{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Regenaissance Podcast","title":"Polyunsaturated Fats, Metabolic Health, and Fixing The American Food System - Ash Armstrong | #116","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":6389,"description":"Ashley Armstrong is a first-generation regenerative farmer and co-founder of Strong Sistas, a health platform born out of her own autoimmune diagnosis. She built Angel Acres Farm in Southwest Michigan from the ground up, producing corn- and soy-free eggs, and went on to found Nourish Food Club - a cooperative network of small regenerative farms supplying clean, transparently raised food directly to families.\n\nWhat We Cover\nHow Ashley went from graduate school to building a regenerative farm from scratch\nWhy conventional chicken and pork now have a fatty acid profile closer to seed oils than real meat\nThe 100-year shift in dietary fats and what it's doing to human metabolism\nHow Nourish Food Club is reviving the farm cooperative model to support small farmers\nThe bureaucratic bullying small farms face daily - and why the system is designed against them\nTimestamps\n\n00:00 – Ashley's health crisis and path to farming\n06:30 – Building Angel Acres from scratch\n13:00 – Lessons from 12 years of competitive golf\n18:45 – How Nourish Food Club works\n26:00 – Why cheap and quality food can't coexist\n33:30 – The 100-year shift away from saturated fat\n42:00 – How corn and soy changed pork and chicken\n49:30 – Phytonutrients in pasture-raised meat\n56:00 – Why grocery labels are meaningless\n01:03:00 – The problem with indoor farming\n01:09:30 – Bureaucratic bullying and the jerky incident\n01:17:00 – Why small farm costs are structurally higher\n01:28:00 – Where consumers can start\nLinks\nWebsite\nInstagram\nYouTube\nRegenaissance YouTube Channel\n\nAbout The Podcast: The Regenaissance Podcast explores the people, farms, and ideas rebuilding our food system from the ground up.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/al8BwjjnR2m8I-3vEq0Iyx2E0FqQ9QB0aLPF4D6flnY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81YzE3/NmFmYjZiNmRkZDdm/Y2MwYzk5ZjI5ZjRj/YzgwZi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}