A long while come to worlds apart and medicine is one area where succumbing to authority is not just taller rated but widely expected to still treat our doctors this priests possessing a sacred knowledge thats imparted on day millenia old oath but the so many medical dog having been proven wrong in recent years can doctors even be sure that they are indeed doing no harm to discuss that im now joined by peterson a prominent house longer and daughter of the canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson its good to talk to you thank you very much for coming over thanks for having me on im excited to be here now technically speaking youre supposed to be me how you and not me caleb because your father the name the youre after me. Yeah. So in grade 2 most of my substitutions would call me iowa but know mckayla im not sure why my parents chose to pronounce it like that but here i am do you know wat was it about me how gorbachev the 1st until i was president of the soviet union. Made your father cole his 1st born after him i do actually my dad was. A bit traumatized from the relationship the north america had with russia during the cold war and when the soviet union fell which was. Due to a large part of which i have there was a huge relief in north america from. The end of the war basically so to dad Mikhail Gorbachev represented somebody who. You may have like saved north america from russia i dont claim to know better but having listened to a lot of your dads lectures i think he also may have seen gorbachev as somebody courageous enough to break with the mold and speak up against the prevailing orthodoxy reach i hope something that we can discuss today but before we do that i have to ask you how is your dad doing right now dads doing well given the circumstances he had a terrible last month and he nearly died several times. Better than ive seen him in at least 6 months so im happy to be here anyway. I dont think there are many people who dont know who Jordan Peterson is at least among our audience but for those who havent been following his progress how do you describe it in your own words what happened to him the bigger picture. We had we had a we have a number of Health Struggles in our family. Im not sure if theres a genetic predisposition towards auto immune problems but there seems to be and weve managed to keep it under control with a very strict diet. In 2017 there was a really terrible auto immune reaction to food and he went to our Family Doctor and was prescribed. Just to treat some of the autoimmune symptoms the anxiety caused by the other men sometimes and then it turns out that especially to biologically susceptible individuals it can be extremely difficult to get off of so he took it for a number of weeks and then became physically dependent which we werent aware of until earlier this year when my mom was diagnosed with terminal cancer since then shes recovered from it fully. It was a horrible experience and his dose of clouds around was increased and we realized he was experiencing not only a paradoxical reaction which is when the medication does the opposite of what its supposed to but he had also become physically dependent so we tried to get out he tried to get off of it or number of time to end just experienced horrific withdrawal and the more research weve done into this benzodiazepine problem the more apparent it has become that this isnt that unusual for people now from what i know these drug. Long acting benzo day as have been that your father was prescribed experimentally used in russia for treating. And while it is a controlled substance its nog thought of as it is the 6 truly dangerous drug its a given to children my concern is whether you or how can you be sure that the russians have the expertise to you when somebody of these drug we werent actually what we went to a number of places in north america that thought they could successfully when somebodys off of this drug but if your experience and greely really severe physical dependence even staying at the same dose some time isnt tolerated because of something called into a dose withdrawal which means the body goes into withdrawal in between doses so we looked all over the world for someplace that would do. A benzodiazepine detox. Which is just stopping cold turkey which is fairly dangerous and extremely unpleasant and. We couldnt really find anyplace that would do that certainly not in north america found a place here and we found a place in serbia and because my husband speaks russian going to russia seemed like a better option but we it was like a terrifying decision to make because. No offense to russia but choosing russia as a place to go for Health Treatment isnt something somebody from north america would usually do well probably because if youre serious about this going to reach and not necessarily true yes now these heroic narrative you know taking on your witnesses had you know 5 being your limitations is a big part of mr petersons philosophy and its a good strategy in many cases i relied on it myself but i dont think it works all the time do i understand correctly that this condition was made worse much worse by essentially being too heroic about it. Being cold turkey as you say rather than trying to win. All more slowly. Not exactly so he initially stopped taking it. Because he wasnt aware of the physical dependence so he was actually told by Somebody Just to stop and stopped that wasnt a good idea the winning down didnt work he couldnt tolerate that so coming here to the detox was our last option really i wouldnt necessarily put it into a. Narrative or not it it was really the only way we could figure out how to get this medication out of a system because of the immune response it was adding to it now judging from your instagram youve been here since early january with your family immediate family your husband your daughter your daughter obviously. What about. How is she doing and how is she coping with mr petersons how fish well this has been just terribly stressful for our entire family its its been a horrible scene months so shes shes one of the strongest people and she might be the strongest person i know. Managed to deal with my Health Struggles and having a kid thats sick. Must