Hey there and welcome to the weMove podcast.

Breaking up our, loose theme on Shadow Work, masculinity, and self-improvement. Chris and I wanted to speak to someone who's within our circle, and is a nutritional therapist, and that's Grace Kingswell.

We've known Grace for a while. But what made this podcast timely, was her calling out of Oatly the non-dairy milk brand in particular their ‘Barista version’ for it’s use of ingredients which are known to compromise health and vitality, whilst being marketed as a positive health choice.

So we wanted to speak to Grace about this because she has and is positively vocal about this new trend for industrially produced non dairy drinks and her comments were triggering a lot of people about how to eat, what to eat and why to eat.

I feel she's got some super, valid points. Chris and I are not nutritionists, or nutritional therapists, but we are our own nutritional experiments of one who have discovered without doubt, that a return to simplicity in what we eat, how we live, how we think combined with a return to nature, which, by its very means is a return to simplicity has incredible benefits for our health, our performance, our mind, our everything.

It was about a year ago, that in conversation I said to someone “I think non dairy milks are a health disaster waiting to happen”. Saying this not from having the professional knowledge Grace has, rather a deep human understanding that processing of foods and drinks disconnects us from supporting optimal body health.

Because you need to know what's in your food, and you need to know the sources of where those ingredients and foods come from, and you need to know what those things really are that you think are healthy because you have been told by a marketing team that it is healthy.

And with that in mind and for this very reason it has been really interesting to watch the growth of the dairy backlash which I will call the industrialised dairy production process and see all these non dairy milk alternatives come out, which, more often than not, are laced with a load of other things that you don't need in your diet, and which Grace pointed out, have negative benefits for your health.

We also bring up one of our key books in the weMove library Nourishing Fats by Sally Fallon chairwoman of the Weston A Price foundation and also the work of Weston A Price himself who promote the return to minimally processed natural, seasonal, local food source diets in order to support the optimal functioning of our human bodies of which we will be exploring further in our food and farming series later this year.

This Weston A Price idea is massively in favour of unpasteurised dairy, animal fats and eating food that is grown in your country or residence (calling out avocado eating, coconut water drinking English residents, not so indigenous a diet really)

I'm a big dairy fan. I'm a big real, raw, unpasteurized dairy fan, have been for a while, and whether it's in my constitution or I have been lucky it suits me very well. No mucus build up, no allergic responses, nothing other than positive effects and energy, and the people that I know who also have experimented with raw, unpasteurized dairy milk from grass fed grass finished ideally biodynamic cattle, who are antibiotic free who are reared free from modern world industrial pharmaceutical intervention. Have had the same response.

Its important to add this podcast is not a raw dairy propaganda, but it does approach a conversation that we believe is becoming overlooked. Whether you chose to consume at the polarities of diet i.e. veganism or carnivorism, or settle somewhere in between or eat according to feel and connection. Culture and marketing is pushing an idea that plays on emotional beliefs