341: How To Pick Nutrient Dense Foods For Best Skin Nutrition w/ Dr. Sarah Ballantyne

The Healthy Skin Show

If you’re serious about figuring out what type of diet is best for you – your answer is nutrient dense foods. Let me explain…
Food fear is rampant right now, with social media demonizing different common foods/ingredients as well as promoting “healthy” diets that lack necessary nutrient dense foods.
Nutrients are the raw materials that the human body needs to survive and thrive. If you are not consuming nutrient dense foods, you may have nutrient insufficiencies, which puts a strain on various systems in the body.
So when you believe in this idea that some foods are “good” and others are “bad”, it can create a restrictive way of eating, which can then lead to insufficiencies or deficiencies later on. All this can become incredibly confusing, especially when you’re being inundated daily with influencer messages telling you to follow this diet or that.
You may get to a point where you are afraid to eat!
That’s why today’s conversation is SO important. I’m joined by Dr. Sarah Ballantyne to discuss how to approach optimal nutrition without dangerous elimination diets or dogma around eating.
Dr. Sarah Ballantyne, PhD is the founder of Nutrivore.com. She creates educational resources to help people improve their day-to-day diet and lifestyle choices, empowered and informed by the most current evidence-based scientific research.
The Nutrivore approach is positive and inclusive dietary guidance, based on science and devoid of dogma, using nutrient dense foods as a foundational principle encompassed by the simple phrase: Nourishment, not judgment.
Her new book, also called Nutrivore, is now available everywhere you can purchase books. We'll talk about some of the eye-opening points I discovered in the book, and why I found it such a valuable read to help you pick nutrient dense foods.
In This Episode:

• Why nutrient deficiencies are such a HUGE problem (and how they happen)
• Why changing your mind is a good thing (even if you feel embarrassed)
• How morality applied to diet and foods is disastrous
• Why you need protein (and what amino acids are used for in your body)
• The Nutrivore approach to optimal nutrition and nutrient dense foods
• Most nutrient-rich foods to include in your diet

Quotes
“Deficiency technically refers to such low regular dietary intake of a nutrient that you develop a disease of malnutrition. There's scurvy, rickets, pellagra, beriber, night blindness, iron deficiency anemia. So we have these really well-characterized diseases caused by a single nutrient being too low.”
“The more black-and-white we think about foods, the more it increases the risk for disordered eating, for weight regain cycles, so yo-yo dieting, the more it increases the stress response. And it's actually driving, I think, what is currently a big problem in society right now, which is that we think that a diet is about what we cut out. We think a diet is about bad foods that we have to eliminate. We're bad if we eat that bad food, we're good if we eat these good foods.”
Links
Find Dr. Ballantyne online | Instagram | Facebook | Tiktok | YouTube
GET THE BOOK NOW – Nutrivore: The Radical New Science for Getting the Nutrients You Need from the Food You Eat
5 Free Guides to Nutrivore
Healthy Skin Show ep. 305: Elimination Diets, Food Fear + He

Capitole

1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. Nutrient insufficiency vs. nutrient deficiency (00:03:04)

3. Why applying moral judgments to food can be disastrous (00:09:47)

4. Dr. Sarah's journey to rethinking good vs bad foods (00:11:55)

5. Why protein is so important (and what are amino acids?) (00:21:55)

6. The Nutrivore approach to optimal nutrition (00:28:44)

7. Final thoughts (00:34:51)