532: Why I eat 12 lbs of salmon a week | GiGi Ashworth, The Salmon Queen

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🗓️ 18 March 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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“Every single time I eat salmon, I just feel like a million bucks," says GiGi Ashworth. GiGi, an allergen-friendly food personality and cook affectionally known as "The Salmon Queen," joins us to discuss everything you need to know about the omega 3-rich fish, including: - What made GiGi fall in love with salmon? (~00:03) - How GiGi dealt with restrictive eating habits (~05:14) - What she thinks of the carnivore diet (~08:59) - Other seafood GiGi loves (~13:14) - How to know if you should get an allergy test (~14:51) - Why “farm-raised” is not a dirty word (~25:26) - How to avoid parasites in fish (~31:14) - What GiGi thinks about mercury exposure (~33:25) - GiGi’s second favorite type of seafood (~35:10) - How GiGi orders at restaurants (~37:14) - Her favorite salmon recipe (~39:16) - GiGi’s main goal for salmon lovers (~43:07) - Get to know GiGi’s husband, a PhD, actor & producer (~47:05) Trigger warning: This podcast contains mentions of disordered eating. Referenced in the episode: - GiGi's book, Seduced By Salmon - Follow GiGi on Instagram - GiGi's allergy test photo - Vivoo - Kvarøy Arctic, Blue Circle Foods, MOWI Salmon, and Bakkafrost Visit shop.mindbodygreen.com/whey20 to get 20% off whey protein isolate+. Cannot combine with gift cards or other discount codes. We hope you enjoy this episode, and feel free to watch the full video on YouTube! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the My Buddy Green podcast. I'm Jason Walkib, founder and co-ceeo of My Buddy Green and your host.
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1:02.3	Yes. Yes, Chichy Ashworth eats 12 pounds of salmon per week. Would you expect anything
1:10.3	less from someone known as the salmon queen?
1:13.1	You like me probably have questions.
1:15.0	Is one type of salmon better than another?
1:16.9	How does she not get bored of seafood?
1:18.7	Does she worry about mercury levels?
1:20.5	And of course, why on earth does she eat so much salmon?
1:25.2	Gee she answers all of this and more in today's episode.
1:28.8	She has a master's certificate in nutrition communications from Tufts, and her struggle with autoimmune
1:35.2	disease led her to a passion for allergen-friendly and keto-approved recipes, which she shares
1:41.6	with her thriving community on our
1:43.3	Instagram page at gee geeeats. She has a fascinating personal story and even if you
1:48.5	don't like salmon I promise you'll take away something new in this very special episode.
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