Adam Bornstein: Ditching Diet Culture, Mindset Changes, and Expanding Your Comfort Zone
The Ready State Podcast
Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett
4.9 • 623 Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2023
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Adam Bornstein is a New York Times bestselling author who is rewriting the rules of nutrition and fitness. He is an award-winning journalist and the founder of Born Fitness. The former Men's Health fitness and nutrition editor and editorial director of Livestrong.com has seen a lot of trends come and go, and then something became clear: diet plans are designed to make you screw up. He wants to change that with his latest book, You Can’t Screw this Up, released in May 2023.
Adam is an old school legend in the health and fitness industry. We love that he is working to simplify complex behavior and his new book helps people ditch diet culture and build better habits with actionable advice. Adam also writes and produces Arnold Schwarzenegger's daily newsletter and we get to hear about what goes into that enormous undertaking.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Dr. Kelly Starrett. |
| 0:06.8 | And I'm Juliette. |
| 0:08.3 | And you're listening to The Ready State Podcast. |
| 0:14.4 | This episode of the Ready State podcast is brought to you by our friends at Element. |
| 0:21.8 | And, you know, |
| 0:26.8 | we've been traveling a lot lately. And when we do, something often happens to you. |
| 0:33.1 | We end up in crazy room sometimes. You and I were traveling, not recently. We're going to go way back. |
| 0:38.2 | We were sitting in the room with all the W.W.E. wrestlers. |
| 0:39.6 | Wow, that's way back. |
| 0:40.2 | Way back. |
| 0:43.7 | It was a, imagine a room full of, like, superheroes and costumes. |
| 0:45.3 | Yeah, it was a weird moment for us. |
| 0:47.4 | And like, oh, the Bella Twins. |
| 0:53.4 | And then one of the things that they were talking about is we were talking about adding salt into the water. And a lot of, one of the Bell twins that just talked about on a podcast famously she had pied herself because she is drinking so much water and she's having to go to the bathroom all the time and it was causing all these performance problems. And you and I were like, yeah. Yeah, because you're not actually absorbing the water you're drinking. Well, you're just blowing out all the electrolytes. So people oftentimes think they're doing the right thing by just doing all this drinking. And look, if you're drinking water with food, we don't need to be precious about that. But one of the things we see is that when people have to be conscious about body weight and they're trying to control their sort of calories in, oftentimes they kick out a lot of glycogen. They use their glycogen. |
| 1:28.3 | And one of the things that happens besides drinking a ton of water and not having electrolytes |
| 1:32.4 | is that they, as they kick out all the glycogen, you lose all that body water, all your electrolytes |
| 1:37.7 | are gone again. So putting those electrolytes back or being conscious of it in times where |
| 1:42.8 | you're watching your calories, a little bit |
| 1:44.6 | low glycogen, because you're not eating a ton of carbohydrate, can make you feel a lot better. |
| 1:50.2 | Which, which for context often happens to us when we travel. We'll go through long periods |
| 1:55.7 | where we don't have access to food or can't find food. And rather than eating junky stuff, |
| 1:59.9 | we often just don't eat. But we always make sure to drink some element and make sure we have some salts on board. Dude, I take my hot element. I drink it out of a cap, my Yeti cap. I feel like so civilized. I pull my little, like it's like a two pound aluminum cap and I drink my salty water and I'm killing it. |
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