Fitness Confidential With Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 1863 - On this Sunday School episode, Gina Grad and Vinnie Tortorich talk the dangers of steroids, intermittent fasting, protein, and more. https://vinnietortorich.com/2021/06/the-dangers-of-steroids-episode-1863 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods DANGERS OF STEROIDS Don't even try steroids. Doing them just once can mess with your body. Google what happens when you do steroids to your body -- it isn't pretty and is dangerous. You can do with low t what you want to do with high t. Vinnie has low t personally and he still does so well. Steroids can kill. Ultimately, what steroids help you do isn't really about you. It's not worth your life, that's for sure. Steroids are a shortcut, and they're a dangerous one. FAT DOC 2 IS AVAILABLE ON iTUNES and AMAZON Please also share it with family and friends! Buy it and watch it now on iTunes to get it to the top of the charts. We need it to get big for people to see it. Here's the Amazon link (BLUERAY, DVD, PRIME) (MAY NO

: Episode 1862 - On this Saturday show, filmmaker Peter Pardini joins Vinnie and the two talk moving out of California, funding andPeter's new film, and more. Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2021/06/peters-new-film-episode-1862 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods PETER'S RECENT MOVE Peter lived in LA. He realized, though, the cost of living is so high in California that even if he does well, it's still so expensive. Now, he's moved to Austin, TX. He can still travel to CA if he needs to be. His family hasn't looked back and he's enjoying his time. He didn't realize how much living in a crowded LA affected him until he moved. PETER'S NEW FILM Peter directed the Fat Docs. Vinnie and Serena were in another Peter movie. He's now making a cool, new movie. Like the Fat Doc, he's trying to crowd fund it! Please check it out here, and donate what you can if you find it interesting: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/american-indian-teaser-trailer--2#/ He's about 60% to his goal!

: Episode 1861 - On this Friday show, Anna Vocino and Vinnie Tortorich talk voice acting, making documentaries, getting back on track post-pandemic, a dangerous weight loss drug, bro science and more. Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2021/06/getting-back-on-track-post-pandemic-episode-1861 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods Belcampo Villa Cappelli VOICE ACTING Anna's voice is everywhere! Commercials, the Kimmel show, video games. There are some video games she wishes she had voices but didn't. Will Anna become the IT voice that everyone recognizes? GETTING BACK ON TRACK Many people gained weight during the pandemic. Now that we're entering a post-pandemic world, at least in the US, people are starting to get more serious. Many are diving full-in. However, people have forgotten a lot. If you're getting back into this, go back and re-read the free PDF and listen to old podcasts. If you need to, schedule a phone consult with Vinnie. Go back to ALL of it. Reconnect with the

: Episode 1860 - On this Wednesday show, Andy Schreiber and Vinnie Tortorich talk our new DHA product, our products at events, Badwater, Andy's meatloaf recipe, and more. Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2021/06/our-products-at-events-episode-1860 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Our new Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods OUR PRODUCTS AT EVENTS We love sponsoring events. We've been to many ultras and marathons (and trade shows/expos) and the like. Hopefully we'll do more soon. People are beginning to schedule these events! Our first time back on the road will be Badwater in July! FAT DOC 2 IS AVAILABLE ON iTUNES and AMAZON Please also share it with family and friends! Buy it and watch it now on iTunes to get it to the top of the charts. We need it to get big for people to see it. Here's the Amazon link (BLUERAY, DVD, PRIME) (MAY NOT BE AVAILABLE YET ACROSS THE POND). And the iTunes Link. And the Google play link. https://amzn.to/3rxHuB9 [the_ad id="17480"] PLEASE DON'T FORGET TO REVIEW the film AFTER YO

: Episode 1859 - On this Monday show, Anna Vocino and Vinnie Tortorich talk Anna's voiceover work, calorie restriction and eating disorders, diet trickery, and more. Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2021/06/the-problems-with-calorie-restriction-episode-1859 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods Belcampo Villa Cappelli CALORIE RESTRICTION Thinking of eating in terms of calorie in and calorie out is not good. It can create unhealthy eating habits. Also, while it may work short term, it is not sustainable. Calories are units of energy. You're restricting fuel. For some people, fasting feels like calorie restrictions. This is why Vinnie thinks some people don't need to or even shouldn't fast. Some people with disordered eating (or eating disorders) may find this exacerbates problems. Now, you can't eat no sugar and no grains with impunity. People can still over-eat. But it's not CICO. DIET TRICKERY Many companies market 'shortcuts' that don't really exist. Don't think about thi

