ME/CFS Recovery - How Diet Might Help (With Mary Ruddick, Internationally Acclaimed Nutritionist)

Internationally acclaimed nutritionist Mary Ruddick shares her incredible full recovery story from severe chronic illness (made possible largely as a result of changes in her diet), as well as her current research studying global pre-colonial diets working to uncover themes correlated with health and longevity.

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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
00:46 Meet Mary Ruddick
04:19 Mary’s counterintuitive approach to empowering people with chronic illness
06:30 Mary’s history with severe chronic health issues and what enabled her full recovery
11:41 How Mary's diet and nutrition protocols have helped people with ME/CFS and long COVID
14:41 Different dietary approaches that work for people with me/cfs or long covid
18:09 What is the GAPS Diet and who can it help
23:38 Mary’s current research on pre-colonial diets
30:00 How to follow Mary's work and learn more

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[RaelanAgle]

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Intro
00:46 Meet Mary Ruddick
04:19 Mary’s counterintuitive approach to empowering people with chronic illness
06:30 Mary’s history with severe chronic health issues and what enabled her full recovery
11:41 How Mary's diet and nutrition protocols have helped people with ME/CFS and long COVID
14:41 Different dietary approaches that work for people with me/cfs or long covid
18:09 What is the GAPS Diet and who can it help
23:38 Mary’s current research on pre-colonial diets
30:00 How to follow Mary's work and learn more

[vintage_violet]

Thank you ladies, this really inspired me to rethink my diet's role in CFS. Like SO MANY of us I've tried "every" diet and usually felt worse not better and the STRESS from strict diets was too much to add into my already exhausted life. Sometimes I'd feel a boost right away but soon enough it got worse and would have to stop. I have recently realized though I have a major issue with Oxalates so that was maybe why some of the diets would fail (especially as i'm someone who would leap into a new diet cold-turkey and probably experienced Oxalate "dumping" etc). I'm very willing to figure this out and I lean Carnivore already so I'm definitely going to seek out more info with Mary's sites. XO

[vinnies]

I'm excited you got to chat to Mary! She's a font of fascinating info. I've watched masses of her interviews and have learned something new with every single one. Thanks for seeking her out!

[IridescentJen]

fascinating, thank you raelan & mary! i've gone through many lifestyles and diets even before i became ill (raw vegan to carnivore and everything in between). i have no idea what box i fit into re: illness source, am wondering how one figures that out without going through the medical gauntlet again. i spent 7 years bouncing from dr to dr but in hawaii our medical is *very* uninformed and the dx i have are limited. i stopped the medical madness a few years ago for my own mental health. very excited to learn more about mary's research!

[gillianshannon_]

Thank you Raelan, great episode. Can I ask what part of the tropics you were in and for how long. Xxx

[forisma]

It's so difficult to listen to this sound, it's muffled :(( what a shame. But I'll definitely be checking her out because I need to get my diet back on track. I know what a good diet does. It really improves how I feel. I only cannot ever seem to be able to do it long enough 😌

[fatfullday]

This was do good!
Question. Does anyone know why you would develop really bad dandruff on carnivore a year in? only in the winter but my scalp will feel so dry and so flaky!

[melissapowell]

Hi Raelan, could you do a video comparing the brain retraining programs? There are several to choose from, and I'm curious how they are similar and different. It would be helpful to be able to compare them and decide which one fits the best in our individual situations.

[misscharmaineX]

I’m abit confused; so for those of us who are high histamine, low oxalate what should we be eating? A more practical example would be helpful. You go onto her website and there’s different packages to buy but how do you know what you need?

[lenavoyles]

I went from barely ill to severely ill by following GAPS as laid out in McBride's book for 2+ years. GAPS replaces glucose with fructose. Fructose cannot be digested in the gut and must be processed by the liver, which stresses the liver and can lead to non-alcoholic fatty liver. Before GAPS, I could eat anything. Post-GAPS, I react to honey as though I were allergic and have lost the ability to tolerate fiber. I would never recommend to someone who has CFS or dysautonomia to just follow the GAPS that is presented in McBride's book. My experience has been that the microbiome is not the starting point or primary target for dysautonomia/CFS - it's the nervous system. The poor stressed out gut is just reacting to the malfunctioning nervous system.

[lenavoyles]

Also, for the sake of clarity, deuterium is not an element. It is an isotope of hydrogen.

[DlcdrummerProSniper]

in the video she says GAPS diet works well for long covid and then says after that carnivore had the best results with post viral. Just wanted to know for long covid which would be a better option? ive personnaly felt relief from brain fog with keto and even more with carnivore.

[Stardg]

On your website you say "Polysaccharides were key for me to becoming autoimmune disease-free"

which Polysaccharides aloe vera or maitake as i assume since you have EDS you followed cusack protocol?

She is also talking about westen a price diet and eating specific to your region and environment. Im from scotland so thats oats, herring, dairy, root veg etc.

[tanyawieczorek]

God those ads are awful. I'm trying to listen to this lying quietly and with the audio quality being low the volume has to be turned up, then those ads blare me into the stratosphere.. please consider turning them off. The 12 hour black screen sleep video creators turn theirs off, so I know its possible!

[ladymuck]

It sounds like someone has an upset tummy.

[forisma]

I checked out her approach and it makes me suspicious and uncomfortable. She says a lot of unproven unscientific stuff, also making weird claims about super humans and the best health. And definitely pushining her carnivore leaning agenda, there seems to be no balance to it.
I'm wary of such people. It's a no for me..