Liron Kayvan
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Episode 426: Liron Kayvan: The Top 5 Ways to Lose the Last 5 Lbs
Did you do your five and I did my five?
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Episode 426: Liron Kayvan: The Top 5 Ways to Lose the Last 5 Lbs
I've got one more. Sleep.
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Episode 426: Liron Kayvan: The Top 5 Ways to Lose the Last 5 Lbs
That's a bloody good one, yeah.
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Episode 426: Liron Kayvan: The Top 5 Ways to Lose the Last 5 Lbs
You go. Okay. One, walk.
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Episode 426: Liron Kayvan: The Top 5 Ways to Lose the Last 5 Lbs
As much, at least half an hour a day, 10,000 steps a day.
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Episode 426: Liron Kayvan: The Top 5 Ways to Lose the Last 5 Lbs
Again, it really depends where someone's coming from, but I'm going to make this super general. Okay, okay. You should just make sure that that's part of your plan. It's walking, like actively, not just relying like, oh yeah, I'm sure I'm walking, like track it. Right. Two protein, at least one gram per pound of body weight protein. Mm-hmm.
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Episode 426: Liron Kayvan: The Top 5 Ways to Lose the Last 5 Lbs
Three, I would say water, but that actually technically can, you won't lose, you'll lose fat, but you won't necessarily lose weight because you'll increase your water. So I'm not going to say water.
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Episode 426: Liron Kayvan: The Top 5 Ways to Lose the Last 5 Lbs
It's always the basics.
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Episode 426: Liron Kayvan: The Top 5 Ways to Lose the Last 5 Lbs
Three, focus on nutrient density. Every single thing you put in your mouth has to have like purpose and it has to be like feeding your body and your system. And part of that is like colors, making sure you're very, very colorful. Shit, I'm running out. I'm at three. Sleep, I'm going to steal yours. I wouldn't have said it unless you did. So I have the advantage of going second.
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Episode 426: Liron Kayvan: The Top 5 Ways to Lose the Last 5 Lbs
Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. 100% I'm stealing that one.
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Episode 426: Liron Kayvan: The Top 5 Ways to Lose the Last 5 Lbs
I think the last one is a kind of cross between two opposites. One is intermittent fasting and the other is making sure you have breakfast. I think you should have Get your calories in early in the day and have, so basically they used to say, and I used to disagree with it, but I've come back around. Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, dinner like a pauper.
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Episode 426: Liron Kayvan: The Top 5 Ways to Lose the Last 5 Lbs
Shift your calories to earlier in the day, not necessarily skipping dinner. And again, where... Where you place those meals is up to you, but like don't tail end all your calories for the end of the day. Try to get them in earlier in the day and go to bed like light, like not, not like stuffed.
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Episode 426: Liron Kayvan: The Top 5 Ways to Lose the Last 5 Lbs
I love bone broth.
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Episode 426: Liron Kayvan: The Top 5 Ways to Lose the Last 5 Lbs
I literally made it yesterday. Really? I love it. I always have some that I've made. There's always jars of it. My wife hates me, but there's always jars of it around my house. I have it every single day.
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Episode 426: Liron Kayvan: The Top 5 Ways to Lose the Last 5 Lbs
That's kind of the nutrient density thing you spoke about.
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Episode 426: Liron Kayvan: The Top 5 Ways to Lose the Last 5 Lbs
And that's for like almost no calories. That's for very few calories bone broth. There's not a lot of calories in it, but it's so nutrient dense that it really fills you up for like, for free, basically.
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Episode 426: Liron Kayvan: The Top 5 Ways to Lose the Last 5 Lbs
Sounds like a good name for a supplement line actually.
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Episode 426: Liron Kayvan: The Top 5 Ways to Lose the Last 5 Lbs
It's like the opposite of bread. You know, like opposite, like bread is so low nutrient. The reason why people get fat off bread is it's so low in nutrients. Yeah, exactly. It doesn't fill you up. It doesn't satiate you at all. And it's very high in calories with very low in nutrients, depending on the type of bread is going to be less or more.
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Episode 426: Liron Kayvan: The Top 5 Ways to Lose the Last 5 Lbs
But generally speaking, bread is going to be very low in nutrients, very high in calories, and is not going to fill you up at all.
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Episode 426: Liron Kayvan: The Top 5 Ways to Lose the Last 5 Lbs
Yeah, it's a chain reaction.
