Flex Diet Podcast

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

Flex Diet Podcast episodes

September 07, 2020 S2_EP_13: Interview with James Nestor, author of "Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art"
Show Notes:
What James’ wife thinks of his experiments
What happened when he plugged his nose for 10 days and how the experiment came about
Disorders correlated with mouth-breathing
Things to look out for: how long you can hold your breath after a complete exhale as a marker of health.
How this science got lost
What the perfect breath looks like
CO2 therapy
Holotropic Breathing practice
How the airway can impact facial structure and ADHD
Key Takeaways
Find James at mrjamesnestor.com.

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1 hr 2 min
August 31, 2020S2_EP_12: Interview with Dr Mike T Nelson -Steve Turns the Tables and Interviews Me Today
Dr. Mike’s early medical history
Beer golf
Schooling
Graduate work
How Dr. Mike started with metabolic flexibility
What people are getting right and wrong with HRV and Metabolic Flexibility
What he wishes he had known early on
What does the next frontier look like
Find Stephen at Ihealthsciences.com or IG @ihealthsciences
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1 hr 25 min
August 24, 2020S2_EP_11: How To Improve Your Breathing - an Interview with Rob Wilson from Shift Adapt
Breathing from an evolutionary and survival aspect
Self-regulation vs. self-optimization- why you should still work to improve your breathing
Breathing’s connection to pH, temperature and metabolic processes
The concept of physiologic flexibility
Breath practice for anti-fragility
Psychologically commit to the skill
Working hard in the right way
Benefits of developing CO2 tolerance
Best ways to start a breathing practice
Free series on shiftadapt.com/breathwork
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1 hr 13 min
August 17, 2020S2_EP_10 Isometrics, Patellofemoral Pain, Collagen, and More: Interview with Jake Tuura
Jake's experience with patellar tendon pain and how he fixed it with isometrics
Why do some people seem to suffer more tendon injuries as opposed to muscle injuries
The role of collagen in healing
The importance of consistency
Discussion of RPR
What are some different interventions
Overview of isometric exercises to help with patellar tendon pain
Who Jake likes to follow
Find Jake at jackedathlete.com or Jake Tuura on Instagram
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1 hr 13 min
August 10, 2020 S2_EP_9 Gut Health and Exercise: Interview with Dr. Sara Campbell
Bugs change in response to exercise and exercise can change gut bugs.
Reduction in microbiota can cause exercise to suffer in mice - discussion of recent studies
How can humans test themselves based on the mouse study
How microbes adapt to training stimulus
How long does it take microbiota to change and keep that change from reverting to baseline
Gut bugs and inulin in type 2 diabetics.
Classification of microbes
Where more research is needed in regards to resistance training and HIIT
Top two things people should be doing and one thing most people are probably not doing that they should
How you go about data collection in a lab
Referenced studies and articles:
Impact of Protein Intake in Older Adults with Sarcopenia and Obesity: A Gut Microbiota Perspective
FitBiomics CEO: ‘First athlete-derived probiotics to hit the market within a year, if not sooner’
Food for thought about manipulating gut bacteria
Host genotype and exercise exhibit species-level selection for members of the gut bacterial communities in the mouse digestive system
Gut bacteria selectively promoted by dietary fibers alleviate type 2 diabetes

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1 hr 6 min
August 07, 2020 S2_EP_8 Gym Opening and Safety: Interview with Mario Mavrides
The most commonly asked questions regarding re-opening
Who will return and why or why not
Disinfection policies
Wearing masks during exercise
Special hours for high-risk clients
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52 min
July 09, 2020 S2_EP_7 Female Athletes and Eating to Fuel Performance with Dr. Susan Kleiner
Prevalence of female (and male) athletes who under-eat
Where the notion that females don’t burn calories at the elite level in the same way as males began
Principle of low energy availability and relative energy deficiency in sport (REDS)
Coaching an athlete to eat more
Red flags to look for as a coach/trainer
When to refer the client to a specialist
Study Link:
https://jissn.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12970-020-00353-w
Dr. Kleiner's Website:
https://www.drskleiner.com/

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1 hr 6 min
June 29, 2020 S2_EP_6 Dr. Dom D'Agostino on Red Light, Ketones, Fasting, Zapping Monkeys and More
Dom’s 72-hour fast. Measurements he’s using and what markers he’s interested in.
Red light and near infrared (photobiomodulation)helping recovery? Subjective research.
Evidence from research and personal experience that it does help wound healing
Benefits around timing of red light therapy
Motivation behind doing a 72-hour fast? Testing metabolic flexibility
What does Dr. D'Agostino think is low carb
Dr. Mike’s Masters research on Zapping Monkeys
Lactate as a potential supplement
This is where his research on a ketone supplement began
Prevention of TBI
What else Dr. Dom is working on…
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1 hr 7 min
June 24, 2020 S2_EP_5 All About Light with Thaddeus Owen from Primal Hacker
All about blue light and how it can regulate and dis-regulate sleep cycles.
How much sunlight is needed?
Does the time of day matter?
Benefits of UVA and UVB light.
Right light panels and photobiomodulation.

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58 min
June 16, 2020 S2_EP_4 Insulin and Glucose Myths and More w Dr Tommy Wood
Dr. Wood talks about his upcoming experiment with the Carnivore Diet.
What is the accepted theory of Insulin and what might be wrong with that.
How insulin actually acts in a normally functioning body.
How more muscle tissue acts as a bigger buffer.
What Dr. Wood thinks about fasting and fasted cardio.
Insulin and normal insulin signaling are very useful to the body.
Insulin resistance doesn't just happen. The cause is much more interesting and important.
The answer isn't always eat less carbs.
Tests for insulin resistance.
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38 min

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