Quirky Cooking Chats

For many, eczema is the earliest sign of poor health. What are the causes of eczema and how do you treat it? Do antibiotics and steroid creams offer a cure? Is it enough to improve your diet, or can creams and lotions also help? In today’s podcast, we interview Liezel Barnard, trainer and naturopath at Weleda Australia. Liezel gives great insight about the genetic and environmental causes of eczema, and a good strategy to get over inflammation and keep the skin from experiencing flare-ups.

Find out more about Weleda’s natural skin care tips and products for eczema here: http://www.weleda.com.au/sensitive-and-eczema-prone-skin-care-tips/

Use the code QUIRKYJOURNEY when ordering from Weleda Australia to recieve 10% off your order. (Orders over $90 will also receive free shipping.)

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“What the Health” is a new documentary on Netflix that shows the horrors of the industrial food system, and the influence of money on food policy; but it also claims that eating an egg a day is as bad as smoking 5 cigarettes, chicken causes cancer, and fat causes diabetes…

In today’s show, we separate fact from fiction, and also discuss a practice that is as old as time: fasting. Fouad goes on a one meal a day experiment and tells us about his experience!

Thank you to our sponsors, Weleda Australia and Solidteknics! Please use the following codes to receive 10% off orders with our sponsors:

Weleda Australia – coupon code quirkyjourney (plus free shipping over $90)

Solidteknics (via Emporio Organico) – coupon code 10QCP 

Useful Links:

What Fasting Does for the Brain (TedX talk, youtube)

“What the Health” Review: checking out the ‘evidence’ (article with studies linked)

The Vegetarian Myth (article by Lierre Kieth, vegan for 20 years)

The Hidden Cost of Veganism – (podcast interview with Daniel Vitalis and Lierre Keith)

Vegetarianism Explained (book by Dr Natasha Campbell McBride)

Weston A. Price website – traditional foods and farming

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On Today’s show, all the way from Seattle, we have with us nutritional therapy practitioner Lauren Geertsen from empoweredsustenance.com.  At Empowered Sustenance, Lauren shares beautiful GAPS recipes and holistic health tips and ideas to empower readers on their health journey. She believes vibrant health is everyone’s greatest potential, and her mission is to share the simple steps that freed her life of chronic pain and medications. Lauren is the author of Quit Acne and Quit PMS.

Jo has enjoyed Lauren’s delicious recipes over the last few years, and was interested to hear that the GAPS diet was the first step in Lauren’s healing journey. During our talk, we cover how Lauren got over her auto-immune condition, avoided a life-long relationship with a colostomy bag, and the mindset needed for healing. Lauren also shares a deeply powerful framework to understand the healing journey. Her framework is modelled on the work of one of Fouad’s favourite mavericks, Joseph Campbell, and his concept of the “Hero’s Journey”, so there was a lot of excitement during this talk!

We are also very excited to have Weleda join us to be our first ever podcast sponsor. Weleda is an incredible holistic care company which produces some of the most amazing skin and body care products on the market. Their formulas employ organic, biodynamic or wild-crafted plant ingredients and the results are incredible. Get 10% off your Weleda order by using the coupon code QUIRKYJOURNEY when you check out at http://www.weleda.com.au/

Links:

• Find Lauren at empoweredsustenance.comand https://meoenergetics.com

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On today’s show, we have with us Anne-Marie Raymond, an amazing woman with an amazing story of recovery. At the age of 40, Anne-Marie was diagnosed with Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS) – a progressive form of autoimmune arthritis which causes severe system inflammation, primarily affecting the spine and over time fusing the vertebrae together. It causes extreme pain and makes daily tasks like walking, sleeping, getting into a car or lifting a small child an exercise in agony. Despite her doctor’s insistence that diet had absolutely nothing to do with the disease, Anne-Marie tenaciously walked the path of wholefoods to regain her health. First beginning with Paleo then moving onto the GAPS diet, Anne-Marie has now managed to reverse her symptoms and gotten off her medication. If you’re feeling down and that life is too hard, this is one inspirational episode you don’t want to miss.

