The Canteen Podcast with Ally Houston

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Andrew Scarborough – Fighting Malignant Brain Cancer

07 Dec 2020 no comments paleocanteen

Andrew Scarborough has a masters in nutritional therapy and a degree in human medical science. He’s currently doing a postgraduate certification in clinical bioninformatics. He was diagnosed in 2013 with an incurable malignant brain tumour after having a brain haemorrhage on a train. We talk about:

8 years with a highly malignant brain tumour
The public discussion of cancer therapies
Interpreting cancer therapy studies
Spontaneous remission
Chemical & viral cancer triggers
Genetic & environmental protection from cancer
Andrew’s e-book on the concerns around Gadolinium based contrast agents used in MRI scans
Awareness of the problem within the industry
New BHB coming soon from KetoSwiss
Benefits of taking ketones

Andrew can be found at:

Twitter – https://twitter.com/ascarbs

His podcast – https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-human-guinea-pig-project/id1488201848

Ally can be found at:

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Dr. Mark Cucuzzella – Another Top Low Carb Doctor

30 Nov 2020 no comments paleocanteen

Dr. Mark Cucuzzella is an Air Force Reserve lieutenant colonel, a general practitioner in West Virginia, a professor at the West Virginia University School of Medicine, conducts Healthy Running Medical Education courses, and is the author of the book Run For Your Life. He has more than 100 marathon and ultra-marathon finishes under his belt, and has won the Air Force marathon twice.

Mark’s new book Low Carb On Any Budget
The U.S. Air Force’s weight problem
Gary Taubes’ Good Calories Bad Calories
Continuous glucose monitors for health
Junk food in hospitals and schools
Mark’s victory over junk food in his hospital
Mark’s paper on reducing medication when a low carb diet requires it
Supplementation
Almost everyone can be rehabilitated to running
Nutrition Network training for GPs
Our need for more health coaches

Mark can be found at:

His website – https://www.drmarksdesk.com/

Book website – https://runforyourlifebook.com/

Nature Prescriptions website – http://natureprescriptions.org/

Previous podcast episode – https://paleocanteen.co.uk/professor-frederic-leroy-the-food-fight/

Ally can be found at:

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Professor Frédéric Leroy – The Great Reset

23 Nov 2020 no comments paleocanteen

Professor Frédéric Leroy is a professor in the field of food science and (bio)technology in Free University of Brussels.

We talk about:

Prof. Leroy’s bioengineering background
EAT Lancet’s planetary diet restricting meat and potatoes
Why are we inverting our two million year positive relationship with meat?
The Great Reset – on the cover of TIME Magazine
The Great Food Transformation
Accelerating rate of undemocratic top-down change
The people involved – the WEF
Maurice Strong’s Davos new age utopian transition mindset
The motivation for The Great Reset
EAT Lancet’s diet similar to macrobiotic diet – more grains, legumes, and veg oils, less red meat and eggs
Urban Western consumers and food virtue signalling
The true scope of EAT Lancet’s diet
The shift wheel
Taxes, restrictions, bans, Veganuary, making meat less visible, changing dietary guidelines etc.
Comparison to authoritarian policies of the past
Lack of dialogue and consultation within EAT
How grain cultivation was how the first human elites controlled the population
Why we need grassroots movements in communities to counter this
Health of soil, animals, foods, communities, and society
Regenerative agriculture is a mindset and a food system
Why we need to fight hard against this by reconnecting with our food
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

Frédéric can be found at:

Twitter – https://twitter.com/fleroy1974

Previous podcast episode – https://paleocanteen.co.uk/professor-frederic-leroy-the-food-fight/

Ally can be found at:

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Nikola Howard – Low Carb In The UK (Part 2)

16 Nov 2020 no comments paleocanteen

Nikola Howard, who is an author, coach and mentor, and started the online community Low Carb In The UK.

