2. Are the RDAs relevant on a keto/carnivore diet? A conversation with Amber O’hearn
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Paul Saladino, MD
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🗓️ 16 July 2019
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Amber O’Hearn is a data scientist by profession with a background in math, computer science, linguistics, and psychology. She has been studying and experimenting with low-carb, ketogenic diets since 1997, and more recently writing and speaking about her findings. Her review on the evolutionary appropriateness and benefit of weaning babies onto a meat-based, high fat, low carb diet, was included as testimony defending Professor Tim Noakes in his recent trial. Amber has been eating a plant-free diet since 2009.
Time stamps:
4:03 Amber O'Hearn's love of singing.
6:03 Amber's journey towards carnivore.
11:50 Pitfalls of bipolar medications.
13:50 Finding the carnivore community (zeroing in on health).
16:03 Amber's amazing mood improvements.
17:19 Had Amber tried re-introducing plants back into her diet?
18:10 The fear of losing variety in your diet.
20:13 How to cook brain.
20:47 Salmonella.
21:43 Eating raw animal foods and food safety.
23:06 Why eating egg whites may not be a good idea.
25:00 How Amber's mood became substantially more stable.
27:49 Micronutrients in meat.
29:00 Unique nutrients in animal foods.
31:34 Eliminating plants from the diet.
33:18 Carnivory and diet dogmatism.
34:25 Humans as facultative carnivores.
37:21 Bioavailability of nutrients in animal vs. plant foods.
40:33 Fiber.
41:33 Other nutrients that low carb dieters do not need as much of. (Vitamin c and scurvy.)
43:13 Linus Pauling's theory.
50:06 Iodine.
50:57 Is the carnivore diet safe for children?
54:00 Newborns/infants and ketosis.
56:27 Ketones and cholesterol.
58:41 Ketones and improved working memory/other benefits.
59:53 Fat to protein ratio on a carnivore diet.
1:06:20 The effect of protein on insulin.
1:09:22 Does protein really have calories?
113:12 Information on where to find Amber online and her upcoming work.
Amber’s contact information:
Empiri.ca
Ketotic.org
Facultativecarnivore.com
Twitter: @ketocarnivore
Instagram: @ambimorph
Ancestral Supplements https://ancestralsupplements.com/ use the pr
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Fundamental Health Podcast. |
| 0:08.2 | I'm your host, Dr. Paul Saladino. |
| 0:10.6 | This podcast is the result of my relentless search to understand and correct the roots |
| 0:14.7 | of chronic disease and illness. |
| 0:16.2 | In this podcast, I will share with you everything I have learned about how to live the most |
| 0:19.8 | healthy and radical life possible. |
| 0:22.3 | Thanks for joining me on this journey. |
| 0:26.9 | What is going on, everybody? |
| 0:29.2 | I'm always excited about episodes of the podcast. |
| 0:32.6 | This week, I'm really excited about it. |
| 0:35.5 | I had the great pleasure, the great good fortune, the great favor of interviewing Amber |
| 0:41.6 | O'Hern. |
| 0:43.4 | If people are familiar with Amber's work in the carnivore space, they will be tromping |
| 0:47.6 | at the bit for this episode and they'll probably just skip by my whole intro because they |
| 0:50.9 | don't want to hear me. |
| 0:51.9 | They want to hear Amber. |
| 0:52.9 | Amber is an amazing, amazing woman. |
| 0:55.7 | She's a data scientist by profession with a background in math, computer science, linguistics |
| 1:00.2 | and psychology. |
| 1:02.3 | Perhaps you could say she's a polymath. |
| 1:04.0 | She's definitely brilliant. |
| 1:05.4 | She always brings amazing ideas to the space and just like so many others in the space who |
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