Flex Diet Podcast

By Dr. Mike T NelsonScience Health & Fitness Nutrition Fitness Life Sciences

Flex Diet Podcast episodes

January 25, 2021S2_EP_33 How To Eat Organ Meats, Image Issues in Fitness and More with Ashleigh VanHouten
Intro to Ashleigh's quarantine life
How the book, It Takes Guts, went from idea to reality
Why bother with organ meats
Nose-to-tail-eating
Why organ meat fell out of favor
Health wars and trying to be the voice of reason
Image issues in fitness
Competence and confidence
Dr. Mike's thoughts on certain exercises and hypertrophy
Vegetables are good
Tips on eating liver
Find her book at any online bookstore or at ashleighvanhouten.com. IG @themusclemaven
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1 hr 19 min
January 18, 2021S2_EP_32_How To Train for Muscle Hypertrophy, an Interview with Kassem of N1 Education
N1 Education mission: They take what you'd learn in a university setting and apply it to the individual level.
Narrowing research down to an applicable level
Issues with hypertrophy research
Targeted programming
Activation of specific muscles
Balancing hypertrophy training with moving well as a human
Internal vs. external cues
Dynamic stability
Coaching exercises to a client
Find Kassem Hanson on IG: @N1.education, @N1.training, and coach_kassem
Websites: n1.education and n1.training
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1 hr 5 min
January 11, 2021S2_EP_31: All About Fish Oil, Essential Dietary Fats and More with Brent Uken
Hear about Brent's background
Research on fish oil- where it's been and where it's going
Omega 3 to Omega 6 ratios
Omega 3 index: what it is and what it tells you
The form of supplementation matters
What to look for on a supplement label
Can you hyper dose fish oil to catch up on a deficiency?
Algae-based fish oil
New study outline and details
Arachidonic acid
Brent's recommendations
Find Brent at [email protected] or on LinkedIn.
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48 min
January 05, 2021S2_EP_30_3 Step Process to Reach Your Fitness Goals in 2021
Intentions with a rough timeframe are better than goals with a strict timeframe.
Figure out the gap - what's missing. SAID principle.
Figure out the cost. HRV, joint pain, time spent exercising...
Basic boring is best (3 Bs)
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21 min
December 29, 2020 S2_EP_29 How to Recover Faster and Be More Resilient via Sleep and Sports Supplements with Dr Greg Potter
Dr. Potter's background and current role
Sleep's effects on the brain
REM sleep for motor learning
Lucid dreaming
PTSD, trauma, TBI, and sleep
Creatine supplementation, sleep, and health
Other supplement science and recommendations
Be careful when choosing your supplements
Where to find Dr. Greg Potter:
Resilient Nutrition
Co-founder and Chief Science Officer, Resilient Nutrition
Instagram | Twitter | Linkedin
Greg Potter PhD
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1 hr 16 min
December 21, 2020S2_EP_28 High Flux Model and More for Fat Loss and Client Coaching, an interview with Dean Guedo and Jeb Johnston of StrongerU
Deb, Jean, and Dr. Mike talk about the state of the industry in light of the pandemic
The high flux model
Learning how to get out of the low-calorie mindset
The importance of steps and energy expenditure
People react to food differently
Study in Amish
The role of recreation apart from training
Managing priorities
The power of knowing your motivator
There's no getting around hard work
Find Dean on IG: geudo.power or The Pump Podcast on Youtube
Find Jeb on foodonthemind.com
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1 hr 28 min
December 14, 2020S2_EP_27 The Ph.D. Process, RPR, and Cutting Edge Psychology: an interview with Precision Nutrition's Head Strength and Sport Psychology coach Dr Adam Feit
Discussion of the Ph.D. process
Research limitations and struggles
Reflexive Performance Reset (RPR)
The imperfect role of science in answering questions
Sport and exercise psychology (Dr. Feit’s dissertation)
The role of the coach in directing their client's mindset
One surprise from Dr. Feit’s research
Find Dr. Feit on Facebook: Adam Feit, IG: @aefeit, Twitter: a_feit, and email: [email protected]
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1 hr 6 min
December 07, 2020S2_EP_26 Useful Tips for Fitness Trainers and Their Clients: Interview with coach Lee Boyce
Managing training through COVID restrictions
Encouraging client independence
The role the personal trainer can play
Fitness culture and the hardcore or die aspect
Tradeoffs in fitness
Tips for changing up training to correct for bad form
Using video for analysis
Find Lee on FB, IG, and Twitter @coachleeboyce or leeboyce.com.
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1 hr 9 min
November 30, 2020S2_EP_25_ Holiday Weight Loss Tips - Why Do People Overeat and What To Do
How not to gain weight between November and January.
Two letters: H and H - hedonic and homeostatic
Awareness
Combine the best of hedonic and homeostatic
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16 min
November 16, 2020S2_EP_24_The 4 Aspects of Physiologic Flexibility for Enhanced Recovery, Anti-fragility, and Robustness with Dr Mike T Nelson
Beginnings of metabolic flexibility research
Where the idea of physiologic flexibility came from
Can we transfer the idea of metabolic flexibility to our physiology?
Apply stress to the system, does the system get better?
What systems in the body have to be regulated or you'll be in a world of hurt?
Body temperature
pH
Blood glucose
Oxygen and CO2
How improvements in each contributes to being a more robust human
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29 min

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