Nikola’s FB group and coaching
Food addiction
The HOPE protocol – healthy optimised purposeful eating
Finding your own way in low carb without counting
Allowing ourselves to escape diet prison
Rivalling Slimming World for low carb
Supplements – Vit D, magnesium, omega 3, vit C, iodine
Peri-menopausal berberine, quercetine, gynastemma for AMPK
B-vitamins and Co-Q10
Morton’s toe and vitamin deficiency
Chromium picolinate 200ug
The NHS and diabetes

Nikola can be found at:

Facebook page – https://www.facebook.com/lowcarbintheuk

Facebook group – https://www.facebook.com/groups/lowcarbintheuk

New Website – https://lowcarbliving.uk/

Ally can be found at:

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Dr. Jen Unwin & Dr. David Unwin – Drug-free Type 2 Diabetes Remission

08 Nov 2020 no comments paleocanteen

Drs. Jen & David Unwin, two of my heroes, and pioneers when it comes to communicating the benefits of changing how you eat to benefit your health.

Buy our cookbook Low Carb On A Budget from our website if you live in the UK – bit.ly/ordercookbook – or from Amazon or Barnes & Noble if you live outside of Europe.

The Unwins’ clinical background
Jen’s group therapy approach
Sugar addiction
True root cause of conditions
People looking incredible when changing diet
Bright eyes are the real barometer
2013/14 average 9kg / 10% weight loss
Better blood markers across the board
Improved blood pressure
Fear that such good data would draw accusations of fraud
Prof. Roy Taylor doing the stats
Data allows you to be taken seriously
Data on more than 300 patients now
“It’s not sustainable” – patients have been doing it successfully for years
“Cholesterol will go way up” – Lipid profile improves across the board
“Blood pressure will get worse” – 20% of all BP medicated patients have come off completely
Salt got the blame for what the sugar did
“It’s a middle class diet”
Acknowledging addiction vs fat shaming
The big BMJ scientific paper – drug free T2 diabetes remission
The reason that clinicians tend to not publish – time!
Saving the NHS millions
Saving people’s quality of life
Preventing bad Covid outcomes – obesity, blood pressure, diabetic control – LOW CARB!

The Unwins can be found at:

Jen’s Twitter – https://twitter.com/jen_unwin

David’s Twitter – https://twitter.com/lowcarbGP

The new paper – https://nutrition.bmj.com/content/early/2020/11/02/bmjnph-2020-000072

Ally can be found at:

Buy our cookbook Low Carb On A Budget from our website if you live in the UK – bit.ly/ordercookbook – or from Amazon or Barnes & Noble if you live outside of Europe.

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Frank Clayden – Transforming The Food Industry From Within

02 Nov 2020 no comments paleocanteen

Frank Clayden is a low carb blogger at Go Low Carb UK, works in the food and drink industry, and is another fantastic low carb success story.

We talk about:

Frank’s history with food and being overweight
Vegan, low fat, calorie counting
Cellulitis, oedema, low immune function
Keto as as anti-inflammatory diet
Going from 20 stone to 15 stone in a year comfortably without hunger
Pain and inflammation of two years in legs disappearing within a week and staying that way for three years
Naturally intermittent fasting
Making choices about the food we sell to people after learning about the science behind LCHF
Why we need a paradigm shift in modern medical treatment of chronic disease
Disbelief from friends and loved ones that it was just a change in diet that transformed his health
Working in the food industry and keeping your discipline
The demonisation of meat in the food industry from PR and marketing people
Vegan foods and their environmental impact
How companies like McDonalds can help the situation
Keto & low carb is now where vegan was 5 years ago
Your Keto Life Chloe Barlow / Craig Barlow
The future of healthy food products in supermarkets, street food, and restaurants
GoLowCarbUK

Frank can be found at:

Blog – https://golowcarb.co.uk/

Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/golowcarbuk/

Ally can be found at:

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Jeff Webster & Amy Moring – Hunter & Gather

25 Oct 2020 no comments paleocanteen

A great episode with Jeff Webster and Amy Moring, the founders of the wonderful Hunter & Gather food company.

Buy our cookbook Low Carb On A Budget from our website if you live in the UK – bit.ly/ordercookbook – or from Amazon or Barnes & Noble if you live outside of Europe.

