Ruston's Boneyard Podcast

Jack Ruston

Welcome to the Ruston's Boneyard Podcast. We're talking about real food, traditional cooking, nutrition, health and exercise. We're asking whether a more primal approach to life brings us further in line with the biology evolution has given us. We'll be exploring some of these topics with expert guests from the worlds of clinical practice and research.

  1. 2022-09-08

    Season 2 Episode 2: The Consequences And Digestion

    Last time we talked about the Nutritional Therapy Association’s foundations for optimal health, and identified digestion as perhaps the most important foundation of all. Today we’re going to take a look at some of the downstream consequences of poor digestion.  Please subscribe, leave a comment or review, and come and find me on Instagram @rustonsboneyard. Check out my website over at www.rustonsboneyard.com, and the NTA at www.nutritionaltherapy.com For now, keep cooking.  References Elliott-Sale, K. J., Tenforde, A. S., Parziale, A. L., Holtzman, B., & Ackerman, K. E. (2018). Endocrine Effects of Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport. International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism, 28(4), 335–349. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1123/ijsnem.2018-0127 Vighi, G., Marcucci, F., Sensi, L., Di Cara, G., & Frati, F. (2008). Allergy and the gastrointestinal system. Clinical & Experimental Immunology, 153, 3–6. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2249.2008.03713.x Salekeen, R., Haider, A. N., Akhter, F., Billah, M. M., Islam, M. E., & Didarul Islam, K. M. (2022). Lipid oxidation in pathophysiology of atherosclerosis: Current understanding and therapeutic strategies. International Journal of Cardiology Cardiovascular Risk and Prevention, 14, 200143. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcrp.2022.200143 Grant, D. M. (1991). Detoxification pathways in the liver. Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease, 14(4), 421–430. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01797915 Carabotti, M., Scirocco, A., Maselli, M. A., & Severi, C. (2015). The gut-brain axis: interactions between enteric microbiota, central and enteric nervous systems. Annals of Gastroenterology, 28(2), 203–209. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4367209/

    13 min
  2. Episode 14 - Sleep, Movement, Exercise, Diet and Social Connection With Ryan Baxter

    2021-12-07

    Episode 14 - Sleep, Movement, Exercise, Diet and Social Connection With Ryan Baxter

    Ryan Baxter is a qualified heath coach and competitive obstacle course racer. He brings the scientific mindset that has carried him through a successful career in software engineering, to the thorny issues of diet, exercise, sleep and stress-management. His social media channels are a trove of insight on the latest research, and we're very lucky to have him here today to share his approach.    Chapters:    00:00 Intro  01:24 What is a health coach?  02:36 Introducing the six pillars of health  09:45 Sleep 11:42 Movement vs exercise  15:06 Social connection as part of movement  17:06 Diet  20:12 Has low-carb gone too far?  23:52 Food addiction and the difference between types of carbohydrate  28:00 Evolution vs food  30:10 Common mistakes - under eating protein and excessive fasting  31:27 How much protein should people be eating?  33:02 Fasting  34:32 The energy crisis concept  39:50 The line between dedication and selfishness  44:40 Where could technology go in terms of health tracking devices?  48:22 When not to track  53:12 Morning routine  54:36 Cold Exposure  54:52 Walking  55:36 Sauna  56:17 New research on saturated fat and heart disease  59:15 Grip training  01:00:28 Where can we find Ryan online?   This episode is available as a YouTube video here  Find Ryan in the follow places: On Instagram @rjbhealthcoaching and @ryanjasonbaxter, or at his website - www.rjbhealth.coach. If you have any questions for Ryan, you can ask them here and I'll forward them to him. Ryan mentioned Robb Wolf's book Wired To Eat - you can find it here     Please like, please subscribe, please comment - I always reply. Come and find me on Instagram @rustonsboneyard, and sign up for my newsletter at the bottom of the homepage at www.rustonsboneyard.com. Keep cooking.

