Hannah McElhinney
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388 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 17 Jun
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Some of them like osteopathy, like acupuncture, I found tremendously helpful.
I was also looking at some supplements that –
you bought by subscription from the internet that were very hard to unsubscribe from.
They were very expensive and they didn't do much.
I followed diets.
So just the FODMAP diet, which is pretty common now, but it led to an over fixation on food for me.
And so that led to really disordered eating, something they now call orthorexia.
So it's more about
fixation on the quality of food rather than the quantity and I really had that I was sort of so fearful of eating anything that might increase my gut symptoms that I mainly ate rice cakes and I
The irony of all of that is that fixation and the anxiety around food and these treatments and these supplement regimens and things like that actually were causing a lot of gut problems for me when I went overseas and couldn't have all of these strict routines.
Of course, I was so anxious, but once I...
just had to eat what was available and live and travel and all of those things, I realised that not only were the supplements and the regimes not doing anything at all, I was actually feeling better off them eating evil gluten or whatever it is because I was not fixating so much on food.
And so that was really...
where I started to kind of question some of the things that I was doing in the alternative space.
And then later I got dengue fever travelling.
I always pick something up when I'm overseas, souvenir.
Oh, my God.
Yeah, so I got this mosquito-borne virus.
I was in Vietnam.
Vietnam, wow.
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