
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.
Latest episodes

Jan 30, 2023 • 1h 46min
Siobhan Huggins - Diet, mental health transformations, and lipedema
Siobhan Huggins is an independent researcher in cholesterol, lipedema, diet, and mental health.
Siobhan’s mental health and diet history
Zero carb zen
The carnivore diet
Dairy effects on mood etc.
Dairy denial
Fixing an egg allergy
Lipedema
Shirt-off pictures
Functionally lean
Dairy, nuts
How to get enough fat
“High fat diet” in academic research
Siobhan's Twitter: https://twitter.com/siobhan_huggins
Ally and Dr. Rachel Brown's mental health coaching platform: www.metpsy.com

Jan 18, 2023 • 1h 34min
Dr. Georgia Ede - "Studies have shown conclusively that the head is part of the body"
Georgia Ede is a psychiatrist focused on the connection between nutrition, metabolism, and mental health.
DiagnosisDiet.com
Georgia’s health transformation
Fibre
Food studies and their flaws
Resistance to new treatments from healthcare professionals
Wins from traditional psychiatry vs. wins from nutritional psychiatry
Albert Danan’s study
Virta, coaching support, Dr. Hallberg
Dr. Iain Campbell’s research on metabolism
Negative previous experiences more positively reframed by better metabolism
Georgia’s book - coming soon!
Georgia's Twitter: twitter.com/GeorgiaEdeMD

Oct 3, 2022 • 1h 4min
Sarah Hancock PhD - Dental Health Is Health
Sarah Hancock has a PhD in public health nutrition, and researches oral health, general health and the nutritional ties that bind them together.
- Weston Price
- Processed foods
- The difficulties of interpreting nutrition research
- Sugar’s enamel erosion and internal malnourishment
- Importance of coaching with good information
- $NZ135,000 spent every day on removing children’s rotten teeth
- Gluten and casein issues
- Fat stigma
https://twitter.com/sjhancocknz

Sep 10, 2022 • 48min
Dr. Rachel Brown - Metabolic Madness
Dr. Rachel Brown is a consultant psychiatrist in the UK National Health Service who is interested in LCHF/Metabolic Psychiatry.
Low carb to keto to carnivore
Training with Dr. Georgia Ede
Functional medicine
The existing western paradigm
Carnivore giving “complete food freedom”
Flaws in medical literature
Doing your own research
Quantifying the success of health interventions
Rachel’s book Metabolic Madness https://www.amazon.co.uk/Metabolic-Madness-Understand-Health-Success/dp/1739614704/
https://www.instagram.com/carnivoreshrink/
https://foodforthoughtpsychiatrist.com/

Sep 5, 2022 • 1h 28min
Dr. Iain Campbell - Healing Bipolar with Keto
Dr. Iain Campbell has a PhD in global health and is studying the ketogenic diet as a therapy for bipolar disorder. His bipolar is not there when his ketones are high and blood glucose low.
- The lights in his brain switched back on with keto
- Understanding the mechanisms behind keto
- The Baszucki Group
- Diabetes and mental illness connection
- The brain and insulin
- Left and right hemisphere thinking
- Our distance from the world
- Scientific understanding of bipolar
- Bipolar Cast
- Coaching and mental health

5 snips
Aug 21, 2022 • 1h 10min
Chris Palmer MD - Harvard Psychiatrist on Brain Energy: Metabolic Health to Treat Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, And More
Harvard psychiatrist working at the interface of metabolism and mental disorders. Author of Brain Energy (coming November 2022!)
- Keto for treatment-resistant depression and schizophrenia
- Biological, psychological, and social aspects of mental health
- Mental health risk factors
- Gut health and mental health
- Limitations of current research
- Conveying advantages to patients and other doctors
- Hitting rock bottom and deciding to change
- Brain Energy - Chris’s metabolic brain science book
www.paleocanteen.co.uk
https://www.chrispalmermd.com/

Aug 11, 2022 • 1h 8min
Pam Devine - Bringing Us Together In Metabolic Health
Pam Devine is the co-founder of Low Carb USA.
Pam and Doug’s nutritional past
The low carb diet and its benefits
Cynicism around low carb diets
Society of metabolic health practitioners - https://thesmhp.org/
Metabolic Health Symposium San Diego - https://www.lowcarbusa.org/smhp-symposiums/san-diego-2022/
Dave Feldman and cholesterol - https://cholesterolcode.com/
Making low carb transition easier for patients and doctors
20% discount for tickets with code AHT20 at https://www.lowcarbusa.org/smhp-symposiums/san-diego-2022/

Jul 22, 2022 • 1h 27min
Dr. Carlo Bellini on The Power of Health Coaching
Dr. Carlo Bellini is a medical doctor, coach, entrepreneur and speaker.
What coaching is, and what it isn’t
Beyond biohacking
Why we can’t ignore our emotions
How the interaction between coach and client is where the magic happens
The psychology of true behaviour change
Uncovering our own truth
Beauty, self-worth, guilt, and shame
To do list vs. to be list
Long term chronic pain vs. short term acute pain
Emotional recovery window
Our saboteurs
innervoice.coach

Jul 2, 2022 • 1h 53min
Amber O'Hearn & Ted Naiman on Fat & Protein
Amber O’Hearn, a science writer, a programmer, and, since 2009, a radical carnivore, discusses fat and protein with Dr. Ted Naiman, a medical doctor specialising in diet and exercise, who coined the term P:E diet, which stands for the protein to energy ratio diet.
Why some people who can't lose weight with high protein can with lower protein and higher fat.
How does fat type influence metabolism?
The protein leverage hypothesis.
P:E diet limitations.
Ted and Amber's protein:fat ratios
2:1 fat:protein PKD potential advantages.
The problem of our hedonic wiring in the modern world.
Importance of respiratory fitness.
Ted and Amber’s ideal studies to test their hypotheses.

Sep 26, 2021 • 1h 9min
Clubhouse Mini Episode - Tucker Goodrich
Tucker talks us through the downsides of seed oils, also found in chicken and pork fat if raised on corn and soy.
Tucker's Twitter
Omega 6 fat test UK
OxPL ApoB test
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