Why low-carb diets are inherently stressful

How carbohydrates oppose stress and decrease the stress hormones

Why carbohydrates ARE essential and why their intake plays a vital role in our endocrine systems  

Whether most people have hypothyroidism and how carnivore diets can cause hypothyroidism

Why carnivore diets are NOT ideal for gut health even if they improve symptoms in the short-term 

The real reason why people are moving from a carnivore diet to a “Ray Peat Diet”

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Timestamps:

3:03 – why low-carb diets drive physiological stress and carbohydrates oppose stress

21:51 – why carbohydrates are essential and why our endocrine systems are so tightly tuned to carbohydrate intake

29:19 – do most people have hypothyroidism?

44:38 – is hypothyroidism ever the root problem?

53:28 – how carnivore diets can cause hypothyroidism

1:01:36 – whether taking exogenous steroid hormones (like pregnenolone or progesterone) will increase cortisol

1:12:19 – should we focus on gut health over thyroid health?

1:23:31 – why are people really moving from carnivore to a “Ray Peat Diet?”