Should We Be Eating Fiber? | Anu Simh - E397

Low Carb MD Podcast

Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian

Diet, Mental Health, Lowcarb, Nutrition, Keto, Brianlenzkes, Health & Fitness, Jasonfung, Doctortro, Intermittentfasting, Trokalayjian, Medicine, Meganramos

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Anu Simh is a Board Certified Functional Health Coach and the founder of 9 Arms of Wellness. She is also the author of Feed Your Microbiome to Flourish, and a graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition.

Through the Nine Arms of Wellness program, she teaches the value of using food as medicine, practical lifestyle management techniques, and an interactive, integrative approach drawn from over 100 dietary theories, including Ayurveda, Chinese Medicine, gluten-free, Paleo, raw, vegan, and macrobiotics.

In this episode, Dr. Tro, Dr. Brian, and Anu talk about…

(00:00) Intro
(04:37) What low carb is and how it effects the microbiome
(05:47) Whether fiber, honey, and fruit are important for a healthy diet
(39:00) Whether microbial diversity in the gut is necessarily beneficial
(42:06) People who say, “you should not eat plants ever,” and whether they exist
(53:58) What Anu and Brian’s ideal patient looks like and how they would treat them
(01:00:25) The many factors that impact gut health
(01:03:20) Outro

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Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

Anu Simh on the Life’s Best Medicine Podcast: https://lifesbestmedicine.com/podcast/episode-249-anu-simh/
Super Gut (book): https://drdavisinfinitehealth.com/product/super-gut

Anu Simh:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/9armsofwellness
FB: https://www.facebook.com/9armsofwellness
Links: https://linktr.ee/anusimh
9 Arms of Wellness: https://www.9armsofwellness.com/about

Dr. Brian Lenzkes:

Website: https://arizonametabolichealth.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrianLenzkes?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author

Dr. Tro Kalayjian:

Website: https://www.doctortro.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DoctorTro
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doctortro/

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Low Carb MD Podcast.
0:03.0	No one is beyond help.
0:05.0	No one is beyond hope.
0:07.0	Nothing said on the Low Carb MD podcast is medical advice.
0:11.0	Please consult your own doctor before making any lifestyle changes.
0:19.0	Hello and welcome back to the low carb MD podcast.
0:24.8	We're kind of cheating today because I have someone that I actually had on
0:28.3	life's best medicine.
0:29.7	I said, oh, I think we should get you on low carb MD.
0:32.0	And it's funny because we talk about these things, low carb, you know, vegan diet,
0:36.3	all these different approaches to better
0:38.1	health. And so we can get into our little militant areas that I find. I'm carnivore. So if you have an avocado, you're going to die and you're out of the club. And so those are the kind of things I've been seeing lately too. So we had a great discussion. Toro, you can do the intro if you would like. But just wanted to, it would be fun to,
0:56.0	and she even, and we had a great discussion. We had a really good time. And she goes, oh my gosh, when I saw you one of the low carb guys, I was like, I was going to cancel on you because I didn't want to get confrontational. I was like, no, but we had such a great time. And I learned a lot. And so it's nice to hear this of having different approaches to health.
0:54.6	And how do we just, it's nice to hear this of having different approaches to health.
1:12.0	And how do we just, it's an end of one ultimately what works for you. So Tro, you could do the
1:16.8	intro if you want. Yeah, absolutely. I'm excited to have an is sim. Am I pronouncing that right
1:22.6	Anna Sim? Did I pronounce that right?
1:24.7	Anu Sam, the H is silent. Yeah. Thank you. And you're, just like Dr. Lanski's difficult. Yeah, he's got that S silent S. Look, you're board certified health and wellness coach. You're an author, right? You wrote Feed your microbiome to flourish. And you were on Brian's podcast. So any friend of his is a friend of mine.
1:45.6	And, you know, always, always interested to learn maybe here, you know, something I haven't
1:51.7	heard before.
1:52.7	So I'm super excited for this.
1:54.7	And it's not the lines then, Brian.
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