Dr. Eric Trexler: Poverty Macros, and Changing your Body-Fat Set-Point

The Sustainable Self-Development Podcast

If you’re interested in working together with me, you can book a free call here: https://calendly.com/abel-csabai/free-consultation In today’s episode I’m chatting with Dr. Eric Trexler, researcher, bodybuilder and overall, very smart guy. He is currently the director of education at Stronger by Science and is also a research reviewer at MASS. His main topics of interest include creatine, caffeine, and metabolic adaptation. In todays episode we mainly focused on the latter topic; why our calories have to go incrementally lower over the course of a diet, often beyond what we would predict. We also covered why some people have it seemingly easier than others, why big guys sometimes have to diet on very low calories whereas smaller ones can often eat a ton, and whether having a ‘fast metabolism’ is truly an actual advantage for fat-loss. This was a fascinating conversation, definitely one of my favourites to date. Time-Stamps: 0:55 - Who is Eric trexler? 02:25 - Creatine, caffeine, metabolic adaptation - which topic is most interesting? 4:25 - What's the 'quarter-life' of caffeine? 11:07 - What causes metabolic adaptation? (having to drop our calories lower than we would predict) 15:20 - How much people vary in their metabolic rate? 25:04 - Why low calories don't mean suffering on a diet necessarily 32:14 - Body-fat set-point and what determines it 36:30 - Changing your body-fat set-point 39:50 - Are drugs the future of weight-loss? 43:25 - Dieting on super HIGH calories - is it actually better? 48:38 - Increasing energy expenditure to be able to eat more on a diet - is it worth it? 54:03 - Eric goes into the things you can do generally to make dieting easier/successful 1:00:03 - Protein sparing modified fasts, diet breaks and non-linear dieting for fat-loss 1:07:00 - Should you maintain your new body-fat percentage for a while before you start bulking? 1:11:57 - Should you gain weight slowly, even if you're super-super lean? 1:21:18 - Where can we find you? If you’re interested in working together with me, you can book a free call here: https://calendly.com/abel-csabai/free-consultation