Part 23 - Pete Evans on Making The Magic Pill, The Paleo Way, and Colluding Dietitians

Today I had the pleasure of talking to celebrity chef, filmmaker, and all around great guy, Pete Evans. He co-hosts the #1 show in Australia, My Kitchen Rules which is in its 10th season and is shown in 160 countries. He’s written a ton of books and cookbooks, he’s created the show The Paleo Way, and has a great podcast called Recipes For Life. You may know him from the documentary The Magic Pill, which everyone listening has probably already seen on Netflix. He’s an amazing, positive force in Australia and the world, and it may not be apparent from our brief talk. We only had an hour so I’m going to have him on again because there’s so much more to get into. I’ll get a better recording situation next time. You’ll notice the quality wasn’t so great due to the recording service we were forced to use. A lot to enjoy in this episode though - he brings up some really creepy stuff about the dietitians association of Australia colluding to discredit and silence himself and a prominent doctor who advocate for people to lower sugar in their diet. Absurd, but true. These are the last few days you can pre-order the Food Lies film on Indiegogo. We really need your help to get this finished. We’re not taking any outside funding and have so far used much of our own time, money, and resources. It’s really coming out fantastic, and I can’t wait to share it with the world. Pre-ordering is the only way to have your own copy and share it with family and friends and you’ll get it a couple months early. It’s also the best way to show your support for this podcast and getting this information out there. I really appreciate all the support so far and can’t thank this awesome community enough. Click through the link in the show notes on your podcast app, at peak-human.com, at FoodLies.org, or search for it on Indiegogo.com Thanks and please enjoy my talk with Pete Evans. http://indiegogo.com/projects/food-lies-post

Show Notes

• Find out more about Pete Evans https://peteevans.com
• His TV show My Kitchen Rules https://mkr.7plus.com.au
• His series The Paleo Way https://peteevans.com/initiatives/the-paleo-way/
• He self funded The Magic Pill and The Paleo Way and executive produced it
• Got a distributor and it went nowhere…
• He realized he had a lot of great content and a documentary was a better format for this valuable information
• His director Rob Tate came in huge
• Hope For Health - benefitting the Australian Aboriginals https://www.hopeforhealth.com.au
• Why Warriors Lay Down and Die http://www.whywarriors.com.au/services/why-warriors-lie-down-and-die/
• He brings up Weston A. Price - has he been mentioned every episode?
• The power of an ancestral diet is undeniable - changes unfolded in real time on film as people got off their diabetes medication and got healthier
• The trial of Professor Tim Noakes (listen to Prof. Noakes in episode 3) was going on at the same time so they decided to film that as well
• Dr. Gary Fettke has also been silenced by the dieticians in Australia. He’s an orthopedic surgeon who cuts off limbs due to diabetes yet he was silenced for telling patients to avoid sugar
• Had great stories from Nina Teicholz, Joel Salatin, and Lierre Keith (all friends of Food Lies film/this podcast)
• Original cut of Magic Pill was more controversial and inflammatory but Pete wasn’t comfortable with that
• The president o