Podcast appearances and mentions of tara couture

In this episode, I bring back Tara Couture for a second round of talking about the intricacies and complexities of health and what it means to reimagine and reclaim that at a personal, familial, and community level. In this episode, Tara and I deep dive into some of our personal health journeys and exploring the knowledge of not taking a one size fits all approach - that there are many factors that found you sick in the first place and many bioindividual considerations that will support the journey back towards health. It's about curiosity, relationships, and growing change. Find Tara:Substack@slowdownfarmstead Resources :Troy's Substack: the Doer of DeedsDivergence Support the Podcast:SubstackPatreonLeave a one-time TipCurrent Discounts for MBS listeners:15% off Farm True ghee and body care products using code: KATEKAV1520% off Home of Wool using code KATEKAVANAUGH for 10% off15% off Bon Charge blue light blocking gear using code: MINDBODYSOIL15Join the Ground Work Collective:Find a Farm: nearhome.groundworkcollective.comFind Kate: @kate_kavanaughMore: groundworkcollective.comPodcast disclaimer can be found by visiting: groundworkcollective.com/disclaimer

Tara Couture is one of the most sensational humans the world has to offer. She is a retired Registered Holistic Nutritionist and mother of 3 amazing girls. She and her husband Troy, who works as an ER Doctor, live and manage their homestead farm where they raise and butcher all their own animals. She nourishes her family with nose to tail, regeneratively grown, beyond organic food. Show Notes coming soon!    

This is an episode you won't want to miss, chock full of conversations around rightness, death, farming, and preservation - not just of food - but of ways of life. Caught in the heat of August and the peak of harvest, we talk about what it means to preserve something beyond just what is going into our freezers, cans, and solar dehydrators. We talk about preserving a different way of life. In it, we unpack the ways that death invites us to experience the full range of our humanity and connectedness. Tara dives into farming in Canada and beyond and what regulations might mean for the future freedom of our food system. There is an honest and in depth conversation on marriage, the highs and the lows, and how we can show up in service to our spouse. Within that, we cover what bulls and men have in common and how thoroughly both should be celebrated. We explore service over purpose and why chasing happiness isn't the answer. Throughout the conversation, we talk about raising animals, eating delicious food, celebration of small farms, and freedom. We also talk about: Going beyond what is comfortable and safe Nutrition & so much more! Find Tara Instagram: @slowdownfarmstead Substack: Slowdown Farmstead Related Ground Work Episodes: Lacey Jean Shele Jessee Current Discounts for GW listeners: 15% off Farm True ghee and body care products using code: KATEKAV15 Join the Ground Work Collective: Instagram: @groundworkcollective Find a Farm: nearhome.groundworkcollective.com More: groundworkcollective.com Episode Website

Tara Couture is a homestead farmer, mother, writer and nose-to-tail home butcher and chef (among many other things). She crafts her life with her husband and family on their Slow Down Farmstead. As a steward of the land, she is deeply integrated with the inalienable truths taught by nature (which we are a part of). Tara helps her family to thrive through an ancestral diet, almost entirely provided by the animals they raise on their land through regenerative agriculture. This episode is valuable to you if any of these apply...you're: wanting to improve their health through diet navigating grief or loss needing inspiration from someone who has walked the path to food, lifestyle and land sovereignty thinking of becoming a farmer or a new farmer wanting a hot tip from a pro needing support in remembering that freedom is something no one can take away from you Topics Covered & Links: pls note that links may be affiliate links (no extra cost to you, just helps me fund the podcast) https://slowdownfarmstead.com (The Slow Down Farmstead website) https://instagram.com/slowdownfarmstead (Slow Down Farmstead's Instagram) The importance of Tara's creativity, plus her creative practice The ethics of getting raw milk and how to go about it What's a way to bring change in dietary awareness to my family and the people I love? Dealing with the isolation and loneliness after going through transformation How Tara manages her tech time, Instagram, Social media, etc… Management of EMF's https://geni.us/blMW (Deep Work) - Book By Cal Newport Tara uses a https://geni.us/2dAs9M (Bullet Journal) Why it's important to build relationships around food. The inspiration for the name 'Slow Down Farmstead' Why it's important to build pleasure into your days And, honestly, SO MUCH MORE... Thank you for joining us for this very first episode of the We Are Already Free podcast, this is amazing! NB: Next step is to help more people around the world get access to this resource by subscribing to the podcast where you listen and then going to https://nathan.africa/podcast and leaving a review wherever you can! What a blessing to share this with you, see you in the next one. With love, your host Nathan Maingard PS: https://nathan.africa/podcast (leave a review) to help the podcast be seen and heard by many more people so that more and more remember that We Are Already Free!

