BONUS: Muscle Matters: Transforming Metabolic Health for Weight Control with Bronson Dant

Everyday Wellness: Midlife Hormones, Menopause, and Science for Women 35+

Cynthia Thurlow

Alternative Health, Nutrition, Science, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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I am happy to connect with Coach Bronson Dant today. He has spent over a decade guiding and training people in health and fitness. He discovered the benefits of a whole-food, animal-based ketogenic diet for optimizing metabolic health and performance, and wrote The Ultimate Ketogenic Fitness Book. In our discussion today, we dive into the powerful story of Coach Bronson’s pain-to-purpose journey. We explore the value of mindset and examine how age-related changes impact muscle, inflammation, and metabolic flexibility. He shares his three pillars of muscle health related to nutrient density, bioavailability, and satiety, and we examine the importance of sleep, the impact of extremes in exercise, and the value of stress management. We also unravel the complexities of weight loss resistance, and Coach Bronson discusses his research from the Journal of Nutrition Metabolism and Health Science, sharing his perspective on macros and functional movement in menopausal women. IN THIS EPISODE YOU WILL LEARN: Coach Bronson shares his three pillars for nutrition The limitations of basing nutrition on calories alone How the hormone piece impacts effective weight management How to avoid physical deterioration through fitness and nutrition Why Coach Bronson advocates for living life to the fullest and dying quickly How does muscle mass impact metabolic health? The importance of taking a balanced approach to weight loss How sleep aids muscle recovery and growth Stress management, nutrition, and fitness for overall well-being How alcohol affects our health and fitness The benefits of combining functional movement training and proper nutrition for older adults Connect with Cynthia Thurlow Follow on X, ⁠Instagram⁠ & ⁠LinkedIn⁠ Check out Cynthia’s ⁠website⁠ Submit your questions to [email protected] Connect with Bronson Dant On his ⁠website⁠ ⁠YouTube⁠ and ⁠Instagram⁠ ⁠The Ultimate Ketogenic Fitness Bundle⁠

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0:00.0	Welcome to Everyday Wellness Podcast.
0:03.7	I'm your host, nurse practitioner, Cynthia Thurlow.
0:07.4	This podcast is designed to educate, empower, and inspire you to achieve your health and wellness goals.
0:13.9	My goal and intent is to provide you with the best content and conversations from leaders in the health and wellness industry each week and
0:21.5	impact over a million lives.
0:28.9	This is the start of bonus Mondays, a compilation of the top episodes over the past three years for everyday wellness. And I have to tell
0:41.3	you, when I went through all of this research and data, it was apparent to me that we have a very
0:46.3	eclectic, diverse group of clinicians, science writers, personal trainers, and experts.
0:55.0	I know you will love this new series.
0:57.4	Every Monday, we're dropping some of the biggest podcasts of the last three years.
1:02.3	These are your favorites, the most downloaded, ones that have resonated with you.
1:07.6	And I love that we're going to be able to share these every Monday so that you can
1:11.4	revisit some of these amazing episodes.
1:17.9	Today I connected with coach Bronson Dant, who has been guiding and training people in health
1:24.2	and fitness for over 10 years. He has discovered how a whole food, animal-based ketogenic diet optimizes metabolic health
1:31.0	and performance.
1:32.2	He is the author of the ultimate ketogenic fitness book.
1:35.4	And today we dove deep into his powerful pain to purpose story, the value of mindset,
1:43.3	understanding age-related changes to muscle inflammation and metabolic flexibility,
1:49.5	three pillars of muscle health related to nutrient density, bioavailability, and satiety,
1:55.6	the importance of sleep, extremes of exercise, the value of stress management, understanding weight loss
2:02.5	resistance, and his study from the Journal of Nutrition, Metabolism, and Health Science
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