The Smart Nutrition Made Simple Show with Ben Brown

Welcome to the Smart Nutrition Made Simple Show. I'm your host, Ben Brown.  In today's episode of the show, I chop it up with Jim Hallinan. Jim is a high school phys ed teacher turned nutrition coach who helps high-performing individuals find the energy they've been looking for through smart food choices, lifestyle tweaks, and mindset shifts.  In this conversation, we tackle some of the...

If you're following a coach or influencer who's stuck in a single-track mindset, preaching a dogmatic approach to weight loss or body transformation, it's time to reconsider your sources. At Body Systems, we're champions of growth, continuous learning, and we have no problem admitting we don't know, what we don't know. The best coaches are those who remain students at heart—constantly curious, con...

Today, I catch up with Cody McBroom, the owner of Tailored Coaching Method, a lifestyle coaching company that's focused on fitting the training and nutrition to the client and not the other way around. In our conversation, we talk about the similarities between running a successful business and building a lean, healthy body. Of course, they both require time, energy, focus, and prioritization, but...

1 year. Imagine what you could achieve if you set an intention and then strategically planned each step out 1 year in advance. In January 2023 Body Systems Coach @joeyszolowicz and I set an intention to do a 1 year periodized physique transformation. The goal was to spend 1-2 months at maintenance while establishing accurate tracking/training habits, 6-7 months bulking up, followed by a 3-month fa...

In today's conversation, I catch up with my buddy Aram Grigorian. Aram is a nutrition coach who provides practical solutions for everyday folks who want to stop the cycle of dieting and disappointment. He also hosts the Real Coaches Summit to help bring education to the forefront of the coaching industry. And in our conversation today, we work to put a simple spin on what is often far too complex...

Today on the Smart Nutrition Made Simple Show I'm sharing an open and honest conversation with my soon-to-be former client Jeremiah H. Jeremiah is a single dad with a demanding career who, despite several significant road bumps along the way, still managed to put in the time and energy to focus on his health. 🤕 He had a serious motorcycle accident and required shoulder surgery 📓 He’s in the proc...

Not many people can walk onto a college football team having never played a down of high school football and end up in the NFL. But my next guest on the Smart Nutrition Made Simple Show did just that. Today I chop it up with Nick Hardwick. Nick is a former NFL center for the San Diego Chargers turned 1 on 1 fitness and nutrition coach. He is the owner of HardwickLIFE, a health and wellness co...

When it comes to hormone optimization, one-size-fits-all approaches and over-reliance on standardized labs are not the answer.  In this episode of the Smart Nutrition Made Simple Show, I chop it up with Dr. Jordan Grant. Dr. Grant is a board-certified urologist with more than 12 years of experience treating conditions like testicular dysfunction, hypogonadism, and testicular hypofunction. He...

Are we in the midst of a men's health crisis? In today's episode of the Smart Nutrition Made Simple Show, I had the pleasure of chatting with Dr. Rob Kominiarek. Dr. Rob is a board-certified fellow of the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians with more than 25 years of experience helping thousands of patients reclaim their health through hormone optimization.  Dr. Rob has advanced...

Optimal health isn’t just about living longer, it’s about living better. On today’s episode of the Smart Nutrition Made Simple Show, I had the distinct honor of speaking with Dr. Jesse Greer.  Dr. Greer’s career has taken him from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to the frontlines as a battalion surgeon for the US Special Forces in Afghanistan.  Now out of the military, Dr. G...

As the saying goes: "A man is as old as his arteries." In today's episode of the Smart Nutrition Made Simple Show, I had the pleasure of chatting with Dr. Michael Twyman. Dr. Twyman is a heart attack prevention expert and board-certified cardiologist who utilizes the best of conventional medicine, integrative medicine, quantum medicine, and biohacking to get to the root cause of cardiovascular iss...

From the shaker on your table to the herbs in your garden, plants are natural superheroes hiding in plain sight. Today I'm excited to chat with William Siff, a renowned expert in plant medicine and author of The Plant Medicine Protocol, Unlocking the Power of Plants for Optimal Health and Longevity. Bill is a licensed acupuncturist, clinical herbalist, ethnobotanist, and health educator who specia...