Please check out her blog!  https://www.slowdownfarmstead.com/or her Instagram: @slowdownfarmsteadRecommendations: A Brave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathon HaidtRebel Wisdom Podcast Thank you for your support! If you enjoy The Core please rate ★★★★★ and  subscribe to the show! Nick Mombello is getting to the core of what it takes to live an optimal life. The Core podcast shares lessons and conversations on health, wellness, relationships, fatherhood, masculinity, and peak performance. Are you looking for an easy way to improve your health?Dr. Paul Saladino's Heart & Soil Supplements are one of my favorite Nose to Tail/Carnivore Human Multi VitaminsSave 10% when you use the coupon code “TheCore10”https://heartandsoil.co/ Dr. Nick Berry and Essential Oil Wizardry produces the purest essential oils I have been able to find on the market! These are the oils that Paul Chek, Kyle Kingsbury, Aubrey Marcus, and Ben Greenfield use to level up their health physically, emotionally, and spiritually.Save 10% on all essential oils when you use the code “TheCore”https://essentialoilwizardry.com/ One of my favorite quotes recently, comes from Own the Day Own Your Life by Aubrey Marcus:“It's about how you feel, whose lives you connect with, and how much fun you have along the way.”- Aubrey Marcus 

Welcome to the Human Performance Outliers Podcast with hosts Dr. Shawn Baker and Zach Bitter. For this episode, Tara Couture from Slow Down Farmstead joined the show. Tara is a farmer, nutritionist, butcher, hunter, and nose to tail ancestral nutrition advocate. Episode Sponsor: Butcher Box - https://butcherbox.com Promo code "HPO" at checkout for 20% off.   Episode Sponsor: X3Bar – https://x3bar.com 50X3   Consider supporting us: - https://www.patreon.com/HPOpodcast or https://www.paypal.me/hpopod   ***DR. SHAWN BAKER'S BOOK*** "The Carnivore Diet" Amazon and Barnes and Noble   Instagram handles: @shawnbaker1967, @zachbitter, @slowdownfarmstead   Twitter handles: @SBakerMD, @zbitter   Facebook handles: Shawn Baker, @zach.bitter,   Website URLs: https://zachbitter.com , https://shawn-baker.com, and  YouTube: Zach (https://www.youtube.com/c/ZachBitterUltra) Shawn (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5apkKkeZQXRSDbqSalG8CQ)   If you would like to set up a consult call with either Zach or Shawn, you can schedule with Zach at https://calendly.com/zbittercoaching and with Shawn at https://shawn-baker.com/consultation/   If you would like to contact the show, please send your emails to hpopodcast@gmail.com

Hello there Sapien Tribe! That’s right, we’re a tribe now. This is very fitting to me and we have a lot of great people leading the way. I’m going to make pages for each of them on http://Sapien.org I’m talking about people like Professor Bill Schindler who’s hosting an online video series with a bunch of great people. Somehow I slipped in there and am kicking it off with one of the OGs Robb Wolf on Monday, October 28th. Sign up for free at https://www.modernstoneagediet.com/bs/ He’s having a bunch of these other tribe leaders on like Tara Couture (my favorite person ever - @slowdownfamstead on Instagram), Mark Sisson, Shawn Baker, all the people. Professor Bill is a great guy, a friend, and I want to support his project and message. That link is https://www.modernstoneagediet.com/bs/ or find it in the show notes. Now that I strategically brought up show notes, I’ll mention the message I got from a Patreon supporter who said “If I realized you offered such extensive show notes to patreon supporters I would of joined a hell of a lot sooner. What a valuable perk!!! I think if you elaborate on the podcast about on how comprehensive these google docs are (links to studies, links to youtube videos, refined information, and links to articles) surely more people will join for access!” It’s all Kristi! She does an awesome job. Support us at http://patreon.com/peakhuman You can also get grass finished meat delivered to your door at http://NoseToTail.org And put a few branches on our fire. This tribe metaphor is going to continue. You have to just try this even if it’s just to get the ground beef with the organs mixed in. There’s really no other way you can get grass finished beef plus liver, heart, kidney, and spleen all ground into a perfect little ball of nutrition for a better price, taste, or convenience factor. Support Sapien and a family Texas ranch by ordering at http://NoseToTail.org The film is going great. We don’t have a release date but you can still preorder it and get some of the perks by clicking through http://FoodLies.org to the Indiegogo page. And now onto the guest today, Dr. Cate Shanahan. I read her book Deep Nutrition awhile back and was hooked. She has a great philosophy that’s very inline with the Sapien lifestyle. She’s a board certified family physician, she trained in biochemistry and genetics at Cornell University’s graduate school before attending Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She helped create the PRO nutrition program for the LA Lakers which helped Kobe start eating an ancestral diet and boost his performance as he went later into his career. She’s got a new book coming out early next year called Fatburn Fix which you can already preorder on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Fatburn-Fix-Great-Weight-Using/dp/1250114497 And she’s an amazing person all around - here’s Dr. Cate.   BUY THE MEAT NosetoTail.org Support me on Patreon! http://patreon.com/peakhuman Preorder the film here: http://indiegogo.com/projects/food-lies-post     SHOW NOTES Cate Shanahan is a practicing medical doctor and author of Deep Nutrition She was inspired to write Deep Nutrition because we are currently living longer lives but not healthier lives There is a difference between life expectancy and life span Past generations grew up without GMOs, pesticides, so basically eating all organic, free-range, foods and no processed foods Genetic momentum will carry you forward even when diet might fall apart and this is how a lot of people live very long lives Your connective tissue determines your lifespan and your connective tissue is determined in your teens and twenties  Cate has genetically poor connective tissues and experienced various repetitive injuries Status of connective tissue is the number one predictor of injury and duration of athletic career  The problem that can occur with vegan athletes is that they are deprived of animal-based components that support connective tissue Many traditional diets include bones and products you get when you break down/boil bones Gelatin can help our joints and injuries  Bone broth is the youth serum for connective tissue and extending athletic career  Cate worked with the LA Lakers and various other professional athletes and has seen the power of nutrition and specifically bone broth in athletic performance, recovery, and career longevity  How LDL and HDL cholesterol levels matter  Brian’s theory: the only people that don’t benefit either didn’t try it or did it wrong Many high-level athletes adopting low-carb diets  Sugar isn’t good, but vegetable oils are the worst thing we could possibly eat  Cate believes that if we didn’t have vegetable oils we wouldn’t have all these chronic diseases Mitochondria produce 