The Power of a Plant-Based Diet with Simon Hill
WHOOP Podcast
English - August 16, 2023 02:00 - 58 minutes - 40.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 584 ratingsFitness Health & Fitness Sports whoop recovery strain sleep hrv optimize performance fitness health wearable data Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
On this week’s episode, WHOOP VP of Performance Science, Principal Scientist, Kristen Holmes is joined by Simon Hill. Simon is a physiotherapist, nutritionist, and author on a mission to help people make informed lifestyle choices. In 2021, he published his first book, The Proof is in the Plants, which makes a case for a plant-based, whole-food diet, drawing on all the latest nutrition research. Kristen and Simon will discuss Simon’s book and his main philosophies (3:55), tailoring diets to the individual (11:30), scientific research that helped shape Simon’s findings (13:13), the barrier for entry for various diets (19:38), the negative stigma around legumes and soy (24:23), getting enough protein (31:38), biomarkers that people might see change while dieting (41:43), dietary data from WHOOP members (46:33), how nutrition impacts sustainability and the environment (50:38).
Resources:
Simon’s Website
Simon’s Podcast with Thomas Dayspring
Our World In Data