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What is eating "ancestrally"? with Alison Kay of the Ancestral Kitchen Podcast
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What is eating "ancestrally"? with Alison Kay of the Ancestral Kitchen Podcast

With all the diets and nutrition trends that focus on exclusion and restriction, it can feel like food is being reduced to its components - not something I personally think is a very satisfying way to eat.

But what if there was another way to view food - a way that leans on the wisdom of our great-great grandmothers, yet is adaptable to a modern kitchen?

After a fraught relationship with eating impacted her mental, emotional and physical health for decades, our guest Alison Kay of ancestralkitchen.com and The Ancestral Kitchen Podcast found a path to health via ancestral eating and developing a true connection with her food. In this episode, Alison shares her backstory - including losing half her body weight as a young woman and later, struggling to conceive - and how ancestral eating helped her heal and thrive. Alison also explains what ancestral eating is - and isn't, how this way of eating works for her, and why the prices we see in the supermarket don't reflect the true cost of food.

Episode Links:

Ancestral Kitchen, Alison's site

The Ancestral Kitchen podcast

What ancestral eating isn't - the article we discuss in today's episode

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