    1h 4m
  3. Episode 12 - Personal Mastery With Richard Husseiny

    2021-10-26

    Episode 12 - Personal Mastery With Richard Husseiny

    Richard Husseiny is a former strength and conditioning coach with 16 years of experience working with Olympic athletes, both here in the UK and for the Chinese Olympic committee. He has been an integral part of these teams, achieving success at the highest level. Moving on from that world, Richard has identified the principles and practices that proved so effective in professional sport, and developed a unique 7 step method that allows us to make ground-breaking changes in our own lives. Whether it be leadership in the corporate world, relationships at home or at work, or some other element of our own physical or mental journey, Richard's Freedom Of Being process can unlock our full potential. He's here to tell us all about it. Chapters: 00:00 Intro 01:42 What is Freedom Of Being all about?  03:40 Gaining trust  05:10 Who are Richard's clients?  07:05 A lack of connection with our primal needs.  08:41 Feeling like a fraud  10:05 Trusting the process  11:10 Step 1 - How do you make sense? Being aware of your physical body with respect to your surroundings. Intuition. Regulating neurophysiology. State management. How we affect those around us.   19:20 Step 2 - How do you show up? Credibility. Fear of conflict. Vulnerability. Authenticity.  21:50 Step 3 - How do you communicate? Data. Assumptions. Beliefs. Actions. The text message analogy. Co-creating a reality. Saying 'No'.   22:55 Step 5 - What don't you want?  27:06 Step 4 - What do you want? The drama triangle. Positioning yourself for a particular outcome. Being effective vs being right. Parenting.   34:44 Steps 6&7 - What myth are you living? What are your blocks? Set points. Grief. Self-expectation. Identity. The veneer of our labels. Goals that never seem to satisfy us.   38:07 The metaphysical world. Understanding and accepting death. Meditation. Learning from indigenous cultures. 43:43 Perception vs reality. Reframing our reality.  47:24 What does a day of self-care look like for Richard? Meditation. Cold exposure. Nature. Circadian rhythms. Exercising for increased energy. Nutrition. Social media. Sleep. Delta brain waves.   52:05 Final thoughts on the Freedom Of Being course, and course structure.   54:21 Where can we find Richard and The Conscious Life Collective? You can find Richard in the following places: On Instagram and Facebook @theconsciouslifecollective, on YouTube - The Conscious Life Collective, and at www.theconsciouslifecollective.com This content is available as video on YouTube Please like, subscribe and comment - I always reply. If you have questions for Richard, please do ask and I will forward them to him. Come and find me on Instagram @rustonsboneyard. Keep Cooking

    56 min
  4. Episode 11 - Most Common Exercise Mistakes With Holly Skinner

    2021-10-12

    Episode 11 - Most Common Exercise Mistakes With Holly Skinner

    Holly Skinner is a former competitive olympic weight-lifter and Crossfit affiliate owner. She has extensive experience both as an athlete and a coach, and is currently enrolled on the prestigious MAC Nutrition course. Holly currently provides in-person and online coaching and programming through a new venture, Platform Brighton. If there's one person I would trust for advice when it comes to training, it would be her. In this episode we talk about the most common training pitfalls for novice and experienced athletes alike. We discuss over-training, under-fuelling, trying to buy food calories with exercise, the advantages of strength training, the importance of non-exercise activity thermogenesis, fasted vs fed training, the effect of body fat on strength, periodisation, training strategies for peri-menopause and menopause, and much more. Chapters 00:00 Intro. 01:55 Trying to earn food calories through excessive cardio. NEAT. Energy expenditure is dynamic. 08:05 What to do instead. 11:52 Working to set points, with no periodisation. 13:20 Periodisation and cycles. 16:30 Trying to get too lean and under-fuelling. 20:00 Females concerned about bulking-up if they strength train. The importance of strength training for women, bone-density and muscle mass. 24:15 Does weight-lifting make you fat? 26:25 Goal setting. Process-oriented goals. 28:15 Do you need a gym? 29:20 Women are stronger than they think. 31:13 Top 3 exercises. 32:46 Sets and reps. Maybe we don't need the extremes. 35:42 Lifting to failure. 36:38 Training fasted or fed. Metabolic flexibility. Training with carbs. 39:44 What to look for in a coach. 41:14 What does Holly's training look like? 43:50 Platform BTN and contacts. You will likely come away from this wishing that Holly was programming for you. Get in touch with her via Instagram @platformbtn @hollyplatformbtn, or via the Platform BTN website www.platformbtn.com. The video version of this episode is available on YouTube. Please like, please subscribe and please comment - I always reply. Come and find me over on Instagram @rustonsboneyard  - I'd love to get to know you, and see what's happening in your kitchen, and with your nutrition and training. Keep cooking.

