How To Eat Your Way To Health, Featuring Colman Power

Welcome to the Intuitive Health podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Anthony Rafferty, medical doctor, PhD, Reiki, and shamanic intuitive healer. I'm here to bring you on a journey of holistic healing that explores the science of the physical body combined with mental and emotional well-being, energetic, and spiritual health. And I am very, very excited that you're joining us today to chat to calm empower, an absolute amazing bundle of energy. And uh is someone that I have been following on Instagram for a wee while um just for his knowledge about nutrition, fitness, and everything to do with organic horiculture and how to grow food that sustains a really healthy body and mind. It is such a gift to have you on the podcast. Thank you so much for joining us today,

Anthony. Absolutely no problem at all. I couldn't wait for you to push this green or red button to press record. We have so much information to share with the listeners. So, here we go.

Yeah. I love it. I love it. I love it. Well, do you want to start off by I suppose telling us a little bit about yourself and your journey to get where you're at? Because like, you know, obviously when I started following you, you have so much stuff under your belt. It's wild. I feel like it's so crazy when I start telling people about my journey and they're like, "You're a marine biologist. You worked with neonatal babies. You worked in pregnancy and fertility." Like, I feel like I was reading something with a very similar slant going, "Oh my god, look at this guy. He has all this stuff, too. I suppose there's a lot of feathers to the likes of the hat and I do wear a good few hats too I suppose um in itself but to tell the listeners a little bit about uh me in a nutshell I suppose I'm an organic grower personal trainer nutritionist I'm labeling myself now as the healthiest fella in Ireland if there's anyone else out there I'd love to most certainly meet them either male or female we could do a competition it could be really good we'll make social media content off the back of that I'm now in the realm of if not already there an an Instagrammer influencer, a social media content creator. And that was something that didn't happen by chance. I've been making videos and building my repertoire over I'm going to say the last six years. And if you go way back, go back to my YouTube would have been the first thing on record. Like I was on Snapchat when that was kind of cool and trendy, but I kind of gravitated away from that uh and went on to more I'm going to say long form. Then went on to Instagram when I had 300 followers and now I have 9,000 plus. And again, numbers aren't important, but it just gives you a record of how long either someone has been um building and things success doesn't happen overnight. The idea then on Tik Tok there's about 100,000 followers and I love connecting with people. I love everything to do with I'm going to say um either nutrition, exercise, and growing your own are my areas of expertise. No, I just live a pretty simple life. I'm a simple man. I do simple things. And for the most part, most people aren't doing the simple things. They're not eating real foods. They're not getting outside. They're definitely not getting enough local product. juice into the likes of their diet and they're not sleeping I'm going to say on a regular basis going to bed with the likes of the cycle of the sun which is I suppose one of those things that I did over time going and doing different health courses and I suppose being a health practitioner myself and passing these tips on in the likes of a book that I wrote during the likes of lockdown called the power of organic fitness so more and more of the idea of literally just getting back to simpler ways is what I've done over the last kind of 10 years started this kind of journey as when did you start Like I started back being born in 1990 and after that really the idea of going to college and setting up a market garden in the likes of Cork and selling fruits and vegetables was where it really started.

Yeah. Do you know um obviously I do a lot of work with people uh with regard to rehabilitating their gut actually because I think it's so interesting with regard to the journey that I suppose marketing and all of these things have had on people in Ireland with regard to kind of what we're told is healthy versus what's actually healthy. And even with the use um I did some posts last week on Instagram with the use of kind of herbicides and glyphosate and all these things that are systematically like destroying people's gut microbiome which are perceived to be okay for humans to consume. They're sprayed on plants and it's actually wild with regard to the impact that we're seeing in data now. They might not affect the pathways in the cells of humans, but they absolutely impact the pathways of the cells of the bugs that are living in our gut. So, even the foods that we perceive to be healthy, eating a vegetable, if it's been sprayed with a load of crap, we're actually eating and consuming chemicals that are negatively impacting the gut microbiome without us even realizing. So, I'd love to hear more about kind of um this journey with organic food, the impact that you've seen with your clients, your one-to-one clients with regard to kind of um organic food. Uh why it's better for for people compared to non-organic food items and actually how maybe we'll explore a little bit how people can actually start their journey with organic food.

