Interview · moment 8 of 26
Autoimmune Disorder, Diet, and Family Health
from #249 - Jordan Peterson | The Tim Dillon Show · #249
3 min
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Peterson discusses his autoimmune diagnosis, psoriasis, uveitis, and alopecia, the meat-only diet he and his wife maintain, his wife's cancer surgery complications, and comparing benzodiazepine and alcohol withdrawal dangers.
- Tim was diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder this year after blood tests revealed various autoimmune markers, though other related conditions like uveitis had been diagnosed as they arose.
- He became dependent on benzodiazepines without craving them or seeking them out — stopping them in 2019 was catastrophic once he realized their danger.
- Psychiatric drugs like antidepressants helped Tim, and benzodiazepines stopped his insomnia instantly, which is why he kept taking prescribed doses during a stressful period.
- A small proportion of people have a catastrophic dependency response to benzodiazepines and can't stop without suffering severe withdrawal — Tim was in that category.
- He was put in a medically induced coma in Moscow primarily to help him detox from the benzodiazepines, though he still suffered terribly from withdrawal effects after waking up.
- Benzodiazepines like Xanax are in the same family as alcohol and barbiturates, and doctors use them to treat alcohol withdrawal to reduce the risk of seizures, which can be fatal.
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