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Sigma Nutrition Radio

Bryan Chung, MD - Protein Synthesis vs. Hypertrophy & Evidence-Based Fitness

Sigma Nutrition Radio

Danny Lennon

Sigma, Dietetics, Evidencebased, Nutrition, Training, Health & Fitness, Science, Diet, Fitness, Evidence, Bodybuilding, Health

4.8626 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2015

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Bryan Chung, MD and PhD researcher, talks about evidence-based fitness, problems with the fitness and nutrition industry, the issue of calories, metabolic advantages of certain diets, psychology of dieting and game-changing research on the relevance of muscle protein synthesis as a proxy measure for hypertrophy.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio.

0:06.9

This is the show you need to be listening to if you want to be phenomenal in life,

0:12.3

whether that's through chasing optimal health, extraordinary performance, or becoming the person you know you have the potential to be.

0:19.4

Here, you'll get access to cutting edge information

0:21.7

from world class experts every single week. This is not just a podcast. This is a center of

0:28.4

education. Treat it like a course. Get in the student mindset and soak up the knowledge. Take

0:34.8

yourself light years beyond the crowd. Time to let the education begin.

0:40.0

Here's your host, Danny Lennon.

0:42.3

Hello and welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio.

1:00.1

I hope 2015 is going amazingly for you.

1:04.3

And thank you so much for taking the time to tune into the show this week.

1:08.0

We're now at episode 42.

1:10.5

And on today's show show I'm going to be

1:12.4

talking with Dr. Brian Chung. He is one of my favorite bloggers out there. He blogs over

1:20.7

evidence-based fitness.net and although he doesn't post too frequently, when he does post,

1:27.0

it's something you want to pay attention to.

1:28.7

It's some pretty epic posts on there, which we'll be talking about later in the show.

1:33.9

Now, by trade, Dr. Chung is a medical doctor and actually is a surgeon who specializes in hand and wrist surgery.

1:41.3

But he's also done PhD research and looks a lot at research methodology

1:46.5

and how that plays out in not only musculoskeletal health, but also in topics like fitness and

1:52.3

nutrition. As a regular peer reviewer on many editorial boards for some of the top sport medicine

2:00.1

journals, he's very in the loop around not only the latest research,

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