Robb Wolf
Robb Wolf, author of The Paleo Solution and Wired to Eat, is a former research biochemist and one of the world’s leading experts in Paleolithic nutrition. Wolf has transformed the lives of tens of thousands of people around the world via his top ranked iTunes podcast and wildly popular seminar series.
Good review. I concur.
I did the webinar (hate I couldn’t have been there in person and missed the paleo barbecue they had afterward, but alas, Canada is a long way from here). They did a good job with the webinar, we even got to ask questions online (I got Mat spun up a couple of times haha) There was a TON of good info, he backed up everything with studies, had great slides and diagrams that really helped you visualize and understand this stuff, and you get copies of all the slides, which are practically invaluable (I’ve got some studying to do). I really couldn’t recommend it enough, and think it should be a requirement for anyone going into anything related to nutrition. Big thanks to Mat and everyone who put the seminar/webinar on (and to you Robb for introducing me to it).
The review mentioned it was streamed over the internet.
Will there be dvd’s or access to a replay of the seminar?
Many thanks,
Steve
steve-
No idea on that, Mat?
Robb,
An off topic question for this post, but I need your feedback on something…
Prof. Cordain’s most recent Paleo Newsletter contained the first part of a paper he has published on nightshades. In it he discussed potatoes. From his and your past writings on this topic I thought I was sort of caught-up on the topic. However, Prof. Cordain makes not distinction between different types of potatoes in his paper.
My question is, are potatoes with color (i.e. sweet potatoes, purple potatoes, etc) less toxic and safer to eat than white/gold potatoes? Or should I just be avoided potatoes all together? I’ve really come to love my sweet potato fries.
Ed-
Yea, not in the same families at all (sweet potatoes). Many of the purples are in that nightshade family.
Thanks everybody.
The seminar is available for on demand viewing here
http://podiumlive.com/crossfit
Mat,
at the seminar, there was mention of an email going out to attendees containing some of the covered material. Will that be coming from Academy of Lions staff?
I was very impressed with this seminar, Mathieu had a vast amount of useful information and hard facts to back what he was teaching. The cost was minimal for such a great seminar, it’s a shame it was only one day. It is also very nice the power point notes from this seminar will be sent to each student as it lets them (and I) listen more intently instead of trying to take notes.
Mat,
The seminar was awesome!
Steven
HI Matt and Rob
It was awesome. I am in Australia and was watching from 10.30pm to 6.30am, and i got most of it! The only downfall was that my 5 month daughter decided to wake up 3 times and I had to settle her so missed a good chunk there, but in the end my head just hit the desk! I was weak and couldn’t stay awake any more so I missed the whole bit around fermented and your recommendations, and that was the part I really wanted to hear the most.
I hold a bachelor in health and nutrition and when I look back, I wish I had done your seminar for the first semester instead of the classes. I work with people everyday, trying to get them to change around, or at least TRYING to do something different. So now that I know all of the evidence it makes it more legit (another Robb wolf word!!!).
So thanks Matt.
Question, I am actually Danish but living in Australia, and recently saw the Norwegians have made some new recommendations regarding the intake of meat. They came to the conclusion that we should limit the amount of red meat to no more than 500g a week – (that is my breakfast!!!) due the risk of colon cancers. They did specify the processed meats were particularly to blame, so sausages, bacon, ham – but no one word mentioned about if you changed to free range grass fed meats! There was no limitation of chicken and fish and the whole story got support from Walter Willet.
Have any of guys read any supportive research of the cancer link or do you have any thoughts?
THANKS to both of you for opening many peoples eyes and Robb and Andy for giving us lots of laughs!!!
Soren
Oh and another thing…. fish oil – how much! You guys seems to have some different views!
I get the idea of it depends more on how bad your status/balance is between 3 & 6 but how do we determine that, other than looking at them, their food habits and their performance levels.
most of the studies I have found is looking at it from one aspect only, the level of omega 3 but not in conjunction with what else is going on (grains, veg. oil).
