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Peak Human - Unbiased Nutrition Info for Optimum Health, Fitness & Living

Peak Human - Unbiased Nutrition Info for Optimum Health, Fitness & Living

209 Episodes • By Brian Sanders - Filmmaker of Food Lies & Health Coach • peak-human.com
Peak Human is a curated audio series taking an unbiased look at health & nutrition. With so much conflicting information available, filmmaker and health coach Brian Sanders sifts through the dogma and provides a framework that unifies all nutrition and dietary habits that lead to optimum health. Wo ...more
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Ana Rosa, MD, PhD on The Hidden Fat That’s Killing You
Ana Rosa, MD, PhD is a physician, Radiologist, Body ... more
Nov 22 2023 1h 2m
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Part 208 - Mary Ruddick Debunks the Blue Zones and Explains Worldwide Health Decline
Mary Ruddick is an internationally acclaimed nutriti... more
Nov 1 2023 1h 34m
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Part 207 - Veronica Max, APRN, FNP on Your Complete Health Makeover
Veronica Max is a nurse practitioner and the CEO of ... more
Oct 25 2023 1h 19m
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Part 206 - Chris Kruger on How to Lose Fat the Easy Way
Chris Kruger is a fitness coach and a promoter of th... more
Oct 19 2023 1h 32m
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Part 205 - Dave Feldman on The Amazing Study of Fit People w/ High LDL Cholesterol
Dave Feldman is an independent researcher and softwa... more
Oct 4 2023 56m
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Part 204 - Gabor Erdosi on The Root Cause of Diabetes, Disease, and Obesity
Gabor is a food scientist with a master's in molecul... more
Sep 27 2023 1h 28m
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Part 203 - Dr. Joel Kahn Thinks You Should Go Vegan
Dr. Joel Kahn is a cardiologist, integrative medicin... more
Sep 20 2023 1h 13m
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Part 202 - Stephan Guyenet, PhD on Why Do Humans Overeat?
Stephan J. Guyenet, Ph.D. is an obesity researcher a... more
Sep 12 2023 1h 26m
Chapter 1 13 mins
Our brains determine our food intake and regulate our energy expenditure, in a way that works best in our ancestral environment, but not in our modern environment
Chapter 2 10 mins
We consume calories for many reasons, hunger being just one of them. Likewise, satiety is just one of many reasons we stop eating
Chapter 3 15 mins
As a rule of thumb, eat a diet of omnivorous whole foods that are lower in calorie density
Chapter 4 8 mins
Fiber is not an essential nutrient
Chapter 5 6 mins
Nutrient-to-energy is important to health, but once you have adequate intake, there’s not much benefit in taking in more
Chapter 6 10 mins
Most people in the US are more susceptible to obesity than others. Whether or not they actually become obese comes down to the environment they choose
Chapter 7 11 mins
Blood pressure, on a genetic level, doesn’t typically change as one gets older
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Part 201 - Brad Kearns on Finding the Holy Grail of Diet & Lifestyle
Brad Kearns, 58, is a New York Times bestselling aut... more
Aug 31 2023 1h 24m
Chapter 1 8 mins
The Evolution of Health and Fitness
Chapter 2 11 mins
Adapting and Optimizing Diets for Health
Chapter 3 9 mins
Improving Health With Diet and Exercise
Chapter 4 11 mins
Optimizing Recovery and Long-Term Fitness
Chapter 5 3 mins
Sleep's Impact on Cognitive Performance
Chapter 6 13 mins
Optimal vs. Possible
Chapter 7 4 mins
Reevaluating the Nutritional Value of Plants
Chapter 8 9 mins
Exploring Nutrition and Calorie Intake
Chapter 9 4 mins
Rethinking Food and Fitness Approaches
Chapter 10 7 mins
The Importance of Extreme Health Approaches
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Part 200 - My biggest impact fat loss & health tips
This episode features the synthesis of my learnings ... more
Aug 16 2023 1h 20m
Chapter 1 12 mins
Health Journey and Discoveries
Chapter 2 9 mins
Personal Fat Threshold and Its Meaning
Chapter 3 7 mins
The Evolution of Food Lies
Chapter 4 4 mins
Navigating Change, Fear, and Ancestral Health
Chapter 5 11 mins
Ancestral Health and Modern Science
Chapter 6 8 mins
Binge Eating and Fat Acceptance Flaw
Chapter 7 7 mins
Nutrient-Energy Ratio in Diet
Chapter 8 4 mins
Challenge LDL Paradigm, Understand Cholesterol Ratios
Chapter 9 6 mins
Food as Medicine and Intuition Journey
Chapter 10 5 mins
Back to Human Retreat and Community
Chapter 11 28 sec
Promotion for Sapien's Health Products
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Part 199 - Tucker Max on Raising Your Own Food, Providing for Your Family, and the Future of Freedom
Tucker Max has written four New York Times Best Sell... more
Aug 9 2023 1h 23m
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Part 198 - Mark Sisson on Health From Your Feet On Up
Mark Sisson is a renowned health and fitness expert,... more
Jun 21 2023 57m
The Importance of Arch Strength
Chapter 1 7 mins
Body Mechanics and Foot Health
Chapter 2 6 mins
The Future of Footwear
Chapter 3 9 mins
The Importance of Foot Health
Chapter 4 5 mins
Barefoot Running Benefits and Shoes
Chapter 5 8 mins
Benefits of Minimalist Shoes
Chapter 6 10 mins
Barefoot Movement and Primal Living
Chapter 7 8 mins
Nutrient Density and Metabolic Flexibility
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Part 197 - Chris Knobbe, MD on Why Seed Oils are The Single Most Harmful Ingredient in the Human Diet
Chris Knobbe, MD, is a physician, researcher, ophtha... more
Jun 13 2023 1h 34m
Differentiating Nutrient and Energy Calories
Chapter 1 1 min
Dr. Chris Knobbe’s latest publication: Ancestral Diet Revolution
Chapter 2 1 min
How Dr. Knobbe left his ophthalmologist practice in 2015 to pursue the topic of seed oils
Chapter 3 5 mins
The connection between age-related macular degeneration and diet
Chapter 4 2 mins
Dr. Chris Knobbes impactful use of data and graphs
Chapter 5 26 mins
Why are seed oils more concerning than other processed foods?
