Part 1: Nutritional Scientist Chris Talley on Maximizing Weaknesses and Minimizing Strengths

Chris Talley (0:00)

I have a theory that everyone's born with a hundred points, and how you distribute those points is up to you, and you kind of figure that out along the way. And so if you min max yourself, you put a bunch in one territory and very little in others, you're completely imbalanced, but you may do something exceptional.

Michael Gervais (0:29)

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Now, this conversation is with Chris Talley. Chris is flat out my go-to for all things related to food science. We've worked together for a long time with hundreds of professional athletes and Olympians, and we worked together at the Red Bull High Performance Program when that was getting together.

We're working together right now at the Seattle Seahawks and with handfuls of other athletes that are doing extraordinary difficult things, including entrepreneurs and business executives. So it's been a real treat to learn from him. I use him myself, my family uses him. I can't give a higher glowing praise than that.

His mind is, he thinks really clearly about very complicated things. And this is going to be a two-part conversation.

In part one, you'll learn about Chris' journey, his work with NFL teams, Major League Baseball, NBA, tip of the arrow guys in every major sport, including the Olympics and action sports. And what is driving him and what has driven him to work so hard to be one of the best at what he does. And then in part two, we'll take a deeper dive into the mechanics of nutrition. And with that, let's jump right into this conversation with Chris Talley.