The Truth About Health, Metals, and What’s Really Safe To Eat | Karalynne Call

Realfoodology

Courtney Swan

Nutrition, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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266: After an intense struggle with depression, Karalynne Call began to explore the way that nutrition impacted mental health. This journey quite literally saved her life - by prioritizing real foods and regular exercise, she felt whole again. And along the way, she created one of my favorite clean food brands, Just Ingredients. Karalynne is known for her food swaps on social media, where she helps people all over the world identify the cleaner alternatives to unhealthy ultraprocessed pantry staples. She also is super serious about testing her own products to make sure every ingredient is up to her standards (which I love). → Suicide Prevention Hotline | https://www.988lifeline.org/ | Call or text 988 Topics Discussed: → The top 3 nutrients that affect mental health → Easy tips for upgrading your own pantry with clean, real foods → How Karalynne turned an Instagram account turned into a clean food empire → Why food changed for the worse in the 1990s and 2000s → What no one tells you about California’s Prop 65 warnings → Heavy metal myths and what to really look out for Sponsored By: → LMNT | Get a free 8-count Sample Pack of LMNT’s most popular drink mix flavors with any purchase at https://www.drinklmnt.com/realfoodology. Find your favorite LMNT flavor, or share with a friend. → Our Place | Stop cooking with toxic cookware, and upgrade to Our Place today. Visit https://www.fromourplace.com/REALFOODOLOGY and use code REALFOODOLOGY for 10% off sitewide. → Timeline | Timeline is offering 10% off your order of Mitopure Go to https://www.timeline.com/REALFOODOLOGY. → BIOptimizers | For 15% off go to https://www.bioptimizers.com/realfoodology and use promo code REALFOODOLOGY. → Clearstem | Go to https://www.clearstem.com/REALFOODOLOGY and use code REALFOODOLOGY at checkout for 15% off your first order. → CURED Nutrition | Get an exclusive 20%-off discount! Subscribe for Night Caps today and never miss a solid night’s sleep. Visit https://www.curednutrition.com/realfoodology and use code REALFOODOLOGY at checkout. Timestamps: → 00:00:00 - Introduction → 00:04:21 - Karalynne’s Depression Struggle → 00:10:26 - How Diet Impacts Mental Health → 00:18:18 - Healthy Food Swaps → 00:32:59 - How Food Changed in the 1990s and 2000s → 00:37:23 - Healthy Diets: Expect Consistency, Not Perfection → 00:41:20 - Just Ingredients → 00:45:50 - Prop 65 & Heavy Metals → 01:01:59 - Prioritize Root Cause Care Show Links: → Prop 65 Banned Chemicals Check Out: → Karalynne Call | Instagram Check Out Courtney: → LEAVE US A VOICE MESSAGE → Check Out My new FREE Grocery Guide! → @realfoodology → www.realfoodology.com → My Immune Supplement by 2x4 → Air Dr Air Purifier → AquaTru Water Filter → EWG Tap Water Database Produced By: Drake Peterson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	On today's episode of the Real Foodology podcast, I always wondered why God gave me a second chance at life.
0:06.8	And as soon as I started educating people on a healthy lifestyle, I was like, oh, maybe that's why I was given a second chance.
0:15.1	Hi, friends, welcome back to another episode of the Real Foodology podcast. As always, I'm your host Courtney Swan, and today's guest is Carolyn Call. You may know her behind the Instagram account Just Ingredients. She's also created a
0:26.9	whole line of amazing products. She has things from tooth powder to protein powders to electrolytes.
0:33.0	I'm a huge fan of her account, and I'm also a huge fan of her products. Hector and I love her protein
0:38.4	powders. We drink those almost every morning. And I just love her desire to really create healthy
0:43.8	for you products. And she goes above and beyond with her testing. There was some drama that was
0:49.6	going on actually with her company online. And there was some lawsuits lawsuits happening and I wanted to get to the
0:55.4	root of this and hear from her specifically what was happening. So we talk all about that. We talk
1:00.2	about Prop 65, what that means when you see that label on your products and what to do about it.
1:05.4	We also talk about her journey and how she got started into all this, which started 19 years ago with really
1:12.4	severe depression and what she did about it and what happened when she reached rock bottom
1:17.3	and how overhauling her diet completely improved her life and her overall mental state.
1:22.5	So if you could take a moment to rate and review the podcast, I always ask you for this.
1:26.2	I know, but if you haven't done it yet, it really does help the show and it means so much to me and it takes literally two seconds. Also, if you're loving this particular episode, just make sure that you tag me at Real Foodology and also tag at Just Ingredients. And we will hopefully see it and share you guys. Thank you so much for the support. And I hope that you love the episode. I am currently on a detox protocol because we found mold and some other things.
1:47.2	So I'm currently on a detox protocol
1:45.2	because we found mold and some other things. So I am getting in the sauna like three to four
1:50.1	times a week right now and I've really been having to up my hydration. And perfectly timed,
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