156: Diversify your diet

Wise Traditions

Weston A. Price Foundation

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

We understand the beauty and benefit of diversity. We switch up our exercise routines. We diversify our investment portfolio. But did you know that it's a good idea to diversify our diets, as well? Today, Chris Masterjohn makes a strong case for why it's critical to do so for optimal health. Chris is a health expert and educator, with a PhD in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Connecticut. He explains in detail his rules of thumb for healthy eating. He give us practical ideas on how to translate the research of Dr. Weston A. Price from head knowledge to the dinner plate. Along the way, he tells stories about traditional people groups' dietary patterns; he warns us about the dangers of dietary extremes; and he gives us a window into the way he himself eats for optimal health.

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0:00.0	The reason for the diversification it's very similar to why you would diversify an economic portfolio.
0:07.0	You want to diversify your economic portfolio because you don't know what's going to happen to any given stock or any given other asset and when you
0:16.6	diversify you both make sure that you're getting a good probability of benefits and that you're mitigating the
0:24.3	probability of risk. So in the case of nutrients the benefits are the different
0:30.0	nutritional profiles. Meat has just a different distribution of nutrients than fish has,
0:36.4	which has a different distribution of nutrients and eggs or fish. So if you say I
0:41.1	need to have a certain amount of protein every day and I'm just going to make sure that I'm drawing from all these different sources,
0:47.0	you are much more likely to meet all your nutritional needs. needs. Wise Traditions Podcast, sponsored by the Weston A Price Foundation for
1:04.1	Wise Traditions in Food, Farming, and The Healing Arts. We're your source for
1:08.6	scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal health.
1:13.0	Hey everybody, I'm Hilda Labrada Gore.
1:20.0	This is episode 156 and my Hey everybody I'm Hilda Labrada Gore.
1:22.8	This is episode 156 and my guest today is Chris Master John, PhD.
1:28.7	Nope, this is not deja vu.
1:30.6	He spoke to us last week about Dr. Westinay Price and the powerful discoveries he made about
1:36.2	the importance of a nutrient-dense diet.
1:39.2	We invited Chris back on the show today to bring it full circle. How can we really eat this nutrient-dense
1:45.6	wise traditions way practically in the day-to-day? Well, Chris gives us his rules of thumb
1:51.1	for maximizing nutrients and making sure they are bioacessable to our bodies.
1:56.3	His main emphasis, the need to diversify our diets.
2:00.4	He explains it all mixing in stories about Dr. Price,
2:04.0	warning us about the dangers of dietary extremes,
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