Can We Use Food As Medicine? | Ally Jafee 

I’ve just been diagnosed with fibromyalgia at 27, and I know diet is a huge component to treating it and I. Honestly just so overwhelmed with what I should or shouldn’t be doing. I’d kill for a doctor to just sit me down and help me make a plan as opposed to reading millions of articles with conflicting information. What you’re doing is so important!

What Ally was saying about patient food in hospital is SO TRUE! A previous partner of mine had a fall as a result of a blackout caused by undiagnosed diabetes along with an undiagnosed heart condition, and injured his jaw to the point where he couldn't open his mouth properly. Every day I visited him, we sat together while he chose his food for the next day, trying to pick the food option that would be the easiest for him to eat. So often, the only option he could eat was the starter soup, and even then, half the time they delivered him the wrong food, so he was living off smoothies I was bringing in from outside. I would speak to the nurses on his behalf, as he was unable to do so, and the staff were not able to offer him any support with food, and I was often met with a simple shrug. How many people with jaw and mouth related issues must be starving in hospitals, the place where you go to fix that problem? How many people with allergies are starving or having severe allergic reactions from being taken the wrong food, in the place that's supposed to be making them well?

Id love to see a group interview of the food team and then the production team for sorted. Id just love to learn more about them and this would be a great setting.

I had an unopened jar of nutella confiscated off me at Edinburgh airport going to London (only had carry on luggage). It was pancake Tuesday and i bought it for my cousin. I was very confused, but the lady explained to me that if it has ml for millilitres it is a liquid. If it has g for grams it is a solid. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I'm still annoyed about it. I told her, fine. She can eat it, but she said she had to throw it away and personally, i think throwing away chocolate is a crime! 😅 Yet...i could travel with an apple. I'm Australian and travelling with fruit here is confiscated 😂😂😂 The world is weird (and wonderful)

Don’t forget on a most Mediterranean diets use a mixture of pulses and beans to bulk out the protein to make meal last for more than one day. I was worried she was suggesting self help only but she does understand peoples health and social situations too which is definitely a new approach good luck in all brilliant work Ally is doing

"we are not caring for those who are caring for others." Such a powerful statement.

When Mike drew comparison between their Dr. Friend and their RU-vid channel, i do want to say that on my saddest days, Sorted Food has been a companion and a real help. It might not be Bladder surgery, but Sorted food has helped heal my broken heart ❤️

The choice of guests is excellent, such insightful conversations! It’s wonderful to virtually meet this range of people who have such diverse perspectives on food, their own experience with food and how truly we are all connected by our food experiences. When you launched this series, I was thrilled but I’d assumed and expected that all the guests would be directly from the food/ hospitality industry or food influencers. But right off the bat, you guys have brought on such unexpected guests. Well done, Sorted Team for always delivering something unexpected but definitely educational! ❤❤❤

Everything she is saying is so true! Our healthcare workers deserve so much better. Same with teachers, at least here in the US. The people who are in positions that take care of others should really be taken care of better by their employers.

I grew up wanting to be a doctor but realized it wasn’t going to happen because I had small children, I went into forensic toxicology and had a wonderful career!

What an inspirational young lady, fascinating interview. I worked in the NHS for years and there was a culture of staff feeling guilty if we actually had a meal 'break' rather than eating on the go. By definition that was not nutritionally balanced.

Love this, but is it jsit me, or os something weird with the audio from when rhe guest comes in?

Just an FYI for those who don't know how to use a garbage disposal it is meant for soft food. Not gristle or bones or potato skins. And it is perfectly safe to put your hand in as long as you are well away from the on switch.

Gonna go for a bit of a story here, I hope you guys read it 😅 I’ve been out for a few drinks and my wife and kid are in bed…. I sit down to enjoy my pissed up kebab with a bit of sorted food as I drunkenly demolish what I have invested in. Suddenly I am met with conversations of garbage disposals… I look down at my by this point massacred kebab and say to myself (perfectly out loud) “fuck me I think I’m eating what they’re talking about”. I have 10 seconds of reflection before thinking… bollocks to it, in for a penny in for a pound and continuing to enjoy my absolute belter of a kebab. Much love to you lads! Keep doing you… give me a shout if there’s ever a space for one of Kush’s lunches, I’ll be there in a heartbeat and I’ll give you all a lesson in west country cider. All then best from a 10yr+ watcher ❤️

I also glad to hear Ally mentioned about clean diets too

An excellent and thought-provoking conversation.