30% more energy (ATP) using fatty acids and ketones for fuel than glucose  Polyunsaturated fatty acids from vegetable oils shut down mitochondrial metabolism and can trigger apoptosis As your cells demand more and more sugar, the brain responds by keeping your fasting blood sugar up in an unhealthy range and this is what is diagnosed as diabetes  Vegetable oils play a role in diabetes Short fasts can be a part of a healthy lifestyle but a lot of people aren’t even healthy enough to fast  Eating between meals blocks fat burning  You shouldn’t need a snack if you have body fat  People underestimate how many calories they eat a day, and these hidden calories come from snacking There’s a difference between burning fat and burning body fat There are toxins in the vegetable oils that have accumulated in body fat, so when you fast and start burning body fat, you release them and get a pro-inflammatory effect  If you have toxic body fat and you try and push through to fast, it could be harmful  The reason some people can’t access their body fat goes beyond lowering insulin Some people aren’t even ready to go low-carb  Carbs are not the enemy, if you do it right, you can have your carbs and lose weight and be healthy  MCTs can be used directly by the brain for fuel  Your body makes most of its antioxidants The antioxidants in food probably have a negligible contribution in your cells If you do carnivore, you should be doing it nose-to-tail Cate’s 4 pillars for a maximally healthy diet The RDAs are almost irrelevant  Ancestral diets were based on farming, culinary practices, and traditions  Our intuitions were so good for so long and we’ve lost our ways  Diet can impact how our children physically look and grow Feed your genetics what they are expecting to receive  You have a gene in your bones for growing more bone matrix The raw materials in our food can act as switches for our genes  Cate tells people to supplement with vitamins (e.g. vitamin D), minerals (e.g. calcium), and superfoods (e.g. probiotics) if your diet is not rich in what you are supplementing with Vegans who believe “just don’t eat meat and you’ll be fine” can turn into a really unhealthy diet  DHA requirements go down when you remove vegetable oils  Epidemiology is just like “voting” on what a healthy diet is and shouldn’t be what we make dietary recommendations on When we eat damaging dietary fats for the brain we see mental illness  Stress isn’t a new phenomenon, we are just not wired to deal with it with the food we’re eating  Humans are being built wrong and if we continue down this path, humans will become extinct  Where to find Dr. Cate Shanahan  https://drcate.com/ https://twitter.com/drcateshanahan https://www.facebook.com/DoctorCate   SHOW NOTES Cate Shanahan is a practicing medical doctor and author of Deep Nutrition She was inspired to write Deep Nutrition because we are currently living longer lives but not healthier lives There is a difference between life expectancy and life span Past generations grew up without GMOs, pesticides, so basically eating all organic, free-range, foods and no processed foods Genetic momentum will carry you forward even when diet might fall apart and this is how a lot of people live very long lives Your connective tissue determines your lifespan and your connective tissue is determined in your teens and twenties  Cate has genetically poor connective tissues and experienced various repetitive injuries Status of connective tissue is the number one predictor of injury and duration of athletic career  The problem that can occur with vegan athletes is that they are deprived of animal-based components that support connective tissue Many traditional diets include bones and products you get when you break down/boil bones Gelatin can help our joints and injuries  Bone broth is the youth serum for connective tissue and extending athletic career  Cate worked with the LA Lakers and various other professional athletes and has seen the power of nutrition and specifically bone broth in athletic performance, recovery, and career longevity  How LDL and HDL cholesterol levels matter  Brian’s theory: the only people that don’t benefit either didn’t try it or did it wrong Many high-level athletes adopting low-carb diets  Sugar isn’t good, but vegetable oils are the worst thing we could possibly eat  Cate believes that if we didn’t have vegetable oils we wouldn’t have all these chronic diseases Mitochondria produce 30% more energy (ATP) using fatty acids and ketones for fuel than glucose  Polyunsaturated fatty acids from vegetable oils shut down mitochondrial metabolism and can trigger apoptosis As your cells demand more and more sugar, the brain responds by keeping your fasting blood sugar up in an unhealthy range and this is what is diagnosed as diabetes  Vegetable oils play a role in diabetes Short fasts can be a part of a healthy lifestyle but a lot of people aren’t even healthy enough to fast  Eating between meals blocks fat burning  You shouldn’t need a snack if you have body fat  People underestimate how many calories they eat a day, and these hidden calories come from snacking There’s a difference between burning fat and burning body fat There are toxins in the vegetable oils that have accumulated in body fat, so when you fast and start burning body fat, you release them and get a pro-inflammatory effect  If you have toxic body fat and you try and push through to fast, it could be harmful  The reason some people can’t access their body fat goes beyond lowering insulin Some people aren’t even ready to go low-carb  Carbs are not the enemy, if you do it right, you can have your carbs and lose weight and be healthy  MCTs can be used directly by the brain for fuel  Your body makes most of its antioxidants The antioxidants in food probably have a negligible contribution in your cells If you do carnivore, you should be doing it nose-to-tail Cate’s 4 pillars for a maximally healthy diet The RDAs are almost irrelevant  Ancestral diets were based on farming, culinary practices, and traditions  Our intuitions were so good for so long and we’ve lost our ways  Diet can impact how our children physically look and grow Feed your genetics what they are expecting to receive  You have a gene in your bones for growing more bone matrix The raw materials in our food can act as switches for our genes  Cate tells people to supplement with vitamins (e.g. vitamin D), minerals (e.g. calcium), and superfoods (e.g. probiotics) if your diet is not rich in what you are supplementing with Vegans who believe “just don’t eat meat and you’ll be fine” can turn into a really unhealthy diet  DHA requirements go down when you remove vegetable oils  Epidemiology is just like “voting” on what a healthy diet is and shouldn’t be what we make dietary recommendations on When we eat damaging dietary fats for the brain we see mental illness  Stress isn’t a new phenomenon, we are just not wired to deal with it with the food we’re eating  Humans are being built wrong and if we continue down this path, humans will become extinct  Where to find Dr. Cate Shanahan  https://drcate.com/ https://twitter.com/drcateshanahan https://www.facebook.com/DoctorCate   BUY THE MEAT NosetoTail.org Support me on Patreon! http://patreon.com/peakhuman Preorder the film here: http://indiegogo.com/projects/food-lies-post   Film site: http://FoodLies.org YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FoodLies Sapien Movement: http://SapienMovement.com   Follow along: http://twitter.com/FoodLiesOrg http://instagram.com/food.lies http://facebook.com/FoodLiesOrg   Theme music by https://kylewardmusic.com/  

