Dr. Mike Nelson: Flex Diet
The Ready State Podcast
Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett
4.9 • 623 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Dr. Mike T. Nelson (known as Dr. Mike) joins us to talk about the Flex Diet. He is a research fanatic who specializes in metabolic flexibility and heart rate variability. He is also an online trainer, adjunct professor, faculty member at the Carrick Institute, presenter, creator of the Flex Diet Cert, kiteboarder, and (somewhat incongruously) heavy-metal enthusiast. The techniques he's developed, and the results Mike gets for his clients have been featured in international magazines, in scientific publications, and on websites across the globe.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 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. |
| 0:11.6 | You got it. |
| 0:13.5 | You're going to stop it. |
| 0:17.1 | This episode of the Ready State podcast is brought to you by our friends at Rumble Roller, specifically the Gator Roller. |
| 0:23.5 | The Gator. |
| 0:23.9 | The Gator. |
| 0:24.9 | My grandfather was from Florida, right? |
| 0:29.3 | Pensacola, Florida. |
| 0:30.6 | And he called it the Gators. |
| 0:32.1 | The Gators. |
| 0:32.7 | And, you know, we have seen the roller become a ubiquitous piece of equipment. |
| 0:37.8 | And, you know, I think their first one started out as like two, they were like pool toys, |
| 0:43.4 | foam noodles. |
| 0:44.2 | And we're like, hey, you can put your leg on this. |
| 0:46.8 | But what we found out is our friends at Rumble Roller did a great job of just tripling |
| 0:52.5 | the utility, quadrupling utility. So one of the reasons we love |
| 0:55.6 | the gator so much, it's a little bit smaller diameter and softer, which actually allows us to |
| 0:59.5 | handle forces and do a little bit more interesting shear. But the texture allows us to do something |
| 1:04.8 | we've coined scrubbing, which is we can restore those osteofascial connections of connect tissue to bone, connection to tendon. |
| 1:13.5 | And so there's a lot more we can get out of our rolling experience |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.