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David Beard is a highly experienced Exercise Physiologist based in Perth, Western Australia.
In this episode, David reflects on his long career being involved in helping people to lose weight.
We cover his thoughts and observations on:
what has worked what has failed what he's observed about people who have managed to lose a lot of weight and keep it off (what do they do?)We touched on these topics:
1// Metabolic flexibility (what it is and why it matters)
2// Using indirect calorimetry (what is this technology and what useful information can it provide?)
3// Why is it that a low carb diet can help you lose weight?
4// The centrality of managing hunger (and not neccessarily getting rid of it) for successfully losing weight
5// The limitations of the calories in/calories out model
6// Can people lose a lot of weight without structured exercise?
If you want to enlist David's services to help you with improving your metabolic health, you can reach him at the HFRC clinic in Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia: https://www.hfrc.com.au/
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You may have heard of the Dunning Kruger Effect?
It describes how your confidence to speak about something increases as you gain competence.
But, noticeably, when you start to gain competence, your confidence can spike way too high too soon out of proportion with your experience and expertise, placing you atop "Mount Stupid". Then, as you gain more competence, you can descend into the "Valley Of Despair" as you realise there's a lot more to your field than you had thought.
Descending into the valley of despair can be marked by embarrassment on how you've been holding forth with strong opinions, stridently preaching to the world with way too much self-assurance.
After shooting my mouth off on LinkedIn regarding issues in modern day science, and understandably drawing a fair degree of pushback from people engaged in research for their day job, I have become personally acquainted with Mount Stupid.
Pete O'Sullivan (Physiotherapist - Body Logic & Curtin University), who's a personal friend plus one of my online adversaries & interlocutors on this issue - kindly agreed to have a chat about his own perspective as an active researcher.
This discussion with Pete provides his perspective on the trustworthiness of modern empirical research in allied health.
It resulted in an increase in my own confidence that contemporary research published in high quality peer reviewed journals can be trusted.
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