Episode 274: Ally Houston and Dr. Rachel Brown

Low Carb MD Podcast

Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian

Medicine, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Episode 274: Ally Houston and Dr. Rachel Brown

Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast.

Ally Houston is the founder of Paleo Canteen—a company that produces the best paleo and low carb food, and empowers their customers to do the same—and Scoundrel—a premium sugar-free, dairy-free chocolate company. He is also the host of The Canteen Podcast and co-author of the cookbook, Paleo Canteen: Low Carb On A Budget.

Dr. Rachel Brown is a Consultant Psychiatrist in the UK who specializes in metabolic health. She graduated from Edinburgh University in 2003 and has worked in the field of psychiatry since 2004. She is a Nutrition Network Advisor and Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner. She also holds a Master degree in Medical Laws and Ethics and is involved in ongoing research into ketogenic diets and mental disorder. Dr. Brown is an advocate for therapeutic carbohydrate restriction and dietary modification to address underlying metabolic dysfunction and gut dysbiosis as underlying causes of mental disorder, as well as other lifestyle measures for optimising health.

In this conversation, Brian, Ally, and Dr. Rachel talk about Ally's mental health journey, Dr. Rachel's personal health journey, Ally and Dr. Rachel's health coaching, metabolic psychiatry, sugar addiction, the mechanistic and emotional aspects behind a poor diet, meditation for anxiety and self-understanding, the mental component of successfully dieting, diet tailoring, the benefits of exercise for mental health and metabolic health, and Ally's recent experiment with fast food.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Low-Carb MD podcast.
0:03.8	No one is beyond help.
0:05.8	No one is beyond hope.
0:08.5	As we have always said, we are bringing you medical information and cutting edge science,
0:12.7	but none of this is medical advice.
0:15.7	Please seek out input from your own doctor.
0:18.7	Hello and welcome back to the Low-Carb MD and the Life's Best Medicine Podcast.
0:28.8	I think this episode is so important.
0:30.1	I want to have it on both podcasts.
0:32.3	So we have, you know, this actually is a little bit vindicating for me because I throw
0:38.9	an eye back in episode number 10 and 13 of Low-Carb MD, like four or five years ago now.
0:44.6	Starts talking about the benefits we were seeing from a psychological standpoint in our
0:48.4	patients when they got their diet right.
0:51.4	And a hell storm broke out and everyone said, you guys should have your license revoked.
0:55.7	Nutrition has nothing to do with mental health.
0:58.6	And so I have two guests here, a psychiatrist, Dr. Rachel Brown, and Ali Houston, who struggled
1:04.9	with mental illness his entire life.
1:06.6	And he's one of the most educated guys because he had to do it for survival.
1:11.0	So it's so great to have you both on and thank you for joining me and let's talk.
1:15.3	Oh, thanks Brian.
1:16.3	Really appreciate it.
1:17.3	Yeah.
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