Part 192 - Ashley and Sarah Armstrong on Breaking Free from the Low Carb Myth
Peak Human - Unbiased Nutrition Info for Optimum Health, Fitness & Living
Brian Sanders
4.8 • 978 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2023
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
Ashley and Sarah Armstrong, aka The Strong Sistas, are powerlifters and nutritional coaches who are passionate about bioenergetic nutrition and regenerative agriculture. Suffering from autoimmune disease, the sisters have adopted an animal based lifestyle, utilizing the Carnivore Diet and the Ketogenic Diet, which has transformed their lives. Today, they live on a regenerative farm in Michigan and, in addition to their coaching practice, co-host the Rooted in Resilience Podcast.
Website: https://www.armstrongsisters.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/strong.sistas/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@StrongSistas/featured
Show Notes
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(04:59) Your ability to produce energy, resist disease, and eat a wide variety of foods is developed in the environment you grew up in.
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(12:38) We need to develop food awareness rather than food fear.
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(19:57) Reduce your endotoxin load to mitigate its negative impact on estrogen and serotonin.
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(31:58) There are many misconceptions around PUFAs and saturated fat.
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(40:27) A weight loss program can result in health issues because even a short-term caloric deficit leads to a significant decrease in thyroid hormone conversion from T4 to T3.
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(50:29) Calories-in, calories-out does matter; but, the state of your thyroid impacts your basal metabolic rate.
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(55:50) Ease of digestion should be considered when determining what to prioritize in your diet.
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(1:05:32) Dr. Ray Peat believes that the small intestine should be relatively sterile
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(1:13:09) Putting on muscle is extremely advantageous to women over 30.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Well hello again everyone. Welcome back to Peak Human. I'm Brian Sanders. I'm the |
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| 0:50.3 | Here's a quick intro about our episode today with the Strong Sisters. |
| 0:54.0 | They are great. I've known them for years. |
| 0:56.0 | They did a nose-tetail carnivore diet, found a lot of success and healing from that |
| 1:01.0 | and then moved into something called the pro-metabolic way of eating, which adds a lot more carbs. |
| 1:07.5 | From Whole Foods like fruit and tubers and honey and stuff like that. |
| 1:11.8 | Really interesting episode, I've had a lot of these guests on in the |
| 1:14.4 | past couple years talking about leaning into whole food carbohydrates in a healthy way. |
| 1:19.6 | You don't have to do a low-carbed diet, you don't have to do carnivore, you don't have to do kiddocarved diet you don't have to do carnivore you don't have to do |
| 1:23.2 | kido there are many ways to be healthy within this ancestral framework there's so many |
| 1:28.4 | bad diets out there I think 95% of diets are bad but there are some really good ones that are |
| 1:34.4 | ancestry appropriate in this last 5%. So I want to let people know that |
| 1:40.0 | these exist. So many people reach out to me and they're like, hey, I can't do |
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