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Barbell Medicine Podcast

Episode #53: Nutrition Research, Guidelines, and Public Health with Alan Flanagan

Barbell Medicine Podcast

Barbell Medicine

Health & Fitness

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Today we talk with Alan Flanagan, a PhD candidate in Nutrition Sciences, a lawyer, and science literacy juggernaut! Alan Flanagan's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thenutritional_advocate/?hl=en Timestamps: 08:20 Problems in nutrition science 15:45 Nutrition science's utility 22:20 Moving forward in nutrition research 34:00 Are nutrition guidelines useful? 40:30 How to improve nutrition guidelines 42:30 Socioeconomic targets for nutrition improvement 47:30 Public health and nutrition improvement 51:30 Food as medicine or nah? Please leave a comment below and a review on iTunes! For more of our stuff: Podcasts: goo.gl/X4H4z8 Website: www.barbellmedicine.com Instagram: @barbell_medicine @austin_barbellmedicine @jordan_barbellmedicine @leah_barbellmedicine @vaness_barbellmedicine @untamedstrength @mike_barbellmedicine @derek_barbellmedicine @hass_strength @charlie_barbellmedicine @tomcampitelli @alex_barbellmedicine Email: info@barbellmedicine.com Supplements/Templates/Seminars/Apparel: http://www.barbellmedicine.com/shop/ Forum: https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/ Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/cpqB3n Our Sponsors: * Check out Chilipad and use my code sleep.me/BBM for a great deal: https://sleep.me * Check out FIGS and use my code FIGSRX for a great deal: https://wearfigs.com * Check out Factor and use my code factormeals.com/bbm50off for a great deal: https://www.factor75.com * Check out Quince and use my code quince.com/bbm for a great deal: https://www.quince.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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0:00.0

Hey everyone welcome back to the barbell medicine

0:07.8

podcast we're bringing modern medicine to strength conditioning and

0:11.1

strength conditioning to modern medicine.

0:13.0

I'm Jordan Figenbaum, and we've got a very special guest today,

0:16.0

Alan Flanagan.

0:17.0

Alan Flanagan is also known as the nutritional advocate on Instagram.

0:20.0

He's a trained lawyer.

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He's got his masters in nutrition and he's finishing his PhD in

0:26.7

nutritional sciences. So he's a great guest to have on our podcast today. I got a lot of interesting questions.

0:33.4

We'll go ahead and say that we had a little problem recording some audio but I spent a lot of time

0:37.2

on it. I think I got it pretty good but you guys might want to give me a little

0:40.5

more leeway on this one. I'm really excited for you guys to

0:43.5

listen to the content though so hopefully you guys enjoy this podcast and I

0:48.8

won't waste any more time. Let's get into it.

0:52.6

OK, so we are joined here with a very special guest.

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Alan Flanagan is not only a lawyer,

0:59.9

it's also a PhD student, right? You're finishing your PhD in nutrition sciences. He is the nutrition advocate

1:08.0

on the Instagram's. Alan, thanks for joining us, man. Thanks for having it guys.

1:14.0

It's great to finally get around to this.

1:16.0

Yeah, there's a back story.

1:17.0

I mean, we tried to do this like probably two months ago when you published all these articles on our website, which we're so thankful for and

1:24.7

we've got a bunch of traffic and a bunch of good feedback. It's just you know when

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