Fantastic episode with a lot of great insight. Can't understand the like/dislike ratio on these videos being so off! I will say though there are some audio issues with this specific episode, after the intro the audio sounds compressed or something.

I think it's a beautiful idea!❤🇺🇲🇬🇧

1:48 Mike pulled off an Alison Hammond with ‘Genoa’. Jokes apart, sounds like a great vacation.

I was trying to bring pistachio spread back from Marseille. The airport security in Marseille threw out away because apparently that was a liquid. 😢

Liquids include pesto, mayo, peanut butter, mustard and must go into liquids 2oz bags to go through TSA. I found if you make a sandwich use the mayo and mustard in the sandwich it will go through. Also peanut butter and jelly sandwich is OK. Not to individual little containers which must go in the 2 ounce bags

Ebbers: Left, right, up down Me: Are you playing Sonic 1/2 in an alternate universe?

"Changing the way we eat" - Meanwhile Jamie - deep frying a buritto

Great podcast!

Fascinating guest! Loving the podcasts guys, makes great dinner company living by myself 😊

Mike used a wine bottle as a pasta roller during lockdown. 1000 layer lasagna. I guess it’s a thing.

I was in hospital recently for surgery. The food is better than it used to be. But it is not great and the portions are tiny.

To the ice cubes point, yes, you can take them through airport security, technically. Loads of videos online on this point too btw

Doctors learning about Nutrition - In Canada, all healthcare workers - from doctors down to lowly health-care aides (and even para-medical people like massage therapists) have to have a basic education in nutrition and have had to do so for the last 20 years or so - it is not enough to give nutritional advice (extra training is needed for that), but is enough to give some basic pointers or talk intelligently about nutrition. I teach the nutrition class in a massage school - the students get 20 hours of nutrition, which is far more than what a lot of doctors did in the past before this was implemented. I feel that it is essential for doctors to understand about nutrition if they are going to be advising their patients. I have a PhD in nutrition, and several nutritional "needs" (food-allergies and am celiac), and some of the advice that my doctor has given me about nutrition was laughable!

If you have coeliac disease (consuming anything with gluten triggers your autoimmune system to attack you) and you have to go into hospital, you are not guaranteed to get gluten free food options. How insane is that, a medical condition that requires you to eat a specific diet because if yiu eat it it will literally make you unwell can't be catered for in some NHS hospitals.

Between all my health issues I can't have sorbitol (e420) cacoa, soy, dairy, red meat, egg. Also have to be low carb, low sugar, very low fibre, extremely low/no fat, have to eat small frequent meals. I can not get a nutritionist or dietician to help, I'm libink on chicken turkey and tiny amounts of sourdough, potato rice some limited overcooked mixed veg. I've lost 60lbs but I'm starting to fade with nutrients.

Lying by omission with recipes is honestly such a power move 🔥

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Dr. Xand in the future😊

We have top deck in australia

At first I was afraid that this was gonna be another of those fatphobia, just eat well, gaslight people out of their symptoms kinda talk, but I am glad I kept listening because she actually tells a more nuanced story and sticks up for those with chronic and often overlooked diagnosis, and this actually explains a bit why some doctors act in these awful ways, because there is a bigger issue of lack of education.

Under the Cloche is best podcast!

I think it is good

I appreciate your work I was about to click off this video until you brought up Jamie ❤️

Love this podcast guys! Always listen to it while cleaning and cooking your recipes!

502 likes with 481 dislikes YEESH

Would most of us be much better off on something like the Mediterranean Diet? Definitely. Is it the best diet? We don't know. There are other kinds of diets where people have lived long and healthy but these haven't got anything like the same research. (Dan Buettner's Blue Zones survey the regions with the highest proportions of people living to 100)

These guests are amazing guys! Very happy to learn from them! Suggestion: Bring Alex and rosanna next!❤❤❤❤

Excellent interview for a critical topic

May be an overshare, so I’m really sorry if it is! Firstly, thank you! These conversations are so important, thank you for having them. I’m a pastor at a church and I recognise I’ve never been good at looking after myself, and it sounds like that’s a big issue with health workers and hospitality workers. After going down with pneumonia nearly 3 years ago, I was left with chronic heart & lung conditions that have completely turned my life upside down. A frustrating part of what I experience with them is crashing after anything more than a couple of biscuits, and all the messaging is conflicting online about what’s best to avoid & eat. I’d love to be able to have a conversation with someone who is trustworthy and who understands some of what I experience as it’s so overwhelming. I feel like understanding what food is doing to my body will help me become more in control of my heart, pain and breathing, but where to start?! Especially when you have nothing in the tank to be researching and trying out foods etc… Thank you for this. These podcasts are brilliant! Please continue them! Love the longer form and the range of guests (and the bits with all of you together). Feels like I’m in the room with you, thank you.

