Vinnie Tortorich

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NSNG Ultra Effects with Tony Portera

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 596 – Incredible ultra-runner Tony Portera joins Vinnie to talk about the many NSNG ultra effects — how NSNG improved his weight and performance in ultra events, and how NSNG has been above and beyond the best nutrition decision he has made in his life.

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NSNG ULTRA EFFECTS

  • Better sustained energy
  • No swelling
  • Improved his performance as well as his general feeling day-to-day and appearance
  • Tony tried tons of different ways to eat for these things
    • was a fruitarian
    • tried meal replacement shakes
    • hired a nutritionist
    • has found that hands down NSNG works the best for him

TONY PORTERA

  • Incredible ultra marathon runner, and friend of Serena and Vinnie
  • Just ran Badwater Salton Sea with Serena
  • Has run 7+ Badwater’s so far
  • 50-100 mile + races

 

 

 

Hippie Stripper

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 594 – Vinnie Tortorich and Anna Vocino host this Monday edition of the Celebrity Fitness Trainer podcast to discuss starting on NSNG, a hippie stripper named Shady Balsamic, and the two also talk to young Eli about his ski academy, and his time spent with Vinnie.

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STARTING ON NSNG

  • Woman Anna knows said she stopped eating sugar for 30 days with no positive result
    • Did not feel better
    • Likely there are a lot of hidden sugar and grains in her diet
    • Hidden sugars in everything
  • When people can’t lose weight or even gain it, it is likely as a result of hidden stuff in their food
    • People often snack too much too
    • When they eat hidden sugar and grains, you are now eating high fat AND still lots of carbs
  • Call Vinnie to figure out where your hidden sugar and grains are
  • Need to do good NSNG for 60-90 days for REAL results for a lot of people
  • Ex: there is a ton of sugar in balsamic dressing
  • Grapes and Bananas have high glycemic indexes
    • The most carby of the fruits (and tropical fruits too)
  • Macadamia nuts and walnuts are pretty high carb
    • Rawer the nut, the better
  • If you have weight to lose, wine isn’t your friend
    • Drink the distilled liquors
      • Drink them with soda water and maybe a few limes or a SPLASH of grapefruit juice

HIPPIE STRIPPER

  • Shady Balsamic
  • Balsamic dressing is not always good for you
  • Stripper v NFL player?
  • We’re going to call her a stripper

YOUNG ELI

  • Eli Wolfson is a kid that Vinnie trains
  • Is an incredible skier
    • Goes to ski academy
    • Combines school with training for ski racing at most elite level
    • Goes to Chile in the fall, Europe for mid-winter
    • This school sends kids to the Olympics, the World Cup, national teams, etc.
  • Eli would get sent home from school with a training plan over summer, and Vinnie would throw it away
    • Vinnie thought the training plan was BS
  • Eli is super committed to what he does
  • Eli went to Andy’s house to learn about PVC
  • Next day, they went shooting and Eli was a natural
  • Eli now will eat bunless burgers from now on

PUSHUPS

  • Listener Barry has a friend serving in the Middle East who was injured (or so Vinnie thinks) and Barry does 20 good pushups a day to support him
  • Anna does lots of pushups
  • Anna can’t do a tricep pushup
    • Tricep pushup is sort of a perceived effort, you will work triceps even with normal pushups
    • Tricep pushups can give you elbow tendonitis
  • Anna doesn’t do burpees with jumps because it hurts her knee
    • Still will have pretty much the same effect without the actual jump

 

Chocolate Milk and Bro Science BS

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 593 – Listener Charlie asks Vinnie about chocolate milk and bro science BS on this Saturday edition of the Celebrity Fitness Trainer podcast.

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LISTENER CHARLIE

  • Lives in Maine
  • Trains with Vinnie over the phone
  • Found Vinnie through Opi and Anthony
  • Has been on and off with NSNG
    • Gained a lot of the weight he lost back, but whenever he goes back on it that weight falls back off

CHOCOLATE MILK & BRO SCIENCE

  • Some of Charlie’s friends are pro tennis players
  • One of his friends told a kid he was training that the best thing to drink for recovery is chocolate milk
  • Chocolate milk is all sugar!
  • Water, maybe with some electrolytes is what is best
  • Everything that is ‘muscle milk’ this ‘chocolate protein’ that is full of egg protein, and bad sugar, all raises your glycemic index
    • Everything will go up a whole bunch which is not good
  • Chocolate is a great antioxidant but people don’t want to eat bitter chocolate, so they eat chocolate with sugar in it which is not healthy
    • 80%+ is good
  • Awful to teach kids these things
    • It will make these kids fat and actually hurt their sports

 

Managing Sickness with a Ketogenic Diet with Andrew Scarborough

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 592 – Andrew Scarborough, patient advocate and health and fitness expert, joins Vinnie Tortorich on this Friday episode to discuss his story and how he is managing sickness with a ketogenic diet, in a very interesting way!

