? Why are so many people struggling with these issues?

00:03:21.300 Now, a very close cousin of these medications are things like Ambien, the sleep medications.

00:03:27.700 They're non-benzodiazepine, sedative hypnotics, but they're also habit-forming.

00:03:32.800 So when we're talking about sleep disturbance, which is a cousin of anxiety, we're giving

00:03:37.780 out Ambien to people easily, and then it's almost impossible to get off.

00:03:41.600 I have a good friend, a well-known woman in the podcast space, and she cannot get off

00:03:47.020 Ambien.

00:03:47.880 She's been on Ambien for years for sleep, and I'm thinking, this is not good for you.

00:03:51.300 it's not healthy we need detox centers to get people off this but people need to be very careful

00:03:55.980 before you go on anxiety medications a lot has come out recently also about ssris or other types

00:04:02.520 of antidepressants which can be snris or there's dopaminergic mechanisms for the antidepressants

00:04:09.540 but these medications are hard to get off did you see theo von on rogan recently saying i've been

00:04:14.340 on antidepressants ssris since i was 22 years old or something stop yes and he he's he wants to get

00:04:21.020 off but he has trouble getting off and they make him feel flat because that's what these medications

00:04:25.460 do they don't necessarily fix the problem with depression depression is not that's the clip right

00:04:31.280 there play this rob i've not seen this i i really like what theo has been saying lately about god

00:04:38.780 and relationship is that the clip right there i think there's a different one but it's from the

00:04:42.180 same episode oh yeah you can find it yeah so he said he's been on uh ssris let's just watch that

00:04:47.340 rob if you can put that i what do you think is going to happen you think we're going to be okay

00:04:53.200 i hope so of course i don't know do you think about it is this about us i can't believe we

00:04:58.340 went this is in it okay yeah yeah so we're one of the reasons i didn't practice psychiatry so just

00:05:05.200 so people understand everyone goes to the same medical school i got an md from the university

00:05:08.920 of arizona and then you choose i had the option to choose internal medicine surgery at the time

00:05:14.300 I was really interested in depression and anxiety and neuroinflammation connections between these

00:05:18.620 medications, these, these, um, pathologies. But I was so disillusioned by what I saw during my

00:05:23.820 four-year residency at the university of Washington in psychiatry that I didn't want to

00:05:27.280 practice because what happens is so quickly, we get patients on these medications, whether it's

00:05:33.680 a benzodiazepine for anxiety, whether it's an SSRI for quote depression in the clip, Theo says,

00:05:39.760 Joe says, why'd you get on it? He says, Oh, I think I had a bad breakup. You think you had

00:05:44.280 a bad breakup right which is probably not biological depression it's just situational

00:05:49.660 stress and somebody puts you on an ssri medication you remember what pill he said he was taking i

00:05:56.280 don't think he said what pill prozac is common right um there there's other ones um but then

00:06:02.320 people end up on it for a long time and it makes them feel flat depression is not the absence of

00:06:07.860 serotonin in the human body you can flood the synapses in the brain with serotonin and create

00:06:13.540 flat this might be the clip to get off of antidepressants completely man i want to feel

00:06:19.600 how i'm supposed to feel so i can have thoughts and actions that uh that like make me feel 0.97

00:06:28.760 connected to the world that shit makes you feel dead man so why did you take them in the first 0.93

00:06:32.820 place because i was in a bad relationship 20 years ago and i was having a tough day at school 0.99

00:06:39.200 and they fucking put they gave them to me and then i never got off really because when you get 0.93

00:06:44.120 off it's that i think we talked about this once it's hard yeah it makes you more depressed more 1.00

00:06:48.820 fucked up and you're all imbalanced and you're you know probably you're addicted i lost a friend 0.97

00:06:52.820 i lost a friend in 2005 because he couldn't get off of it may 2nd i lost a friend to my best friend 0.99

00:06:59.140 couldn't get off of it and one day uh uh we were we were at the restaurant shaky's in glendale

00:07:07.340 and he went in his car in his Mustang to get something out of the car.

00:07:10.460 He was about to take all these pills in his mouth.

00:07:12.120 I held it.

00:07:12.540 I took the bottles away from him.

00:07:13.700 He's like, Pat, I'm begging you, please, I got to take it.

00:07:15.720 You don't know how much pain I'm in right now.

00:07:17.760 We took him.

00:07:18.440 We put him into rehab.

00:07:19.720 He was there for 12 days, and then he got out.

00:07:22.420 He was good for a couple weeks, and then boom, one day I got the call,

00:07:25.300 and he woke up on top of a Bible in his bed and never woke up.

00:07:30.160 That was the last day.

00:07:30.980 So a lot of people are dealing with this,

00:07:33.340 and some of them are dealing with it privately, and no one knows about it.

00:07:35.940 At least Theo is dealing with it publicly, so he's going to get help.

00:07:39.040 And the thing about these medications is they can increase suicidality.

00:07:42.780 The very thing you're trying to circumvent with the medications,

00:07:47.320 when you mess with neurotransmitters in the brain, it's very powerful.

00:07:51.220 So do not take this lightly.

00:07:52.660 And so, again, let's go back.

00:07:54.160 What do I believe is causing depression in most people?

00:07:57.140 It's neuroinflammation.

00:07:59.060 Have you ever felt the way it feels when you have the flu or you have a sickness, right?