Tara Couture is a certified nutritionist, homestead farmer, expert in nutrient dense animal based nourishment and one of my favorite instagram accounts to follow! Tara has brought up her girls on nutrient dense foods you can imagine using her nutrition background combined with teachings from Weston A. Price, raw milk from farmer friends, and mostly her own animals she raises. I absolutely love reading her posts and she is a wealth of information. See more below for links on grassfed beef and conventionally raised cattle. Follow her amazing Instagram account http://instagram.com/slowdownfarmstead   Feeding ruminants Urea (and here's the company making a "food grade urea" product for the cattle industry using natural gas).    Article on what's passing as animal feed commercially.    This one also talks about the protein added to cattle feed which includes the bone, blood, guts, feathers, and other garbage from animal sources (not including other cattle). This one speaks to what I was saying about cattle developing "acidosis" - where their rumen can't keep up with feed concentrates (grains et. al.). It's this acidosis, or imbalanced gut bacteria that is a major contributor to unhealthy bacterial strains in the cattle (that get passed into our food).   Example of trying to feed ruminants whatever industrial waste they can. And another.   Something not often talked about are the antibiotics and hormones grain fed/feedlot cattle must receive just for them to survive such unhealthy cramped conditions with poor immunity. The antibiotics are directly in their feed.   The ubiquitousness of bloat and acidosis in grain fed cattle. There are literally tens of thousands of studies on how to control this. When cattle come off grass and go into the feedlots, there is a transition period of moving their guts from grass fermentation chamber to a grain based one. This is done with great precision or they will bloat and die. Imagine! They've figured out how to totally transform this exquisite, clean fuel running system into one that accepts feeds it was never meant to digest.   Standard operating procedures - grain feedlots.   Cellulose (wood fibre) in foods and cattle feed.   Sources of other feed by-products (it's not whole corn or any other grain, it's often the by-product of the industrial food system).   FREE DOWNLOAD: Get Your Free e-Book on starting keto: https://www.ketogenicgirl.com/pages/free-ebook   Try the 28 Day Ketogenic Girl Challenge: https://www.ketogenicgirl.com Special thank you to Fast Keto sponsors: Butcher Box. FALL SPECIAL: Ground beef for life! New members will receive 2 lbs of ground beef for free in every box for the life of their subscription plus $20 off their first box by going to butcherbox.com/fastketo or enter promo code "FASTKETO" at checkout. Four Sigmatic: Try the Lion's Mane Coffee for yourself! Special offer for KETOGENICGIRL audience - receive 15% off your Four Sigmatic purchase. Go to foursigmatic.com/KETOGENICGIRL or use discount code KETOGENICGIRL at checkout Link to the study mentioned in the ad:  Improving effects of the mushroom Yamabushitake (Hericium erinaceus) on mild cognitive impairment: a double-blind placebo-controlled clinical trial. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18844328) Prior to beginning a ketogenic diet you should undergo a health screening with your physician to confirm that a ketogenic diet is suitable for you and to rule out any conditions and contraindications that may pose risks or are incompatible with a ketogenic diet, including by way of example: conditions affecting the kidneys, liver or pancreas; muscular dystrophy; pregnancy; breast-feeding; being underweight; eating disorders; any health condition that requires a special diet [other conditions or contraindications]; hypoglycemia; or type 1 diabetes. A ketogenic diet may or may not be appropriate if you have type 2 diabetes, so you must consult with your physician if you have this condition. Anyone under the age of 18 should consult with their physician and their parents or legal guardian before beginning such a diet]. Use of Ketogenic Girl videos are subject to the Ketogenicgirl.com Terms of Use and Medical Disclaimer. All rights reserved. If you do not agree with these terms, do not listen to, or view any Ketogenic Girl podcasts or videos.  

Hey Hey welcome back. Thanks for listening and thanks for all the kind words about this podcast. I get tons of messages and emails weekly and the stories of change are inspiring. It helps to keep me going and put in the work to find amazing experts and put out a good show. Today we have Alyse Parker who used to go by Raw Alignment. She had a huge vegan following of over 750,000 subscribers on youtube and hundreds of thousands on Instagram. She did different plant based diets over the course of about 4 years including raw vegan and ended up with some terrible health conditions. I won’t give up too much, but she’s now eating almost completely animal foods. It’s an interesting story and I hope you enjoy it! SHe’s a great person and I’m looking forward to a meat up we’ll be having in San Diego on July 24th with her and Paul Saladino. I’ll announce that soon so people can RSVP. We have 2 Meat-Ups in Toronto coming up. One this Saturday at the world famous Speducci Mercatto with North America’s only meat sommelier. Mikhaila Peterson, Tara Couture (who’s @slowdownfarmstead on Instagram - my favorite account ever), and Bryan Gilvesy a sustainable farmer and speaker will be there as our guests of honor. They’ll all be saying a few words and hanging out and eating the all you can eat delicious meat and some wine. We’ll have the Food Lies team there as well so grab a ticket on http://NoseToTail.org/event We also have a free Meat-Up at The Simple Kitchen Friday JUly 19th. We’ll have grass fed burgers and other paleo/keto/sapien options there for purchase as well as wine and beer. RSVP at the same place http://NoseToTail.org/event Comment or message me on social media if you’d like to have a Meat-Up in your city. A few other quick things. Please support this show on Patreon at Pateron.com/PeakHuman. I really need your support to keep this podcast ad-free. You’ll get the extended show notes which are super information-packed and an invite to the private Slack group. You can still pre-order the film and get the Eat Meat shirts and the other great perks on Indiegogo. You can link there from http://FoodLies.org And last, but not least we have my grass finished meat company Nose To Tail. Don’t need to talk about this because Alyse made her own advertisement at the end. We never talked about this beforehand, I promise. So here it is, the wonderful reformed vegan celebrity, Alyse Parker.   