Breaking News: Woman Eats Two Bananas and Survives (Plus Other Nutrition Lies I Had to Unlearn)
The Consistency Project
EC Synkowski
4.9 • 562 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
This week, we’re sharing a conversation EC had recently with Mike Axler of the Simple Science podcast.
In this wide-ranging episode, they’re talking about why the one-gram-per-pound protein rule is actually hurting most people's progress and why the food environment needs to be regulated like smoking if we actually want to see population-level change.
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ABOUT THE SHOW
The Consistency Project aims to simplify nutrition, health, and well-being by breaking down the concepts and actions we can all take to live fuller, more functional lives.
ABOUT US
📍 EC Synkowski is a Certified Nutrition Specialist® (CNS), a Licensed-Dietitian Nutritionist (LDN), and Certified CrossFit Level 4 Coach (CF-L4). She's the founder of OptimizeMe Nutrition and the creator of the #800gChallenge®. Find her on social media.
📍 Patrick Cummings is a long-time CrossFitter, kid's book writer, and podcaster. Find him on social media.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Consistency Project podcast every week here on the show. We am to simplify |
| 0:05.8 | the principles and practices of nutrition, health and fitness. My name is Patrick Cremings. I'm here |
| 0:11.7 | solo for just a moment so I can introduce you to this here episode. What we have this week is a |
| 0:19.1 | conversation that EC had a couple months ago on a podcast called |
| 0:22.6 | The Simple Science Podcast. It's hosted by a gentleman named Mike Axler. And we're excited to |
| 0:29.5 | bring it to you this week. Stay tuned for EC's take on why the one gram per pound protein rule |
| 0:36.6 | is actually hurting most people's progress, |
| 0:39.3 | how she likes to use humor and reality checks to combat the nutrition neuroses that we all sometimes |
| 0:45.0 | fall victim to, and her argument for why the food environment needs to be regulated like cigarettes |
| 0:50.7 | if we actually want to see population level change. If you've ever been trapped by |
| 0:56.5 | contradictory nutrition advice and wondered where the common sense was while you found it. |
| 1:03.2 | And we thank you for being here. Before we jump into the conversation, we've been talking |
| 1:07.7 | recently about how the holiday season is coming up here fast. In fact, when this comes out, it's Thanksgiving. So the holiday season is in fact here, which means you know all about the challenges that the holiday season brings to our nutrition plans, our goals, our objectives. And so if you've gotten through holiday seasons in the past and had |
| 1:29.9 | some trouble, getting through it on track, well, EC's got you covered because she's running an |
| 1:34.7 | accountability group in December inside the Three Pillars Method app. You can learn more at |
| 1:40.3 | optimize me nutrition.com slash December. You can jump into the app whenever you would like to. |
| 1:47.9 | And in December, EC is going to run an accountability group with Q&A, live stream. I think some |
| 1:52.9 | fun prizes in there as well. You can jump in for the entire year at 397 or you can jump onto the |
| 1:59.1 | $39.99 per month payment plan. Either way, get into the app, |
| 2:04.6 | get into the accountability group and get through the holidays together. Check out the link in the |
| 2:11.7 | show description for more. And without any further ado, here is EC alongside Mike. Enjoy. |
| 2:18.9 | What is, what was like the basis of your 800 gram challenge? Where did that come from? |
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