Neka Pasquale x Eastern & Urban Remedies

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1. The Zaddy Zone episode with Neka Pasquale centers on seed oils, Chinese medicine, and regenerative farming. 2. Neka Pasquale is the guest, and she describes herself as an acupuncturist, founder of Urban Remedy, and someone trained in Chinese medicine. 3. The episode asks what food, stress, and farming practices do to the body when the goal is better health. 4. Pasquale says she has sat in meetings with food companies where dieticians worried about bars made with cacao butter, coconut oil, and flax seeds. 5. She says those bars are high in fat but also low glycemic, with about five grams of sugar and 10 grams of protein. 6. Pasquale argues that the old “a calorie is a calorie” view ignores micro and macros, inflammation, and cultural history. 7. She names Kellogg and Colgate while describing the sugar industry’s role in vilifying saturated fat and cholesterol. 8. The discussion moves to seed oils, McDonald's fries, and the claim that canola oil, safflower oil, soy oil, and corn oil are common in kitchens. 9. Pasquale says Pam spray, vegetable oil, and cheaper oils show how budget and family habits shape cooking choices. 10. She ties current chronic disease trends to monocrops, GMO corn and soy, glyphosate, processed food, and the shift away from beef tallow at McDonald's. 11. The episode then pivots to Chinese medicine, which Pasquale says is 3,500 years old and built on a different view of the body. 12. She explains that Chinese medicine treats the body as a microcosm of nature and works with qi flowing through meridians. 13. Pasquale describes tongue diagnosis by pointing to a bright red tongue, a pale tongue, thick coating, and scalloped edges. 14. She says blue or purple veins under the tongue can suggest liver qi stagnation, while puffy teeth marks can suggest spleen qi deficiency. 15. She adds pulse reading as a second diagnostic tool and says spleen deficiency can show up as bloating, poor digestion, acid reflux, or burping. 16. Pasquale says ice cream and tofu are damp and cold in Chinese medicine, while ginger, warm soups, and congee support the spleen and stomach. 17. She describes acupuncture as placing very small needles on specific meridian points, not directly on organs or veins. 18. The tone stays conversational and explanatory, with Luke Gromen asking basic questions and Pasquale answering in a teaching style. 19. People interested in food quality, Chinese medicine, and regenerative agriculture would get the most from this episode. 20. Listeners looking for a strict conventional-medicine interview probably would not.

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A founder's health conversation grounded in stress, food, and recovery.

Nika Pasquale shifts the conversation from food ideology to the messy work of running Urban Remedy, making a case for high-fat bars while pushing back on nutrition advice that flattens everything into calorie math.

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For when you want nutrition talk that starts in the body, not a spreadsheet.

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