We talk about:

Jeff & Amy’s health stories, discovering how to optimise their health
Following their passion for health to help others
Bringing positive food options to people in the UK
Low price food industry culture and lower values driving shortcuts and Frankenstein foods
Food industry tactics and smaller authentic products making it through vs mass produced imitation products
“Dirty keto” for fast weight loss vs lifelong health
Hunter & Gather products are the vehicle for their customers to be the best versions of themselves
The online bubble and echo chamber – how much does the average person know about seed oils?
Using recognisable “callouts” on pack vs more educational callouts
Levels of quality in food
New Hunter & Gather products and branding
Ketchups & BBQ sauces with organic tomatoes
The ability of mission driven food companies to stay true to their customers’ health needs
Their glowing collagen product reviews
Marine collagen now available

Jeff & Amy can be found at:

Twitter – https://twitter.com/HunterGatherUK

Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/hunterandgatheruk/

Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/hunterandgatheruk

Website – https://hunterandgatherfoods.com/

Ally can be found at:

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Brad Marshall – The Croissant Diet

19 Oct 2020 2 comments paleocanteen

Brad Marshall is a former cancer researcher who now raises and sells the meat from pigs raised in a very special way that he sells on FirebrandMeats.com

Buy our cookbook Low Carb On A Budget from our website if you live in the UK – bit.ly/ordercookbook – or from Amazon or Barnes & Noble if you live outside of Europe.

We talk about:

Brad’s genetics and cancer research background
His interest in food and move into farming
How pig breed and feed dictates fat content
Corn in USA vs barley in northern Europe and northern USA
Brad’s struggles with weight and use of Atkins / keto
The Hyperlipid blog
Linoleic acid danger and abundance of it in the restaurant industry
Valerie Reeves’ thesis on stearic acid leading to The Croissant Diet
The protons thread on Hyperlipid explained in more simple terms
Why saturated fat is so good for satiety vs. linoleic acid being so bad
Why carbohydrates per se are not the main problem
The Croissant Diet as the other French paradox
The hypothalamus
Why calories in calories out is so simplistic
The recent history of making pigs more lean
Traditional people would go to great lengths to remove PUFA from foods
Lack of diversity on farms

Valerie Reeves’ thesis – https://uknowledge.uky.edu/physiology_etds/3/

Brad can be found at:

Blog – https://fireinabottle.net/blog/

Twitter – https://twitter.com/fire_bottle

Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/fireinabottle

Website – https://firebrandmeats.com

Ally can be found at:

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Dan Greef – Deliciously Guilt Free

08 Oct 2020 no comments paleocanteen

This episode we welcome Dan Greef who with his wife founded the low carb food company Deliciously Guilt Free.

Buy our cookbook Low Carb On A Budget from our website if you live in the UK – bit.ly/ordercookbook – or from Amazon or Barnes & Noble if you live outside of Europe.

We talk about:

Deliciously Guilt Free
Dan’s issues with weight
Mostly carnivore with intermittent fasting
His parliamentary candidacy and its challenges
Saving the NHS money through diet
Food industry for good
Having support when eating differently
Dan’s UK Low Carb Podcast
Craving and willpower
Emotive online nutrition debates and science

Dan can be found at:

Podcast – https://deliciouslyguiltfree.com/pages/uk-low-carb-podcast

Twitter – https://twitter.com/uklowcarbpod

Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/uklowcarbpod

Website – https://deliciouslyguiltfree.com/

Ally can be found at:

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Dr. Elena Gross – Solving the Migraine Mystery

09 Sep 2020 no comments paleocanteen

Dr. Elena Gross is a neuroscientist with a PhD in clinical research ( specifically Ketosis in migraine prevention) She’s the CEO & founder at KetoSwiss.

Buy our cookbook Low Carb On A Budget from our website if you live in the UK – bit.ly/ordercookbook – or from Amazon or Barnes & Noble if you live outside of Europe.

