406: Laura Prepon on Healing With Real Food
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://bit.ly/lauraprepon406
Laura Prepon (IG: @lauraprepon) is a versatile actress and a New York Times bestselling author.
She made her television debut on the long running sitcom "That 70's Show.” Laura can be seen in the hit Netflix original series, “Orange is the New Black.”
She recently teamed up with HSN to present “PrepOn Kitchen,” an exclusive collection thoughtfully designed to make preparing your meals easy, attainable, and fun.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Laura struggling with digestive issues, weight gain and low energy in her early 20’s
- Food as medicine
- Reading and researching helped Laura hone her food philosophy
- Motherhood isn’t talked about the way it should be
- Eating small meals throughout the day spikes your insulin
- Laura’s version of intermittent fasting
- Bone broth is a game changer
- Spreading meals 5 hours apart
- The importance of eating organic and non-GMO foods
- Why Laura always brings her own food to set
- Putting energy into food prepping
- Trying to chew each bite of food 30 times
- Make your life sustainable
- Laura grew up with a love for food
- Inspiring people to adopt healthy habits
- Cooking shouldn’t be stressful
- Being supportive without being preachy
- PrepOn Kitchen was inspired by real life kitchen solutions
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Laura Prepon - You And I, As Mothers (book)
Laura Prepon - The Stash Plan (book)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on the Ultimate Health podcast. |
| 0:02.4 | I eat everything. |
| 0:03.9 | I eat protein, pasta, rice. |
| 0:08.2 | I eat cheese, vegetables, but it's all organic and it's whole. |
| 0:13.1 | Like I eat whole milk and whole yogurt, |
| 0:16.0 | but it's grasped that in organic. |
| 0:17.8 | You know, I eat butter, but again, it's organic. |
| 0:21.4 | So it's like, I mean, I truly believe in what's worked with me |
| 0:24.2 | is if your body can recognize it, it can assimilate it. |
| 0:28.5 | Because that's another massive thing |
| 0:31.0 | that I had to learn the hard way. |
| 0:33.8 | Okay, Jesse, this is gonna sound so silly, |
| 0:36.6 | but I'm not joking. |
| 0:37.7 | This was a game changer for me. |
| 0:39.5 | Chewing? |
| 0:40.7 | Like you think you chew, okay? |
| 0:42.6 | And look, with two kids running around, |
| 0:45.0 | there are so many times where I eat, |
| 0:46.4 | and I'm like, I don't even know if I just chewed what I eat. |
| 0:48.7 | But seriously, chewing? |
| 0:51.0 | Because for me, like along with the insulin thing, |
| 0:54.2 | another thing that I really, which is so funny, |
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