Internationally acclaimed nutritionist Mary Ruddick

Mary Ruddick is an internationally acclaimed nutritionist based in Europe, Africa and Greece.
• She's Co-Founder of Systems that Heal,, an online educational program for regulating autoimmunity and chronic disease.
• Co-Founder of the Back to Joy Project, a GAPS diet inspired, online mental health boot camp, for regulating anxiety and
depression through limbic system retraining and nutritional rebuilding of the nervous system.
• Creator of wellness programs for Alliance Health Insurance.
• She’s the REIGNS Method founder.
• Instructor for Five Seasons Medical in Portola Valley, CA.
• Director of Nutrition, recipe creator, and educational YouTube vlog creator for Captain Soup.
• Certified GAPS Diet Practitioner and Instructor.
• Food historian and world-wide diet researcher.


1:35 Mary's major health scare: brain infection, damaged hypothalamus, kidney disease, liver disease bedbound and severely ill for 12 years. Pots certainomia

3:15 The emotional challenges from that level of pain and isolation
4:35 In 12years of being bedbound it was the isolation
6:10 had to heal her mind first. Until her mind stopped resisting she didn't have the bandwidth to have a physical healing
7:20 It was time to die and her family had come to see her for the last time. She was 40 pound thinner then and she is already thin now..
11:10 how humbling the disease was
11:40 the enlightened one runs toward the fire rather than away from it
13:42 Mary gets attacked by a lion
14:19 charged by hippos charged by rhinos
14:40 the cold Wim Hof
15:50 why the cold water is actually emotional
16:42 how getting in the cold water is not brave - it is selfish
19:10 Mary tried every supplement, method, diet, every health modality and 17 nutritional protocols...
21:20 how she came to the Russian soup protocol and what it is Dr. Natasha Campbell McBride GAPS Diet
21:46 The Russian doctors are decades ahead of us in the micro biome
21:57 eliminating starches and particular types of sugars that feed bacterial overgrowth in the microbiome
22:05 rebuilding 70% of the nervous system
24:30 does gaps get it done for everyone? Regardless of genetics? Regardless of their particular micro biome?
25:20 Merry teaches 41 different protocols
27:30 my difficulties in keto adapting..
28:31 we are mostly little buggies we're only 10% human! These bugs, our Microbiome, control our cravings, fungus totally taking over ants bodies, we have microbes that can control the way react, there's bugs that can give us schizophrenia, there's bugs that can make us violent, or not violent and also ones that tell us what to eat or not to eat, they want to have babies and they are a part of us.
30:00 what was Mary's fundamental pivot point from having to either except her death or saying "nu-uh"
32:20 ability to relax during the worst agony
33:05 she had plenty of time to work with 12 years being bedridden...she went into great detail visualizing her funeral
38:05 The critical importance of being able to not need any thing..
40:30 keto adapting when you're metabolically damaged
42:05 you CAN gain weight on ketosis it all has to do with absorption
44:53 if you add a teaspoon of fat every day then after a while you can keto adapt without the bile issues
46:13 get on vegetables or get off vegetables!?
49:08 it's not the diversity that gives us the health. it's what bacteria is there
52:20 why is the "blue zone" argument not valid
55:25Ketosis protocol effective across the board with heart disease, cancer, diabetes and dementia
1:01:35 you want your cholesterol to be high. For example, your diabetes will not cure unless your cholesterol is high. If your cholesterol is low your diabetes will always get worse..
1:02:28 what you don't want to be high is your triglycerides
1:03:32 there are two types of inflammation: chronic and emergent you want emergent - that's the immune system taking care of the infection. You don't want chronic - all disease is associated with chronic inflammation..
1”04”05 when you have high triglycerides and high cholesterol, the cholesterol is there trying to lower triglycerides but not able to do it..
1:06:06 what does Mary eat on an average day
Captainssoup.com
Enableyourhealing.com
Backtojoyprogram.com
Dysautonomia
1:18:05 captain soup
1:31:54 if carbs are missing up my kidneys and giving me fatty liver disease why do they feel so good when I eat them
1:36:50 Mary reduced her stage four kidney disease through ketosis