On this episode of Ancestral Health Today we welcome Ally Houston. Ally was trained as a physicist but switched to researching ketogenic diets in 2016, and started a paleo and keto food business in 2017, then health coaching in 2021. He and Dr. Rachel Brown started MetPsy in late 2022. He was ill from childhood, struggling with weight, anxiety, seasonal depression, and ADHD. He was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult in 2015 when all symptoms were at their worst. The drugs helped a little but they w...
May 29, 2024•53 min
On this episode of Ancestral Health today, we bring you Richelle Sepulveda. She is adjunct professor of psychology at North Idaho College. She is also part of a team of patient-led researchers at the This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ancestralhealth.substack.com
May 16, 2024•58 min
In this episode we bring you Anya Kaats. Anya spent a decade working in various roles within the natural products / wellness industry, before realizing that “wellness” culture was making her sick. In 2016, Anya radically restructured her life to focus on a more holistic approach to health, prioritizing authenticity, purpose, community, somatic, spirituality, and psychological well being. After a lifetime battling digestive and hormonal health issues, a truly holistic approach to “ancestral healt...
May 04, 2024•1 hr 20 min
On this episode of Ancestral Health Today we bring you Naturopathic doctor, coach and Author Nadia Pateguana, N.D - Dr, Pateguana works with clients from a holistic perspective, not seeing organs or illnesses, but seeing people. She is a graduate from The Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine ( www.ccnm.edu ) in 2004 and has a Degree in Honours Biology from McMaster University (2000). Dr. Pateguana's interest has always been how to heal the human body. In search for her own wellness, she dis...
Apr 25, 2024•48 min
On today’s an episode we bring you a special presentation by Lucy Mailing Phd from the ancestral health symposium. All of our past AHS presentations can be found on our YouTube channel Rewilding the gut: what modern microbiome science can tell us about restoring ancestral diversity - Lucy Mailing (AHS21) The gut microbiota plays essential roles in human health and has been implicated in many chronic diseases. This dense community of microbes has co-evolved with its host over million years of evo...
Apr 18, 2024•41 min
On this episode of Ancestral Health Today, we take a look back into Ancestral Health Symposium 2014 where Dr. Robert Lustig spoke about sugar not being an ordinary commodity. Dr. Lustig is Professor emeritus of Pediatrics, Division of Endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He specializes in the field of neuroendocrinology, with an emphasis on the regulation of energy balance by the central nervous system. His research and clinical practice has focused on childhood o...
Apr 11, 2024•37 min
On today’s an episode we bring you a special presentation by L Amber O’ Hearn, M. Sc. from the Ancestral Health Symposium. All of our past AHS presentations can be found on our YouTube channel Ancestral Health Today “For decades, the Dietary Guidelines of America have recommended strictly limiting added dietary salt primarily on the basis of real but largely clinically irrelevant effects on blood pressure. Members of the Low Carb and Paleo Diet communities have pointed out the senselessness of t...
Apr 04, 2024•38 min
On this episode of The Ancestral Health Today Podcast, our host, Isabel Burnett tries to bridge the gap between health optimization and the nuanced complexities of multi-systemic chronic illness, with an emphasis on infection-associated complex diseases such as long covid and MECFS. Isabel started out wanting to be a doctor, but she was derailed by MECFS, which she has had since childhood, and worsened in adolescence. Isabel became a systems engineer and worked in the pharmaceutical sector while...
Mar 26, 2024•55 min
In this episode, Dr. Michael Crawford discusses the essential role of the essential fatty acids DHA and ARA in the evolution and health of the human brain. Dr. Crawford is visiting professor at Imperial College in London, and has been Director of the Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition since 1990. For his pioneering discovery of the role of DHA in the brain in 1971, and its importance in prenatal nutrition, Michael was elected by his peers to the Hall of Fame at the Royal Society of...
Mar 19, 2024•59 min
On this episode of ancestral health today we welcome Miguel Casali, MD for a discussion about his evolution from traditional medicine to ancestral health and what keeps the medical system confined as the world population sees an increase in chronic illness. Miguel Casali is a doctor with a humanistic approach. He is driven by curiosity, learning from different cultures he has been driven to reject hierarchical structures that place the physician as the ultimate authority. Miguel sees his patient...
Mar 12, 2024•43 min
This episode with Dr. Pedro Bastos is a broad exploration of the role of inflammation in health and disease. In popular media, inflammation is regularly referenced only as a process that impairs our health, but as you'll learn today, inflammation also plays an essential and beneficial role in context. There is good inflammation and bad inflammation, and it is important to understand the difference. Dr. Bastos is a dietitian and researcher affiliated with the European University of Madrid in Spai...
