If you are visiting this page, you may have been directed here from one of our other sites. We have a firm and continuing commitment to the privacy of personal information provided by those visiting and interacting with any website controlled by High Intensity Business and have created this policy to apply across our various websites and apps.
We hold the privacy of your personal information in the highest regard and this privacy notice provides you with details of how we collect and process your personal data through your use of our sites to enable you to make informed decisions about your personal information.
By providing us with your data, you warrant to us that you are over 13 years of age
When we talk about ‘us’ ‘we’ or ‘our’, we mean High Intensity Business or Corporate Warrior Ltd, 11 Ingleby Road, Ilford, Essex, UK, IG1 4RX and we are the operator of the website from which you accessed this privacy policy and any other websites or apps controlled by High Intensity Business (collectively ‘website’). We are the data controller and we are responsible for your personal data.
When we talk about ‘you’, we mean you as a participant or user of this website or services of this website.
‘Personal information’ is information that directly identifies you, such as your name and email address, or data that could be used, on its own or in combination with other data, to identify you.
It is very important that the information we hold about you is accurate and up to date. Please let us know if at any time your personal information changes by issuing a ticket at support [email protected]
1. Staying Anonymous
You can browse our online services anonymously. However, if you request information, sign up for our communications or podcast or purchase any of our products or services, you will need to identify yourself and at that point we will collect your personal information. If you do not give personal information to us, it will affect our ability to provide you with requested information or to deliver our products or services.
2. Collecting personal information
At all times we aim to only collect the minimum information we need for the services we are providing and to only use the information for the purpose it has been provided. For example, if you sign up to our newsletter, we will collect and use your email address to send our newsletter. As you would expect, the more involved you are with us, the more information about you we will collect.
There are some unusual terms in new legislation that affect how we tell you about the way we manage your personal information. One is letting you know the ‘lawful ground’ for what we do. This just means we are letting you know that there is a provision in the legislation that says it is alright for us to collect or use your information for a purpose that is considered a ‘legitimate interest’ of our business.
The main way we collect information about you is when you give it to us and this can happen in a variety of ways. We may process the following categories of personal information about you:
- Communication data: which includes any communication that you send to us. This might be when you join our mailing list or when you contact us through the contact form on our website, through email, text, social media messaging, social media posting or any other communication that you send us. Communication data may also include geographical data if you enable this within our app so that we can send you communications relevant to your geographical location. We process this data for the purposes of communicating with you, for record keeping and for the establishment, pursuance or defence of legal claims. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interest in replying to communications sent to us, keeping appropriate records and to establish, pursue or defend legal claims.
- Customer Data: which includes data you give to us when you purchase goods and/or services from us including any of our business training programs or events. This will include basic information about you and the information we require for billing purposes such as your name, title, billing address, delivery address email address, phone number, contact details, purchase details and your card details (last digits only). We use third party services for processing payments such as PayPal, EWay and Stripe and we do not receive or store your full card payment information. We process this data to supply the goods and/or services you have expressed an interest in or purchased and to keep records of such transactions. Our lawful ground for this processing is the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps at your request to enter into that contract and our legitimate business interest of keeping records for accounting purposes.
- User Data: which includes data about how you use our website and any online services together with any data that you post for publication on our website or through other online services. We process this data to operate our website and ensure relevant content is provided to you, to ensure the security of our website, to maintain back-ups of our website and/or databases and to enable publication and administration of our website, other online services and business. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interest in properly administering our website and our business.
- Technical Data: which includes data about your use of our website and online services such as your IP address, your login data, details about your browser, length of visit to pages on our website, page views and navigation paths, details about the number of times you use our website, time zone settings and other technology on the devices you use to access our website. The source of this data is from our analytics tracking system. We process this data to analyse your use of our website and other online services, to administer and protect our business and website, to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and to understand the effectiveness of our advertising. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interest in properly administering our website and our business and to grow our business and to decide our marketing strategy.
- Marketing Data: which includes data about your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences. We process this data to enable you to partake in our online services, to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of this advertising. We may use surveys or contests to request information and you are not required to enter or use these services. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interest in studying how customers use our products/services, developing our products, growing our business and to decide our marketing strategy.
