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.
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)
EXPERIMENTING WITH FOOD
- 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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