S04E12: THE SCIENCE OF FLEXIBLE DIETING - Alan Aragon on healthy fat loss, seed oil myths, metabolism & optimizing body composition

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Olivia Amitrano

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🗓️ 2 October 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

This episode is for all of you fitness and science nerds out there. Alan Aragon is a nutrition researcher and educator well known for his evidence-based approach to health. He has over 30 years of experience in the field, designing fitness programs for recreational and professional athletes and people who just want to look and feel their best. Alan also writes a monthly research review (AARR) providing cutting-edge theoretical and practical information to the general public. His work has been published in popular magazines like Men’s Health as well as peer-reviewed scientific literature.

Here’s the juice:

What flexible dieting is and why there’s no such thing as one ideal diet for all of humankind
How to combine flexible dieting with the parameters that we know work scientifically, like eating a certain amount of protein or fiber
The science of fat loss – how to lose weight the slow, healthy way
How to find what your maintenance calories are
Why high protein hurting your kidneys is a myth, and we get into other nutrition myths that bug Alan
If metabolic adaptation is a real thing
How it makes sense for some people to add more calories when trying to lose weight
Why intermittent fasting isn’t all it’s cracked up to be
Why women MUST eat breakfast, especially those with PCOS
How much protein you actually need per day
When you should actually be eating more carbohydrates

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0:00.0	All right, well, last episode was for my psychology lovers.
0:07.2	This episode is for my fitness and science nerds.
0:10.8	You are on a mission to build the best body of your life to really focus on your muscle
0:16.5	health, your body composition, and just achieve the physique, as well as the metabolic health
0:21.7	of your dreams.
0:23.2	We are talking to the expert scientist and researcher in the space, the OG Alan Aragon.
0:29.9	He's going to break down what flexible dieting is and why there is no such thing as one
0:36.3	ideal diet for humankind, as well as why you don't actually have to be so strict and
0:41.4	restrictive.
0:42.4	He shares how you can combine the principle of flexible dieting, which means still eating
0:48.0	the things that you absolutely love with the parameters that we know work scientifically,
0:53.1	like prioritizing protein and eating at least 30 grams of protein per meal to maintain
0:57.9	and build our muscle mass.
0:59.4	He's going to break down the science of fat loss, how someone can lose body fat in
1:03.9	a very slow and healthy way, and why it's about losing fat rather than losing a pound
1:09.7	on the scale and where people totally go wrong in terms of the quality of their weight
1:14.0	loss.
1:15.0	I want to explain how the heck you can find your maintenance calories.
1:18.0	This is something you guys have asked me over and over again, and he's going to break
1:21.2	down a very easy way that you can figure out exactly how many calories your body needs
1:26.2	to just maintain and then be able to play around from there with a very slight and healthy
1:32.2	deficit so that you're not overdoing it and under eating.
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