- We may use Customer Data, User Data, Technical Data and Marketing Data to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you (including Facebook adverts, YouTube advertising or other display advertisements) and to measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve you. We may use pixels for retargeting to do this. Our lawful ground for this processing is legitimate interest in growing our business. We may also use such data to send other marketing communications to you. Our lawful ground for this processing is either consent or legitimate interests (namely to grow our business).
3. Collecting information from third parties
As discussed above, we collect personal information about you when you give it to us and when it is collected by our website however we may also collect personal information that is given to us or available to us by a third party (for example, information that is on a publicly maintained record or that you have made available on a public platform).
We may automatically collect certain data from you as you use our website by using cookies and similar technologies.
We may receive data from third parties such as analytics providers like Google, advertising networks such as Facebook, information providers such as Google, providers of technical, payment and delivery services, such as data brokers or aggregators. These third parties may be within the EU or outside of the EU.
This information forms part of the personal information described in this policy. We will not intentionally collect personal information that is unintentionally disclosed.
4. Collecting sensitive information
We do not intend to collect sensitive information about you and request you never disclose information about your health, racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs or sexual orientation on our website or any blog or social media account associated with our website or business. If you include your photograph in our online forum please be aware that other forum users may make assumptions about your racial or ethnic background.
5. Children’s privacy
Our services are not designed to be used by minors under the age of 13 and we do not intend to collect information about such minors. We will make reasonable endeavours to delete any details of users under the age of 13 years where a parent or guardian has notified us that any such details have been obtained. By providing us with your data, you warrant to us you are over the age of 13. If you are over 13 but under 18 you may be able to use our services however only with permission and guidance from your parents or guardian and we request that their personal information be used not yours.
6. Testimonials
If you provide us with a testimonial, you give us your consent for the use of your name, likeness and the date of service delivery to be displayed on our website or in our other marketing material, together with the content of the testimonial that you provide. We may edit your testimonial but will only do so where possible without changing the meaning of what you have said. We may store and/or use your testimonial for a period of up to 7 years from the date it is given. We process this information based on your consent which you may withdraw.
7. Marketing Communications
Our lawful ground of processing your personal data to send you marketing communications is either your consent or our legitimate interests (namely to grow our business). Sometimes we may recommend sharing your information with a third party for their marketing purposes. Before we share your personal data with any third party for their own marketing purposes we will get your express consent.
You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by emailing us.
If you opt out of receiving marketing communications, this opt-out does not apply to personal data provided for other transactions such as purchases.
8. Social Networking Services and links to other websites
You can connect with us via our social media pages on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter and LinkedIn.
We may provide links to other websites or use social networking services to communicate with the public about our work. When you communicate with us using these services we may collect your personal information. The social networking service will also handle your personal information for its own purposes and have their own privacy policies. You should become familiar with the privacy policies of any service you use.
9. How we use Cookies and other identifiers
We use a range of tools provided by third parties including our website host, third party service providers and search engine browsers to collect or view access and traffic information for statistical, reporting and maintenance purposes. Third party providers have their own privacy policies. We also may also use tracking pixels, cookies and session tools to improve your experience when accessing our online services.
The data collected by cookies does not usually identify you but may be combined with other information to identify you. If we identify you using information from cookies, we may use that information to track how you use our online services and send you information more specific to your needs, or to invite you to purchase our services.
The kind of information that can be collected includes:
- device specific information such as mobile network information
- server logs including your IP address, the times you use our services and system activity
- location information including IP address, GPS, and Wi-Fi access points
- local storage availability
We use the information to help to track your use of our online services to improve your user experience and the quality of our services.
10. Use and disclosure of personal information
In summary, as a legitimate business interest, the personal information we collect about you is used:
- to verify your identity
- to enable you to use our services
- to process orders, registrations and enquiries
- to provide you with information about events, products and services that may interest you
- to provide you with personalised service or special opportunities
- to allow you to participate in interactive features of our online services
- to run competitions, prize draws, and promotions (if any)
- to facilitate our internal business operations
- to improve our products or services and in planning new products or services
- to conducting market research surveys
- to monitor compliance with our Terms and Conditions.
With your consent or at your request we may:
- share your contact information with third party organisations who offer products or services that may be of interest to you (if you agree to receive such information)
We never sell, lend or lease your identifiable personal information.
