Hello you beauties. Get a free list of my 100 favourite books - chriswillx.com/books/ Here’s the timestamps: 00:00 Why Are People Getting Fatter? 06:42 The Truth About Seed Oils 13:23 What is the Vertical Diet? 26:34 Can Red Meat Kill You? 30:00 Stan’s Thoughts on Aspartame & Diet Soda 35:39 The Science Behind Intermittent Fasting 47:08 Why Do So Many Diets Fail? 51:48 The Gap Between Government Health Advice & Stan’s Advice 59:19 How Legitimate are Blue Zone Studies? 1:03:17 The Usefulness of Grounding for Health 1:07:13 How Sleep & Weight Loss Are Connected 1:10:41 Why Walking Improves Health Significantly 1:24:30 Should You Skip Breakfast? 1:29:44 Principles for a Good Sleep 1:41:52 Best Training Practices for Health 1:54:36 If Stan Could Only Keep 10 Exercises 2:04:00 What Blood-work Metrics You Should Pay Attention To 2:18:32 Life-Hacks for Successful Execution 2:24:15 Where to Find Stan
Bret Weinstein points out that Vitamin D is stored in body fat (ancestrally, during summers where food and sunlight are relatively plentiful, to be released back into the body in winters when food and sunlight are less so.) It is generally known / accepted that salt regulates the body's tendency to retain water. Given both these facts, is it possible that there are chemicals that can be stored in body fat, which cause more body fat to be retained (either chemically, or through behavior those chemicals tend to produce?) These chemicals might be environmental toxins that are slow for the body to get rid of for whatever reason, and could even explain why weight loss seems to be more unpleasant for some than for others. I'm envisioning taking biopsies from obese and non-obese people in various areas, and running them through a mass spectrometer or similar to find traces of specific chemicals that are likely candidates, or just simply take a brute-force inventory of what you find there, and work from there.
@@Cheesesteakfreak Do you listen to the entire episode, or just the clips his critics make? You've clearly been programmed to turn your brain off once you've heard the name of a "badthinker".
59:07 government intervention is why we got fat. See previous comments about subsidy. The best government intervention is to get out of the subsidy business. Stop incentivizing poor food choices with subsidy.
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 🍔 Main Causes of Obesity Epidemic 03:54 🧪 Emotional Charge in Diet Discussions 05:32 🍟 Influence of Socioeconomic Factors on Diet 07:43 🌱 Seed Oils and Their Effects 09:48 🍔 Adverse Reactions to Seed Oils 12:22 🥗 The Vertical Diet Principles 21:16 🥦 Dietary Recommendations 24:17 🥔 High-Potassium Carbohydrates and Satiety 26:37 🥩 Red Meat and Dietary Patterns 31:01 🍹 Aspartame and Weight Loss 34:02 🍽️ Weight Loss and Diet Approaches 37:00 🧩 Understanding Dietary Information 42:14 🍽️ Main Findings on Diet and Activity 44:04 🍛 Importance of Meal Preparation 45:56 🥘 Enhancing Satiety 47:17 💡 Why Diets Often Fail 50:47 🌎 Challenges with Blue Zone Studies 01:02:03 🏡 Commonalities in Blue Zones 01:03:13 🛌 Importance of Prioritizing Big Rocks in Health 01:07:19 🛌 Sleep's Role in Weight Loss 01:08:42 🏃♂️ Cardio vs. Sleep for Fat Loss 01:10:49 🚶♀️ Benefits of 10-Minute Walks 01:13:30 🏙️ Incorporating Walks into Daily Life 01:17:08 🌞 Sunlight and Movement 01:22:56 🏋️♂️ Exercise Timing and Diabetes Management 01:24:31 🍳 Breakfast and Meal Timing 01:25:41 🍽️ Chronon Nutrition and Willpower 01:27:44 🛒 Environment Design and Satiety 01:29:07 😴 Sleep and Health 01:35:08 🌎 Travel and Sleep Routines 01:42:20 🏋️♂️ Principles of Training 01:42:33 💪 Exercise Selection and Frequency 01:45:34 ⏳ Rest Periods and Repetition Range 01:46:28 💥 Intensity, Strength, and Exercise Selection 01:51:25 🔄 Tempo and Eccentric Movements 01:57:03 💪 Ideal Exercises for Muscle Building 02:01:44 💪 Stan Efferding's Muscle-Building Tips 02:04:13 ⚕️ Health Metrics for Longevity 02:11:49 🥦 Stan Efferding's Dietary Insights 02:16:13 🔥 Air Fryers and Meal Preparation 02:21:17 🍴 Meal Preparation Hacks Made with HARPA AI
cool. what were ur main takeaways from the list? for me I want to know instead of a medium paced walk after meals, create a deficit before and do a hard 10 minute situp and lunge routine maybe. then post meal just load the dish washer so muscles moving to pump out the lumph fluid and guts getting a light massage from the movement. PS were at your desk when you listened to this? how did you generate that list? chatGPT copy and paste? just curious. active listening important but if not AI aid proficiency important now too
Been watching Stan Efferdings stuff for years and at back when he had Mark Bell training him to break world records. I’ve always admired how he advanced himself in his career first (telecommunications and real estate) then used his income to fuel his pursuit for his IFBB pro card and breaking powerlifting records in his 40’s. That’s a patient man. Respect 🫡
Waking chills you out, not eating too much at once makes you feel less groggy. I like how Stan very slightly and politely pointed out that that’s nothing to do with eye movement or fasting.
The White Rhino has returned ! Stan is the man, and can guide someone to achieve above and beyond in multiple facets of life. An intellectual who is also an absolute savage in the gym and in seizing opportunities in life. Thank you for another wonderful production Chris !
He really gets the picture, and casually list the important variable, in order of priority. His advice are much more precise than a casual listener would think.
Was obese but not morbidly. Cut nearly all added sugar. Cut nearly all processed foods (goes along with the sugar). Cut seed oils (also easy when you cut processed food). Added natural fats including grass-finished beef. Worked in some sensible supplements. Moderate use of intermittent fasting. Down by 45lbs since April without losing any muscle mass. Not hungry anymore...this has been very easy.
Hey fam, do you have a guide or something comprehensive I can follow? Also how would I go about sweetening my coffee in the morning without processed sugar? Thanks
I love eating natural foods, especially meat. I had been obese because of doctors telling me to be low fat. Followed them strictly as I came from the UK lean, but eating butter and full fat milk. After 18 months of strict low fat, I developed acid reflux, diarrhea, needed to also go on statins, and after five more years developed blood clots. Since going off processed food, eating healthy fats and protein, I now need no meds, and feel amazing. Have not needed blood thinners in two years, despite the leading hematologist telling me I’d be on them for life.
@@shadyyogainstructor932I always tell people to start with a talk by an M.D. from Florida. He explains a lot about how the body functions, handles food or the lack of, heals and repairs itself...etc. I guarantee it's worth 80 minutes of your time plus he's sort of entertaining. Search yt "Fasting For Survival Lecture" - Dr. Pradip Jamnadas
The key for me is having a lot of fruits and vegetables with every meal because they’re so low calorie dense and make me feel full 24/7. I’m basically never hungry and went from 220lbs down to 170 in about a year and a half. I barely changed anything I still eat like a pig I just eat foods with less calories.