Show notes…

Anne-Marie’s AS facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/211791165975927/

Guest blog post Anne-Marie wrote for Good Mood Food: https://www.goodmoodfood.net.au/single-post/2017/03/30/Hope-for-Healing-auto-immune-disease

And here are links to our upcoming events and helpful resources…

Life-Changing Food cooking class & seminar in Melbourne: (https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/life-changing-food-seminar-cooking-demo-melbourne-tickets-34742560935)

Life-Changing Food cooking class & seminar in Thirroul: (https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/life-changing-food-seminar-cooking-demo-thirroul-tickets-34680726988)

Our online gut health program: http://gaps.quirkycooking.com.au

Life-Changing Food cookbook: http://www.quirkycooking.com.au/order-life-changing-food/

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Studies have shown that a happy, healthy social life and a supportive family and community are just as important as a healthy diet – if not more so. A healthy life is more than just keeping your body functioning well – it is also about finding your life purpose, connecting with those around you, balancing your work and family life, nourishing your soul and spirit, and so much more.

Marcus Pearce loves to speak on this subject, and has developed a program to help people learn to make the very best of they lives they have, called the ‘Exceptional Life Blueprint’. Jo and Fouad talk with Marcus about his ideas, and some steps we can all take to create a more fulfilling and balanced life.

Find out more about the Exceptional Life Blueprint Live Event in Melbourne, 3-4 June, here: http://melbourne.marcuspearce.com.au/quirky/

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Salicylate intolerance. Amine intolerance. Anaphylaxis. Sensory processing disorder. FPIES. Eosinophilic oesophagitis. Candida. Parasites. Mary’s son had them all. And Mary was so stressed out at the thought of having to resolve each and every one of those issues individually that she gave up and did nothing. Because how do you even start to fix all that?? But then her son nearly died in hospital, and their GAPS journey began… and lo and behold when his gut healed, ALL of these issues went away.

So how do you heal the gut when the food intolerances and allergies are so overwhelming that it seems impossible to even eat the most basic foods recommended for gut healing? Mary broke it down for us in this talk at our recent Life-Changing Food Gut Health Retreat, and we just had to share it with you all.

“But I have the MTHFR gene mutation!” Then heal the gut. “But I’m depressed!” Heal the gut. “My son has anaphylaxis!” Heal the gut. Focus focus focus on that, and everything else comes right, says Mary.

Mary has helped many, many families move forward in their quest for healing. Her approach is motherly, loving and encouraging, with plenty of humour, and now and then a bit of a kick up the backside… you just can’t help sitting up and listening when she speaks!

You can learn more about Mary Kelly on her website, www.goodmoodfood.net.au.

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Fouad drops a bombshell in this episode… He has decided he needs to get more serious about gut healing, so he has started GAPS Intro!

Fouad has been eating a whole food, gluten free, mostly paleo diet for about 7 years, but realised he had deeper healing to do. It all became clear to him when he decided to quit coffee (his best friend of 20 years!) and realised the coffee had been masking symptoms like tiredness, histamine reactions, and body pain. Tests showed his body has been struggling with an autoimmune disease and a major dust mite allergy, so GAPS was the obvious next step in his healing journey.

He’s been on GAPS for 4 weeks now and is on stage 2, taking his time to heal properly. We talk about how it feels to begin GAPS, how to know when to move on to the next stage, what some foods are that he’s loving and how he’s getting creative with the recipes, and the improvements he’s already seeing in his health.

There’s lots of laughs in this episode as Fouad talks about getting serious with gut healing while still enjoying your food (despite ditching the coffee!). Join Jo and Fouad for a bit of fun and lots of inspiration in this ‘back to basics’ gut health episode!

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“Where I really find flow and passion in life is in sharing stories. And for the last four or five years, it’s been that story of the gut and the microbiome because I felt there was a big gap between what the research was saying and what the practitioners were doing, and the everyday person… I felt that ‘normal’ people were missing out because we were making that message too esoteric and too hard to approach. So that’s where I came into it and found the middle ground and was able to build a bit of a place in the industry.” – Kale Brock

Kale Brock is an award-nominated journalist, researcher and professional speaker. With qualifications as a Health & Exercise coach, Kale has worked in the health and wellness industry since 2007 alongside some of the best naturopaths and health personalities in Australia. Now specialising in the areas of gut health and the microbiome, he shares a well-rounded and comprehensive message on these areas to the general public.

Recently Kale has been working on a very special project – The Gut Healing Summit – which features over 14 world renowned experts on the gut and microbiome. Airing from 27th-30th March, the Summit covers leading edge information mainstream media can not cover. It will inform and inspire YOU to take action immediately & to make empowered decisions when it comes to your health. Find out more about the Gut Healing Summit here.

Visit Kale’s website: www.kalebrock.com/

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