Mar 06, 2024•1 hr 31 min
On this episode of Ancestral Health Today we have Mickey Trescott and Jaime Hartman. We discuss the recent changes in the AutoImmune Protocol and clarify what the intent and scope of AIP is, while busting some long standing myths. Mickey Trescott is a Chef and Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, certified through the Nutritional Therapy Association , and coaches a small number of one-on-one clients. She is the author of three best-selling books, The Autoimmune Paleo Cookbook , The Autoi...
Feb 27, 2024•51 min
On this episode of Ancestral Health Today, we talked to Jill Miller about the role of fascia in health and movement. Jill is a pioneer in forging relevant links between the worlds of fitness, yoga, athletics, massage, and pain-management, having studied movement and the human body for more than 30 years. She is the author of the best-selling books, BODY by BREATH , and THE ROLL MODEL, and creator of the fitness formats Yoga Tune Up® and The Roll Model® Method. Miller is also a contributing autho...
Feb 20, 2024•52 min
This Second Look episode combines two AHS talks by Dr. Ron Rosedale: His 2012 talk at Harvard on Diabetes and his 2019 talk in San Diego on Cancer. Dr. Rosedale was an early pioneer of the low carb movement, and one of the first to focus on the metabolic value of increasing dietary fat rather than dietary protein. Based on a deeper understanding the roles of insulin, leptin, and mTOR in human metabolism, he crafted his Rosedale Diet, not just for weight loss, but for preventing or treating heart...
Feb 13, 2024•1 hr 7 min
In this episode, Dr. Emily Deans discusses the field of evolutionary psychiatry and its connection to mental health. Dr. Deans is a board certified psychiatrist and writes the blog Evolutionary Psychiatry , based on the observation that our brains are healthiest when we embrace a diet and lifestyle reflecting the conditions under which we humans evolved. Dr. Deans has presented at the Ancestral Health Symposium in 2012 and 2018 on topics related to this theme. In this discussion, we dive into wh...
Feb 06, 2024•1 hr 7 min
On this episode of Ancestral Health Today, we have a candid conversation with Pilar Eguez , PhD. We discussed the role of food and community and the ancestral ways of experiencing them. Pilar Egüez Guevara, PhD is an Ecuadorian award-winning filmmaker, cultural anthropologist, speaker and writer. She obtained her PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, two MA degrees in Anthropology (University of Illinois) and Social Sciences (FLACSO-Ecuador) and a BA in Economics from Wellesle...
Jan 30, 2024•58 min
This episode of the podcast kicks off a new feature called "Second Look", where we replay selected talks from past Ancestral Health Symposium conferences, that we think will interest you. This talk was presented by Todd Becker at the 2014 Ancestral Health Symposium meeting in Berkeley, California. The title is: "Myopia: A Modern Yet Reversible Disease" Myopia is also called near-sightedness. It's a refractive defect of the eye, where close up objects are in focus, but more distant objects appear...
Jan 23, 2024•47 min
Elle Russ is a writer, podcaster, speaker, health & life coach, and a leading advocate for thyroid health. She has. been a prominent voice within the Ancestral Health movement for many years, including a long partnership with Mark Sisson and his popular Primal Blueprint blog and Primal Kitchen podcast. Her 2016 book, The Paleo Thyroid Solution reach #1 in Amazon' thyroid health category. She wrote the book, starting with her own experience consulting with over 2 dozen specialists who failed ...
Jan 16, 2024•58 min
Jake Marquez and Maren Morgan are the creators of Death in The Garden, a multimedia project that explores the complexity of the converging crises facing humanity, from the chronic health epidemic to ecosystem collapse, as well as our current crisis of meaning. In addition to field exploration, the project analyzes civilizational epistemologies, history, human psychology, ecology, and philosophy. Jake and Maren are passionate about trying to make sense of how the human species has reached a point...
Jan 09, 2024•1 hr 25 min
In today's episode, we are talking with Dr. Deborah Gordon about bringing ancestral health principles into the doctor's office, She did her medical training at the University of California in San Francisco, and practices family medicine in Ashland, Oregon. She goes by "Dr. Deborah", runs the health website, DrDeborahMD.com , and is a member of Physicians for Ancestral Health. Dr. Deborah integrates conventional and functional medicine, diet, sleep, exercise, sunshine, stress reduction and other ...
