You are not what you eat. You are what you absorb.
Available paired with Dr. Mike Bedford, the peer-reviewed phytase researcher behind the science — the pairing that unlocks science-heavy shows.
A short, direct hello from Amy to you and your booking team: who she is, the one idea she most wants to share with your audience, and why it lands with health-minded listeners.
Amy Puzey practices as a holistic nutritionist and researcher, and leads Goodphyte as founder and CEO — the company that brought phytase to human health.
She is a holistic nutritionist, biotech founder, competitive mountain trail runner, and mother of four. She has built her career around one of the world's most overlooked health challenges: the hidden nutritional barriers — phytic acid, specifically — that contribute to fatigue, inflammation, autoimmunity, and chronic disease.
Amy founded Goodphyte in 2019 to attack the absorption problem dietary phytic acid creates worldwide — what she calls "hidden hunger." Phytase, the enzyme at the center of Goodphyte's formulas, unlocks the iron, zinc, magnesium, and calcium already present in food but blocked from absorption.
Amy has a background in Nursing from the University of Alberta and worked as a nutritionist in private practice for nine years.
Before her current phytase focus, she led 5 Peaks Adventures for nine years as CEO and National Race Director, Canada's national trail-running event series. She is a retired competitive runner who raced at elite level across disciplines — winning the 2017 Cowtown Marathon women's title (3:01:29, Fort Worth, TX), the Grizzly Ultra solo female title, a podium finish at the Scorched Sole 50K (Kelowna, BC), a former national mountain running championship, and representing Canada at the World Mountain Running Championships.
Why billions are micronutrient-deficient even when calories are abundant.
The phytic acid problem in whole foods, and why intake does not equal absorption.
What it could change for autoimmunity, MS, and chronic disease.
How absorption translates into real autoimmune and metabolic outcomes.
Chasing the absorption gap from clinical research to the lab to a biotech company.
What competitive trail and mountain running taught her about minerals.
Why cyclical iron and mineral needs are so often overlooked in mainstream nutrition advice.
Why chronic tiredness often traces back to a mineral absorption problem, not just poor sleep.
The mineral deficit that keeps people stuck in it, and what closing the absorption gap changes.
Dr. Mike Bedford is widely recognized as the world's leading authority on phytase enzymes — the peer-reviewed science behind Amy's product.
His research career spans decades, from the commercialization of phytase in animal nutrition to its emerging application in human health. His body of peer-reviewed work established the mechanistic understanding of how phytic acid (also called phytate) blocks mineral absorption, and how phytase breaks it down to release those minerals.
In 2019, that science crossed into human nutrition when Amy Puzey of Goodphyte became the first person to bring phytase to market for human health, drawing directly on the evidence base Dr. Bedford's research helped establish.
Dr. Bedford is available as a guest on science-heavy podcasts where peer-reviewed credentials and mechanistic rigor are required, and can appear alongside Amy Puzey as a researcher-entrepreneur pairing.
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Available for in-studio, remote video, and audio-only recordings, and happy to tailor the conversation to your audience.
Recording platforms: Riverside · Zoom · StreamYard | Timezone: Mountain Time (Canada)
294 peer-reviewed papers spanning four decades of phytase and animal-nutrition science — 55 as lead author, 239 as part of the research team. Searchable and filterable for producers who want to verify the science behind the story.