Excellent episode, Chris! Thank you for having Stan on. We appreciate the opportunity to share The Vertical Diet with your audience and hope that they can find the information useful.
Big thumb up for the production. Five cinema cameras with the finest glass, DP grade lighting, smooth grading, tasteful sound mastering. The best produced podcast, well done! (and, of course, great guest&host)
Man. So happy that you had Stan on. I remember the old school powerlifting videos of him and mark bell. He’s a beast. His rhino rants back in the day driving around smashing out quality advice on food and training. Glad to see him going strong
I love how Chris keeps constantly asking “why?”… it might be clear to some but for the rest of us that want to learn more in depth it feels like a classroom format. Keep it up man! Love this type of content!
I came to the comments to say this. It definitely added a dimension to the conversation and gave a lot of perspective to some of the topics I’d planned to search later 👍🏻
Amazing podcast, never heard of Stan before this, what a wholesome and positive dude trying to help people improve themselves and clearly talking and educating with love!
My first day working for a construction company I packed a big lunch figuring I would be way hungry from working hard and I was hungry. I noticed immediately that the other guys were all eating like little wussy meals. It wasn’t much later after eating that big meal that I felt extremely tired and still had half the day left in front of me. I went on like that for about a week before I switched to eating small wussy meals along with the rest of the guys. Much better. 1:22:29
I am a younger epileptic and it's hard to find a dietician who's willing to talk to/with me about finding a diet for me*. I've tried two dieticians, and none seem to care about individual science. It's important to me when I have a disease that can be maintained/controlled/aided with diet. I don't have as many episodes a year as the avg epileptic, and we're unclear on why they even begin. From allergies to diets, it's hard to personally get recommended and actually get appointments from both my neurologists and my primary, when the topic is "trying to aid my epilepsy". It's just, "take these meds, we will up them if you have another". Overall I'm stuck trying to make correlations from TH-cam videos, reddit posts and pubmed, as if it's my job. Grateful for all the content. But sheesh, Healthcare is a joke lol
This is my first time virtually meeting Stan. He has a really lovely nature about him that is remarkably comforting. As somebody who has spent a LOT of time on the nutrition/diet/fitness side of many different apps, and who struggles with shame quite a bit, I find the way he explains things and his cadence and approach to be so patient and kind. I recently had my dad tell me that he is much more this way at work than he was at home and I can certainly confirm. It’s left me hoping that Stan is this way throughout his life as well. Really lovely chat, fellas. Appreciate you both 🤙🏼
What an amazing conversation, you can tell Stan is an excellent coach because he displays zero ego investment in the method, he figured out the RANGE of things that work and all he cares is is how to land inside of it and stay there, and whatever works works. Awesome!
Sodium changed my life. Thank you, Stan!! You have helped me for many years now. Listen up, people!! Stan knows his stuff. He doesn’t sell protein powder or pre workouts. He believes in food, not quick fixes. Sleep, eat and train. And salt will change your life also.
@@toxichammertoe8696 I had awful headaches after exercising. It turns out when you “clean eat” your body tends to lack the salt you normally get from processed foods. Salt is essential for your body for workouts and for some reason it’s the only thing that cured my headaches. I can’t explain why but I’m glad he mentioned it in the earlier seminars he did. As Stan says, people carry around their water jugs in the gym, but they really also need salt. Helps with the workouts for a lot of people also. His vertical diet is legit. It works for a lot of people when dieting or trying to gain muscle. I adapt a lot of it into my life. You can check out the “Thor power gym Stan Efferding” lecture on TH-cam that outlines a lot of what he promotes. I can’t explain all of why salt works, but if you also go back to early Thomas Delauer videos he also says salt as a pre workout is great and I’ve been salting my pre workout for years now. I’m also natural so I get exhausted easy when on a diet at 42 years old so I need all the maximizing I can get these days.
Sodium is necessary as you become more active. When consuming more water and less other drinks you can easily flush everything in your system out. Sodium sparring throughout the day with foods and really before and during a workout can help with better workouts. If you look at most pre workouts, stim or non-stim they usually have some sodium, potassium in them. When you are working really hard in the gym or during a run you can sometimes see the salt dried up on your shirt. This is also the reason many “sports” drinks contain electrolytes and sodium. You burn through a lot when going hard in training.
@@greatvaluesup3rboy736 very well said. All those things for sure. It’s surprising how little people focus on recovery in the gym during workouts. I’ve been trying to use Milos Sarcev and John Meadows intra workout EAAs and carbs and it does also make a difference along with sodium
Chris, I am so pleased to see your views change on parents who say ‘Yeah right, try that when you’re a parent’ to the various life hacks you discuss with your guests. We don’t resent our children for any of it, we just have a different set of parameters of what is practical. I’m so pleased to see you come round to this.
Stan has absolutely revolutionized the way I think about diet and training. He is a big part of my physique and strength today. Love to see this collaboration!
I love Chris' podcasts, the way he engages and asks questions is refreshing. Tim Ferriss used to be my favourite but Chris has surpassed him imho. In other news, I just started with this channel, sharing level-headed viewpoints on uncomfortable issues, so if reading this comment you decide to have a look I would be very grateful! Love from Greece & Germany
Stan is a great, humble guy! Happy you had him on. I bought his Vertical Diet back in early 2020 when it was barely a year old. Absolute game changer. He is way ahead of his time.
Probably one of the best podcasts / videos that I’ve listened too in a while. Keeping it to the basics and the way the Stan delivers information is short sweet and straight to the point. I just loved this interview. Could gone for 4 hours and i woulda been locked in 💪🏾🤣
I love the Vertical Diet and recommend it to everyone who asks for diet advice. It's never a bad thing to prioritise micronutrients first, then protein and fuelling workouts with carbs. And my digestion has been so much better since paying attention to how different foods make me feel, and prioritising digestibility.
I am here for Stan. He is the perfect gentleman. The interviewer is rude and obnoxious. Stop interrupting and learn something. No one cares about your opinion when you have Stan on your show. Let the man speak!
i love that you were able to do a 2+ hour podcast simply picking his brain for all the knowledge he has. you could do another 2+ hour podcast talking about all his many accolades as well haha
Love it. I love the food people that have helped hundreds/thousands of clients and actually have experience with practical advice. There's so much academic debate about what's better, but these guys walk the walk having clients with amazing body composition. Stan is the man. Brian Sanders from Food Lies and Dr. Ted Naiman are also some of my favorites getting me more jacked. Protein for the win.
@@ActiveGamingUKYeah it does, as long as it’s not achieved with PEDs.. It literally IS the way you can SEE externally someone’s internal health with any accuracy. Being overweight is still the leading cause of most health related issues.
ANOTHER STELLAR production Chris! Although I have a very different dietary perceptive than Stan, I very much respect him and his ability to be open-minded and admit when he has shifted his perspective due to new research. Thank you both again for getting together and education/entertaining all of us!!!
In India, we use 'Kachchi Ghani' oils. Meaning cold pressed oils. Most of the Indian households use this for cooking daily meals. And the ones that Stan is talking about, are used occasionally because it has better taste. It's quite interesting how two cultures use totally different oils and one has to talk about it very seriously because of bad food habits but one is using those oils since centuries if not thousands of years. Although almost every food made in restaurants here is made with 'refined oils', same as the ones we use in our houses on special occasions, just because of taste. In India, we also use a lot of ghee (clarified butter), which has immense health benefits & it's also the one I use on special occasions only. It's better than any seed oil but not that great for cooking vegetables. Great for cooking Dal.
