Your nutritional needs in order to thrive with Dr. Krista Scott-Dixon
Muscle Intelligence
Ben Pakulski
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2020
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode, Dr. Krista Scott-Dixon from Precision Nutrition joins us to talk about nutrition. We get into what human beings need nutritionally to thrive, the role of epigenetics and the implication of DNA on your nutrition. Krista explains where to start with a new client, calorie recommendations, behavioral changes and stress mitigation.
Krista Scott-Dixon, PhD, is Precision Nutrition’s director of curriculum. She earned her doctorate in Women’s Studies from York University.
In her role at Precision Nutrition, Dr. Scott-Dixon develops the curriculum for the PN (Women’s and Men’s) Coaching programs, the PN Level 1 Certification, and the PN Level 2 Certification Master Class.
Dr. Scott-Dixon is the coauthor of PN’s Level 1 textbook: The Essentials of Sport and Exercise Nutrition and The Universe Within: Genetic Testing and What It Can Tell Us About Nutrition, Health, and Athletic Performance.
In 2017, her book Why Me Want Eat: Fixing Your Food Fckedupitude was published.
To find out more about Dr. Krista Scott-Dixon, visit: www.precisionnutrition.com
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Dr. Huberman on the Muscle Intelligence podcast
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Timestamps:
[00:25] – Today’s guest
[01:15] – Today’s sponsor: Bioptimizer
[03:46] – Krista’s career path and start at PN.
[06:10] – What in nutrition is actually objective?
[08:35] – What human beings need nutritionally to thrive.
[10:24] – Fibre debate.
[14:56] – The strongest evidence is your own experience.
[15:18] – Results from a new diet.
[16:33] – The role of epigenetics.
[18:55] – DNA and its implications on nutrition.
[23:50] – How to establish baseline calories. / Where to start.
[28:55] – Deep Health Model
[30:50] – The Wheels of Stress.
[35:04] – Calorie recommendations.
[36:55] – Hard-gainers vs. stress eaters.
[38:28] – New performance certification at PN.
[43:34] – Decision making tree of if -> then.
[45:40] – How often you should change your nutrition.
[48:20] – Strategies to mitigate stress.
[51:00] – What are you ready, willing and able to do?
[53:25] – Behavioral change.
[01:00:10] – Psychological safety
[01:03:20] – Myth of the individual hero
[01:05:30] – Experiences of many Pro-Bodybuilder
[01:08:00] – Ben’s mission in the bodybuilding community
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to the Less Intelligence Podcast. I'm your host, Ben Bikolsky. |
| 0:12.6 | So for the longest time, I've been the person perhaps advocating against nutrition, |
| 0:19.0 | being exclusively about calories and without extending |
| 0:22.1 | too much into the topics of conversation in today's podcast, Krista Scott Dixon joins me today, |
| 0:28.2 | who's the content director at precision nutrition and responsible for the incredible things |
| 0:33.2 | happening over at precision nutrition's new curriculum development. We get into health, we get |
| 0:39.8 | into DNA, we get into performance, we get into calories, we get into what thriving ultimately |
| 0:44.7 | should look like and how to design it in your life. And ultimately, you know, performance is what |
| 0:49.6 | we're all after. We all want to thrive. We all want to live at our highest and best, not just barely |
| 0:54.9 | get by. And Krista Scott Dixon gives us an amazing, holistic, and I hate that word, but ultimately |
| 1:00.1 | it's this well-rounded approach that I've been advocating for years, and they do a really good |
| 1:05.4 | job of turning it into a curriculum for you guys, and who's a coach, or ultimately wants to |
| 1:09.4 | understand this stuff. Krista Scott Dixon and Precision Nutrition Team is an incredible resource for you guys and who's a coach or ultimately wants to understand this stuff. |
| 1:14.7 | Krista Scott Dixon and Precision Nutrition Team is an incredible resource for you. |
| 1:17.2 | Today's podcast is brought to by bi-optimizers. |
| 1:22.1 | I've been working with bioptimizers for four years now since they started the product. |
| 1:23.2 | I'm a massive fan. I suggest about four mass zimes per meal on average. |
| 1:28.3 | Sometimes I take as many as 10 between meals, but that's on a rare occasion where I'm really |
| 1:34.0 | trying to decrease inflammation. |
| 1:35.9 | Actually, proteolyc enzymes is one of my favorite ways, if not my, certainly actually my favorite |
| 1:39.8 | way to decrease joint pain and inflammation and I all take in between meals when your body's |
| 1:45.7 | not then going to use those enzymes to break down the protein in your stomach, it's actually |
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