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The Primal Kitchen Podcast

Seamus Mullen

The Primal Kitchen Podcast

Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti

Fitness, Entrepreneur, Sisson, Parenting, Health, Wellness, Weightloss, Primal, Paleo, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.4717 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Elle Russ chats with Seamus Mullen, an award-winning New York chef, restaurateur and cookbook author about his struggles with Rheumatoid Arthritis and his journey to complete healing through FOOD.  An avid cyclist who raced competitively in his twenties, he was diagnosed in 2007 with rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune disease that forced him to rethink his relationship with food, and led to his first cookbook Hero Food, published in 2012. His second book Real Food Heals was released in 2017.  Through food, exercise and lifestyle changes, Seamus was able to successfully turn his health around. For 7 years now, Seamus has been off all RA medication and has no RA markers on his blood results!  
 
Seamus opened his first solo restaurant Tertulia in Manhattan in 2011, which was awarded two stars from The New York Times and was a finalist for the James Beard Foundation Award for Best New Restaurant. In 2013, he opened El Colmado a Spanish tapas and wine bar at Gotham West Market, a food hall in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen. His latest venture is fast-casual concept Whitley Bird & Greens. 

After cooking throughout Spain, New York, and San Francisco, Seamus first rose to national prominence in 2006 with Boqueria, one of the first critically acclaimed and highly successful Spanish restaurants in New York. In 2009, he was one of three finalists on the Food Network’s “The Next Iron Chef.” He can often be seen as a featured judge on the popular Food Network series “Chopped” and “Beat Bobby Flay,” and is a frequent guest on programs such as The Today Show, The Martha Stewart Show and CBS This Morning.
 

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Instagram, Facebook, Twitter: @seamusmullen 

Website: www.seamusmullen.com

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0:00.0

Hi, it's Mark Sisson. Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast, where we deliver a variety of fresh content to help you live awesome.

0:09.9

Enjoy the show. Engage with us online at marksdailyapple.com and on social media and send your questions to info at primalblueprint.com.

0:23.7

Hey, everyone.

0:24.7

Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast.

0:26.6

Very special guest today.

0:28.6

Seamus Mullen, he's an award-winning New York chef,

0:31.2

restaurateur, and cookbook author known for his inventive yet approachable Spanish cuisine.

0:36.0

He's also a leading authority on health and wellness nowadays.

0:39.3

He's the author of Real Food Heels and Hero Food. He basically became diagnosed with her maternal

0:45.5

arthritis and saw that this autoimmune disease forced him to look at his relationship with food and rethink it.

0:52.4

And we're going to talk about that today because his recovery story is amazing.

0:56.3

And there's a lot of people going through this out there.

0:59.1

So so excited to get into the details of your health journey.

1:03.0

Welcome to the show.

1:04.0

Thank you.

1:04.3

Thanks for having me.

1:05.4

So I want to tell the audience briefly, I have a friend I grew up with Chef Contos,

1:09.9

who had struggled with being diagnosed

1:14.3

with her retort arthritis, told her she was going to be in a wheelchair. I suspected possible

1:19.3

thyroid problems. And she called me up. And I had been skeptical, Seamus, and she's fine with me

1:26.3

telling the story. I was afraid to call her and tell her

1:28.9

what I had learned about food because she was a chef. And I was like, she's not going to hear, like,

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