September 09, 2025

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

1 hour 4 minutes

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).

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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

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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