Episode 9: Fiber-maxxing: Threat, or Chimera?
Hello. Good Morning. NINTH episode of Snake Super Health the POD in the can: a discussion on health for people interested in its edge—nutrition, red light, lifting, musculature, face yoga, pullover exercises, calisthenics, strength, raw dairy, energy, orange juice, black seed oils—but who don’t live there. Or who do. Or people who are normal. Or who aren’t. Subscribe on Spotify, on Apple Podcasts, rate and review.
On this episode…
I (Snake) talk with my co-host Josh Feola about “fibermaxxing”—the real, encroaching threat of lifters and non-lifters alike “maximizing” their cruciferous vegetable intake and increasing soluble and insoluble fiber across the board for motility and shock value/internet traffic reasons. We don’t really eat an insane amount of fiber (well, Josh does; I eat an OK amount, mostly root vegetables in fact) but find the counter of this diet—a rejoinder to increased protein—logical, sane and mostly correct. Should we be eating fiber if we nail our probiotics? Is the high-protein vegetarian diet more ELEGANT than eating steak and sauerkraut? Dare we return oats to our diet? (I won’t myself, but Josh is going feet-first.) All this is in the episode. Listen to it here or on platforms. And:
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Show notes:
0:00: Fiber-maxxing, defined.
1:00: Vids are everywhere, from New Yorker writers to lifters to f*rtmaxxers.
2:00: Is this meaningful or just… video context?
3:00: Fiber as a counter to “masculine” pro-meat/protein diets…
4:00: Is fiber for broads? (Maybe)
5:00: What’s fiber ABOUT? Or is this just newjacks hitting protein for the first time?
6:00: Is tracking daily fiber more important than tracking protein?
7:00: Defining fiber technically.
8:00: <George Trow voice>Probiotics receded fiber when they became popular under Trump; the bourgeoisie has always loved fiber; fibermaxxing is fun.
10:00: Insoluble vs. soluble fiber, and their relationship to probiotic foods.
11:00: The case for fiber even when you hit probiotics…
12:00: Volumetric eating = the path for cuts?
13:00: The parallel wakeup call of hitting protein and fiber goals
14:00: How much fiber a day? (14g/1000 cals say the institute of medicine)
15:00: Same rough numbers from 2000s/2010s bodybuilding lore (cool)
18:00: The nefarious plant-based diet-hot girl IBS connection
20:00: Peat: the third way? (Root vegetables, coffee, dairy)
23:00: Fibermaxing is the ANSWER to demonic protein-maxing; the Lindy elegance of a trad. vegetarian high protein diet.
25:00: Judd Lienhard’s work, and galaxy brain post-bodybuilding ‘colorful’ diet.
27:00: Josh one for the road: Oat-maxxing diet? (Cholesterol, the potato diet; Penn Gillette…)
31:00: Obelisks and the gut (new science)
31:30: Josh is only going to eat oats—we’ll see what happens
32:00: Snake one for the road: RIP Global Strongman Gym (Prospect Heights)—strongman training is functional training but poorly branded.
Reading list:
Fibermaxxing post 1 (pro-beans), fibermaxxing post 2 (ranking veggies by fiber), fibermaxxing post 3 (I won’t even describe what this guy is doing)
Vogue: Fiber, protein… what’s next?
Judd Lienhard’s colorful diet plan (goated)
The Cut: Hot girl IBS (2022; critical pre-vibe shift text)
IOM fiber number; T-Nation fiber number (by John Meadows, RIP Mountain Dog)
Snake Super Health: The Ray Peat diet explained
Josh 14TR: Oat macrodosing experiment on Nature: Cholesterol-lowering effects
More on this, from Univ. of Bonn
Slime Mold Time Mold: Potato diet group experiment
Snake Super Health: P*tato diet
Adherents: Penn Jillette; Kevin Smith; some potato industry guy.
Scientific American: Obelisks in the gut explain microbiome; are a mystery to man
Snake 14TR: RIP Global Strongman Gym
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SAMI REISS