Chapter 6 23 mins
Dietary changes in populations across the globe and prevalence of disease- the modern displacement of foods
Chapter 7 13 mins
The effect of sugar vs. vegetable oils on the rate of incidence in the United States
Chapter 8 8 mins
Dietary lipid profile is a determinant of tissue phospholipid fatty acid composition and rate of weight gain in rats (
Chapter 9 7 mins
Seeds oils and poor diet as a driver for cancer
Chapter 10 27 sec
Diet and lifestyle is crucial in determining health outcomes regardless of genetics
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Part 196 - Kyle Lasota on Unlocking The Natural Limitless Pill Through Sleep Optimization
On this episode, Brian interviews, Kyle Lasota a Sle... more
May 25 2023 1h 23m
Optimizing Sleep and Results via Negativa
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Part 195 - Tara Couture on Incredible Health with the Ultimate Human Lifestyle
Tara Couture is one of the most sensational humans t... more
May 18 2023 1h 30m
The Resonance of Eating From Place
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Part 194 - Dr. Martin Gorman on The Scary Truth about Sleep Apnea and how to fix it
Dr. Martin Gorman, a Bioesthetic trained Dental Prac... more
May 4 2023 1h 12m
Benefits of Native Diets
Chapter 1 3 mins
Getting a palate expansion
Chapter 2 3 mins
Dr. Gorman's journey with Sleep Apnea
Chapter 3 8 mins
About the jaw expansion work by Steven Lamberg
Chapter 4 5 mins
The scale of the problem of sleep apnea
Chapter 5 6 mins
The evolution of sleep tests
Chapter 6 3 mins
Dr. Gorman’s new product that combines expansion and orthodontic treatment
Chapter 7 4 mins
How Dr. Gorman's appliance works and its benefits
Chapter 8 6 mins
With the rising rate of heart attacks, there is now a scan that can show the level of cholesterol in blood vessels
Chapter 9 6 mins
Most diseases have a root cause in sleep, diet, or lifestyle
Chapter 10 5 mins
The side of your face that looks bad is the side of your head that did not develop well
Chapter 11 17 mins
Comparing the roles of nutrition and physical activity in developing the proper jaw in kids
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Part 193 - Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt on the Impactful Concept to Lose Fat
Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt is a Swedish medical doctor spe... more
Apr 25 2023 1h 23m
The Role of Protein in Dieting
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Part 192 - Ashley and Sarah Armstrong on Breaking Free from the Low Carb Myth
Ashley and Sarah Armstrong, aka The Strong Sistas, a... more
Apr 18 2023 1h 29m
Exploring Different Dietary Experiences
Chapter 1 7 mins
Your ability to produce energy, resist disease, and eat a wide variety of foods is developed in the environment you grew up in
Chapter 2 7 mins
We need to develop food awareness rather than food fear
Chapter 3 12 mins
Reduce your endotoxin load to mitigate its negative impact on estrogen and serotonin
Chapter 4 8 mins
There are many misconceptions around PUFAs and saturated fat
Chapter 5 10 mins
A weight loss program can result in health issues because even a short-term caloric deficit leads to a significant decrease in thyroid hormone conversion from T4 to T3
Chapter 6 5 mins
Calories-in, calories-out does matter; but, the state of your thyroid impacts your basal metabolic rate
Chapter 7 9 mins
Ease of digestion should be considered when determining what to prioritize in your diet
Chapter 8 7 mins
Dr. Ray Peat believes that the small intestine should be relatively sterile
Chapter 9 16 mins
Putting on muscle is extremely advantageous to women over 30
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Part 191 - Calley Means on How the Sickcare System Cons the World for Trillions
Calley Means is the cofounder of True Medicine, whic... more
Apr 12 2023 1h 24m
The Art of Confusion
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Part 190 - Dr. Ted Naiman & Nick Norwitz, PhD and the Food System Scoring Wars
Ted Naiman is a board-certified Family Medicine phys... more
Apr 4 2023 1h 47m
Macadamia Nuts for Weight Loss
Chapter 1 3 mins
What is the idea of a healthy diet for a day?
