16: Kanchan Koya's Spicy Secret to Inspired Health
The Primal Kitchen Podcast
Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti
4.4 • 717 Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
This week, Morgan talks with Harvard Ph.D. turned food blogger & renowned spice queen Kanchan Koya. Growing up in India, her grandmother's ancient spice remedies seemed impossible, so she decided to study science and get to the bottom of health...only to return to her roots, touting the benefits of spices! After discovering that science could back up the medicinal properties of her favorite family spices, Koya dedicated her life to educating others on social media with simple, delicious recipes that incorporated these healing ingredients. Listen in as Morgan & Kanchan talk about infancy pallet development, spice benefits, blood sugar, social media & food fasting.
Follow Kanchan on Instagram, @chiefspicemama, & check out her own Podcast, Radical Vitality!
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| 0:00.0 | I had to guess this exotic meat that happened to be alligator. |
| 0:03.8 | Oh my gosh. |
| 0:04.4 | And you guessed it right? |
| 0:08.3 | Hey, everyone. |
| 0:09.4 | I'm Morgan, co-founder of Primal Kitchen and host of the Primal Kitchen podcast. |
| 0:13.3 | Today I'm excited to be sitting down with PhD-turned food blog sensation, Conchen Koya. |
| 0:19.2 | Conchen combines her doctorate in molecular biology from Harvard |
| 0:22.4 | Medical School and her training from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition to elevate the health |
| 0:26.7 | of families with science and flavor through an unlikely health hero, Spices. She believes that |
| 0:32.9 | spices are much more than a viral trend. Recent studies show spices might also contain powerful health-boasting properties. |
| 0:39.3 | Before we get into it, a brief reminder that any and all opinions and views shared by hosts and guests on this podcast are the speaker's own. |
| 0:45.4 | Do not represent the view of Primal Kitchen or its affiliates or parent company. |
| 0:49.6 | Hello. |
| 0:51.1 | Hi, Morgan. |
| 0:52.3 | It's so great to be here. |
| 0:53.7 | Thanks so much for that kind introduction. Oh, yeah. I know. It's so great to have you. Thanks for joining us. We are super pumped to chat with you. I know you use our products with your kids. So I'm thankful just to have a fan on the line. So let's just start with your story. How did you get here to this wonderful world of spices? |
| 1:14.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:15.1 | So, you know, my relationship with spices goes back literally to probably the day I was born because I was born in India. |
| 1:23.5 | And in India, as many people might know, spices are kind of an integral part of every Indian family's |
| 1:30.3 | kitchen, but also their pharmacy, F-A-R-M pharmacy, right? |
| 1:36.3 | So we're a culture that really believes in the power of food as medicine and food for vibrancy, |
| 1:42.3 | and spices play a big role they have in ancient indian medical |
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