So I guess my question is if it would possible to come up with some sort of question line, of which the answers would give you some sort of recommendation like the whole9 calculator that BOTH of you guys can agree on!
Matt Lalonde is THE MAN. He was willing to talk to me for basically an hour after the seminar, and helped me address everything from acne to weight loss in my family to deloading on linear progression. I would love to write a kick-ass testimonial but I understand that the ones displayed on the site here are from people with actual credentials. I’m just a college student.
Anyway, Matt better keep this up because it’s awesome!!
Hey Mat,
Will you be coming to BC on your westward tour?
I was also wondering if you could comment on something. I read Food and Western Disease by Staffan Lindeberg and he cites some studies on fructose and the conclusion he comes to is that fructose is only problematic in excess of 60g/day and that unless one eats only fruit they won’t exceed that limit. His recomendation is don’t worry about how much fruit you eat because it has lot’s of vitamins and nutrients and phytochemicals and it is highly unlikely that one would exceed the safe limit. Here is the list of the studies, could you comment?
http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/88/5/1189
http://edrv.endojournals.org/cgi/content/short/30/1/96
http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/76/5/911
http://www.foodandnutritionresearch.net/index.php/fnr/article/view/1559
Noticed in the review that you were not a fan of high-heat cooking…
It’s summer and I love my grill….should I not be searing my grassfed steaks on 500+ degrees for 1-2 mins/side (I like ’em rare)
Mat,
How do I obtain a username and password to view the presentation?
Matt L is the most jacked PhD I have ever seen, haha. Great stuff.
Awesome – just paid for it and hope to get access soon!
Thanks Mat.
I agree. Completely awesome! A ton of great info, and Mat did an excellent job breaking it all down and getting into the details. The slide presentation was excellent as well and is practically worth the price of admission to the webinar alone. Though the extra detail and explination Mat added took it to another level.
I cannot recommend attending both Robb’s PSS and now Mat’s Nutrition Seminar enough! The passion you both have for your work and the way you present your material is awesome! And you get help so many people in the process.
A sincere thank you to you both!
Phil,
I should receive the email addresses of the attendees shortly. I will send out the materials as soon as that happens.
Soren,
The whole meat and cancer thing is epidemiological. There are a few flawed animal studies like the ones Campbell likes to cite as support for his hypothesis (i.e. rats fed casein get more cancer than rats fed soy protein. what Campbell doesn’t say is that weigh protein was found to protect rats from cancer. Cherry picking evidence anyone?). I wouldn’t worry about this, especially if your meat comes from grass-fed or pastured animals.
Soren,
I think the folks at academyoflions are going to give participants free access to the webinar for 3 days. If not, I’ll work something out so that you can watch it again. I was really surprised when Dhani told me that people from Australia and the UK had signed up. I hit people who do not have a science background over the head with a big science sledge hammer for 8 hours in a day….and they love it. CrossFitters truly are suckers for punishment.
This should interest you Soren
Processed vs red meat: http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/CIRCULATIONAHA.109.924977v1
If you missed part of the webinar, you can go back and watch it now, they have it all up on the site.
Holy crap on crutches!! Thanks for the link Robb….my site made the top sites on the day on wordpress. I got more hits than I ever imagined and hopefully have some new followers.
I’m indebted to you for life! Next time you come to Toronto, i’ll make you a meat platter.
Summer-
that’s awesome! Just stoked to be helping a lot of folks. I’m in on the meat platter! woot!!
Linked in via webinar. Excellent information, well paced. Highly recommended. I’ll be watching archived portions to re-load some of the details – and next time around I won’t pick up the phone when my brother calls. Sorry I missed the barbeque!
I’m about to paypal for the seminar, can’t wait to watch it – all the way over in New Zealand. I love the science stuff. So far I’ve only undergrad nutrition science, but our University is big on the nutritional biochemistry.
Can’t wait till the kids are older and have more time and money to do my masters!
I’m interested in the Upcoming Paleo Solutions Seminar in Arlington, VA. Is there is any kind of certification that comes with completing the seminar?