There are different food items that I highly recommend on different uh programs that I would run or just even just to anybody who's listening right now. It's literally the clean 15, the dirty dozen, right? The clean 15 is the not necessarily recommended, but I also would would and does have a skin that we typically don't eat and is why you can eat them non-organic or it's not as much of a problem. Okay. So, for the likes of I'm going to say pineapples, mangoes, avocados are on that list because we don't typically eat the likes of the the skin. We typically eat only the flesh from the inside. So, that's probably the the list that's definitely on um it's it's in my book, but it's also listed on my website for free and it's also on my social media. So, you want to check that out. And the idea is after that there's the dirty dozen. These are the more important ones that can kind of learn off and or add to your diet organically. Those are the ones that are heavily sprayed throughout the life their life cycle. So take apples are definitely one of them. Potatoes are another. We go with all your greens. That's kale, spinach, and any other you going to say edible salad because the chemicals are left on the leaf, right? And it's very hard to remove completely all the chemicals and some people then aren't washing them properly. But for the most part, you can skip all that effort and you'll either grow your own or buy it. It's the same that I have. But add organic foods to your diet. So that's definitely I suppose something for the most part for people to add in organic foods that haven't been sprayed with the likes of harsh chemicals such as glyphosate which is a carinogenic. and it's like when you see it online or post to say it's okay to consume small amounts of glyphosate I know that what there's small amounts of that I don't want to have in my diet and glyphosate is definitely not up there right glyphosate is the likes of the active ingredient found in Roundup. Roundup is commonly used on the periphery edges of your gardens to kill something that's actually so good for your gut health which is the likes of the dandelion. The whole A whole lot of it is edible. The leaves, the flour, and the likes of the root. Dandelion coffee amazing alternative to coffees and is something that's anti-inflammatory and contains a type of fiber called inulin. Your beneficial gut bacteria love foods that contain inulin. Also found in common vegetables, onions, garlics, leaks, and an absolute classic one that I wrote about is the likes of your Jerusalem artichokes and yakon. There's a five. You haven't heard about that. We can talk about that very, very shortly. So that's very interesting. After that to was inform people not to scare them. I do not and forever from now on as much as I know to my knowledge will not consume a non-organic apple. They can be sprayed up to 10 times in a growing season. That's literally frightening. But it's also really really simple to get organic apples and or grow your own. So I coach people online in uh different programs to improve not only necessarily a lot of people always focus on weight loss. I focus on health gain which is really really important and actually something that a lot of people actually don't do enough of. So, the idea is you're likely planting an apple tree in your garden in a pot. One, two, you can have a self-pollinated one. We can go deeper into growing if we if we choose to do so in this u podcast. So, the idea is you dig a hole, you put in a tree, you do nothing else. In three years time, you can have up to 100 apples. And the best apple tree to most certainly buy for yourself isn't the one that's called Pink Lady. It's not Gala. It's more so the likes of I'm going to say Katie, Jono Red, LAR, and or Discover. Y all old traditional varieties that are suited to Irish conditions that are much less likely to get the likes of any pest or disease damage on it because one of the one of the most common problems with people going into garden centers they buy something that's been shipped over from central Europe. Imagine the garden center 17 and a half years old. He says the half because he nearly wants to be 18. And as a result that hasn't a Scooby-Doo where the tree is from. He hasn't a clue about what it where it came from. He knows nothing about it but he's interested in growing and fair play for getting off his ass and actually doing the job in the the first place. But that's just the situation that we're in in Ireland at this moment in time or any other European country. The idea is getting things that are suited to your conditions. But and apples, Irish apples grow amazing. Like Bramley is a great cooking apple and it's something that literally is so good for the likes of you um gaining better skin health which comes off the back of pectin which is a fiber found in the likes of the skins of the apples and that you can literally gain massive advantages from by having typically just coming out of the likes of the cooler I'm going to say conditioned winter months that we've had. And they come into season for a reason. But so we're talking about simple practical things for family and and anyone else who wants to improve their health in 2025 or whenever you listen to this podcast. It and it won't ever change, right? Grains such as simple as oats. So oat is a grain that is and has if it's non-organic will be sprayed 100% because it speeds up the harvesting process. Just imagine a grain. I'm trying to make it as visual as I possibly can standing in a field. You want to have the whole thing to dry off at the same time. You just run your tractor with the booms out left and of it. It will spray off literally glyphosate that carcinogenic has been found to be carinogenic toxic chemical on that crop. In a week's time, that's prime time for the non organic farmers to harvest that all fully dried because it's literally dried off and it's literally the grain then and people say, "Oh, it's only small amounts that are found in that." Again, small amounts of like this inflammatory chemical you don't want in your body. However, there are definitely uh better options that you can get. There are probably my favorite. It's % gluten-free. I know a lot of people say oats are gluten-free. Yeah. But if you are someone who's extremely intolerant, which just goes down to the gut health specialist area that I am, you will if you have small amounts from one harvester harvesting let's say barley, wheat or roy that may have I'm going to say a small bit of gluten in it. Then it goes to the harvested oats which are gluten-free naturally. And that small amount would cause someone with I'm going to be h a lot of issues. So it's best to obviously go to a one mill small producer which the likes of Kevin from the merry mill is based in leash and delivered straight to your door. I don't get literally I'm going to say money far mentioning these guys, but it's literally what I recommend to people on daily basis for literally better health. You support the guys who are literally doing it and they will literally give you the best foods that they possibly can. It's not only beneficial for you but also be beneficial for the environment.

