Feel the Burn – The Truth about Calories & Exercise

Wellness: Fact vs. Fiction

Danielle Belardo

Nutrition, Alternative Health, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Join Dr. Danielle Belardo and her expert of the week, Evolutionary Biologist and author of Burn, Dr. Herman Pontzer. Get ready for what you thought you knew about weight loss, metabolism and exercise to be completely turned on its head as Dr. Ponzter breaks down his latest findings on the physiology of humans and how diet, activity, and other ecological factors influence health. Danielle and Herman discuss the evolution of diets, the truth about losing weight, the energy budget, and the benefits of exercise. Dr. Ponzter shares his experience living with the Hadza hunter-gatherers in northern Tanzania and the ground-breaking research that came from it. This is one of those gasp-out-loud episodes, packed full of shocking truths about calories, weight loss, and the human body. The good news is, you can toss those fad diets out the window! Dr. Herman Pontzer is an Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology and Global Health at Duke University and is an internationally recognized researcher in human energetics and evolution. His lab research focuses on energetics and metabolism, including respirometry and doubly labeled water methods. Dr. Pontzer’s work has been covered in The New York Times, BBC, PBS, Washington Post, The Atlantic, NPR, Scientific American, and others. They address myths and misconceptions in regards to: Metabolism, energy expenditure, and aging Exercise and calories burned The starvation response, low calorie diets and weight loss Basal metabolic rates and body fat percentage Thank you so much for taking the time to contribute to a generation that values fact over fiction! Be sure to rate, review, and follow on your favorite podcast app and let us know which not-so-wellness trend you’d like to hear debunked. Follow your host on Instagram @daniellebelardomd and the podcast @wellnessfactvsfiction. Follow Herman on Twitter @hermanpontzer. Thank you to our sponsors for making this episode possible. Check out these deals just for you: POLICYGENIUS - Head to policygenius.com to get your free life insurance quotes TALKSPACE - visit talkspace.com and get $100 off your first month when you use promo code drdanielle at sign-up. DIPSEA - go to dipseastories.com/drdanielle for a free 30 day trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you by PodcastNation.
0:05.0	You risk your body basically initiating a starvation response and you know
0:15.0	reducing your metabolic rate because it thinks you're in a starvation scenario
0:20.0	right and it doesn't want you to die and so your metabolic rate will come down
0:23.0	if you cut calories too quickly so it's hard, it's hard to lose weight
0:27.0	and that's not news to anybody but this is why it's because your body doesn't want to lose weight.
0:42.0	Welcome to Wellness Fact vs. Fiction.
0:45.0	I'm Dr. Danielle Bellardo and I'm a cardiologist who loves evidence-based medicine and nutrition science
0:50.0	but as a millennial I've watched endless wellness fads take over social media.
0:55.0	It's my mission to get to the bottom of things by bringing on the top expert physicians and scientists
1:00.0	to help us determine what is fact vs. fiction when it comes to your health.
1:05.0	It's time to leave the pseudoscience behind and become empowered when it comes to our wellness.
1:18.0	Hi everyone, welcome back to Wellness Fact vs. Fiction.
1:22.0	I'm so excited for today's episode as we're covering one of my favorite topics, nutrition science.
1:27.0	We're bringing in the big guns for this one and get ready for what you thought you knew about weight loss, metabolism and exercise
1:34.0	to be completely turned on its head.
1:36.0	Our guest today is evolutionary biologist Dr. Herman Ponser, who's the author of Burn,
1:41.0	which is to this day one of the only books I will recommend to people to purchase seriously.
1:46.0	You need to read this book and as you guys know, I am super critical when it comes to nutrition and diet books,
1:52.0	but Dr. Ponser's book is incredibly evidence based revolutionary and is work in general,
1:57.0	which we discuss in the podcast is really a huge game changer.
2:01.0	Dr. Ponser is an associate professor of evolutionary anthropology and global health at Duke.
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