Episode 433: Dr. Andy Galpin: Forget Diet Trends - Simple Nutrition Principles That Actually Work
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What are the fundamental principles of nutrition for high performance?
What is the optimal, I know everything's very individualized based, but what is the optimal diet for high performance?
Define high performance for me, but some categorical rules I can answer here.
Okay, for optimal cognitive performance.
Cognitive performance is a different answer here, right? So you can go into the small details with examples like people like to bring up blueberries. Lots of research, a cup of blueberries per day is actually going to have statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvements in cognitive function. We use this very routinely. It's been very well demonstrated.
Okay, I know. Blueberries, wild salmon. Got it. Right? All this stuff. It's all true. It's all true.
It's all honestly super true. So if you then wind back to some of your previous questions on that, does it matter which format that you like to give yourself structure with? You're like, what the hell did he just say? You could have called that a diet. That's all diets are. They're just a different format that gives you structure.
Right, right, okay.
Why might common diet trends be overrated?
That's all it is, right? I don't even call them diets because it's nonsensical.
Do you think eating, I mean, I love breakfast. Can I not eat breakfast? Of course you can eat breakfast. They're like, oh, well, you won't be an autophagy and you're going to be blah, blah, blah.
That's garbage, like almost all nonsense out of that stuff. Fasting is insanely overrated. I like it. Do it a bunch. But if you're thinking that skipping breakfast in the morning is going to solve almost any of your health problems, you're generally massively misguided. If it is helping you, avoid triggers. Then awesome. If it is helping you manage your calories, awesome. If you don't like breakfast in the morning, awesome. Totally fine. We actually just, this actually on the way over here, I submitted back revisions. Our paper should be accepted in the next couple of days. We ran a study on intermittent fasting in our laboratory. So I'm not against it at all, but I'm certainly against people thinking that they have to do it for any short or long-term reason.
You have to figure out a way to get yourself high-quality foods. You have to figure out a way to manage calories somehow. And if fasting is a way that checks those boxes on a positive, well, great. If it doesn't, then I don't care at all about it. I will promote a six meal a day diet as much as I will a one meal a day diet. Whatever is, those are not the factors that matter. The factors that matter are the other things. Now, having said that, We will use things like fasting a lot for cognitive performance with things like our surgeons and our firefighters and our other responders because they generally are going to go, hey, I can't take a break every two hours and go snack, right? I'm in a 16-hour surgery. I'm in a nine-hour surgery, right?
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What are the fundamental principles of nutrition for high performance?
1:59–3:02
2
Why might common diet trends be overrated?
3:02–8:04
3
What is Dr. Andy Galpin's approach to protein intake and nutrition?
8:04–11:27
4
How does eating wild game like bear and elk fit into a healthy diet?
11:27–13:51
5
Is there a difference in nutritional needs between men and women?
13:51–24:57
6
What role do fiber and supplements play in optimal nutrition?
24:57–1:09:38
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