Yeah, I love that. It's almost like um like this journey with well well this is the thing I suppose um with regard to how we live our life now. It's just so quickly paced. We consume things at such a high rate. It's actually ridiculous. And it's so interesting because uh before I moved back to Dublin, I was living in the countryside and I had lots of land there, space to grow, we had a poly tunnel, all these bits and pieces. And you know, you put so much love and effort into growing your own organic veg. If I was to get a handful of four or five cherry tomatoes, I would cherish every one of those cherry tomatoes. I cherish a tomato because it tasted good. I grew that myself. It was a gift that was given to me by nature. Whereas, actually, when I go into the store, you're buying five or six tomatoes wrapped in microplastics totally unnecessarily. The nutrient content of the tomato is much poorer and it's been sprayed with a load of crap. So, you're getting microplastics, you're getting chemicals, and a nutrient poor fruit. that's being grown. And just the thing is when you bring them home, you're going to eat all six tomatoes like you're consuming anything else at a rapid rate. It doesn't have the same value as a a tomato that you've grown on the vine yourself. Like it just blew my mind. It completely changed my view of how I consumed when I actually was growing my own food.

Does that make sense?

Like people are and if you grow carrot and the carrot happened to fork for whatever reason might hit a rock. You're like, "Oh my god, I'm going to literally eat the whole lot of that." But if you get it in the store, you don't have any mass on it. It doesn't matter to you. And in fact, you're not going to choose that. But the idea is you will literally use every piece of that. I'm going to say carrot and you even might look up the recipe because you grew it yourself of how to actually use the stocks because you sew typically carrots in the month of April. You harvest April, May, you go May, June, July, August, September, five months later. That is a lot of days. is all right for people to literally look after, water, weed, harvest, wash, bring in, and by God, eat the skin because that's where most of the fiber is found on every different fruit and vegetable, but also it's also where most of the chemicals are found if it's non-organic. So, there's the benefit, but also be weary of the likes of the negatives when it's a non-organic food item. But again, I'm literally getting people to improve their diet as best they possibly can. Not eating is not a healthy option. Like, we can talk a little bit about diets as well. Intermittent fasting before you start understand your basic nutrition is literally the catalyst for are binge eating. Binge eating. We typically don't binge eat on broccoli or the likes of carrots for that matter. It's ultraprcessed foods which gets you caught up in I thought this was good. Now I'm starving. Now I'm reaching for whatever. And it's always whatever convenient, right? Is in when we have to because that's the system we're set up in now. A petrol station where all the bright colors are in front of us. The wrong type of bright colors. It's those candy bars andor protein bars which are glorified chocolate bars anyway in the first place. So that's where we're caught. So like not eating is not a healthy option. So start with literally eating whole foods and then incorporate in one more single ingredient food to your diet would definitely be my approach.

