Quirky Cooking Chats

Kale Brock is traveling Australia raising awareness of the importance of gut health with his new documentary, The Gut Movie – a fascinating story of poo, and the future of medicine! Kale talks us through how he became interested in gut health, why he decided to make a documentary on the gut health of the bush people in Namibia, what he hoped to learn from his experiment, and how his findings apply to our health here in the western world.

If you haven’t yet seen this documentary, you can find details of screenings here: http://kalebrock.com.au/gutmovie/

Find Kale’s books and products here: http://kalebrock.com.au/products/

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Chiropractor Brett Hill is the host of That Paleo Show, a great podcast on all things health. Today, Brett joins us to talk about men’s mental health, as he is in the process of writing a book – “Rock Bottom” – which details how he overcame a sudden divorce and occupational difficulties. Brett speaks about kindness and mindset, overcoming difficult times, and we also get into his love for movement and natural running. A great episode that highlights the issues men have around emotional connection and is a must listen for many of us going through challenging times in our lives.

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Today’s guest is the most famous farmer in the world: Joel Salatin from Polyface Farms in Virginia, USA. Joel is featured in Michael Pollan’s best-selling book, The Omnivore’s dilemma, where Pollan proposes Polyface Farms as the model farm for the future. Joel is considered a revolutionary in the agricultural world as he brings attention to the ability of animals to regenerate damaged land. Joel’s focus is on using nature to heal nature, and his farming practices produce large yields of food, which yes, surprisingly, has a net positive gain for the ecology. This completely obliterates the commonly held view that farming and in particular animal farming is damaging for the environment. Joel is the author of 13 books including Folks this ain’t normal.

Joel is a personal hero of mine and I was quite nervous to interview him – he is a deeply intellectual, deeply spiritual human being and a beacon for light and sanity in this world that we are all trying to help heal.

Links:

Joel’s Google Talk: Folks, This Ain’t Normal

Additional Viewing: Alan Savoury uses grazing animals to reverse deserts

Come and see Jo and Fouad in Brisbane (Feb 20th and 21st)

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SIBO, or small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, is a common condition of the small intestine that could causes a variety of symptoms from acid reflux, bloating, eczema and much more. This condition can go undiagnosed and the treatment of the symptoms, such as taking antacids for reflux, can cause further complications.

In this episode we explore SIBO, its diagnosis and treatment, with naturopath Lynda Griparic. Lynda is a wealth of knowledge on the topic as she specialises in SIBO treatment and she gives us a lot of information on how to understand and tackle this condition.

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We take a deep dive today with nutritionist Christine Cronau into the LCHF diet which has been such an incredible weight loss and healing tool for Fouad. We cover Christine’s story and how she regained her health with this approach, how the world went wrong with the low fat approach, good fats and bad fats, the cholesterol myth, low carb eating and hormones, sugar alternatives and much more.

Links:

www.christinecronau.com

www.christinecronau.com/12-week-program

www.facebook.com/ChristineCronau

www.instagram.com/christinecronau

Come see Fouad in Adelaide on the 30th of Jan. Use coupon code FOUAD to get 2 tickets for the price of 1:

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Come and see Jo and Fouad in Brisbane (Feb 20th and 21st)

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In our modern society, fasting is often considered to be starvation, but it has historically been a revered tool in most cultures on the planet. Whether for spiritual or health reasons, our ancestors’ approach to fasting is now scientifically shown to promote incredible health benefits. We are joined on this episode by our friend Marcus Pearce to discuss different ways to fast, and our own experiences. Both Marcus and Fouad have done 4-5 day water fasts, and share their experiences and the benefits, as well as the steps they took to work up to a successful water fast. Whether you’re wanting to know how and why to do a liquid fast (juices and broths), how to do intermittent fasting (half days or full days for a day or two each week), or longer fasts like those that Marcus and Fouad have experienced, you will find this a fun introduction to the topic of fasting!

See Fouad’s video about his first two days on a water fast, here.

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Happy New Year, from Jo and Fouad! We are excited to be back, and we have a great line-up of interviews in the new year!

