
The Ally Houston Transforms Podcast by Paleo Canteen
Welcome to The Ally Houston Transforms Podcast, a show for anyone who has feelings about health. Join host Ally Houston as guests open up about their relationship with health. Transform yourself with The Ally Houston Transforms Podcast.
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Jun 21, 2023 • 1h 38min
Tucker Goodrich - AUTOIMMUNE Diseases, Wheat & Seed Oils
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Discussion
7:40 Autoimmunity in Africa (Trowell & Burkitt, 1981)
18:20 Daughter’s allergies (Goodrich, 2011)
20:46 Intestinal permeability & wheat (Visser et al., 2009)
22:28 Celiacs who are allergic to mitochondria (Cervio et al., 2007; Volta et al., 2002)
23:20 Increasing prevalence of Celiac (Catassi et al., 2010; Rubio–Tapia et al., 2009)
35:35 Wheat, goat grass, 33-mer (Brouns et al., 2022)
38:45 Wheat in Egypt (Abu-Zekry et al., 2008)
43:00 Wheat and T1DM (Ciacci & Zingone, 2016)
47:25 Wheat is a carcinogen (O’Farrelly et al., 1986)
50:50 Wheat and schizophrenia (Dohan, 1966)
52:38 Poison ivy and PUFA (Xia et al., 2004)
56:34 PUFA up to 20% of American diet (National Cancer Institute, 2019)
57:42 Brown & Goldstein and LDL (Goldstein et al., 1979)
58:54 Steinberg & Witztum and modified LDL (Steinberg et al., 1989)
1:00:00 OxLDL and auto-antibodies (Hörkkö et al., 1996)
1:00:02 Antiphospholipid syndrome and cardiolipin (Hörkkö et al., 1996; Tuominen et al., 2006)
1:09:16 400-1000x as oxidized as normal LDL (AOCS American Oil Chemists’ Society, 2021)
1:11:56 All autoimmune diseases involve oxidative stress—seed oil toxicity (Pagano et al., 2014)
1:12:20 Oxidized linoleic acid induces beta-amyloid (Arimon et al., 2015)
1:14:00 Insulin resistance and oxLDL (Li et al., 2013)
1:19:06 Homicide and linoleic acid consumption (Drewitt-Smith & Rheinberger, 2019; Hibbeln, 2007; Hibbeln et al., 2004)
1:21:20 Smoking and CVD-free populations (Lindeberg et al., 1994; Sinnett & Whyte, 1973)
1:25:28 OxLDL and beta cells (Abderrahmani et al., 2007)
Other References
Hibbeln, J. R. (2007). From Homicide to Happiness – A Commentary on Omega-3 Fatty Acids in Human Society. Nutrition and Health, 19(1–2), 9–19. https://doi.org/10.1177/026010600701900204
Hibbeln, J. R., Nieminen, L. R. G., & Lands, W. E. M. (2004). Increasing homicide rates and linoleic acid consumption among five western countries, 1961–2000. Lipids, 39(12), 1207–1213. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11745-004-1349-5
Sinnett, P. F., & Whyte, H. M. (1973). Epidemiological studies in a total highland population, Tukisenta, New Guinea: Cardiovascular disease and relevant clinical, electrocardiographic, radiological and biochemical findings. Journal of Chronic Diseases, 26(5), 265–290. https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9681(73)90031-3
Tuominen, A., Miller, Y. I., Hansen, L. F., Kesäniemi, Y. A., Witztum, J. L., & Hörkkö, S. (2006). A Natural Antibody to Oxidized Cardiolipin Binds to Oxidized Low-Density Lipoprotein, Apoptotic Cells, and Atherosclerotic Lesions. Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology, 26(9), 2096–2102. https://doi.org/10.1161/01.ATV.0000233333.07991.4a
Volta, U., Rodrigo, L., Granito, A., Petrolini, N., Muratori, P., Muratori, L., Linares, A., Veronesi, L., Fuentes, D., Zauli, D., & Bianchi, F. B. (2002). Celiac disease in autoimmune cholestatic liver disorders. The American Journal of Gastroenterology, 97(10), 2609–2613. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0002-9270(02)04389-7

Jun 6, 2023 • 1h 9min
Tess Falor - REMISSION from M.E. / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?
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Tess Falor PhD is a space physicist turned medical researcher with the remission biome & #TheAcidTest self-experiments currently in progress.
remissionbiome.org
twitter.com/remissionbiome
twitter.com/tessfalor

May 30, 2023 • 1h 43min
Satiety Per Calorie Debate - Amber O'Hearn, Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt, Raphi Sirtoli, & Dr. Ted Naiman
Amber O'Hearn, Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt, Raphi Sirtoli, and Dr. Ted Naiman discuss Satiety Per Calorie and Calories In Calories Out
- 32.45 Maximising calories out / fatty acids
- 36.40 Calories
- 39ish Per calorie energy out
- 54.20 Tension between complexity and accuracy
- 5740 Non-linearity
- 59.05 Calorie focus & reduction of energy intake
- 1.03.00 On not restricting calories
- 1.06.00 Fat types
- 1.22.20 What’s in a name?
Thanks for listening or watching. Please hit subscribe where you’re watching or listening so you don’t miss out on future episodes. Please leave a review, it takes 30 seconds and really helps get these exciting messages out there. And if you or anyone you know could benefit from a mental health tune-up, head over to metpsy.com where myself and psychiatrist Dr. Rachel Brown coach you to better mental health.