We may also disclose your information to:
- Other companies in our group who provide services to us.
- Third party suppliers we engage to provide services which involve processing data on our behalf, for example IT and system administration services. In this case, we will require them to use that information only for the purpose of providing the services we have requested, and in compliance with the provisions of this privacy policy.
- Payment third parties if there is a dispute over a payment. For example if PayPal contacts us regarding a dispute over a payment, we will provide PayPal with user activity information such as IP address and activity linked to the IP address, billing details on our system etc to allow the payment dispute to be resolved.
- Professional advisers including accountants, lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers.
- Government bodies that require us to report processing activities.
- Third parties where we are required to in accordance with the law and reserve the right to fully co-operate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requiring or requesting us to disclose the identity or other usage details of any user of our online services, or in accordance with a properly executed court order, or as otherwise required to do so by law.
11. Security and overseas recipients
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure to industry standards however no system can be 100% secure and, provided we have acted in accordance with this policy, we are not responsible for loss you may suffer should your personal information be unlawfully accessed. Using the Internet to collect and process personal data necessarily involves the transmission of data on an international basis.
Not all countries have the same level of privacy protection as the country within which you reside. You acknowledge and agree to our processing of personal data across international borders in this way. We will do our best to ensure your data is protected to a similar standard as set out in this policy by using third party providers with similar privacy protections.
We will also take reasonable steps to protect all personal information within our direct control from misuse, interference, loss, unauthorised access, unlawful or accidental destruction, modification or disclosure. To prevent unauthorised access or disclosure we use respected hosting services, firewall and other electronic security procedures and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect from you.
We have procedures in place to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach if we are legally required to.
12. Opt-out/ unsubscribe
If we provide you with the opportunity to receive information about products or services from other carefully selected organisations (our business partners) about the products or services they offer, and you elect to do so, you can change your preferences at any time using the unsubscribe function within their emails.
Similarly, our marketing emails/newsletters will also have an unsubscribe option if you would like to opt-out. You can also update your subscription settings if you are a subscriber.
If you continue to receive communications you have unsubscribed from, please contact us by issuing a ticket at support [email protected] and we will remedy the problem.
13. Data retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
When deciding what the correct time is to keep the data for we look at its amount, nature and sensitivity, potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure, the processing purposes, if these can be achieved by other means and legal requirements.
For tax purposes the law requires us to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for five years after they stop being customers.
In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
14. Third Party Links
This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, applications and advertisements. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements or content. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.
15. Updates
We regularly review and may update our privacy policy from time to time. The updated provisions will apply from the date they are posted on our website, so we recommend that you re-visit this privacy policy when you use our online services.
16. Accessing and correcting your personal information – Your legal rights
Under data protection laws you have rights in relation to your personal data that include the right to request access, correction, erasure, restriction, transfer, to object to processing, to portability of data and (where the lawful ground of processing is consent) to withdraw consent (note: some of these rights only attach to individuals located within the EU).
You can see more about these rights at: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/individual-rights/
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us by issuing a ticket at support [email protected]
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive or refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response. For record keeping purposes, we will record and store all information exchanged during an exercise of your rights under this clause. These records will be stored securely and separate from our main active business systems.
We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you.
If you request to have your information erased (also known as the right to be forgotten), we will, if appropriate, delete your personal information from our active business operating system. Your personal information will however continue to be stored within our backup(s) as we are unable to delete specific items from our backup. It will be deleted at the next scheduled backup deletion. We will keep a log of your request to be forgotten so that, should our backup be used to restore our operating system while your personal information is still stored, your personal information will again be removed from our active system upon restoration.
If you are not happy with any aspect of how we collect and use your data, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office in your country. For instance, in the UK contact the Information Commissioner Office at www.ico.org.uk. We would be grateful if you would contact us first if you do have a complaint so that we can try to resolve it for you.