My little girl is 3 years old and has type 1 diabetes. Nowhere near enough is done or discussed to manage blood sugars. I'm really pleased to hear this and kudos to you both. Chris, what blood glucose monitor do you wear? Dexcom?
Thank you, I like how you let the invite talk and the time to explain without interruptions, and we can have the whole explanation on the question. Very good interview 👏
Love that he name-dropped Bret Contreras. Just started his Booty by Bret program and am loving it. Get him on the show! Also, thank you for your kinder comments regarding sleep-deprived parents 😘
One thing Chris did right that a lot of people have picked up on in the past, if you genuinely want to know something, just let Stan talk. Don't interrupt him haha just let him go. In my opinion, in this realm, Stan is thee most well spoken, as is Rick Rule in commodities&finance. In just about every field you can come across the real teachers, and it really is best to pay attention. Good job, Chris 🤜🤛
#1 my digestion is better without seed oils, but I also found my blood sugar goes crazy if I have seed oils. My diet would be 95% the same but swap one ingredient or have something cooked in a seed oil and my insulin/blood sugar will go crazy and I'll suddenly get really low blood sugar and I'll feel like I'm about to pass out and need food immediately. They sneak into people's diets too. I was buying pumpkin seeds to use in my breakfast shake but found out the pumpkin seeds were roasted in canola oil. Or I'd use a Finnish mustard and I translated the ingredients and that had canola oil.
As someone who is 35 and have had rheumatoid arthritis since I was 10yrs old.... that movement part.... where you gotta move and stay moving couldn't be more correct.
My dude, Stan Efferding , dropping strength and truth bombs. Stan’s an awesome guy. I’ve known him for a long time and trained with him at his gym in Vegas at Sin City Iron.l multiple times. Awesome gym if you’re in Vegas check it out.
Excellent show! One of the most informative presentations I've ever seen ... in a world of quick fixes and hacks ... I found this guest and your interview INCREDIBLY insightful! I will be following you and Stan going forward ... the information about many working "strategies" being made up of individual choices especially true ... less dogmatic and far more useful and practical for implementation ... Stan should be far more well known (as I have never heard of him or seen him before) ... I find Peter Attia practical in the same way ... actually following the real science ... EXCELLENT WORK HERE CHRIS ... !!!
Seed oils are literally in everything because they are cheap and they are used as emulsifiers. People don’t realize a lot of creamers used for coffee are mostly vegetable oil. Using lactose free milk or actual cream is much more satisfying without the unnecessary oil. About two months ago I cut processed foods significantly. I stopped using the coffee creamer and went with lactose free milk. I started making my own soups, salad dressing and sauces. I started working out 3 days a week focusing mainly on strength training. I’ve dropped 10 lbs and I’m stronger than I’ve ever been. I have more energy than ever. I’m less puffy in the morning and I can wear my wedding ring again. I’m only upset I didn’t do this earlier.
The production value on these videos is amazing! And I LOVE how the locations are so random! Like why is this set in a random woodwork workshop? Probs because it’s cool and different!?!?
Same as Chris I like keeping as many calories possible for the latter part of the day. When losing weight I'd eat ~300cals breakfast, ~600 cals lunch and diner + snack was ~1300cals. When bulking, ~400cals breakfast, ~900cals lunch, ~400 cals of snacks and ~1100cals for diner.
I'm one of those that lost 60ish lbs and have kept it off for over five years. The game changer for me was an addiction model for ultra processed foods. I don't have any problem with cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, but I cannot eat a small amount of UPFs. Some can, many cannot. I am a recovering "sugar addict". For folks like me willpower is never going to work.
Eliminating artificial sweeteners (including Aspartame) from my diet cut my Hemiplegic/Aura Migraine frequency by 90-95%. I eat healthy (high protein/minimum sugar), quit drinking alcohol 4 years ago, and train 4-6 days a week. I'm 37 and am in better shape with more energy, and better bloodwork than I was at 23.
Regarding blue zones. The Mediterranean diet is not vegetarian but consumption of meat in the original diet was limited, simply due to the fact that meat was expensive. But it does contain chicken and lots of fish and seafood as well as lots of fruits, veggies, dairy (but no butter) and raw olive oil. As to having the ages wrong, in my experience (and I come from a country that has one of the Netflix blue zones) they tend to underestimate them not overestimate them.
Power plant operator… worked 12 hrs 4 on 4 off then switched to nights. Worked DuPont schedule. Possibly working 2 days then 2nights then 4 off.. how do you even optimize sleep in any one of these?? Currently working 8hr shifts waking up at 5am to lift
Im not gonna argue with Stan the man, this is the kind of guy I want advice from when I want advice. Ive done some fasting and there between 48 and 72 hours sometime. I havent eaten for more than 2 days theres no food in me and whatever it is that comes out of me has no business being inside of a living human being. It doesnt seem dietary its not like it was ever food. Up until just now I had never questioned that it was autophagy dead cells and toxins and things my body was storing that a process it didn't normally have access to was working to get rid of. Its predictable for me happens everytime. Whatever it is is one hell of a special delivery. Whatever the fuck that was I dont want to be 20 feet from it, Im happy not knowing, Im just .... I just have a spiritual moment that whatever it was is no longer inside of me, Hallelujah amen. It only happens once that I recall and only in that time window.
After starting to count calories for the last year, and having conversations with family members, it's pretty clear that the amount fat in food is the enemy, or let's say the culprit. You do need fat in your diet, but we are overconsuming. People don't know that a gram of fat has over double the energy as a gram of protein or carbohydrate. And we tend to underestimate the amount of fat we are using to prepare food which leads to underestimating calories. I served myself a plate for Easter, and asked my mom to gauge or guess how many calories are on the plate, she was off by 50% and was shocked because the amount of food wasn't that much. But on the plate was a creamy pasta and potato salad, both of which use cream and mayonnaise which are almost pure fat.
One thing that i hate about the ‘Red Meat Studies’ is that they don’t really talk about people whom eat loads of lam and steaks, with maybe some eggs, bacon and a small amount of veggies. Turns out if you eat that, most people will feel way better and be way healthier. However, the ‘Red Meat Studies’ take into account people eating a lot of red meat from junk food, and otherwise eat pretty unhealthy. Double bacon cheesburger from a grill, come home and snack on chips before eating more meat and fat. The studies needs to distinguish between eating red meat in a healthy or unhealthy way. Lumping people whom eat 4 eggs and a steak a day. With people whom eat 3 double cheese burgers from mcdonalds is not good science… Although all can be classified as ‘High red meat consumption consumers’ I’m no expert, but if you think i’m wrong. Try it, every body responds to foods differently. But most bodies will be the healthiest they can be with high fat and protein consumption with next to 0 carbs or fiber. Try this. 1-2 meals per day. Total consumption can be for example 5 eggs, some cheese, 500g of meat and maybe add some tomatoes, onions and salad. Have 80-95% of your calories in Fat/Protein. And btw, use a lot of butter. You can make a lot of different meals with that to never go unsatisfied. If you get the keto-flu, try to bear it. It usually means you have had a way to big of transition when it comes to carbs being the primary energy source, to now fat. Ease your way in. Calculate how many calories a day comes from animal fat/protein. And how many comes from carbs. Maybe the ratio is 20/80, then flipping that 180* will make your body adjust in a harsher way than 50/50 -> 80/20. You honestly should try it if you like to experiment with diets. Because this isn’t a diet. It’s more a lifestyle. You don’t need to stop yourself from eating. You eat until your full. However, 1kg of steak will make you really full on about 1200 calories. You might not need to eat the next day even. But that’s an extreme example. Eat 5-6 eggs ~480 kcal, eat 500g of lamb, pork, beef. ~1100 kcal depending on how fatty the meat is. And use some butter and cheese. You’ll hit easily between 1500-2500 kcal, whilst it tastes amazing, and you will be completely full. No need to snack.
