Vinnie Tortorich

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College Dining – Episode 773

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 773 – Tallulah Tepper joins Vinnie Tortorich today to talk about her on and off NSNG journey, baseball, and the difficulties of healthy college dining.

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TALLULAH

  • Tallulah makes sure the podcasts are posted
  • She is Vinnie’s step daughter
  • Goes to UVA
  • She is a huge baseball fan
    • Has an internship in Washington with a minor league team this year
  • On and off NSNG
  • Tallulah tends to gain 5-10 lbs when she goes back to school
  • Dodger, the dog that Vinnie and Serena have been training, is going back to school with her
  • (Also this is Tallulah writing the show notes, and I am not a fan of 3rd person writing but here ya go!)

COLLEGE DINING

  • The dining halls around the country preach the Standard American Diet
  • All cheap, breaded food
  • Salads are old
  • It can be hard to eat healthy in college
  • Anna’s Eat Happy Cookbook is a must for college students
  • Mixed drinks and beer also make college less healthy
  • College restaurants consist of burgers, sandwiches, wings, cheap restaurant/bar food
  • The move is to buy ingredients and meal prep for the week because being in college, one is not home very often and is always on the move

Eating for Travel – Episode 772

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 772 – Anna & Vinnie talk about a ridiculous article about eating healthy at McDonalds, eating for travel, and some of the reasons Anna advises listeners to book a phone consultation with Vinnie…

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AMAZON WINNER

  • Buy through vinnietortorich.com, and submit what you got by e-mail
  • Gretchen won this week
    • She bought Altra running shoes & Polar FT1 heart monitor
      • Serena runs in those shoes and Vinnie with that monitor
  • She will win some NSNG/PVC Swag

UNHEALTHY MCDONALDS

  • You CANNOT eat healthy at McDonalds
  • Some options are healthier, but not healthy
  • Their meat is all coated in sugar and grains
  • Salad dressing covered in sugar
  • Chemical $#!%storm

EATING FOR TRAVEL

  • Definitely bring nuts
  • Time it out with fasting if you are an intermittent fasting
  • Try to avoid airport food if possible
    • Usually, you can take meat out of a sandwich or have a burger without a bun in most airport restaurants
    • Salad with olive oil at lots of restaurants
  • Plan ahead for road trips and airport trips
  • Bring along an ice chest in your car!
    • Hard boiled eggs
    • Salami
    • Olives
    • Cheese
    • If you have a cooler, it is like eating at home!
      • Just prepare ahead of time

LOSING WEIGHT

  • Often, it is more difficult for women to lose weight
    • Check out your hormone levels
  • Plateauing is okay, book a consult with Vinnie to help fix it
  • Look at your waist line, not at the scale

Pili Nuts with Jason Thomas – Episode 770

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 770 – Jason Thomas joins Vinnie Tortorich this Saturday to talk about Jason’s establishment of a market for Pili Nuts in the United States.

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JASON THOMAS

  • Was referred to Vinnie by Susan Masino
  • Has listened only to Vinnie and Jimmy Moore’s podcasts
    • He is also on one of Jimmy’s shows
  • Pili Nuts company owner
  • Used to climb big mountains!
  • Also a kitesurfer

PILI NUTS

  • These nuts are higher in fat than most nuts
  • In the Philippines, they sugar coat and fry them
  • He used to sell them fried in coconut oil
  • Now, he does not fry but they are ‘seasoned’ and ‘soaked’ and cooked for 24 hrs with coconut oil and Himalayan salt
  • Super low carb
    • Less than 1 carb per serving
    • Filled with good vitamins and minerals
  • These nuts found in forests

Ken Posner’s Ultra Story – Episode 769

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 769 – Amazing ultra athlete Ken Posner joins Vinnie Tortorich this Friday to talk about Vinnie, Serena, and Ken’s Ultra Story.

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KEN POSNER

  • Has a background in Finance and spent some time in the Army
  • When he turned 40, he decided he wanted to ultra run
  • Ken was fascinated by the country side courses because he loves the beautiful outdoors!
  • The google pictures made him want to go run
  • Running was his stress and mental health management technique because Finance is such a hard business
  • Ken was fascinated by how far the human body could take someone
  • When he decided he wanted to ultra run, he already had three marathons under his belt

VINNIE AND SERENA

  • When Vinnie and Serena started dating, Vinnie was training for Ultras
    • Race across Oregon, 545 miles
  • Serena had just started running
    • She was a nerd in high school, not a jock
  • Now Serena is an amazing athlete, running 100Ks and the like!

ULTRA STORY

  • Ken Posner knew very little about the Ultra world when coming into it
  • He had to train himself to be strong enough both physically and mentally
    • Mental is possibly the harder part
  • Ken wanted to push himself and discover what he could really do
  • At age 50, Ken was astounded to find that he could run 100 miles!
  • Check out his book about running 350 miles and setting a record here!
  • Ken has run Badwater before
    • 135 miles

NOTE: Photography by Laura Casner Photography

Hidden Sugar Everywhere- Episode 768

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 768 – Vinnie Tortorich and Wednesday cohost Andy Schreiber talk about all the hidden sugar in ready-made food…

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HIDDEN SUGAR

  • When Andy is super busy, he tries to buy some ready made and simple stuff to make for dinner
  • He often buys roast chicken
    • He decided to check the ingredients this time
    • 3 ingredients in, there was SUGAR
      • WHY DO YOU NEED SUGAR ON ROASTED CHICKEN?
        • Makes it addicting
    • Better to just make things yourself
    • Get a chicken, give it a Villa Cappelli rub with some herbs too, and roast that!
    • It truly does not take much longer
  • Tri Tip from Bristol Farms (which is higher end) even has hidden sugar in it
    • “evaporated cane juice” is just another way of trying to hide sugar

Reducing Inflammation with NSNG – Episode 767

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 767 – Anna Vocino and Vinnie Tortorich talk about awkward moments at the gym, rappers, the Amazon winner of the week, reducing inflammation and what it really is as well as some questionable science on the health benefits of weed.

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AWKWARD MOMENTS AT THE GYM

  • Anna and Vinnie both see some funny people at the gym
  • Some folks brought hangers into the sauna to hang their clothes

RAPPERS

  • Vinnie is not a Beastie Boys or Eminem fan
  • Vinnie trains a rapper who goes and performs for mostly all white girls

AMAZON WINNER OF THE WEEK

  • Click through the Amazon banner at vinnietortorich.com, and buy something!
    • Then e-mail Vinnie with what you bought, and you can win some NSNG or PVC swag
    • Doesn’t cost you anything, but helps fund this podcast!
  • This week’s winner was a big spender
    • It was Lonnie (shocking!)
      • He wins bone broth
    • Dry Ease Dehumidifier
    • $2400
    • He bought some other stuff, too!
    • He’s from MO

REDUCING INFLAMMATION

  • When you ingest poison, your body will try to get rid of it
  • First, your stomach will try to get rid of poison
    • Ex: drinking too much alcohol
  • Other forms of poison: SUGAR AND GRAIN
  • If you don’t drink, or eat til you throw up but you still ingest poison, your auto-immune system will try to catch
  • Inflammation occurs when your white blood cells try to get rid of poison
    • More water is added to cells to try to flush the bad cells
  • Your brain is trying to maintain homeostasis
  • If you have any sort of autoimmune issue, your body has to work even harder to get rid of the bad stuff