SHOW NOTES Alyse is a YouTuber who created a following living a vegan lifestyle  She lived on a fruit farm in Hawaii where she started a raw vegan diet  After 4 years on a vegan diet she realized her health was declining  Her experience hiking the Appalachian trail  She moved back to Hawaii and started experiencing loss of appetite, sinus congestion, brain fog, fatigue, and loss of memory and found out she had mold toxicity Out of desperation she tried a carnivore diet and felt immediately better  She now realizes everything she was missing from a vegan diet  She believes there is a trend with vegans who notice at year 4-5 their health begins to decline  There is no open dialog around the negative side effects of veganism  If you are vegan you believe you are eating the ideal diet There is a trend with vegans developing sensitivities to foods  Her experience with such a big following when her identity was centred on veganism The reactions of her followers transitioning away from veganism  Why is there a stigma around red meat for women?  How she felt after adding animal products back into her diet  She wants to continue sharing her journey online to inspire people to make any changes they need to make and for them to know it’s ok not to have your health figured out Hearing other people’s stories gives you permission to question things and see it helping someone else helps you make rational decisions Alyse’s main messages online are not revolved around food, her message is about tuning into yourself and building confidence http://instagram.com/alyseparkerr   BUY THE MEAT: http://NoseToTail.org Support me on Patreon! http://patreon.com/peakhuman Preorder the film here: http://indiegogo.com/projects/food-lies-post   Film site: http://FoodLies.org YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FoodLies Sapien: http://Sapien.org   Follow along: http://twitter.com/FoodLiesOrg http://instagram.com/food.lies http://facebook.com/FoodLiesOrg   Theme music by https://kylewardmusic.com/    

Aaand we’re back! Season 4 is coming in hot with some great guests and some more interesting formats. I have some special episodes coming up like the meat-eating heroes panel that we filmed for Food Lies with Mark Sisson, Dr. Shawn Baker, and Dr. Paul Saladino. I also put together a compilation episode that is 6 months in the making with amazing stories from people around America using nutrient dense diets to change their life. What is a nutrient dense diet you may be asking and who am I? The podcast is growing by the day and I want to give new listeners a quick overview. If you’re not new, be sure to stick around there’s a special event announcement at the end. I’m Brian Sanders and I’m creating the feature-length documentary Food Lies which covers the entire story on what humans should be eating including an evolutionary history, where we wrong in the last 60 years, and how we can do this sustainably. We’re in the process of editing now and are shooting some of the last segments in Canada in July. We don’t have a release date yet unfortunately. After years of studying different diets and eating strategies, I’ve landed on what we’re calling the Sapien diet or way of eating or lifestyle. Because it's not a diet - it’s a nutrient dense way to eat for life. I believe you can even dip into non-ideal foods on the weekends or at a special event once you hit your goal weight and if it doesn’t interfere with food intolerances or restrictions. The Sapien diet is based on 3 simple pillars. 1) Nutrient dense whole foods. THis means mostly animal foods which are the most nutrient dense and have the most bioavailable nutrients. This means eating nose to tail and including foods like liver, bone marrow or broth, grass fed butter or tallow, eggs, cold water fish like salmon and sardines, oysters and other mollusks, fermented vegetables, and low sugar fruits like avocados and olives. 2) is for each meal focus on protein, embrace fat, and minimize carbs. The animal protein should be the base of each meal but make sure it comes with enough fat and don’t be scared of it. Most carbs are nutrient poor and really don't provide much to you other than getting in the way of your body burning the fat from your meal or better yet, from your body. And the last pillar is 3) don’t eat all the time. You could call this a condensed eating window or intermittent fasting. Try to eat within an 8-10 hour window each day and let your body rest from constantly having to digest food. There’s a lot more to this so please listen back from episode 1, check out http://sapien.org/diet that’s sapien.org/diet, and we’ll continue to put out more details on the Sapien framework in the future. Ok so onto this episode - I’m starting off the new season with a bang. Maybe you haven't heard of Keith Baar? You should have. I hope to get some of these researchers doing groundbreaking and valuable work into the spotlight Keith is a brilliant researcher who has done great work in his career and published a ton of papers. Much of this work around mTor, muscle protein synthesis (AKA building muscle), collagen synthesis (AKA building all the other tissues that are so important in your body), and so much more. He’s a professor of Molecular Exercise Physiology at UC Davis and works in the Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, College of Biological Sciences and the Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology, School of Medicine. He has a bachelors degree in Kinesiology from the University of Michigan, a masters in Human Biodynamics from UC Berkeley, and a PhD in Physiology and Biophysics from the University of Illinois. You’ll learn a ton about how to live long and live strong. He only goes to the gym for 10-12 minutes two times per week yet is still getting stronger each year. We talk about how to live a long healthy life and if eating too much meat is going to help or hurt that. I love talking about the benefits of eating meat so much that I started a grass fed meat company called Nose to Tail which can be found at http://NoseToTail.org We ship nutrient dense boxes of meat to all 48 contiguous US states. We have ground beef with liver, kidney, heart, and spleen mixed in so you get all the nutrients and none of the hassle and barely any of the livery taste. We have so many other things like bone broth, marrow bones, tallow, suet, and all the normal cuts as well. You can also support my work at http://Patreon.com/peakhuman This is where we keep the podcast ad-free so I don’t have to take anyone else’s money to talk about (or be influenced by) their products. This is also where you get the amazing extended show notes put together by Kristi with all the studies and further details included. This is valuable stuff. I’d say better than most nutrition colleges. Definitely better than most nutrition programs teaching all this whole grain nonsense actually. And of course the Food Lies film is still on Indiegogo and needs support. We’re desperately trying to finish it. Check out the “EAT MEAT” shirts there - they are a great way to let people know they can’t blame the steak for what the fries did. One more big thing! We’re having some incredible events in Toronto on Saturday, July 13th and Friday July 19th. We’ll be having a Food Lies special supporters luncheon at North America’s only meat sommelier’s restaurant Speducci. That’s right - he’s a meat sommelier. They will be serving all you can eat platters of their famous cured meats, Speducci meat kabobs, as well as lamb chops, cheeses, and wine. This is going to be a tremendous event with special guests of honor Mikhaila Peterson (peak human episode 18), Tara Couture from SlowDownFarmstead on Instagram (peak human episode 26), and sustainable farmer and speaker Bryan Gilvesy, who will each say a few words I’ll be there with some of the Food Lies and Sapien team as well. Would love to see all you beautiful people in Toronto! Get your tickets on http://NoseToTail.org/event We’ll have another casual one of these in San Diego on July 25th and comment on this podcast post on Instagram if you would like to have an event in your city. Thanks everyone, here’s Keith Baar, PhD.   