217: The Big Protein Question
Age Less / Live More
Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2016
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In any health conversation, one of the most-common things discussed is: "So where do you get your protein?" This is not a bad question, but it's not exactly the right question either. Protein is a real concern for everyone navigating our modern food system, but there are better questions to ask to achieve optimal health.
In this week's Yoga Talk Show, Lucas shares new ways to think about protein and make choices in your own life that you'll notice right away.
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Listen & Learn:
- Why the "complete protein" myth does more harm than good
- Why percentage-based protein numbers confuse most people
- How to determine your baseline protein needs
- Why protein deficiency is extremely rare, but imbalance is common
- Real concerns for you and our world food system in regards to protein
Nutritional Tip of the Week:
- Sodium Intake Recommendations
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| 0:00.0 | I've been training yoga teachers now for over 10 years, over 2,000 graduates in over 40 countries |
| 0:05.6 | and throughout that experience a couple of things that I've learned, well a lot of things that I've learned, |
| 0:09.6 | but one of the big takeaways is that about 3 to 5% of graduates walk away from my courses |
| 0:15.4 | really happy but wanting more. When I say more they want more in terms of |
| 0:19.5 | business skills they want more in terms of in-depth applied anatomy, leadership, public speaking. |
| 0:25.0 | Basically, they want to figure out how to make a career out of yoga. |
| 0:28.0 | The majority of people are not looking for that, but a very small percentage really want to go all the way and they kind of want to do what |
| 0:34.7 | I've done which is make a career and a lifestyle and a livelihood with yoga and for that you need |
| 0:39.8 | more education a 200 hour program just isn't enough. |
| 0:43.8 | So for that reason I've created this six month yoga teachers college program. |
| 0:47.7 | It's based here in Barcelona and there's two in-person emergence. |
| 0:51.1 | There's 24 e-learning modules that you do in conjunction with a |
| 0:55.1 | one-on-one mentor and then our last part of the program is an apprenticeship and |
| 0:59.7 | placement program it's a very intensive course It's designed for people who are extremely serious about |
| 1:06.0 | their practice and their career and I couldn't be more excited about it. We are now open |
| 1:11.8 | for applications. The application process is quite rigorous, so do be prepared to fill up quite a bit of information. You and I will talk on the phone. Make sure it's the right choice for you. We invest a ton of time and |
| 1:23.5 | resources into you so we want to make sure that you're all in as well. If you're |
| 1:28.1 | interested please go to yoga teachers college.com it's yoga teachers college.com you can learn more about how the schedule works about the |
| 1:36.2 | dates and the commitment and see if it's the right thing for you. Thanks so much. |
| 1:40.5 | Enjoy the show. Hello and welcome to the yoga talk show. |
| 1:47.6 | This is Lucas Rockwood and this is a special edition of the yoga talk show instead of having |
| 1:52.4 | a special guest like we usually do, we're |
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