003: Dan Churchill - Discovering The Best Diet For Optimal Health
The Nick Bare Podcast
Nick Bare
5 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2023
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, I chat with Dan Churchill, a great friend and wise council on all things nutrition. Dan is an author, CEO of Charley St protein grounds, and NYC-based performance chef who works with celebrities and professional athletes to reach their fitness goals.
We clear up some confusion on trending diet topics (ever heard of seed oils?), help you find the best diet for your goals, expose false nutritional claims, and break down Dan's plant-based dieting experiment. Oh, and we discuss if you should take liver pills...enjoy the episode!
Topics
(00:00) - Intro
(00:51) - False nutritional claims
(05:50) - Weight loss vs. fat loss
(07:30) - Consumer confusion on dieting
(13:00) - Diet identities
(16:55) - Plant-based experiment
(25:20) - Aesthetic vs. performance goals
(34:00) - Hormone damage
(38:15) - Finding the best diet for you
(41:11) - The fifth macronutrient
(47:41) - Chris Hemsworth diet
(52:10) - Effects of cutting
(54:00) - Conditioning in prep vs. out
(59:20) - Removing seed oils
(01:09:58) - Closing down the restaurant
(01:19:34) - Fear of judgment
(01:23:10) - Delegate and elevate
(01:26:01) - Final words
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Dude, I feel like it's a loaded question made to light-loose my shoes. |
| 0:02.8 | This is Dan Churchill, Australian performance chef who gets fired up about all things food. |
| 0:07.4 | Now it's Dan Churchill! |
| 0:08.8 | Alright! |
| 0:09.6 | Dan works with some of the biggest celebrities and professional athletes |
| 0:12.7 | help them perform and look their best, even Thor is taking his advice. |
| 0:16.1 | Like two hot donuts! |
| 0:17.6 | And today we sat down to get his take on some controversial and dieting topics. |
| 0:22.0 | For example, the keto diet, you don't eat any carbs. |
| 0:25.0 | As a result, you lose all the water up and it was like, oh, I lost all his weight. |
| 0:28.3 | It's great. It's not sustainable. |
| 0:29.6 | There are going to be repercussions. |
| 0:31.6 | I've been made like quarter of a million dollars in dorsing living pills. |
| 0:34.3 | They're like people that are doing this. |
| 0:36.5 | These people who are making these claims, they are helping people to an extent. |
| 0:40.4 | What? |
| 0:41.1 | Unpack it. |
| 0:41.7 | For people to claim that eating vegetables is not good for you in fact harms you, |
| 0:45.6 | is total BS. |
| 0:51.8 | Dan Churchill, is it frustrating when you see people make claims about certain diets, |
| 0:57.6 | trends or foods that are so obviously false, but created and marketed as an extreme for people |
| 1:04.0 | to believe and buy? |
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