: Episode 1858 - On this Sunday School episode, Gina Grad and Vinnie Tortorich talk driving, eating on the road, the keto 'woosh,' exercise, and more. https://vinnietortorich.com/2021/06/eating-on-the-road-exercise-episode-1858/ PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods EATING ON THE ROAD For those who drive a lot, planning ahead is crucial. Vinnie talks to a lot of truckers about staying the course while on the road. You can find okay things in some truck stops -- look for jerky without added sugar, hard boiled eggs, pickles. There are lots of things you can pack in a cooler for a drive. If you need to get fast food, just get patties. KETO 'WOOSH' Some people lose weight fast, then think they plateau. But, usually it is normally water weight to start. The weight will come off, but try to focus on non-scale victories, too. Exercise can help. This looks different for everyone! FAT DOC 2 IS AVAILABLE ON iTUNES and AMAZON Please also share it with family and friends! Buy it and w

: Episode 1857 - On this Saturday show, we're airing a "best of" one-on-one with Dr. Drew. The renowned Dr. Drew, a good friend of Vinnie's, joins Vinnie today to discuss his work, addiction and over-prescribing drugs, cholesterol, heart health, and more. Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2021/06/best-of-over-prescribing-drugs-dr-drew-episode-1857 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods DR. DREW Dr. Drew is an incredibly busy man. He has a radio show . He even manages some outpatient work as well. Regularly, Dr. Drew appears on several podcasts, including Carolla. When you have worked 100 more hours a week as he once did as a hospital doctor, being hard-working in Hollywood is not so bad. Dr. Drew is a big egg guy and has realized the benefit of eggs, even if it took some coming around to because of heart issues in his family. OVER-PRESCRIBING DRUGS We now look at symptoms as a diagnosis. ADD meds are a big problem in our society. Many kids are over-prescribed. For some, the m

Episode 1856 - On this Friday show, Anna Vocino and Vinnie Tortorich talk Vinnie's dad's recent YouTube debut, only children, living dairy free, tinkering your diet to fit you, and more. https://vinnietortorich.com/2021/06/living-dairy-free-tinkering-to-you-episode-1856/ PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods Belcampo Villa Cappelli ONLY CHILDREN Anna is an only child. So is Tallulah! Childhood as an only child is a weird thing. She had to play games by herself, which was a little odd. But she also gained a certain independence that served her well. She learned to cook because she was on her own so much of the time. Anna then attended boarding school. For people plateauing, how much of something you consume depends on who you are! A 30 min consult with Vinnie can help you tinker things to you. LIVING DAIRY FREE For Anna's autoimmune disorders, she knew she had to cut out dairy. She's known since 2014, but she never really committed. Dairy incites the auto immune response in

: Episode 1855 – On this Wednesday show, Vinnie Tortorich and Andy Schreiber talk fueling with fat vs. fueling with sugar, becoming fat-adapted, grip-strengtheners, and more. Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2021/06/fueling-with-fat-episode-1855 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods FUELING WITH FAT Our nut butters are great for exercise. If you're fat adapted, you can do those ultra events without all of the sugary and carby products. When you're fueling on sugar and carbs, you're going to have to consume so much more often. Fuel from fat burns slower--in a good way. Vinnie also found that his stomach was so much worse during races when he ate all this sugar. He would puke. Now that he doesn't fuel with sugar, that's largely gone away. Do you want to eat Gu every 20 minutes, or just have some nut butters and the like every couple hours? As you can imagine, one is definitely better for your body (and brain!). It does take time to get fat adapted -- commit, and you'll benefi

: Episode 1854 – On this Monday show, Vinnie Tortorich and Anna Vocino talk delicious NSNG® recipes, unhealthy seed oils, vegan doctors, and more. Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2021/05/seed-oils-vegan-doctors-episode-1854 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods Belcampo Villa Cappelli SEED OILS Seed oils are very bad for you. They are super processed. Try to avoid them! Seeds, however, are okay. Sesame seeds, sunflower seeds, etc. make a good snack -- but eat them in moderation. If you use something like sesame oil, only use a few drops. VEGAN DOCTORS Vinnie tried to find a vegan doctor to record for the upcoming movie. However, most weren't ready to cut through the BS. Unfortunately, then, he doesn't have anyone during this film, even though he knows some sane vegan doctors are out there. WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE FAT DOC 2 IS AVAILABLE ON iTUNES and AMAZON Please also share it with family and friends! Buy it and watch it now on iTunes to get it to the top of the char