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Episode 426: Liron Kayvan: The Top 5 Ways to Lose the Last 5 Lbs
I'd love to see people's, their top five. I know. What are your top five? Yeah.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
Hi guys, it's Tony Robbins. You're listening to Habits & Hustle. Crush it.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
I think your gut even eats certain types of fiber. It literally like pulls energy from the fiber itself. So your gut needs the fiber just to like function well.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
Also in nature, again, it goes back to like my nature kind of binding philosophy for nutrition. Like in nature, fiber is everywhere. You know, every plant has some type of fiber in nature. It's only when we live in our modern world that we have the ability to mechanically get rid of fiber that we're not getting enough.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
So if you were to eat in a more natural way, like as we were built to eat, you should be getting more fiber.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
Yeah, I think you don't want to deprive yourself.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
Yeah, especially with regard to like protein. I think people need to eat more actual food to avoid snacks. And that's why I always go back to the jungle analogy. Like if you stick to actual food, like how you would eat in the jungle. If you stick to actual food, you'll find yourself satiated a lot more. but like more with more consistency and a lot faster.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
And the whole process is a lot more enjoyable. When you try to like have these like clever little tricks and eat these kind of made in a lab foods that everyone seems to be eating now, some cool thing that's being pushed on TikTok. What is it?
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
I just, all of these things, I can't even, I'm so divorced from that stuff that I don't even know the name of it, but I see like, and I'm not going to name names because I don't know, I don't know who's been on this podcast before, but like, All these things, like, you know what I mean? Like things made in a lab versus things that are natural.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
Thank you for having me.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
Nobody I know who's in really good shape and no high level athlete consumes more than 20% of their diet in these kind of edge man-made foods. every, especially athletes, every high performing athlete. And they'll have probably two, three, four foods that they religiously, like they almost worship these foods because they think they have these like magical powers to make them function better.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
And it's because they kind of do. Like every athlete I know has like, whenever I look at what they eat, they always talk about two or three or four foods that they absolutely love. And they're usually, actually, this is one more thing I would say is nutrient density. Mm-hmm.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
In Westwood Boulevard.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
Like focus, people don't focus enough on like nutrient density, not just macro, but micro, like the hidden invisible nutrients inside food. A lot of this has to do with color. So like colorful foods.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
You've got a lot of things going on.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
To someone else it's boring or to you it's boring?
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
Literally rainbow, like in terms of colors.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
colorful food for sure into your diet and again this goes back to how we're built yeah why do like candy companies and just food companies in general so they just recently banned red whatever thank god red dye red dye number 40 but they're just they're gonna
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
switch it to red dye number 39 or whatever so i don't buy any of this shit to be honest i'm not that excited about we're moving in the right direction but like i'm not trusting the food companies and the food scientists totally to be my like health czar all of a sudden but what i would say is why do they force these dyes into food because it tricks your brain into thinking it's nutrients and your brain wants nutrients especially for kids but adults too
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
The reason why they are, why are they, why do you have to add color to these made in a lab foods? Because otherwise your brain will be like, that's bullshit. I don't want that. That has no nutrients in it. But with the color, all of a sudden your brain's like, Oh, give me some of that. Right.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
The garlic sauce, like the white dips.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
My wife loves that stuff.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
I think I know where this story is going to go.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
Saffron's a really- Saffron in your food?
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
And I'm paying, like the chicken skewers- You can get Spanish saffron, it's cheaper, but yeah.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
Is that in the chicken or the sauce?
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
Even the olive oil, look.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
I'm going to say no. And the reason I'm going to say no is because, look, you have to get out of this idea. By you, I mean everyone, people listening. And I tell my clients, I tell my family, I tell everyone, like, you can't be so naive. Their job, the restaurant's job, food company's job is not to make you healthy. Their job is to make them profit. And I understand that. Like I'm a businessman.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
I am not expecting them to make me healthy. Okay. It's not going to happen. They are going to make as much profit for themselves as possible. So provided they're not overtly poisoning you and you don't never go back or give a bad review on Yelp or whatever, it's not going to hurt their bottom line. What they want to do is lower their expenses, meaning using cheap ingredients.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
So when they say olive oil, Sure, it's olive oil. Really? It's like pure extra virgin olive oil? No. Chances are it's a blend of olive oil and canola oil. I walked past a very famous chain and I'm not going to say who. Who? Can I say who?
