Podcast Episode #29: How Many Critters Are Living In YOUR Gut, Making You Fat, Tired, Lazy, Bloated and Sick? (hint: more than you think)

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Welcome back, podcast episode number 29 from bengreenfieldfitness.com.

Welcome to the bengreenfieldfitness.com podcast, your free weekly audio exposure to cutting edge fitness, nutrition, and wellness information. My name is Ben Greenfield, and I'm an exercise physiologist, certified personal trainer, and nutritionist. Each week, I'll be bringing you information that goes outside, run-of-the-mill exercise and diet advice. So whether you're an Ironman triathlete, or you're just trying to lose a few pounds, enjoy this week's podcast episode from bengreenfieldfitness.com.

Hello, podcast listeners, and welcome back. Finally, we are back into podcasting mode here at bengreenfieldfitness.com. And boy, oh boy, oh boy, do I have a jam-packed episode for you today. At the top of the list on today's topics is an interview with New York Times bestselling author of The Fat Flush Plan, talking about her new book, The Gut Flush Plan, Dr. Anne-Louise Gittleman. You are not going to want to miss this interview. It has huge implications for you.

If you have chronic fatigue, if you have gut issues, or if you are an athlete who wants to learn how to optimize your performance by optimizing your gut, this is probably one of the most important interviews that we've had here at bengreenfieldfitness.com.

Next up, the National Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research just came out, and I'm going to be giving you a synopsis of some of the most important and relevant studies from that journal, a couple of them including how the type of rest intervals that you take while you're exercising are going to influence your hormonal response and the strength response that you get when you work out. We're going to talk about those compression socks that triathletes wear, and a recent study that came out that really gives the final word on whether or not these things actually make you faster. We're going to be talking about core training and a study done on 5,000 meter runners and whether or not it actually made them faster. I've got an interesting study that talks about testing for specifically triathletes and whether running and cycling testing actually gives you different results depending on what you choose. And then finally, a little talk about caffeine and how that influences your exercise performance. Our listener Q&A today is a really interesting question from a listener who has some serious blood flow issues to her legs and wants nutritional advice about the type of things that she can eat, the type of nutrition regimen that will help with blood flow to muscles. And then finally, in our calendar of events and announcements, I'll be talking about some special appearances in the Pacific Northwest area, as well as the next date for the live video Q&A, as well as a release of some proprietary discount codes for the listeners to this show. So tons of stuff. Stay tuned, and we're gonna get right into the content from bengreenfieldfitness.com.

Before we delve into this week's content, I've got a couple of announcements. Remember on January 4th, when I did a 90-minute video Q&A, that turned out to be an incredibly fun, entertaining, and educational session for everybody that showed up. And it was such a great experience for especially the athletes and the people who were going after holistic wellness and fat loss, that I decided that I'm going to begin doing a live video Q&A on a regular basis. So get out your pens, get out your calendars, whip out your iPhone calendar app, whatever it takes, because you're gonna want to write this down. The last Sunday of every month, I will be conducting a live video Q&A at 6 p.m. Pacific time. That would be at 9 p.m. for you folks on the East Coast. You'll still be able to hit the sack by 1030, I promise. This is gonna be a one-hour live video Q&A, where I will be presenting on a special topic and then taking your questions after. Pay attention to the blog, pay attention to the Ben Greenfield Fitness newsletter, and if you haven't subscribed to that, you can do so at bengreenfieldfitness.com, because in the next week, I'm going to be posting the special topic and the reminder for the next upcoming live video broadcast. Now, that's going to start the last Sunday in February.

There will not be a live video broadcast this month. However, starting in February and beginning on the last Sunday of every month, you'll be able to get 60 minutes of free advice and live video Q&A. Now, in addition, if you missed the last one, these are not going to be recorded. However, in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, I gave a 60 minute lecture on January 6th that covered many of the topics covered in that last video Q&A session, and I'm going to be making this available on the website. If you look in the show notes for this blog posting at bengreenfieldfitness.com, there will be a link where you'll be able to access a talk called The Synergy of Fat Loss that goes over crucial fitness, nutrition, and lifestyle choices that you can make that are pretty outside the run-of-the-mill advice that you get about how you can accelerate fat loss. So if you're interested in watching that, it's an actual video conference of me giving this talk, and I'll put a link to that in the show notes so that you can access it. Now, if you're local in the Spokane or Coeur d'Alene area and you would like to see these type of talks on a regular basis, on Tuesday, February 17th, I will be over at Pilgrim's Wellness Institute in Coeur d'Alene from 6 to 7 p.m. talking about metabolic testing and how exercise metabolic testing and resting metabolic testing can vastly improve your weight loss, your energy, and your physical performance by giving you exact details on how to fuel your body, how to exercise at the ideal heart rate intensity for your unique biological profile. That's on Tuesday, February 17th from 6 to 7 p.m. in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Same place, Tuesday, February 24th, the following Tuesday from 6 to 7 p.m. I'm gonna be talking about whether or not exercise can actually give you a heart attack if you're genetically predisposed to cardiovascular disease and what you can actually do about that, how you can exercise safely. So if you or someone you know is interested in either of these talks, they're over at the brand new Pilgrim's Wellness Institute on 4th Street in Coeur d'Alene. I will also put a link to both those talks in the show notes. Okay, I'm hurrying along, almost done here.