Episode 43: Nutrition Facts vs. Fiction with Dr. Ben House, PhD

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Welcome to Episode 43 of the Movement Logic podcast! In this episode Laurel sits down to talk with nutritional scientist, Dr. Ben House, PhD who has been working in nutrition and fitness for over 15 years, and has published many articles in peer reviewed, scientific journals. In their conversation, Ben and Laurel talk about the intersection between nutrition and fitness, specifically for women between the ages of 40-65 who may exercise and eat with a number of related (but different) goals like performance, health, and aesthetics.

You will learn:

• Why food fear spreads like wildfire on the internet
• Why Paleo, Keto, carnivore diets, and veganism have more in common than they have different.
• That muscle can prevent hyperglycemia and inflammation.
• The difference between macro and micro nutrition.
• How the energy from food (listed on food labels) does not correspond with how your body metabolizes and gets energy from that food.
• That low carb diets, like keto go back to the mid 1800s and then resurge every couple of decades.
• That body-building is not just about aesthetics.
• Why thinner is not automatically healthier and what the “cost of leanness” is.
• How fat is responsible for the evolutionary success of humans.
• What sarcopenic obesity is.
• What apophenia is and how it is responsible for lots of myths about weight gain and menopause.
• Why 8,000 steps/day and the CDC’s physical activity guidelines will move the needle a lot further than Andrew Huberman’s litany of “protocols”.
• Ben’s research-supported recommendations for daily dietary intake.
• What body recomposition is and how it could help people maintain weight loss.

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Article in New York Times - What We Think About Metabolism May Be Wrong

Articles on Deconstruct Nutrition:

How Bad are we at Calorie Math?

Does Menopause Cause Weight Gain?

What Percentage of Americans Are Metabolically Healthy?

Articles in Stronger by Science:

Stay Shredded

Research Spotlight on Metabolic Rate

Dr. House’s Nutrition Course - https://broresearch.com/