[Micronutrients] Why Calories and Macros Are Not Enough for Health Optimization w/ Anders Varner, Doug Larson, Coach Travis Mash and Dan Garner #680
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode of Barbell Shrugged you will learn:
- Why micronutrients are the base of all chemical and hormonal reactions in the body
- Why micronutrients are responsible for total health and how good you feel
- Why micronutrients are overlooked and how this is detrimental to your health
- How do you know you are getting optimal micronutrients in your diet
- What your health is missing if you only track your macros
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| 0:00.0 | Shred family, this week on Barbell Shred, we're throwing it back a little bit. |
| 0:03.9 | Talking about micro nutrients, one of the most important things that is mostly overlooked |
| 0:08.6 | when it comes to nutrition because we all like to sit there and count our macros and |
| 0:12.2 | we all understand the total number of calories that we need to be eating but as Dan is |
| 0:15.8 | going to lay out in this episode, calories are a really good indicator of how the size |
| 0:20.9 | of your body will be determined. |
| 0:22.5 | So the total number of calories, the more you eat, the bigger you're going to be. |
| 0:25.8 | Hopefully that's going to be muscle, but many times it doesn't show up that way. |
| 0:32.1 | Macro nutrients being the actual body composition that you're going to have. |
| 0:37.2 | So if you go ahead and eat 4,000 calories but it all just happens to be protein, you're |
| 0:41.3 | probably going to be kind of jacked. |
| 0:43.3 | But the problem is if you eat 4,000 calories of protein, which is an insane amount and |
| 0:48.0 | I don't recommend, you're probably not going to feel that great. |
| 0:51.1 | And the reason is because you're not going to have a diverse group of micronutrients, |
| 0:56.3 | the vitamins and minerals. |
| 0:57.6 | And in today's episode, we're going to talk about all of the interesting things that go |
| 1:00.9 | along with having all the micronutrients and how we can start to change the framework |
| 1:09.7 | in which we view micronutrients so that you know, one, the size of your body, calories, |
| 1:15.5 | two, the physique of your body and how it looks through macros and then how well you feel |
| 1:20.5 | through micronutrients. |
| 1:22.3 | And friends, you can always get an inside look at Dan Garner doing his work over at |
| 1:28.6 | rapidhealthreport.com. |
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