We talk about:

Elena’s story
Migraines running in the family
Current limitations to migraine treatments
Solving the migraine mystery
The theory of migraines being an energy deficit in the brain
Anti-convulsant drugs for migraine and their intolerable side effects
Discovering the ketogenic / low carb / paleo diet and exogenous ketones for treatment
Keto Swiss coming into being
The vague definition of what migraine actually is
How exogenous ketones can provide an excellent way to test therapeutic ketones
The DiRECT trial pros and cons
The expense and difficulty of well constructed nutrition trials
My migraine background
Various migraine triggers
Unregulated perfumes as a trigger
Supplementation
Mitochondria, again!
Blood sugar stability
Reactive hyperinsulinemia
Migraine as evolutionary adaptation
Insulin resistance in the brain – Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, migraine
How doctors are coming to Elena for advice

Elena can be found at:

Twitter – https://twitter.com/ElenaCGross

Website – https://www.keto.swiss/

LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-elena-gross-6518bb2/

Ally can be found at:

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Dr. Agnes Ayton & Dr. Ali Ibrahim – Disordered Eating

07 Aug 2020 no comments paleocanteen

Dr. Ali Ibrahim is training in child and adolescent psychiatry in London with an interest in eating disorders, and Dr. Agnes Ayton is a consultant psychiatrist in eating disorders in Oxford.

We talk about:

The Western diet – a blind spot in eating disorder research
Prevalence of eating disorders has increased
Dietary and lifestyle approaches to eating disorders
Mythbusting: 1) Variety is about nutrition rather than type of food 2) High eating frequency isn’t necessarily required 3) The difference between fasting and starvation
Disordered eating is a spectrum that many more are on than are officially diagnosed. Change of eating disorder prevalence and type from small number with anorexia to more with that, bulimia, and binge eating disorder. Up to 6% now with diagnosis, but many more with disordered eating.
Food environment change over last 50 years is prime suspect
Very few descriptions (going back to 1689) of anorexia nervosa, explosion in the late 20th century of binge eating disorders
Disordered eating through lens of evolutionary sexual competition (women showing bodies on social media and comparison driving disordered eating)
Lack of seasonality in modern food environment driving disordered eating
Carbs and fats artificially combined all year round driving disordered eating, like we are eating fruit and nuts together by several species fattening up
Omega 6 to omega 3 fat ratio
Negative linoleic acid impact on gut health, metabolic health, and eating habits
Food type discussion a good thing in treating disordered eating
Categorising food as better or worse is important and not to be avoided
NOVA food classification – how industrially processed a food is
Complex mechanisms for UPFs driving disordered eating
Sugar, veg oils, and trans fats all drive the issue
Novel multiple chemical ingredients
“Diet” products often badly backfire
Ultra-processed foods are not metabolically inert
No evidence of someone who’s obese or has T2D going on low carb diet and developing an eating disorder
Body image on social media vs food environment
People binge 100% on ultra-processed-processed foods
Breastfed babies stop eating before gaining weight compared to bottle fed

Agnes can be found at:

Twitter – https://twitter.com/AgnesAyton

Ally can be found at:

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Dr. Andrew Jenkinson – Why We Eat Too Much

09 Jun 2020 no comments paleocanteen

Dr. Andrew Jenkinson is a consultant gastrointestinal surgeon and the author of the Sunday Times Bestseller Why We Eat (Too Much).

We talk about:

Weight loss surgery
Why dieting fails
Our individual weight setting
Type of food rather than calories most important
How you CAN control your weight
Why do we keep drifting back up?
Unfounded fear of saturated fat
Refined carbs
Omega 6 laden vegetable oils
Individual or government responsibility?
Obesity is a disease caused by the environment
Can bariatric surgery be the best answer?
Leptin resistance
Binge eating in secret at night is a symptom of leptin
Keto diet vs lower carb diet
Exercise and calories

Andrew can be found at:

Twitter – https://twitter.com/mradjenkinson1

Ally can be found at:

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Covid-19 Special – Ken Strain & Tucker Goodrich

02 Jun 2020 no comments paleocanteen

Professor Ken Strain is an experimental physicist, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Institute of Physics and is the deputy director of the Institute for Gravitational Research at the University of Glasgow here in Scotland. He was part of the international collaboration that successfully discovered gravitational waves. And on the side there is a large interest in nutrition science.

