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Mary Ruddick, CNC Part 2 - Gut Microbiome, Finding a Healing Diet, Mental Illness, Plant vs. Animal

Updated: Sep 16, 2020

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Wow what a response to the first part with Mary! I’m so glad everyone enjoyed her as much as I did. So much more great stuff in our part 2. Stick around until the end - everything she has to say is valuable.

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SHOW NOTES

[4:00] The truth of what a blue zone’s diet looks like.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3051199/
[10:00] Don’t eat any processed foods and eat very seasonally.
[15:50] Plant toxins in nightshades.
[21:50] Intuitive eating.
[27:10] Autoimmunity from non nutrientive amino acids from plant foods.
[28:00] Infertility for lions in zoos.
[31:00] Mental illness usually has a physical cause as well.
[34:10] Ovaries have thousands of insulin receptors on them.
[37:50] Losing your cycle from estrogen dominance and being undernourished, especially in a vegan diet.
[39:50] Ways to help with low testosterone.
[44:15] How to choose a diet that works for her patients.
[50:20] The microbiome is always the first thing she looks into.
[1:03:10] Lifestyle activity shifts the microbiome as much as the diet.
[1:04:30] Weston A Price and how it affected her research.
[1:08:50] What a diet that most people would do well on looks like.
[1:12:30] Eating low variety foods and keeping it seasonally.
[1:16:10] The best ratio for plant and animal foods in a diet.
[1:21:30] Salt and spices in ancient civilizations.
[1:25:40] PUFAs.
[1:29:30] The importance of having a healthy microbiome on the skin.