SNR #234: Lachlan Mitchell, RD – Natural Bodybuilding Research & Muscle Dysmorphia
Sigma Nutrition Radio
Danny Lennon
4.8 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2018
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Lachlan Mitchell, RD, PhD Candidate
As a qualified dietitian Lachlan has worked both in the public and private health systems at Hervey Bay Hospital, Hunter New England Diabetes Service and a private weight loss clinic in Newcastle. It was in these settings Lachlan provided high quality, evidence based nutrition advice to a variety of patient groups, including intensive care, cardiology, diabetes, paediatrics and weight loss.
Lachlan has held numerous positions in the academic world. He spent time at Australian Catholic University as a lecturer and tutor teaching a nutrition and exercise unit as part of the exercise science degree program. Whilst living in Ireland he was head-hunted by Athlone Institute of Technology to co-write the course curriculum and syllabus for many units of study for a new exercise physiology degree. Lachlan has also spent time at University of New South Wales tutoring in physical activity and health.
Lachlan is currently undertaking a PhD in metabolism and bodybuilding at the University of Sydney.
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| 0:00.0 | The actual volume of fat mass lost, if we were, if we were look at that, it worked out to be on average about 3.5 kilograms, which may not sound like a lot, but when you've got individuals who only have seven or eight |
| 0:21.9 | kilograms of fat mass in total, if they're losing 3.5 kilograms, that's a significant amount |
| 0:27.7 | of fat mass loss. If we were to compare that to say an overweight or obese individual, 3.5 |
| 0:32.1 | kilograms of fat loss, it's good, but it's probably not as significant as what they would |
| 0:36.4 | be looking to achieve. |
| 0:38.3 | So the absolute loss of fat mass in terms of only being about three and a half kilograms, |
| 0:43.3 | perhaps that wasn't enough to see significant reductions in lepton. Hello and welcome to a another episode of Sigma Nutrition Radio. |
| 1:07.5 | My name is Danny Lennon and we are at episode 234 of the podcast. |
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| 2:04.3 | The other thing I wanted to mention to you guys is that on Saturday, 11th of August, Mac Nutrition Uni are hosting a clinical nutrition conference in the UK. So this conference is going to be |
| 2:11.2 | specific to health and fitness professionals who are looking for information on some of the |
| 2:16.8 | cutting edge and contentious issues related to nutrition and health. |
| 2:20.9 | For example, the main themes that will be covered will be gut health and gut disorders, eating disorders, diabetes and PCOS. |
| 2:29.8 | And so there's going to be four guest experts speaking at the event, including Martin MacDonald himself. |
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