Yeah, I absolutely love that. Like it's quite fascinating in loads of ways when you actually start learning about these things and going on the journey with these things. Like I think the the reason that I end up going so deep into gut health work myself was because my gut was absolutely destroyed. You know obviously grew up in Ireland and in all honesty I don't think uh like as an ancestry we necessarily have we had lovely connection to the land previously but as we've evolved through the lineages we've lost touch with that in a lot of ways and actually we're eating a lot of things like you say that are easy processed and just wreaking havoc on the body and so obviously I had a background of that you know and then going through my teens early 20s, I started drinking. That totally destroyed my gut as well. And then of course, you end up kind of finding your way back to the gym and I started absolutely smashing protein. I was having two or three protein shakes a day, not realizing the crap that was contained in those. And even just the way concentrated way just used to hit my stomach and absolutely decimate my microbiome. I used to get so much inflam I didn't even know what inflammation was. I remember going to the GP being like, I actually feel like my body's on fire. I was like, I feel like something's wrong with me. My skin is irritated. I was getting welts. My gums used to be irritated. And you know, as I was like drinking, knocking back my protein shakes cuz I thought it looked made my body look good. I was kind of going, "My body actually feels like it's on fire." And everybody was like, "You're grand. You're grand." The GPS are like, "I think you're actually mad. Your body isn't on fire." I didn't realize that was my alarm bells. You are suffering from deep inflammation here from the cocktail of what you're consuming, you know. So, I'd love to hear your thoughts like when you bring someone on an organic journey through your onetoone training. What does protein intake look like? I know people are consume like consumed with protein intake and we're so fiber deficient more so, but like when it comes down to like supplements that people use, going to the gym, protein shakes, all these things, what does that look like um on a journey?

I suppose that's great question in itself. A lot of people right will ask me Coleman what supplements do you take? What protein supplements? The first thing you should literally be looking at is getting your protein source from food sources that have one ingredient that have been eaten for centuries and doing your best to get it local, doing your best to get it organic. So I'd always stress to that and people would get a list of food items. It's never I'm going to say um a a diet that I would ever suggest or more so the likes of I'm going to say you have to eat these foods. You pick and choose the ones that you like and that's what's going to was help you to make it a lifestyle of eating real foods. Then it's the likes of the carbohydrates the exact same way whether it's potatoes, whether it's quinoa, whether it's bular wheat, whether it's breads and there's definitely different topics. We can break it down to bread again being coming from a grain. There's sourdough bread which is a fermented food item which is a natural probiotic which is so beneficial to your gut health which has a knock-on effect too increasing the beneficial microorganisms which then lead to more energy being broken down from the nutrients in the foods that you typically eat and gives you kickback of you having more energy to put into the likes of your day-to-day task whether it's with friends, family members or work colleagues and more often than not people that end up working with you actually end up getting a raise out the other side of it.

Well, so I suppose if we look at kind of where the conversation's going. We explored kind of the benefits of um organic food and the environmental working group as you say released this clean 15 and dirty dozen list um and that's a fantastic fantastic starting point for people. We explored kind of glyphosate h as a herbicide and the chemicals um that are sprayed in the process of non-organic food production and um common I'd love to hear a little bit about actually what genetically modified food is and how has it ended up in our food system and like so it it's almost like we have to be worried about chemicals and the genetic modification of foods. So where do we go with these things. I think it's so important that we're discussing this because people might not be aware that some of the foods are sprayed first of all and some of them are genetically modified. So tell me about GMO.

Yeah, GMO again is something that's genetically modified to be able to tolerate the likes of chemicals such as that main one we've kind of discussed in this uh week's podcast. The idea is it's something that is typically used for either soya and or corn, right? And those are then fed to animals such as cat cattle and that's on a larger scale for the most part. So if you are remember buying something organic, it can't registered organic. It cannot use the likes of genetically modified seeds. So that's something well worth note in the back of your mind if you're worried about the likes of those things that and it often would be mentioned and labeled and looking at the labels of food items that you see in stores are what I'd always recommend. So it's non-GMO or non GMO grain is something that's well worth having a look out for in going into the new year. So that's that's something that's uh then fed to the animals. The animals then are stressed and as a result of that then we have that knock-on effect in ourselves. So definitely looking at and sourcing your foods as locally as you possibly can.

