SNR #158: Alex Ritson - Adaptive Thermogenesis, Thrifty Genes & Hedonic Eating
Sigma Nutrition Radio
Danny Lennon
4.8 • 633 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2017
⏱️ 60 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Episode 158: Alex Ritson dives into the metabolic adaptations that occur with dieting (and overfeeding), the implications of this for the dieter and how this can explain the differences between individuals in their response to a diet.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Key take home to people who are looking for long-term weight loss success. |
| 0:16.0 | There would be to first to completely revalp up your food environment. |
| 0:25.6 | You know, you shouldn't be having Caleduladgeti food lying around the place. They should be there sparingly, but they shouldn't be lying around off the back of it. |
| 0:29.6 | What's going to happen is you just over-consume money. |
| 0:36.6 | Intuition and mindfulness when it comes to these hyper palatable, hypercalidant |
| 0:44.1 | foods pretty much goes out the window after a while. Hello and welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio. |
| 1:02.4 | I am your host as always Danny Lennon and you are listening to Episode 158 of the podcast. |
| 1:09.5 | On today's show, I'm going to be talking with performance nutritionist Alex Ritson, |
| 1:15.4 | who is a super smart guy who has looked a lot at the research base on topics related to metabolism, |
| 1:23.1 | how metabolic rate changes with dieting, adaptive thermogenesis, potential ways to mitigate that |
| 1:27.8 | within dieting and preventing weight regain is really diligent at looking firsthand at the research |
| 1:33.7 | and pulling some conclusions out from that. So really excited to get him on the show to talk |
| 1:38.5 | about some of those topics. There's going to be a ton of research mentioned in today's podcast |
| 1:43.0 | and I'm going to link up to any of the relevant research articles in the show notes this episode if you do want to check them out. |
| 1:50.3 | So that's just going to be at sigmautrition.com slash episode 158. |
| 1:55.0 | And if you go there, you'll get links to all the research papers, as well as a bit more background on Alex. |
| 2:00.4 | And you can also get a |
| 2:01.5 | transcript to this and all our other previous episodes of the show. One more thing before we do |
| 2:07.3 | get started, I just want to mention for any of you interested in performance nutrition and weight |
| 2:12.7 | cutting for combat sports, you can check out the Sigma weight cutting system for MMA and boxing, which is now |
| 2:19.2 | ready to go. You can see all the details up on the website. So if you just go to sigma nutrition.com, |
| 2:26.3 | you can find the tab for weight cutting. You'll also, if you just go direct to the link, sigma |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Danny Lennon, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Danny Lennon and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

