Diet on the Joe Rogan Experience
4 fact-checked claims across 3 episodes · Jan 2022 to Oct 2024 · updated Jul 16, 2026
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- Dr. Joel Kahn (2)
- Calley Means (1)
- Jordan Peterson (1)
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“He put half of them on a low animal diet with very high plants, let half of them eat like Los Angeles people. Eight years later, 50% on the high plant, low fat…”
Kahn claims Dr. Lester Morrison's 1948 Los Angeles study of 100 heart patients found 50% survival at eight years on a low-animal, high-plant diet versus 0% survival on a standard diet, as evidence the diet reverses heart disease.
“That's still 50,000 to 60,000 people a year that get colon cancer if that data's right. They wouldn't get colon cancer if they just would stop eating hot dogs.”
Kahn claims that, based on WHO processed-meat risk data, 50,000 to 60,000 people a year get colon cancer specifically because they eat hot dogs/processed meat.
“Like, you know, kids are eating 67% of children's calories now are ultra processed foods. These means foods that come from a factory made by food scientists. N…”
Calley Means claims 67 percent of children's calories now come from ultra-processed foods.
“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 prod…”
Peterson claims his all-meat carnivore diet cured his psoriasis and resolved his peripheral uveitis (eye floaters caused by inflammation).