EP 540: Can You Be Fit and Still Be Unhealthy? Dr. Phil Maffetone Weighs In
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Trail Runner Nation
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🗓️ 1 October 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Trail Runner Nation friend and frequent guest, Dr. Phil Maffetone, helps us understand that health isn't a simple byproduct of fitness; that fitness can be improved with better health. He explains how we can become healthier and more fit athletes. We refer to an article, "Athletes: Fit but Unhealthy".
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Previous episodes with Dr. Maffetone:
- Get Stronger with Dr. Phil Maffetone
- Why is Weight-Loss so Difficult Even for Runners? Dr. Phil Maffetone
- Daydreaming is Healthy for Runners
- Dr. Phil Maffetone Unplugged
- Dr. Phil Maffetone was RIGHT all along!
- Take Your Shirt Off and Get Some Vitamin D - with Dr. Phil Maffetone
- Phil Maffetone: How can Rhythm Improve Your Efficiency?
- Breaking the 1:59 marathon with Dr. Phil Maffetone
- Dr. Phil Maffetone - Building a Better Athletic Brain
- Phil Maffetone transcribed!
- Eat to Win with Dr. Phil Maffetone.
- Dr. Phil Maffetone - Speed up by slowing down
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So why is it that I have a sweet tooth? |
| 0:06.2 | Why is it that I'm reaching for sweets when ultimately my body is trying to steer me |
| 0:11.5 | in a healthy way so I can live long and reproduce? |
| 0:14.7 | Why am I addicted to this? |
| 0:17.1 | For the same reason that 91% of Americans and more than 80% of the world are overfat, |
| 0:23.3 | because somebody has told us this is what we should eat and people just blindly follow |
| 0:29.8 | that. |
| 0:30.8 | We have been fed such a lie with words like natural, this product is natural. |
| 0:36.6 | Well why is there an ingredient list this long and I can't really pronounce many of the |
| 0:41.1 | words on this? |
| 0:50.8 | Congratulations you are at the starting line of trail runner nation. |
| 0:54.8 | This is a podcast that is dedicated to helping you become a better runner and a better |
| 0:59.5 | human being by discussions from great guests that impart their invaluable wisdom. |
| 1:06.3 | And today's great guest is a repeat Dr. Phil Maffatone and we always love talking |
| 1:11.3 | to him and we're going to break down whether an athlete can be fit and unhealthy at the |
| 1:16.2 | same time. |
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