Okay, welcome everyone to a new episode of the Jeff Nippard podcast. In this episode, I'm speaking

with Dr. Eric Trexler, mostly about why it is that our metabolisms slow down as we diet and

as we lose body weight, and then how to prevent that metabolic slowdown from happening and what to

do once the diet is over to both improve recovery and prevent excessive fat gain.

So should you reverse diet or just immediately increase calories and enter a bulk?

And we go through all the relevant scientific detail there.

We also talk about so-called starvation mode, metabolic damage.

So the idea that if you dieted before and really suppressed your metabolism,

then your metabolism might be permanently damaged and then prevent you from losing weight in the

future. So we talk about whether that's legitimate or not. We also talk about rapid weight loss or

crash dieting and a bunch of other surrounding topics. And I think as you guys will see,

Eric is a really

smart guy. He's published dozens of peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals. And he's also a

pro-natural bodybuilder himself, as well as a strength coach. So he has a ton of experience

not only in the lab, but also in the gym himself and in working with clients. So I think it's a

conversation you guys are really going to enjoy. So here is my discussion about metabolism,

reverse dieting, and surrounding topics with Dr. Eric Trexler. All right, so guys, I'm here with

Eric Trexler. Eric, thanks for being here, man. Yeah, thanks for having me on.

So before we hopped on the call here, I was actually looking at your research gate,

I was trying to dig up that paper you wrote, I think it was 2013 on metabolic adaptation with Lane Norton.

And I was scrolling down trying to find it, and I was like, holy crap, this guy's been super busy the last few years.

You published a lot of stuff.

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