The Bodybuilding Diet That Rewires Your Brain #379
Muscle Intelligence
Ben Pakulski
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In this solo episode, Ben Pakulski unpacks the science, psychology, and strategy behind the bodybuilding diet, and why it’s one of the most powerful tools for transforming your physique, performance, and mindset. This isn’t just about aesthetics. It’s about rewiring your brain, regaining impulse control, and mastering your relationship with food.
Ben breaks down how hyper-palatable foods hijack your biology, and how a 12-week reset can unlock energy, focus, and long-term sustainability. Whether you’re looking to lean out, build muscle, or just stop being controlled by cravings, this episode delivers real tools to operationalize nutrition like a high performer.
Points To Watch Out For
- Why hyper-palatable foods sabotage your results
- The mental rewiring effects of caloric deficits
- How to use food timing for impulse control
- Genetic testing and personalized nutrition insights
- The real reason most diets fail (and how to fix it)
About Ben
Ben Pakulski is the Chief Performance Officer to elite executives, successful entrepreneurs, and top athletes. With over 25 years of experience, he coaches high achievers to build the physical, psychological, and metabolic resilience required to lead at the highest level.
As the creator of the Muscle Intelligence framework, Ben specializes in aligning biology and behavior to drive sustained peak performance. His mission is to redefine what’s possible for people in their prime and push the boundaries of human potential.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome back to the Muscle Intelligence podcast. |
| 0:02.9 | Today we're going to talk about the bodybuilding diet. |
| 0:06.5 | While I personally believe that every single human at some point in life |
| 0:10.4 | should participate in a bodybuilding diet, all the incredible benefits that a bodybuilding diet can impart on your life, |
| 0:18.3 | and ultimately I'm going to teach you how to operationalize it in this |
| 0:20.9 | podcast sit tuned here we go all right everybody ben be kolski we're talking about the bodybuilding diet |
| 0:36.4 | something i participated in for a very long time. |
| 0:38.5 | I started my first ever bodybuilding style diet at 17 years old and now having young boys and girls, children that I'm ultimately starting to understand how their pallets work. |
| 0:50.6 | It's interesting to look back on my life and how the bodybuilding diet started for me as early |
| 0:55.5 | as 17 years old. I hired a bodybuilding coach and he said, hey, he's what you got to eat. And there was |
| 1:00.8 | no sauces allowed, no salt allowed, basically eating plain foods, no oils. And this is, I'm not |
| 1:09.9 | telling you to do that. I'm telling you this is what happened for me at 17. |
| 1:13.0 | And so I was eating egg whites with no ketchup and no salt and no whatever else people put on it. |
| 1:18.9 | And I was eating tuna and I was allowed to have mustard. |
| 1:22.3 | And I was eating chicken breast. |
| 1:24.1 | I was also allowed to have mustard. |
| 1:25.3 | Mussel was the only condiment I was allowed to have. |
| 1:26.8 | And I hated mustard at the time. |
| 1:28.7 | Now I'm obsessed. |
| 1:30.3 | But I'm like, okay, so this is how body blows eat. |
| 1:33.3 | So it was rice cakes, white rice, potatoes, vegetables, broccoli, asparagus, limited even in the vegetables. |
| 1:41.5 | I would get some carrots from time to time. |
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