Ancestral Elements Podcast: Recent Episodes
Travis Krick
The Ancestral Elements Podcast looks at human nutrition, health, and the body through elements of nature. I'm your host Travis Krick, I have a passion for exploring what it means to lead a lifestyle that connects us back into the basic elements of nature. The past decade, I've been a bodyworker and taught advanced bodyworking and massage classes to massage therapists. I Went on to receive a B.S. degree in nutrition, from CWU, and its lead me to help thousands of people reconnect to not only themselves, but with the natural world around them. Ancestral Elements- Ancestral Health for a Modern World.
Episode 60 looks at the industry surrounding metabolism. Learn what the industry is launching into next in the form of postbiotics (metabolites) and if you "need" them.
Show Notes: https://ancestralelements.com/show-notes-episode-60/
Episode 59 of the Ancestral Elements Podcast looks at how foods are classified as "healthy". Learn the difference between what is considered to be healthy and what actually is healthy.
Show Notes:https://ancestralelements.com/show-notes-episode-59/
Episode 58 navigates the waters of the plant kingdom and the domestication process. Learn how to incorporate more wild plants into your diet and increase your medicinal value in your diet.
Show Notes:https://ancestralelements.com/show-notes-episode-58/
Episode 57 of the Ancestral Elements Podcast rings in the Lunar New Year with topics surrounding change. Learn the when, what, and why you might want to create a nutritional shift. https://ancestralelements.com/episode-57-show-notes/
Episode 56 of the Ancestral Elements Podcast takes a hard look at the costs of the high degree of human inputs in our food system.
Show Notes: https://ancestralelements.com/excessive-human-inputs-and-the-hidden-costs-in-food/
Episode 55 of the Ancestral Elements Podcast looks at the new fad diets of 2022. See what is being pushed by industry and how it stacks up against overall nutrition and health.
Episode 54 of the Ancestral Elements Podcast cover the topic of diversity. This isn't your "eat the rainbow" diversity, this is actually species diversity. If you want to take control of your eating and increase your nutrition status by eating actual distinct species within each season, this is how you do that.
Show Notes:https://ancestralelements.com/episode-54-show-notes/
Episode 53 of the Ancestral Elements Podcast explores ideas around dietary practices and how some were never based on the foundations of health. Learn how a dogmatic approach to diet can often lead to eating only for yourself and your ego.
Show Notes:https://ancestralelements.com/show-notes-episode-53/
Episode 52 of the Ancestral Elements Podcast looks back at the last year about some of the topics that are covered. Redefine your idea of what food and nutrition are.
Show Notes:https://ancestralelements.com/show-notes-episode-52/
Episode 51 of the Ancestral Elements Podcast looks at the practice of Entomophagy or eating insects. Learn how this practice has shaped our humanity and is poised for a big future in the current food system.
Show Notes: https://ancestralelements.com/episode-51-show-notes/
Episode 50 of the Ancestral Elements Podcast dives deep into the under water world of the protist kingdom. Learn how seaweed and algae has shaped our nutrition and fed our bodies and minds.
Show Notes: https://ancestralelements.com/episode-50-show-notes/
Episode 49 of the Ancestral Elements Podcast goes through the turbulent history of salt. Learn how it shaped our current way of life and how salt has once again been thrust into the spotlight, and has been blamed for hypertension when there is way more to the story.
Show Notes: https://ancestralelements.com/episode-49-show-notes/
Episode 48 of the Ancestral Elements Podcast looks at the recent onion recall and the inner workings of foodborne illness as it relates to global food distribution.
Show Notes: https://ancestralelements.com/episode-48-show-notes/
Episode 47 of the Ancestral Elements Podcast dives into the nutritional enigma of fiber. Is it all hype surrounding fiber or is it a biological necessity?
https://ancestralelements.com/episode-47-show-notes/
Episode 46 of the Ancestral Elements Podcast covers chaga mushrooms many beneficial properties surrounding antioxidant values, viral loads, and potential uses for the future.
Show Notes: https://ancestralelements.com/show-notes-episode-46/
Episode 45 of the Ancestral Elements Podcast gets elbows deep into the practice of geophagy. Is it merely an eating disorder of pica, or a ancestral practice to be utilized?
