Ep 61// Alan Aragon: Animal vs. plant protein for muscle growth, artificial sweeteners and heart health, & seed oils
Fitness Stuff (for normal people)
Tony and Marianna
4.9 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2023
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
Today we sit down for round two with one of our favorite nutrition researchers, Alan Aragon. Jumping between trending topics in nutrition today like some new hot research on plant-based vs. animal-based protein and muscle growth, artificial sweeteners and stroke, the dreaded seed oils, and SO MUCH MORE. We hope you enjoy this one as much as we did!
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Timestamps:
10:30 - Vegan vs. animal protein and muscle growth
30:05 - Artificial sweeteners, cardiovascular disease, and stroke on CNN
48:00 - Seed oils
1:03:20 - BCAA’s
1:10:00 - Intermittent Fasting
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Fitness Stuff for Normal People podcast. |
| 0:03.8 | I'm Tony and this week without my co-host, Mariana, RIP, just kidding, she's fine. |
| 0:08.9 | It's no secret. |
| 0:09.9 | The fitness industry, the one we're in right now, it sucks. |
| 0:13.2 | Whether it's the corrupt multi-billion, that's with a B, dollar supplement in weight loss |
| 0:17.9 | industry, or the endless supply of influencers promoting absolutely |
| 0:21.2 | anything to drive page use or just put a dollar in their pockets. |
| 0:24.9 | The bottom line is we're not just trying to provide another fitness podcast, but actually |
| 0:29.5 | change the fitness industry for the better. |
| 0:32.2 | We want to do that by providing you with the knowledge and tools to give you the confidence |
| 0:35.3 | in applying the best possible training, nutrition, supplementation, and habits into your own life. Where today I'm riding |
| 0:43.3 | solo, sitting down for round two with researcher Alan Aragon. Now, we met up with Alan Aragon in |
| 0:51.1 | Los Angeles when Mariana and I had our podcast tour, but with a last minute flight change, Mariana could not make it. And that's why we're doing it solo, just Alan and I today. Now, if you don't know Alan, we did an episode with him a few months back where we covered, I think we agreed on about 80% of what you need to know when it comes to nutrition and body composition when we were covering his newest book flexible dieting today we did something a little bit different we did a little round robin sit |
| 1:15.9 | down where we spent about 15 to 20 minutes going deep into what's currently being talked about |
| 1:20.4 | in the media from the CNN story linking artificial sweeteners to heart disease and stroke to the |
| 1:26.5 | science behind seed oils in our health. |
| 1:28.4 | That's a hot one today. B-CAAs and even a new paper on vegan protein matching animal protein |
| 1:34.1 | in muscle building potential. And we're going to go ahead and timestamp that out. So if you're |
| 1:38.4 | more or less interested in one over the others, you can always skip around and move forward. |
| 1:44.0 | There. Before we get started, |
| 1:45.8 | I got a quick list to go down, though. First of all, and as always, I just want to say thank you |
| 1:50.4 | so much. And I know I sound like a broken record, but thank you so much to those of you who |
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