Courtney Swan
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard 4 Feb
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The things that I'm putting in my body, the food that I'm eating is quite literally building my cells. And it's going to either determine whether I have good energy and I'm going to be at a healthy weight and I'm not going to be inflamed all the time or it's going to drive all of that.
And it's so funny looking back to that now thinking how much of a light bulb moment that was for me. But it really lit a fire under my ass because I quite to be quite frank, I was pretty mad that I had not learned that sooner because I was probably 20 at that point. And you were in college. And I was thinking, why aren't we teaching small children this? Why doesn't every human know this?
And I was also thinking, too, looking at all my parents' friends and older generations, and a lot of them still hadn't figured it out. And I was so flabbergasted, for lack of a better word, because I was like, this is so simple, right? It's so simple. The things that we're eating and we're putting in our bodies are either fighting disease or fueling it, you know?
And so that really ignited a passion in me. And then I just could not get enough information. I found Michael Pollan back then when he was writing about food. I found Dr. Mark Hyman. I think I read one of his very first books. Love him. And he introduced me to this world of functional and integrative medicine, which is root cause, disease protocol.
Um, where you're looking at the root cause and you're looking for the root cause and trying to mitigate symptoms with diet and lifestyle changes. So that really affected me a lot. I was in school or sorry, I was actually touring at the time. Um, I finally decided on the music industry. Exactly. So I was with the music industry.
Um, I decided to quit that and I went back and I got my master's of science in nutrition and integrative health. Wow. And then actually during that time, I got pulled back on the road and I ended up being a nutritionist for four years for a pop star. Really? Yeah, which was pretty amazing.
And it was very cool because it was, you know, I got to kind of blend both of my favorite worlds, which was nutrition and then being on tour and getting to work for musicians, which was so much fun. But I did hit a point where, um, you know, we kind of talked about this on my podcast that it was really starting to, to really like tax my body.
Like I just was feeling the effects of not getting enough sleep and you know, it is harder to eat healthy. And so I finally in 2019 decided to no longer tour anymore. And I had been building real foodology on the side. And at the time it really was more just of a hobby. I really had no plan. I had no like goals or plans of turning this into anything.
other than it started with a passion where I felt like this was information that people largely didn't know. And I was seeing so many people suffer. And like you just said a minute ago, I wanna see people thrive. And so I started Real Foodology as a blog and I was just kind of Instagramming my touring life. And then in 2019, I was like, you know what? I'm gonna pursue this full time.
Started my podcast in 2020.
Yeah, and then it just kind of has exploded from there.
Pizza, pasta.
So that is one of the biggest myths in all of this, in the nutrition, wellness, and medical system that really drives me nuts is that people just think, oh, this is just what happens. You start aging, and then you don't feel that well, and your energy plummets, and then you maybe have to go on a couple of medications, and maybe you get diabetes. Oh, that's just aging. I hear that all the time.
It's just, oh, well, it's just part of being human. That does not have to be your experience.
60%.
That's more than half of our diet.
So that would be processing. Yeah. So there's a lot of discrepancy between like processing versus ultra-processed because I see some of these like RDs or dissenting voices out there that are saying, oh, well – Apple sauce is processed. Bread is processed. So that is absolutely true.
But there is a huge difference between eating applesauce that maybe is just made with apple and maybe that a little bit of sugar and some water versus if you were going to go to McDonald's and get an apple pie. So the difference between ultra processed and just something simply processing that we've been doing since the dawn of time is.
With ultra processed foods, you're adding a ton of additives and preservatives and fillers in there. And that food no longer resembles what that natural state of food once was. I often tell people if your grandparents were to time travel or maybe like your great grandparents, like someone who's no longer alive.
If they were to time travel and you just drop them into 2025 and you took them to the grocery store and you showed them all these food products that we're eating.
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