: Episode 1853 - On this Sunday School episode, Gina Grad and Vinnie Tortorich talk Hollywood life, the failure quotient, Fitness Confidential, and more. Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2021/05/hollywood-life-failure-quotient-episode-1853 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods HOLLYWOOD LIFE Life in Hollywood isn't always glamorous. Vinnie lived as the help in Hollywood for a long time. These folks paid his way, but he did not love it. Sometimes, he couldn't bring himself to ring the doorbell. That being said, he's grateful for the opportunity. Vinnie was also a model for some time! FAILURE QUOTIENT Failing a bit is often normal and necessary. Sure, there's a time to quit when it comes to things, but don't do so right when you fail. There's often a lull that feels like failure. FAT DOC 2 IS AVAILABLE ON iTUNES and AMAZON Please also share it with family and friends! Buy it and watch it now on iTunes to get it to the top of the charts. We need it to get big for people to see

: Episode 1852 – On this Saturday show, Deanna joins Vinnie to discuss beating breast cancer, drugs and libidos, and more. The two both get real about their experiences. Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2021/05/beating-breast-cancer-feeling-beautiful-episode-1852 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods BEATING BREAST CANCER Deanna beat breast cancer. She was diagnosed over four years ago. The chemo nearly killed her. However, she thinks that all things considered, it went well because she was already living a healthy lifestyle. Even four years later, she still feels she has repercussions. She has to be on hormones. Vinnie had a similar experience. One thing they both experienced: lost libidos. And, when Deanna was on chemo, she could not have sex. Afterward, it was incredibly painful, in part because they induced menopause with her meds. She was also grateful to eat healthy and look good before her mastectomy as it can be difficult for many. She didn't feel beautiful for awhi

: Episode 1851 - On this Friday show, Dr. Bret Scher joins Vinnie to talk learning from your clients, nutritional advice, properly interpreting cholesterol numbers, the sugar and grain industries, lifestyle-based intervention, the Diet Doctor, your body's use of fat, and more. https://vinnietortorich.com/2021/05/lifestyle-based-intervention-dr-bret-scher-episode-1851 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods Belcampo Villa Cappelli DR. BRET SCHER Dr. Scher has been on the show before. Like Vinnie, he has a podcast and does consults. He is an excellent cardiologist. There are methods that will help a majority of people, but you tinker those methods to the individual. This is what makes consults so rewarding and keeps Dr. Scher and Vinnie learning. Some doctors stick to conventional wisdom; others want to be on the cutting edge. Doctors who see it the latter way, like they have to keep learning and improving, are usually the better doctors. Like for trainers, doctors receive ver

: Episode 1850 -Podcaster and former trainer Josh Trent joins Vinnie to talk about being mindful of emotional eating, giving some of your friends the gift of goodbye, and more on this Wednesday BEST-OF episode, originally aired as a Friday show. Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2021/05/best-of-emotional-eating-gift-of-goodbye-episode-1850 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods EMOTIONAL EATING It's often easy to get off track when emotions get involved. Emotions can produce hormones that drive us to eat. Josh gets it. He's seen it, he's experienced it like we all have. We can learn to control our relationship with food even when these emotions do arise. Becoming fat-adapted can help, breaking the addiction. MORE ON JOSH As far as emotions and health go, Josh also knows it's important to understand when to let go of a relationship. He calls this the "gift of goodbye." Josh is a former trainer. This line of work is really tough! He and Vinnie both understand that. Check out hi

: Episode 1849 – On this Monday show, Anna Vocino and Vinnie Tortorich talk The Beatles, religion, airplanes and obesity, coffee, and more. Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2021/05/airplanes-and-obesity-more-episode-1849 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods Belcampo Villa Cappelli WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE RELIGION Vinnie is not religious. He doesn't want to be! That being said, he respects that some people love and value religion. For Vinnie, realizing the fire and brimstone was not true to him was very freeing. However, Vinnie still believes in the power and importance of service. Anna saw first-hand how the church can be very demeaning and sexist with her mom. AIRPLANES AND OBESITY Airplanes can only take a certain amount of weight. With the rise of obesity, planes may be able to hold fewer people. The FAA may institute weighing of passengers to make sure the planes aren't over weight. There is a lot of outcry about this, but it does seem in the interest of safety.