Show Notes: https://ancestralelements.com/episode-45-show-notes/
This week on the Ancestral Elements Podcast, we cast a wide net on the nutritional aspects of seafood. Learn how to mitigate potential harmful effects such as mercury or other heavy metals, and why we need more seafood in our diets. Show Notes: https://ancestralelements.com/episode-44-show-notes/
Episode 43 of the Ancestral Elements Podcast center around the fermentation of apples. Learn how cider can increase your microbiome diversity this fall season. Show Notes: https://ancestralelements.com/show-notes-episode-43/
Episode 42 of the Ancestral Elements Podcast centers around recent research on the microbiome. We often end up battling our own microbiome through medications we take, our diet, and the water we drink. Learn how to develop strategies to end the battle. https://ancestralelements.com/show-notes-episode-42/
Episode 41 of the Ancestral Elements Podcast looks at the history of food science. From modern technology to market forces food has become big business. https://ancestralelements.com/show-notes-episode-41/
Episode 40 of the Ancestral Elements Podcast goes deep into the powerhouse nutrient that is honey. Looking from an ancestral lens learn how honey shaped and made modern humans who we are. The medicinal benefits of honey are potentially endless with very few if any negative effects. Everything from diabetes to cardio vasculature disease can be improved with honey. Show Notes: https://ancestralelements.com/episode-40-show-notes/
Episode 39 of the Ancestral Elements Podcast looks at the most misunderstood organ in the human body the appendix. Learn why the appendix should be saved and why it has a critical function within your body.
https://ancestralelements.com/episode-39-show-notes/
Episode 38 of the Ancestral Elements Podcast looks at food storage techniques in cooking, canning, and fermentation. Learn how a simple fermentation can transform your food into a nutritional powerhouse of probiotic bacteria and nutrients like Vitamin C. Get insight into the dairy industry and how technology and eugenics transformed it through the years.
Show Notes: https://ancestralelements.com/episode-38-show-notes/
Episode 37 of the Ancestral Elements Podcast explores the complex system of lymph. The Lymphatic System goes way beyond waste removal and immunity. Learn how it integrates into your epigenome and transports your lipid stores.
https://ancestralelements.com/show-notes-episode-37/
Episode 36 of the Ancestral Elements Podcast breaks down the concept of Jing in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Learn how to use a balanced diet and lifestyle to supply the kidneys and other organs with adequate stable energy. Show Notes: https://ancestralelements.com/episode-36-show-notes/
Episode 35 of the Ancestral Elements Podcast dives deep into the gut-liver axis. Learn how the microbiota and the liver work together and with other systems to balance and maintain function of the microbiome and the liver. There are many foods that help support the liver but understanding how they interact with the microbiota is another story. Show Notes: https://ancestralelements.com/show-notes-ep-35/
Episode 34 of the Ancestral Elements Podcast centers around a 5 kingdom approach to nutrition. By eating from all 5 kingdoms of life you increase the species diversity that provides longevity and adequate nutrients to the maintain homeostasis. Learn about why I created this approach to begin with and how it can help not only you but possibly 300 years down the line.
Episode 33 of the Ancestral Elements Podcast centers around the controversial macronutrient of fat. Learn why fat has been the poster child for many different chronic lifestyle diseases, and what the current narrative around fat is.
Show Notes: https://ancestralelements.com/show-notes-episode-33/
Episode 32 of The Ancestral Elements Podcast turns its focus to carbs. Take a look at what is good, not so good, and just plain ugly about this macronutrient we hate that we love. Learn how and when to utilize them and what they do inside your body. Show Notes: https://ancestralelements.com/show-notes-episode-32/
Episode 31 of the Ancestral Elements Podcast looks at the essential macronutrient of protein. Learn what your body uses protein for, how much you need, and the type you need to stay in balance and healthy.
Show Notes: https://ancestralelements.com/show-notes-episode-31/
Episode 30 of the Ancestral Elements Podcast connects two concepts together, environmental hormesis and nutritional genomics. This prepares your body to receive adequate nutrition. Learn how these two concepts integrate your nutrition and genes with the environment and other species genes.
Show Notes: https://ancestralelements.com/show-notes-episode-30/
Episode 29 of the Ancestral Elements Podcast covers the skeleton. Learn how the skeleton is way more than just the system that provides structure to your body. It is an endocrine organ, and provides your immunity.
Episode Show Notes: https://ancestralelements.com/show-notes-episode-29/
Episode 28 of the Ancestral Elements Podcast discusses the fascial system. This system of the body must be contended with at every level of movement. discover new insights and myth busting truths about what this system really is and what it does.
Show Notes: https://ancestralelements.com/show-notes-episode-28/
Episode 27 of the Ancestral Elements Podcast takes a look at the supplement industry. Is there a difference in supplements? Do you need to take them? What does the FDA have to do with it?
Show Notes: https://ancestralelements.com/show-notes-episode-27/
Episode 26 of the Ancestral Elements Podcast covers topics on craving and indulgence surrounding food and nutrition. Learn why food cravings arise and when its ok to indulge those cravings. Yes it is ok (sometimes).
Show notes: https://ancestralelements.com/show-notes-episode-26/
Episode 25 of the Ancestral Elements Podcast looks at what it means for 43% of adults to be obese. How can things start to change and do we want them to?