I am current living proof that eating less and exercising more can and does work. I haven’t done any fancy diet. I just lowered the overall quantity of my meals and increased dramatically the amount of exercise I do. For me it is working exactly as people say it should. I lose about 1-2kg a week. I should emphasise that my body does not like high fats. Makes me feel sick. If a person eating nothing but McDonald’s swaps to a controlled diet they will have results, doesn’t matter what diet just a more healthy, stricter portioned diet, take your pick in preference they will lose weight. It’s not the diet that is magic it is what the diet is doing which is removing the mass quantities of things your body will store as fat.
Two hours, and you didn't talk about PEDs, his past use of gear, or his TRT. None of that is anything to hide or be ashamed of. Stan a big enough man to talk about all of them.
Clearly not. A lot or PED users like to think they're genetically gifted or just worked harder. We don't need to hear or see them on YT imo. Naturals need advice from naturals as recovery, regimen, diet etc all have to be far stricter and controlled.
It's refreshing to hear someone collate what science has discovered so far versus trying to come up with one sensational spin / click bate agenda to sell their wares.
People are over-stressed, under-slept, overly sedentary and depressed. We then surround these same individuals with hyper palatable foods and expect people to control themselves with their food intake. Many are using these foods like a drug to sustain a crazy unhealthy lifestyle overall. Things go far deeper than just people needing to control their intake. We need a restructuring of the average persons lifestyle and the overall culture at large.
If we want to talk psychology and its impact on this. I am currently on a health a fitness journey and I think intent is very important. My goal is not to lose a number of weight my goal is to never be fat ever again in my life. Period. For me it’s a full lifestyle change. But it’s working and I am doing it because I want to. I want this to happen. I am driven and motivated because of my goal. If I didn’t want to and wasn’t interested I don’t think I’d have been able to make these lifestyle changes. Anytime I feel like something that won’t benefit my goal I tell myself no, not happening.
Over 2 hours in and I'm pondering around doing stuff in the house - made dinner (Steak in cast Iron pan), came back sat down - finished dinner and then Stan says avoid cast iron pans. My face... when I use one twice a day to cook all my red meat because of the amazing sear you get. Definitely learned something there - will get my iron levels checked.
Everything Stan says is accurate and sound advice, but it's important to note most every athlete or fitness influencer (including both men here) are on vitamin T.
What would be the difference in hypertrophy between 1 set to failure with maybe a couple of slow negatives or a couple of drops at the end, and 3 sets with 2 RIR???
I always touch the point that diet is such a convoluted topic on my articles, If you're using a *insert your favorite diet here*, I've seen papers talking about the amazing health benefits of it- I've seen people have amazing progress at the gym by following it- I've seen people get BATSHIT INSANE trying to evangelize other people to do the same diet they're doing. Personally, I absolutely fucking HATE talking about dieting, not because I'm not interested in the topic, but because I believe that dietary practices are heavily associated with bonding behaviors- think about it, through millennia most of our celebrations revolved around eating, 'till this day it's a tool to establish a sense of community and reinforce social connections. Guess what happens when you attribute an ideology to your dietary practices? You start seeing cult-like behavior, people start to dissociate from their immediate reality, and their identity goes out of the window- the belief overide the individual identity 'cause you're bonding with an ideal that isn't really tangible. Then comes the fact that studying which diet is best is borderline unfeasible for the current scientific methods, the vast majority of the papers you're seeing online are working with guesstimates and self-reports, that's why every single diet has a study backing it up, attach to that an extremely profitable industry for every single niche diet out there and voilá, you can't trust 99% of the information out there. And on top of all that, comes the power of narratives- if you truly believe in your diet, guess what? The odds that it's going to work improves substantially. So that's the thing that I've learned from Stan that pretty much revolutionized my perception of dieting and training- the best approach for you is the approach you'll adhere to and keep consistent over time, if on top of that you can prioritize minimally processed items, you're absolutely GOLDEN! Great EP Chris, always incredibly inspired by your message & guests, hell, I started posting an article a day because of you 2 years ago, now I'm making a living writing about the stuff that I love, and I couldn't thank you enough for it.
Hello you beauties. Get a free list of my 100 favourite books - chriswillx.com/books/ Here’s the timestamps:
00:00 Why Are People Getting Fatter?
06:42 The Truth About Seed Oils
13:23 What is the Vertical Diet?
26:34 Can Red Meat Kill You?
30:00 Stan’s Thoughts on Aspartame & Diet Soda
35:39 The Science Behind Intermittent Fasting
47:08 Why Do So Many Diets Fail?
51:48 The Gap Between Government Health Advice & Stan’s Advice
59:19 How Legitimate are Blue Zone Studies?
1:03:17 The Usefulness of Grounding for Health
1:07:13 How Sleep & Weight Loss Are Connected
1:10:41 Why Walking Improves Health Significantly
1:24:30 Should You Skip Breakfast?
1:29:44 Principles for a Good Sleep
1:41:52 Best Training Practices for Health
1:54:36 If Stan Could Only Keep 10 Exercises
2:04:00 What Blood-work Metrics You Should Pay Attention To
2:18:32 Life-Hacks for Successful Execution
2:24:15 Where to Find Stan
Bret Weinstein points out that Vitamin D is stored in body fat (ancestrally, during summers where food and sunlight are relatively plentiful, to be released back into the body in winters when food and sunlight are less so.)
It is generally known / accepted that salt regulates the body's tendency to retain water.
Given both these facts, is it possible that there are chemicals that can be stored in body fat, which cause more body fat to be retained (either chemically, or through behavior those chemicals tend to produce?)
These chemicals might be environmental toxins that are slow for the body to get rid of for whatever reason, and could even explain why weight loss seems to be more unpleasant for some than for others.
I'm envisioning taking biopsies from obese and non-obese people in various areas, and running them through a mass spectrometer or similar to find traces of specific chemicals that are likely candidates, or just simply take a brute-force inventory of what you find there, and work from there.
@@jimluebke3869I lost you at Bret Weinstein, lol, that dude constantly makes claims that he never justifies.
@@Cheesesteakfreak Do you listen to the entire episode, or just the clips his critics make?
You've clearly been programmed to turn your brain off once you've heard the name of a "badthinker".
59:07 government intervention is why we got fat. See previous comments about subsidy. The best government intervention is to get out of the subsidy business. Stop incentivizing poor food choices with subsidy.
This was a Blast! Damn, Stan is astronomically underrated. Thank you guys.
