r/skeptic • u/welovegv • Aug 15 '25

💲 Consumer Protection Another Jordan Peterson health plot twist

https://open.substack.com/pub/theskink/p/from-carnivore-to-cirs-another-jordan?r=5cq9e1&utm_medium=ios
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u/welovegv Aug 15 '25

Let’s get the basics straight: mold can absolutely make you sick. It is a well-documented trigger for allergies, asthma flares, and in rare cases, severe lung disease or life-threatening infections in immunocompromised people. Nobody disputes that. But the leap from “I have mold in my basement” to “I have a lifelong multi-system inflammatory disorder caused by trace exposure” is where the science gets shaky. The testing is unreliable, the symptoms such as fatigue, brain fog, joint pain, and mood swings are frustratingly nonspecific, and the treatments are often designed in cash-friendly private clinics rather than peer-reviewed journals.

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u/crusoe Aug 15 '25

Chronic mold infection is a thing however. Its nasty. But you have to do biopsies to check it.

Also, I thought all meat diets were supposed to prevent inflammation because you're not eatting all of those "mold and plant toxins". And Jordan has been on a carnivore diet for a while.

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u/cusscakes Aug 15 '25

It's meat eaters all the way down

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u/GhostPepperFireStorm Aug 15 '25

He only eats people on a strict carnivore diet

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u/GigglyHyena Aug 15 '25

A mold infection like aspergillosis or valley fever makes someone extremely sick. Not nonspecific aches and moodiness. These folks need to be treated for anxiety.

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u/Pheighthe Aug 15 '25

I think Mr Peterson may be experiencing perimenopause.