Eat to Win with Dr. Phil Maffetone
Trail Runner Nation
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Do You Need a Meal Before a Run?
The amino acids that are part of proteins can be converted to glucose. Many people, if they eat too much protein, can produce too much insulin from that. Do you recommend having a meal before a run or at some point or just empty stomach? It's a hocus. There again, you have an individual kind of thing. Probably in my distance running life, I would not eat before a run and a race. But it was a low or no carbohydrate meal.
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