Great discussion guys – covering pretty much all the things that are on my mind at the moment re exercise and nutrition! Ted, I agree with just about everything you said – I was trying to sell Lawrence on high protein over a year ago and more recently the myo reps/ RPT style of HIT – see it’s not just me Lawrence ????! Like you I am tending towards feeeling that ‘pure’ 1 set to failure HIT is not enough for me – those extra Myo reps do make a difference. The only thing I would say is that to date I am only doing a frequency of twice per week to allow adequate recovery after doing a similar workout to Ted’s. BUT maybe the ‘repeat bout effect’ would allow me to go more frequently? I will start by upping it to 3 times per week and see if anything falls off. All in all fantastic questions and very insightful answers – just about to give it another listen!
Oh and a question for you Ted – are you familiar with Dr Ron Rosedale, Dr Valter Longo and now Dr Mercola’s contention that we should all be minimising protein to under 100g per day to guard against the so-called ‘deleterious’ effects of excessive MTOR? Even Mark Sisson and Dave Asprey said something similar in a recent Bulletproof Radio podcast although the maximum protein they mentioned was 150g/ day. Their view was that gluconeogenesis is a very inefficient way to produce energy resulting in masses of ROS being produced, so it should be minimised. I know you don’t agree with this and I know why – but why are these seemingly intelligent people so down on protein and when the studies I know of have not shown any negative effects of high protein diets, only the body composition benefits you mentioned? What have they seen that we haven’t?!
Half of those “experts” are cranks.
Context is really important. I think that if your looking at “healthy” people that do IF and eat in a pulsatile way, then the mTOR stimulation isn’t an issue (according to Carrie Diulus MD who is in the pipe to be published and Skyler Tanner). But can’t say I’ve looked into the science myself!
Hey Rob, do myo-reps / rest-pause make a difference? Prove it ;-). I’m skeptical. I think just like any advanced technique – they may help you get past sticking points and get “stronger” but not add mass beyond your genetic limit.
Myo Reps, Rest Pause. Money reps. Utilizing the reps with the most muscle activation/stimulation. I’m a believer. Higher frequency as well. I wouldn’t use rest pause every set. Maybe just the last one or 2 sets of an exercise.
I think the best scenario would be periods focused on strength, followed by periods using rest pause techniques to push hypertrophy. I don’t think it will push anyone beyond there genetic potential. But I do think it will get them there sooner.
Cheers Donnie. Maybe so!
Love the comments about the wrist size! I’ve got the same problem, puny wrists. Height of 6’0″ and bodyweight of about 170 lbs. It can suck, but I’m still getting stronger, and I feel great all the time except when life gets too crazy. On the other side of it, lots of people are supremely jealous of how much I can eat and not gain weight while I’m jealous that they add muscle mass easily!
I too, have added in the myo reps and am slowly getting past some sticking points in my upper body exercises. I’m on twice per week right now. My schedule might get fouled up when my daughter starts kindergarten in the fall, but I’ll maybe do one gym session and one bodyweight if needed.
Hey Matt – Yea, Ted’s comments regarding his “bird-like bone structure” make me LOL. He’s a joker!
Exactly! You have a great advantage and it’s good to learn that you are grateful for that! I think there is a huge problem with 1. Hardgainers, like you and I, still searching for the magic bullet, which isn’t helped by mass confusion online and outright bullshit. 2. Hardgainers appreciating their gifts, continuing to train hard and just get on with the more important shit in life! You have no idea how many emails I get from people obsessively splitting hairs. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy a good debate and strive to stimulate further gain but sometimes I think we go too far in that direction.
Yes. We can easily get obsessed with gains and adding weight / muscle mass. I want more of both, too. But, reread Body by Science, especially the focus on health v. fitness. I have to think that most of the health gains come early in training, and from improvements to diet.
If I could double my strength again, would that make me twice as healthy? At this point, as I said initially, I basically feel great all the time, unless life fouls it up (like kids getting up 6 times at night). I have the energy to get up, get two kids going, work all day, get home, get kids to bed, do something fun after that, and still have something left in the tank at the end of the day. I have the strength to do everything I want to be able to do. Thus, in some senses, I’ve gotten what I’m going to get out of HIT, and now, the job is to fight to keep it as long as possible, so that I still feel great 50 years from now.
In Doug’s interview with Dr. Mercola, he has a quote about the effect of getting this right. It’s something like, “you will literally be astounded at how good a human can feel.” Yes, I want to lift more weight, but I’m strong, happy, and healthy. Getting this from HIT makes it a worthy pursuit, that I want more people to know about.
