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Episode 353: Andrew Koutnik, PhD - Low Carb Health & Performance

Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Zach Bitter

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The Effects of Fat Oxidation on Performance

We saw massive increases in fat oxidation record levels of it. And that seems to be how these individuals were sustaining their performance was utilizing a tremendous amount of fat during their exercise. But the biggest caveat that really shocked me as someone who lives with a disease that glycemic control is a paramount importance is that 30% of the individuals actually had resting levels and fasted levels of glucose that were in the pre diabetic range. So either way, very, very fascinating area and topic, but a leave it open in it to your what you think about that, Zach. We didn't get a single snapshot of fasting plasma values. we got about 280 to 72 times the resolution by tracking glucose values every minute

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