197: The Vegan, Veg & Paleo Debate
Age Less / Live More
Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2016
⏱️ 47 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Food has become religion with missionaries telling you to drink kale smoothies, eat bacon, avoid chicken, and take pills and potions galore. Vegetarian, vegan, raw food, paleo, Atkins... there are so many different groups who claim to have all the answers to nutrition. But do they? Really?
I've been obsessed with food and nutrition since 1999 and have studied it professionally since 2002. My biggest learning is that what we're doing right now is not working, and the future absolutely must look different than the present. I've also learned that the food religions of the world do more to confuse than to help us. My hope is that the Yoga Talk Show becomes an open forum for education and exploration as we all try to figure out how to thrive.
---------------------------------------------------------------
What You’ll Learn:
- Why there is no "one diet" for everyone
- How our food system is currently flawed
- Why the inconvenient truth about the future of food is that GMOs, lab-grown meats, and insects are likely necessities
- How we can end up on the right side of history, nutritionally
Nutritional Tip of the Week:
- Nori Seaweed Sheets - are they safe to buy from any store?
Got Questions?
- Write to us podcast@yogabody.com
Thanks to our sponsor:
Pre-Run Warm-Ups & Post-Run Flexibility Training
Join this at-home course to learn stretching exercises that will keep you limber, mobile, and injury free. Warm-up stretches take just 2-4 minutes to complete, and after your run, your flexibility training takes 15 minutes and can also be done before bed. This one-two stretching combo can have a dramatic impact your body, posture, and running performance.
Benefits of Flexibility:
- Reduce recovery time
- Adjust, adopt and modify your running stride and posture as needed
- Stop being limited by your range of motion (ROM)
- Add some “yin” to the “yang” that is your running schedule
- Maintain your agility on diverse terrain (no more tin-man style running)
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | As a yoga teacher, people often come up to me in social situations at airports and all different places and they're looking for solutions to their stiff problems. |
| 0:09.0 | And the people who tend to have the biggest stiff problems are runners. |
| 0:13.0 | Whenever I meet runners, they're always looking for |
| 0:15.0 | one or two stretches they can do before or after running |
| 0:18.0 | to fix their tight hamstrings, their tight calves, |
| 0:21.0 | their hip flexors, their quads, their shoulders. Those are usually the problem areas and they're |
| 0:25.4 | looking for just a couple of poses. Now the reality is yoga doesn't work that well as kind |
| 0:31.0 | of a prescriptive tool, meaning here's a couple of poses call me in the morning |
| 0:34.8 | Generally you need to commit to it but the good news is that it's very very |
| 0:39.1 | Compounding so unlike strength for example if you're doing resistance training maybe you're lifting some |
| 0:45.1 | weights or throwing some kettlebells around it's very easy to build strength it's extremely |
| 0:49.5 | easy to lose it with flexibility gains it's kind of the opposite |
| 0:53.0 | it's slow to come it might take weeks before you notice it but the changes are very very |
| 0:58.5 | lasting meaning if you add length to your hamstrings to your calves. It's very, very common that you can compound |
| 1:05.9 | that length over time and create a more limber, more mobile body as you age rather than |
| 1:12.2 | vice versa. |
| 1:13.0 | With runners I find that people prefer to spend more time on the road than they do in the yoga class. |
| 1:18.0 | They prefer to be on the trails and on the street running then a 90 minute yoga class and that's totally |
| 1:23.8 | understandable I think whatever activity you love go for it I'm a huge fan of |
| 1:28.3 | running as well it never really suited me very well I got all kinds of problems |
| 1:31.9 | tendonitis was the worst one, but I had |
| 1:33.6 | plantar facitis, shin splints, all kinds of knee problems and other things as well. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Lucas Rockwood, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Lucas Rockwood and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.