Posted on 09/17/2026 2:55:10 PM PDT by simpson96
A 50-year-old Florida man who says he spent decades battling severe psoriasis, pain and depression credits an extreme "lion diet" with saving his life.
Stephen Lashbrook of Pensacola told Fox News Digital that his depression began at just four years old. In his teens, it was compounded by chronic pain and sleeplessness; in his early 20s, he was diagnosed with psoriasis, an immune-mediated skin disease.
"I was probably 90% covered in psoriasis," Lashbrook said. "My body was just one big, giant, itchy, flaky scab."
Creams, steroids and other medications did not help, he said.
Doctors recommended expensive, long-term injections to combat his inflammation, which left Lashbrook feeling hopeless and suicidal.
Then, he came across a TED Talk from Mikhaila Peterson, an influencer and the daughter of Canadian psychologist and author Jordan Peterson, who used a meat-only elimination diet to tackle her own health issues.
"It gave me a whole new lease on life," he said.
Lashbrook said he initially cut sugar, grains, fruits and vegetables from his diet.
On Jan. 1, 2024, he committed to the "lion diet," a strict carnivore diet variation centered on ruminant animal meat — "your cow, your buffalo, your lamb, your goat," he told Fox News Digital.
Within a week, Lashbrook said his itching and suicidal thoughts stopped and, within a month, his skin began to clear up and his pain subsided.
"I haven't had one suicidal thought. I haven't had any depression. I haven't had any pain," he said. "All my skin issues cleared up."
His current menu consists of only grass-fed ground beef and steak.
Lashbrook said he generally eats one meal per day — about 1.5 to 2 pounds of high-fat ground beef usually cooked in an air fryer.
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Honey contains trace amounts of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants, whereas refined white sugar has none.
But at the end of the day and despite differences in digestion, the body processes the final glucose and fructose molecules similarly. Both contribute to added sugar intake and should be consumed in moderation.
Was one of those terrible conditions repeating oneself?
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For quite a few years, my dinner has been centered on "92% lean organic grass fed/grass finished" beef - grilled 8oz burgers...and always more tasty than the 90% angus at Kroger.
As an aside, the Kroger 1lb package was always light - sometimes as much as 1+ oz.
In contrast, the 1lb grass fed is always more than the labeled 1lb weight. Add its' air tight seal, it stays fresher MUCH longer than the Kroger Angus 3 days the 92% organic grass fed/grass finished is a far superior product.
As a senior, 6x/week workout (free weights/machines + HIIT elliptical) and very, very rarely even get a cold, it seems to be working just fine. Of course I avoided the clot shot/boosters.
He’s going to trade some temporary relief, some perhaps psychosomatic or the placebo effect, for chronic constipation for lack of fiber, higher bad cholesterol levels, a deficit of important and necessary vitamins and nutrients and with an exclusively high protein diet with added salt as the “Lion diet recommends, possible kidney damage.
We are not lions who are obligate carnivores. Humans are omnivores.
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/lion-diet
Organ meat, meat, dairy, and seafood provide all the vitamin C you need. And on a carnivore diet, you absorb vitamins and minerals much more efficiently because you aren’t dealing with all the gut inflammation.
I am not on this diet but my husband switched to it, after doing keto for about 10 years. He feels great, his inflammation and allergies are gone, and his bloodwork is optimal.
There is sound research and MDs who support keto and carnivore. My husband follows a cardiologist who is well known proponent of the carnivore diet.
A few years ago, I attended an offsite work meeting and a co-worker in outside sales, a woman seated at my table was following a very restrictive Paleo diet, an eating plan based on foods similar to what she was told our human ancestors might have eaten during the Paleolithic Era.
She wouldn’t eat any of the food provide at the luncheon but instead opened a can of tuna, a pack of sunflower seeds and a bottle of Fiji Water she brought with her. Fine, to each their own. Do what you want to do, no skin off my nose.
But she then went on and on to lecture everyone at the table on how bad we were eating, and how much healthier her Paleo diet was, how we all should be eating this way.
After listening to her go on and on, I finally said:
“I doubt our Paleolithic ancestors were able to buy canned tuna from Whole Foods. If you really want to live the Paleolithic hunter/gather lifestyle, there’s a stream running next to the hotel, you could fashion a spear out of a small tree branch using a flint to sharpen it and try to spear a fish and build a fire or eat it raw, instead of eating canned tuna, then pick some weeds growing along the bank, find some edible nuts if you’re lucky and drink water right from the stream instead of your bottled Fiji Water and if you do that, enjoy your Giardia duodenalis and enjoy your lower life expectancy...”
Everyone at the table laughed and she left the conference early.
My husband does not have constipation on keto or carnivore.
His cholesterol numbers are finally in the optimal range after 40 years of being high (even when he took statins). He has bloodwork every 6 months and all is good. His arteries look good. His doc was a skeptic years ago, but after a year or so in, he told hubby to keep doing what he’s doing. Same with our current doc.
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