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#205 – Zach Bitter: Ultramarathon Running

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The Ketogenic Diet Is a Part of a Ketogenic Diet

The carnivore seems to treat like like depression uh-huh like mental stuff yeah it's fascinating there's all these stories again it's anecdotes but it's like the mental one I think may I'm stepping out a bit on a limb here. So for where the community is an agreement is that you do want to be very good at burning fat for ultramarathons if your ratios are skewed very high towards carbohydrate metabolism then you're gonna have to defend your muscle glycogen through tons of carbohydrate consumption. That's just hard to do over the course of an entire day even at low intensities so it's a fuel tank thing.

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