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On this episode of Ancestral Health Today we welcome Ally Houston. Ally was trained as a physicist but switched to researching ketogenic diets in 2016, and started a paleo and keto food business in 2017, then health coaching in 2021. He and Dr. Rachel Brown started MetPsy in late 2022.
He was ill from childhood, struggling with weight, anxiety, seasonal depression, and ADHD. He was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult in 2015 when all symptoms were at their worst. The drugs helped a little but they wore off, and he was disillusioned again. He had started a physics PhD at the time and was underperforming. However, his professor, Ken Strain, noticed that he wasn't performing well. He had healed his MECFS using a ketogenic diet - he went from being told he'd never work again to running 10k in six months on keto. He showed Ally where to read about this and Ally decided to have a go, in March 2016. Within weeks many problems had cleared up. Ally has spent the time since trying to understand all he can about why this worked for him, and so many others.At the time, there was no ecosystem for metabolic mental health. Dr. Georgia Ede was one of the only voices on this in 2016. When Baszucki Group came into the field and stimulated the research in the area in 2022, Ally and Dr. Brown decided it was time to start MetPsy.Next year in Oxford, Ally will be leading a study on ketogenic diet plus MetPsy for ADHD with depression. He'd like to focus on the crowdfunding campaign for this. Baszucki Group will very kindly be matching the first £10,000 in donations. If you are interested in donating and following along, go to bit.ly/adhdketo (http://bit.ly/adhdketo) . Ally also provides mental health coaching at metpsy.com (http://metpsy.com/) . Ally is also the host of the "Ally Houston Transforms Podcast"
We hope you enjoy this episode.
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4 May 2024
A Millennial’s Guide to Living with Authenticity
In this episode we bring you Anya Kaats.
Anya spent a decade working in various roles within the natural products / wellness industry, before realizing that “wellness” culture was making her sick. In 2016, Anya radically restructured her life to focus on a more holistic approach to health, prioritizing authenticity, purpose, community, somatic, spirituality, and psychological well being. After a lifetime battling digestive and hormonal health issues, a truly holistic approach to “ancestral health” is what finally eliminated them. For several years, Anya hosted a podcast called A Millennial’s Guide to Saving the World. Anya currently lives in Crestone, CO with her partner Chris. In 2020, Anya and Chris founded “The Crestone Conglomerate” with the goal of re-creating reciprocal and egalitarian ways of living on the land and with community. Anya also writes for the local paper, The Crestone Eagle, teaches Contact Improvisation, helps to organize the Crestone Energy Fair, and spends her summers volunteering in some of Crestone’s most beautiful gardens. Find Anya on Instagram - @anya.kaats, or at anyakaats.com (http://anyakaats.com/).
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