Thanks for tuning into this episode of the Human Performance Outliers podcast with Zach Bitter.

All right, everyone, welcome back to another episode of the Human Performance Outliers podcast.

I'm your host, Zach Bitter.

And today I have a guest interview for you, although we do have a focus on nutrition as the topic that I

found to be an interesting one.

So for me personally, when it comes to nutrition strategies that work, I suspect there is a wide

range of options for people to choose from that can be successful.

Because of this, I believe that finding an option that is relatively easy

to stick to is going to yield the most consistency and therefore success at the individual level.

This is likely why we see people have great success on such a wide range of different ways

of eating. For me personally, this has been a low carbohydrate diet, which is one reason I'm interested in it. My approach works well for me and many others, but it

isn't something I would consider universal, especially when you look at specific lifestyle factors

that are going to be unique to me and other people that it works for. For this reason, I like to think

of nutrition planning through two main

assumptions. One is that all foods are tools and these tools are going to have strengths and

weaknesses. They will also have tradeoffs. What this means is if you want to zoom in on one aspect,

you can make a specific food look either entirely good or bad.

This, in my opinion, becomes problematic when discussing nutrition because it just clouds the

reality of what one can expect.

Second, when it comes to recommendations, I find it unlikely any singular way of eating will be successful at a population

level given our current food environment. Meaning, if we decide to promote a best diet for all or place

any way of eating in a guideline structure intended to convince everyone to eat a specific way, it will fail.

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