301. Optimal Nutrition, Dissected: Chef Dan Churchill On How To Fuel For Better Performance & Helpful Tricks To Feel Your Best
Hurdle with Emily Abbate
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4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
My buddy Dan Churchill is back on the podcast with the exciting launch of his new book Eat Like a Legend: Delicious, Super Easy Recipes to Perform at Your Peak. He’s giving us all the inside knowledge and know-how on how to fuel your body for optimal performance, whatever that may look like for you. We dive into hydration, micro and macronutrients, the importance of plant diversity in your diet, as well as protein sources and smoothie hacks. Dan hits home on the importance of taking care of and fueling yourself first and why it’s worth putting in the work for longevity of your life.
Grab Dan’s newest book ‘Eat Like a Legend: Delicious, Super Easy Recipes to Perform at Your Peak’
IN THIS EPISODE
Dan’s journey to food and performance nutrition education (3:42)
How ‘Eat Like a Legend’ came to be (8:50)
Performing at your peak according to Dan (14:00)
Top 3 things things to focus on when looking to optimize performance (17:01)
Tactical steps toward cutting out refined sugars (22:50)
Dan’s ideal smoothie ingredients and hack for smoothie prep that will last you all week (31:15)
What it means to have a diversity of plants in your diet (36:58)
The importance of hydration and electrolytes when looking to perform at our peak (40:22)
The biggest challenge of cooking at home at why practice is key (47:30)
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| 0:00.0 | Look after our performance, you have to look after your second brain, which is the gut, |
| 0:04.7 | connected to your first brain, the brain, and a lot of that is to do by eating enough plants and a variety of that. Hello everyone Emily Avati here. You are listening to episode 301 of |
| 0:31.0 | Hurtle. A wellness focused podcast where I talk to inspirational |
| 0:34.6 | people about everything from their highest highs and toughest moments to |
| 0:38.5 | essential tips on how to live a healthier, happier, more motivated life. We all go through our fair share of hurdles. My |
| 0:46.8 | goal through these discussions is to empower you to better navigate yours and move with |
| 0:51.4 | intention so that you can stride toward your own big potential and of |
| 0:55.2 | course have some fun along the way. |
| 0:59.2 | For episode 301 I am bringing back my dear friend Dan Churchill. |
| 1:04.5 | He is a chef and the author of the new book coming out tomorrow. |
| 1:09.2 | May 21st, Eat Like a Legend, |
| 1:11.5 | Delicious, Super Easy recipes to perform at your peak. |
| 1:16.0 | And that is exactly what we're going to talk about today. |
| 1:18.8 | Dan is giving me the insights, his knowledge, his know-how on how to eat better to fuel your body for optimum performance. |
| 1:27.2 | Whether you're trying to show up to work and be on your A game or you're training for some sort of a race at competition, want to perform better at the gym, |
| 1:36.7 | want to beat that brain fog that comes midday, almost every day. |
| 1:40.8 | Yep, I used to be that person too, I get it. He has the know-how. We talk about so many great |
| 1:47.6 | tips today covering everything from hydration to micronutrients, |
| 1:52.8 | macro nutrients, how many vegetables and fruits |
| 1:55.3 | you should be getting regularly, |
| 1:56.8 | and cannot forget the importance of protein. |
| 2:00.3 | Truly a really comprehensive rundown today from Dan and I'm so so excited for his new book again. It is called |
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