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
I'm going to crush people's soul.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
It's California Chicken Cafe.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
I'm going to ruin everyone's day. So I walked past. And by the way, I love California Chicken Cafe. And from time to time, I still get it. But they were my neighbors. So I had a gym literally right next to them. And I knew everyone. Tell me, tell me.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
I didn't want to know this, but I had already known. I walked past and I saw them loading the crates and it said olive oil. So they're loading their olive oil. And I looked and it's not even in fine print, but these are in big industrial crates that they get. And it said 75% canola, 25% olive oil. So it was an olive oil blend. And it's three quarters olive. Canola oil, which is seed oil.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
Now, some people find this controversial. It's not. Take it from me. You shouldn't be eating seed oil, okay? Seed oil is the number one poison in the Western food supply. And it's the reason why Westerners are so fat and everyone else is not, is because of seed oil. Straight up and down.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
Why do I think that seed oil is so bad? Yeah. Because it literally triggers the inflammatory process that leads to fat storage.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
They're all doing it.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
One of my life philosophies is I refuse to be a victim in any way. If I feel any sense of victimhood in myself, I extinguish it immediately. And I see that with a lot of people around food now. Oh, they're trying to poison us. Oh, big, big farmer. No, you're right. Big food. And they're all in it. Like, all right, whatever. Of course they are. It's a fucking business.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
Like, honestly, it's a... No, you're right. Excuse my French. It's a fucking business. Grow up. Grow up. This is not their job. It's your job. You feed your kids what they should be feeding. Go and get an apple. They're not poisoning the apples. I mean, I know they put wax and stuff on it, but go wash the apple. Give your kid an apple.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
Stop buying things in a package and expecting just because there's a picture of a child with a rainbow over the top that it's healthy. Of course it's fucking nice. It's a picture.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
I mean, it depends on what the law is.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
Look, if I were the president, which I'll never be because I'm an immigrant. I'm not allowed to be president. But if I was president, I would pass a law stating, like saying that things like the olive oil thing would be illegal. If you say it's olive oil, it has to be 100% pure olive oil. But...
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
It's a small percentage of olive oil, yeah.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
It should at least be 51%. It's no mission. It will be years. I think we should start moving in that process. So I'm happy that we banned red, whatever the hell it is. But these companies are going to be as low as they can legally get away with, or at least that makes sense for their business. That's what you have to expect.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
You have to expect almost nothing from these companies because their job is to make profit. And we should change the law so that the low bar that we have, the extremely low bar, especially in America, in England, where I'm from, artificial food coloring has been banned for decades.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
The bar is on the floor. The FDA, what I will say is the FDA, I'm pretty sure, I think it's well known that they're a very, corrupt organization. So I would probably, instead of going after each individual food company, I would look more at the structure of the FDA because they, their job is overtly not to make profit. Their job is to protect and serve and benefit the people.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
And so I don't think they're doing their job. So if I was to go after anyone, I wouldn't go after California Chicken Cafe because I don't think what they're doing is even illegal. I think I would go, A, it's more practical to go to the top and try to change the laws from the top. And B, they're saying- They're trying to do that.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
I don't blame McDonald's. I blame FDA.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
protein is like the number one.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
Again, I think that one goes down, I talk about this a lot, but it goes down to evolution. Like we've evolved to eat protein. So our guts are like protein seeking machines, you know? And so when they register the amino acids, like that umami flavor of protein, it's just extremely satiating because that's literally just how we're built.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
It's how we're designed. It's how we're built.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
You need fats, carbs, and proteins. At some point, you're going to need to check all those boxes.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
technically i think the only one that is not essential like from a scientific perspective is carbs because you technically don't need carbs to survive because your body will create carbs out of protein or fat like gluconeogenesis and stuff but in practice everyone needs it and also if you're an athlete and you're working out you also need it for performance your performance is going to suffer
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
tremendously your mental health suffers tremendously without carbs because it boosts serotonin and stuff you feel better so practically speaking you definitely need some formal carbs some formal fat some formal protein and trying to like shortcut or like cheat the system by just getting rid of one It's a nice idea.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
And a lot of people, especially with carbs, because you lose water weight, they'll lose 10 pounds in a week. And they're like, Oh, I'm a winner. Yeah, but you lost water and maybe some muscle. And actually, you're less healthy than you were when you were 10 pounds heavier. So totally agree with you're cheating yourself really.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
Don't want to lose fat and lose muscle at the same time. You only want to lose fat.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
But your muscles are made of water. So you're kind of losing muscle in a way.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
Not animal protein. Like fake, possibly protein shakes. I doubt it even with protein shakes if they're animal-based, meaning dairy protein. I doubt it. But like natural, basically natural sources of protein, not a chance. Not a chance. I don't believe it for a split second.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
No.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
I would advise that.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
Yeah. If you isolate too much, again, I think protein shakes have their place and I will have them from time to time and I will tell clients to have them.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
Especially if they're learning to get their protein up and they're trying to get their gut to adjust to a high protein diet, which in the early phases, protein is fantastic. Protein shakes have their place, okay?
