545: The Nutrient Gap: Why Traditional Diets Nourish Us More With Sally Fallon Morell

Wise Traditions

Weston A. Price Foundation

Wellness, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition, Diet, Health

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🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Traditional diets maximized nutrients. Modern diets minimize them. Our current health crisis stems from our departure from traditional food and health ways – both how we raise our livestock and grow our produce, to what we do to it before it reaches our plate.

Sally Fallon Morell, the President and founder of the Weston A. Price Foundation, explains where we've gone wrong and what we can do to rectify it.

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0:00.0	You take everything that the traditional people did.
0:03.2	Yes.
0:03.9	Maximize the nutrients in the food, made the foods more nutritious and easier to digest,
0:09.1	easier to assimilate those nutrients.
0:11.6	And everything we do to our diet in the modern world minimizes the nutrients in the food
0:16.5	and makes all the nutrients much harder to absorb.
0:19.7	That's the reason we have a health crisis.
0:27.6	From the Weston A. Price Foundation,
0:30.2	welcome to the Wise Traditions podcast for Wise Traditions in Food, Farming, and the Healing Arts.
0:36.0	We are your source for scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal health.
0:45.0	And now here is our host and producer Hilda Labrata Gore.
0:50.7	Hey, Hilda here.
0:52.9	What did traditional health ways consist of at one time? And how can we incorporate
0:58.5	them into our modern lives? This is episode 545 and our guest today is Sally Fallin-Morrell,
1:04.3	the president and founder of the Westin A Price Foundation. Sally explains exactly how traditional
1:10.7	diets maximize nutrients, why they
1:13.4	prioritize them, and how we today minimize them. She gets into the nitty-gritty of how to shift
1:18.7	away from our processed foods, MSG, refined sweeteners, and refined salt, and how to get back
1:24.4	to bone broth, foods from fertile soil and traditional ways of preparing them
1:29.2	so that they nourish us deeply. Before we get into the conversation, I want to invite you to
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