be just awful man is. My dads Health Struggles so while recovering very very serious diagnosing nearly died in the summer a number of times so shes doing as well as can be expected and like i said shes probably the strongest person i know now i wish your family old the best and i think these are deal in a very direct way putting to detach. What your father has been thinking and talking about all these years that you know these mythical idea of venturing into the bally of the beast in fact several when i was thinking about a situation its almost like you know being captured by a t. Rex while running away from a dragon and i wonder when did you realize what did it take for you to realize the nature of danger has actually changed and you now need to be more concerned about your dad down there both your mom probably september or august was switched from focus and well my mom they recovered in august and she recovered and then was almost back to other than being traumatized from her experience she looked like she was fairly back to normal right away and then yeah immediately switched to dealing with with dads Health Problems. Now speaking about this current. Fighting the physical dependence on the drug your father was prescribed to deal with or they doze off which was increased to deal with your mothers illness from what. She described the facts on the here were seem to be far more excruciating then you know even the fear of losing or the grief the actual grief of losing a loved one d. T. Know what he was getting into no no. We took a surprise for like a decade and a half to treat this depression that was caused by auto immune issues that was treated with diet so when he was prescribed an antianxiety medication at a low dose it wasnt something that rung any warning bells you know to use your fathers terminology its the typical 1000 and bargain when you take a collateral on your soul to relieve a little bit of pain right now only to be chained in slave by it for what seems like an internal the only difference i guess is that our doctors are no it is just awful as they are supposed to lead us through an informed choice for each i guess was not the vailable to him my question to you is do you attribute that to his. Biology because you guys do have a number of rare condition is running your in your family or is it more Systemic Risk driving the drugs the may relieve the pain in the moment but will certainly come back to you with more pain afterwards i think i think its both i think that the reaction dad had was extremely severe but ive had hundreds and hundreds of people reach out telling me theyve had the same experience with benzodiazepines so i think that theres a huge misunderstanding about the dangers of physical dependence regarding specifically this class of drugs so id say well its a mix of both genetics and systemic problems with doctors not informed about how dangerous these drugs can me do you think its just not being informed or do you think there is economic interest in. Prescribing the medicine. Produce a lot of profit for pharmaceutical companies but do not necessarily produce the desired effect for the people who are taking them. Id like to believe that its just uninformed but i know in north america the medical industry is heavily. Like wow if you go to medical school out of the courses and take are backed by the pharmaceutical companies so i think people who are meaning well go to Madison Medical School and are perhaps taught by the wrong people and then end up over prescribing part of the reason without russia was a good option as because the medical system isnt as backed by farming so im thing is as it is in north america well its still a bag its to some extent so certainly i hope you hopes to realize that about us but i would be a skeptical myself because i mean capitalism is a system im in russia is a capitalist society right now so. Their ways of doing certain you know putting that influence on the government on the doctor is you know work areas as well while from from what weve seen its not nearly as bad as it is north america ok bo we go we have to take a very short break now well be back in just a few moments states. For their kind of good intentions of architecture and christening and maybe even 40 years ago. Simply evaporate to. See if the democrats will live. Welcome back to worlds apart with me Caleb Peterson the prominent house longer and daughter of the canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson because before the break we touched on this issue of. Medical authority and trusting medical advice reach many people dont question given you a familys extensive history in this round what do you think is a responsible stance when it comes to medical advise and your own house. I think how much should you trust and how much should you mistrust well i dont trust medical authority at all ever and the reason for that is i had this high core of water main disorder growing up and it turns out it was completely alleviated with very drastic dietary measures and i went to a number of doctors to discuss what happened to me and i was basically laughed at like that it has nothing to do with autoimmune disorders. Diet has nothing to with Mental Health i dont mean or disorders and Mental Health arent associated and i kind of over the years learnt that everything ive been told and everything i believed in regarding the medical community was wrong and harmful so my suggestion to people who have Health Issues they cant figure out if theyre going to see a medical professional and theyve been going for 10 years and theyre still in the same place they should probably take it upon themselves Start Testing things out testing out diet testing out exercise and try and figure out things on their own i think its safer being told its your responsibility to fix your health and not your doctors than it is going to somebody else for tells you they can fix you. I think its pretty mind boggling and ols. Revealing that you know the amount of pain and dysfunction that your body had to go through for like 2 decades was cured to be a good few months of dietary changes but before we discuss your particular diet i want to dwell on this particular point we are what we eat because hypocrisy