583: Blue Zone Lies: What They Really Eat and the Actual Best Diet to Prevent & Reverse Disease | Mary Ruddick
The Ultimate Health Podcast
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🗓️ 30 January 2024
⏱️ 125 minutes
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Summary
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/Mk_z2cNJAjs
Mary Ruddick (IG: @maryqueenofheart) is an ancestral nutritionist and experiential anthropologist who specializes in neuromuscular disorders, infertility, and disabling chronic disease. She’s been dubbed the "Sherlock Holmes of Health" for her unique ability to effectively asses and reverse rare neuromuscular conditions that others have deemed impossible.
Mary can often be found endangering herself in the untouched corners of the world to learn from and distill the wisdom from the last remaining traditional cultures.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Debunking the Blue Zones
- The processing of “healthy” foods matter
- The problem with today’s soil quality
- Eliminating plant toxins from your diet
- Do we need to be aware of plant toxins in eggs?
- Embracing an animal-based diet
- How to incorporate organ meats into your diet
- Should you consume raw vs cooked organ meats?
- Unique organ meats Mary has consumed
- Mary’s rare & diverse travel experiences
- Using ancestral health protocol for healing
- The impact of the gut microbiome on chronic disease
- When should you take antibiotics?
- Beneficial probiotic recommendations
- Mary’s off-grid adventures + surprising animal encounters
- How life has evolved after world travelling
- Mary’s long health crisis bedridden with dysautonomia
- The soup that saved her life
- Mary’s thoughts on supplements while healing
- Her current diet + where she lives
- The best supplements to pack when travelling
- Can plant-based diets heal?
- How plant medicine is actually being used around the world
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Listen or watch Dan Buettner previously on TUHP (episodes #170 and #446)
Dan Buettner - Blue Zones (books)
Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones - Netflix
Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride - Gut and Physiology Syndrome (book)
Listen to Joe Cross previously on TUHP (episode #006)
Joe Cross - Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead (documentary)
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the Ultimate Health Podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | What the Blue Zone is selling fits with the narrative |
| 0:06.4 | of what we've heard really since the food pyramid |
| 0:09.2 | and promotes that further. |
| 0:10.6 | We tend to be like, okay, I'm going to have this organ and nothing else. |
| 0:14.0 | That's not the ancestral way. |
| 0:15.4 | The ancestral way would be to have a little bit of all the organs, |
| 0:18.2 | along with the gelatinous tissue and the skin and everything else. |
| 0:22.0 | What I've really taken away from all of my travels |
| 0:25.0 | is that you really only need one pot and a knife. |
| 0:28.0 | If you have a pot and a knife, you can eat like traditional folks. |
| 0:31.0 | They cook very simply and very easily but it's very |
| 0:33.9 | tasty. When I go to the traditional cultures they use them on their whole body. |
| 0:37.7 | It's not just in their diet. So they'll be using yogurt on their skin or |
| 0:41.6 | washing their hair with |
| 0:42.8 | yogurt. The fermentation are more infused into the life and less a big lump on the |
| 0:47.6 | plate. But what tradition is is just something that works and so they've repeated |
| 0:51.2 | it and that's typically what traditional diets are, |
| 0:54.0 | as different as they are around the globe, |
| 0:56.7 | they work for there to not just maintain health, |
| 1:01.0 | but preserve it as well. |
| 1:03.0 | Hello and welcome to the ultimate health |
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