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
Yeah, I'm literally going to have this right after this podcast.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
Because that's like they have more natural sweeteners and stuff.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
Convenience factor.
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Which we've spoken about in other podcasts. Convenience is an underrated facet of fitness that people need to factor into what they're doing. Things have to work functionally and they have to be convenient for you.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
So I think not focusing on food quality and also not enjoy. I think the biggest one now is like not enjoying their food, like not factoring that in. And again, this kind of flies in the face of what most people are told. But my theory is
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
i'm really fleshing this out so this might sound a little bit jumbled but like i think your brain has a certain let's say pleasure point principle where it wants to get a certain amount of pleasure from food and if it doesn't get that amount of pleasure from food it will kind of force you to binge later on so so essentially what's happening is that your brain is seeking pleasure from food and if it doesn't register that pleasure from food
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
it will keep asking for more and more food. So by only eating things that people don't enjoy or not consciously enjoying the food that they're eating, they're setting themselves up for failure because their body and their brain is kind of storing a little craving for later. It's like, wait a minute, I didn't actually enjoy that. You better pay me back later.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
I think it's definitely better to have a more balanced approach. But then ultimately, the truth of it is that you probably should have given yourself the grapes in the first place. And then maybe you would have only had four or five pounds as opposed to nine.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
And that's why things like if it fits your macros and stuff, I don't think people bother with that anymore, but that used to be a thing. If it fits your macros, meaning just as long as you're eating your macros, it doesn't matter. The problem with that is if you're eating Twinkies as your carb source. Mm-hmm.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
you're going to go, you're not going to be able to stick to 200 grams of carbs a day or whatever it is because, you know, you're just going to rifle through those so fast because they provide no actual nutrition. So your body is still craving nutrients and therefore you're going to overeat those foods. So calories in, calories out is completely non-growthful. That's how it works.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
Like you cannot, that's just a mathematical law of the universe. If your calories in more than your calories out, you will store weight. Whether that's muscle or fat is, is, potentially negotiable depending on what you're eating.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
No, that's just a fact. It's like gravity. That's just how it works.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
There's no point arguing about it.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
I think where the conversation becomes more interesting and nuanced is where you start to talk about, you start to break that down and talk about what does calories in mean versus what does calories out mean. I mean, first of all, you would have to absorb the calories in.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
So if your body, for some reason, decides it doesn't want to absorb those calories, if your gut says, you know what, I'm not absorbing these calories, I'm going straight out, then technically that's not calories in. It went into your mouth, but it didn't go into your body. So that's not something that happens all the time. But again, it...
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
It's like, where does that calories in versus calories out equation become relevant? What does calories out mean? Does it only mean walking? No. Your calories out could be growing your hair. It could be your reproductive system. It could be your digestive system. It could be your immunity.
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Episode 424: Liron Kayvan: The Top Nutrition Mistakes to Avoid + Are Seed Oils Bad for You?
So it's so insanely complex, that thing, that to try to reduce it to a mathematical formula that we can predict... is on the flip side to it is you're not really going to be able to do that long term. It's too complex, but you have to be aware that that is how it works.
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Episode 422: Liron Kayvan: Healthy Travel Hacks + How to Stay Fit on the Go
So can I tell you something?
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Episode 422: Liron Kayvan: Healthy Travel Hacks + How to Stay Fit on the Go
I actually don't believe in calorie counting.
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Episode 422: Liron Kayvan: Healthy Travel Hacks + How to Stay Fit on the Go
I think the biggest, the reason why that works is because most people are just not aware. They don't even know. They have no idea. There's no awareness. They didn't even realize that they ate this thing. They wouldn't remember it. And this has been studied, by the way, like people are so bad at knowing how much and what they're eating.
