#60 - Brad Pilon On The Protein Myth & The Truth About Intermittent Fasting
The Jay Ferruggia Show
Jay Ferruggia
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🗓️ 24 March 2015
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Brad Pilon, the author of Eat Stop Eat and How Much Protein, joins Jay for a myth busting discussion on all things nutrition. Brad reveals how much protein you really need to gain muscle, the benefits of intermittent fasting, and how to drop body fat and stay lean year round. He also shares how much you should really weigh to look good at the beach this summer.
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| 0:00.0 | The Oh, You're good to go, we're going to go. |
| 0:23.0 | So you're good to go. |
| 0:30.0 | You're good to go. |
| 0:31.0 | We start recording. |
| 0:32.0 | Yeah, hit that before button. |
| 0:33.9 | So Brad Phelanis here, who is the author of |
| 0:37.7 | How Much Prochine, which Brad is, you know, |
| 0:39.4 | is one of my favorite nutrition books ever. |
| 0:41.4 | I love it. |
| 0:41.9 | I read the new one every time you send it to |
| 0:43.7 | to the updated version. So let's start with that. Let's discuss the protein then. |
| 0:48.5 | Get into it a little. How much protein does one actually need? |
| 0:52.1 | It's an awesome question. One of my favorite questions. All right, so I'm still, I'm still in the camp of your average guy, your actual average natural guy, and by average mean you know you're not sitting there |
| 1:05.2 | listening to us talking you're six foot eight right you're you're around 5 10 to |
| 1:09.4 | 6 1.62 you're natural you've been training for a while. |
| 1:13.2 | I'm still saying you get by on anywhere from 100 to 120 grams, |
| 1:18.4 | maybe even 90 to 120, somewhere in that range. Now I know, like I'm just like you guys, I'm on |
| 1:26.0 | Instagram, I'm flipping to the pictures, and yeah there's dudes on there, you know, |
| 1:29.6 | and they're jacked and you're like, oh man that guy is freaky jacked and he eats 300 grams of protein. |
| 1:35.6 | And if you're just going by laws of averages, you know, a lot of the IAFBB. |
| 1:40.8 | Pro, the fitness models guys, a lot of them could be above 200. |
| 1:45.0 | But you've got to also remember that all the 130 pound wannabies at your gym are also eating that much, right? |
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