Spot on. You’ll like this: https://twitter.com/LawrenceMNeal/status/1013740819122094080
Another awesome interview with Dr Naiman! He’s really great at getting to the key points, but at the same time disseminating the information in a way that makes perfect sense. And at the same time while he’s had dramatic results from switching from Vegan to Low Carb himself, he’s able to talk about it objectively. We’ve talked about this before Lawrence, there are people who have ” Cured” themselves following a variety of different diets including Zero Carb etc But god forbid you suggest some sort of alteration to their protocol, because it’s like you attacked their religion, or kicked their Grandmother down a flight of stairs ha ha ha.
Hey James – pleased you enjoyed the episode. Yes, multiple diets work very well. I just think that HPLC is the easiest to adhere to long term for most people.
Such a coincidence, I listened to your part 2 (I was missing ted), and the day after there was part 3! You asked all the follow up questions from part 2 I was really interested in, great interview. Any chance you and ted could do a weekly QnA podcast, that way I wouldn’t have to wait so long for part 4 ;-).
Hey Steven! Haha really glad you enjoyed the episode. I’d LOVE to do a weekly Q&A podcast with Ted, but I’m pretty sure he has better and more important stuff to do. Hopefully we’ll do a Part 4 next time and perhaps, I’ll just prep based on questions from you lot.
Now am i correct in saying that Ted workouts every day! Is it the same exercises everyday and if so where is the recovery? I know a guy that was in jail and he said the guys worked out every day and they were huge. So maybe there is something to this.
I’m guessing that jail food typically isn’t high in protein either. Maybe some of them end up in jail, in part from having high levels of testosterone that make them excessively aggressive, and prone to reckless risk-taking???
Your probably right
Correct, Ted practically works out everyday, full-body, one set to failure with some rest-pause sets thrown in. Clearly this works for Ted. Doesn’t mean it will work for you, and doesn’t mean Ted wouldn’t get better results with less frequency, though I’m inclined to believe that most roads lead to Rome and perhaps, in his case, it doesn’t matter? Personally, I think that most people will get great results from 1-2 HIT workouts per week performed to MMF, maybe with some adv techniques thrown in when one is more advanced and desires it.
His results are awesome though! I may have to try that method as an experiment. Is the rest pause part of the myo rep workouts?
I understand what Ted is trying to do but to approach a subject scientifically you need to pose the question “what would I have to do to prove my hypothesis wrong?” Instead of tripling down on his biases of protein/anti-carbs and frequency.
Also, the same tired fallacies surrounding “hunter gatherers”, assuming that they all had perfect health and ate the things that you want to eat. The amount of high sugar fruit and honey available in the areas we are purported to have evolved along with the tubers is ignored instead cherry picking for your own preferred foods.
Also, you see a lot of sick vegans? Of course you do, you’re a doctor. You see a lot of sick people full stop. There are a ton of really healthy vegans out there, there are a ton of healthy people out there that eat processed carbs every day too. You see a load of sick people that eat like crap, no matter what their preferred way of eating and it’s not always because of the way that eat.
Hey Andrew – Ted isn’t a scientist, this is just his opinion and what works for his patience so why does he have to?
A ton of healthy people eating processed carbs? Really? Where?
Because he’s not presenting it as his opinion, he’s presenting it as “democratising information”. opinions mean diddly squat in the face of facts. I’d be interested to see the results if he say followed a eucaloric diet with adequate protein and but incorporated rice/bread/pasta into his diet and reduced his training frequency by half for 3 months while recording the results honestly. I bet the difference would be insignificant.
Here’s my anecdote, I recently upped my carbs from sub 50g per day to around 150g while maintaining a caloric deficit and found it made me feel much better re “energy level” and cognitive function wise. In fact I’ve been able to drop my calories even lower with no ill effects. 5 KG to go until BMI 25…
As for healthy people eating processed carbs. Let me reframe that. Almost every healthy person you know eats processed carbs. Hundreds of thousands of people put sugar in their beverages, eat white bread, eat cakes and sweets, pasta and cola while maintaining a healthy bodyweight. “Carbs” aren’t killing people by virtue of being carbs. Eating too much and not exercising are making people obese. When Ted writes “eating carbs is the new smoking” he’s talking literal garbage.
