The Five Elements Podcast

8. The Carbs Vs. Fats Debate

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Coach Dylan & Coach Sam get into the highly contentious debate of carbs vs. fats. They touch on their experience, having both previously fallen prey to one camp or another. Afterwards, they dig into the research and provide practical tips for how to approach your diet without needlessly restricting any particular macronutrient. 


Roses and Thorns:

  • Sam’s COVID lockdown fatigue, fatphobic phrases & gratitude for the complex crux of life
  • Dylan's infinite struggle with consistent meditation & the frustration that comes with slow progress


    • The Meat & Potatoes:

    • Past Sam's search for the magic, secret diet hack: how she got into high carb no fat vegan, vegan keto, & raw vegan
    • The need to "cut something out" in order to lose weight
    • Past Dylan's search for the magic, secret diet hack: how he got into low carb, high carb, metabolic typing & organic everything
    • Why they avoid nutrition advice from charlatans & diet gurus
    • Why you shouldn't take nutrition advice from Gwyneth Paltrow
    • The power of nebulous terms & false diagnoses in marketing
    • Research Review of Kevin Hall's "Obesity Energetics: Bodyweight Regulation and the Effects of Diet Composition"
    • A meta-analysis of 32 controlled feeding (metabolic ward) studies of 534 diverse participants
    • Calories & protein were matched between all subjects
    • On average, the Higher Carb Lower Fat diets were shown to be better
    • Why this result is statistically significant, but practically meaningless
    • Fat Oxidation: why this term is extremely misunderstood & totally misused in marketing
    • The power of mechanistic overreaching: EPOC/"afterburn effect", intermittent fasting, insulin
    • The power of understanding energy balance, thermogenesis
    • Why getting attached to a specific nutritional or dietary ideology leads us astray from biology & science
    • How should you be eating?
    • Sam's experience with a low/no fat diet: hormones, low satiety
    • Sam's experience with a low carb diet: low energy for training, PCOS
    • Why we don't seem to do well with extremes
    • How to factor in satiety
    • Meeting your fat intake minimum (1g per kg of BW)
    • Meeting your protein intake minimum (1g per lb of BW)
    • Why partitioning/budgeting your macros properly matters most during a fat-loss phase
    • Research will never tell us what *everyone* should do
    • The importance of trial and error
    • Fat-loss never comes down to cutting out a macronutrient
    • The intersection of toxic diet culture
    • Why we all deserve the ability to feed ourselves with ease & confidence
    • How it always comes back to no extremes, just the unsexy combination of balance & moderation
    • The power of habit 
    • Why we all need a manageable level of cognitive restraint
    • If weight loss were easy - our species wouldn't exist


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