Welcome Back! I'm about to takeoff to Hawaii to work on the Food Lies film with the amazing Director, Jay. I got to do this podcast in person with the very awesome Mike Mutzel AKA Metabolic Mike. We ran outside to feed his backyard chickens and pigs and then got the mics going.   Mike Mutzel has an MS in clinical nutrition and currently focuses his efforts on communicating the science behind longevity, fasting, ketosis, exercise and all things pertaining to improving our metabolic health   BUY THE MEAT NosetoTail.org Support me on Patreon! http://patreon.com/peakhuman Preorder the film here: http://indiegogo.com/projects/food-lies-post  

SHOW NOTES

• Mike Mutzel has an MS in clinical nutrition and currently focuses his efforts on communicating the science behind longevity, fasting, ketosis, exercise and all things pertaining to improving our metabolic health
• He raises his own pigs, chickens, and turkeys in his backyard 
• He thinks it’s important for his daughter to eat real food and see where it comes from 
• Raising animals has improved his mental well-being 
• Mike started his health journey just simply removing the buns from his burgers
• Measuring objective biomarkers motivates people to stick to lifestyle changes because they can see the benefits
• Mike was exposed to drugs and alcohol at a very young age and used diet and exercise to improve his life
• Soy protein made him depressed and gave him GI issues 
• Mike got into keto because of his interest in heart rate variability 
• The ketogenic diet is not stressful on the body
• Mike runs blood labs twice a year to know he is on the right track 
• Donates blood twice a year now that he is eating more meat
• His wife follows OMAD and has seen amazing benefits 
• Him and his wife got full body MRIs and DEXA scans to show that their lifestyle is benefiting them
• Pros and cons to testing biomarkers 
• GrimAge test to test your biological age against your chronological age
• Ancel Keys and the Minnesota Starvation Experiment 
• The Game Changers nuances
• Mike’s experience losing a lot of weight and muscle with veganism 
• Time-restricted feeding, alternate day fasting, and early time restricted feeding
• Circadian biology and feeding times
• Mike isn’t concerned with coffee during his morning fast
• Fasting will lower glucose and insulin and increase glucagon and ketosis 
• Reducing glycemic variability has some benefits for reducing oxidative stress
• Mike does a 24-hour fast every Monday 
• Fasting is a stoich practice and teaches discipline
• Fasting is not just about restricting calories 
• You wouldn’t do the same workout every single day, and variability of energy intake works the same: restricting food intake (fasting) and feeding (maybe some days you are in a surplus) 
• Fasting causes you to deal with how you use food to fill voids in your life (emotional eating) 
• Fasting is a very safe practice
• People who claim fasting is a stressor need to understand that eating is stressful on the body
• Your body can anticipate the intake of food
• How long do we need to fast to induce autophagy?
• Mike thinks on a bare minimum everyone should be fasting for at least 12 hours a day
• Autophagy declines as you age
• Mike’s thoughts on One Meal A Day (OMAD) 
• People are scared that protein is going to stimulate mTOR but they should be more concerned with mTOR over-expression
• The importance of sleep
• Chronic calorie restriction vs periodic fasting
• Kids who eat the proper foods are so much more well-behaved

 

Where to find Mike Mutzel: 

www.highintensityhealth.com

https://www.instagram.com/metabolic_mike

https://www.youtube.com/highintensityhealth