242: Laura Kelly on Healthy Bones through Whole Foods

242: Laura Kelly on Healthy Bones through Whole Foods.

Combating nutritional deficiencies and fighting off diseases through whole and natural foods.

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Dr. Laura practices medicine based on principles of nature, using nutrients and natural medicines. This approach to primary care combines functional medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, and tools of Western medicine to build a complete picture of the body – and a plan for how to guide and assist in its return to health.

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She consults with patients in multiple countries and is based in Topanga, California. Her first book is The Healthy Bones Nutrition Plan and Cookbook, Published by Chelsea Green which she co-wrote with her mother Helen Bryman Kelly.

In This Podcast:

Sometimes it is fighting for the health of a family member that prompts an understanding which in turn helps many other people. In this conversation, Dr. Laura Kelly explains why she turned her attention to bone health, and what she found when looking for underlying causes to bone density loss. Then as she was not content to just helping others understand bone health, she determined to help people take action to help themselves.

Listen in and learn about:

Her training as an artist and deciding to find a new focus
Her interest in medicine and why she went with a Taoist approach rather than western medicine
How her studies are not just about the body but also, the system we live in
What osteoporosis is and how it affects women
How the body reacts to daily wear and tear and what it needs
Why she feels “natural food” needs to be re-claimed and better understood
How milk is ready to be processed naturally by the body
How some food products are chemically changed and damaging molecules are created
How co-factors and enzymes are only part of the digestion process
What part bacteria plays in the process and why that is important
Why the ratio of bacteria density that is being determined to affect body health
Bone health and why it was such an important subject to her
Proper nutrition for bones and proper nutrition for the whole body
How she zeroed in on nutrition as a solution for bone loss
The flexibility factor that she is focusing on now – a factor that is commonly ignored in diagnoses
The way to absorb calcium, and building a collagen scaffold
What she learned from a fracture map
How more than 50% of Americans have a chronic condition and how most of these conditions are dietary deficiencies
Helping her patients understand the process to prevention and in some cases cure diseases from these deficiencies
The first half of her book is basic lay-science to help with understanding bone health and processes
The second half of the book offers useful recipes to act on the knowledge from the first part
The bone vinegar that she considers her favorite recipe
What a “shrub” drink is and how that is beneficial

As well as:

Her failure – failing to grow cilantro and not knowing why; learning to accept failures as a doctor
Her success – every patient, every time a patient that comes in to say thank you
Her drive – her ability to help people, and translate information in a way to help people understand, and a feeling of responsibility to do that
Her advice – Even if you are eating 100% organic, many people are deficient – so she encourages people to take a nutrition evaluation to determine their own levels; then learn about your nutritional genetics and how you process nutrients