Ep. 117 - Is Exercise Pointless for Weight Loss?

Iron Culture

The MASS Crew

Sports & Recreation, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2021

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Ben House is back on Iron Culture! This time he’s here to explain why not only is exercise not pointless for weight loss, but indeed may be the most effective and low-risk tool we have to arrest the obesity epidemic. In this episode, we discuss why “exercise nihilism” for weight loss stems from an overly reductionist view of activity, purely as a means of increasing energy expenditure. We also discuss how activity can have profound effects on the metabolic response to meals, and can better regulate energy intake. We juxtapose the likely-to-fail strategies based on purposeful, lifelong diet restraint, with a focus on activity and exercise which may better regulate passive energy intake. Finally, we do a bit of ranting about our love affair with “willpower” that leads people astray when the diet is over.

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0:00.0	Eric, this episode today, we basically have Martin Luther, you know, nailing his proclamations
0:08.4	on the door because we have this dude, Dr. Benhouse, Ph.D., Mr. Dr. Benhouse, I believe,
0:13.3	is what he prefers to be called, talking about benefits of activity, benefits of this whole
0:19.4	exercise thing other than looking really,
0:21.6	really ridiculously good, naked. And I don't think he understands our core segment. So we're
0:26.9	trying to bring him on for, let's say, not the other side. You know how you have to have
0:29.8	opposition guests to make it seem like you're fair. So we narrowly select people that
0:35.9	basically still conform to our view, but it gives the illusion that they're really presenting another side.
0:40.9	I think he blew the house down on this one, however, Benhouse.
0:44.4	Yeah, Benhouse did blow the house down on this one.
0:47.1	Brought the house down, really did.
0:48.9	So, no, it's awesome to have Ben back on.
0:51.3	He's now a two Pete.
0:52.4	This is the second time he's been on. The first time,
0:55.4	he exposed the charlatans for the strategies they use and how they get up in your business
1:03.4	and make you think you need to buy things that you don't or change your mind or ignore the
1:08.3	current science and because you believe that it is, you know, somehow part of the
1:13.0	medical science in industrial complex that just wants you to not know the best way to get lean,
1:19.5	but hey, buy the strange extract.
1:23.1	So he came on, educated us in that.
1:25.4	And this time, I think he talks about something that is also
1:28.7	really, I would say it's not spoken in mainstream circles of fitness or even, I would say,
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