    46 min
  5. Episode 10 - Buying Better Beef With Thomas Joseph

    2021-10-05

    Episode 10 - Buying Better Beef With Thomas Joseph

    Have you ever wondered what the difference between an Angus Wagyu cross, and a grass-fed Galician Blonde is? Have you ever wondered why one supermarket steak seems great, and the next, not so much? Do you want to know more about the process of dry-ageing, and why it isn't just hanging meat up in a fridge? To bring you the answers to these questions, and many more, I had an amazing conversation with Thomas Joseph, of Thomas Joseph Butchery. Tom is a former investment banker who decided to change direction, and follow his passion - supplying ethically-sourced, dry-aged and grass-fed meat from around the UK, Europe and beyond. He operates from his beautiful farm shop and butchery, located on his family's Coxtie Green Farm in Essex, and delivers all over the UK. When I'm looking for best beef, bar none, I go to Tom, and he never lets me down. We talked about ethically-sourced meat, breeds, diet for cattle, diet for people, environments, farming, regenerative agriculture, water, air, soil, the vegans, cooking over fire and Tom's favourite cuts. This is a fantastic episode for anyone who wants to know a little bit more about their meat. If you have any questions for Tom, please put them in the comments, as I'll be providing extra, follow-up content when I visit the farm. We can do some Q&A. 00:00 Intro 01:26 Who is Tom, and what does he do? 05:06 The flaws of both row crop and feed lot agriculture. Cost vs the right way of doing things. 08:59 Bringing food back to basics. 09:47 Pesticides, herbicides and artificial preservatives. 10:33 There are a lot of good quality farms. 13:43 Who are Thomas Joseph Butchery's clients? 16:21 Breeds vs location vs style of farming and diet 22:22 Do different breeds have a flavour, or is it just down to their location and diet? 24:21 Global issues around farming and food provision. 26:10 Beef tastes like the animal's diet. 26:47 The demand for grass-fed beef. 28:15 Are people asking for more fat? 31:38 All about dry-ageing. 38:54 Tom's favourite steak, cut and source. 40:21 The best way to cook a steak. 41:55 The best low-budget cuts 42:58 Where can we find TJB? You can find Tom at: Online at www.thomasjosephbutchery.co.uk Instagram at @thomas.joseph.butchery Facebook at Thomas Joseph Butchery This video version of this episode is available on YouTube Please like, please subscribe and please comment - I always reply. Come and find me on Instagram @rustonsboneyard. Check out my other pocast episodes, including the How Do We Lose Fat? series, and my recipe videos here on YouTube. Keep Cooking.

    45 min
  6. Episode 9 - Ede Fox - restoring health on an animal-based diet

    2021-09-21

    Episode 9 - Ede Fox - restoring health on an animal-based diet

    In this instalment, I'm thrilled to be able to bring you an interview with the wonderful Ede Fox.    Ede is a health coach and the founder of the Black Carnivore community.  She lost 80lbs and regained her health on a carnivore diet, before turning to help others find the same success. She runs a carnivore coaching program, a growing Facebook community, hosts a Podcast and a weekly livestream here on YouTube.    If you have any questions for Ede, if you want to work with her or have your own carnivore story that you'd like to share on her podcast, you can find her at the following places:   Instagram: @blackcarnivore   Facebook: Ede Fox Podcast: Black Carnivore Podcast YouTube: Black Carnivore Apply for coaching: https://blackcarnivore.com/applynow In the interview we refer to Ede's ghee recipe video, which can be found here  00:00 Intro 01:25 How did Ede get involved in the carnivore lifestyle. Health Issues 04:50 Problems that persisted on her previous keto approach 07:15 Taking out dairy improved her skin and asthma 09:40 Do we need plants? 11:15 Evolution, plant tolerance and Ede's background in Anthropology 13:30 Food issues in the U.S - an unsustainable problem 14:35 Who are Ede's clients, and what challenges do they face? 20:20 The effects of ketosis on the brain 21:20 Interviewing regular people and showcasing their stories 22:45 How has Ede's opinion evolved over time? 23:47 Moving past biohacking, and listening to your body  27:39 Sugar addiction 28:35 The loss of 'crutches' like sugar and alcohol 31:40 Strategies for dealing with family members 36:00 Top tips for those starting out on a carnivore diet 38:45 If Ede had to eat one meal forever...? 39:35 Discussing dairy, and Ede's ghee recipe video 40:40 The future of Black Carnivore 43:49 Have YOU got a story to tell? Get in touch with Ede 44:36 Where can we find Ede? This episode is also available as video on YouTube. Please like, please subscribe. Don't hesitate to leave a comment - I always reply.    And as always, keep cooking.

    46 min

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Welcome to the Ruston's Boneyard Podcast. We're talking about real food, traditional cooking, nutrition, health and exercise. We're asking whether a more primal approach to life brings us further in line with the biology evolution has given us. We'll be exploring some of these topics with expert guests from the worlds of clinical practice and research.