is came up with 2500 years ago and the many people still believe eat as if it doesnt apply to them why do you thing thats the key i think its a mess education i know my diet was especially when i went off to university and in north america it was like orrible i was surviving off of you know instant noodles and things because it was fast but i had no idea that what i would affect me in the way it did i bought into the calories in calories out. Now i dont you know it has some truth to it but i dont agree with so i say listen it doesnt want to go straight forward theres a suggestion oh its certainly not a straight forward you are a little bit of a biological outlier as you said you have a very rare condition you were diagnosed with with a threat of his when you were a kid you had hip replacement i think at the age of half an ankle 17 so. Also pretty unusual and i think its when people hear you say that the medical didnt work for me its very tempting for them to say that you know shes a biological curiosity shes an exception and her struggles and achievements dolan the playa to me is that the case no not from what ive seen so i 1st i thought when i 1st started researching and trying to figure out my Health Problems i went down the genetics route because i figured it was something in my family there wasnt anything obvious we dont have any well it wasnt anything obvious. So i started publishing them flaws and talking to people and testing my diet or suggesting dietary changes to. Family friends people on line and ive seen hundreds and hundreds of people recover from illnesses that generally arent as severe as mine because like you said mine was abnormally severe but even a smaller issues just like joint pain or the need to lose 30 pounds or being 15. 00 a time seems to be helped by dietary intervention you know its hard not to reference. Talking to petitions daughter but karl you have a very interesting view all but particularly psychopathology and rather than seeing it as something that needs to be mad to keep it right away he actually too good for the body signaling system to point to whats wrong and i tend to think about people with rear although more frequent conditions like yourself as old as signals pointing to whats wrong with the. Entire public. House sector what do you think about it all hopefully i mean i one point my brother asked like was it worth it you had to have your hip replacement your ankle replaced i was miserably depressed for most of my life and then i ended up getting rashes like i was really ill and dying. But the recovery ive seen so many other people making the awareness i can bring to the fact that people can take horrible Health Problems and potentially fix themselves has made the entire experience worth it you dont remember pain very much and its all about the way you frame it i mean on some level i think you can take an argument that you were lucky to have these very discomforting disease early in life so that you can have the rest of your life in relative how they had no 1st as opposed to many other people eating crab for the 1st half of their life until its way too late to change and i completely agree with it and ive actually thought about that like if i wasnt suffering as badly as i was suffering i probably wouldnt have had the willpower to make the changes i need to make to get better. And i could have ended up you know 50 and. Just slowly declining and being ill for the last 40 years of my life and because i was so ill young yeah i do look at it that way it may have been severe enough to get me to change things early enough that i can be healthy for the rest of my life which would leave him you know whats driving the thought it is that its actually not a potential scenario is the actual scenario because metabolic disorders are the leading cause of mortality globally and you certainly do not need to have a rare condition like yourself to realize that and whats even more troubling is that that mortality is preceded by a lot of pain and discomfort you know diabetes or alzheimers a terrible disease not only on yourself but also on the your loved ones and you know the way you accumulate them is by years and years of eating foods that you think nourishing you but in fact doing a lot of harm to your body yeah no i agree there are definitely ways to avoid that and i was probably lucky to figure out that and last that ive been able to share it with people now speaking about the ways to avoid it if you are a strict carnivore you dont consume anything beyond pastured meat salt and water. Is everyone. So the way i would look at this diet is contrary to what weve been told is absorbed in the small intestine and. For people with especially with gut disorders is actually a very easy way to digest food plants naturally have a number of like natural pesticides just to keep bugs from eating them and people with metabolic disorders potentially and autoimmune disorders are more can be more reactive to those proteins theyre in plants so giving your gut a rest for a while might be a way to thats what im hoping with me is you heal the gut damage and then slowly reintroduce other foods you do look forward to reintroducing out of foods because i hear yeah i do i mean so ive been doing only meat since december 2017 and i dont have cravings for other foods but socially its awkward for sure and i guess is probably mostly the social part that i miss because if you go out for dinner you know eating one thing isnt really a problem for me but the social aspect is weird and im not 100 percent certain that only eating meat for everybody is the right way to go i think its a really good way to heal your guide and then people should probably test things out slowly on those of us variety that im in the pleasure that one derives from. The different kinds of food when so initially i didnt go straight to all meat i went to a very low carb diet where i was eating limited fruit meat and vegetables and that worked for a number of years. I had more cravings for variety on that diet than i do on my diet now for some reason cutting the plants have gotten rid of the plant cravings now you often talk about the difference between being alive and a friend who owns the world and a sheep who is told what to