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
00:00 🍔 Main Causes of Obesity Epidemic
03:54 🧪 Emotional Charge in Diet Discussions
05:32 🍟 Influence of Socioeconomic Factors on Diet
07:43 🌱 Seed Oils and Their Effects
09:48 🍔 Adverse Reactions to Seed Oils
12:22 🥗 The Vertical Diet Principles
21:16 🥦 Dietary Recommendations
24:17 🥔 High-Potassium Carbohydrates and Satiety
26:37 🥩 Red Meat and Dietary Patterns
31:01 🍹 Aspartame and Weight Loss
34:02 🍽️ Weight Loss and Diet Approaches
37:00 🧩 Understanding Dietary Information
42:14 🍽️ Main Findings on Diet and Activity
44:04 🍛 Importance of Meal Preparation
45:56 🥘 Enhancing Satiety
47:17 💡 Why Diets Often Fail
50:47 🌎 Challenges with Blue Zone Studies
01:02:03 🏡 Commonalities in Blue Zones
01:03:13 🛌 Importance of Prioritizing Big Rocks in Health
01:07:19 🛌 Sleep's Role in Weight Loss
01:08:42 🏃♂️ Cardio vs. Sleep for Fat Loss
01:10:49 🚶♀️ Benefits of 10-Minute Walks
01:13:30 🏙️ Incorporating Walks into Daily Life
01:17:08 🌞 Sunlight and Movement
01:22:56 🏋️♂️ Exercise Timing and Diabetes Management
01:24:31 🍳 Breakfast and Meal Timing
01:25:41 🍽️ Chronon Nutrition and Willpower
01:27:44 🛒 Environment Design and Satiety
01:29:07 😴 Sleep and Health
01:35:08 🌎 Travel and Sleep Routines
01:42:20 🏋️♂️ Principles of Training
01:42:33 💪 Exercise Selection and Frequency
01:45:34 ⏳ Rest Periods and Repetition Range
01:46:28 💥 Intensity, Strength, and Exercise Selection
01:51:25 🔄 Tempo and Eccentric Movements
01:57:03 💪 Ideal Exercises for Muscle Building
02:01:44 💪 Stan Efferding's Muscle-Building Tips
02:04:13 ⚕️ Health Metrics for Longevity
02:11:49 🥦 Stan Efferding's Dietary Insights
02:16:13 🔥 Air Fryers and Meal Preparation
02:21:17 🍴 Meal Preparation Hacks
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cool. what were ur main takeaways from the list? for me I want to know instead of a medium paced walk after meals, create a deficit before and do a hard 10 minute situp and lunge routine maybe. then post meal just load the dish washer so muscles moving to pump out the lumph fluid and guts getting a light massage from the movement. PS were at your desk when you listened to this? how did you generate that list? chatGPT copy and paste? just curious. active listening important but if not AI aid proficiency important now too
@@nikitaw1982it saus at the bottom of his list. 😉
This is all on the description as well
Really knocking it out of the park with these guests recently. Stan Efferding is truly an expert in his craft
Been watching Stan Efferdings stuff for years and at back when he had Mark Bell training him to break world records. I’ve always admired how he advanced himself in his career first (telecommunications and real estate) then used his income to fuel his pursuit for his IFBB pro card and breaking powerlifting records in his 40’s. That’s a patient man. Respect 🫡
Yep. Stan been ballin for decades. Very smart business man
Waking chills you out, not eating too much at once makes you feel less groggy. I like how Stan very slightly and politely pointed out that that’s nothing to do with eye movement or fasting.
The White Rhino has returned ! Stan is the man, and can guide someone to achieve above and beyond in multiple facets of life. An intellectual who is also an absolute savage in the gym and in seizing opportunities in life. Thank you for another wonderful production Chris !
He really gets the picture, and casually list the important variable, in order of priority. His advice are much more precise than a casual listener would think.
Was obese but not morbidly. Cut nearly all added sugar. Cut nearly all processed foods (goes along with the sugar). Cut seed oils (also easy when you cut processed food). Added natural fats including grass-finished beef. Worked in some sensible supplements. Moderate use of intermittent fasting. Down by 45lbs since April without losing any muscle mass. Not hungry anymore...this has been very easy.
Hey fam, do you have a guide or something comprehensive I can follow?
Also how would I go about sweetening my coffee in the morning without processed sugar? Thanks
I love eating natural foods, especially meat. I had been obese because of doctors telling me to be low fat. Followed them strictly as I came from the UK lean, but eating butter and full fat milk. After 18 months of strict low fat, I developed acid reflux, diarrhea, needed to also go on statins, and after five more years developed blood clots. Since going off processed food, eating healthy fats and protein, I now need no meds, and feel amazing. Have not needed blood thinners in two years, despite the leading hematologist telling me I’d be on them for life.
@@shadyyogainstructor932I always tell people to start with a talk by an M.D. from Florida. He explains a lot about how the body functions, handles food or the lack of, heals and repairs itself...etc.
I guarantee it's worth 80 minutes of your time plus he's sort of entertaining. Search yt "Fasting For Survival Lecture" - Dr. Pradip Jamnadas
@@shadyyogainstructor932 Monin do a great zero sugar vanilla syrup that I use
@@shadyyogainstructor932drink coffee black or not at Al it don’t h e to be sweet
years ago i heard stan say "the best diet is the one you'll follow" and it was a much needed voice of reason in a sea of confusing signals
The key for me is having a lot of fruits and vegetables with every meal because they’re so low calorie dense and make me feel full 24/7. I’m basically never hungry and went from 220lbs down to 170 in about a year and a half. I barely changed anything I still eat like a pig I just eat foods with less calories.
Carrots, brussel sprouts, beans, berries, apples, oranges, etc. single-handedly saved me from obesity lmao
Thanks for having Stan Efferding on. He makes a positive and effective contribution to the diet\lifestyle\longevity conversation.
Excellent episode, Chris! Thank you for having Stan on. We appreciate the opportunity to share The Vertical Diet with your audience and hope that they can find the information useful.
A mountain of muscle, and a fountain of knowledge. Great conversation and very insightful/informative.
I love how Stan provides context and evidence about his experience in the matter before making every prescription.
Big thumb up for the production. Five cinema cameras with the finest glass, DP grade lighting, smooth grading, tasteful sound mastering. The best produced podcast, well done! (and, of course, great guest&host)
Damn, it’s refreshing to listen to somebody who really knows their shit when it comes to nutrition health
And he actually admits if he was wrong or had to change his mind which is rare online. Most people just double down on their delusions.
For anyone first seeing Stan, this guy is the best I’ve come across when it comes to science backed literature, from a nutrition standpoint.
Man. So happy that you had Stan on. I remember the old school powerlifting videos of him and mark bell. He’s a beast. His rhino rants back in the day driving around smashing out quality advice on food and training. Glad to see him going strong
Already listened via podcast app but had to come here just to say Stan is a true inspiration and one of the best podcast guests.
Stan's top 10 exercises:
- high bar squat
- cambered bar good morning
- Bulgarian split squat
- (slight) incline dumbbell press
- dips
- seated leg curl
- supinated pull up
- chest supported row
- viking press/lat raises
- seated calves
I love how Chris keeps constantly asking “why?”… it might be clear to some but for the rest of us that want to learn more in depth it feels like a classroom format. Keep it up man! Love this type of content!
