167: Ancestral Living for Modern Health with Holistic Hilda
Butter, broth, meat, organs, raw dairy, salt, ferments - these are the traditional foods that kept our ancestors healthy and thriving. Nutritional pioneer Dr. Weston A Price found that the further people deviated from these foods, the more sick and physically compromised they became.
In this week’s podcast, guest Hilda Labrada Gore and I highlight some of Dr. Price’s most important discoveries and how they are so much in alignment with real food the way God made it. She shares stories of her interaction with indegenous people across the globe and the wise ways they honor traditional living for optimal health.
Come listen and reconnect with what nourishes your body and soul.
EPISODE 167: Ancestral Living for Modern Health with Holistic Hilda
Show Notes
(0:00) Intro
Hello my friend, welcome back to the club. How are you today?
I am feeling back-to-my roots today - One of the foundations of my training as an NTP was based on the work of Weston A Price - a dentist who traveled the world in the early 1900’s to discover the keys to good dental health, overall health and good nutrition.
It is thanks to him and his work that we have the anchor of the traditional diet - the one full of butter, meat, broth, raw dairy and fermented foods - to keep us grounded against this wavy sea of questionable modern nutrition advice.
It is also thanks to the good people of the Weston A Price Foundation for keeping his work alive and continuing to educate people on the importance of a nutrient dense diet - one that includes these traditional, ancestral foods. They have been a powerful voice for nutrient density, sustainable farming and animal husbandry, honest food labeling, preconception nutrition and nutrition for children. They dispel all of the myths regarding saturated fat, cholesterol, vegetable oils, veganism and soy and everything else driving people away from real food the way God made it and into the arms of industrially processed foods that are making us sick.
Today we have a guest with a powerful voice for the WAPF and for ancestral health in general. She hosts the popular podcast Wise Traditions; She is an integrative nutrition certified health coach, a certified fitness professional and ancestral health advocate who has traveled the world exploring indigenous health practices for optimal well being. She is known as Holistic Hillda and has an inspiring website with lots of good information and I am so pleased to have her with us today.
Welcome Hilda Labrada Gore to the Christian Health Club podcast!
(3:56) Why don’t we start by you telling us about how you got to the holistic health space and involved with the WAPF and the very honored position of hosting the Wise Traditions podcast.
Story of a man Hilda encounter in Kenya
Dr. Price found health in indigenous groups
When Dr. Price analyzed the foods used by isolated peoples he found that, in comparison to the American diet of his day, they provided at least four times the watersoluble vitamins, calcium and other minerals, and at least TEN times the fat-soluble vitamins, from animal foods such as butter, fish eggs, shellfish, organ meats, eggs and animal fats—the very cholesterol-rich foods now shunned by the American public as unhealthful.
Dr. Price did not find any vegan indigenous cultures
(12:09) Regional superfoods
Looking at where you live and your ancestry
There is no one right diet for every person
(15:40) Tell us more about the Weston A. Price and Wise Traditions
Wise Tradition has 11 principles, for example: eating nose to tail
Inclusive diet that includes everything that God put on this earth
Ancient principles: Properly prepared foods such as soaking legumes
Antinutrients
(22:11) SAD Diet vs. Real Food
Hilda shares her story
Starting with butter — it is nourishing and satiating
Using your Godly compass to determine what to eat
(25:20) Talk to us more about fat and fat-soluble vitamins
Fat makes a difference in the accessibility of nutrients and getting the most out of food.
Nutrient density is found in the fats and in the meats
Blue Zones
Run away from rancid seed oils!
Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon
(32:41) It is time to return to what has nourished us for millennia.
We have been in an interrupted pattern in awareness of what we eat being linked to how we feel.
The importance of being still so we can discern what God has for us.
Stories about Hilda’s travel
Be still and know that I am god
God has provided everything that we need to be healthy
(43:02) Will you share some of your lifestyle practices with us?
Nature points to God and is so healing.
Nature has God’s fingerprints and points us in the right direction
Sunrise before Screen-rise
Putting us in sync with nature’s rhythm
EMFs - Earthing removes free-radicals and give you a negative charge
Take it one thing at a time
(50:15) Anchor Questions
Anchor meal: Bacon and eggs
Anchor verse: Jeremiah 6:16
Where can people find you?
Wise Traditions podcast
IG & FB Holistic Hilda
(54:23) Outro & Disclaimer
Additional Notes:
MEAT
All traditional cultures consume some sort of animal food, such as fish and shellfish; land and water fowl; land and sea mammals; eggs; milk and milk products; reptiles; and insects. The whole animal is consumed— muscle meat, organs, bones and fat, with the organ meats and fats preferred.
All traditional cultures cooked some of their food but all consumed a portion of their animal foods raw.
FAT
The following nutrient-rich traditional fats have nourished healthy population groups for thousands of years:
FOR COOKING: Butter, Tallow and suet from beef and lamb, Lard from pigs, Chicken, goose and duck fat , Coconut, palm and palm kernel oils
FOR SALADS: Extra virgin olive oil (also okay for cooking), Expeller-expressed sesame and peanut oils, expeller-expressed flax oil (in small amounts)
SEEDS/NUTS/GRAINS
Seeds, grains and nuts are soaked, sprouted, fermented or naturally leavened to neutralize naturally occurring anti-nutrients such as enzyme inhibitors, tannins and phytic acid.
This was instrumental for me creating F2F program which allows and includes grains and legumes if they work for people - they don’t work for everyone - but I think they are worthy of consideration and experimentation and they sure as heck work better for people when they are properly prepared.
FERMENTED FOODS
Primitive and traditional diets have a high content of food enzymes and beneficial bacteria from lactofermented vegetables, fruits, beverages, dairy products, meats and condiments.
SALT
All traditional diets contain some salt.
BONE BROTH
All traditional cultures make use of animal bones, usually in the form of gelatin-rich bone broths.
Thanks for listening! Have a healthy and blessed week!