Jordan Peterson on health: what the evidence says · JRE #1769
SUBJECT: HEALTH
Not a true/false call. Every claim is logged with its sources; read the exhibits below.
I had psoriasis and that's gone. And I had peripheral uveitis, which caused my right eye to be full of floaters because there's inflammation on the bottom producing like a tissue, uh, production.
What the evidence says 01 / RECORD
Jordan Peterson claims that adopting an all-meat carnivore diet resolved his psoriasis and his peripheral uveitis (inflammation causing floaters in his right eye). Psoriasis and uveitis are both classified by NIH institutes as chronic autoimmune or inflammatory conditions that characteristically wax and wane, including spontaneous or treatment-related remissions unrelated to diet. Neither NIH source lists a carnivore or elimination diet among established treatments for either condition. Peterson's account is a single self-reported case; no cited clinical evidence corroborates that an all-meat diet resolved his conditions rather than the conditions' natural fluctuating course or other unreported factors. Current status: unsupported anecdotal claim, not backed by clinical evidence.