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Can the same whole-food principles that nourish our bodies also transform our skin?
In the debut episode of If These Walls Could Cook, host Stephen Found sits down at Love + Be Well in Warrenton, Virginia, with founders Natalie and Mitch. After managing severe Multiple Sclerosis symptoms through a whole-food ketogenic protocol, Natalie applied those same clean superfood principles to create probiotic skin food. Together, they explore the power of "slow living," the science of the skin's microbiome, and the magic of communal dining at Salubria Manor. In this episode, you'll learn:
• How Natalie used a whole-food ketogenic protocol to manage her MS symptoms
• Why Love + Be Well operates like a kitchen using superfood recipes for skin
• What true "slow living" means for daily self-care and intentional connection
• How passing family-style dishes at Salubria Manor brought strangers together
• How reverse-engineering bacteria imbalances led to an award-winning deodorant
CHAPTERS:
00:00 Welcome
02:04 MS Diagnosis
05:36 Nutritional Changes
07:44 Food For Your Skin
11:24 Skincare Chef
15:59 Intentionally Slowing Down
21:32 Love and Be Well
22:53 Reflecting on Salubria Gathering
28:11 Probiotic Toner
31:12 If These Walls Could Cook
35:08 Stephen Gets Spritzed
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In this short trailer, Stephen Found introduces his new podcast, If These Walls Could COOK, explaining the idea behind the show, and the kinds of stories you can expect to hear as you follow along.
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From the publisher's feed
If These Walls Could Cook is a podcast about remarkable places, the food connected to them, and the wonderfully strange people and stories you find when you start poking…
Hosted by Stephen Found, founder of GATHER, each episode starts at a table with a story and follows the food wherever it leads. Along the way, Stephen talks with farmers, cooks, craftspeople, historians, tradesmen, owners, and local characters to uncover what people grew, cooked, ate, drank, built, preserved, and occasionally got completely wrong.
Some stories are historic. Some are unexpected. Some are funny. Most are a little of all three. If These Walls Could Cook is less about dates and dusty facts, and more about discovering how food connects us to place, culture, and one another.
Come hungry. Curiosity helps.