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Dr. Jordan Shallow, performance coach, chiropractor, and competitive powerlifter talks injury prevention, maximizing the value of your training, and breathing as a gateway to the autonomic nervous system.

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The Benefits of Ketogenic Dieting for Performance

It depends on what realm of performance we're talking. I think intermittently using ketogenic diets to improve the threshold in which your body actually utilizes carbohydrates for fuel can be beneficial. For an endurance runner, it'd be wildly beneficial to be able to push like, okay, imagine you start tapping into your glycogen stores, liver and muscle at mile 17 because you've been exerting past a percentage heart rate for certain number of minutes or miles.

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