BUY THE MEAT NosetoTail.org Preorder Food Lies: http://indiegogo.com/projects/food-lies-post Support me on Patreon! http://patreon.com/peakhuman   SHOW NOTES Keith got into research because he wanted to know how muscles get bigger and stronger at a molecular level His PhD looked at which genes are turned on in response to resistance training Why different athletes respond differently to identical training protocols Responders vs non-responders (for muscle growth) Why lifting to failure is the best way to increase muscle mass If you want a strong muscle you just need to lift heavy If you want a bigger muscle you just need to lift to failure Research in people getting same muscle growth lifting 90% of their max for less reps vs lifting 30% of max for more reps and how this could be important to protect against injury One set to failure is just as good as multiple sets Using isolated exercises in combination with compound exercises Keith’s workout routine Lifting every day, whole-body workouts, and “bro-splits” Leucine rich protein and foods leucine is found in Leucine in plants is not as bioavailable Muscle strength is correlated with longevity There are physical, sociological, and metabolic components to why entering old age with muscle mass and strength is associated with living longer The role of mTOR in muscle building and cell growth The difference between using rapamycin and diet to reduce mTOR activity Why it’s important to cycle in and out of mTOR activation once we have reached mature development Calorie restriction and longevity Research Keith was involved in showing the ketogenic diet extended lifespan in mice to the same extent of rapamycin without inhibiting mTOR globally in the body Three ways to activate mTOR and the overlap between resistance training and insulin/IGF-1 pathway We need mTOR to for the immune system, learning and memory, building muscle. and many more important processes in the body Why you don’t need carbohydrates and a spike in insulin to gain muscle Why we need more protein as we age Functional proteins (i.e. bioavailable protein sources) Collagen supplements and what collagen’s role is in the body You need vitamin C in order to synthesize collagen Why fat-adapted athletes may not be able to sprint as well but can outperform in endurance events How fat-adaptation shuts down the ability to properly use glucose for fuel Dystrophin and its importance in maintaining muscle mass as we age Study using natural chocolate (rich is epicatechins) to increase dystrophin and muscle function in elderly Where you can find Dr. Keith Baar: Twitter: @musclescience Learn more about his research here: http://fmblab.com/   BUY THE MEAT NosetoTail.org Support me on Patreon! http://patreon.com/peakhuman   Preorder the film here: http://indiegogo.com/projects/food-lies-post   Film site: http://FoodLies.org YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FoodLies Sapien Movement: http://SapienMovement.com   Follow along: http://twitter.com/FoodLiesOrg http://instagram.com/food.lies http://facebook.com/FoodLiesOrg   Theme music by https://kylewardmusic.com/

“That blood goes right back into the soil that nourished them. It’s a really profound moment for us. It’s sad, but it’s incredibly beautiful, too. The amount of gratitude that we have for that animal, and being there as it’s dying, it’s a beautiful thing. But it’s not an easy thing. We live in a culture of ease. Our emotions should not dictate our actions.”— Tara Couture Tara Couture farms her own food, utilizes the entirety of the animal, lives as green as possible, and she cares about this planet. If you’ve listened to any amount of Restless Natives, you know that could not be more up my alley. Tara’s blowing up right now on social media. She’s fighting the good fight, discussing her lifestyle and her diet, which is certainly not mainstream. She gets challenged and she pushes back. It’s great to see her stand up for what she believes. I do have a fear for Tara, though. As she continues into this journey as an unintended social media influencer, the battles she’s fighting today may be won, but the war won’t stop. I hope she can maintain her enthusiasm for educating and explaining, and I hope she can maintain her patience. It’s hard to do that for very long without becoming a cynic or just completely defeated. I think you’ll agree with me though, I think Tara’s got the energy it takes to keep on fighting that good fight. It’s probably all of that animal fat powering her brain. Find Tara on Instagram Don’t forget to log time on GoWild, where you can connect with other foodies on the Cooking and Gardening Trails Shop Allen's Turkey Lineup Restless Native is Sponsored by Allen’s Shocker Gear Turkey season is here, and I could not be more pumped to go after those long beards. I just found some new turkey gear hitting the market from Allen. It’s the Shocker Turkey Hunting lineup, and I’m really excited about this stuff and I’ll be putting it to the test this year.  To be Shocker-worthy, a product must possess the exact elements to make turkey hunting easier, and make you a better hunter. Each item in the Shocker product line is designed, from inception, with purpose-driven storage compartments, specific features and item orientations with turkey hunting-solely in mind. Each one of these (5) individual items are a critical turkey hunting accessory providing a strong modular foundation to the overall “SHOCKER” Turkey Hunting Collection. Shop the Shocker Lineup from Allen Now

Tara Couture is a farmer, holistic nutritionist, devoted mother, and wife. She lives with her family on Slow Down Farmstead, a small, organic, grass-based farm in Canada. Today, Tara shares with us her personal journey from being a vegetarian struggling with her health, to recovering through traditional nutrient-dense foods. Now, she and her husband do their best to raise healthy, strong children, but that doesn't mean it's been easy. One daughter's diet is so radically different from her teammates' that it sets her apart, socially. Tara's middle daughter, at age 11, was diagnosed with an eating disorder that had her parents sick with worry and wondering how to bring her back from the brink. In short, Tara is an open book in this episode, sharing both the highs and lows on her journey of helping her family embrace slow, real food in this fast-paced modern world. Follow Tara on Instagram @slowdownfarmstead. Visit our website for more resources: westonaprice.org. To join or for more information on membership with WAPF, click here. Take our listener survey here. Check out our sponsors: Vintage Tradition, and Ancestral Supplements. 