And that's the thing I think um when we kind of move more towards uh organic eating and eating stuff that's nutritionally good for us. Um like I say, we kind of move away toward from the consumerism. aspect of it and actually just consuming large quantities of stuff that aren't as good for us, but also we actually form more of a connection. Like I love this sense of community um because I I think most of the clients that I work with now when I bring them on a journey obviously it's about maximizing the plant-based diversity in the diet. Um looking at kind of whole foods uh with regard to as much organic food as possible. Um moving away from things that are heavily processed. Obviously looking at organic if we can non-GMO but also on a more kind of um emotional part of the journey outside of just the physical how we can nourish the body. What does it look like to be actually more of a sense of a community actually connecting with the the land connecting with the people who grow these beautiful foods for us and actually connecting with other people within the community that are are kind of can support you on that journey as well. And it's so wild because actually, so I talk a lot about this. I actually created a gut health course which we launched a couple of months ago and we've had loads of people moving through that course now and actually just educating people about the gut microbiome and nutrition that's appropriate for their body and their mind, keeping their hormones happy. Um, but it's amazing because actually part of the journey through the course involves actually connecting with the land land like we could not exist without mother earth. So although she nourishes the fruits and the veg and all these gorgeous things that that grow in the land, we are literally synergistically connected to the land. We would not be able to live and function without the land. So I just find it so fascinating and heartbreaking in so many senses that actually how we treat this absolutely incredible resource just blows my mind. you know,

yeah, without the soil, we can't without healthy soil, right, we can't literally grow healthy food. So, that's why it's so important. These small growers all throughout Ireland are literally have the skills and it's a dying trait. I'm so lucky I learned it.

Like, I love that you're talking about kind of um being able to grow in a way that actually promotes soil health is a dying breed. And, you know, it's even I've started to learn the brow on recently, right? I just have this draw back to connect with our Irish ancestry and I'm obsessed with it. I love it. Every night I'm just like banging away at my bon. But I've started looking at all these videos online of like all these incredible bon players and you know they're kind of talking about uh that people used to get together in the community and they used to grow together and like they'd all give each other advice and they're tending to the land and then meeting and playing music. music together and I literally like I was watching these videos last night. I was like my mind is blown. I absolutely love it and it's so sad we've lost it. So like you know I would love to hear about kind of how did people know to tend to the land and what are we losing with regard to to this knowledge?

They know and have I suppose come from heritage families right same like the seeds heritage seeds that literally needed the land to survive and thrive. more so they had to do it for looking after potatoes and looking after their health. We were a much healthier generation, okay, 50 years ago because we grew our own potatoes. We grew our own carrots. We touched the soil so much more. Now there's kids afraid to literally going to say touch anything dirty and there's sprays out there that hit going to say a counter that kill 99.9% of all the bloody bacteria that's out there. There's good and bad bacteria that are killing there as well. Same as in your gut. So the idea is you need get back to the likes of the simple lifestyle that you know deep down in you and it's funny Anthony that you were going back to the bon I am dyslexic and I didn't have to do Irish I've started to learn it this year is kabash sin like I've learned off a couple of sentences because I love the Ireland I love literally the land I love being healthy and the idea is if anyone was listening to this podcast I'm sure that they want to be at least 1% healthier and you certainly will be.

He's connected to the land and he's speaking Irish.

Oh god. Well, I tried to I got Dolingo to start trying to learn again. Um because I was like I need to I need to speak I need to speak our native language again. So I totally need to find out where you're doing doing your Irish lessons and I'll come I'll come and join you for an el bit of gel. Brilliant.

I'll play the baron afterwards. It' be great. Amazing like because at at different events, right? So at the likes of that cycle Oh, I didn't even leave you in on the tip. I'm glad I came back around full circle. So we've cycled the likes of the west coast of Ireland and this year, right? You are getting the golden inside scoop. Okay, we haven't even announced it yet. We didn't pick the farms. So if you're a farm or know a farmer on the likes of this regenerative or organic on the east coast starting from Dunny Gaul, hopefully finishing in Walford still to be decided, but for the most part definitely heading down that east coast, get in contact. So we are doing that on the same principle of we're trying to connect as many people on these lovely green aisles, all 32 counties of them, plus some more if they get thrown in the mix and getting the best foods that literally you can get in Ireland on your plate.

