The Smart Nutrition Made Simple Show with Ben Brown

One of the first tools that we tend to gravitate towards when we’ve committed to a weight loss program is some sort of cardiovascular exercise, like jogging, peloton, boot camp classes, and/or some sort of circuit-style training. Many of us have this perception that if our heart rates are elevated, if we’re sweating, and we’re out of breath, then we’re burning more calories and therefore, burning...

In this week's episode of the Smart Nutrition Made Simple Show, I catch up with BSL Client and 12-month coaching scholarship winner Michael L. Mike is a husband and father of two young kids who holds not one, not two, but THREE jobs, including being a volunteer firefighter. In this podcast, we chat about: Mike's experience so far with the Smart Nutrition Coaching Program The incredible progress he...

What if I told you that those that are the most successful with their weight loss goals are neither more disciplined nor have more self-control than anyone else, rather, they are more strategic about the situations that they put themselves into that actually require discipline and self-control. Today I’m excited to welcome Menno Henselmans to The Smart Nutrition Made Simple Show. Menno is a scient...

I often come across clients who feel like they need to have these intricate meal plans, recipe guides, or they need to be putting together these seemingly complex dishes that are all extremely healthy. And if they’re NOT doing any of these things then they’re not going to be making progress. But that's not the case. And often times the more simplistic the better. So in today's podcast, Coach Kim a...

Are you feeling beat down, tired, lethargic, moody, have brain fog, aching joints, low libido, and have a hard time recovering from exercise?   How do we know if this is just the aging process in action or something more serious, like hormonal imbalances?   In today’s episode of The Smart Nutrition Made Simple Show, I catch up with Gil Tal, a clinician specializing in hormones and men's sexual fun...

If you knew and believed one thing that most people didn’t, what would that be? For John Madsen, it’s that anything is possible. And the has been the beacon that has allowed him to spend his career playing to win… From never having played a down of football in high school to an NFL career, to a top 1% fitness coaching business, John has been able to disqualify the impossible from his life and insp...

In this interview, I catch up with BSL client Jessie Harrison. Jessie is a world and national champion pistol shooter who recently won both silver and gold medals in individual and team world championships respectively. Jessie and I catch up about her experience with the coaching program over the past year and the adjustments to her training, her nutrition, and her mindset as we laid out a plan of...

I'm excited to share today's interview with you. In an unprecedented threepeat on the Smart Nutrition Made Simple Show I present to you all-around badass online trainer and nutrition coach, none other than the "Queen of Men's Health", Ali Gilbert. In today's episode, we really break down some of the fundamental decisions that men should be thinking about when considering testosterone therapy. The...

In this week's Smart Nutrition Made Simple podcast I chat it up with my buddy Matt Squires who recently concluded a year of coaching with our Smart Nutrition coaching program. In this episode, Matt and I talk about his incredible weight loss journey and the mental and emotional changes he's experienced over the past year. We also discuss his decision to abstain from alcohol for all of 2022 and the...

Welcome to the Smart Nutrition Made Simple show. There are a lot of illnesses going around. Either we're sick, we know someone who's sick, or the kids are sick. In today's podcast, I'm going to share five tried and true, research-backed things that we do as a family to prevent being sick, decrease the severity of illness as much as possible, and support a healthy immune system. I hope you find the...

Welcome to the show where we make Smart Nutrition Simple.   Today we’re talking about the immune system, specifically supplements to support your immune system.   There are a lot of different factors at play when we talk about our immune system and I think that it’s important to address the big needle movers.   What we want to talk about and break down here is:   What are the big needle movers as...

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Connect with Ryan: https://www.instagram.com/ry_hick/   RESOURCES: Grab our FREE Fat Loss Fix Guide: https://www.bslnutrition.com/fat-loss-fix-guide/ Connect with Ben: Join our Nutrition Community: https://www.smartnutritionmadesimple.com Subscribe to our Youtube Channel: www. SmartNutritionMadeSimpleTV.com Connect with us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/bslnutrition As always, if you love wha...