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ANDREW’S STORY

  • Background as a fitness trainer and has a master’s degree in Nutrition
    • In university, he was told to not think about calories, but rather think of a low carb diet
      • Rare for universities!
  • Was diagnosed 3 years ago with anaplastic astrocytoma and suffered a brain hemorrhage
    • Malignant tumor, has brain cancer induced epilepsy
  • Started lowering his carb intake, started feeling better

HEART FUNCTION & CHOLESTEROL

  • Doctors tell you to lower cholesterol by not eating fats
  • We NEED cholesterol to function
  • We don’t need statins for the most part
  • Our body will make cholesterol if we do not eat enough
  • Magnesium acts as a natural statin

MANAGING SICKNESS WITH A KETOGENIC DIET

  • Andrew replaced his seizure medicine with magnesium supplements
    • He was told to increase medication but instead went off of it
  • Doctors thought that because he had brain tumor related epilepsy, a ketogenic diet wouldn’t help
    • They were wrong
    • Adults have metabolic flexibility too
  • Has done 9 day fasts with just water and various salts
  • His metabolic approach is hopefully changing the markers in his scans
  • Ultimately, he is on a low carb high fat diet that allows him to feel better, and hopefully make his cancer more manageable and ultimately help cure it
  • Ketogenic diet is anti-inflammatory

EDIBLE BUGS

  • Andrew eats edible insects because they are very nutrient dense
    • Consumes various larvae
    • Breeds bugs to manipulate feed and environment to manipulate the nutrients within
  • Cut out all plants and many things on a ketogenic diet
    • Bugs were the best option!
  • He also consumes organ meats because of their nutrient-density and lack of carbs
    • Eats brains and sweet-breads, etc.

Saving Lives with NSNG

by Vinnie Tortorich

Episode 591 : Vinnie Tortorich and Andy Schreiber host this Wednesday edition of the Celebrity Fitness Trainer podcast to discuss saving lives with NSNG, and listener Jody’s journey.

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VINNIE’S SNACKS

  • Vinnie doesn’t snack terribly often, but when he does, it is always NSNG
  • Loves a handful of nuts or some salami
  • There are some Donald Trump supporters who are not Fried Twinky Eaters …
    • Although neither Vinnie nor Andy support Trump nor will they, they do have friends and fans who do who are healthy and educated

SAVING LIVES WITH NSNG

  • Listener Jody started dieting on January 1, 2015, was 6’2 and 325lbs+
  • Quit drinking beer and was watching calorie intake
  • Stalled at 285 in July 2015
    • Thought he was destined to be fat
  • Heard Vinnie on Chris Laxamana’s show and started listening to this podcast
  • Jody stopped counting calories and started dropping lbs
    • Read all the books Vinnie recommends
  • He is now, thanks to Vinnie & NSNG, down to 215 and sees under 200 in his future
  • Vinnie & NSNG both changed AND saved his life
  • These stories are the reasons why Vinnie podcasts and works in the public eye
  • Hear Jody on an upcoming Wednesday show!

Ketosis vs. Fat Adaptation

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 590 – Anna Vocino and Vinnie Tortorich host this Monday edition of the Celebrity Fitness Trainer podcast where the two talk about recent listener questions as well as tabatas and “ketosis vs. fat adaptation” discussion.

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MEDICATIONS

  • In Louisiana, Vinnie figured out that the people he talked to were on average on 5 medications
  • A statin, a type 2 diabetes medication, high blood pressure pill, antidepressant, etc.
  • People were surprised when Vinnie told them he wasn’t on medications

NEW BOOK

  • Vinnie and Dean self-published the first book
  • Vinnie has written a second book
  • Trying to work out how the next book will be released
  • Anna also decided to self publish because it is often an economically superior choice

KETOSIS VS. FAT ADAPTATION 

  • Can be fat adapted without being in Ketosis
  • Cannot be in ketosis without being fat-adapted
  • Dietary ketosis IS NOT THE SAME as ketoacidosis
    • Dietary ketosis DOES NOT LEAD to ketoacidosis
      • Ketoacidosis can kill, dietary ketosis does not
  • Dietary ketosis = body using fat as fuel instead of glucose
    • Restricting so much sugar that your body has to use fat stores
  • Fat adapted you can eat a bit more carbs but your body still processes things better
  • Just because you are in dietary ketosis, does not necessarily mean you will lose weight
  • The line is quite fine

TABATA

  • Ruins Vinnie’s gym time
  • Tabata circles tie up lots of instruments that Vinnie wants to use
  • Empty machines are being ‘used’
  • Tabata is not bad, interval training in the gym that takes up equipment frustrates Vinnie
  • Also, a lot of the time you do this you are in zone 3 or zone 4
    • Zone 2 is better for a lot of people

NOTE: Image of low carb steak dinner provided by Deb Nystrom, https://goo.gl/s4zzWn