Episode 285 - Phil Escott & Melissa Lim

Episode 285 - Phil Escott & Melissa Lim

From The Option by Jason Dibelius

May 18, 2026 · 2h 16m

About this episode

Phil Escott and Melissa Lim discuss their transformative health journeys through diet and lifestyle changes.

Health/lifestyle consultant, 14-year carnivore and drummer Phil Escott got chronically ill as a vegetarian, and his body revolted with psoriatic arthritis and other autoimmune conditions in 2010, leaving him unable to move without severe pain, let alone drum or exercise, and he had to throw out all his existing “expertise” and start from scratch. Phil’s eventual combination of a carnivore diet with EMF and artificial light avoidance, cold thermogenesis and a range of other health enhancing practices reversed the “incurable” diseases that he suffered from. His book “Arthritis, The Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me” gained a foreword by Dr. Jack Kruse and has become an Amazon Kindle bestseller and is now available in print. Phil talks from personal experience about contemporary lifestyle and diet choices, disconnects from our ancestral heritage, emotional balancing and the simple but often misunderstood nature of spiritual awakening. He now consults with clients worldwide helping them to reverse their metabolic and autoimmune issues and runs The Big Fat Challenge with Ben Hunt as his main project. His latest book, the "Red Pill Revolution" is awesome. Melissa Lim is a Canadian…

People in this episode

Host: Jason Dibelius

Guests: Phil Escott, Melissa Lim

Topics covered

  • carnivore diet
  • autoimmune diseases
  • health consulting
  • spiritual awakening
  • diet transformation

Keywords

  • carnivore diet
  • autoimmune conditions
  • health consultant
  • spiritual awakening
  • diet overhaul

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Big Fat Challenge, meat militia

Books & works: Arthritis, The Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me, Red Pill Revolution

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