Laurentine ten Bosch
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Welcome to the FOOD MATTERS Podcast! Bringing you game-changing health and wellness information, tips, tricks, and healthy hacks on all things nutrition, detoxing, weight loss, mindfulness, sleep, gut health, beauty, alternative healing, spiritual wellbeing, transformation, and more! This podcast is home to the best interviews with leading doctors, nutritionists, fitness experts, and thought leaders of the world who collectively share their wisdom and knowledge. Join hosts James Colquhoun & Laurentine ten Bosch as they crack the code on what it truly means to live a healthy, vibrant, and uplifting life free from the corporations that profit from our health. Discover more...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
It turns guest-led wellness frameworks into clear conversations about food, sleep, movement, hormones and the routines connecting them.
The Food Matters Podcast turns broad wellness questions into interview-led conversations about daily choices. James Colquhoun and Laurentine ten Bosch move between nutrition, sleep, inflammation, hormones, exercise and aging, usually asking guests to translate a health framework…
At 3 a.m., your racing mind gets a seat at the same table as your blood sugar.
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A clear look at how stress, inflammation, and blood sugar can shape hormone symptoms.
The episode treats hormone symptoms as something to read, not puzzle over. It keeps coming back to stress, blood sugar, inflammation, and the ordinary inputs of daily life, which gives the discussion a practical shape.
A warm, practical case for using light as a daily lever on energy and hormones.
The episode treats light therapy as part of daily routine rather than a gadget, moving from sunrise and blue light to caffeine timing, food timing, and how those habits may affect hormones and energy.
A practical longevity episode that treats sleep as the main lever.
Kayla Barns-Lenz frames sleep, food timing, training, and bedtime habits as one connected system, which gives the episode a steady practical edge.
A warm, practical guide for women trying to tell stress from hormone change.
The episode stays with the uneasy overlap of stress, sleep, and hormone confusion, asking when what women are feeling might be perimenopause and when it might be something else.
A warm case for getting back in step with day, night, and sleep.
This episode treats sleep as a daily rhythm shaped by light, darkness, and routine. Laurentine and Jason keep the focus on practical shifts: morning light, dimmer evenings, and less screen stimulation after sunset.
A grounded conversation about food, aging, and the everyday choices that shape health.
This episode keeps its focus on food, aging, and the plain habits that shape both. Susan Teton's early Food Matters cooking work gives the discussion a clear anchor, while Laurentine and James move it toward everyday choices such as fermentation, simple meals, body awareness,…
Warm, practical inflammation talk that connects pain to blood sugar, sleep, and recovery.
The Food Matters Podcast makes inflammation feel legible without flattening it. Laurentine keeps the tone warm and grounded, and Dr. Christine Smith gives the ideas shape with plain examples, from bedtime protein to the pain gate mechanism.
A food first case for calming the nervous system, with practical ideas for sleep and steadier energy.
The episode keeps coming back to nervous system repair as the frame for steadier energy, sleep, and weight regulation. It argues that the body settles when it feels safe enough to leave survival mode, and it favors food timing, cortisol control, glycogen refilling, and…
Researchers, doctors and coaches, translated into everyday health stakes.
Real fasting stories, practical food peace.
Root-cause health, without the hype.
Whole plants, stronger habits, longer health.
Running chat with honesty, hormones, and muddy shoes.
Rules of thumb for modern wellness.
Christa Orecchio reveals the perfect 50/25/25 macronutrient ratio in raw milk that 'shuts off the nervous system' for sleep.
Laurentine opens by asking women how often they feel overwhelmed or anxious.
Food is the compass.
The conversation starts with a simple reminder that a couple of days of extra hunger or tiredness before a period can be normal.
Sleep is nonnegotiable.
Andy Mant warns that constant artificial blue light can flip your cortisol cycle, leaving you tired in the morning and wired at night.
Laurentine talks with Andy Mant about light therapy.
Dan Koch explains that cacao's theobromine produces oxytocin, serotonin, dopamine and endorphins—unlike coffee's cortisol—making people feel happy without anxiety.
Brenden Durell has seen people reverse depression and anxiety through gut health protocols like morning sauerkraut with spirulina and cacao.
The conversation keeps coming back to the nervous system as the thread running through weight, sleep, and day-to-day resilience.
Twin brothers Dave and Steve Flynn of The Happy Pear tell Food Matters host Laurentine that a 2003 vegetable shop in Greystones, Ireland grew into 80+ plant-based products and 20 million units sold.
Liana Werner-Gray says three days of fish oil "almost" cleared her anxiety after a blood test showed an omega-3 deficiency, despite a diet heavy in hemp seeds, chia seeds, avocado and walnuts.
Former trance DJ Dan Koch describes quitting at the height of his career after Stereo Sonic 2013, a 50,000-person Melbourne festival where he asked 'what is the meaning of all this?' He says he replaced coffee and alcohol with cacao for three years of sobriety and recommends two cups a day, citing theobromine, magnesium, and anandamide.
Sugar can spike, then crash.
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The Food Matters Podcast opens a detox masterclass with James Colquhoun, who compiles excerpts from his podcast interviews and the Hunger for Change and Transcendence films.
Shelly Lefkoe, co-founder of the Lefkoe Institute, tells Food Matters host Laurentine that behavioral and emotional patterns such as procrastination and anxiety are caused by beliefs, and that eliminating the belief eliminates the pattern.
Cordyceps increases the body's production of ATP for muscle energy, while lion's mane promotes neurogenesis and protects against mental decline.
Kayla Barns-Lenz lays out a sleep-first take on longevity.
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