Have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like?

Not much to it, is there?

Unless, of course, it's a Walker's sandwich.

Mmm, that is good.

Now that's what Asani should sound like.

Go all crisp in with walkers.

Delicious.

Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Food Medic Podcast.

I'm your host, as always, Dr. Hazel.

So on today's episode, we're going to be talking about two of my favorite things, weightlifting

and medicine.

People often say that exercise, it's medicine. And actually, this was the topic of my

TEDx talk. But I do think there's this assumption that when we talk about it, we just mean

aerobic exercise or cardio. And resistance training often falls by the wayside, but it's of

equal importance. And today we're

going to discuss just that. So for this conversation, I'm joined by the one and only Jordan Feigenbaum,

a physician, strength coach and powerlifter. He started barbell medicine in 2012 in an effort

to bring the best of modern medicine to strengthen conditioning and vice versa.

In this episode, we chat about the health benefits of resistance training and why recommendations

to do it are not more widespread in medical practice, advice for people new to weight training,

fears around causing or triggering pain when lifting, and Jordan's big rocks when it comes

to health and longevity. I really enjoyed this conversation. It's super informative. Like I said,

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