Robb Wolf on Being a Health Translator
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2021
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Robb Wolf is an author, the founder of LMNT, and co-host of Healthy Rebellion Radio. He joined us to dive deep into a bunch of nutrition questions I've got, including nutrient density, how to feed our kids, and keto for CrossFitters.
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| 0:00.0 | For me, kind of the long and short of that, I don't get too asked-chapped about these |
| 0:04.6 | distinctions because I think what people are trying to do is to get some simple rules |
| 0:09.4 | to help people buy in and do something different. |
| 0:12.1 | Like you can't just nuke people with every bit of detail around nutrition and diet and lifestyle |
| 0:18.5 | change. |
| 0:19.5 | If they're trying to do something new, you've got to have some starting plates. |
| 0:23.9 | And some people pick vegan, some people pick a Mediterranean diet, some people are more |
| 0:27.7 | in this ancestral health paleo, keto, carnivore. |
| 0:32.6 | And I think that what they're trying to do by and large is just provide some simple |
| 0:36.2 | heuristics, some simple rules of thumb to be able to start with and move people forward. |
| 0:41.6 | The real danger in all that to me is that then people take these simple stories and |
| 0:46.4 | carve them into stone and create religious doctrine. |
| 0:49.0 | And then that's where the show starts because then you get the factionalization and people |
| 0:54.7 | dig in their heels. |
| 0:57.0 | We are here because we know the outcomes in our lives are within our control. |
| 1:01.4 | That taking absolute ownership of how we eat, sleep, train, think and connect with each |
| 1:05.9 | other is how we'll optimize our health and happiness. |
| 1:09.8 | That chasing excellence is how we grab hold of what is possible. |
| 1:13.9 | Our mission is to live on the run. |
| 1:16.7 | Always chasing. |
| 1:17.7 | Never stop. |
| 1:19.7 | Hello and welcome back to another episode of Chasing Excellence. |
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