033: Ally Houston – Scoundrel Paleo Guy

Ally Houston

 Ally Houston helps people to be healthy while enjoying great food. He fixed his health by changing how he ate, and was so amazed with the results that he combined his dual background in science and fine dining to found Paleo Canteen in 2017. 

He's the co-author of cookbook Low Carb On A Budget, which has a foreword by Dr. David Unwin, and he is the director of Scoundrel Foods, which sells luxury sugar free ice cream and chocolate.

Ally started paleo in 2015 after struggling with auto-immune conditions. While studying for his PhD, a physics professor introduced him to paleo which he treated with suspicion but made sense scientifically. After doing all that reading and the research Ally felt it was hard not to conclude that eating low carb is extremely healthy and if you have metabolic and auto-immune conditions it is a great way to prevent them from reoccurring and to heal them.

Ally noticed the difference straight away, within a week his chronic heartburn had gone and the extra weight that he had melted away and stayed off.

He was so amazed that he started his own company in 2017 called Paleo Canteen. He started in a nightclub serving food. Plus he would do events on the high street and at Real Food Rocks Festival.

In 2019 Ally brought out a low sugar ice cream Scoundrel which is currently only available in Glasgow.  In addition, he is an author and podcaster, having co-authored a cookbook Low Carb on a Budget and hosts the Paleo Canteen podcast.  

More recently he has created a Scoundrel low carb chocolate which helps chocoholics transition to low carb.

Ally's Books

Podcast

https://paleocanteen.co.uk/thecanteenpodcast/ 

Cookbook 

https://paleocanteen.co.uk/product/paleo-canteen-low-carb-on-a-budget-digital/ 

Scoundrel 

https://www.instagram.com/eatscoundrel/?hl=en

Ally's Top TipsAsk a lot of questions.Add in paleo components.Find like minded people.
Resources Mentioned

PubMed database https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ 

PreKure https://prekure.com/ 

Paleo Canteen Podcast episode 13th October 2019 Prof Herman Pontzer

https://paleocanteen.co.uk/professor-herman-pontzer-the-calorie-deficit/

Paleo Canteen Podcast episode 9th June 2020 Dr Andrew Jenkinson

https://paleocanteen.co.uk/dr-andrew-jenkinson-why-we-eat-too-much/

Train with Joan https://www.instagram.com/trainwithjoan/?hl=en

Quotes by Ally Houston

“I decided I was going to really properly tackle the weight thing. And I tried calorie r