Healing Myself with Holistic Nutrition — Ryan Carter (Live Vitae)

What do you do when your health falls apart and every diet guru sends you down another rabbit hole? I sat down with health and nutrition coach Ryan Carter, known online as Live Vitae, who once dropped to 55 kilos from too much cardio and too little food.

Ryan tells me how mould in his dad's antique shop wore him down, why he trained as a nutritional therapist but chose not to become a gut guru, and how lockdown let him swap the Harley Street clinic he'd planned for Zoom calls from Nicaragua. We get into why he ranks sunlight and your body clock above any diet, his perfect day built around sunrise and sunset, what the blue zones have in common, and why he treats raw milk as a side dish.

I also share how a 10-day Vipassana silent retreat changed the way I feel people and places.