Mikhaila Peterson Fuller: “I Beat Autoimmunity and Depression by Eating Only Meat”
When she was 7, Mikhaila Peterson Fuller was diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.
By age 17, she’d already lost a hip and an ankle to the disease.
Sixteen years of immunosuppressants, injections, antidepressants, and stimulants left her barely functioning—mentally and physically shattered.
At 23, her health collapsed again: rashes, chronic pain, crippling depression. Out of desperation, she cut her diet back to meat and whole foods. Within two months, her symptoms nearly vanished. She weaned off all medications.
Her autoimmune disease, fatigue, and depression—gone.
Later, pregnancy and withdrawal from SSRIs brought symptoms back.
So she went even further—removing all plant foods. Six months later, remission again.
Attempts to reintroduce plants? Always led to relapse.
Today, thousands in her online community report similar results—people failed by conventional medicine but regaining their health through a meat-based diet.
She points out:
– The ketogenic diet has treated epilepsy since the 1920s.
– Alzheimer’s is being termed type 3 diabetes, driven by carbs.
– One in five Americans now has an autoimmune disease.
– One in six takes psychiatric medication.
Fuller argues our chronic illness crisis began when we abandoned ancestral food: red meat, fat, and simplicity.
She calls the demonization of meat “one of the greatest nutritional blunders in history.”
Studies linking red meat to disease, she notes, were based on populations eating sugar, seed oils, and processed foods—not steak.
In Kenya, adding meat to children’s diets raised test scores by 45%.
Women owning livestock gain freedom, food, and income.
And ruminant meat, she says, “is the only single food that can sustain human life without supplementation.”
The first Harvard study on the carnivore diet (published by Oxford University Press) shocked researchers:
– 90% reported improvement across all conditions.
– Over 80% of diabetics stopped all medication, including insulin.
For Mikhaila Peterson Fuller, it’s not a trend—it’s survival.
And she believes radical dietary simplicity could hold the key to reversing chronic disease, mental illness, and metabolic decline—before we usher in a lab-grown food future built on mistakes.