Fitness Confidential With Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 1742 - On this inspirational Saturday show, Craig Nelson joins Vinnie to talk life as a cardiac patient, his wonderful daughters, creating memories, taking care of what you can control, phone consults, and more. Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2020/12/taking-care-of-what-you-can-control-episode-1742 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods LIFE AS A CARDIAC PATIENT Craig has been a cardiac patient since birth. He had congenital heart issues. Born with a whole in his heart, at age 3 he had surgery to fix this. This then caused him more issues. Since 7, he has required pacemakers which have required surgeries throughout his life. He didn't want to go to Vinnie for medical advice -- but he realized to improve his health through his diet, Vinnie could help. Now, Craig is writing a book. It's a journal to his daughters. Craig had to take a leap of faith to have children because he feared his children would have the same issue. In 2013, he became unresponsive. His daughte

: Episode 1741 - On this Friday show, author and swimmer Bonnie Tsui joins Vinnie to talk her book, Why We Swim, her experiences in the water, the history of traveling by water, story-telling, and more. We also wish a very Merry Christmas to all those celebrating! Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2020/12/why-we-swim-bonnie-tsui-episode-1741 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods Villa Cappelli Belcampo WHY WE SWIM Bonnie's parents met because of swimming. However, that's about all they had in common -- the relationship ended in divorce. It was a perfect life until it wasn't. As a kid, it was all unspoken for her. Bonnie has always swam, and for decades, was a competitive swimmer. She hopes to swim forever. She also surfs, paddle boards, and more. Anything to get her in the water! Her husband is also a big swimmer. Some of her competitive, PR-setting swims, or particularly challenging swims are huge accomplishments. Growing up where Vinnie grew up, everyone needed to know how

: Episode 1740 - On this Wednesday show, we feature a BEST OF from 2016. Sylvia Tara, biochemist and author of The Secret Life of Fat, joins Vinnie today to talk about fat, an endocrine organ, that does so much good for puberty, for our immune systems, for our brains, and more. Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2020/12/best-of-necessary-fat-sylvia-tara-episode-1740 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods SYLVIA TARA Sylvia holds a PhD in biochemistry from UCSD. She also has an MBA from Wharton (U Penn). Sylvia has worked with all of the big biotech companies throughout the years. SECRET LIFE OF FAT Check out her book here! [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="164"] The Secret Life of Fat: The Science Behind the Body's Least Understood Organ and What It Means for You[/caption] The book focuses on popular misconceptions of fat, and how fat in reality does so much good for us. People fear fat, but really it is just an endocrine organ. ENDOCRINE ORGAN "Adipose Tissue", or fat,

: Episode 1739 - On this Monday show, Anna and Vinnie re-hash the Facebook craziness, and the two talk The Twelve Days of Christmas, the Bachelor, narcissistic gift-giving, holiday drink recipes, and more. Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2020/12/the-twelve-days-of-christmas-more-episode-1739 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods We have lots of good recipes with our nut butters. Andy has posted a few. Anna is going to try to make an egg nog with our product. Villa Cappelli Belcampo FACEBOOK CRAZINESS Facebook has been deleting the craziest posts. Any post that includes the word "bacon fat" or "cow" or anything of the kind gets deleted for "bullying" because the algorithm doesn't recognize context. The mods have received notifications that the group could be deleted if this keeps happening. This puts us between a rock and a hard place. The mods are a lenient admin team so it's a tough place to be. Essentially, benign posts are being flagged. We're trying to keep everything

: Episode 1738 -- On this Sunday School episode, Vinnie Tortorich and Gina Grad talk Fat Doc 2, Marie Tortorich's health, scientist funding, diabetes and sugar, and more. Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2020/12/fat-doc-2-scientist-funding-more-episode-1738 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods SCIENTIST FUNDING Don't forget scientists need money. It's difficult for them to get money. One ought to keep an eye out for who is funding studies. Fat Doc 2 discusses this sort of thing. FAT DOC 2 IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER Vinnie directed and produced this one himself. It's not made of leftovers -- it was meant to be from day 1. Gina has seen the movie. She thinks it feels very active! Please also share it with family and friends! Pre-order it on iTunes to get it to the top of the charts. We need it to get big for people to see it. Fat Doc 1 is also out Go watch it now! We need people to buy and review for it to stay at the top of iTunes pages. Available for both rental and purcha

