Flex Diet Podcast

• I cover my basic assumptions regarding who this is for
• Lifting component: what I would do and how often
• Cardio component
• Nutrition
• Fasting
• Hydration
• Supplements
• Sleep
• Other

The Flex Diet Podcast is brought to…

• Intro to Ashleigh's quarantine life
• How the book, It Takes Guts, went from idea to reality
• Why bother with organ meats
• Nose-to-tail-eating
• Why organ meat fell out of favor
• Health wars and trying to be the…

• N1 Education mission: They take what you'd learn in a university setting and apply it to the individual level.
• Narrowing research down to an applicable level
• Issues with hypertrophy research
• Targeted pr…

• Hear about Brent's background
• Research on fish oil- where it's been and where it's going
• Omega 3 to Omega 6 ratios
• Omega 3 index: what it is and what it tells you
• The form of supplementation matters
• What …

• Intentions with a rough timeframe are better than goals with a strict timeframe.
• Figure out the gap - what's missing. SAID principle.  
• Figure out the cost. HRV, joint pain, time spent exercising...
• Bas…

Dr. Potter's background and current role

Sleep's effects on the brain

REM sleep for motor learning

Lucid dreaming

PTSD, trauma, TBI, and sleep

Creatine supplementation, sleep, and health

Other supplement s…

• Deb, Jean, and Dr. Mike talk about the state of the industry in light of the pandemic
• The high flux model
• Learning how to get out of the low-calorie mindset
• The importance of steps and energy expenditur…

• Discussion of the Ph.D. process
• Research limitations and struggles
• Reflexive Performance Reset (RPR)
• The imperfect role of science in answering questions
• Sport and exercise psychology (Dr. Feit’s dissert…

• Managing training through COVID restrictions
• Encouraging client independence
• The role the personal trainer can play
• Fitness culture and the hardcore or die aspect
• Tradeoffs in fitness
• Tips for changing up…

• How not to gain weight between November and January.
• Two letters: H and H - hedonic and homeostatic
• Awareness
• Combine the best of hedonic and homeostatic

• Beginnings of metabolic flexibility research
• Where the idea of physiologic flexibility came from
• Can we transfer the idea of metabolic flexibility to our physiology?
• Apply stress to the system, does the…

• How Jodie avoided dentures
• Zac’s background and how he got into this field
• What proper mouth structure should be
• The connection between sleep and mouth structure
• The connection between ADHD and other beh…

• Introduction to Dr. Friesen
• How he uses neurofeedback to help people learn to regulate their brains (examples with ADHD and anxiety)
• How personality traits matter for arousal, motivation and performanc…

• How the deal with Walmart started
• Anders’ John Cena connection and experience with Fit Ops
• How they spent all of Quarantine coming up with a training program for the masses and learning the Walmart sys…

• Fasted cardio
• Low insulin
• Low effort
• Increase blood flow for recovery
• Eye movement
• Optic Flow
• Sunlight

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• What does the end-user (fitness consumer) need to know to make an informed decision about where to work out.
• Tapout fitness venture Mario is working on
• The science behind marketing claims for places li…

• Being “happy” with current performance while also being realistic as to how that compares on a national or world scale
• Comparison to others’ highlight reels de-incentivizes your brain toward getting b…

in this podcast

• My top 3 principles for programming
• A couple of fun training stories
• How to implement these principles into your program ASAP

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Episode Notes:

• Eric’s background and how he got into protein metabolism
• What are main things you look at from a mechanistic standpoint and why should we care
• Background on nitrogen balance - pros and co…