I came to the comments to say this. It definitely added a dimension to the conversation and gave a lot of perspective to some of the topics I’d planned to search later 👍🏻
Love when YT recommends Stan related podcasts, Stan is the Man!
Amazing podcast, never heard of Stan before this, what a wholesome and positive dude trying to help people improve themselves and clearly talking and educating with love!
My first day working for a construction company I packed a big lunch figuring I would be way hungry from working hard and I was hungry. I noticed immediately that the other guys were all eating like little wussy meals. It wasn’t much later after eating that big meal that I felt extremely tired and still had half the day left in front of me. I went on like that for about a week before I switched to eating small wussy meals along with the rest of the guys. Much better. 1:22:29
I am a younger epileptic and it's hard to find a dietician who's willing to talk to/with me about finding a diet for me*. I've tried two dieticians, and none seem to care about individual science. It's important to me when I have a disease that can be maintained/controlled/aided with diet. I don't have as many episodes a year as the avg epileptic, and we're unclear on why they even begin. From allergies to diets, it's hard to personally get recommended and actually get appointments from both my neurologists and my primary, when the topic is "trying to aid my epilepsy". It's just, "take these meds, we will up them if you have another".
Overall I'm stuck trying to make correlations from TH-cam videos, reddit posts and pubmed, as if it's my job. Grateful for all the content. But sheesh, Healthcare is a joke lol
This is my first time virtually meeting Stan. He has a really lovely nature about him that is remarkably comforting. As somebody who has spent a LOT of time on the nutrition/diet/fitness side of many different apps, and who struggles with shame quite a bit, I find the way he explains things and his cadence and approach to be so patient and kind. I recently had my dad tell me that he is much more this way at work than he was at home and I can certainly confirm. It’s left me hoping that Stan is this way throughout his life as well. Really lovely chat, fellas. Appreciate you both 🤙🏼
What an amazing conversation, you can tell Stan is an excellent coach because he displays zero ego investment in the method, he figured out the RANGE of things that work and all he cares is is how to land inside of it and stay there, and whatever works works. Awesome!
Sodium changed my life. Thank you, Stan!! You have helped me for many years now. Listen up, people!! Stan knows his stuff. He doesn’t sell protein powder or pre workouts. He believes in food, not quick fixes. Sleep, eat and train. And salt will change your life also.
What do you mean salt will change your life?
@@toxichammertoe8696 I had awful headaches after exercising. It turns out when you “clean eat” your body tends to lack the salt you normally get from processed foods. Salt is essential for your body for workouts and for some reason it’s the only thing that cured my headaches. I can’t explain why but I’m glad he mentioned it in the earlier seminars he did. As Stan says, people carry around their water jugs in the gym, but they really also need salt. Helps with the workouts for a lot of people also.
His vertical diet is legit. It works for a lot of people when dieting or trying to gain muscle. I adapt a lot of it into my life. You can check out the “Thor power gym Stan Efferding” lecture on TH-cam that outlines a lot of what he promotes. I can’t explain all of why salt works, but if you also go back to early Thomas Delauer videos he also says salt as a pre workout is great and I’ve been salting my pre workout for years now. I’m also natural so I get exhausted easy when on a diet at 42 years old so I need all the maximizing I can get these days.
How did sodium help?
Sodium is necessary as you become more active. When consuming more water and less other drinks you can easily flush everything in your system out. Sodium sparring throughout the day with foods and really before and during a workout can help with better workouts. If you look at most pre workouts, stim or non-stim they usually have some sodium, potassium in them. When you are working really hard in the gym or during a run you can sometimes see the salt dried up on your shirt. This is also the reason many “sports” drinks contain electrolytes and sodium. You burn through a lot when going hard in training.
@@greatvaluesup3rboy736 very well said. All those things for sure. It’s surprising how little people focus on recovery in the gym during workouts. I’ve been trying to use Milos Sarcev and John Meadows intra workout EAAs and carbs and it does also make a difference along with sodium
Chris, I am so pleased to see your views change on parents who say ‘Yeah right, try that when you’re a parent’ to the various life hacks you discuss with your guests. We don’t resent our children for any of it, we just have a different set of parameters of what is practical. I’m so pleased to see you come round to this.
Stan has absolutely revolutionized the way I think about diet and training. He is a big part of my physique and strength today. Love to see this collaboration!
I love Chris' podcasts, the way he engages and asks questions is refreshing. Tim Ferriss used to be my favourite but Chris has surpassed him imho. In other news, I just started with this channel, sharing level-headed viewpoints on uncomfortable issues, so if reading this comment you decide to have a look I would be very grateful!
Love from Greece & Germany
Good to have you
Stan is a great, humble guy! Happy you had him on. I bought his Vertical Diet back in early 2020 when it was barely a year old. Absolute game changer. He is way ahead of his time.
Well done on getting stan efferding on the show chris, he's absolute number 1 on training and nutrition and destroying a shit ton of health myths.
This is the most sensible, realistic weight loss talk I've ever listened to. The dude's oozing of actual practical experience.
Probably one of the best podcasts / videos that I’ve listened too in a while. Keeping it to the basics and the way the Stan delivers information is short sweet and straight to the point. I just loved this interview. Could gone for 4 hours and i woulda been locked in 💪🏾🤣
Thank you, Stan for doing all the heavy academic lifting so that we may benefit.
I love the Vertical Diet and recommend it to everyone who asks for diet advice. It's never a bad thing to prioritise micronutrients first, then protein and fuelling workouts with carbs. And my digestion has been so much better since paying attention to how different foods make me feel, and prioritising digestibility.
I am here for Stan. He is the perfect gentleman. The interviewer is rude and obnoxious. Stop interrupting and learn something. No one cares about your opinion when you have Stan on your show. Let the man speak!
I agree, I wish interviewer would shut up.
He keeps interrupting the guest.
Dude. Knows. His. SHIT! His advice is an antidote to nonsense. Stellar ep!
i love that you were able to do a 2+ hour podcast simply picking his brain for all the knowledge he has. you could do another 2+ hour podcast talking about all his many accolades as well haha
Stan is the man, he's been there done that and continues to do it. enough said-
More of these type episodes please this was a wealth of information thank you guys
Love it. I love the food people that have helped hundreds/thousands of clients and actually have experience with practical advice. There's so much academic debate about what's better, but these guys walk the walk having clients with amazing body composition. Stan is the man. Brian Sanders from Food Lies and Dr. Ted Naiman are also some of my favorites getting me more jacked. Protein for the win.
looking good aesthetically doesn’t equate to health or longevity
@@ActiveGamingUKYeah it does, as long as it’s not achieved with PEDs.. It literally IS the way you can SEE externally someone’s internal health with any accuracy. Being overweight is still the leading cause of most health related issues.
@@Toplvlbarber no it doesn’t always
@@ActiveGamingUKit doesn’t tell the whole story but it speaks volumes about a person’s health and lifestyle
@@americanonobrasil2128 yeah I agree 100%
Stan is the best!!
One of the best guys for fitness and diet. Feel more informed afterwards
Stan the Man. There are few people you should listen to about fitness nutrition and Stan The Rhino is one of those few.
ANOTHER STELLAR production Chris! Although I have a very different dietary perceptive than Stan, I very much respect him and his ability to be open-minded and admit when he has shifted his perspective due to new research. Thank you both again for getting together and education/entertaining all of us!!!