: Episode 1727 -- On this Saturday show, Bill and Kim Fain join Vinnie to talk Bill & Kim's incredible success, committing to NSNG®, losing weight during the COVID-19 pandemic, leading by example, the Facebook group, sharing your journey, and more. Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2020/12/committing-to-nsng-episode-1737 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods COMMITTING TO NSNG® The two found Vinnie through the Carolla show and Dr. Drew. Bill had been doing IF a bit prior to finding Vinnie. The two have been together for 12 years. When they began NSNG®, both were at their heaviest. Bill started, and about two months later, Kim came on. They started during COVID! While most people are gaining weight now, they started losing weight during the pandemic. Bill started at 240. He got down to 170 but didn't like how he looked. Now, he probably hovers between 175 and 180 at 6'1". In ten months, he got down to healthy. For many, it will take longer and THAT IS OKAY. Kim started ar

: Episode 1736 - On this Friday show, Anna and Vinnie bring on Lonnie Beauchamp to talk Facebook and social media craziness, frustrating technology, Christmas recipes, mother Marie's weight loss, and more! Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2020/12/facebook-craziness-christmas-recipes-more-episode-1736 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods Villa Cappelli Check out this amazing Villa Cappelli x Eat Happy gift basket for Christmas: https://villacappelli.com/products/eat-happy-italian-foodie-basket Belcampo Promo code "vinnie" for 10% off. FACEBOOK CRAZINESS Facebook has been deleting the craziest posts. Any post that includes the word "bacon fat" or "cow" or anything of the kind gets deleted for "bullying" because the algorithm doesn't recognize context. The mods have received notifications that the group could be deleted if this keeps happening. This puts us between a rock and a hard place. The mods are a lenient admin team so it's a tough place to be. Essentially, benign post

: Episode 1735 - On this Wednesday show, Andy Schreiber joins Vinnie Tortorich to talk the passive income myth, gelatin supplements, cocktail recipes with Ultra Fat, TV commercials, and more. Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2020/12/gelatin-supplements-nsng-cocktails-episode-1735 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods GELATIN SUPPLEMENTS Vinnie thinks collagen peptides are fine. But, use the OG collagen peptides -- bone broth! You may as well, however, take Knox gelatin. It's cheaper and really is the same stuff. Yesterday's Tuesday Tip featured Vinnie combining gelatin (gelled up in the fridge) with a little bit of high fat cottage cheese. And, add some Ultra Salt! It's almost dessert. You could even make it creamier with creme fresh or something like that. Gelatin like this is good for your hair and your bones and the rest of you, too! The gelatin (at least Knox gelatin) is pretty flavorless. Make sure you're not using chemical-y products like Jell-O, though. ULTRA FAT COC

: Episode 1734 - On this Monday show, Anna Vocino and Vinnie Tortorich talk The Piña Colada Song, classified ads in newspapers, common weight loss issues, kicking the diet mentality, Eat Happy Kitchen, blood work and more. Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2020/12/kicking-the-diet-mentality-episode-1734 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods Villa Cappelli Check out this amazing Villa Cappelli x Eat Happy gift basket for Christmas: https://villacappelli.com/products/eat-happy-italian-foodie-basket Belcampo Promo code "vinnie" for 10% off. KICKING THE DIET MENTALITY Vinnie does a lot of personal consults. He gets a lot of the same things from multiple people. Some people have lost a lot of weight, but now are stalling. They stay on NSNG® because they know it's working, but then they might get some misinformation. These people are serving too many kings (or trying to do too many things). Stay true to plain and simple NSNG®. Don't listen to the keto-bros online. No sugar (or fak

: Episode 1733 - On this Sunday School episode, Gina Grad joins Vinnie Tortorich to talk screen breaks for kids, leaving your phone at home, the Easy Listening podcast, air fryers, and more. Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2020/12/screen-breaks-for-kids-episode-1733 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club Through December 13, we are offering 10% off all subscriptions for every order in the PCC subscription! NSNG® Foods SCREEN BREAKS It's important for kids not to be on screens all the time. Some schools that are being taught online take mandatory breaks from being on a screen. Encourage your kids to stay away from screens. Get them outdoors, make them play with toys, with blocks, or the like. Have them sing, learn an instrument, etc. It's ok for kids to watch TV for fun, but it shouldn't be their whole day. Lead by example -- if safe to do so, leave your phone at home sometimes. Show your kids you don't always need your phone. FAT DOC 2 IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER Please also share it wi

