HS Brotherhood
🔥 Welcome to the HS Brotherhood Podcast 🔥
Hosted by Joey Torre & Parish Armstead
👊 Real Talk. Raw Stories. Unbreakable Brotherhood.
Living with Hidradenitis Suppurativa (HS) as a man can feel isolating—but it doesn’t have to. Join Joey Torre (HS advocate and resilience coach) and Parish Armstead (patient warrior and community builder) as they smash the stigma around men’s health and HS.
What You’ll Hear:
✅ No-BS Conversations: From flare-ups to fatherhood, mental health to manhood myths.
✅ Expert Insights: Dermatologists, therapists, and researchers break down treatments and hope.
✅ Brotherhood Wins: Stories of men thriving with HS—in the gym, at work, and beyond.
✅ Your Voice: Listener Q&As, shoutouts, and uncensored lived experiences.
Why Listen?
- “We’re not just surviving HS—we’re rewriting what it means to be strong.”
- For guys tired of silent suffering: This is your mic drop moment.
🎧 Subscribe now on [Apple Podcasts/Spotify/etc.] and join the tribe that’s turning pain into power.
New episodes drop every Tuesday. Tag a brother who needs this crew. 💪
HS Brotherhood
Healing in the Kitchen: HS Nutrition Made Real
In Season 2, Episode 2 of The Brotherhood Podcast, hosts Parrish and Joey step into the kitchen with special guest Cristina, a nutritionist, chef, cookbook author, and HS warrior who brings her full story — and a full meal — to the table.
This episode blends cooking, conversation, and real-world education as Cristina teaches the guys how to make a creamy, dairy-free, HS-friendly creamy crab chicken served over garlic cauliflower mash. Along the way, she breaks down the science of anti-inflammatory eating, digestive health, trigger foods, and how nutrition can be used as a powerful tool in managing HS flares.
Cristina opens up about her own HS journey, diagnosed at just 13, navigating years of flares, postpartum challenges, and failed medications before discovering the role nutrition could play in healing. She shares how she went from struggling teen to professional chef, to now being in eight years of remission — all by understanding her body and building a personalized, sustainable nutrition lifestyle.
The episode covers:
• How to cook flavorful, anti-inflammatory meals without restriction
• The truth about blood sugar regulation, metabolic issues, and HS
• Intermittent fasting — how it affects men vs. women
• Understanding digestion, hunger cues, and how stress impacts flares
• Why food can make you tired, bloated, foggy… or energized
• How to build a realistic, non-stressful nutritional plan
• Healthy dessert ideas (yes, even a chocolate mug cake!)
Cristina also shares practical strategies for:
• Finding trigger foods
• Balancing carbs with protein, fiber, and healthy fats
• Supporting wound healing with nutrients like vitamin C, collagen, and zinc
• Making nutrition a tool, not a punishment
This episode is uplifting, educational, hilarious, and packed with actionable insight for HS warriors, caregivers, and anyone trying to understand how food and inflammation shape daily life.
For more Hidradenitis Suppurativa resources visit: hsconnect.org
This podcast was made possible by Moonlake.