Alan Levinovitz: The Gluten Lie
Underground Wellness Radio
Sean Croxton
4.6 • 526 Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2015
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Alan Levinovitz stops by the podcast to discuss his controversial book The Gluten Lie and Other Myths About What You Eat.
Here's what we talked about:
3:25 – Why a philosopher and religion professor wrote a nutrition book and how food and religion have more in common than you might think!
8:15 – Are modern times really so bad? The myth of paradise past and how food technologies might be helping us more than they hurt.
11:15 – What paleo is, what it isn’t, and why “eat in moderation” doesn’t work.
12:50 – Where is the science? Why it’s so hard to get clear evidence on food and nutrition and whether or not we’ll ever have any answers.
19:25 – Science vs. sensationalism: mis-reporting in the media and what the scientists really have to say about their nutrition studies.
24:48 – Is it really just the gluten? The real reasons people might feel better off gluten and how to figure out if it will make you feel better, too.
28:44 – All about the nocebo effect and how your mind might be a bigger problem than the gluten.
33:15 – When “too healthy” becomes unhealthy and why we sometimes stick with something that doesn’t really work for us anymore.
38:05 – The problem with getting ahead of the scientific evidence. Plus, why the truth about food and nutrition probably isn’t as exciting as some people would lead us to believe.
45:35 – Does morally good = physically good? Why we associate feeling good with being “bad.”
50:30 – The money and marketing behind nutrition: figuring out who really has your best interest at heart and why being an equal opportunity skeptic might be good for your health.
56:19 – Are we addicted to health? What holistic health really is, How Alan finds balance in his own life, and what he’s up to next!
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| 0:00.0 | It's episode 336 of Underground Wellness Radio. Here's what's coming up. The people that mock paleo, I think really don't get it. I think they've set up the scape that they're like, oh, why would you want to be like a caveman? Why do these people want to live in caves? And of course, that's not what the paleo diet is really advocating. I actually think there's a lot of good that can come out of following the paleo diet because a lot of people eat really badly. |
| 0:22.3 | The people who studies Pramutter and Davis rely on to put together their books, those scientists are saying, |
| 0:30.1 | hey, that's not what our studies show. |
| 0:32.6 | Why are these guys making promises that aren't supported by the scientific evidence. |
| 0:48.9 | Yo, what's up, y'all? Welcome back to a brand new episode of Underground Wellness Radio, |
| 0:53.8 | brought to you by underground |
| 0:54.9 | wellness.com thanks so much for tuning in and thanks so much for your patience i know it's been a good |
| 1:00.8 | while since we had a brand new episode or at least a brand new interview it's been about six weeks or so |
| 1:05.8 | i just need some time off i just need to recharge the batteries and, uh, the depression sessions just |
| 1:11.2 | pretty much wiped me out. I was, I was burnt out. So I said, you know what? They shut it down, |
| 1:16.0 | take a staycation, hang out in San Diego and just chill. There was a little bit of work involved in |
| 1:21.0 | there because we got the brain restoring for thing. But, uh, I feel good. I feel energized. I'm just |
| 1:26.1 | ready to bang out tons and tons of new podcasts for you for the rest of this year. |
| 1:31.5 | I actually recorded a podcast two weeks ago with Chef Pete Evans, and I was supposed to post that on Tuesday. |
| 1:37.8 | You may have heard about that. But technology happens. Everything was set right, but on the file, you can hear me, but you can't hear Pete. So it's a really good interview. Pete had a lot to share. And we'll connect again and get that done for you and post it in a few weeks. But today's interview with Alan Levinovitz, who's the author of The Gluten Lie, is just awesome. I hate to brag about this show, but it's one of my favorite shows that I've done this year. |
| 2:05.4 | And we've done some really good ones. |
| 2:06.7 | Alan is so open-minded. |
| 2:08.6 | And we hope that you listen to this episode with an open mind as well. |
| 2:13.1 | And he wrote a really good book. |
| 2:16.0 | I highly recommend going out and picking up the gluten lie. |
| 2:18.8 | And again, opening up your mind to some of the ideas that he has and being skeptical of a lot of the things that you hear in this natural, holistic health space and nutrition space as well. |
| 2:29.9 | So his website is theglutonly. |
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