Happy Sunday, my beautiful nerd-herders. Your favorite science geek is back home after a whirlwind tour of familial bonding, corgi zoomies, and existential reflection brought on by a dog named Bella with the legs of a loaf and the spirit of a Viking. Saturday? Full rest day. Yes—I loaded the sacred Concept 2 Rower into the back of Black Sunshine (my GX 460 vehicle, not a Rob Zombie album… although now that I think of it…) and hauled its awkward metallic ass northward. Ditto for all my M3 online clients - as much as they dislike doing it too. And that brings us to today’s flaming hot internet trash fire: seed oils. Cue dramatic music. Let’s pump the brakes there Doomlord 471. Should you be guzzling jugs of bargain-bin soybean oil from the back aisle of the Dollar General? ...But should you also be terrified that a sprinkle of safflower oil is going to reduce your mitochondria to radioactive sea sludge? Also a hard no! If your VO₂ max is 25 ml/kg/min, your top speed is “sloth in quicksand mode,” and you're sweating bullets just tying your shoes—you don’t have a seed oil problem. You have a cardiovascular system begging for mercy problem. That’s what needs fixing. But here’s the truth bomb: People - especially the PF crew - love to obsess over the small things because it lets them avoid the hard things. Seed oil hysteria is a distraction from the real work:
Your body is wired for efficiency. So no, your mitochondria aren’t crying over the extra five grams of omega-6 in your stir-fry. They’re crying because many haven’t done a single set of cardio in months with the idea of recovery is doomscrolling memes until midnight while smashing protein bars made of air and regret. I know you are not that person - way too cool and informed since you are reading my ramblings here- but those people are out there in droves. Here is the boring AF truth. Much love and cardiac horsepower, PS – Yes, Flexible Meathead Cardio Level 2 is still happening! Mike T Nelson CISSN, CSCS, MSME, PhD ... |
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