#817 Health Advice That Goes Against Everything You Know ft. Jay Feldman
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
When Dan started training for an intense cycling season, he needed more energy... without wrecking his health. That led him to Jay Feldman, a health researcher who believes most mainstream advice is dead wrong.
In this episode, Jay explains why “eat less, exercise more” backfires, and what to do instead. You’ll learn how metabolism really works, which foods help or hurt, and how to eat in a way that actually fuels your life.
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CHAPTERS:
(00:00:28) Why This Episode Matters
(00:04:17) What Is the Bioenergetic View of Health?
(00:08:02) Why ‘Eat Less, Exercise More’ Doesn’t Work
(00:13:39) The Food Industry’s Role in the Diet Lie
(00:20:15) What Should You Actually Eat?
(00:22:30) Why Gut Health Affects Energy
(00:27:24) Are Seed Oils Destroying Your Cells?
(00:31:01) Why PUFAs May Accelerate Aging
(00:35:52) What a Metabolism-Friendly Day of Eating Looks Like
(00:38:49) How to Eat Like a Baby (and Why That’s Good)
(00:42:59) Where the Research Is Heading
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Past guests on TMBA include Cal Newport, David Heinemeier Hannson, Seth Godin, Ricardo Semler, Noah Kagan, Rob Walling, Jay Clouse, Einar Vollset, Sam Dogan, Gino Wickam, James Clear, Jodie Cook, Mark Webster, Steph Smith, Taylor Pearson, Justin Tan, Matt Gartland, Ayman Al-Abdullah, Lucy Bella.
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| 0:00.0 | What we actually want to go for is something that's supportive of our health, actually allows us to feel better, and the weight starts to come down as a byproduct of that. |
| 0:07.4 | It's not a weight loss focus. It's a health focus. It's a metabolism focus. |
| 0:25.2 | Happy Thursday morning, everybody. Welcome back to the Tropical MBA podcast. |
| 0:28.2 | The question for today's podcast, is it possible to have better energy, more productivity, live longer, and lose weight all at the same time? |
| 0:36.4 | And we all suspect yes, but for me, I have a lot of |
| 0:40.2 | knowledge gaps here and even more implementation gaps. So today's guest has done the hard work for us. |
| 0:47.4 | He says yes, and what's shocking is that his recommendations are surprisingly doable and, |
| 0:52.4 | dare I say, normalish. But importantly, they aren't all common sense, |
| 0:56.6 | at least where I come from. So I love health information. I've read a lot of books on the topic |
| 1:01.3 | and YouTube videos. We've all seen this kind of stuff. But for me, a lot of the information is |
| 1:06.3 | attached to specific elimination diets like keto or they come in the form of tips and tricks, |
| 1:11.9 | like sunlight exposure, vitamin D, and like 100 other things you need to do every day. |
| 1:15.6 | Or on the other side, there are overarching claims that make sense, but are often a little bit |
| 1:21.0 | difficult to implement. |
| 1:22.7 | Today's guest actually thinks the eat less exercise more mantra is one of the horrible lie that has been |
| 1:30.3 | perpetrated to the public or only eat whole foods. Okay, that sounds sensible. But for me, I like to be |
| 1:40.0 | able to backfill that kind of general idea with more information so I understand why I'm |
| 1:46.5 | doing what I'm doing. What if there was an updated worldview with receipts and an entire |
| 1:51.5 | back catalog to boot? So my guest today, Jay Feldman promises just that on his excellent, |
| 1:57.7 | excellent energy balance podcast. He offers a new to me world view around diet and |
| 2:03.6 | eating, the framework of metabolic efficiency. What's so interesting about this paradigm is that it |
| 2:09.6 | nicely captures many of the influencer tips we've been told over the years and provides a clear |
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