In this episode we chat to  Nutritional Medicine Practitioner Claire Yates from Indy Nature.

Claire is a holistic, evolutionary Nutritionist and a major paleo-nerd, she gets her kicks from reading copious amounts of clinical papers as well as testing people's poo (judging by the instagram pics!)

Some might say she is a  'Poo Whisperer'.

Claire has overcome a history of disordered eating and sugar addiction, and now embraces a diet of real, whole, tasty food.

She is a barefoot runner, heavy lifter and a lover of life, good food, well brewed coffee and roasted crickets!

We chat with Claire about:

 Claire embraces being the POO-whisperer

‘Individual protocols’ for ‘individual people’

Tell-tale signs that something isn’t quite right in our bodies

Claire lets us in on her ‘DERR Diary’ strategy

Emotional connections to food

Claire’s history of disordered and emotional eating

The slippery slope of ‘clean eating’ and orthorexia

Dropping the social anxiety around ‘clean eating’

“Good health starts in the GUT”

Our producer, Andrew Fieldhouse does not approve of ‘The Bristol Stool Chart’

What should our poo look like?

What the heck is a ‘ghosty’?

What are the four RRRRs of gut health?

What to do after a course of antibiotics

Why Claire lifts heavy weights, and her advice to women

Why sleep is so vital

Laughing - the ultimate cure

Colonics - So, ‘Primal Hit’ and ‘Primal Shit’?

 

Links discussed in this episode:

Find Claire on Facebook

 IndiNature Website

Buy the book 'Optimum Health The Paleo Way'

Crystal’s ‘3-minute breathing space’

Bristol Stool Chart

Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers

Jamie Scott

Originally hailing from NZ, Jamie is not just a pretty face but holds numerous post graduate qualifications in exercise, sports science, and nutritional medicine.

Although Jamie has worked in the health profession for over 15 years, he moved to an ancestral lifestyle in recent years and is the ‘voice of reason’ behind the blog ‘That Paleo Guy’.

Jamie doesn’t mince his words and has the ability to cut through the crap by applying a rigorous scientific framework to primal debates.

His pet peeves include celebrity nutritionists, Australia’s take on EFTPOS transactions and ‘sex with your pants on’

Anastasia Boulais

Anastasia is a newly graduate Dr and self-proclaimed non-conformist taking a broader lifestyle approach to her profession in medicine. She balances her medical background with her love of fitness and isn’t afraid of sun worshipping and a quality steak.

Anastasia is fast becoming one of the thought leaders in the ancestral health field across the trans-Tasman and international arenas.

She is the brains behind the popular blog Primalmeded.com which she describes as her ‘attempts to reconcile conventional medical wisdom with primal evolutionary concepts, using her curiosity, scepticism and inability to follow the crowd’

Together this primal couple front the successful Whole9 South Pacific workshops and are about to head back to the ‘Land of the Long White Cloud’ to launch the Ancestral Health Society of NZ.

We Chat with Jamie & Anastasia About:

Questioning conventional nutritional advice

Reconciling conventional medical training with what happens in the real world

Calories in vs calories out

Mistakes made when starting a Paleo Diet or lifestyle

Reductionist thinking when it comes to carbs and exercise

The 6 S's - Sunlight, Slow movement, Seasonality, Sex, Socialisation, Stress resistance & Sleep

The role of sleep hacks like blue blockers and supplemental melatonin

The mismatch between our biology, physiology and our modern lifestyles

The basics are not very sexy...well, they aren't!

Whole30 is a reset not a miracle weightloss solution. It is a diet hack that will not make up for a lack of sleep and stress overload

Cellular vs acellular carbohydrates and differences in carb tolerances

Seasonal eating and carbs

Seasonal fluctuations in body fat

Fuel partitioning for athletes

Carbs for women

The Ancestral Health Society of NZ

Vasectomies

Hormone replacement therapy and the Pill

Links discussed in this episode:

Anastasia's Blog: Primalmeded

Jamie's Blog: That Paleo Guy

Whole 9 South Pacific

Whole30

The Paleo Solution Podcast

Book: The Paleo Diet by Loren Cordain

Book: The Diet Delusion by Gary Taubes (Also called Good Calories Bad Calories)

Mark's Daily Apple

Jamie on vasectomies

TPS Episode 11: Cholesterol Clarity with Jimmy Moore

Catalyst Episode: The Heart of the Matter

“He is a Video Blogger, Radio Show Host, a kick ass Educator, and he isn’t afraid to have a good time out on the town... with a gluten free beer!”

The crew at The Primal Shift have been following this man’s work for quite some time.

He is none other than one of the Godfathers of the ‘Real Food’ Movement – Mr Sean Croxton.

He is better known as the man behind Underground Wellness, and the wickedly well-known catch phrase; "YO! What’s Up Y’all!"

Sean’s dream is to revolutionize the way THE WORLD thinks about health.

He promotes the concept of self-care which means that in order to regain and/or maintain superb health, we must become more responsible for ourselves.

After graduating from San Diego State University in 2001 with a Bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology, Sean began his journey as a certified personal trainer. However, he was met with much frustration during this time as clients got heavier and sicker, which led him down an alternate pathway; He turned to the dark side...

Since then, Sean has been working with clients globally to uncover the root causes of their health challenges. He takes a holistic, functional approach to rebuilding health from the ground up. As a Functional Diagnostic Nutritionist (FDN) and Certified Metabolic Typing Advisor (CMTA), Sean does not merely focus on symptoms.

He instead believes in the 5 Pillars of Health:

Diet

 Hormones

Digestion

Detoxification

Immunity

He firmly believes that “Disease is function, gone wrong.”

We chat with Sean about:

What is an FDN or ‘Functional Diagnostic Nutritionist’, and how can one help us?

The best gut-health ‘fly-screen’ analogy EVER!

The impact of gluten on our health

Primal dating - Is it a deal breaker if a potential partner is unhealthy?

The importance of chemistry when meeting our match

How to trust our ‘primal-instincts’ when it comes dating

What does the ‘dark side’ refer to when it comes to nutrition?

“You don’t lose fat to get healthy – you get healthy to lose weight”

 How the gut and digestion is the core of most health issues

Sean Croxton is the ‘King of Poop’

So Sean... How about that squatty potty?

Is there a role for supplementation in a healthy lifestyle?

It all starts with food!

What’s the role of nutrition in mental health?

Sean has decided to use the term ‘bloke’

Men need to start talking about mental health

How to have better sexy with your partner

What’s the best hangover cure?

What is JERF?

Links discussed in this episode:

Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Course

The Dark Side of Fat Loss

I want a Squatty Potty

The Sexy Back Summit

Real Food Con

The ‘Not So Fast Food Truck’

The Underground Wellness Podcast Show