Category: Quirky Cooking Chats

This week Jo and Fouad are in Sydney, working on their new cookbook – cooking, photoshooting, meeting with designers, and working on putting together the best wholefoods cookbook ever! Listen in as they share their ideas, introduce the cookbook team, and talk about what is coming up and how you can get involved. Also, don’t… Continue reading AQJ 54: Mid Year Wrap Up

What is Pyroluria? with Jules Galloway ND A couple of months ago, Jo and her kids were tested for Pyroluria (Pyrolles Disorder), and found their levels were quite high. Pyroluria (pyrrole disorder, kryptopyrrole, kryptopyrroluria, pyrroluria, mauve factor or hemepyrrole) is a common metabolic condition that occurs when pyrrol, a key component of haemoglobin, is overproduced by… Continue reading AQJ 53: Pyroluria with Jules Galloway ND

Following on from their last podcast, Jo and Fouad continue the theme of naturally healing from depression. In this episode, they interview Melissa Stainwald, of The Keep in Mind Project, who tells her story of recovery from severe depression and psychosis. As Jo says in the introduction to the interview, Melissa’s story is awful, amazing, wonderful,… Continue reading AQJ 52 : The Keep in Mind Project, Melissa Stainwald

This week Jo chats to a very special guest, Dr Kelly Brogan from New York, who has a masters in neuroscience and is a board certified psychiatrist. Dr Kelly calls herself a ‘holistic psychiatrist’ and is quite unlike any psychiatrist you’ve probably have ever heard of. She doesn’t believe in prescribing anti-depressants, and instead works… Continue reading AQJ 51: Healing the Mind without Medications – Dr Kelly Brogan

This week, Jo and Fouad talk to Leslie Embersits, who is the founding director of the MINDD Foundation. MINDD helps practitioners and patients discover and implement effective treatments for Metabolic, Immunologic, Neurologic, Digestive, and Developmental conditions. Each year in May, the foundation brings amazing speakers to Sydney for the MINDD Forum, so that parents and practitioners can learn more about how they… Continue reading AQJ 50 : The Mindd Foundation, Leslie Embersits

On his recent trip to Far North Queensland, Fouad had a chance to hang out with Jo’s family. In this episode, Fouad sits down for a chat with Isaac, Jo’s 14 year old son (who is even MORE quirky than Jo), and discusses how GAPS helped Isaac with his anxiety and what the last year… Continue reading AQJ 49 : A Quirky Recap with Isaac Whitton

It’s time for a bit of a catch up!   Fouad has spent the past week with Jo’s family in Far North Queensland, to begin their next project, and to get a bit of an insight into Jo’s crazy life! Join Jo and Fouad for a friendly chat at Jo’s kitchen table, and hear all… Continue reading AQJ 48 : A Quirky Catch Up – with Jo and Fouad

When Jo’s blog, Quirky Cooking, turned 7 years old at the end of 2015, Jo had a special giveaway to celebrate! The winner would receive a recipe designed just for them, to be shared on the blog. And since everyone has a story, Jo and Fouad decided to also interview the winner on the podcast,… Continue reading AQJ 46 : Melissa Furmedge, Recipe Development for Special Diets

Jo and Fouad interview Dr Igor Tabrizian, author of the book “Inflammation: The disease we all have”. In this fascinating conversation, Dr Tabrizian discusses a wide array of topics that are central to the chronic illnesses we now face in the modern world. From environmental toxins, diet and lifestyle, to the kind of tests you… Continue reading AQJ 45 : Inflammation and Chronic Illness, Igor Tabrizian