
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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Nov 2, 2020 • 46min
Frank Clayden - Transforming The Food Industry From Within
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:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/paleocanteen
Twitter - https://twitter.com/paleoally
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/paleocanteen
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/AllyHouston

Oct 25, 2020 • 1h 15min
Jeff Webster & Amy Moring - Hunter & Gather
A great episode with Jeff Webster and Amy Moring, the founders of the wonderful Hunter & Gather food company.
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:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/paleocanteen
Twitter - https://twitter.com/paleoally
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/paleocanteen
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/AllyHouston

Oct 19, 2020 • 1h 41min
Brad Marshall - The Croissant Diet
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
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:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/paleocanteen
Twitter - https://twitter.com/paleoally
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/paleocanteen
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/AllyHouston

Oct 8, 2020 • 41min
Dan Greef - Deliciously Guilt Free
This episode we welcome Dan Greef who with his wife founded the low carb food company Deliciously Guilt Free.
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:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/paleocanteen
Twitter - https://twitter.com/paleoally
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/paleocanteen
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/AllyHouston

Sep 9, 2020 • 53min
Dr. Elena Gross - Solving the Migraine Mystery
Dr. Elena Gross is a neuroscientist with a PhD in clinical research ( specifically Ketosis in migraine prevention) She’s the CEO & founder at KetoSwiss.
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:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/paleocanteen
Twitter - https://twitter.com/paleoally
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/paleocanteen
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/AllyHouston

Aug 7, 2020 • 58min
Dr. Agnes Ayton & Dr. Ali Ibrahim - Disordered Eating
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:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/paleocanteen
Twitter - https://twitter.com/paleoally
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/paleocanteen
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/AllyHouston

Jun 9, 2020 • 26min
Dr. Andrew Jenkinson - Why We Eat Too Much
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:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/paleocanteen
Twitter - https://twitter.com/paleoally
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/paleocanteen
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/AllyHouston

Jun 2, 2020 • 1h 47min
Covid-19 Special - Ken Strain & Tucker Goodrich
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:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/paleocanteen
Twitter - https://twitter.com/paleoally
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/paleocanteen
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/AllyHouston

May 19, 2020 • 55min
Dr. Peter Brukner - Good Sport
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:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/paleocanteen
Twitter - https://twitter.com/paleoally
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/paleocanteen
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/AllyHouston

Apr 15, 2020 • 2h 38min
Covid-19 Special - Professor Ken Strain
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.
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:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/paleocanteen
Twitter - https://twitter.com/paleoally
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/paleocanteen
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/AllyHouston
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