• 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?”