This year I started listening to Jordan Peterson’s lectures on the Old Testament and was blown away by the magnitude of his insight and ideas. I became a massive fan. He spoke that his daughter Mikhaila had been ill her entire life with arthritis (hip and ankle replacements), depression and other debilitating symptoms like sleeping for 18 hours a day. She was now on an all beef diet and all her symptoms were in remission and she was totally well, a vibrant young woman who even just delivered a healthy child. Because of her dramatic transformation, now the entire Peterson family, Jordan, his wife Tammy, Mikhaila and her husband, are all on an all beef diet. Jordan’s depression vanished and he lost 50 pounds. He says he feels great. This was all interesting to me to say the least.
Next I listened to an interview with Dr. Shawn Baker on Joe Rogan. Baker is a medical doctor and elite-level athlete who pretty much looks like He-man. He has been eating carnivore for over a year and is breaking records in rowing at the age of 52. On the podcast Shawn mentioned Joe and Charlene Andersen who have been eating carnivore, mostly ribeye steaks for 20 years. Charlene, very sick with Lyme disease led them to try all different sorts of diets. The carnivore diet reversed all her symptoms and well, seriously you should google this couple and see what they look like now. After poking around the internet, all of a sudden I realized there is an entire community of people who only eat meat and are extremely healthy.
I started watching videos and listening to lectures about the science behind an all meat diet and oddly it made sense. It kinda turns everything you ever thought about food on its head. So I thought to myself, I am really sick and I will try anything to get better. It’s not that hard.” By this point I was already used to eating a low carb diet, with the rare sugar, ahem, pieces of dark chocolate, and already used to consuming beef up to 4-5 times a week. All beef wouldn’t be a difficult transition.
I decided I was going to take the plunge, but I didn’t want to do anything too drastic till after the performing season was over. I couldn’t afford to sabotage my concerts. So I decided that I would just go down to about 10 ingredients and get used to eating that until the concerts were over. Here was my list.
Beef
Sweet Potatoes
Olive Oil
Butter
Coffee
Chocolate
Raspberries
Blueberries
Greens
However, apparently that was enough to screw around with my electrolytes as my body was adjusting to a new way of eating. I didn’t realize that it was electrolytes at the time and thought it was low blood sugar, because I noticed that if I would eat my symptoms would lessen. However, a couple times I ate until I could eat no more and the symptoms were still very extreme. I was experiencing the same thing as when I went very strict Keto which lack of success I blamed on blood sugar. Now I see it was electrolytes all along, not surprising because even prior to changing my diet I have had major deficiencies.
Anyway a couple of concerts were a little rocky due to trying to navigate these changes in my body, but finally the season was done. I breathed a huge sigh of relief. It was time to begin and heal. I felt very hopeful, perhaps more hopeful than ever before that I could actually heal. My last concert I had trouble moving my 3rd and 4th fingers (50% of my violin left hand!!) and vision problems. I was tired of dealing with that, concert after concert. I knew I could continue to deal as I had for 20 years, but I was tired and ready to see what could be done. This all beef diet really seemed to cure people or put their diseases into remission. Why wouldn’t it work for me? I think it would.
And so that’s it. I began an all beef diet and now I’m here on week 6 and I’m seeing some great changes. I’ve lost weight, lost the bloat, the merciless tight feeling in my body, I can withstand the stress of heat without feeling miserable, I don’t have to keep going back to bed, I have more energy, and my skin is clear. I have hope. And this is just the beginning. Thank you Lord.
Gonna Get Well 