Tucker Goodrich is a Wall Street tech guru and citizen scientist who healed his own illnesses mainly by cutting out vegetable oils and gluten from his diet. His most recent blog post on this subject can be found here: https://yelling-stop.blogspot.com/2020/06/does-consumption-of-omega-6-seed-oils.html

We discuss:

What’s happened in the last two to three months?
When was total lockdown more damaging than helpful?
Why are we seeing such a topsy turvy attitude to the data?
What can people do to protect themselves from covid’s likely return in the winter (hint: cut out carbs and veg oils)?
What we know about virus transmission?
Is it really so very novel?
Innate / T-cell immunity & why nutrition helps a lot.

Ken can be found at:

Twitter – https://twitter.com/Ken__Strain

Tucker can be found at:

Twitter – https://twitter.com/tuckergoodrich

Blog – http://yelling-stop.blogspot.com/

Ally can be found at:

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Dr. Peter Brukner – Good Sport

19 May 2020 no comments paleocanteen

Dr. Peter Brukner is a sports medic, author, and real food advocate. He’s recently been the doctor to the Australian cricket team and Liverpool football club.

We talk about:

Being team doctor for Australian Olympic athletes, the Socceroos, Liverpool FC, and the Australian Cricket Team
His metabolic illness
Prof. Tim Noakes and Gary Taubes blowing the whistle on carbs and fat
Weight loss, appetite control, focus, and fatty liver improving on low carb
Sugar By Half campaign
A Fat Lot of Good book
The battle to convince doctors
Drugs and surgery are doctors’ comfort zone
Doctors don’t get enough nutrition training
Why Atkins didn’t stick properly
Jurgen Klopp’s giant Ginster’s
Elite athletes moving towards better and better nutrition
Owen Franks carnivore
Is low carb right for athletes?
How should normal people eat?
David Pocock & Chris Froome training low and playing high carb
Alcohol, gambling, and junk food sponsorship in sport
UV and Dr. Malcolm Kendrick’s blog
Vit D deficiency in Australia
Tucker Goodrich
Paul Mason
Scoundrel Ice Cream

Peter can be found at:

Twitter – https://twitter.com/PeterBrukner

Websites – https://www.sugarbyhalf.com/, https://www.peterbrukner.com/, https://www.fatlotofgood.com.au/

Ally can be found at:

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Covid-19 Special – Professor Ken Strain

15 Apr 2020 no comments paleocanteen

Understanding and thoughts on coronavirus
Some headlines from the C19 data and walk through of the analysis of the data so far
Lockdown effectiveness
Early positive results from Sweden
What the R0 value is
Cytokines and lung function and/or blood disorders
Why might viral evolution favour hypoxia?
The Diamond Princess
Mitochondria and C19
What do we know so far about people’s existing medical conditions and C19, and what could be done about it?

Ken can be found at:

Twitter – https://twitter.com/Ken__Strain

Ally can be found at:

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Covid-19 Special – George Henderson

13 Apr 2020 no comments paleocanteen

George Henderson is an independent researcher who has published research papers out of the Auckland University of Technology, often alongside one of our previous guests Professor Grant Schofield. George also has a tremendous blog called Hopeful Geranium which documents his research on human physiology, stemming from his impressively self researched, diet induced recovery from hepatitis C, which is of course a virus.

Immune response to new viruses
Probiotics
The micro biome and immunity
Omega-3 sparing effect of saturated fat
Metabolic risk factor in viral disease

George can be found at:

Twitter – https://twitter.com/puddleg

Blog – http://hopefulgeranium.blogspot.com/

Website – https://prekure.com/

Ally can be found at:

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Covid-19 Special – Dr. Poonam Malik

10 Apr 2020 no comments paleocanteen

Dr Poonam Malik is University Med Tech Academic Advisor, Life Sciences & Health Sector Expertise Consultant, Economic Development Business Mentor and Social Entrepreneur based in Scotland. For her contributions to the field of Biology she was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Biology UK in 2017. and has published widely on infectious diseases, research on viruses and impact on public health.

We talk about:

The virus itself
Current strategies
Lockdown and the economy
And more!

Poonam can be found at:

Twitter – https://twitter.com/poons21

LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-poonam-malik/

Ally can be found at: