"Nora Gedgaudas"

Nora is an experienced nutritional consultant, speaker and educator. She maintains a private practice in Portland, Oregon as both a Board-Certified nutritional consultant and a Board-Certified clinical Neurofeedback Specialist.

Nora enrolled in a graduate-level course in nutritional science as an undergraduate at the University of Minnesota, But found the course disappointing.

She says, "I found myself utterly SHOCKED at how woefully inadequate, limited and incomplete; along with how dry, dull and dead the course material really was—and how many inaccuracies and outdated facts were being presented as ‘higher education'."

In the early 1990's exposure to Inuit culture at Resolute Bay and the experience of living in what was ostensibly an “Ice-Age-like” environment sparked new thinking in Nora about the widely accepted ideas officially sanctioned and popularized about meat-based diets and dietary fat.

Some years later, Nora stumbled across a book that radically revolutionized her dietary views and inspired a whole new life trajectory. This book was entitled: Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Dr. Weston A. Price.

The inspiration of Dr. Price’s incredible work ultimately led Nora down a deeper trajectory of studying the more prehistoric origins of our human dietary requirements from an evolutionary perspective.

In selecting pages for Open Future Health, we generally look for people with a more regular background, but over time what Nora Gedgaudas has been saying seems to becoming more and more important.

Living outside the Matrix

Nigel Howett with Nora Gedgaudas (1 hour 50 minutes)

Published by: Lawful Rebel - 27 Apr 2025

There is mixed comment about her response to the Covid-19 Pandemic. Still strongly debated in many places.

Open future Health, supported lockdowns and mask wearing, we did what we thought was best. Most countries handled the pandemic badly, and politicians can be blamed for that. A tiny number of countries followed a PLAN, in a consistent way. Those countries tended to be more successful. (Both those who chose vaccines and lockdowns, eg NZ, and those who remained open eg. Sweden.)

Public Comments

I absolutely loved this interview with Nora Gedgaudas! I am a HUGE fan of hers, having discovered her book "Primal Body, Primal Mind" about 6 months ago. I have since also read the other book she mentioned, "Primal Fat Burner". I changed to a ketogenic diet a few months before reading her books, and what I read only reinforced what I already knew from my own experience, and I learned heaps more!

My understanding is that the body doesn't burn protein (muscle mass) in preference to fat. I have spent months at a time in ketosis and never lost muscle mass, even when fasting. There may be more to this than meets the eye. I have found that I can get by without eating much carbohydrate. I can forward your question to Nora. Lets see what she says.

Not everyone liked this.

Why don't you start by being specific? Who exactly is wrong about what exactly. You managed to say absolutely NOTHING while implicitly rubbishing some well justified claims. A cheap and easy shoot down, with no substance to challenge the central points made. This is the lowest form of pseudo intellectual engagement.

Get Beyond Keto and Paleo and go Primal!

Kery Knutson with Nora Gedgaudas (16 hour 29 minutes)

Published by: Holistic Health Heroes Podcast - 19 Feb 2025

Join us as we walk through her experience of living with wolves in snowy winters and how that experience ignited the inspiration for her life's work.
Topics range from fat burning metabolism, to fasting vs caloric restriction and a lesson on doctor's Weston A. Price and Francis Pottenger.

Nora Gedgaudas

Primal Body - Primal Mind

Living outside the Matrix

Public Comments

Get Beyond Keto and Paleo and go Primal!

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