Ep. 10 - Science Vs Bullsh*t -Fasted training, cortisol and balancing hormones
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Emma Storey-Gordon
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🗓️ 30 October 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Science vs Bullshit
00:24 Fasted Training: Myths and Realities
06:55 Hormone Balancing Supplements: Debunking the Myths
11:49 The Truth About Cortisol and Fat Loss
16:27 Managing Stress and Its Impact on Health
19:33 Postprandial Walking: Benefits and Misconceptions
23:28 Sleep Aids and Their Effectiveness
25:18 The Combined Oral Contraceptive and Menopause Symptoms
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone. Welcome to today's science versus bullshit. Oh, because I schedule. I'm actually 30 seconds early, so we'll see what happens when this goes. Nah. |
| 0:12.9 | Ah, boom. It's okay. It's all working. That's probably the smoothest transition that I've ever been able to do. |
| 0:20.7 | Ah. Okay, right, fine. Now it's relatively... that I've ever been able to do. That. |
| 0:22.8 | Okay, right, fine. |
| 0:24.2 | Now it's relatively smooth. |
| 0:25.4 | Right, if anyone has any questions, as usual, fire away. |
| 0:28.5 | I do have many an excellent question. |
| 0:31.4 | There's me emailing myself, telling myself that I'm like, wow. |
| 0:34.6 | I do have many good questions today. |
| 0:36.1 | And the main topics are going to be |
| 0:38.9 | hormone balancing and faster training because those are the two biggies that I have been sent |
| 0:46.0 | that have been confusing people this week. And then I've collated some of the questions that you guys |
| 0:51.7 | sent. So then I'll do them. And then if anyone has any live or they're confused about what I've said or they just have |
| 0:57.4 | anything they want to say, that's why it's live. |
| 1:01.2 | You can comment away. |
| 1:02.8 | So the first one was fasted training and I got sent this reel by Nima, who is a coach |
| 1:08.8 | of mine on AFM. |
| 1:09.8 | And it was quite interesting because the woman was obviously very intelligent. |
| 1:13.4 | Basically, the real was saying the crux of it is training fasted is bad. |
| 1:19.9 | It raises certain hormones, especially cortisol. |
| 1:23.6 | It puts you into a kind of stress state and then your body won't spend fat. |
| 1:29.7 | So the analogy that she uses is if you didn't know when you were going to be paid again, then you wouldn't spend all your money. |
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