: Episode 1727 – Scott Mulvaney joins Vinnie on this Saturday to talk social media, putting life into living, training for ultra events, bikes, NSNG® nut butters, wildland fire fighting, and more. Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2020/12/training-for-ultra-events-social-media-episode-1732 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club Through December 13, we are offering 10% off all subscriptions for every order in the PCC subscription! NSNG® Foods SOCIAL MEDIA Scott runs Vinnie's social media. He is a guru when it comes to this! He's seen some of the social media idiocy first hand when it comes to shadow-banning and the like. Check out Scott's lifestyle brand, LIVETHEFUEL, here. https://livethefuel.com/ He can help you with brand strategy, marketing, and the like. PUTTING LIFE INTO LIVING Vinnie has gone years without LIL. But, first, he has the Kristin Scott Thomas rule. Other times, he'll have a glass of wine with Tallulah. With something sweet, he'll just have a taste and move on. The most

: Episode 1731 - On this Friday show, John Freeman joins Vinnie to talk soybean farming, animals in harvesting, John's NSNG® journey, the soybean industry more generally, monocropping and more. Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2020/12/animals-in-harvesting-soybean-industry-john-freeman-episode-1731 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club Through December 13, we are offering 10% off all subscriptions for every order in the PCC subscription! NSNG® Foods Belcampo Villa Cappelli JOHN FREEMAN John used to think he was eating right. But he was miserable -- he didn't feel well and simply wasn't healthy. Then, he found NSNG® and it took him a couple weeks to realize what he could and couldn't eat. In the first month, he lost 17 lbs. He's 5'9" and started upward of 220 lbs. In 6 months, he got down to 180, and then 174. That's his lowest weight since college. His bloodwork is improving. John is a soybean farmer out of Arkansas! ANIMALS IN HARVESTING Check out this little video John made during ha

: Episode 1730 - On this Wednesday show, Andy Schreiber joins Vinnie to talk using moisturizer to battle dry hands, taking care of your mental wellbeing, the upcoming Fat Doc 2, Vitamin D deficiency, the COVID-15, Andy's home gym set-up, and more. Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2020/12/taking-care-of-your-mental-wellbeing-episode-1730 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club Through December 13, we are offering 10% off all subscriptions for every order in the PCC subscription! NSNG® Foods MOISTURIZER Moisturizer can be good in small amounts. When you soap, you dry your skin out, then you can clog your pores with moisturizer and creams. Vinnie does think hand cream is good. Especially now -- people are washing their hands more and so they're drier. MENTAL WELLBEING It's important to take care of your mental health right now. For Vinnie, he goes to the shooting range and was going to the gym. He brought his training back to the house as COVID-19 gets worse right now, but he's still exerci

: Episode 1729 - On this Monday show, Anna V. and Vinnie T. talk pain management, keeping inflammation down with NSNG®, the Fat Doc 2 pre-order, weightlifting equipment, Christmas shopping, and more. Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2020/12/pain-management-weightlifting-equipment-episode-1729 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club Through December 13, we are offering 10% off all subscriptions for every order in the subscription! NSNG® Foods Villa Cappelli Check out this amazing Villa Cappelli x Eat Happy gift basket for Christmas: https://villacappelli.com/products/eat-happy-italian-foodie-basket Belcampo PAIN MANAGEMENT Vinnie played with and versus a lot of greats in college. Many of the guys who went pro and became heroes now can barely move. Their joints are all messed up and they're dealing with pain. Vinnie played from childhood through college, so he definitely feels the effects still. Recently, his neck, lower back, "good" shoulder, hands and knee have been hurting him. He doesn

: Episode 1728 – On this Sunday School episode, Gina Grad joins Vinnie Tortorich to talk kid influencers, insidious marketing tactics, weird Wikipedia, Michael Phelps madness, and more. Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2020/12/insidious-marketing-episode-1728 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club Through December 13, we are offering 10% off all subscriptions for every order in the subscription! NSNG® Foods INSIDIOUS MARKETING There is a whole population of kids who have thousands or millions of viewers on YouTube or social media. They are paid a great deal to promote/share really unhealthy products and foods. Advertisers are taking advantage of this new avenue to promote their terrible products. There's a study on this. It has empirical data on how many of these videos are used to market terrible products, garnering over one billion views. Michael Phelps also has a similar history. He was pushedby media as saying he consumed certain products and ate 14,000 calories a day. Later, he deb