Amazing. And so it it's interesting you just talked there about regenerative farming. Um like this is a term that's becoming quite I suppose a hot topic these days. I'd love to know what the difference is between regenerative farming and organic farming.

That's a great question and it is exactly that. It's becoming trendy. It was like organic 5 10 maybe years ago. So the word organic is a registered term. Okay, that means if I want to sell produce, okay, right now where I'm where I'm currently based in Walford and if I was selling the produce right at the gate or I want to sell to a shop, I could not use the word organic if I wasn't registered with two of Ireland's only registered governing bodies. That's the likes of I off and the likes of Organic Trust. And how you know something is registered organic? Just quickly looked around the room to see that I see anything organic. It's a green registered logo on the back of yogurt, fish, chicken, eggs, fruit, vegetables, whatever cereal, the oats, the item may be. So that's what you look out for. Something be fully registered organic. So that's organic word. The word regenerative isn't a registered term, but is someone that uses those methods and maybe some more um to to sell a produce that again is super beneficial for you and it's super beneficial for the land. It's a slight it's a way of not being registered because some people do find it difficult farmers that are still in um in growing to fill in because a lot of paperwork lads if involved in anything anyone knows now whether you're going into the guards to fill in um guard vetting there's a huge amount of paperwork just alone for that it's even worse and there's a fee involved for being registered as organic but it's a logo that people wear in pride and there is probably in the very near future going to be a registered term for the likes of regenerative and what makes it slightly different um is one is registered organic and regenerative is not but still something that is super beneficial and the idea is if people often think can I trust the likes of organic growers or that green little logo that you talked about or the word organic written on the front of it the idea is you have to trust somebody if you don't trust the likes of the supermarket so it has the green logo registered and it's some farm that you haven't heard about or that I haven't touched base with or showed up on my social media very recently. The idea is you have to trust somebody. Go and connect with the local farmer at the country market and they'll ask and because they would love and do love their farms and they're typically family run. It's not a huge commercial thing especially at the country markets. They're not making tippins and that's why I came out of it because making money from fruits and vegetables. That's what I did. I didn't have meats, didn't have hens at the time. The idea is it's very hard because you're competing with the with people's pockets. That's with it. But you have to really love it. You have to really value your health and know that difference. The difference is in the flavor. Everybody knows as soon as they have anything organic, whether it's I'm going to say meats, eggs, fruits, vegetables, apples, and tomatoes are one of the easiest ones for fruits and vegetables because that's my game. And I've tried and tested getting people to try it and once they try it, they don't want to go back to the other SH1T.

Yeah. Yeah. No, I totally totally understand that. And is there anywhere that anybody can see a list of where there might be organic or regenerative farming that people can kind of actually see, oh my god, well, where can I access these places to actually start changing how I approach my my uh kind of community support and also my health?

Yeah, that's actually a great question and I don't know I I wouldn't even mention it only for you and so that's very well done on you, right? Being a good podcasting and I say host the idea is there is and that's something that I'm working on in my spare time. So there's a a new collaboration of a company that we're merging together called Grounded. It's highlighting all those farms across Ireland. And to do that, they have to apply and fill in a form and obviously um fit the category of being organic and or regenerative, one or the other. Looking after and using regenerative methods such as using farm manure, using seaweed or other natural methods like nettles which are naturally high in nitrogen that are sprayed onto the field um in a liquid feed. So that's a one to definitely look out. It's grounded grounded in soil. It is on Instagram. But if anyone's unsure, definitely check me out on Instagram, Facebook, Tik Tok, YouTube. It's my name Coleman Co. Coleman Deer Coleman Power is um is my name and I'll punch you. If you're unsure about anything, just send me a message. I will message and do message everybody back. I'm not at the realm of oh I have this thing that sends I'm not in the office right now. Maybe get back to me something Monday, Tuesday, on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. I literally I see a message I go in when I'm on the social media and I will shoot you back typically a voice note because I misspel so much uh of my content. People are like is that fell drunk? I'm dyslexic and I just voice note people because it makes it easier for me. So if you're unsure, ask the right question to the right person. You will get the right answer. But grounded in soil is the new place to check out for regenerative farms. And then if you say, "Oh, my local farm isn't on it." Yes, that's what we want. I want you to tell me there's a farm missing there and add them into the map. It's a map of Ireland with all the different farms that literally are regenerative and organic. That helps people so much.