In this conversation, Matt Terry and I catch up again to discuss how his nutrition practices have changed after our last discussion in April 2019 on plant-based dieting intervention and cancer.   We talk about how Matt uses functional medicine testing to assess his current clients' needs, how his personal eating patterns have changed throughout the years of assessing his own needs and lifestyle, a...

Welcome to the Smart Nutrition Made Simple Show. I'm your host as always, Ben Brown. And in today's podcast, I talk with my friend Jasmine Daley. She's a small business owner, she's a wife, and she's a mother of 8 kids. Yes, you heard me right. 8 kids!  After suffering a stroke and experiencing post-partum depression Jasmine realized she needed a change and she joined the Smart Nutrition coaching...

Having spent years in the perpetual dieting roller coaster of losing and gaining the same weight, Jaylynn was ready for a change. She was tired of diet pills, aggressive 500-calorie eating, and HCG plans, and she realized that she was using food as a coping mechanism for managing stress. Now, 14 months into the Smart Nutrition Coaching Program and down over 70 lbs, Jaylynn is eating close to 2,000...

What does an Olympic wrestler know about life, nutrition, and fitness? Well, In Jake Herbert’s case, quite a lot …as you’ll hear in this awesome conversation.   Jake Herbert is an Olympian, Business Coach, and self-proclaimed ninja.  As a 9X US National Wrestling Champion, 3 X World medalist,  wrestling, hard work, and being learning based has taken him to over 356 different countries, competing,...

Have you ever been in a situation with your kids where you feel yourself losing control?   What about when you say no a thousand times only to have them completely ignore you and do it anyway?   My personal favorite is when I find myself yelling at my kids to stop yelling.   Is it normal for us parents to feel like we don’t know what the heck we’re doing and find ourselves in a constant power stru...

How do we really lose weight in a sustainable and healthy way, both physically and psychologically?   In a world of weight loss ferver, we find ourselves constantly bombarded with wild nutrition claims, haphazard and overly restrictive dieting protocols, and nutritional pseudoscience lurking around every social media corner… just waiting to grab our attention at the most desperate of times.   Toda...

Daniel is the director of education at Kabuki Strength, a strength and hypertrophy coach, and a competitive powerlifter.   Connect with Daniel here: https://www.stackedstrength.com/ https://www.instagram.com/daniel_debrocke/   Connect with Ben: RESOURCES: Grab our FREE Fat Loss Fix Guide: https://www.bslnutrition.com/fat-loss-fix-guide/ Connect with Ben: Join our Nutrition Community: https://www.s...

Jonah Mitchel the Founder, Co-Owner, & Head Coach of Phoenix Fitness & Nutrition.   “My passion for health and fitness started when I was young and grew up witnessing my single-mother struggle with her weight & self-image. I ended up copying a lot of her same behaviors of punishing myself for never being good enough with my appearance or performance in sports, which led to years of poor self-estee...

How do you define success?   I think it’s fair to say that each of our definitions will vary while we can probably all agree that attaining success will require similar efforts and values…   Around commitment, perseverance, ownership, trust, and certainly discipline.   Often when we think of success around dieting, its invariably related to visual changes, in body composition, in muscle mass, and...

Do you know how nutrition experts always talk about how weight loss is about more than just calories in vs calories out? Well, in this episode we dive into exactly what that means and why our behaviors around food are actually the biggest limiting factors to our success.   If you don’t know who I am, my name is Ben Brown and I’m the owner of BSL Nutrition, an online nutrition coaching company that...

What if I told you that there were no rules when it comes to weight loss?   How would it make you feel if you knew you could eat literally anything you want and still make progress?   And what if I said the problem isn’t the food, it’s the way that we’re thinking about the food?   You’d probably say I was full of it…   If you don’t know who I am, my name is Ben Brown and I’m the owner of BSL Nutri...

It’s back to reality for many of us parents… And thank goodness for that! As much as we enjoy the ability to spend time with kids, travel, and eat and drink galore… The lack of consistency and structure can get old, real quick. I think I’ve had alcohol and ice cream every single day over the past month. And as much as I’ve enjoyed summer and had the opportunity to relax mentally, physically, and d...