Jan 02, 2024•1 hr 9 min
In this episode of Ancestral Health Today, we hear from Miki Ben-Dor about how our Paleolithic ancestors ate and lived, and what it means for the optimal diet and social structure of modern humans .Miki received his PhD in paleoanthropology when he was 67 years old, and since has made a name for himself publishing and speaking for both academic and popular audiences. His paper, "The evolution of the human trophic level during the Pleistocene", became the most-cited paper in 2021 in the American ...
Dec 26, 2023•1 hr 19 min
In this episode with Dr. Red we discuss her experience as a doctor experiencing illness and trauma. The illness came as a surprise given her previous level of health and commitment to health practices. Dr. Red walks us through how she has navigated this new landscape with compassion, and how it has increased her understanding of what her patients go through. Dr. Red Hoffman started her professional career as a naturopathic doctor and a yoga teacher and now practices as a trauma surgeon and an as...
Dec 19, 2023•48 min
This episode with Peter Ballerstedt makes the case that animal-based foods are nutritionally optimal for humans, and provide a sustainable way to feed the world. Peter is a leading advocate for ruminant animal agriculture. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky in 1986, specializing in forage management and utilization, minoring in ruminant nutrition. He was the forage extension specialist at Oregon State University from 1986 to 1992. Peter worked for Barenberg USA, a major forage...
Dec 12, 2023•1 hr 21 min
Angie Alt is a writer, community care activist, independent researcher, and former health coach and nutritional therapist. After a decade of helping clients manage chronic illness through nutrition and lifestyle and training practitioners to utilize the autoimmune protocol in their practices, she shifted her focus from teaching individuals about self-care concepts toward community care-centered work more well-suited to the cooperative and social nature of human well-being. Angie now writes at No...
Nov 28, 2023•48 min
Anne Dann has been a stellar volunteer at the Ancestral Health Symposium for many years. She has implemented an ancestral lifestyle and has helped facilitate the symposium through her volunteer work. Today’s episode is focused on Anne’s amazing experience with Red Light Therapy, which enabled her to reverse a very scary decline in her vision. There is a body of research on the benefits of Red Light Therapy for eye health: The American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) cited two studies discussing t...
Nov 28, 2023•44 min
The Parkour Mindset This episode of Ancestral Health Today is a wide-ranging discussion with Julie Angel about Parkour and other natural movement practices. Julie is a filmmaker, an author and a movement coach. Her movement practice developed out of her early encounter with the Parkour movement in Paris in the early 2000s. For those of you who may not be familiar with Parkour, it involves jumping, leaping, climbing and traversing buildings, walls and railings . It's thrilling to watch, but it ta...
Nov 21, 2023•1 hr 13 min
In this episode of AHTP we have Dr. Sarah Ballantyne, PhD. She is the founder of Nutrivore.com. She creates educational resources to help people improve their day-to-day diet and lifestyle choices, empowered and informed by the most current evidenced-based scientific research. Dr. Sarah began her career as a science communicator and health educator when she launched her original website in 2011. Since then, Dr. Sarah has continued to follow the science—diving deep into immune health, metabolic h...
Nov 14, 2023•57 min
This week’s episode with Dr. Anna Lembke explores what drives addictions and how to overcome them. Dr. Lembke is the medical director of Stanford's Addiction Medicine center, in addition to being a practicing psychiatrist and helping patients with their addictions. Her recent book, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence takes a deep look at the epidemic of addition -- not only to opioids and other hard drugs, but to a surprisingly broad range of rewarding activities including ...
Nov 08, 2023•1 hr 4 min
Terry Wahls on Treating Multiple Sclerosis Using Paleo Principles In this episode of the podcast, Dr. Terry Wahls will discuss a promising approach to treating MS and other autoimmune conditions using a "paleo plus" diet. Terry is a professor of clinical medicine at the University of Iowa and has developed a dietary framework for recovery from MS based on her own experience and recovery from the disease. This approach is summarized in her book, The Wahls Protocol . I first saw Terry give an insp...
Nov 01, 2023•1 hr 12 min
Honored to have Jen Brea on the show. We had a wonderful conversation about her personal journey with MECFS, growing up with healthy parents and her experience in the ancestral health community. Jen was warning about the potential of chronic illness post Covid-19 infection, on her X account back in March of 2020. Jennifer Brea is an independent filmmaker based in Los Angeles. She has an AB from Princeton University and while studying for her PhD at Harvard she fell ill leaving her bedridden. In ...
Oct 24, 2023•1 hr 31 min