She’s fabulous! Can we have more! Also I’d love Tim Spector next please x

The cold opens for the episodes. That’s it. That’s the comment. #ItWasWetterThanWeThought

There are Dietitians that entire career and profession is there to support doctors so they don’t have to add another thing to their list of things to do. Many doctors don’t refer out to dietitians and try to manage patients diets themselves which can lead to significant issues.

This was incredibly interesting!

You guys have brought on so many amazing guests please keep up the variety.

9hrs later, "the the..." in the title is still there, lol.

please fix the sound quality with the guests!!!!! i want to listen but it’s so bad that i can’t :(

I love her philosophy

he forgot to say turn it on?!

I enjoy the horror story! Sorry, but I laughed.

Hey, just a little question, could you maybe put your Podcast in a different Channel? It has little to do with your other videos or style how you make them and since it is broadcasted regularly it "floods" (yeah, its not that bad) my recommendations although i have no intend to ever view a single one of it. That would be nice!

I think healthy food, cooking and eating together are ingredients for treating the whole patient. Nourishing and treating the mind, body and soul even as preventative medicine. However as she said, don't forsake traditional medicine from your doctor as well. It helps not replaces

Oh great, microphones the correct way round for the intro, then back to horrible audio because they're the wrong way round for the actual interview. If you don't want to show the Røde logo just put tape over it like you did for the mic stands.

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Why no mention of dietitians?? You’re creating a solution for doctors that already exists in healthcare. It’s disheartening how overlooked the true nutrition experts are in the field of healthcare.

Please dont listen to the negative comments. I find the podcasts very interesting and learn a lot from them. Also, it shows a totally different side of you guys, and introduces me to people and professions I know very little or nothing about it at all. To the people writing negative comments: please dont forget that nobody forces you to watch to them, and that You Tube is free of charge. If you dont like thos interesting interviews, simply dont watch them.

As a South African, when she said " a braai is a bbq" my eye started to twitch lol

As a patient, id have to say, hospital food is apalling.

I'd LIKE to enjoy this podcast but someone in the process of setting up for the guest completely fumbled the microphones - it's rather distracting, and I'm not going to be able to hold my attention

439k views for the last regular video. 10k for this. Stop making these talking head videos, they're a waste of effort and detract from stuff people *actually* want to watch.

The podcasts need to have a separate channel.

1 view 53 seconds ago, they really fell off

You know what would really help this show? You should censor more comments. People love that!

Every podcast guest is just going to be white, aren't they?

i think its great that you are doing these interviews with interesting people, however you are getting 10 times less views on these vidoes that are taking up a spot for a regular video that is your audiences core interest, this is clearly a podcast and as such you really ought to make a seperate channel for these videos or at the least keep them off the regular schedule.

You really need a separate channel for the podcast.

Actually, in terms of high quality research, the ketogenic diet is the most studied. Much of the Mediterranean diet research is weak, observational/epidemiological stuff, that carefully 'managed' questions about animal products, overplays the role of 'whole grains" (wholegrain pasta and brown rice are RARE) and has actively ignores any understanding of who dioes not tthrive on it.

Weird. Just today I was dreaming of finding more and more moldy food in the fridge and having to throw it all away. It's always sad sight in real-life (which thankfully doesn't happen often), so now apparently my nightmares have picked that up.

sorry but 4 Guys sitting around drinking Beer and Bullshitting is really not my Cup of Tea.Your Cooking Show I like but that borders on watching Paint dry.

Interesting sheila but honestly shes so far up her own arse its painful. A little bit of devils advocate when interviewing a guest would be better

Buggered if I'm going to listen to someone blargh on for an hour.

If you're wondering why some of us are pushing the unsubscribe button it's because you're changing this channel into a podcast and I'm not interested

Don't enjoy these long form interviews. T'would be better if the guest was interviewed whilst participating in a Sorted Food kitchen cooking adventure.