Episode 317: Sal Di Stefano: The Truth Behind Harmful Health Trends

Habits and Hustle

Jen Cohen

Entrepreneurship, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Business

4.5 • 818 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

You’re scrolling on Instagram and stop dead in your tracks as you’re served an ad for a ‘new’ fitness product. Except it’s not new…it’s a slightly sleeker product from 20 years ago that promises you abs of steel in 28 days. While it feels like we face a new fitness trend every week, it’s scary to think that the promise of a ‘quick fix’ is just being recycled over and over again. In this episode of Habits & Hustle, I’m joined by Sal Di Stefano to reveal the truth behind some of the trends we’re (unfortunately) seeing re-emerge in the health and fitness space. We tackle intermittent fasting, not as a diet trend, but as a cultural practice. And break down how it's being used as another fast way to weight-loss despite its potential health risks, especially for women. We also debunk a whole host of myths such as: sweat-equals-weight-loss, how much cardio you actually need, plant based ‘milks’ vs dairy milk, the politicization of the vegan diet, and how supplements can completely transform your personal health journey. Sal Di Stefano is a personal trainer, co-founder of Mind Pump Media and co-host of Mind Pump, a podcast dedicated to providing truthful fitness and health information. Sal is dedicated to prioritizing health over appearance, and he aims to shift the direction of the fitness industry from aesthetic/insecurity based to one based in self-love and self-care. What we discuss… (00:01) - Breaking down the truth around major fitness trends (10:32) - Are fake ‘milks’ actually better for you than dairy milk? (17:02) - Collagen protein: is it worth the hype? (28:57) - The real benefits of intermittent fasting and cold plunges for fat loss (38:36) - Does sweat actually equal weight loss? And how to fix your relationship with exercise (46:08) - How strength and metabolism are a better indicator of fitness progress than weight alone (53:17) - The need for exercise consistency over variety and the effects of caffeine on your training (01:00:13) - How the use of supplements has transformed our personal health journeys (01:10:34) - Why detaching yourself from the diet crazed culture is essential to long term health …and more! Thank you to our sponsors: Pendulum: head over to pendulumlife.com and use my special code HUSTLE15 for 15% off your order. Therasage: go to therasage.com and use code B-BOLD for 15% off Find more from Jen: Website: https://www.jennifercohen.com/ Instagram: @therealjencohen Books: https://www.jennifercohen.com/books Speaking: https://www.jennifercohen.com/speaking-engagement Find more from Sal: Website: https://www.mindpumpmedia.com/ Podcast: https://mindpumppodcast.com/ Instagram: @mindpumpdistefano Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Okay, this is what, round four with one of my favorites.
0:04.1	Thank you.
0:04.9	It's so true.
0:06.3	Sal DeStefano, of course, part of the mind pump crew that I'm very, very friendly with, close with.
0:13.6	And why I love you, as I'm sure, I mean, I've told you thousands of times, the most knowledgeable person, one of the most knowledgeable people I speak to when it comes
0:24.2	to health and fitness, information, you're so well, not just well-versed, but well-detailed
0:30.9	in everything I ask you.
0:32.5	So whenever I have you on, it just does so well because of like you're a fountain of information. Oh, thank you.
0:40.3	I appreciate that. You know, people have asked me about the information that I'll recite or whatever.
0:47.6	A lot of it has to do with this, Jen. You know this, because you're good at this too, is it's not so much that I have all this information.
0:53.9	It's that I've learned how to
0:55.3	communicate it so that people get it because I trained people for decades. I trained everyday
1:01.2	people for two decades. And what I had to get really good at was conveying information a way
1:07.1	that influenced their behaviors because otherwise it didn't matter. Otherwise, I'm just Google, right?
1:11.9	If I just know information, I'm just Google.
1:14.4	What makes me different, what made me different was, okay, I learned through the years
1:19.0	talking about fat loss and muscle building and improving your health and your sleep
1:23.4	and whatever.
1:24.2	I found ways of communicating it where I saw behaviors actually change and people adopt some of the things I talked about. And I said, okay, that works, that works, that works. So it's literally two decades of whittling down, you know, some of the ways that I communicate. And that's what comes across. So it's how do you stay, you know, it's funny because at the end the day, you're talking like you said, but the same things over and over again, fat loss,
1:44.6	how to gain muscle, how to burn fat, how do you know what I mean? Like, where are the best techniques
1:49.7	and all the other stuff? How do you keep it fresh? And after all of these years, now we're in
1:56.0	2024, has there been any new technique or any new piece of information that you've stumbled
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