Chapter 2 4 mins
The biggest factor in the obesity crisis
Chapter 3 6 mins
Which is more important: food or exercise?
Chapter 4 5 mins
Are seed oils poison?
Chapter 5 4 mins
Satiety Per Calorie concept
Chapter 6 10 mins
Is Nutrient Density scoring system going to work?
Chapter 7 6 mins
Chapter 8 23 mins
Satiety Per Calorie scoring system complexity
Chapter 9 3 mins
Can the Diet Doctor resource scores be harmful for patients?
Chapter 10 2 mins
Chapter 11 4 mins
What is the Carbohydrate Insulin Model?
Chapter 12 45 sec
What all these models can not explain?
Chapter 13 1 min
Chapter 14 3 mins
and
Chapter 15 3 mins
and
Chapter 16 15 mins
Is it possible to create a scoring system that would be generalizable?
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Part 189 - DEBATE: Should You Eat Carbs For Muscle Growth? Logan Delgado & Robert Sikes
Robert Sikes (@ketosavage) is the Keto Savage, Found... more
Mar 29 2023 1h 35m
Healthy Binge Eating
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Part 188 - Dr. Kwadwo Kyeremanteng on Taking Control of Your Own Health
Brian sits with Dr. Kwadwo Kyeremanteng, an ICU Phys... more
Mar 15 2023 1h
Nutrient to Energy Ratio
Chapter 1 8 mins
Facing the pandemic, Dr. Kwadwo’s mission was to inform people about crucial factors that affect covid outcomes
Chapter 2 53 sec
Many doctors are also struggling to balance their work with healthy living
Chapter 3 2 mins
The rigidity of doctors, whether due to ego or fear of being wrong, played out negatively in the pandemic
Chapter 4 5 mins
How do doctors respond to the newer dietary recommendations as against the typical nutritional training?
Chapter 5 10 mins
Dr. Kwadwo has seen no case of a healthy patient ending up in the ICU due to covid-19
Chapter 6 11 mins
The protein hack
Chapter 7 7 mins
How can all these health strategies be passed across to the larger public?
Chapter 8 6 mins
How do families implement these changes?
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Part 187 - Miki Ben-Dor on Our Meat-Eating & Happiness Utopia Before Agriculture
Brian once again sits down with Miki Ben-Dor, a pale... more
Mar 8 2023 1h 48m
The Natural Human Diet
Chapter 1 8 mins
The top two principles that the hunter-gatherers of the past lived by was autonomy and equality
Chapter 2 15 mins
What most people call the “paleo diet”, Miki simply calls our “natural diet”
Chapter 3 14 mins
Sharing is common in all nomadic hunter-gatherer societies
Chapter 4 29 mins
Those who continue to push the high-fiber, low-meat lifestyle are doing so disingenuously
Chapter 5 14 mins
Brian and Miki recap just a few pieces of evidence that humans evolved to be high-trophic-level carnivores that do best when they primarily consume meat and fat
Chapter 6 18 mins
Meaning is found in helping others
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Part 186 - Dr. John Jaquish - Is Lifting Weights a Waste of Time?
Brian sits down with Dr. John Jaquish, the Wall Stre... more
Feb 28 2023 1h 10m
Protein Requirements on Low-Carb Diets
Chapter 1 9 mins
According to Dr. Jaquish, 99% of people who go to the gym make no progress in their physique goals
Chapter 2 6 mins
With variable resistance, you deal with more weight in positions where you are stronger, and dealing with less weight in positions where you are biomechanically inefficient
Chapter 3 5 mins
For optimal muscle growth, you need a lot of protein in your system. Consuming up to 200 grams every day often makes it hard to eat anything else (i.e. carbs)
Chapter 4 10 mins
Metabolic rebound is the reason some muscle growth is associated with fasting, as demonstrated in a study conducted by Henry Alkire ( )
Chapter 5 2 mins
Supposedly, eating one meal per day puts you at higher risk of all-cause mortality. Dr. Jaquish finds a major flaw in the study ( ) which claims this
Chapter 6 9 mins
A healthy heart is highly-dependent on testosterone
Chapter 7 13 mins
Cardio is a waste of time
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Part 185 - Layne Norton, PhD and The Great Diet Debate
Layne completed a BS in Biochemistry and a PhD in Nu... more
Feb 15 2023 1h 36m
The Satiety of Whole Foods
Chapter 1 9 mins
There is no “one-size-fits-all” prescription in the fitness and nutrition space
Chapter 2 4 mins
There is no such thing as “good” and “bad” foods
Chapter 3 7 mins
Nuance is king in the fitness and nutrition space
Chapter 4 17 mins
Don’t sweat the carb/fat debate
Chapter 5 13 mins
Layne doesn’t claim to be an arbiter of truth; but, he’s all for intellectual honesty
Chapter 6 19 mins
Brian and Layne debate on common points of contention in nutritional science
Chapter 7 14 mins
It’s much easier to live an unhealthy life today compared to just three decades ago
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