: Episode 1848 – On this Sunday School episode, Gina Grad joins Vinnie Tortorich to discuss plateauing, Gina's wedding, good etiquette, dehydration, and more. Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2021/05/plateauing-good-etiquette-episode-1848 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods PLATEAUING Having a few days or weeks of no weight loss does not necessarily mean you're plateauing. Especially for women, your body may need to reset once a month. If you do feel you're in a plateau, schedule a call with Vinnie to figure out how to change things up. GOOD ETIQUETTE Vinnie studied etiquette quite a lot as a young man. He read the Eloise books. Now, he knows so much about fine dining and the like. FAT DOC 2 IS AVAILABLE ON iTUNES and AMAZON Please also share it with family and friends! Buy it and watch it now on iTunes to get it to the top of the charts. We need it to get big for people to see it. Here's the Amazon link (BLUERAY, DVD, PRIME) (MAY NOT BE AVAILABLE YET ACROSS THE POND). An

: Episode 1847 – On this Saturday show, Brad Ginet joins Vinnie to talk Canada, Brad's journey, experimenting with NSNG®, losing pandemic weight, and more. Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2021/05/experimenting-with-nsng-losing-pandemic-weight-episode-1847 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods EXPERIMENTING WITH NSNG® When Dan graduated high school, he was 6'5" and 170 lbs. He had trouble getting weight on. Then, in his 30s, he had some weight gain, lethargy, back pain, and more. When he began NSNG, he lost 35 lbs without much exercise. He had terrible headaches when he first quit sugar, but then realized his body ran so much worse with it. Once he stopped eating sugar, his sleep was better, his energy was better, and more. After he worked out, he wasn't so sore. So much of what Brad ate arose out of habit. He only ate starch because he felt like he was supposed to. Once he got rid of things like diet coke, he didn't crave it anymore. Now when he eats crap, he feels ill aft

: Episode 1846 – On this Friday show, Tom Naughton joins Vinnie to talk Fat Head, comedy, teaching kids about health, diet and health policy, calorie in / calorie out, and more. https://vinnietortorich.com/2021/05/diet-and-health-policy-tom-naughton-episode-1846 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods Belcampo Villa Cappelli TOM NAUGHTON Tom has been on the show for a long time. Before making the excellent film Fat Head, he was a comedian. As a comedian, his daughter missed him too much, and he realized he needed to return home. Prior to being a traveling comedian, he was a reporter. Back in the day, he reported on benefits of bad diets because he didn't know any better. Tom has also made a Fat Head for kids! It's important to teach kids from a young age the truth about food, what is healthy and yummy and what isn't. DIET AND HEALTH POLICY The wisdom of crowds is knowledge based on our experiences. Little groups of experts do not have as much experiences as the thousands of

: Episode 1845 - On this Wednesday, Vinnie Tortorich and Anna Vocino talk this podcast's early days, Eat Happy Kitchen, healthcare, loving ourselves, and more. Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2021/05/eat-happy-kitchen-loving-ourselves-episode-1845 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods EAT HAPPY KITCHEN Right now, Anna has a marinara out. Soon, she'll have other sauces out, too. A pink sauce and a puttanesca are next. Then, look out for spices. LOVING OURSELVES We can love ourselves and still recognize we are unhealthy. It's possible to want to lose weight and still love and respect your body. These two things are not mutually exclusive. Obesity can cause incredible health issues like Type 2 Diabetes. You can have these health issues and still be proud of what your body does and can do for you. It's important we don't shame people––it just puts folks on the defensive. FAT DOC 2 IS AVAILABLE ON iTUNES and AMAZON Please also share it with family and friends! Buy it and watch

: Episode 1844 – On this Monday show, Anna Vocino and Vinnie Tortorich talk their generations, the obesity epidemic, oral health, cholesterol and A1Cs, and more. Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2021/05/the-obesity-epidemic-oral-health-episode-1844 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods Belcampo Villa Cappelli WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE THE OBESITY EPIDEMIC It is fully here. Vinnie was recently at the busiest airport in the country, and most people were overweight. It's no longer people who have ten or fifteen pounds to lose, they are very overweight. The pandemic exacerbate weight gain for a lot of people. Vinnie is angry because good intentions have been stolen and health care cannot keep up. Instead, the health care system medicates people into sick rather than super sick when eating well could get you out of sick entirely. ORAL HEALTH For lots of people, eating well can help your oral health. This way of eating may result in whiter teeth (even if you drink water) and