Sally Fallon Morell is the director and co-founder of the Weston A. Price Foundation. She’s spent the last 20 years doing amazing work to promote the wise traditions of our ancestors and their farming, preparation, and consumption of foods. She’s written many amazing books such as Nourishing Traditions, Eat Fat, Lose Fat, and a new Book called Nourishing Diets. I really value all that she’s done and continues to do. I’ve come to realize my ideal diet is the one the Weston A. Price Foundation recommends minus the grains, even though they are safe if you prepare them properly as Sally mentions. I’d prefer to run on fat and most people listening probably know the vast benefits of doing this. I want to highlight that they can be safe to eat if you soak them overnight, etc. so if you choose to eat these foods at least do it properly. You may have noticed I’m getting all kinds of people on the show. I don’t want to be totally one sided. I’ll let people share their differing opinions and not argue with them. That doesn’t mean I support their stance. Dr. David Klurfeld, Layne Norton - let’s hear what they have to say. I think it would be a disservice to just keep getting people on the show who 100% agree with me. You have to be open to all sides so you’re not caught being dogmatic just like vegans and only look at things from one angle or miss the truth because your head is in the sand. All I’m after is truth, and will change my views if necessary. So far, nothing has shaken my belief that we need to eat nutrient dense ancestral diets with a lot of animal fat. I believe it’s better to run on fat, and most carbs are pretty worthless because they don’t have a lot of nutrients for how much energy they have. You can get the same nutrients that properly sprouted and fermented grains have elsewhere. People doing carnivore. Listen to the teachings of Dr. Price. Eat the whole animal. So much of the good stuff is in the bits and pieces. You can point to many populations over time eating mostly all or even 100% animal foods for long periods or life, and I agree with you, but they weren’t eating only muscle meat. I think the best diet out there is basically what Tara Couture, my last podcast guest who’s a homestead farmer, feeds her family. The full animal plus fermented veg and other fresh grown veg thrown in. Add in some more exotic foods such as fish eggs, avocado, mushrooms, and coconut oil. You can’t get more nutrient dense and less potentially harmful than that. This was our last film tour and we’re now actively engaged in post-production for Food Lies. All the T-shirts and rewards are being sent out shortly. You can still pre-order the film and get the other rewards at Indiegogo.com/projects/food-lies-post which is linked here in the show notes and at FoodLies.org where you can also see the film trailer. Thanks so much for the support and here’s Sally. Show Notes Just got back from filming with her on her farm in southern Maryland They mimic nature with regenerative and holistic farming practices and produce raw milk and raw cheese, etc. It’s strange that we need an entire organization just help re-educate people on how we have always eaten. It’s an uphill battle with a ton of opposition Rotational grazing mimics the grazing and movement of ruminants throughout history Weston A. Price foundation validates traditional farming and eating practices with modern science Demonization of saturated fats Procter & Gamble and the cottonseed oil and Crisco story - they were experts at marketing to housewives of the time Vegetable oils might be worse than trans fat For all of history humans prized animal fat It’s insane to give kids skim milk Dr. Price found that different culture all over the world had similar practices of a nutrient dense animal food diet 6 months prior to conception Vegetarian diet 2014 UK study: “our results showed that a vegetarian diet is associated with poorer health (higher incidences of cancer, allergies, and mental health disorders), a higher need for health care, and poorer quality of life.” https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0088278&type=printable Tooth health is a great indicator of overall health Wide dental arches and face and not needing braces is a sign of good nutrition from pre-conception through the growth phase Our ancestors built up their vitamin A stores well ahead of becoming pregnant by eating organ meats, animal fat, butter, egg yolks, etc. The heart starts growing before the women even knows she’s pregnant Prenatal vitamins aren't bioavailable - you need to get the full nutrition from the food you eat The foundation has seen so many examples of healthy, strong, smart, attractive babies born from eating this nutrient dense diet Some of his other studies and observations of kids in youth detention facilities and where he gave different groups of low income kids one nutritious meal per day of beef stew and cod liver oil with really good grass fed butter When displacing foods of modern civilization came in (sugar, flour, canned foods, vegetable oils) the first thing that happened was rampant tooth decay. The next generation had the narrow jaws and crooked teeth People on the traditional diet didn’t get tuberculosis He studied the level in vitamins in butter compared to when the cows were on the best grass compared to heart attack rates He also presented data showing the level of minerals in the soil and the correlation to PhDs - the areas that people were born and raised with the most fertile soil produced far more doctors Her new book is called Nourishing Diets and it looks at what populations around the world really ate throughout history. Of course none of them were vegan or vegetarian - they all highly cherished and regarded animal foods https://www.amazon.com/Nourishing-Diets-Ancestral-Traditional-Peoples/dp/1538711680 Crushes the original Blue Zones book that tried to claim many long living populations were plant based He actually lied - there’s studies showing all the people who got more animal foods and animal fat lived longer than people who didn’t She has an article about each one of the 5 blue zones refuting the original author: http://nourishingtraditions.com/true-blue-zones-okinawa/ http://nourishingtraditions.com/true-blue-zones-sardinia http://nourishingtraditions.com/true-blue-zones-ikaria-greece/ http://nourishingtraditions.com/true-blue-zones-loma-linda/ http://nourishingtraditions.com/true-blue-zones-costa-rica/ The China Study is also oft cited by vegetarian zealots. That was a very poorply done study and actually the authors said it was not to be used to draw conclusions from or show causation… although that’s exactly what vegan propagandist T. Colin Campbell did She says grains were actually being cultivated before we thought. BUT all the cultures knew to detoxify them by soaking and fermenting them Eating a bunch of whole grains caused a ton of problems in modern society like gluten intolerance, leaky but, SIBO, IBS, and much more. THere’s so many anti-nutrients in grains, humans aren't meant to digest them No whole foods are excluded on the Weston A. Price diet. It’s all about the context and preparation of your food A little know fact is that brushing your teeth isn't the biggest factor in tooth decay - it’s actually your diet. Obviously these non-westernized cultures throughout history didn't have toothpaste, toothbrushes, and flouride, yet they all had near-perfect teeth How the nutrient diet of our ancestors affects jaw development Anecdotally, her parents both had perfect teeth (raised on butter and animal fat), her and her 3 siblings all needed braces (raised on vegetable oils), and all her children and grandchildren have great teeth (went back to butter and animal fats) Her daughter has a gluten intolerance because she got too many whole grains too early in life. For her later children she waited and they’re all fine Why raw milk is considered harmful (even though it is what we should be consuming) It’s funny to see all this new enthusiasm for bone broth and fermented foods when Dr .Price and the foundation have known about it all along The future is in small artisan producers of these foods - it doesn’t take a lot of capital to start up The new generation is already heading this way - they don’t want to work for big corporations Technology got us away from our roots but it has the potential to help us get back They set up http://rawmilk.com Become a member or find out more at http://westonaprice.com   Preorder the film here: http://indiegogo.com/projects/food-lies-post    Film site: http://FoodLies.org YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FoodLies Sapien Movement: http://SapienMovement.com   Follow along: http://twitter.com/FoodLiesOrg http://instagram.com/food.lies http://facebook.com/FoodLiesOrg   Theme music by https://kylewardmusic.com/