: Episode 1727 -- On this Saturday show, Vinnie T. joins listener and podcaster Greg Payne, and the two talk The Cool Grandpa Podcast, Greg's NSNG success, flipping the health switch with NSNG®, kayaking, and more. Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2020/12/flipping-the-health-switch-cool-grandpas-episode-1727 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club Through December 13, we are offering 10% off all subscriptions for every order in the subscription! NSNG® Foods THE COOL GRANDPA PODCAST Greg has a really neat podcast. He focuses on relationships with grandfathers. He interviews grandchildren and grandfathers alike. These podcasts are meant to show that grandpas are really important. Many of us cherish things our grandpas taught us or love stories that remind us of our grandparents. Vinnie appeared on the show. Check it out! Grandparents can sometimes see what parents don't see in their grandchildren. The relationship is special. Vinnie & Greg both care deeply about their grandparents, eve

: Episode 1726 - On this Friday show, Dr. Richard Jacoby, author of Sugar Crush, joins Vinnie today to talk neuropathies, how sugar causes disease, the role of inflammation, metabolic co-morbidities, epigenetics, and more. Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2020/12/sugar-causes-disease-dr-richard-jacoby-episode-1726 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods Villa Cappelli Belcampo DR. RICHARD JACOBY Dr. Jacoby has been on the podcast before. He primarily treats patients with peripheral neuropathy. Dr. Jacoby takes a holistic approach in treating patients, starting largely with diet and nutrition. We have evolved from eating fats. SUGAR CAUSES DISEASE Lots of Dr. Jacoby's work focuses on what sugar does to the body. Plain and simple: sugar is the culprit for so many diseases. The connection between carpal tunnel, MS, diabetic neuropathy, autism, Alzheimer's, he believes, are all caused, in part, by sugar. Inflammation is the root of our problems, and it comes from eating sugar. Th

: Episode 1725 - On this Wednesday show, Vinnie and Andy talk the Fat Doc 2 pre-order, Pure Coffee Club sales, quality products, and more. Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2020/12/fat-doc-2-pre-order-quality-products-episode-1725 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club Through December 13, we are offering 10% off all subscriptions for every order in the subscription! NSNG® Foods QUALITY PRODUCTS Vinnie wanted to make high quality, affordable products. We started with Pure Vitmain Club and it worked, so we did the same with PCC. You're getting top quality without that price tag. We want everyone to be able to access our products. FAT DOC 2 IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER Please also share it with family and friends! Pre-order in on iTunes to get it to the top of the charts. We need it to get big for people to see it. Pre-order here: Fat Doc 1 is also out Go watch it now! We need people to buy and review for it to stay at the top of iTunes pages. Available for both rental and purchase. Here is

: Episode 1724 - On this Monday show, Anna Vocino and Vinnie Tortorich talk hot people, fat burning workouts, building aerobic fitness, holiday eating, the Mediterranean diet, Twitter question answers, and more. Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2020/11/building-aerobic-fitness-episode-1724 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods Villa Cappelli Belcampo BUILDING AEROBIC FITNESS Just training your muscles for strength doesn't mean you'll have the aerobic ability. Zone 2 exercise is generally the best to burn fat. Working your core is a great way to get muscle all over your body. Also, using your muscles doesn't mean your aerobically fit. Jogging is a good way to get your aerobic ability up. THE MEDITERRANEAN DIET If you're doing this diet, just do NSNG®. This is the government slowly backing away form the advice they've been giving. Finally, there's some recognition meat is good! FAT DOC IS OUT Go watch it now! We need people to buy and review for it to stay at the top of iTune

: Episode 1723 - On this Sunday School episode, the wonderful Gina Grad joins Vinnie to talk geographic undesirability, home fixing, Guns N' Roses, radio shows, Fat: A Documentary 2, crazy Thanksgiving spreads, and more. Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2020/11/fat-doc-2-radio-shows-episode-1723 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods RADIO SHOWS Gina is a radio great. Vinnie had a radio show in New Orleans. People wanted to listen to him talk about sugar. He beat out a young Rush Limbaugh back then. Podcasting has taken him back! FAT: A DOCUMENTARY 2 Our pre-order on the second movie is out. We're starting with iTunes -- if you can't access it yet, stay tuned. FAT DOC IS OUT Go watch it now! We need people to buy and review for it to stay at the top of iTunes pages. Please also share it with family and friends! Available for both rental and purchase. Here is the link to the iTunes page https://vinnietortorich.com/iTunes If you don't have iTunes, find it at Vimeo here! https: