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Robb Wolf - The Paleo Solution Podcast - Paleo diet, nutrition, fitness, and health

The Paleo Solution - Episode 394 - Chris Masterjohn PhD - Nutritional Status, Evolution, and Keto and Epilepsy

Robb Wolf - The Paleo Solution Podcast - Paleo diet, nutrition, fitness, and health

Chris

Robb, Crossfit, Health, Intermittent, Paleo, Fasting, Wolf, Diet, Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Fitness

4.6 β€’ 1.5K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 8 May 2018

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

This week on Episode 394 of The Paleo Solution Podcast we have our friend Chris Masterjohn PhD. Chris is a researcher with a PhD in Nutritional Sciences, and a brilliant guy in the nutrition and health field.

Show Notes:

00:00 – Pre-intro/Summary
03:21 – Intro
5:19 – Being a problem solver and synthesizing nutrition info.
10:49 – Evolution, Economics, and Thermodynamics for understanding the world
13:20 – Lab grown meat and energy inputs
18:49 – Which media format Chris prefers
25:47 – What Chris likes to do for fitness, and doing BJJ
32:35 – Chris’ coming speaking gigs and content goals
36:34 – Ketogenic diet and epilepsy
50:50 – Any evolutionary advantage of epilepsy?
58:50 – Nutritional Status Cheatsheet
1:18:22 – Where you can find Chris

Discounted offer for listeners, the Nutritional Status Cheatsheet: chrismasterjohnphd.com/robbwolf

Website: Chrismasterjohnphd.com
Facebook: Chris Masterjohn
Twitter: @ChrisMasterjohn
YouTube: Chris Masterjohn, PhD

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey folks welcome back to another edition of Palos Solution Podcast huge treat for me today.

0:12.0

If you want to go geeky on all things, human nutrition and metabolism,

0:16.7

you are hard-pressed to find a better person to engage with than Chris Master John PhD.

0:21.8

Chris has just been a luminary in the ancestral health scene for the better part of a

0:26.6

decade, perhaps even longer now I guess.

0:29.5

Wrapped up a PhD several years ago in this nutrition related field was heading kind of down a

0:36.0

tenure track professorship direction and then pulled the rip cord on that and has just gone all in on producing amazing content around nutrition and metabolism.

0:48.0

And he's really done a particular deep dive getting beyond protein carbs fat and looking at nutritional status.

0:55.6

I've just learned a ton from Chris.

0:58.3

He had a couple of different podcasts, one of them related to iron overload.

1:01.4

I got in, started assessing my iron overload potential,

1:05.8

started donating blood, felt better, had better recovery.

1:09.2

So just cannot say enough about what Chris has done. We talk about one of his new offerings, which is a

1:16.2

nutritional status cheat sheet. We'll get to that at the end of the podcast. Chris talks a fair amount about ketogenic diets and epilepsy and what we do and don't know in addition to a ton of other stuff.

1:28.4

We get to pull the curtain back a little bit and discover a little bit about his personal life including getting into Brazilian

1:34.7

Jiu-Jitsu and having a passion for strength training so I think you'll

1:38.8

really enjoy this one Chris Master John PhD.

1:41.6

Before we get to the fun here's a quick word from one of our students in the

1:58.3

Kito Master Class. This is from Jessica. She says, hey guys, Ko freaking rocks. I just finished week three following

2:06.6

the ketogenic diet and I'm down 17 pounds. Never in the history of ever have

2:11.0

been able to lose weight like this. It's pretty cool. I've tried every diet known to man and when I was basically starving myself I couldn't drop weight like this. I feel fantastic. I still have a long ways to go but I have no doubt I will get there

2:24.8

Just wanted to give you an update the information in the keto mask really helped me and I appreciate your approach

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