256: Josef Brandenburg Gives You the Body You Want

Written on May 24, 2009

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Hello and welcome back to The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show With Jimmy Moore!

Today Jimmy shares his conversation with award winning personal trainer Josef Brandenburg. Josef shares insights into why low-fat may never work for many people, the trauma of being an overweight youth, the story of the brown fat that lives between your shoulder blades and why he tells his clients not to count carbs.

Also: Did you think mascarpone was only for making Tiramisu? Well, guess again, as Joseph lets you in on his fantastic low-carb pineapple and cheese dessert!

LINKS MENTIONED IN EPISODE 256
- Josef Brandenburg bio
- JosefBrandenburg.com
- “The Body You Want” program
- Josef’s Delicious Low-Carb Recipes

Cooking, Exercise, Fitness, Low-Carb Lifestyle, low-fat, Motivation, Weight Loss
8 Comments - Leave a comment!
  • sss

    Very nice – this guy knows what he’s talking about! (Because he’s talking about Gary Taubes’s “Good Calories, Bad Calories.” And he understands it.) Anybody wanting to do some good in this world should buy the book for as many physicians as they know. Also, a good companion and something of a synopsis of it – even though it predates GC,BC – is “Life without Bread” by Wolfgang Lutz, MD, a German internist. Pertinent to this interview is Lutz’s explanation of how elevated insulin suppresses human growth hormone AND testoterone. Guess what guys: decrease carbs – radically – and you’ll lower insulin such that natural levels of HGH and T come back up. Go to the gym. Lift. Do it any way you want – traditionally or some other method like “slow burn” – whatever. With good levels of HGH and T you wil get leaner and stronger. No aerobics needed.

  • http://www.livinlavidalowcarb.com/blog Jimmy Moore

    Great reminders today, SSS!

  • http://www.josefbrandenburg.com Josef Brandenburg

    That is very interesting – the GH & T & insulin thing – since my first interview with Gary I have packed on LOTS of muscle. From 198 to over 210 with the same size waist – 12-15lbs is really good for a drug free man who works 80hrs/week!

  • sss

    Josef,

    I read that very good interview of yours and I can tell from the things you said in Jimmy’s interview with you that you really get it – that is, Taubes’s explanations or … message. You’d enjoy Wolfgang Lutz’s “Life w/o Bread.” I found it on one of the most interesting pages in Taubes’s GC,BC: the “Acknowledgements” page which is in the very back of the book. There, Taubes mentions Lutz and the fascinating “Nutrition and Physical Degeneration” of Weston Price. (Jimmy, Price was HAMMERING away at the importance of vitamin D way back then in the thirties. There are many score references throughout Price’s book to Vitamins A,D, and what Price called “Activator X” which is know fairly understood to be the MK4 variant of Vitamin K2. William Davis, cardiologist, who you’ve interviewed is a proponent of MK4.) And back to HGH, If memory serves me, p. 390 of GC,BC discusses the HGH lowering effect of elevated insulin levels. Cheers guys, Steve.

  • http://www.josefbrandenburg.com Josef Brandenburg

    Thanks Steve,

    My copy of Life Without Bread just came in the mail yesterday and I’m breaking ground as we speak.

    Josef

  • http://www.livinlavidalowcarb.com/blog Jimmy Moore

    THANKS sss! Yes, I’m very well aware that Weston Price was extolling the virtues of vitamin D consumption way back when. :)

  • http://www.personal-loans--for-bad-credit.com Kwessi

    Just ordered my copy of Life Without Bread. I hope to achieve positive results just as everyone else who’d bought a copy. It starts with the mind, as they say.

  • http://www.guygiard.fr.fm Guy

    The audio file is missing!!!!!





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