00:08:04.980 You sometimes feel irritable.

00:08:06.600 You can almost feel that your brain is inflamed.

00:08:08.400 For sure, heavy here. 0.80

00:08:09.180 Heavy in your brain.

00:08:10.460 For me, when I don't sleep well, if I'm stressed,

00:08:13.180 it feels like there's sandpaper around my brain.

00:08:15.340 I'm just irritable.

00:08:16.100 I'm not a good person.

00:08:17.200 And I think, I can't know for sure,

00:08:18.900 but I'm pretty sure that this is the way

00:08:20.660 that someone with profound depression

00:08:22.740 feels every single day of their life.

00:08:25.020 This is neuroinflammation.

00:08:26.680 And you can see that.

00:08:27.700 When we have a sickness, the flu, whatever,

00:08:30.140 the inflammatory cascade that happens in our human body

00:08:33.360 moves to the brain.

00:08:34.600 It crosses the blood-brain barrier.

00:08:36.340 So what I want people to understand is that depression is fixable,

00:08:39.580 just like so many of the things we've been talking about.

00:08:41.460 And again, broken record, it starts with the quality of the food you eat.

00:08:45.300 I have seen so many people reverse depression without medications

00:08:49.580 by returning to high-quality foods.

00:08:52.360 It's just this is the answer.

00:08:52.980 Jordan Peterson was eating steak.

00:08:54.660 Remember when he said, I only eat steak.

00:08:55.960 So he went to the only steak diet.

00:08:57.900 He was on the benzos from previously.

00:09:00.460 I think he had – so Jordan and the whole Peterson family is interesting.

00:09:04.180 they have a strong autoimmune predilection in the family.

00:09:08.420 So Jordan had some sort of autoimmune arthropathy.

00:09:10.800 Michaela had this.

00:09:12.060 And Jordan was the reason I originally started thinking about diet

00:09:15.820 and thought about the carnivore diet because it significantly helped him.

00:09:19.260 But I think he was on these benzodiazepines from what he was suffering from before the carnivore diet.

00:09:23.820 Do we know what it was, Rob?

00:09:28.040 That Jordan had?

00:09:28.980 Yeah, to get on benzodiazepines.

00:09:30.340 I don't know if he's told the story before.

00:09:31.680 I don't know if he has either.

00:09:32.740 Yeah, I don't know if he's told the story.

00:09:34.040 And I do know he went to Russia to be able to deal with it. 0.91

00:09:36.780 That was for the akathisia for the withdrawal. 0.91

00:09:39.500 That was part of the withdrawal.

00:09:41.000 So the clear thing that I want people to understand.

00:09:44.380 Severe debilitating anxiety.

00:09:45.340 The anxiety was overture by severe autoimmune reaction to food that caused intense physical symptoms,

00:09:51.660 including insomnia and sense of impending doom.

00:09:54.880 What does impending doom mean?

00:09:56.080 Like doom and gloom, you think everything's going to be bad?

00:09:58.060 Yeah, you think the sky is falling.

00:10:00.580 So this, my suspicion, he says he began 2016 to 2017.

00:10:04.440 I think Michaela got him on the carnivore diet to help this.

00:10:08.420 That I remember.

00:10:09.040 And it did help it, but then he had the long-term side effects from the benzene.

00:10:13.900 Where he says on the bottom, 2019, the dosage was increased in April of 2019 following a series of family crisis.

00:10:18.540 When old will be, his wife diagnosed with a rare and terminal form of cancer.

00:10:21.520 So he stayed on it.

00:10:22.640 And then he stayed on it.

00:10:23.940 Yeah.

00:10:24.360 So what's interesting is that, you know, Jordan's diet used to be not great.

00:10:27.680 He was eating the standard American diet.

00:10:29.100 He was having this psychiatric manifestation of a bad diet.

00:10:33.240 So we've talked about so many manifestations of poor diet in this podcast,

00:10:36.800 whether it's hormonal, erectile dysfunction, depression, obesity.

00:10:40.380 These things are all connected.

00:10:41.840 The quality of the food we eat, this, I feel like this is, you know,

00:10:45.740 I've been doing this work for probably six or seven years now, Pat.

00:10:48.100 And this is really the main message that I've come to believe

00:10:50.860 and that I want to try my best to get out there in the world,

00:10:53.880 that whatever you are suffering from,

00:10:55.320 you can fix this very lightly or improve it significantly by improving the quality of your

00:11:00.460 diet. And we started the podcast talking about GLPs. Great. They might be effective, but what

00:11:05.980 are you missing? You're not fixing your diet. You get on TRT too fast. You're not fixing your diet.

00:11:10.460 You got to fix the foods you're eating and what's actually causing depression, anxiety,

00:11:15.540 erectile dysfunction, testosterone, a job, obesity. You fix the root cause.

00:11:19.920 Hey guys, I am Paul Saladino. You can find me on Manect. If you have any questions about diet,

00:11:24.280 health, recovering from chronic illness or autoimmune disease. I'm excited to connect

00:11:28.500 with you guys all there, and I'll see you in there. If you enjoyed this video, you want to

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Valuetainment - May 22, 2026

＂Another Realm Of Pain＂ - Carnivore MD WARNS How Benzos DESTROYED Jordan Peterson's Health

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