#014: Simplifying Nutrition
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2017
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
We're talking about why I prefer to keep my nutritional advice simple, the value of getting blood work done, & why both quality & quantity matters.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | eat real food, not too much mostly plants, done. |
| 0:06.6 | So, I mean, you could talk about macro nutrients, |
| 0:10.1 | the car back loading, you could talk about paleo, |
| 0:13.6 | all that, everything that you talk about |
| 0:16.0 | once you get away from those three terms I just said |
| 0:18.8 | carries with it some sort of agenda in my mind. |
| 0:23.1 | Someone's trying to sell you a program, |
| 0:25.0 | someone's trying to sell you a book, |
| 0:26.2 | someone's trying to sell you their methodology, |
| 0:30.2 | to me, it's the things that very few nutritionists |
| 0:34.2 | in the world would argue with is to eat real food, |
| 0:38.8 | not too much of it and most of it should be plant-based. |
| 0:42.0 | What confidence is, it has nothing to do with winning |
| 0:45.8 | or the leaderboard, what confidence is, |
| 0:48.2 | is knowing that you giving your best efforts is enough. |
| 0:53.3 | Is it not? |
| 0:57.8 | All right, Ben, today we're going to talk about |
| 1:00.9 | something that a lot of people like to fight about |
| 1:02.5 | on the internet, which is nutrition. |
| 1:05.2 | So, before we sort of dive into |
| 1:07.0 | wherever the conversation takes us, |
| 1:08.2 | I'm really interested to know how you think about nutrition |
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