Brian Sanders is a filmmaker, health educator and the creator of the Food Lies docuseries who, after watching both of his parents suffer from chronic disease, spent years asking what the human body actually needs, and who now hosts the Peak Human podcast, owns the regenerative meat company Nose to Tail and runs the Sapien Center in Austin.
Brian Sanders believes nobody wants to overeat, and yet almost everyone does, because we have been taught to count the wrong thing. In this conversation, we explore the family that actually followed the food pyramid, why feeling crappy at 30 is not normal, the hunter-gatherers who could not understand a question about back pain, who really funds nutrition research, the difference between nutrient calories and energy calories, and how to let your body talk to you. The answer to weight was never eating less of the same food. It is getting every nutrient your body needs for less energy.
How to Connect with Brian Sanders:
Website: https://www.sapien.org
Food Lies: https://www.foodlies.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/food.lies
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FoodLies
Nose to Tail: https://nosetotail.org
Timestamps:
00:00 Why Isn't Telling the Truth About Nutrition Enough?
1:54 "There's No Profit Margin on Whole Foods"
5:03 The Family That Did the Food Pyramid
9:03 Why Do We Take Feeling Crappy as Normal?
11:59 Hunter-Gatherers: "Do You Have Back Pain?"
13:19 Root-Cause Thinking and Who Funds the Research
18:48 "Science Changes One Funeral at a Time"
21:00 Camp No Camp: Unwinding His Own Bias
25:46 The Unifying Theory of Nutrition
30:34 Whole Foods, GLP-1 and the Apple Juice Test
34:23 Nobody Asks Why People Overeat
40:13 Two Meals a Day, No Snacks
42:47 Your Body Will Talk to You
46:10 Food Addiction: Eating to Fill the Void
49:27 The Fasted Pentathlon and the Placebo Effect
56:17 Reluctant Entrepreneur, Eager Filmmaker
58:26 Why a Documentary? Throwing Away Four Years
1:05:05 Beyond Food: Movement, Sunlight, Sleep
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