You're listening to Power Athlete Radio, a podcast dedicated to empowering your performance every

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greatest minds in strength, conditioning, and more. So whether your goal is to be the hammer,

destroy mediocrity, or simply move the dirt, you've

come to the right place. Now with the warm up done, let the gains begin. So let's get into this new

book. Let's get into dark calories. Dark calories, the follow up to deep nutrition and really

going through and understanding if these vegetables and seed oils

and a lot of the things that are getting put into our food unbeknownst to us is really making

as big a difference as we like to believe it is. Is it really as bad as, you know, some people

say it is? Well, let me tell you it's worse than everyone else is saying it is because I've been

studying these things for 22 years now since somewhere around 2002. And I've written three books,

actually four books. This is my fourth now. And there are, there's still more to say about how

these, how vegetable oils affect us,

because they are the worst thing in the food supply. But it's not for the reasons that a lot of

people have been talking about. Like some of the things that you touched on earlier were like this

omega-6 omega-3 ratio thing.

I want to talk about that because I don't know how that became the centerpiece.

It is not the centerpiece, okay?

Probably became the centerpiece because I was a little bit not clear maybe on my communication of what the true problem was when I started talking about this.

So I'm going to be crystal clear now, and that's why I wanted to write the next book, Dark

calories. It's a chemical concept called oxidative stress. Oxidation. It has to do with free radicals,

and it is the reason we die. Did you know oxygen is the reason we die also?

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