Amazing. So grounded in soil. So if people Google that, they'll be able to find out what the crack is and find out where they're local. organic and regenerative farms are. And yeah, just I like I I love um as we're finishing up just to recap with regard to the our journey with organic food. We've discussed everything to do with glyphosate. I love it. Um we've explored GMO, how people can get started with um with starting to eat organic, the list that you've created. Um and we've talked about nutrition all the way through this. I would love to just before uh we wrap things up to hear more um or just even to to tell us a little bit about the onetoone work that you do because you know I know that you on your website your Instagram you can see that um come and runs these gorgeous growing workshops um teaching people how to actually learn how to grow from scratch which is such a skill and a tool in and of itself and it's so empowering. ing like when I learned how to grow some veggies. Oh my god, I made a mess of things. I was putting stuff in on top of each other and growing them too close and all the rest. But Jesus, it was great. Crack and you learn. And um so I'd love to to just uh for you to tell us about that and also your onetoone if people want to work with you as a personal trainer um what what does that kind of look like and how can they get in touch?

Yeah, Anthony super grateful for even giving me the opportunity to touch on that point. So my onetoone coaching I suppose is different from the majority of others just due to the fact it's not all about weight loss. It's more so about health gain that I did um touch on on this podcast already, but it's a one-to-one service tailor exercise and only that foods that literally suit you and the likes of your gut. I love having my calls onetoone with someone either on a Monday morning or Tuesday or whatever day of the week that literally suits because some people are flat out on a Monday and they don't have time because they have kids or there's other commitments involved in it. You literally get me through the likes of I'm going to say WhatsApp There's accountability. There's different, I'm going to say, meals that I send to you that are, I'm going to say, broken down with proteins, fats, and carbs in a balanced way that helps you to have as much energy levels that you most certainly need to be at optimal energy levels throughout whatever tasks that have to be kind of done in itself. And the idea is it's kind of a one-to-one connection with a person as opposed to an app, as opposed to anything else. And it's definitely not any diet. I get people to understand food at its basic level. Whether you're growing a little bit your own, there's also tips involved in in that too. You get me as a person as opposed to a robot which most people uh want right now. The connection we've lost the connection with the land. We've not connected with the people. So if anyone would want to work with someone who's massively passionate has motivation to literally give to you in abundance and I'd love to either just most certainly and do take people on for a one-to-one uh free call, discovery call and after that we work together typically for um a number of weeks to help them to reach their fitness goals. Whether it's going to say toning up, whether it's losing weight or just improving the likes of their understanding of diets or binge eating which often kind of happens uh just through to misinformation from other social media content. And in a nutshell, that's typically I suppose what um I offer people on a regular basis.

Well, Colman, it's been so so amazing to chat to you. You've such a gorgeous infectious energy and um I it's just so inspiring. I love meeting people that are passionate about health, passionate about the land, passionate about our connection to food. Um And it's just so important that we have these conversations to actually make people aware of what it's like to actually be in in connection with the food that you're eating and the land and the community that actually grow it for you. You know, we've such a disconnect these days and on an energetic level because I work as an energetic healer as well. You can see that in the root chakra. You can see we are disconnected from the land that we actually live on. You know, like our roots aren't deep anymore. you know, and there's such wounding in the root chakra causes a lot of disturbance within the body, you know. So, I think it's so amazing to be able to have connected with you. I'm so grateful for the chats and um for everybody that's listening, we'll pop up Common's details in the show notes and um absolutely don't hesitate to reach out to him. He's been a pleasure to engage with over Instagram messaging and um yes, we will chat to you again soon. Thank you so much for join us common. Thank you much for having me.