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Episode 422: Liron Kayvan: Healthy Travel Hacks + How to Stay Fit on the Go
That's my recap. Think about food quality. Oh, always.
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Episode 422: Liron Kayvan: Healthy Travel Hacks + How to Stay Fit on the Go
You should always think about the food quality. I mean, I don't know where you're traveling specifically.
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And the whole other thing, but America is definitely on the lower end of food quality. So there's a lot of countries you can go to where... everything's fresh, there's very low additives. And so you can partake of the local cuisine a lot, a lot more guilt free than in the kind of more Western world. It really just depends where you're going.
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Episode 422: Liron Kayvan: Healthy Travel Hacks + How to Stay Fit on the Go
But I think by focusing on food quality, you know, go to go to grocery stores, go to farmers markets.
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Don't get a cab if you can walk.
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Episode 422: Liron Kayvan: Healthy Travel Hacks + How to Stay Fit on the Go
New York is the best.
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New York is the best.
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And that's not just the walking, that's the sunshine, that's the vitamin D. I mean, we've got like ash falling on us now, but generally 99.9% of the time being outside and breathing the fresh air and seeing the trees and having the sun on your skin, apart from the actual physical walking is going to do so much, not just for your mental health, but your physical health too, that people really sleep on that stuff.
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Episode 422: Liron Kayvan: Healthy Travel Hacks + How to Stay Fit on the Go
I'm exactly the same. Literally, we're buying a house right now and non-negotiable, and this might sound crazy to some people, is can I walk to my place of business, my gym, from my house?
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Episode 422: Liron Kayvan: Healthy Travel Hacks + How to Stay Fit on the Go
Yeah. Yeah. Airplane food is like kind of the exact opposite of my philosophy on nutrition, which is you want to eat as naturally as possible.
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Episode 422: Liron Kayvan: Healthy Travel Hacks + How to Stay Fit on the Go
You want to eat as if you are in the jungle and, or the rainforest or the forest or whatever. But airplane food is literally to a T, like packaged, you know, scientifically like made in a lab, you know, that's what they- But why is that?
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It's a business. The airplanes are businesses and they need to make things as cheaply as possible that last as long as possible.
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That's the Jewish mom thing.
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Episode 422: Liron Kayvan: Healthy Travel Hacks + How to Stay Fit on the Go
It's deep in your genes.
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Episode 422: Liron Kayvan: Healthy Travel Hacks + How to Stay Fit on the Go
To have fresh food.
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Episode 422: Liron Kayvan: Healthy Travel Hacks + How to Stay Fit on the Go
I know what you mean.
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Episode 422: Liron Kayvan: Healthy Travel Hacks + How to Stay Fit on the Go
You're also a bit bored on a plane.
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I know what you mean. Actually, I don't ever really crave beer and potato chips. It's not a craving of mine, really. Beer once in a while. But whenever I get on a plane and I see someone order beer and potato chips, I'm like, I really want that. And it's something about being on the plane and the boredom factor. Or I'm like, I need something, you know. Yeah. I get that. I get what you're saying.
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Episode 422: Liron Kayvan: Healthy Travel Hacks + How to Stay Fit on the Go
It definitely slows down your digestive system too. Like your gut tends to freeze up. I think also traveling at an unnatural speed across, you know, you're changing time zones. Like that is gonna, and it's not just on the plane, but like the actual flight is going to mess up your circadian rhythm for at least a day, depending on how far you go. Like when I go to London, Like three days after.
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Episode 422: Liron Kayvan: Healthy Travel Hacks + How to Stay Fit on the Go
My body, I'm waking up at the wrong time. My digestive system is off. My energy levels are off because of that jet lag too. So it's like the sitting down in a plane, eating crap, and then also having jet lag is a big kind of perfect storm to derail your fitness.
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Episode 422: Liron Kayvan: Healthy Travel Hacks + How to Stay Fit on the Go
Hello, Jen.
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Thank you for having me.
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Episode 422: Liron Kayvan: Healthy Travel Hacks + How to Stay Fit on the Go
Yeah, actually, I love working out on vacation. I absolutely love it. Like, it's got harder since I had the second kid because it's hard to leave two kids with my wife and then go work out. But I used to, like, up until this summer, we went to Italy. It was the first time I didn't work out for two weeks. I think...
