So we are living in a world where we're not running from the Sabre Two Tigers. We do get sick. We do have high cortisol levels because of our mortgages, our kids, the drive to work,

but we're not suffering from the same situation that we used to suffer from in the Paleolithic or even Neolithic eras when we're hunter-gatherers or even farmers, the early farmers.

What we're dealing with now is we have an overabundance of food,

but it can be quite easy to not get enough of specific nutrients because of poor food choices.

Welcome to the Legendary Life Podcast where it's all about taking control of your health, losing fat, transforming

your body and living the life you deserve with Celebrity Fitness trainer and

longevity enthusiast Ted Rice. Rice. In this nutrition series, this is part two where we're going to cover nutrient optimization.

So if you haven't listened to part one, what we did is we covered fat loss basics we covered the five

actually I guess yeah five most important aspects of nutrition when it comes to fat loss.

So you want to go back and listen to that if you haven't already.

So today, it's going to be about nutrient optimization.

What does that mean?

I mean, you know, I wish I could come up with a

better name for it, but basically I'll say it like this. So if you haven't

listened to the first one, one of the most important things that you can do with nutrition is maintain a healthy

weight and a healthy body fat percentage.

So there's some nuance there that I'm not going to go into go back and listen to the first one but why am I saying that?

Why am I talking to you about this? Because when I speak to people and they're like I eat pretty good

I have a green smoothie in the morning and then I have a

salad at lunch with salmon and then I eat this. I'm like, listen, you're fat, okay?

I don't say it quite like this because it's a little bit coarse,

a little bit crude, a little bit rude,

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