Yesterday's Coffee

In this week's episode of Yesterday's Coffee, we chat about plants! Specifically anti-nutrients (including lectins) and how to work around their negative side effects. Also covering a cool study showing some support for Popeye's love of spinach and a recent "scare" about kale being bad for your health.

The spinach related talk starts at 13:15.

In this week's episode of Yesterday's Coffee, we discuss the recent nutrition recommendations around red meat and conduct a taste test between the popular "Impossible" meatless burger and a standard cheeseburger. Tune in to see how Kyle feels about his first-ever veggie burger.

On this week's episode of Yesterday's Coffee, we chat about the new meat alternative burger craze, specifically: The Impossible Burger that is popping up in fast-food chains like Burger King, and another popular meat alternative "Beyond Meat". Find out if these "meat replacements" that bleed like real beef have any real value for your health.

In today's episode of Yesterday's Coffee, we discuss a high-level nutrition strategy known as carb cycling. Carb cycling looks to maximize the effectiveness of every last detail in a diet, aiming to optimize body composition, performance, metabolic rate, and cravings.

In today's episode of Yesterday's Coffee, we chat about whether or not the size of a muscle affects how it should be trained. Do smaller muscles require more or less volume and/or frequency to achieve maximal growth compared to large muscles? Find out here.

In today's episode of Yesterday's Coffee, we are discussing a brand new study looking at the effects of intermittent fasting on strength output. These results have interesting implications for people getting into intermittent fasting but they might not be what you think.

In today's episode of Yesterday's Coffee, we are discussing the Vagus nerve. This nerve serves as the junction between our mental thoughts and our physical reality. The proficiency of this nerve can have major effects on mental and physical well being including anxiety, depression, arthritis, and gut issues to name a few. Learn all about what this strange nerve can do and how you can train it. Here's a hint, there's a legitimate physical reason for "chanting" practices in yoga such as "Om".

In today's episode of Yesterday's Coffee, we are discussing the new nutrition label, a potentially new cause of type 2 diabetes, and the effect of smaller more frequent meals on your weight and body composition.

In today's episode of Yesterday's Coffee, we are discussing whether or not you can have too much protein and if so, what the ramifications might be. We touch on the results of an overfeeding study to investigate whether or not excess protein can be stored as body fat and we dive into the effects protein may have on your kidneys and bone health.

In today's episode of Yesterday's Coffee, we have part 2 of our series on helping you guys get to know us better! This week Alexa shares what inspired her to choose nutrition as a career and how a passion for learning continues to shape her business and coaching style.