Mikhaila Peterson

Do you think that there's millions of people who believe that they're mentally ill for life and really they're just chemically dependent?

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?

Today's guest is one of the most polarizing and recognizable women in wellness and mental health conversations online, Michaela Fuller, or you may know her as Michaela Peterson.

Yes, she is Jordan Peterson's daughter.

She is the co-founder and CEO of Peterson Academy, an online education platform

built to make learning accessible, affordable, and ideology-free.

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 helped reverse devastating autoimmune disease, depression, chronic inflammation, and severe psychiatric symptoms.

But this conversation goes way beyond diet.

I mean, Michaela and I get into what's going on with her dad lately and his health issues, antidepressant withdrawal,

whether SSRIs are creating a generation chemically dependent on medication, what akathisia is and feels like in the body, and why more medical professionals are not warning people taking antidepressants about it, what chronic inflammation may be driving, like anxiety and depression, and whether some mental illness symptoms are actually metabolic symptoms in disguise.

We also get into mold toxicity, mitochondrial dysfunction, dating, libido, and of course, faith.

Her own faith journey, which is really interesting, and her mom and dad's.

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Please welcome Michaela Fuller to Culture Apothecary.

One of the first things that actually piqued my interest into learning about big food and big pharma was Adderall.

I was listening to this podcast and this girl was talking about how Adderall was like literal speed, but it was legal.

And I had never heard that before.

That was like the most shocking thing.