Flex Diet Podcast

One of my favorite shows on TV, other than Seinfeld which most of my students don’t even know existed… which is crazy, was MythBusters. Myth #3 is “as you age, you need less protein. This is false. From studies that we’ve seen, your protein needs actually go up as you age because of anabolic resistance. Listen to this show to learn more and good luck trying to convince mom and dad to change their eating habits.

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Too Much Protein Will Damage Your Kidneys? For the average healthy person listening in, this is not true. You need to understand the difference between “work” and “damage”. It is true that if you have more protein coming in, your kidneys will do more work but that’s not a bad thing. Listen in to learn more about this myth that just won’t die.

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This week I've been talking about that protein or bro-tein, depending upon how you want to pronounce it. What I wanted to do this week is give you a very brief primer on why protein is useful and why people talk about it. In this and the next 4 episodes, we're going to talk about a new protein myth each day. And today, the myth we're going to talk about is you can only use 30 grams of protein per meal. But before that, and we're just going to give you a very short primer on protein. So why do we focus on protein? Listen in and find out. Get the Daily Fitness Insider newsletter (free):

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On the topic of the effects of exercise, we need to chat about the difference in aerobic exercise versus anaerobic exercise. Now for some of you, those may be a very simple review, but I think these concepts get a little bit mixed up and for good reason. So just like when we're talking about metabolic flexibility where the body is using this mixture of fat and carbohydrates at any one time, we can kind of think of that in terms of aerobic and anaerobic. These things (fuel & exercise) are not so much a hard switches per se, but are more like dimmer switches. We're always turning to a little higher percentage of aerobic capacity or metabolism or returning to a little bit higher portion of anaerobic metabolism. Let's research this further.

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As of this recording, you may hear some different noises in the background. I'm in South Padre Texas doing some kiteboarding. You're probably wondering what kiteboarding has to do with the topic of exercise this week (other than it is a very good exercise). And if you know me, you know I could probably do multiple podcasts and yammer on about why everybody should learn to kiteboard. But the reason for kiteboarding is recreation -- in addition to me getting out to go ride, hang out with friends, be outside. The wonderful wifey took a road trip from Minnesota to Texas. Today's topic is exercise versus recreation.

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Today I have something super cool for you. This is an interview with my good buddy Dr. Andy Galpin from Cal State Fullerton. If you've been listening to some of my stuff for quite a while, or possibly some of Andy's stuff for quite a while, you may notice that this interview was originally aired a couple of years ago on the Eat to Perform podcast. As I was combing through some of the archives here, I found it and I just really loved all the information that Dr. Andy gave. Rerunning it again because I think it is still very valid and fits in with the topic this week as we are discussing more about exercise. So check out the show here. Thank you very much. And if you want more information you can go to www.flexdiet.com Get the Daily Fitness Insider newsletter (free):

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The importance of sleep. Whenever you talk about sleep, especially around a group of lifters, these questions then come up, "Should I be ingesting protein before I go to bed? Does that mess up my metabolism? Does that gonna make me jacked in four weeks? Is this a good thing? Is it a bad thing? Should I get up in the middle of the night and consume protein?" All very good questions. I did a run many, many years ago of where I got up in the middle of the night and consumed some protein. I would put an insulated cup in the bathroom with ice in it and would set my alarm for around three in the morning. I would get up and consume that and then go back to bed cause I wanted to keep the anabolic response going as much as possible again, an n = 1 experiment. But was that necessary?

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This week, we've been talking a lot about sleep, and today I wanted to discuss with you just a very short thing related to the impact of sleep on metabolism. Now, earlier in the week, we talked about how if your quality of sleep is less, it may impair your body's ability to use fat as a fuel source. And I would say that that may have implications on body composition. And unfortunately, physiology is kind of messy and complex. What is the association of short sleep and different aspects of sleep-related to energy metabolism? Research in this area of sleep shows that as you get less sleep right, your body is going to be under more stress. So what? Let me tell you why that matters. . .

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