Fat Adapted Athletes Perform Better (video interview)

Mike Mutzel, a former pro cyclist turned health-crusader paid a visit to our house in Morrison with his film crew for an interview.

Check it out on his channel here.

We cover the following topics

Minute 0-15

1. Benefits of fat burning over sugar burning for aerobic exercise AKA cardio
2. Ketosis versus fat burning
3. The short term effect of exercise on fat burning
4. Simple hack to optimize your fat burning on any given day

Minute 15-30

1. How I built on the work of Weston Price
2. The real reason we’ve blamed saturated fat for heart attacks since the 1960s
3. Why the diet doctors recommend is the fad, not an ancestral diet
4. Why I believe that the best source of nutritional info are old-fashioned cookbooks
5. The Four Pillars of an Optimal Human Diet (boiled down from old-fashioned cookbooks and travel-foodie shows)

Minute 30-45

1. Meal timing and hormonal hacks to simplify curing a sweet tooth
2. What a healthy breakfast should look like
3. The biggest dietary change in human history is our dramatic increase in vegetable oil intake
4. Why vegetable oils are toxic to the reproductive process (men and women)

Minutes 45+

1. A ratio called phi is nature’s formula for ensuring that our skeletal growth is optimally functional and beautiful
2. The best first step to optimizing your health should be one that gives you immediate positive feedback