Brian Sanders has spent years researching nutrition. I picked his brain about food fanaticism, health myths, how to rapidly improve your nutrition, and more!
Topics Addressed:
- Summary / intro (0:00)
- How I met Brian & what I’ve noticed (1:58)
- Brian’s journey (3:12)
- Why are diets dogmatic–like religion and politics? (7:14)
- Should you do the same diet forever? (9:49)
- Being open-minded on your diet journey (13:49)
- How did saturated fat and cholesterol become villains? (20:00)
- Thinking all calories are the same (26:43)
- Recapping Brian’s answer about saturated fat (29:41)
- What’s the optimal way of eating, according to Brian? (33:00)
- The healthiest version of a plant-based diet (34:00)
- Recapping Brian’s answer about optimal eating (39:37)
- A hack to make plant-based nutrition more complete (41:27)
- Brian’s perspective about ethics in food production (43:20)
- How industrial monocrops are like genocide (46:10)
- Regenerative agriculture – the real solution (50:58)
- How consistent is Brian at eating healthy foods? (56:45)
- Basic cooking skills as a key to health (1:01:54)
- Brian’s experience with fasting (1:07:41)
- #1 advice to improve your health (1:09:45)
- 2 other keys to health (1:12:53)
Resources Mentioned:
- YouTube playlist w/ several clips from this interview
- Fat Fiction (documentary)
- The Vegetarian Myth (book)
- Joel Salatin doing regenerative farming (video)
- Brian’s talk at Low Carb Denver 2020 (video)
- The Biggest Little Farm (documentary)
- Sacred Cow (documentary)
- Kiss the Ground (documentary)
- Food Lies website
- Sapien.org
- Nose to Tail (Brian’s company)
- Episode 4 [How to Start Fasting as a Total Beginner]
- Episode 7 [How to eat REAL FOOD, & why it matters!]
- Episode 8 [Debunking 8 Common Health Myths]
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