Ep. 39 - How Bodybuilding Saved My Life (Ft. John Berardi)
Iron Culture
The MASS Crew
4.8 • 827 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2019
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
John Berardi has been a voice of evidence-based nutrition for decades. A competitive bodybuilder in his youth he went on to pursue his Ph.D. and became one of the first well-known voices advocating for a scientific approach to performance nutrition. Before social media, he became a well-known writer on topics related to nutrient timing, macronutrient breakdown, and nutrition for enhancing fat loss and muscle gain, and was one of the first writers on T-Nation. Since, he started Precision Nutrition which became a wildly successful personal trainer education company helping professionals learn nutrition to aid clients in achieving weight loss, wellness and performance goals. We were very fortunate to sit down with Dr. Berardi to discuss the long road that took him from being a young bodybuilder to a successful fitness entrepreneur.
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| 0:00.0 | What other podcasts will you find individuals talking about bodybuilding, getting swall, spandex, on stage, under that light? |
| 0:11.3 | Rousseau, the social contract, talking about books, talking about politics a little bit, talking about governance, hereditary. |
| 0:19.5 | Really a philosophy more than it is a movie, Ariasor knocked it out |
| 0:23.6 | of the park, dealing with that encroaching nihilism of life. And then incest, what other, |
| 0:30.0 | what other podcasts would talk about these four things in an episode, Eric? That's what I want |
| 0:34.3 | to know. Well, I would say, not even ours, because we also added the fifth thing of pirates. |
| 0:41.4 | So, man, this episode literally has it all. If by all, we mean incest pirates, bodybuilding, |
| 0:49.3 | nihilism, and whatever the fifth thing was, but it doesn't matter based on what I said, |
| 0:53.4 | the fourth thing was, which is nealism. Yeah. Yeah, it actually occupies not only thing was, but it doesn't matter based on what I said the fourth thing was, |
| 0:54.3 | which is nihilism. |
| 0:55.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:55.5 | Yeah, it actually occupies not only two spaces, but all spaces. |
| 1:00.2 | And that is actually kind of interesting because today we talk about the tea. |
| 1:04.0 | We talk about life lessons. |
| 1:05.8 | We, as always, are united with a bodybuilder who then got his PhD that then started a successful |
| 1:12.2 | company. |
| 1:12.8 | Maybe we're noticing a trend here, Eric, that hopefully along the way, some of that |
| 1:16.5 | dedication and discipline that you cultivate while being a bodybuilder will lead to other |
| 1:22.4 | things. |
| 1:22.8 | And we have one of the true OGs in the house when it comes to nutrition. |
| 1:26.9 | We have John Barardi joining us today on this episode. |
| 1:31.4 | Yeah, Dr. John Barardi, one of the, I wouldn't say the earliest, because it does go, go deep if we want to talk historically with kind of the mentor figure. |
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