463: Is exercise more important than nutrition? | Food writer Anastacia Marx de Salcedo

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🗓️ 26 December 2022

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Anastacia Marx de Salcedo: “Let exercise be thy medicine.” Anastacia, a nonfiction writer and author, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss how regular exercise has the ability to transform your health, even if you subscribe to a not-so-balanced eating plan. For the record, we still believe that health begins on one’s plate—but exercise may be way more important than we thought. In this episode, they cover: - Anastacia’s personal health journey (~00:58) - Anastacia’s personal nutrition philosophy (~06:14) - The military’s influence around food shelf-life (~08:43) - Why exercise is the ultimate elixir for health (~13:20) - The most reasonably healthy processed foods (~20:00) - Why nutrition science is not as concrete as we thought (~22:58) - Why we shouldn’t overlook exercise for overall well-being (~34:10) - How exercise benefits every function of the body (~39:02) - The ultimate exercise diet (~43:05) - What we can learn from studies on cats & bats (~45:25) - Why traditional doctors don’t talk enough about exercise & nutrition (~56:49) - How Anastacia ranks exercise, nutrition, and lifestyle habits (~01:04:08) - How Anastacia uses running as a tool for self-care (~01:09:30) - Anastacia’s biggest wellness pet peeve (~01:12:01) - How exercise has helped Anastacia’s MS journey (~01:14:09) - How to exercise your way out of a subpar diet (~01:16:54) - Sex differences on the impact of physical activity (~01:20:00) Referenced in the episode: - Anastacia's book, Eat Like a Pig, Run Like a Horse. - Anastacia's previous book, Combat-Ready Kitchen. - Check out Anastacia's website. - Read more about Ancel Keys & the link between diet & heart disease. - Glenn Gaesser's BMI study. - Learn more about The Jackson Laboratory. - A study on fitness level & COVID outcomes. - The Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity Consortium (MoTrPAC). - mbg Podcast episode #192 with Terry Wahls, M.D. - Sign up for The Long Game. Take 20% off our holiday collection with code HOLIDAY20. Cannot combine with gift cards or other discount codes. Apply code at checkout. We hope you enjoy this episode, and feel free to watch the full video on YouTube! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the MyBuddyGreen podcast. I'm Jason Wachib, founder and co-CEO of MyBuddyGreen and your host.
0:07.2	Hey everyone. What if I told you that regular exercise has the ability to transform your health,
0:13.3	even if you subscribe to a not-so-balanced eating plant? Know that doesn't mean you should eat
0:18.9	ultra-process foods for every meal. We still believe in whole foods that are predominantly
0:23.9	plant-strong diet in MyBuddyGreen and that health begins on one's plate. But I do think
0:29.5	today's guest is on to something when she says exercise is way more concrete than nutrition.
0:36.0	Exercise is more important than we thought and I encourage you to keep an open mind when listening
0:41.4	to her point of view. Now to the show. Anastasia, welcome. Thank you Jason. I'm happy to be here.
0:48.2	It's great to have you as I mentioned before we started to hit record. I received a lot of
0:53.3	pitches, but the title of your book, eat like a pig, run like a horse, how food fights,
1:00.9	hijacked our health and the new science of exercise. Grab my attention in a way that others do not.
1:08.9	I was definitely intrigued and I started reading and boy what a fascinating subject and a powerful
1:14.7	personal story. So it's an honor to have you here. Thank you so much. Yeah. I have to say that was
1:20.3	of course a little intentional. It's a title that's meant to grab you by the collar. There are
1:26.8	maybe some missing words in there because I think if I made a little bit longer, I'd say
1:32.1	if you eat like a pig, then you better like a horse. So let's start. You have a very unique
1:38.4	background. So let's start there in your own personal health journey, which led you to write
1:42.8	this book. So I was like pretty much everybody else in their 20s kind of focusing on 20s stuff,
1:50.8	your career and love and so forth. And then sort of midway through, I had what was basically like a
2:00.8	stroke. One side of my body went numb. I lost strength and I lost balance. And this was kind of
2:09.8	right before MRIs were widely available. So I went to the neurologist whose believe it or not
2:16.8	name was Dr. Grimm. And Dr. Grimm informed me that there were three possibilities either what
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