This isn’t to denegrate your podcast Lawrence, I’ve learnt more here than anywhere over my journey these last two years.
Questions and comments:
He again repeats the idea that organisms will consume food until they hit their ‘target’ intake of protein. This is a new idea for me, so I wonder what evidence exists for it in the scientific realm? Is it a hypothesis he has formed from reading a lot of studies, or is it established science? References?
I’m was confused by his discussion of protein to energy ratio. Early on, he talked about grams of protein to grams of fat; later on he talked about grams of protein to grams of carbohydrate. Neither accurately reflect what I think he was talking about, as grams are a unit of mass, not energy. Now it wouldn’t make any difference if all macro-nutrients had the same energy to mass ratio, but they don’t. It is 9 calories per gram of fat vs 4 calories per gram of carbohydrate. So 1 gm of protein to 1 gram of non-protein energy could range anywhere between 0.111 to 0.25 grams protein per calorie of energy, depending on the relative proportions of carbs and fats. The terminology of the discussion just seems a little sloppy.
My current protein intake is something like 150 gms per day, or about 25% of my calorie intake. That is 0.833 gm/lb at my current body weight, and 0.9 gms/lb at my target or ideal body weight, so only slightly below his 1 gm/lb of bodyweight recommendation. It is well above the minimum recommended levels for protein that you get from prevailing nutritional guidelines. Yet despite this relatively high protein level, I definitely do not lose body fat while eating ad libitum. I still have to weigh my food, track calories, consciously limit food intake despite wanting to eat more, etc. That is a real drag. I wish I could eat ad libitum and get lean. Maybe you naturally lean guys are outliers, well adapted to an age of plenty, but not well equipped to live in the feast and famine world of our ancestors.
His food template sounds good, but recognize that it is a pretty expensive way to eat. In my area, wild caught fish is expensive, $16-$25/lb. Organic grass fed filet runs $25-$30/lb. Getting 150-200 gms of protein per day without whey protein supplements will bust the budget.
Ted’s appetite could just be lower or he could be chronically undereating (total calories) without even knowing it or he could be lying. It wouldn’t be the first time someone has bent the truth to fit their agenda.
Btw I get 60g of protein most days from a tin of line caught tuna, pretty cheap. I don’t know how it compares to whey powder.
As far as I know, there is no farmed tuna, it is all wild caught. But being long lived fish at the end of the food chain, it can still have a lot of mercury in it. Your best bet is wild caught, cold water fish of other varieties. But given the rate at which wild fisheries are being destroyed, and the high global demand for fish, that means it will be relatively expensive. And can you really trust the labeling?
Even grass fed beef may have issues – a lot of grass fed beef is finished on alfalfa. Unfortunately, it seems that Monsanto already sells roundup resistant strains of alfalfa, which means that glyphosate may still be getting into your pastured beef, via the round-up treated grasses that have been used to feed the beef.
The point is that truly pristine sourcing of your food means it will be relatively more expensive. That will be an issue for many people.
Hey, yeah the line caught thing is more ethical than provenance. Aside, UK beef is much “cleaner” for want of a better word, better still UK lamb.
Good questions Greg. Appreciate you taking the time. I’ll ask Ted to review but can’t promise he’ll be able to make the time.
Aside from keeping protein high, and trying to track and control calories, there is no simple way to describe my diet. A lot depends on how often I eat out, and what we cook at home (which depends in part on what my wife wants to eat.) But I thought his point was that if you ate enough protein, you could eat what you want, and will not overeat. ( Ad libitum means “at one’s pleasure” or “as you desire”.)
I agree if you eat a lot of protein, AND stick to a highly restrictive diet (only meat, eggs, and green vegetable), it might be harder to overeat. But isn’t compliance the failure point of most diets? You try, but fail to control calories; you try, but fail to avoid tasty snacks and desserts; you try, but fail to avoid all carbohydrates; you try, but fail to eat nothing but meat and veggies. High protein doesn’t kill my desire to eat stuff that makes weight control difficult, so I don’t consider that it allows for ad libitum eating.
