
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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Jan 20, 2020 • 55min
Prof. Grant Schofield - What The Fat?
Grant Schofield is Professor of Public Health, and Director of the Human Potential Centre at AUT Millennium. His research and teaching interests range from understanding and improving lifestyle behaviours such as sleep, nutrition, and physical activity, to wellbeing epidemiology and human performance. He is the author of the book What The Fat.
We talk about:
Chronic conditions impacting our available good years of life
Food and pharmaceutical industry impact
Healthy cities
What predicts wellbeing
Child’s play
Guilty parents cause over-parenting
Our sedentary lifestyles
Grant can be found at:
Websites - https://profgrant.com/, https://prekure.com/, https://whatthefatbook.com/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/grantsnz
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

Jan 6, 2020 • 1h 52min
Nick Mailer - The Tragedy of the Empathetic Carnivore
Nick Mailer is an author and co-founder of The Positive Internet Company. He is a citizen scientist and has done several widely shared talks on human health.
We talk about:
High quality of meat vs plant diet
The tragedy of the empathetic carnivore
The philosophy of the nutrition wars
Public understanding of science
Black swans
LDL cholesterol and heart disease
Obesity and cancer
Cancer research
Internet freedom
Statins
Academic freedom
Nick can be found at:
Website - http://skimmed.cream.org/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/bokkiedog
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

Dec 17, 2019 • 1h 22min
Gormy - 320lbs Down Using Keto
Mike, who goes by the name Gormy online, has lost… wait for it… 320lbs on a low carb diet. That’s nearly 23 stone, or 145kg.
We talk about:
Weight going from 540 to 216 lbs, 7XL to XL
How it feels to live at that weight
The importance of the mental side of health
Food addiction
Big picture motivation for health
The ongoing battle with his feelings
Physical hunger vs. emotional hunger
Keto desserts
Working with a coach
The disfigurement of being very overweight
The bigger he got, the smaller his world got
His take on what drove the emotional eating
Not recognising himself now he’s lighter
And more!
Gormy can be found at:
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/gormy_goes_keto/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/gormygoesketo
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

Dec 8, 2019 • 55min
Bruce Kalman - Trust A Thin Chef
Bruce Kalman is a top U.S. chef, based in California, originally from New Jersey. He has appeared on U.S. television on multiple shows, and brings his award winning take on Italian cuisine wherever he goes.
We talk about:
His struggle with weight
Emotional and stress eating
Success with keto
Never trusting a thin chef
Lack of self care in the service industry
How tasting food becomes eating food
And more!
Bruce can be found at:
Website - https://www.brucekalman.com
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/chefbkalman/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/chefbkalman
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

Dec 2, 2019 • 1h 42min
Nikola Howard - Low Carb In The UK
Nikola Howard is an author, coach and mentor, and started the online community Low Carb In The UK.
We talk about:
Her Low Carb In The UK Facebook group
Her low carb books
Coaching women on obesity, food shame, and anxiety
The language around food, health, and fat
Her food addiction journey
Nikola can be found at:
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/lowcarbintheuk/
Facebook Public Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/lowcarbintheuk
Twitter - https://twitter.com/LowCarbintheUK
Ally can be found at:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/paleocanteen
Twitter - https://twitter.com/paleoally
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/AllyHouston

Nov 25, 2019 • 1h 6min
Professor Frédéric Leroy - The Food Fight
Professor Frédéric Leroy is a professor in the field of food science and (bio)technology in Free University of Brussels.
We talk about:
EAT/Lancet planetary diet
High profit margins in vegan processed foods
Forcing a diet on people
What hope do we have?
Connecting with our food
The battle for calories and nutrients
The meat / veg lobby vs. the processed food lobby
Improving food systems to feed growing populations
The postmodern approach to reinventing food
Apocalyptic predictions
EAT/Lancet motivations
Conflict of interest and challenging your own theories
What is the best diet?
NutriRECS
Fermented foods
Frédéric can be found at:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/fleroy1974
Ally can be found at:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/paleocanteen
Twitter - https://twitter.com/paleoally
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/AllyHouston

Nov 17, 2019 • 1h 20min
Amy Berger - The Alzheimer's Antidote
Amy is a U.S. Air Force veteran and Certified Nutrition Specialist who specialises in using low-carbohydrate and ketogenic nutrition to help people reclaim their vitality through eating delicious foods, and showing them that getting and staying well don't require starvation, deprivation, or living at the gym. Her motto is, “Real people need real food!” She blogs at www.tuitnutrition.com, where she writes about a wide range of health and nutrition-related topics, such as insulin, metabolism, weight loss, thyroid function, and more. She has presented internationally on these issues and is the author of The Alzheimer's Antidote: Using a Low-Carb, High-Fat Diet to Fight Alzheimer’s Disease, Memory Loss, and Cognitive Decline. We talk about:
Her way in to low carb nutrition
How weight loss is the LEAST impressive thing about low carb
Alzheimer’s as Type 3 Diabetes
PCOS and high insulin
Her depression
What she eats now
Personal carbohydrate threshold
Thyroid medication pitfalls
Mistakes made on keto
The variety of successful diets
The status of Alzheimer’s research
The trouble with amyloid plaque
High insulin
Amy can be found at:
Blog - http://www.tuitnutrition.com/
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmDz-SYYhoerycynsCm7L8g
Twitter - https://twitter.com/TuitNutrition
Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/tuitnutrition
Ally can be found at:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/paleocanteen
Twitter - https://twitter.com/paleoally
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/AllyHouston

Nov 11, 2019 • 2h 8min
Peter Dobromylskyj - Hyperlipid
Peter Dobromylskyj is a veterinary anaesthetist and nutrition blogger, whose blog Hyperlipid is renowned in the low carb world.
We talk about:
The "Optimal Diet"
The carnivore diet
The legendary "Proton" series of posts from Hyperlipid
Species appropriate diets for humans and other animals
And more!
Peter can be found at:
Blog - http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/
Ally can be found at:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/paleocanteen
Twitter - https://twitter.com/paleoally
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/AllyHouston

Oct 27, 2019 • 2h 9min
Professor Ken Strain & Tucker Goodrich - The Mitochondriacs
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. Professor Ken Strain is an experimental physicist who is part of the group that discovered gravitational waves, which lead to the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics for the heads of the collaboration.
We talk about:
Why vegetable oils are THE number one health danger
Why the U.S. military is one of the least healthy populations in the world
Why sex exists
And much more
A full list of references will be posted soon...
Tucker can be found at:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/tuckergoodrich
Blog - http://yelling-stop.blogspot.com/
Ken can be found at:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/Ken__Strain
Ally can be found at:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/paleocanteen
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/AllyHouston

Oct 20, 2019 • 1h 36min
Tucker Goodrich - Goodbye Mr. Wholewheat
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.
We talk about:
His ironic old nickname 'Mr. Wholewheat'
Why we are so fat and sick these days
Why cutting out veg oils is so important
And much more
A full list of references can be found at https://yelling-stop.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-paleo-canteen-podcast-tucker.html
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
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/AllyHouston
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