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A Recovering Physicist with Ally Houston – Episode 2312

by Vinnie Tortorich

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Episode 2312 – On this Friday’s show Vinnie Tortorich welcomes physicist Ally Houston, and the two discuss brain health, metabolic health, being a “recovering physicist,” and more.

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A RECOVERING PHYSICIST

  • Vinnie welcomes physicist Ally Houston; Vinnie heard of Ally through Dr. Georgia Ede. (2:00)
  • Ally talks a bit about his career and studies as a physicist, and the two briefly discuss the concept of perpetual motion and entropy (look it up). (3:45)
  • They discuss mental health and challenges like OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder). (9:30)
    • Getting your metabolic health back with change your life!
  • Ally shares his health background. (14:15)
    • He had been struggling since a child with various autoimmune conditions as well as mental health diagnoses.
    • Ally describes conditions like achalasia cardia, sarcoidosis, and others.
    • They discuss vitamin D, the generalized bad metabolic health in the U.K., and something called the “Glasgow Effect”.
  • Vinnie asks how Ally came to a ketogenic lifestyle. (20:00)
    • Ally came across Gary Taubes and his Good Calories, Bad Calories book; he also discovered other blogs and resources about the ketogenic diet.
    • He started experimenting with his eating and within weeks was seeing a significant difference in his clarity of thinking, healing depression, and more.
    • Ally shares what some of his day-to-day mental struggles were.
  • Ally considers himself a “recovering physicist” and explains why. (25:15)
    • He suspects a lot of highly-educated people in medicine and other areas can become rigid in their thinking.
  • Vinnie and Ally discuss Georgia Ede’s work in studying the effects of a ketogenic diet on treatment-resistant depression. (34:00)
  • The conversation turns to bicycle racing, racer Graeme Obree, and the physics involved. (36:20)

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  • Vinnie and Ally chat further about how Ally experimented with changes in eating. (48:00)
  •  They discuss how mitochondria are supposed to work in the body and how seed oils do damage to mitochondria.
  • Ally now works alongside Rachel Brown on metpsy.com as a consultant to help guide people to better brain health and physical health.
  • PLUS… Vinnie reveals an NSNG® FOODS special  Promo Code. (LISTEN FOR IT!)
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