Doug, The Formulator, and Ms. Natural Olympia Champ, Hilary Grant, talk about how small changes can help you reach optimal performance.

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The FitFam podcasts discuss research and methods for becoming and staying healthy the natural way through Focused Intense Thought, Nutrition, Exercise, and Specific Supplementation or FITNESS. Using these principles, you’ll learn to improve your health from the cellular level out.

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Episode Time Stamps

• 0:00:00 Intro

• 0:01:20 Optimal Performance and Nutrition 

• 0:04:33 Small changes can help you reach optimal performance

• 0:05:55 Muscle for optimal health

• 0:09:00 Muscles take up less room in your body versus fat

• 0:11:40 Focus Intense Thought

• 0:12:56 Nutrition and its energy cycle

• 0:14:06 The importance of keeping your body in an anabolic state

• 0:16:00 Catabolic 

• 0:17:15 Clean food versus junk food

• 0:19:51 Creating “energy” through carbohydrates

• 0:22:23 Balanced diet, balanced carbs

• 0:24:21 The body uses two pathways of energy

• 0:27:15 The right amount of food and right amount of TIMING is important

• 0:27:28 Circadian cycle and performance cycle

• 0:32:00 Anabolic sponge window. What to eat before and after working out.

• 0:39:26 How much protein should you intake?

• 0:41:11 How many meals should you eat throughout the day?

• 0:44:24 Exercise broken down

• 0:46:46 ASU Study between Muscle Rx vs Testosterone 

• 0:48:09 RECAP