Hello, you are listening to Sigma Nutrition Radio with me, Danny Lennon. We're at episode

295 of the podcast today. And as always, we are here to talk about the science of nutrition

and health. On today's podcast, I'm going to be talking with Dr. Benhouse, who is a PhD in

nutrition from the University of Texas at Austin,

and he's been working as both a nutritionist and strengthening coach for many years now,

and currently is based in Costa Rica, where he owns functional medicine, Costa Rica, where he delivers courses, mentorships,

retreats, and a whole host of other things that will probably bring up throughout today's

discussion. And Ben is a guy that I find very, very interesting. I like seeing his thoughts on

nutrition training, but also they tend to be quite

philosophical as well, which I think jives with me pretty well. And so for a long time, I've

enjoyed how he puts out information and just some of his ideas because of that kind of

unique philosophical aspect to thinking about things a bit deeper.

And on today's discussion, we're going to mainly focus on a study that Ben has got up and running

where he's trying to examine elite level lifters, or should we say people that are close to their

genetic potential for muscle mass, and seeing what are the implications of or what type of surplus

is going to be required for maximum amount of hypertrophy or what are the differences between variations

in how much of a caloric surplus is used during a gaining phase specifically in people that

are very close to their genetic potential. And this is a very intriguing question because it's

very hard to find the answers to this because most of the time we're kind of

extrapolating from the typical subject pools that are used in a lot of sports science.

And this is an issue that we'll get into today.

But I hope you find this interesting and if this is a concept you've ever thought about,

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