Jordan Peterson’s medical crises involved dramatic self-experimentation and a Russian coma treatment

Evidence

After adopting an all-meat diet at the urging of his daughter, he suffered an extreme reaction to a sip of apple cider containing sulfites, triggering what he described as “an overwhelming sense of impending doom.” Sleepless for twenty-five days, he was prescribed clonazepam, developed a dependency, and sought an experimental detox treatment in Russia that involved an induced eight-day coma—after which he temporarily lost the ability to speak or write. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 802