Part 208 - Mary Ruddick Debunks the Blue Zones and Explains Worldwide Health Decline
Peak Human - Unbiased Nutrition Info for Optimum Health, Fitness & Living
Brian Sanders
4.8 • 978 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2023
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
Mary Ruddick is an internationally acclaimed nutritionist currently based in Europe and Africa. She has personally trained professional nutritionists around the globe. Dubbed the "Sherlock Holmes of Health" for her unique ability to expeditiously assess and remediate rare neuromuscular conditions that others have deemed impossible, Mary Ruddick is a seasoned researcher, educator, medical nutritionist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Her writing has been published in medical journals and her own inspirational healing story can be found in several publications.
SHOW NOTES
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(10:38) The Maasai people who live the most traditional lifestyles are living what us moderns would consider a "utopia".
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(22:32) The mental health crisis came as a result of being unhealthy in general.
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(28:12) When you eat organ meat, you take in a lot of serine.
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(34:34) Another practice within these indigenous cultures is that there is no trading of food, meaning everything eaten is native. Their food is also traditionally processed.
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(45:25) You don't need to completely remove plants from your diet, but gravitate towards those that you enjoy eating and have been properly prepared to minimize toxicity.
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(53:12) When optimizing your nutrition, don't focus on achieving balance. Focus on avoiding deficiencies.
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(1:08:42) There are different levels of nutritional knowledge.
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(1:21:17) The concept of "Blue Zones" as presented in the mainstream is largely misrepresented.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, hello, what's going on everyone? This is Brian Sanders. This is |
| 0:17.2 | Peak Human. I just finished amazing podcast with Mary Ruddick. Oh man, she's |
| 0:22.2 | the best. What a legend. Oh man, we covered so many things. We |
| 0:26.5 | debunked the blue zones. We talked about ancestral diets. We talked about the healthiest people in the world. |
| 0:31.1 | We talked about, of course course what causes all the modern chronic |
| 0:35.0 | disease and all the problems. Oh such a fun episode. This one's also good for |
| 0:40.3 | people who are new to all this. We really covered all the main myths, all the stuff that people have heard in the mainstream that is wrong, had a really balanced discussion. We even talked about plant foods, plant toxins, and how they can be bad for you in excess and so much more. |
| 0:57.7 | So check this one out. |
| 0:59.8 | Mary is a nutritionist. |
| 1:01.3 | She runs an amazing practice called enable your healing. She travels around the world studying the world's healthiest people. |
| 1:08.0 | She's going to all the blue zones. She's been almost everywhere you can think of. |
| 1:13.6 | Check out her previous episodes with me. |
| 1:16.3 | She's an absolute legend. |
| 1:17.6 | I'm telling you, everyone loves her. |
| 1:19.4 | She's so knowledgeable about this stuff. |
| 1:21.4 | You're really gonna enjoy this podcast. You'll definitely learn about. about this |
| 1:25.0 | and you're really gonna enjoy this podcast. You'll definitely learn about animal-based diets and we actually even talked about pork a lot of this episode and knows the tail pork actually came up. |
| 1:32.0 | We do have a lot of pork left and it's on special and we feed it the |
| 1:37.6 | corn-free, soy-free diet and my ranchers use milk like she talked about the healthiest way to raise pigs with leftover milk. My ranchers did that. |
| 1:47.2 | You can still get this pork, pasture raise. It's great. Go to Notesetail.org. Support our our ranchers there get the body care there and thanks everyone We're back with Mary Ruddick, the famous Mary, |
| 2:08.8 | traveling the world. She's back. How's it going? |
| 2:11.6 | So good, it's so good, and it's great to be back in the States. |
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