HeyJaredFlex Diet Podcast
Dr. Mike T Nelson gets geeky with the latest research and scientific findings in the fitness world. Visit www.flexdiet.com to get Flex Diet Certified and www.miketnelson.com for more geeky goodness.
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AI Disclosure, Deepfakes & the Death of Expertise — Dean Guedo & Jeb Stuart Johnston — #404 (opens the original)
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Dean Guedo and Jeb Stuart Johnston (the Food on the Mind duo) join Dr. Mike T Nelson for their yearly AI check-in, getting into whether creators should disclose AI use and why deepfaked video is a very different beast than AI-assisted writing. The conversation ranges into dead internet theory, why so much hard-won fitness expertise never made it onto the internet at all, and why demanding physical skills may become more valuable, not less, as AI accelerates.
Building a Fitness Empire: Business Lessons, Zone 2 & Recovery Trends with Don Saladino — #403 (opens the original)
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Don Saladino has spent nearly three decades training A-list stars like Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman -- and here he shares the single business lesson he wishes he'd learned sooner. He and Dr. Mike also dig into why Don closed his $2M-overhead NYC gym, how tracking respiratory rate reshaped his approach to Zone 2 training, and the sobering personal loss that changed how he views performance enhancers.
VO2 Max, Zone 2 Training & the Psychology of Human Performance — Ben Skutnik — #402 (opens the original)
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Dr. Ben Skutnik (PhD, CSCS*D) joins the show to separate fact from fad in aerobic training, debunking zone 2 hype and explaining why VO2 max matters but isn't everything. We also dig into the psychology of performance, why anecdote often outruns research, and how 'closing the loop' with clients beats chasing mechanisms.
Psychedelics, Neuroplasticity and the Military-to-Spiritual Journey with Rick Alexander — #401 (opens the original)
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Rick Alexander was a Special Operations combat medic until a single psychedelic experience shattered his worldview and sent him back to school to study psychedelic spiritual care. He and Dr. Mike dig into neuroplasticity windows, why "good trip/bad trip" is the wrong question, and what may really be happening in DMT space.
Build Aerobic Fitness Before Mitochondrial Peptides: AMPK, VO2 Max & Recovery — Dr. Dwayne Jackson — #400 (opens the original)
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Mitochondrial peptides may be promising, but they cannot replace the aerobic base that makes their effects measurable. Dr. Dwayne Jackson explains AMPK and mitochondrial signaling, what MOTS-c and SS-31 can and cannot tell us, and why fitness data, training, and recovery come before any experimental compound.
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