Episode 5: Dr. Peter Ballerstedt

Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Zach Bitter

Zach Bitter

Sports, Fitness, Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Hybridathlete, Ultra, Endurance, Ultramarathon, Running, Run

4.7 • 615 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2018

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Welcome to the Human Performance Outliers Podcast! Your hosts, Dr. Shawn Baker and Zach Bitter, are here to explore the outer limits of performance with interviews, Q&As, and interesting topics related to nutrition and performance. In episode 5, we speak to Dr. Peter Ballerstedt who has extensive experience in forage agronomy, agriculture, and ruminants. He was the Forage Extension Specialist at Oregon State University from 1986 to 1992. His personal experience led him to study human diet and health. What he’s learned doesn’t agree with low-fat-is healthy dietary advice we’ve been given for more than 30 years. This understanding, combined with his forage background, has given him an interest in the truly
sustainable forms of agriculture – those including ruminant animals.

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0:00.0	Welcome back, folks. This is episode five of the Human Performance Outliers podcast, and I'm here with my co-host,
0:22.6	Sean Baker, and our first official guest, Peter Ballerstadt.
0:27.6	So we've got an exciting podcast interview to kind of start things off with the interview side of stuff.
0:34.6	Peter is someone who spends a lot of time looking into kind of sustainable farming and
0:44.7	livestock and things of that nature.
0:47.0	And I know I've got some questions about that type of stuff as well as many other people
0:51.3	do as we kind of move forward as more or less a human race and try to decide like, you know, what do we do with the resources we have?
0:57.6	How do we make them last and
0:59.2	You know be sustainable for future generations? So
1:03.3	I welcome Peter as our first guest. How's it going, Peter?
1:07.8	It's going very well, Zach and Sean. I'm so glad to be here. It's quite an honor.
1:16.0	My background is in agriculture.
1:19.8	And I came to low-carbohydrate dietary approach to treating the, you know, 51-year-old balding, pre-diabetic, obese individual I had become, starting in 2007.
1:38.3	And then I kind of got to roll back into everything that I was trained in the way of forage
1:46.8	agronomy, ruminant nutrition.
1:49.7	And I hope I can just be a bridge between these seemingly disparate worlds, but I think
1:57.2	they're really well connected because I think a lot of the myths from the human
2:02.6	nutrition realm have been deployed against ruminant animal agriculture.
2:08.5	So it's a pleasure to be here.
2:10.4	Yeah, yeah.
2:13.4	It's interesting stuff and I think everyone you know, everyone probably listening knows or maybe
2:20.3	does some farming or gardening and stuff like that.
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