Glenn-
No, I’m not of a mind to give away a certification that someone simply attended the seminar. Within a year we will have a university accredited program that MEANS something and demonstrates your competence in the subject matter. In the mean time this seminar seems to be well received by folks trying to understand both the science and application behind paleo nutrition as it relates to performance, health and longevity.
Let me know if this clarifies things.
Squatchy
Icchhh, nice work, thanks heaps! What a surprise about the findings!
Soren
Robb
Any chance this upcoming program can be viewed and followed from overseas?
Soren
soren-
this is still a ways off but I see no reason why not.
count me in!
WHen are you coming to Australia ? ANy plans on the great book tour?
Thanks
Soren
Soren-
We will hit the bigger cities in Oz, not sure when but it’ll happen!
Jay,
I’m not looking for what can be tolerated. I’m looking for optimal nutrition. I find it funny that all of that literature admits that health problems occur when one consumes >50 grams of fructose per day and that people have no problems with “OK so I guess we can consume 50 grams per day”. Consider the fact that there is no such thing as an essential carbohydrate, your body can manufacture glucose from glucogenic amino acids as well as from glycerol. Also consider that glucose is far less problematic because it can be used by any cell in your body. That means a lot less will hit the liver.
Here are the questions I would need answers to in order to determine how much fructose someone could tolerate:
What is the percentage of carbohydrate in the diet? What is the individuals genetic make up? Is the individual athletic or sedentary? What kind of exercise regimen does the individual follow; high-volume low-intensity or high-intensity low-volume? Or both? Where is the fructose coming from? Fruits contain fiber, which slows down and limits the absorption of sugars. This is not the case with sucrose, agave or HFCS (essentially pre-digested sucrose). Is the individual stressed and how much sleep do they get? Is the individual suffering from some aspect of metabolic syndrome? Does the individual consume alcohol? How often? What is the individuals gut health?
I would rather tell people to avoid it as much as possible. You can and will live a healthy life without fructose so why take the risk? I have no problem with using fructose to gain an advantage during athletic endeavors but I can’t recommend large quantities of it for life long consumption.
Thanks for the thorough reply Matt. I can’t wait until I have more time to watch the streaming seminar offered up by CrossFit Academy of Lions. I know the slides and notes will be invaluable as well.
Ari,
I apologize for the late reply. I overlooked your short post among the others. Just marinate the meat with a lot of herbs and spices and try not to grill every meal every day.
When we eat excess carbs, they get stored as palmitic acid in our fat tissue, right?
In what form then does fat get stored if we just over-eat dietary fat? (SFA – palmitic, stearic etc, MUFA, PUFA?) Is there a pattern to this corresponding to dietary intake?
In other words, does the fatty acid composition of our fat tissue change with how the fat was “sourced”? (Internally through carbs- >palmitic acid, or from the diet.)
Christian-
Great question. Yes, our tissue fat changes dramatically in response to dietary fat. This was some of my early work looking at the fatty acid profile of red blood cells and using that information in correlative studies. So, dietary fat is a triglyceride (glycerol+3 fatty acids) Those FA’s can vary in composition. So, dietary fats and as you pointed out, carbohydrate conversion to palmitic acid can influence our systemic FA profile. Our bodies can modify this pool to some degree with saturase, desaturase, and elongase enzymes which can change the length or saturation of fats. Many thing influence this scenario including cold weather and hormonal status.
hi guys, I just stumbled across the whole webcast thing and eagerly ordered it two days ago using paypal. I have not yet received any contact from academyoflions on how to access the webcast.
The address listed in the paypal statement: admin@academyoflions doesn’t even seem to working anymore as a follow up mail I sent just bounced back.
Whats the go? anyone else had problems with this?
thanks.
dean-
Try here:
http://academyoflions.com/
all sorted now thanks. The admin@acadamy.. address was not working but I sent a message to crossfit@academy.. and it got through and was sorted. now I am cramming my brain with 6 hours of awesomeness.
What a fantastic resource Mat has provided us with, I think the whole webcast thing would benefit from a bump for newer members to the paleo scene who aren’t aware that it exists and it is extremely worthwhile.