Mikhaila Peterson On SSRIs, The Lion Diet & Finding God
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What are the lasting effects of SSRIs on mental health?
I remember looking at my purse at one point and the zipper was open and seeing teeth. You'll see on side effects for SSRIs and psych meds may cause restlessness. That's the term they're using for akathisia. Everything I saw looked pixelated. Everything was terrifying. Everything hurt. Sound hurt. Smells were weird. 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. And this is what your dad has? Yeah. And he had two years of this. You hear about people having a week of this and killing themselves.
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?
For sure. So it's a physical inflammatory response causing mental illness. But the solution certainly wasn't medication that causes neurological damage long term.
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,
How does Mikhaila Peterson describe her experiences with antidepressants?
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. Before we get started, please support the show by pausing, leaving a five-star review. This takes like five seconds to do. It immensely helps us get bigger and better guests and to stay prominent on the charts.
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. I was like, what do you mean it's legal speed? How can we be prescribing it to people? You know, that really melted my brain. And you've had your own experience with Adderall, right?
Yeah, I was. So I had idiopathic hypersomnia, which is like a fancy word for for chronic fatigue. And that started when I was about 14. And by the time I was 20, it was incapacitating. So I was sleeping 18 hours a day and I couldn't get out of bed. I've got an interesting story about Adderall because Adderall actually woke me up enough to start researching to try to get myself out of chronic illness. It helped me But if I had known how to get out of chronic illness, I wouldn't have used it, obviously. I stopped taking it. I took it for about, I think it was about three years, 20 to 23, six days a week. And yeah, I mean, it is chemically very similar to like methamphetamine, something like that. Definitely not something you want to give to kids and not something you want to take without being seriously informed that what you're taking is like speed, right?
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What are the lasting effects of SSRIs on mental health?
0:00–2:08
2
How does Mikhaila Peterson describe her experiences with antidepressants?
2:08–7:56
3
What is the Lion Diet and how has it impacted Mikhaila's health?
7:56–10:53
4
How do mold toxicity and chronic inflammation relate to mental illness?
10:53–29:29
5
What are the dangers of rapid tapering from SSRIs?
29:29–1:15:33
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What are the implications of akathisia for those on SSRIs?
1:15:33–1:17:56
Speakers
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