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a16z Bio + Health #3: Metabolic Health with Casey Means

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Is Bonking the Next Frontier in Letic Performance?

The idea of bonking is that we have about two hours worth of stored glucose in our bodies, stored in the circulation and then in the muscles and the liver as chains of glucos called glicogen. Two hours into an event, like we're out of glucose. We're not metabolically flexible. We're metabolically inflexible. And if that happens, two hours into a bike ride, you're going to bomp. There are now people running marathons fasted, no glucose, haven't eaten for eight, ten hours, and can run a full marathon a doing this. It actually seems to have really favorable effects on your insolentivity levels,. Your 24

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