To give you a further example: I’m pretty sure that if you (a) only eat potatoes with little added fat, and (b) only allow yourself to eat between 8:00 AM and Noon, you will be able to eat as much as you want in that eating window, and you will lose weight and see your lipid levels, and other markers of metabolic health improve. But being able to eat as much as you want under those very restrictive conditions isn’t really a workable and sustainable weight loss strategy for most people. And you will truly learn to loath potatoes….. 🙂
To begin with, I respect any doctor who treats addiction. That is a hard job and demands my respect. That said, such respect does not transfer to expertise on exercise and diet. Few registered dietitians (the real diet experts) would agree with Dr. Naiman’s dietary advice. Similarly, many “exercise” experts disagree with certain “Dr.s” on SuperSlow exercise. I found Dr. Naiman omitted many dietary and exercise facts and logic in this episode. I’m not interested in his “exercise/diet opinions,” as he is not an expert in either. Dr. s’ opinion are not automatically valid when involved in the field of exercise .
Arthur Jones stated:
“While it is certainly not my intention to imply that diet is of no importance, I do want it clearly understood that the “amount” of food is of far more importance than the actual makeup of the diet – so long as any reasonable attempt is made in the direction of providing a balanced diet: which points should be obvious to anybody merely from a careful reading of the advertisements for food supplements – in an advertisement for protein supplements, great stress will be placed on avoiding carbohydrates, but in an advertisement for “fast weight gaining” supplements, equal stress will be placed on consuming a heavy load of carbohydrates.”
Rest pause training has 2 advantages not mentioned…..
1) Recruiting the fast twitch fibers early while ATP supplies (alactic) are fresh, unlike Superslow exercise sequential recruitment where the fast twitch fibers are recruited while the muscle is failing. Of note, all strength athletes train the alactic system……FACT!
2) Eccentric exercise and rest pause are less detrimental to blood vessel compliance as cardiac demand decreases as noted. I’ve used rest pause and eccentric reps successfully in COPD patients.
Muscle fibers are recruited by force & effort not speed . Eccentric emphasis has been shown to have many benefits for the muscles as well as at the cellular level .
about the downsides of the carnivore diet, sounds like the problem is because of people only eating meat, and not eating enough eggs/liver
Hey Lawrence, check out the new JRX podcast with Rhonda Patrick #1178 usual caveats for those two…!
I listened. It was quite interesting. I eat vegetables and tubers 20-30% just in case! But very skeptical of Rhonda’s POV to be honest!
Interesting comment Lawrence – I’m about 2/3 of the way through that podcast with Rhonda Patrick now (thank you for the heads up Andrew), so maybe I am missing something, but exactly what do you disagree with her about? She has always advocated a mixed, whole-foods yet lower carb diet, with plenty of lower starch veggies/ fruits – which seems to be in alignment with yourself?
My particular take on the carnivore diet is that I can see it being a ‘no-brainer’ as an absolute last resort for those unfortunate individuals who happen to be stricken with auto-immune related conditions. But as Rhonda mentions, why not go down the better researched routes of periodic fasting/ ketogenic diets first instead, and only turn to a carnivore only diet if it truly is the last resort… And even then, after a a certain period of time I would be in favour of an individual trying to slowly and gradually transition into more of a ‘mixed omnivore’ diet along the lines of Rhonda Patrick or Chris Masterjohn once their underlying conditions have resolved.. I would be incredibly wary of the long-term consequences of following a carnivore-only diet for life when so much is unknown, and what we do know would suggest that long-term issues are more likely than not to surface. Although I commend Shawn Baker for his achievements in turning his auto-immune conditions around and his fantastic athletic and body re-comp achievements, I really doubt the wisdom of throwing his reputation 100% behind such a restrictive strategy with unknown long-term consequences.
Yeah, Rhonda “so that cures cancer?” ”I saw a study that supports by bias” ”pfft, that’s just anecdotal….tells own anecdote” “antioxidants” but it’s hard to dismiss a large proportion of her points out of hand.
There is a “theory” called nutritional ecology. Many studies pointed out the “nutritional target” of animals and even humans. It is not just Ted idea. He studied that a lot. There is a book called “the nature of nutrition” about this.
And there is a study with low carb setting, 1 group 15% protein, another group 30% protein. Iso caloric. The protein group was much better.
He has a video in diet docter where he shows all the science behind what he talks.