Ep 375 - Humility in Science
Iron Culture presented by MASS
The MASS Crew
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Join Drs Eric Helms and Eric Trexler as they discuss the importance of humility in science, and a few key areas where their perspectives have changed over the years.
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Chapters
00:00 Intro
13:11 The Iron Culture Documentary Release
18:03 Criticism and Public Perception
28:20 Intellectual Humility and Changing Perspectives
38:33 Evolving Views on Nutrition and Training
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, everybody? |
| 0:05.4 | Welcome back to Iron Culture, presented by the Master Research Review. |
| 0:10.6 | It is me, Eric Trexler, joined as always by the Dr. Eric Helms. |
| 0:14.7 | Helms, how are we doing this morning? |
| 0:17.0 | I'm doing really well, Trex. |
| 0:19.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:20.2 | I... |
| 0:20.5 | Glad to hear that. Yeah. I... Glad to hear that. |
| 0:21.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:22.4 | I feel a sense of, um, of peace and calm that I did not anticipate I would be feeling. |
| 0:30.0 | And what is the, uh, source of this piece and calmness? |
| 0:34.1 | So normally we banter and it's very jokey, jockey, jokey, but I'm going to be like super super serious for a moment. |
| 0:41.6 | I kind of was just reflecting on some things. |
| 0:44.0 | I've had the time to that I have felt an immense sense of like gratitude |
| 0:51.0 | for my position in life and what like the iron has given me and a huge part of the |
| 0:56.8 | iron is when I say that as like an idea also is the community that I've been a part of |
| 1:02.8 | originally as just a lifter and then eventually as someone kind of more actively contributing to it |
| 1:09.4 | and like quite literally people |
| 1:12.1 | have invested in me, whether that's a mentor, a colleague, a friend, or like people like you and |
| 1:19.7 | my other business partners. Or when I actually needed to figure out how to get the funds to move to New |
| 1:25.6 | Zealand and actually conduct research and not live out of my car literally gave money to it to like the equivalent of a GoFund |
| 1:32.7 | me, whatever that was back in 2012 so I could do it. And having a few seconds to breathe lately, |
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