Does anyone have any recent experience, opinions about, or advice on Poliquin’s Meat and Nuts breakfast idea? I read an article yesterday and i am intrigued.
Watched on of his youtubes where he mentions it briefly. Something about your body responding to the first macronutrients it sees in the day or something…
I’ve kinda gotten to where I find it silly to doubt the guy so I just figure, there has to be something behind it.
Yeah, here, it’s in this one. Been watching this stuff while I eat lunch or whatever.
I like eating nuts and meat for breakfast, but I don’t really restrict it to that. I just do protein and fats and always feel pretty good, then I keep my carbs around my workout.
The thing is you need to try it to see how you respond and not just one day. When it comes to something new with food, only you can tell if your body likes it.
I am gonna have a hard time not listening to a guy telling me to pound almonds and a steak when I wake up.
Does he have problems speaking? He seemed like he was out of breath the entire time.
Pretty sure English is his second language. Also LOL at his articles that trademark the name. Poliquin ™ Meat and Nuts. Okay.
I found this pic, I would listen to him…
jesus christ both those guys are hyooge. Who’s the dude on the right?
I watched the video until about number 3 or 4…
Does he start to back his reasoning up? I don’t even mean with research or anything – he doesn’t really explain with his own logic WHY he does this. He says something about making sure they are the first macro nutrients you get in during the day, but then why wouldn’t protein and heavy cream be just as good?
What I got is that he travels a lot and that if I start a hotel business it better have steaks and pistachios or he ain’t coming.
Read his stuff, he’s pretty much says “I don’t always have time for the science behind why I do it at first, I follow results. The science comes after.”
But generally speaking he seems to do everything for a reason, from what I have gathered by following him.
But yeah…you pretty much see his bicep vein on youtube and think “this guy knows something.”
For a guy who is in his early 50’s (I think, I believe he is 49 in the above pic), I would not be quick to discredit him.
Exactly. I know some people are exactly quick to discredit him but uh…
Well, let’s just see how they look when they are 30, let alone 50.
[quote]T-Raven wrote:
Does anyone have any recent experience, opinions about, or advice on Poliquin’s Meat and Nuts breakfast idea? I read an article yesterday and i am intrigued.[/quote]
Absolutely nothing special about eating a breakfast of meat and nuts or a breakfast of any quality protein and fat and/or carbs.
[quote]MaximusB wrote:
For a guy who is in his early 50’s (I think, I believe he is 49 in the above pic), I would not be quick to discredit him. [/quote]
I am.
Charles Poliquin: "A guy I knew once, who worked for a national ski team, would do 23 single-arm pull-ups off the end of a diving board in an empty swimming pool.
I also knew a bodyguard who could do a controlled, one-arm, one-finger pull-up, 30 seconds up, 30 seconds down. That guy was, not surprisingly, also a great mountain climber."
Full article here: http://www.T-Nation.com/...strength_vol_49
Charles Poliquin: “Any time you have a brain disorder (dyslexia, down syndrome, ADD, ADHD) you need to take omega-3 and carnitine. I’ve had at least three students who had autisticchildren who were in special schools and they put their kids on omega-3s and their kids returned to mainstream schools. Two out of three of these autistic kids were measuring IQ at genius levels from high doese omega-3s.”
To really understand his methods, you have to study under him.
A lot of the stuff in his articles are just to build hype bring attention.
So don’t both quoting his articles. And as implied earlier - proof is in the pudding
[quote]therajraj wrote:
To really understand his methods, you have to study under him.
A lot of the stuff in his articles are just to build hype bring attention.
So don’t both quoting his articles. And as implied earlier - proof is in the pudding[/quote]
I get what you’re saying, but I simply can’t understand what is so novel about his methods. And I’m one who believes that you don’t even need novel stuff for results.
[quote]BrickHead wrote:
Charles Poliquin: “Any time you have a brain disorder (dyslexia, down syndrome, ADD, ADHD) you need to take omega-3 and carnitine. I’ve had at least three students who had autisticchildren who were in special schools and they put their kids on omega-3s and their kids returned to mainstream schools. Two out of three of these autistic kids were measuring IQ at genius levels from high doese omega-3s.”[/quote]
This is not surprising to me.
Charles is not claiming those kids were healed, but more able to perform with kids in regular schools.
I have worked with special ed kids and noticed that they lacked in certain areas, only to be gifted in others.
[quote]MaximusB wrote:
[quote]BrickHead wrote:
Charles Poliquin: “Any time you have a brain disorder (dyslexia, down syndrome, ADD, ADHD) you need to take omega-3 and carnitine. I’ve had at least three students who had autisticchildren who were in special schools and they put their kids on omega-3s and their kids returned to mainstream schools. Two out of three of these autistic kids were measuring IQ at genius levels from high doese omega-3s.”[/quote]
This is not surprising to me.
Charles is not claiming those kids were healed, but more able to perform with kids in regular schools.
I have worked with special ed kids and noticed that they lacked in certain areas, only to be gifted in others.[/quote]
The omega 3s calm inflammation, and carnitine provides brain energy. Good recommendations. The source of autism is complex, but largely associated with gut flora disturbance and reduced brain glutatione. The GAPS diet has terrific benefit to autistic children, as it aims to remove the food source and restore healthy intestinal flora. Additionally, there are affordable and very safe supplements and foods that boost glutathione like N-Acetyl Cysteine (up to 2 grams or more), and glutamine (10 or more grams).
Interestingly, the meat and nuts breakfast fits in nicely with the GAPS diet, and are also rich in minerals (selenium comes to mind!) that can benefit detoxification pathways.