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Ep 50: Dr. Peter Attia on Ultra-Endurance, Drinking Jet Fuel, Human Foie Gras, and More

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The Difference Between Protein, Carbohydrate and Fat

We have a pretty good understanding of how macronutrients impact hormones and enzymes in the body. How those enzymes may regulate fat cell accumulation, the accumulation of fat within fat cells atoposites. So that's why, when somebody does a treadmill test with one of those masks, we can tell two really exciting things about them. One is how much energy they use for that given task. And perhaps as interestingly, if not more interestingly, where they got that energy from.

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