Nourishing Traditions | Sally Fallon - E415
Low Carb MD Podcast
Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Sally Fallon is a bestselling author, researcher, and food activist best known for Nourishing Traditions, the groundbreaking cookbook that redefined the way we think about traditional diets. Sally has spent decades championing the wisdom of ancestral foods and challenging the myths of modern nutrition. Her work continues to inspire a global movement toward nutrient-dense, traditional eating for vibrant health.
In this episode, Dr. Tro and Sally talk about…
- (00:00) Intro
- (03:07) The place of carbohydrates in traditional human diets
- (08:06) Liver
- (09:51) How changing your diet can change your cravings
- (13:43) The societal fear of saturated fat in the United States
- (15:19) Problems with store bought bone broth
- (17:41) What Sally eats in an average day
- (21:25) The recent explosion of obesity and what has caused it
- (26:54) The work of Weston A. Price and how the Weston A. Price Foundation is continuing that work
- (36:26) Sunscreen
- (39:11) Vitamin D supplementation
- (40:10) Inflammation
- (42:59) Raw milk
- (45:06) Salt
- (46:39) Dairy and calcium
- (48:50) Outro
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- The Weston A. Price Foundation: https://www.westonaprice.org/?ulp=n1R6haEC59Hjn69c&ac=XeCfHppkwM29ygem#ulp-n1R6haEC59Hjn69c&gsc.tab=0
- Nourishing Traditions: https://www.amazon.com/Nourishing-Traditions-Challenges-Politically-Dictocrats-ebook/dp/B00276HAWG?ref_=ast_author_dp&th=1&psc=1&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.W_r7oIxgMqFgG2N-rVXK6B-WltlFgfiXMMEHyk2M7MysY9IGDna_QaITxk9f1ICrLxomKDAswxDPfwx3EZEsEblU-gThUf4rVHwd4eGwbjgMr7pBjYu-yLSsxPhn3jxM4StvnuAkoysKWw1LGGo9SYTFgW5kHd1jnpVUp2HfsscgLpK79sWgAIGcAfSIV33w.Td0K9QkTf504XORnTd9ZZoCSNCwS-tiup6HmCPzKxA8&dib_tag=AUTHOR
- Real Milk: https://www.realmilk.com
Dr. Brian Lenzkes:
- Website: https://arizonametabolichealth.com/
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- Twitter: https://twitter.com/DoctorTro
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Low Carb MD Podcast. No one is beyond help. No one is beyond hope. |
| 0:07.2 | Nothing said on the Low Carb MD podcast is medical advice. Please consult your own doctor before making any lifestyle changes. |
| 0:24.2 | Welcome back to the Low CorbMD podcast. |
| 0:29.9 | We have been talking about many things on this podcast over the last six years, |
| 0:34.9 | including metabolic health, lowering processed carbohydrates and sugar. |
| 0:39.0 | We've been talking about sticking to real food. We've been saying, |
| 0:45.4 | can, you know, question the conventional sort of medical authorities, always make sure you talk to your doctor, have shared decision making. We've, you know, questioned a lot of things |
| 0:51.4 | over the past seven years, and we've gotten criticism. We've gotten a lot |
| 0:57.4 | of criticism, but there were people way before us doing this. There were people that we've stood on |
| 1:04.6 | the giants of. There are people who've been questioning medicine and demanding that nutrition be |
| 1:09.6 | part of the medical curriculum for decades. |
| 1:14.0 | And back, and I'm not talking about vitamin deficient. I'm talking about what did indigenous |
| 1:19.2 | people who are healthy eat, right? What does it take to be healthy? And, you know, we've talked about Weston Price before, and today we have the |
| 1:33.5 | founding president of the Weston A. Price Foundation, and it is my absolute honor and pleasure |
| 1:41.0 | to bring on the founding president, Sally Fallon Morel. |
| 1:49.3 | I've met her in Washington, D.C., not too long ago, where we collaborated in hopefully |
| 1:57.9 | changing policy in a positive direction in this country so we can get this country |
| 2:03.2 | healthy, disease-free, and reverse the chronic disease epidemic. Now, I'll say in advance, |
| 2:10.7 | we may disagree, and I can't wait to talk about all those disagreements. But I would love to hear |
| 2:17.2 | first, I'd love to hear for, |
| 2:17.7 | well first I'd like to say welcome. |
| 2:19.8 | And we will have her books in the show notes. |
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