I recently started walking more and I’m starting to feel a big difference I will continue to get my steps in everyday
In India, we use 'Kachchi Ghani' oils. Meaning cold pressed oils. Most of the Indian households use this for cooking daily meals. And the ones that Stan is talking about, are used occasionally because it has better taste. It's quite interesting how two cultures use totally different oils and one has to talk about it very seriously because of bad food habits but one is using those oils since centuries if not thousands of years. Although almost every food made in restaurants here is made with 'refined oils', same as the ones we use in our houses on special occasions, just because of taste. In India, we also use a lot of ghee (clarified butter), which has immense health benefits & it's also the one I use on special occasions only. It's better than any seed oil but not that great for cooking vegetables. Great for cooking Dal.
My little girl is 3 years old and has type 1 diabetes. Nowhere near enough is done or discussed to manage blood sugars. I'm really pleased to hear this and kudos to you both. Chris, what blood glucose monitor do you wear? Dexcom?
Best guest in a while!!!!
Been a fan of stan's for 4 years. Love the vertical diet.
Thank you, I like how you let the invite talk and the time to explain without interruptions, and we can have the whole explanation on the question. Very good interview 👏
Stan was and has been way ahead of his time in nutrition. Smart ass dude
Stan Efferding and Mike Dolce saved my life. Stan Efferding even responded to a personal email of mine with questions I had. A great guy. Funny too
Love that he name-dropped Bret Contreras. Just started his Booty by Bret program and am loving it. Get him on the show!
Also, thank you for your kinder comments regarding sleep-deprived parents 😘
Stan makes so much sense.
short walk and depression. a few times i'm lying in bed pretty depressed. put shoes on go to park, with in 10 minutes completely back to normal
Been watching mondern wisdom for a while 2020. Honestly learned alot from this podcast. Keep up the great work Chris.
One thing Chris did right that a lot of people have picked up on in the past, if you genuinely want to know something, just let Stan talk. Don't interrupt him haha just let him go.
In my opinion, in this realm, Stan is thee most well spoken, as is Rick Rule in commodities&finance. In just about every field you can come across the real teachers, and it really is best to pay attention. Good job, Chris 🤜🤛
Stan is the man! Vertical Diet is so smart.
Can we get Dr Mike Israetel on the pod Chris?
Please . That would be awesome
@@patrickwendling6759Pretty sure he’s had him on twice now if you just search it on TH-cam
He’s been on multiple times
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#1 my digestion is better without seed oils, but I also found my blood sugar goes crazy if I have seed oils. My diet would be 95% the same but swap one ingredient or have something cooked in a seed oil and my insulin/blood sugar will go crazy and I'll suddenly get really low blood sugar and I'll feel like I'm about to pass out and need food immediately.
They sneak into people's diets too. I was buying pumpkin seeds to use in my breakfast shake but found out the pumpkin seeds were roasted in canola oil. Or I'd use a Finnish mustard and I translated the ingredients and that had canola oil.
As someone who is 35 and have had rheumatoid arthritis since I was 10yrs old.... that movement part.... where you gotta move and stay moving couldn't be more correct.
Stan is such an awesome dude to follow and look up too
My dude, Stan Efferding , dropping strength and truth bombs. Stan’s an awesome guy. I’ve known him for a long time and trained with him at his gym in Vegas at Sin City Iron.l multiple times. Awesome gym if you’re in Vegas check it out.
Excellent show! One of the most informative presentations I've ever seen ... in a world of quick fixes and hacks ... I found this guest and your interview INCREDIBLY insightful! I will be following you and Stan going forward ... the information about many working "strategies" being made up of individual choices especially true ... less dogmatic and far more useful and practical for implementation ... Stan should be far more well known (as I have never heard of him or seen him before) ... I find Peter Attia practical in the same way ... actually following the real science ... EXCELLENT WORK HERE CHRIS ... !!!
I love that I got a Little Caesar's ad during this video LOL
Seed oils are literally in everything because they are cheap and they are used as emulsifiers. People don’t realize a lot of creamers used for coffee are mostly vegetable oil. Using lactose free milk or actual cream is much more satisfying without the unnecessary oil. About two months ago I cut processed foods significantly. I stopped using the coffee creamer and went with lactose free milk. I started making my own soups, salad dressing and sauces. I started working out 3 days a week focusing mainly on strength training. I’ve dropped 10 lbs and I’m stronger than I’ve ever been. I have more energy than ever. I’m less puffy in the morning and I can wear my wedding ring again. I’m only upset I didn’t do this earlier.
The production value on these videos is amazing! And I LOVE how the locations are so random! Like why is this set in a random woodwork workshop? Probs because it’s cool and different!?!?
Stan is the man!
Same as Chris I like keeping as many calories possible for the latter part of the day. When losing weight I'd eat ~300cals breakfast, ~600 cals lunch and diner + snack was ~1300cals.
When bulking, ~400cals breakfast, ~900cals lunch, ~400 cals of snacks and ~1100cals for diner.
10 minute walks and monster mash. 👍🏼
Re-listening to this episode to create my personal master class to self. Like an Alex Hermozi Twitter notes file but video clips
Planet Fitness got rid of all scales. Apparently, you're not even allowed to judge yourself.
I'm one of those that lost 60ish lbs and have kept it off for over five years. The game changer for me was an addiction model for ultra processed foods. I don't have any problem with cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, but I cannot eat a small amount of UPFs. Some can, many cannot. I am a recovering "sugar addict". For folks like me willpower is never going to work.
❤ from France 🇲🇫. Thank you
Eliminating artificial sweeteners (including Aspartame) from my diet cut my Hemiplegic/Aura Migraine frequency by 90-95%. I eat healthy (high protein/minimum sugar), quit drinking alcohol 4 years ago, and train 4-6 days a week. I'm 37 and am in better shape with more energy, and better bloodwork than I was at 23.
An interesting take on current diets and fads. He didn't belittle any side. A nice take on his own ideas
Regarding blue zones. The Mediterranean diet is not vegetarian but consumption of meat in the original diet was limited, simply due to the fact that meat was expensive. But it does contain chicken and lots of fish and seafood as well as lots of fruits, veggies, dairy (but no butter) and raw olive oil. As to having the ages wrong, in my experience (and I come from a country that has one of the Netflix blue zones) they tend to underestimate them not overestimate them.
Love Stan! Thank you so much for this
This really was incredible.
Power plant operator… worked 12 hrs 4 on 4 off then switched to nights. Worked DuPont schedule. Possibly working 2 days then 2nights then 4 off.. how do you even optimize sleep in any one of these?? Currently working 8hr shifts waking up at 5am to lift
Im not gonna argue with Stan the man, this is the kind of guy I want advice from when I want advice. Ive done some fasting and there between 48 and 72 hours sometime. I havent eaten for more than 2 days theres no food in me and whatever it is that comes out of me has no business being inside of a living human being. It doesnt seem dietary its not like it was ever food. Up until just now I had never questioned that it was autophagy dead cells and toxins and things my body was storing that a process it didn't normally have access to was working to get rid of. Its predictable for me happens everytime. Whatever it is is one hell of a special delivery. Whatever the fuck that was I dont want to be 20 feet from it, Im happy not knowing, Im just .... I just have a spiritual moment that whatever it was is no longer inside of me, Hallelujah amen. It only happens once that I recall and only in that time window.