Episode Show Notes: https://ancestralelements.com/show-notes-episode-25/
Episode 24 of the Ancestral Elements Podcast dives into the steps that are necessary to prepare your body nutritionally before, during, and post pregnancy not just for women but for men as well. Learn lifestyle and nutrition tools to help ensure you are doing everything you can for good health outcomes. Episode Show Notes: https://ancestralelements.com/episode-24-show-notes/
Episode 23 of the Ancestral Elements Podcast discusses topics on aging and how nutrition can either be a benefit to this complex biological interaction or a detriment.
Episode 22 of the Ancestral Elements Podcast, looks at the history of medicine. Take a dive into why systems of medicine are in place, where did they originate from? Was Hippocrates really the "founding" father of modern medicine? Why are so many people reliant on the modern medical system?
Episode 21 of the Ancestral Elements Podcast asks a single question; What is food? Take a deep look at what is at the heart of this simple question. See how nutrition relates to this and in a broader sense the entire planet. Show Notes: https://ancestralelements.com/show-notes-episode-21/
Episode 20 of the Ancestral Elements Podcast looks at the Traditional Chinese Medicine concept of Shen. Learn how to cultivate Shen (spirit) through nutritional practices, how it relates to the microbiome, and how it effects metabolic health. Show Notes: https://ancestralelements.com/episode-20-show-notes/
Episode 19 of the Ancestral Elements Podcast explores ideas around building the blood with nutrients. Specifically, how metabolites end up being synthesized into active forms of vitamins, minerals, and neurotransmitters.
Episode 18 of the Ancestral Elements Podcast looks at community nutrition. What is community nutrition? Does it work? What programs are out there? Can we integrate an ancestral approach to community nutrition? show notes: https://ancestralelements.com/episode-18-show-notes/
Episode 17 of the Ancestral Elements Podcast, looks at how to care for your body's innate immune system. Learn basic foods, and principles, that will keep your defenses up against pathogenic compounds. Keep yourself antifragile and adaptable into the future.
Show Notes: https://ancestralelements.com/episode-17-show-notes/
Episode 16 of the Ancestral Elements Podcast asks the question, what is food? Take a look at the central ideas that revolve around ideas of nutrition and diet. How do you view food? What does food mean to you? Hear how you can begin to change your behavior around food.
Show Notes: https://ancestralelements.com/episode-16-show-notes/
Episode 15 "Male Fertility Motility Matters". Focuses on enhancing male fertility through nutrition, lifestyle, and managing stress. 50% of all infertility cases worldwide are male driven. This shines the light on what could be driving this rapid decline of sexual health in males.
Link to show notes: https://ancestralelements.com/episode-15-show-notes/
PCOS episode 14 with Katie Walczak takes a look at what its like to live with PCOS. Hear Katie's journey from the initial symptoms to the diagnosis to learning how to manage this complex syndrome that effects 1 in 8 women's reproductive health today.
Episode show notes: https://ancestralelements.com/episode-14-show-notes/
Ancestral Elements Podcast ep. 13 goes through the process of cellular redox and mitochondrial health. These factors are either driving health or unhealth in your body. Learn actionable steps to increase your redox pathways and overall health.
Link to show notes: https://ancestralelements.com/show-notes-ep-13/
Ancestral Elements Podcast Ep. 12 explores nutrigenetics and mitochondria health. Learn how to get the most out of your cells by increasing your cellular energy output. This directly relates to your epigenome landscape, from how nutrients breakdown to how they are assembled. Link to episode show notes here: https://ancestralelements.com/show-notes-ep-12/
Episode 11 of the Ancestral Elements Podcast looks a methylation and how it relates to specific nutrients that you are building your body with. Take a deep dive into this process of methylation and how it changes your epigenome.
Ancestral Elements Podcast Ep. 10 Takes a look inside your genome, learn how the food and nutrition you're taking in directly controls what your genes do and ultimately who you are.
Episode 8 of the Ancestral Elements Podcast takes a look at the popular diets of keto and paleo. Learn about the benefits of both, as well as the potential drawbacks.
Episode 7 of the Ancestral Elements Podcast looks at the world of fad diets. Why they are not biologically sustainable, and why people don't tend to stick to them.
The Element of Earth is at the center of the other 4 elements. Follow along as we walk through the history of the earth. From the Neolithic Revolution and into present day. You will hear my own life story, and I hope you can take some lessons and apply them to your own life.
Learn how to keep everything from your thyroid to your bones healthy and in balance from this element of metal.
Lets split apart this element of wood, and get to the heart of it. On Episode 4 of Ancestral Elements we talk about the versatile elements of wood.
Take a deep breath because we're talking about the element of air. How it moves in the environment, what it does to our physiology and how we can better understand this fundamental element.
A look into water as a nutrient, and how it was viewed in the past and how its viewed today.