Could intermittent fasting be the key to sustainable weight loss?  My next guest, elementary school teacher turned best-selling author Gin Stephens thinks so. In 2014 Gin was obese, felt like crap, and hated the person she saw in the mirror. She had spent years yo-yo dieting only to lose and regain the same weight back, and then some. Desperate to find a solution, she turned to intermittent f...

What do Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Liev Schreiber, Sebastian Stan, Anne Hathaway, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Hugh Jackman all have in common? They’ve all been trained by today's guest, performance coach, keynote speaker, and entrepreneur, Don Saladino. In today's conversation, we spend a little bit of time talking about our kids and the realities of being a parent. Don sha...

It's the time of year when many of us start to struggle and the slip of the holiday treats turns into the slide of weight gain. So in this month's coaches roundtable, we thought we would take this chance as a team to discuss some of our best practices to maintain and not gain over the holiday season. As always, if you love what you hear on this show, then do me a favor and subscribe, leave a posit...

Our balls are under attack… At least that’s what Dr. Tracy Gapin suggests is at the forefront of the precipitous decline in men’s health today. From our toxic environment to poor food and water quality, overconsumption yet undernourishment, over-stressed and under-recovered, to genetic factors that predispose us to reduced hormonal function, the odds are stacked against us… But it’s not all bad as...

We all need to start eating like athletes… at least that's what I gleaned from this recent conversation with performance nutritionist, Jill Lane. While most Americans are over-fed and undernourished, we’re seeing a chronic problem with athletes of all levels being both underfed and undernourished…and it’s wreaking havoc on health, performance, and longevity. Today I’m catching up with Jill Lane, t...

In this episode of the Smart Nutrition Made Simple Show, I want to take a deep dive into the complexities of weight loss, focusing particularly on the cycle of fat loss and subsequent regain. I'm going to talk about the implications of our conventional dieting tactics and why they make it so challenging for us to keep fat off, the dangers of perpetuating the vicious yo-yo dieting cycle, and I am g...

In this week's episode of the Smart Nutrition Made Simple Show, I have a candid conversation with Body Systems client and 6-month coaching scholarship winner, Debra F. Prior to joining our Smart Nutrition Coaching Program, Debra was at her wit's end, juggling a busy family life and work life while letting her health fall to the wayside. In today's podcast, we talk about her frustrations with lack...

Can you lose fat and gain muscle at the same time? In today's Body Systems Coaches roundtable, we dive deep into the nuances of nutrition and fitness as it pertains to achieving weight loss while simultaneously building muscle. We also share our game-changing Nutritional Seasons approach to weight loss that allows our Smart Nutrition Coaching clients to get such incredible, and most importantly, s...

In this episode of the Smart Nutrition Show, I'll be discussing some of the common, but little-known ways that your dieting practices are actually keeping you stuck, and I'll share actionable strategies to achieve the results you desire. At this stage in my career, I'm just trying to be as open and honest as possible with my observations around the things that move the needle with respect to our h...

Today marks 5 years since the passing of one of my greatest mentors, Charles Poliquin, aka the Strength Sensei. If you ever had the privilege of attending one of Strength Sensei's courses, you'd know that he firmly believed that the best way to learn, in any course, was to teach for 45 minutes, then do a "10 things I learned" review to reinforce many of the concepts discussed previously... Therefo...

In today's episode of the Smart Nutrition Made Simple Show, I'm sharing an interview I did on Coach Krista Kuchenbecker's podcast. Krista is a registered nurse, personal trainer, and sports nutrition specialist who helps men and women ditch the diet mentality and feel healthy, strong, and confident, while still enjoying the foods they love. In our discussion, we talk at length about the benefits o...

Are you living in alignment with your true identity? In today's episode of the Smart Nutrition Made Simple show, I had the pleasure of chatting with my good friend Krystal Jackson. Krystal is a former professional volleyball play turned spiritual business coach who helps entrepreneurs create incredible results in both business and in life through a holistic self-knowledge system called Human Desig...

In episode 3 of our Nutrition Series, I'm talking all about protein. When we’re trying to lose body fat, increase our energy, and/or gain muscle mass, protein plays a significant role, ESPECIALLY if we’re in a calorie deficit. In this podcast, I talk about why protein is the most important macronutrient, how much protein you should be eating, and how to realistically build out your meals to ensure...