FFF 020: The Truth About Cholesterol, Our Fattening Environment & Exercise As Medicine – with Dr Spencer Nadolsky
The Food For Fitness Podcast | Nutrition | Training | Lifestyle | Healthy Living
Scott Baptie
4.8 • 631 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2015
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
This week, Dr Spencer Nadolsky is the guest on The Food For Fitness Podcast. He is a medical doctor, fitness writer and advocate of evidence-based nutrition. Known by many as ‘The Dr Who Lifts’, Spencer has a background in exercise science and he now specialises in weight loss and cholesterol. He is leading proponent of using resistance training and good nutrition as a form of medicine to try and tackle the growing obesity crisis.
In this episode, Spencer explains how he teaches his patients about the benefits of training and intelligent nutrition as a means to improve overall health and lifestyles. He describes why our obesogenic environment is pushing us towards weight gain, the dangers of having overweight grandparents, if Facebook is making us fat and his take on the ‘exercise vs diet debate’.
We chat about cholesterol and saturated fat and he dispels many of the myths surrounding the subject. He explains why he went vegan for a month, why Bulletproof coffee could be damaging to your health, his favourite supplements and how he went from winning a bodybuilding show to competing in a triathlon without losing any muscle or strength.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you tired of falling off the proverbial fitness bandwagon? |
| 0:04.1 | Join us as we share simple, realistic, and above all, achievable weight loss advice |
| 0:09.5 | based on evidence gathered from helping hundreds of people look, feel, move, and perform better. |
| 0:15.5 | You don't need to starve yourself or hop on the latest fitness craze. |
| 0:19.1 | We'll show you how the smallest change can give you the largest impact. |
| 0:22.6 | Now join your healthy living host, Scott Baptee, for the Food for Fitness podcast. |
| 0:28.6 | Welcome to episode 20 of the Food for Fitness podcast brought to you by foodfor Fitness.com. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm your host, Scott Baptay, and this week my guest is Dr. Spencer Nodalski. |
| 0:46.2 | Now Spencer is a medical doctor who has a background in exercise science, and now he's specialising in weight loss and cholesterol. |
| 0:54.2 | In this episode, you'll learn a ton of info all about Spencer's experience of using exercise |
| 1:00.1 | and nutrition as a way to improve people's lifestyle and reduce obesity. |
| 1:04.3 | We'll be talking about cholesterol and all the myths that surround it. |
| 1:08.4 | We'll be looking at supplementation because that's the subject |
| 1:11.4 | Spencer's written extensively about in leading publications. We'll examine why he thinks exercise |
| 1:17.3 | is one of the best pills. If you could put it in pill form for lifestyle management, |
| 1:22.4 | we'll be talking about how he did a bodybuilding show. Well, not only that, but winning a |
| 1:26.9 | bodybuilding show to then |
| 1:28.3 | doing a triathlon without losing any muscle or strength and gaining muscle in the process. |
| 1:33.8 | So here we go, episode 20 of the Food for Fitness podcast. Hey Spencer, welcome to the show. |
| 1:40.0 | Thanks for having me, buddy. That's my pleasure. So Spencer, give the listener a little bit of background about you. |
| 1:47.0 | Who are you? |
| 1:48.0 | What do you do? |
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