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Episode 422: Liron Kayvan: Healthy Travel Hacks + How to Stay Fit on the Go
since i started working out i all whenever we go on vacation even long like two week trips i'll always like sneak off to a hotel or find a new gym in town actually i love it because i'll go to a new part of town it'll be very very different i get a lot of inspiration different machines different gym culture different like you know you can people i i love working out on vacation but to me that's not even an option like it's not even an option to me like i said
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Episode 422: Liron Kayvan: Healthy Travel Hacks + How to Stay Fit on the Go
Are you talking about like work trips?
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I'm guessing you have to plan ahead for these things too.
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Episode 422: Liron Kayvan: Healthy Travel Hacks + How to Stay Fit on the Go
Because you have to find, like say you do want to find a gym.
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You have to see, does my hotel have a gym? If not... Can I schedule a couple of hours to go and find a gym somewhere and make it stay on, you know, stay on my routine? The other factor is when you, especially with regard to work, if you know you're going to function better, like your brain and body is going to function better when you're working out, then it's a performance booster.
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Episode 422: Liron Kayvan: Healthy Travel Hacks + How to Stay Fit on the Go
And so therefore it's actually part of your work.
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Episode 422: Liron Kayvan: Healthy Travel Hacks + How to Stay Fit on the Go
That's a big thing you just mentioned. And I think in general, whether you're on a work trip or a pleasure trip or whatever it is, whenever you're traveling, seeing fitness as part of the travel, as part of the trip, like not that divorcing psychologically your health and fitness from the trip, but making it part of it. Meaning, so like to be specific, when I went to Italy, right?
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Episode 422: Liron Kayvan: Healthy Travel Hacks + How to Stay Fit on the Go
Everyone says with Italy, oh, you have to have pizza, you have to have pasta, you have to have gelato. And it's fantastic. The pizza, pasta, and gelato are fantastic. But I don't want to live off that for two weeks. I'm not going to enjoy it. So I go to the grocery store every day in Italy. And that was a really cool experience.
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Episode 422: Liron Kayvan: Healthy Travel Hacks + How to Stay Fit on the Go
First of all, you're getting to know the country better and the people better because you're living like a normal person. That's how normal people eat. Italians don't eat at a restaurant three times a day. They don't. They're just like everyone else. They go to a grocery store. But their grocery stores are a million times better than American ones. Same thing with London.
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Yeah, fresh fruits, like the deli section is incredible. All these amazing cheeses and sun-dried tomatoes and olives. So it was an amazing experience for me. And... I got to stick to my health. I didn't really need, I had a couple of days where I had loads of pizza and pasta and stuff, but in general, that's not my thing. And I stuck to my thing.
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Episode 422: Liron Kayvan: Healthy Travel Hacks + How to Stay Fit on the Go
I stuck to my stuff and it was super easy, super enjoyable. I did not feel like I was deprived from my travel at all because I embedded my fitness and my health into my travel.
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Episode 422: Liron Kayvan: Healthy Travel Hacks + How to Stay Fit on the Go
Yeah, it's unnecessary. But even to go even further and say like, I don't think the trade-off is as much as people think. Like, it depends on what your diet is. I love my diet. I love eating healthier, which to most people sounds like, yeah, they kind of roll their eyes and they're like, of course you love eating healthy. You just like, you're lying to yourself. I don't, I'm not.
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Episode 422: Liron Kayvan: Healthy Travel Hacks + How to Stay Fit on the Go
I eat the foods that I enjoy.
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Episode 422: Liron Kayvan: Healthy Travel Hacks + How to Stay Fit on the Go
And so like going to a grocery store, I actually find more enticing than going to a restaurant because I don't buy into the whole restaurant thing. I don't think restaurants are as good as people make them out to be. I think they just don't, they're not connected with their food.
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Episode 422: Liron Kayvan: Healthy Travel Hacks + How to Stay Fit on the Go
I haven't seen anyone eat out more than 50% of their meals and be in the shape they want to be. I have never seen it. Maybe you can, I think it's possible to eat out a bit and eat out a good amount and still be fit. But I haven't seen anyone eat out more than 50% of their meals.
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Episode 422: Liron Kayvan: Healthy Travel Hacks + How to Stay Fit on the Go
Having said that, I think you can do a little bit of research. But again, there's the trade-off. You actually have to put a little bit more effort and focus into it. But if you do a little research into where you're eating and what you're eating and what the options are, you're going to be a lot better off.