#290: Menno Henselmans & Eric Helms, PhD - Diet Breaks, Calorie Cycling & Muscle Retention
Sigma Nutrition Radio
Danny Lennon
4.8 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2019
⏱️ 73 minutes
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In This Episode We Discuss:
- How low is “too low” for low calorie days?
- How much do very low calorie days or fasting impact muscle retention?
- Is there a physiological benefit to diet breaks and refeeds?
Eric is currently a Research Fellow at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. His work is focused on training and nutrition interventions that could have implications for bodybuilders, powerlifters and other strength athletes. Eric has many peer reviewed publications and currently has many ongoing research projects and collaborations.
Previously, Eric completed his PhD at AUT. He also holds a BS in fitness and wellness, an MS in exercise science, and a MPhil in sports nutrition.
Once a former business consultant specialized in advanced statistical data analysis, Menno has MSc from the University of Warwick (UK) in that area. Menno’s background in science and statistics helped him to develop a unique way of approach questions in fitness.
Menno is a published academic author and has spoken at some of the world’s biggest evidence-based training conferences and events.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm actually pretty pessimistic in terms of potential benefits and neglected downside. |
| 0:16.0 | I don't have that good success with them, I have to say. |
| 0:19.0 | And I think the benefits or the downside is mostly the lack of routine. |
| 0:26.6 | I would say I am optimistic, but it depends on the context. |
| 0:31.6 | And it's really important to, instead of looking at diet breaks and intermittent dieting as, is this good or bad? |
| 0:39.7 | I think that's a really not useful paradigm to look at it. |
| 0:44.9 | And I know it's the trap we all fall in, you know. Hello and welcome to another episode of Sigma Nutrition Radio. |
| 1:04.2 | As always, I'm your host, Danny Lennon. |
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| 1:36.2 | Today we're at episode 290 of the podcast, so we're closing it on 300 fast. |
| 1:43.4 | Today I'm joined by two guests, thankfully. |
| 1:47.0 | So recently I had the pleasure and honor to be able to speak at the Ultimate Evidence |
| 1:54.6 | Based Conference down in Melbourne, Australia, which was an incredibly run event. So a big shout out to both Sam and |
| 2:03.6 | Jacob Skeppers who did a phenomenal job running that as well as all their team |
| 2:08.1 | the event went really well had amazing group of attendees a phenomenal lineup of |
| 2:14.3 | speakers and I really really enjoyed the whole weekend and |
| 2:18.0 | vibe so part of that was getting to see both some new people that I had never |
| 2:24.4 | met or maybe only met on the internet as well as seeing some familiar faces that |
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