After starting to count calories for the last year, and having conversations with family members, it's pretty clear that the amount fat in food is the enemy, or let's say the culprit. You do need fat in your diet, but we are overconsuming. People don't know that a gram of fat has over double the energy as a gram of protein or carbohydrate. And we tend to underestimate the amount of fat we are using to prepare food which leads to underestimating calories. I served myself a plate for Easter, and asked my mom to gauge or guess how many calories are on the plate, she was off by 50% and was shocked because the amount of food wasn't that much. But on the plate was a creamy pasta and potato salad, both of which use cream and mayonnaise which are almost pure fat.
I’m gonna go buy a thermos and jarring funnel, thank you Stan you beautiful genius 🙏🏻
Such a nice episode Chris! Keep it up man!!
Another banger. Great job, Chris!
Movement, walking etc helps also because it helps you detox via your lymphatic system
One thing that i hate about the ‘Red Meat Studies’ is that they don’t really talk about people whom eat loads of lam and steaks, with maybe some eggs, bacon and a small amount of veggies. Turns out if you eat that, most people will feel way better and be way healthier.
However, the ‘Red Meat Studies’ take into account people eating a lot of red meat from junk food, and otherwise eat pretty unhealthy. Double bacon cheesburger from a grill, come home and snack on chips before eating more meat and fat.
The studies needs to distinguish between eating red meat in a healthy or unhealthy way. Lumping people whom eat 4 eggs and a steak a day. With people whom eat 3 double cheese burgers from mcdonalds is not good science… Although all can be classified as ‘High red meat consumption consumers’
I’m no expert, but if you think i’m wrong. Try it, every body responds to foods differently. But most bodies will be the healthiest they can be with high fat and protein consumption with next to 0 carbs or fiber.
Try this. 1-2 meals per day. Total consumption can be for example 5 eggs, some cheese, 500g of meat and maybe add some tomatoes, onions and salad. Have 80-95% of your calories in Fat/Protein. And btw, use a lot of butter.
You can make a lot of different meals with that to never go unsatisfied.
If you get the keto-flu, try to bear it. It usually means you have had a way to big of transition when it comes to carbs being the primary energy source, to now fat. Ease your way in. Calculate how many calories a day comes from animal fat/protein. And how many comes from carbs. Maybe the ratio is 20/80, then flipping that 180* will make your body adjust in a harsher way than 50/50 -> 80/20. You honestly should try it if you like to experiment with diets. Because this isn’t a diet. It’s more a lifestyle. You don’t need to stop yourself from eating. You eat until your full. However, 1kg of steak will make you really full on about 1200 calories. You might not need to eat the next day even. But that’s an extreme example. Eat 5-6 eggs ~480 kcal, eat 500g of lamb, pork, beef. ~1100 kcal depending on how fatty the meat is. And use some butter and cheese. You’ll hit easily between 1500-2500 kcal, whilst it tastes amazing, and you will be completely full. No need to snack.
I am current living proof that eating less and exercising more can and does work. I haven’t done any fancy diet. I just lowered the overall quantity of my meals and increased dramatically the amount of exercise I do. For me it is working exactly as people say it should. I lose about 1-2kg a week.
I should emphasise that my body does not like high fats. Makes me feel sick.
If a person eating nothing but McDonald’s swaps to a controlled diet they will have results, doesn’t matter what diet just a more healthy, stricter portioned diet, take your pick in preference they will lose weight. It’s not the diet that is magic it is what the diet is doing which is removing the mass quantities of things your body will store as fat.
Amazing stuff, love leveled intelligent people like this.
Two hours, and you didn't talk about PEDs, his past use of gear, or his TRT. None of that is anything to hide or be ashamed of. Stan a big enough man to talk about all of them.
Clearly not. A lot or PED users like to think they're genetically gifted or just worked harder. We don't need to hear or see them on YT imo. Naturals need advice from naturals as recovery, regimen, diet etc all have to be far stricter and controlled.
@@davecom3 You of course have a point, except that he said he started medically supervised TRT when he was very young because he was hypogonadal.
The new bbb&e diet nearly killed me. Maybe some people can jump right into it, I could not. Your diet makes a lot more sense to me.
It's refreshing to hear someone collate what science has discovered so far versus trying to come up with one sensational spin / click bate agenda to sell their wares.
People are over-stressed, under-slept, overly sedentary and depressed. We then surround these same individuals with hyper palatable foods and expect people to control themselves with their food intake. Many are using these foods like a drug to sustain a crazy unhealthy lifestyle overall. Things go far deeper than just people needing to control their intake. We need a restructuring of the average persons lifestyle and the overall culture at large.
If we want to talk psychology and its impact on this. I am currently on a health a fitness journey and I think intent is very important. My goal is not to lose a number of weight my goal is to never be fat ever again in my life. Period. For me it’s a full lifestyle change. But it’s working and I am doing it because I want to. I want this to happen. I am driven and motivated because of my goal.
If I didn’t want to and wasn’t interested I don’t think I’d have been able to make these lifestyle changes. Anytime I feel like something that won’t benefit my goal I tell myself no, not happening.
Over 2 hours in and I'm pondering around doing stuff in the house - made dinner (Steak in cast Iron pan), came back sat down - finished dinner and then Stan says avoid cast iron pans. My face... when I use one twice a day to cook all my red meat because of the amazing sear you get. Definitely learned something there - will get my iron levels checked.
Everything Stan says is accurate and sound advice, but it's important to note most every athlete or fitness influencer (including both men here) are on vitamin T.
What would be the difference in hypertrophy between 1 set to failure with maybe a couple of slow negatives or a couple of drops at the end, and 3 sets with 2 RIR???
Great episode!
I always touch the point that diet is such a convoluted topic on my articles, If you're using a *insert your favorite diet here*, I've seen papers talking about the amazing health benefits of it- I've seen people have amazing progress at the gym by following it- I've seen people get BATSHIT INSANE trying to evangelize other people to do the same diet they're doing.
Personally, I absolutely fucking HATE talking about dieting, not because I'm not interested in the topic, but because I believe that dietary practices are heavily associated with bonding behaviors- think about it, through millennia most of our celebrations revolved around eating, 'till this day it's a tool to establish a sense of community and reinforce social connections.
Guess what happens when you attribute an ideology to your dietary practices?
You start seeing cult-like behavior, people start to dissociate from their immediate reality, and their identity goes out of the window- the belief overide the individual identity 'cause you're bonding with an ideal that isn't really tangible.
Then comes the fact that studying which diet is best is borderline unfeasible for the current scientific methods, the vast majority of the papers you're seeing online are working with guesstimates and self-reports, that's why every single diet has a study backing it up, attach to that an extremely profitable industry for every single niche diet out there and voilá, you can't trust 99% of the information out there.
And on top of all that, comes the power of narratives- if you truly believe in your diet, guess what? The odds that it's going to work improves substantially.
So that's the thing that I've learned from Stan that pretty much revolutionized my perception of dieting and training- the best approach for you is the approach you'll adhere to and keep consistent over time, if on top of that you can prioritize minimally processed items, you're absolutely GOLDEN!
Great EP Chris, always incredibly inspired by your message & guests, hell, I started posting an article a day because of you 2 years ago, now I'm making a living writing about the stuff that I love, and I couldn't thank you enough for it.