Nutrition · Rina Ahluwalia
by Rina Ahluwalia
The Primal Podcast (previously known as 5 Minute Body) is hosted by Rina Ahluwalia, who has over 25 years of experience in the medical industry. The health podcast discusses root-cause healing including nutritional protocols like the Carnivore Diet to fix inflammation, hormonal dysregulation, heart disease, cancer, dementia, and mental health disorders. Learn More: https://www.theprimal.com/
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Interesting show, but when you listen to a series of episodes, you find that there are too many contradictions in the recommendations, way beyond the varying nuances you would expect in a science-based podcast. Once episode says to have a protein shake before bed, other episodes say protein shakes are terrible. One episode says Vitamin D and B-vitamin supplements can help with sleep, other episodes say stop taking Vitamin D and that B-vitamin supplements are toxic! One episode says too much fat is bad, and other episodes say eat a lot of fat. Etc. etc. This has happened so much that I am now highly skeptical of the information presented. I had high hopes and was enjoying the podcast, but it is too confusing when there are so many contradictions. I understand the idea of presenting a variety of experts, but the podcast needs to have a more clear vision so that listeners can make healthy changes without the information changing Willy-nilly. Drink protein shakes! NO! protein shakes are damaging! The host needs to synthesize the arguments and make sure her guests are not constantly giving contradictory information.
Love the show, I’m so glad I found it. So many important guests with information we need to know to reclaim our health. One thing I would urge though, not to accept sponsors like Quaker Oats and Pepsi. They’re not supporting the goals listeners have.
The information presented is spot on and so important in an age of misinformation about health and nutrition
This was one the best interviews I’ve heard on this show. Gave me so much to think about and I agree with all her advice. I’m a huge coffee drinker but I absolutely think it is a hormone disrupter and whenever I cut back or switch to decaffeinated, I feel so much better. I also wear a CGM and have a good friend who is a type 1 diabetic who also wears a CGM. I just want to point out that our numbers after eating the same foods can be drastically different. So if her husband has extremely elevated insulin after eating fatty meat, it might not do that to someone with a normal insulin response.
Touting the carnivore diet to fix inflammation, hormonal dysregulation, heart disease, cancer, dementia, and mental health disorders is so dangerous and will kill many people. This is not remotely based on the vast majority of scientific evidence. Misinformation like this killed my father - he died of a heart attack while working out at his fitness facility - not realizing that exercise could not overcome a meat-centric dietary pattern. He never got to enjoy the retirement he worked so hard for or watch his granddaughter grow up.
Tina has gotten a little greedy in my opinion. She does her own ads which is understandable but there’s a lot more ads than just those and it’s like watching TV where every 2 minutes pops up a different ad. I’ve even heard McDonald’s on here which is not good for a health podcast.
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