A Healing
Elimination Diet

This website is devoted to sharing information on dietary and lifestyle changes in the hopes that it can help you put your illness into remission.

The Lion Diet is an elimination diet that helps the gut, body and brain heal. The gut and nervous system can be damaged from a standard American diet, your environment (if exposed to mold/biotoxins), medications (like psychiatric drugs), or a dysbiotic microbiome that can occur if you're born through a C-section or you've been treated with antibiotics as a baby.

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The Lion Diet is basically the closest thing you can get to a whole food elimination diet. It can help the gut to heal the leakiness that can be caused by years of accidental abuse. It also avoids allergens that can bother people who have nervous system and immune system damage.

Classically, leaky gut is caused from a standard American diet, medications, biotoxins in the environment, and/or a dysbiotic microbiome that can occur if you're born through a c-section or you take antibiotics. The Lion Diet is a healing elimination diet.

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Lion Diet vs Carnivore Diet: Side-by-Side Comparison and How to Choose

The Lion Diet is the strictest version of the Carnivore Diet — only ruminant meat, salt, and water. Side-by-side comparison of foods allowed, use cases, restrictiveness, and how to choose between them.

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Lion Diet for Autoimmune Disease: Arthritis, IBD, Psoriasis, MS, and More

How the Lion Diet helped Mikhaila Peterson recover from lifelong autoimmune arthritis — the mechanism (type III hypersensitivity), what to expect for arthritis, eczema, psoriasis, IBD, MS, Hashimoto's, and alopecia, plus dozens of success stories from the Lion Diet community.

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Lion Diet for Depression: How an Elimination Diet Healed My Lifelong Depression

How the Lion Diet healed Mikhaila Peterson's lifelong depression — her timeline, why an elimination diet works for mood disorders, critical safety warnings if you're on psychiatric medication, plus success stories from the Lion Diet community.

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