Welcome back to Get Leener and Live Longer. Today, I put together a compilation episode of some of our most eye-opening past conversations, all centered around nutrition myths and industry truths. We're peeling back the curtain on how the food and fitness industries often care way more about their bottom line than your actual health. First up, we're revisiting my chat with pro bodybuilder and awesome dude Lance Watson.

He gets really honest about the worst question he often gets asked, which is basically

people looking for an easy button or a magic pill to get results.

Lance breaks down the why so many trendy supplements are essentially worthless and reveals

a dirty secret of the industry.

When you see someone who's looking like absolutely shredded on a magazine, they're

usually feeling their absolute worst physically.

That's a great conversation worth checking out the episode of that.

That was episode 105.

Then we're catching up with Anna Vichino, longtime friend of the show.

She takes us through what she calls the keto explosion at the grocery store.

The keto explosion.

Basically, how companies use healthy labels to sell us junk foods

like keto pop tarts. She also exposes some pretty wild food fraud, like how most big brand

olive oils are actually cut with cheap seed oils and how manufacturers hide chemicals called slip agents

in your spices to keep their assembly lines moving a little bit faster. Finally, I'm taking a solo

deep dive in one of my favorite topics, the sketchy history of the food pyramid. We're going to go back to its weirdly religious origins. And I'll also explain how our national dietary guidelines were shaped by massive grain surpluses and massive corporate payouts, which is part of the course for us. It's a lot to take in, but if you want to understand

why we've been told to eat, what we've been told to eat for the last few decades, you're not going to miss this one. Let's do this. You've been in the gym for a long time. You've been doing all these things. What is the absolute worst question people ask you as a professional bodybuilder? Well, as a professional bodybuilder, I think the number one question

or the worst question that I ask would have to be, just kind of be, what supplement do you take?

What do you, what's that easy button that I can hit, you know, that one pill or that thing that

you're doing that I can get my instant controls? I think that kind of frustrates them either most. I mean, I've been lifting high school. I put in a lot of work. I got up to like 240 pounds in the off season. And it's just one of those things where you take high and the instant gratification of people today. You really just have to break it down for them. And I like to throw it back at the button and talk about this before. I'll just say if I'm the basic question, you're like, hey, what did you have for breakfast? No. Because it literally starts with the basics. People can't do the basics, those little, magical things that take it to the next level. It's not managed. You have to in the work. You have to build a foundation. You have to go out before you go up. So I think that that number of that's probably the number one question is like what is that instant little pill that you're doing. That's so different from what I'm doing. It's just like, it's for me to work. You should just tell them, have you heard of protein powder?

I've been doing way protein isolate.

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