Welcome back everyone, I’m Brian Sanders and I quit my job and have dedicated my life to the investigation of nutrition and lifelong health. I’m creating the feature length documentary Food Lies, this podcast, and a health technology company here in Los Angeles with a doctor and 2 other partners. Today I’m talking to Tara Couture who is a certified nutritionist, homestead farmer, expert in nutrient dense cooking and living, and maybe my new favorite person ever. She’s raised her family for 25 years on the most amazing, nutrient dense foods you can imagine using her nutrition background, teachings from Weston A. Price, raw milk from farmer friends, and mostly her own animals she raises. She butchers her own animals, churns her own butter, makes her own head cheese, etc., etc. She is the real deal. Check out what I’m talking about before you even listen to this episode on her amazing Instagram account http://instagram.com/slowdownfarmstead She’s a wealth of information and I genuinely enjoyed our talk. We get into vegan lies, the canadian mafia-like police arresting people for selling food they produced by hand, crazy family members refusing to eat her food, and a lot more. Her husband is an ER doctor and deals with some of this insanity as well. Don’t forget you can still preorder the Food Lies film on Indiegogo to support its creation and this podcast. Thanks again for everyone’s support so far and please enjoy this great episode with Tara Couture. http://indiegogo.com/projects/food-lies-post   Show Notes She has the best Instagram account in the game http://instagram.com/slowdownfarmstead She lives on a homestead farm in Canada and raises basically all her own animals and food She eats the most glorious, nutrient food you can imagine Tara and her husband (who is a doctor) were in the military and moved around for many years. Every place they went they immediately found local farmers to supply them with the nutrient dense food they needed She bought deep freezers on Craigslist for $50 and bought bulk animals for the whole year People in cities can go to farmers markets or get involved with a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) https://www.localharvest.org/csa/ Her daughter is living in a small apartment and buying bulk meat from farmers and deep freezing as well It doesn't have to be all or nothing - do what you can Daughters went off and ate normal food with friends as teenagers and felt sick and hated it She’s eating an animal food-only diet currently but doesn't like to call it carnivore or keto because that’s not what she’s after - she’s going after nutrient density She lists some of the things she eats daily - duck confit, head cheese, rabbit liver, kidney, adn heart pate, duck prosciutto… the list goes on Duck prosciutto sounds fancy but is actually super easy to make We’ve been sold a bunch of lies by big food producers making it seem like they’re the only ones that can feed us and it’s so hard to cook on your own She inexplicably has a 26 year old daughter while looking 26 herself Her daughter was misdiagnosed with a rare disease which made her go vegetarian. Her health fell apart despite doing it very well with all the right food combinations All her daughters were raised on organic foods, raw milk and cream, lots of animal fats and they are all beautiful and lean They’ve never had antibiotics and none of them even have a doctor The younger 2 daughters have never had a cavity (Tara was eating vegetarian when she had the oldest so…) Her youngest is on the boys hockey team and squats 225 lbs and was born 10 lbs 6 oz She thinks their calm and even-keeled temperament is very noticable and attributes it to a very healthy diet They bring big coolers of real foods (meat) to hockey tournaments Youngest daughter has never had fast food before - she says she wants that to be on her tombstone “the kid that never went to McDonalds” They have a beautiful organic garden and eat fermented plant foods like sauerkraut and kimchi She’s temporarily eating only animal foods because she has zero inflammation that way, feels great, and has no gut issues She lives near Ottawa on the Canadian Shield which has thin soil and is very rocky. There’s also trees everywhere. This land cannot be used for crops. The only good use for it is animals. They wander the forest and eat a really diverse variety of forage She does rotational grazing with her cows in the warmer months “The idea that grain or vegetarian diets will save the earth is so nonsensical. Anyone that works on the land can explain to you in one sentence why that can’t happen” Vegans have the loudest voices so people think it’s the majority People like Bill Gates think they know how to save the world - he’s some nerd who started a computer company - what does he know about farming? Don’t wait for these changes to come from the top - get your own well-sourced meat today She raises dairy cows, beef cows, ducks, meat rabbits, and heritage breed pigs (off and on) She makes her own butter which destroys any store bought grass fed butter Animals have instincts, just like humans, of what’s good for them She is working outside the system regarding insurance, so if anything happens she’s screwed They have a quota system for milk where you have to buy the right to sell milk for tens of thousands of dollars It’s like a mafia. They raided her neighbor and took him to court It would be illegal for her to serve me milk if I visited Her slaughter story 7 min documentary on mobile slaughter called “I Kill” https://vimeo.com/118461898 The first animal she was around for the end of life was a bison she butchered with her mentor She develops relationships with these animals. This is part of life. We have a disconnect with death, and it’s not good For some reason we’re trying to rewrite nature and evolution with our current “me” oriented thought patterns An unnamed person in her life came over for dinner and brought her own diet yogurt, 7up, and granola bar to eat and refused to eat her farm grown, handmade food Her dad has major health problems Her husband is a doctor but doesn’t want to be part of the system pumping out drugs People go to the hospital for a common cold and demand antibiotics So much depression, ADHD, and anxiety in children these days, it’s crazy When he asks people what they eat they're offended Our society is soft We need to start with our community food system first - not the big food companies or policy at the top level https://www.westonaprice.org http://www.eatwild.com “It’s been the great con job of our century to make us think that all this stuff is hard and foreign and out of reach”   Preorder the film here: http://indiegogo.com/projects/food-lies-post   Film site: http://FoodLies.org YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FoodLies Sapien Movement: http://SapienMovement.com   Follow along: http://twitter.com/FoodLiesOrg http://instagram.com/food.lies http://facebook.com/FoodLiesOrg   Theme music by https://kylewardmusic.com/