57. Busting Nutrition Myths with Nutrition Researcher (and Legend) Alan Aragon (@thealanaragon) (Part 1)

<p>Today's episode is part 1 of a 2 parter with (drum roll please...) Alan Aragon. Alan is an absolute legend in the field of nutrition science so I hope you guys are as excited as I am for today’s podcast. Seriously, stop the Googling, stop listening to your friends, family and celebrity chefs and get scientifically proven nutrition facts, with the evidence to back them up, straight from a leading nutrition researcher.  </p> <p>In case you haven’t heard of Alan Aragon, he is a nutrition researcher and educator with over 20 years of success in the field. He is known as one of the most influential figures in the fitness industry’s movement towards evidence-based information. Alan writes a monthly research review on his <a href='https://alanaragon.com/'>website</a> providing cutting-edge theoretical and practical information and his work has been published in popular magazines as well as the peer-reviewed scientific literature. He co-authored <a href='http://jissn.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1550-2783-10-5'>Nutrient Timing Revisited</a>, the most-viewed article in the history of the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition (JISSN). He also is the lead author of the<a href='https://jissn.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12970-017-0174-y'> ISSN Position Stand on Diets & Body Composition</a>.  </p> <p>Alan maintains a private practice designing programs for recreational, Olympic, professional athletes and of course regular people striving to be their best. You can find Alan on his <a href='https://alanaragon.com/'>website</a> and I highly recommend you follow his <a href='https://www.instagram.com/thealanaragon/?hl=en'>Instagram</a>.  </p> <p>I've split my chat with Alan into 2 episodes because there is so much valuable content here and it’s basically two huge nutrition myth busting podcasts based on the latest research and science.  </p> <p>In today’s podcast (part 1), we start by discussing why nutrition in general is so confusing and why there are so many conflicting opinions. We look