Ep. 87: Robb Wolf on Ray Peat and the Bioenergetic View: Energy, Obesity, Evolution, and Paul Saladino

The Energy Balance Podcast

In this episode we discuss:

• Whether low-carb diets increase cortisol over time

• How the bioenergetic view incorporates evolutionary biology, and how this differs from the ancestral health model

• Whether tolerance to stress is improved on low-carb diets

• Why being overweight or obese is not a sign of excess energy

• What we think of Paul Saladino’s interpretation of the “Ray Peat Diet”

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Timestamps:

4:22 – how low-carb diets increase stress hormones and increase susceptibility to stress

22:32 – why being overweight or obese is not a sign of excess energy

34:20 – whether the bioenergetic view ignores evolutionary biology

49:30 – what we think of Paul Saladino’s interpretation of the “Ray Peat Diet”