May 24, 2023 • 1h 16min
Miki Ben-Dor PhD - Man The Fat Hunter
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Miki Ben-Dor is a paleoanthropologist affiliated with Tel Aviv University, researching the causal relation between paleolithic nutrition and human evolution.
Emotional mismatch of environment
Economic fairness
Herman Pontzer's work
Plants vs hunting calories
Gluten
Eating rotten food
https://twitter.com/bendormiki
paleostyle.com
Paleo Style Book On Amazon

May 17, 2023 • 52min
Jan Ellison Baszucki - A Mother Who Never Gave Up
Jan Ellison Baszucki is a former Silicon Valley fintech marketing executive turned writer, parent, mental health advocate and aspiring citizen scientist.
We discuss:
- Jan’s son Matt’s bipolar remission
- Pharmaceutical bipolar treatments failing
- Metabolic processes and the brain
- Metabolic Mind and the Baszucki Brain Research Fund
- Anorexia and the potential with diet and lifestyle
- My metabolic history
- Gluten and mental health
metabolicmind.org
baszuckigroup.com/our-work/metabolism-mental-health/
janellison.com

Apr 19, 2023 • 29min
The Public Health Collaboration - Olivia Khwaja & Sam Feltham on the PHC Conference 2023
Olivia Khwaja is a consumer strategist
and board trustee at the Public Health Collaboration - phcuk.org
Sam Feltham is the founder of the Public Health Collaboration.
They joined me to talk about this year's exciting conference on the 19th and 20th of May in Sheffield.
Look at the INCREDIBLE lineup of speakers, and get your tickets while you still can at https://phcuk.org/phc-conference-2023/

Mar 23, 2023 • 1h 33min
Peter Dobromylskyj - Hyperlipid Revisited
Peter Dobromylskyj is a veterinary anaesthetist, surgeon, and nutrition blogger who created the legendary Hyperlipid blog.
Welcome to the Ally Houston Transforms podcast. I’m a former physicist who fixed my brain using nutrition. I now coach people to empower them to do the same. If you or anyone you know could benefit from a mental health tune-up, head over to metpsy.com where myself and psychiatrist Dr. Rachel Brown coach people to better mental health.
Peter and I talk about:
Fat metabolism vs. glucose metabolism
The legendary protons thread
Fats that may cause obesity
Mitochondria
Metabolic flexibility
The electron transport chain
Metabolic mental health
Evolutionary complexity
Miki Ben Dor
The carnivore advantage vs deep ketosis
Starch adaptation in evolution
www.metpsy.com

Mar 2, 2023 • 1h 25min
Brad Marshall - Fire In A Bottle
Brad is a pig farmer, butcher, charcutier, food historian, molecular biologist, and database programmer. He invented the Croissant Diet and coined the term "Low PUFA Pork."
What Brad does for his health
Low linoleic acid
The traditional American diet
How seed oils limit your function
How we burn different food types and what that means for our weight, energy, and health
Mitochondria, mitochondria, mitochondria
Torpor and hibernation
Mental health drugs and metabolism
AhR, metformin, and metabolism
Pu-erh tea
ALA
Succinate
https://fireinabottle.net/
https://www.youtube.com/@fireinabottle3410
For Ally and Rachel's metabolic mental health coaching, please visit metpsy.com.

Feb 17, 2023 • 57min
Dr. Bret Scher - Metabolic Mind
Dr. Bret Scher is the director of Metabolic Mind. He is also a low carb cardiologist, promoting cardiovascular and metabolic health.
Bret’s way in to keto diet and lifestyle medicine
The importance of metabolism
Dr. Calkin’s metformin study
Scalability of solutions
The power and safety profile of keto
The Baszucki Research Fund’s trials
Types of fat
What Bret eats
Genetics and diet
Dr. Danan’s study
Metabolic Mind
https://www.youtube.com/@metabolicmind
https://metabolicmind.org/
https://twitter.com/Metabolic_Mind

Feb 6, 2023 • 47min
Michelle Hurn RD - The Dietitian's Dilemma
Michelle Hurn is a registered dietitian, author, and ultra-marathon runner.
Michelle’s story in becoming a dietitian
Issues with the field of dietetics
Michelle’s athletic goals and health deteriorating
Using low carb for anxiety, energy, and ultra-marathons
Being coached by Zach Bitter to becoming a champion ultra-marathon runner
Michelle’s career change to focus on writing a book
Unprecedented mental resilience
Eating disorders and diet
Our healthcare system
How good nutrition allow us to deal with our trauma and issues
Food addiction
Investing in a coach
Michelle's Instagram
Michelle's Twitter
This podcast is sponsored by Paleo Canteen - food and coaching for better health
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