264: Fix Your Diet: Understanding Macronutrients, Calories, Training, Supplements and More (Through an Evidence-Based Approach) with Alan Aragon
Legendary Life | Transform Your Body, Upgrade Your Health & Live Your Best Life
Ted Ryce
4.8 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2017
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
There are so many diets out there, but which ones actually work? In this episode, renowned nutrition expert Alan Aragon will share what the science says about the most popular diets while explaining the long-term effects on your body and health. Plus, he will crack the latest fish oil, coconut oil, and butter controversy. Listen to this episode and learn how to fix your diet so you don't get confused by nutrition advice again.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up and welcome back to another episode of the Legendary Life Podcast? I'm your host Ted Rice. This is the show that's all |
| 0:15.3 | about taking your health, your body, and your life to that next level. And I'm |
| 0:19.4 | super excited to introduce my guest today. His name is Alan Aragon and if you're in the |
| 0:25.0 | fitness industry you know who Alan Aragon is. He's the guy who co-authored the most |
| 0:32.1 | viewed article in the history of the Journal of International Society of Sports Nutrition |
| 0:37.8 | on post-workout nutrition. He's the guy that helped us change our recommendations based on the best evidence. |
| 0:45.6 | Now if you're outside the fitness industry you may not have heard of Alan before |
| 0:50.0 | but let me tell you he is a rock star in the fitness industry and for good reason. |
| 0:55.4 | Not only has he worked with notable clients like Stone Cold Steve Austin, Derek Fisher, and |
| 1:01.0 | Pete Sampras, but he's the guy who helps educate other fitness professionals |
| 1:06.4 | about what they do with their clients regarding nutrition and he specializes in fat loss nutrition in muscle building nutrition and he's here today to give us a different perspective. |
| 1:19.1 | Yes, we're going to go into a fat loss. We're going to talk about why so many people get it wrong when it comes |
| 1:25.9 | to fat loss and what they need to do right to finally start getting the results they want. |
| 1:30.3 | Also understanding the underlying principles behind why any diet works. |
| 1:36.7 | We're also going to dive into the ketogenic diet, a diet that's super popular right now. |
| 1:41.8 | You're going to learn about the effectiveness of the ketogenic |
| 1:45.2 | diet as well as what it means long term and whether you should do it or not. We're also going to |
| 1:51.5 | dive into dietary fats and their effects on cardiovascular health. |
| 1:56.5 | I mean this was an information-packed episode. |
| 1:59.8 | We're also going to cover weight loss plateaus of why they happen and how you can get around them. |
| 2:06.4 | Aside from all that, Alan brings the evidence-based approach and that's a word that you're going to hear a lot more of because we're |
| 2:14.4 | becoming more reliant on research, more and more of it is coming out. |
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