To kick off the year, we’ve decided to reshare an older podcast as it’s one that we think will be really helpful to those of you wanting to make gut healing your goal for this year.

If you are beginning the GAPS protocol in January, or are working towards gut healing in other ways, have a listen to this talk by Elyse Comerford to help you understand the science behind GAPS, the steps you need to take towards healing the gut, and how GAPS works to nourish and heal your body.

Elyse is an experienced GAPS practitioner who helps to coach our gut health program members through the early stages of the GAPS protocol. She shared this talk at our Life-Changing Food Gut Health Retreat last year, and we found it so helpful we wanted to make sure it was available to those who couldn’t make it to our retreat. Elyse’s focus is on nourishing the body with healing foods, supporting the body to detox effectively, and taking a ‘do no harm’ approach to healing. You’ll find it encouraging, educational and inspiring, whether you have been on the gut healing journey for a while, or you are just beginning to look into it.

Feel free to email us with any questions, at [email protected].

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• The Q & A with Jo and Fouad begins at: 4 minutes ~ 30 seconds

For the last podcast of the year, Jo and Fouad recorded a fun, live video-podcast, where they answered questions asked by readers on Facebook. This episode is called “Ask Us Anything!” and the questions cover everything from ‘how did you meet?’ and ‘if you were stranded on a desert island and could only have 5 foods, what would they be?’ to ‘how do I get my white-food-loving child to eat vegetables?’ and ‘how do you glaze a Christmas ham?’

You’ll learn about the best Christmas gifts to make in a Thermomix, what things they don’t travel without, their thoughts on chemical sweeteners like xylitol and erythitol, which sweeteners they prefer to use and why, what foods they love and hate, what to do when you’re pregnant and craving heaps of carbs, and whether they’ve ever lost their cooking mojo and how they get it back when they do!

Get to know Jo and Fouad a bit better and learn lots about food (and healthy eating with enjoyment!) in this episode.

Useful links:

Where Do I Start With GAPS: simple tips for transitioning the family to a gut-healing, whole food diet

The Top 6 Foods for Gut Health: start getting these foods into your diet before trying to take out foods

Jo and Fouad’s Life-Changing Food Cookbook

The Quirky Cooking for Gut Health Online Program

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• The interview with Dr Tom O’Bryan begins at: 46 minutes ~ 33 seconds

Dr Tom O’Bryan is a functional medicine practitioner, and an internationally recognised speaker specialising in the complications of non-coeliac gluten sensitivity and coeliac disease. A Quirky Journey is so pleased to be able to bring you Dr Tom’s deep knowledge on this extremely important topic. Even though Fouad and Jo have been following a gluten-free diet for a very long time, they learned so much from Dr Tom. So if you want to have a solid understanding of what gluten is doing to our bodies, or if you have a family member or friend who you wish to educate on this topic, this is a great episode to listen to and share.

Jo and Fouad also cover their favourite options for a gluten-free, fuss-free, whole food Christmas. An information packed episode!

Useful Links

As a special gift for you, Dr Tom has shared his video series ‘Betrayal-The Autoimmune Disease Solution They’re Not Telling You’ for free. This series was created for people to learn the ‘big picture’ principles from scientists and Clinicians, with many patient testimonials of reversing MS, RA, and Chronic Fatigue.  The entire 9 Episode Series is free to watch here.

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• The interview with Dani Valent begins at: 18 minutes ~ 5 seconds

This week Jo and Fouad catch up with their good friend Dani Valent in Melbourne for a foodie chat! Dani calls herself ‘a writer, eater, traveller and cook,’ and she does all these things with equal passion. She is a travel and food writer, journalist, restaurant reviewer, a frequent guest on radio and TV speaking about current issues in food, and has authored three amazing Thermomix cookbooks. Not only that, she also has an online program that is a bit like Netflix or SBSonDemand for Thermomix cooking videos – inspiring, fun, professionally filmed videos of Dani cooking with chefs and foodies from all over the world!

Dani is giving away a one year membership to her cooking site to our listeners – to enter, CLICK HERE!

(Competition ends Friday Dec 15th at 3pm)

You can find out more about Dani and her books and cooking show here:

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