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259: Carbohydrates: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly—with Dr. Asker Jeukendrup 

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The Importance of Carbohydrates in Cycling Performance

Trevor: This is an area where my head just begins to spin with the complexity that is the immune system. I have autoimmunity issues. It feels like you know, TH 17 is upregulated with sugar consumption. But if we think about this in sort of a maximal versus marginal gain situation, at the end of the day, whether or not something like this is a driving and I'm always because I'm so egocentric, it's an easy thing to do. Trevor: There was a really interesting study that showed that when you have endurance athletes on a very high simple carbohydrate diet, that tended to push their microbiota composition the wrong way. That pushed them towards a

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