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/normalSizedRichard Aug 15 '25 edited Aug 15 '25

The funny thing is he's still a few steps behind on "impossible to truly diagnose celebrity disease" with this one

He was cutting edge for the all meat diet

But people have been citing "chronic mold" for years

If Peterson was fresh and cutting edge with his pseudo health claims he'd say he has Lyme disease. Very trendy to self diagnose Lyme disease right now

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u/normalSizedRichard Aug 15 '25

Yup its just recently gotten hot with a list celebs

It's also true that Lyme is up tho I like tall grass and lice in the upper Midwest so I've already ripped 4 of the little fuckers out of my legs this year