#60: Running on Ketones and Carbs, with Michael Brandt

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Chapters: 

• 0:00 Intros
• 4:28 Welcome to Michael Brandt
• 6:09 Engineering approach to the human body
• 9:16 Glucose and ketone energy systems
• 12:00 Benefits of ketones and ketosis
• 18:50 US Department of Defense (special ops) contract
• 20:53 Pioneering ideas and use cases
• 25:41 Finding the right products in a crowded market
• 34:26 Self-actualisation through fuel and experimentation
• 39:31 Protocols for being optimal with ketosis
• 42:37 The spike and crash profile
• 45:56 Human body as a platform
• 49:11 Keeping it simple
• 51:25 Intuition
• 52:37 Fuelling for Marathon training and racing & life!
• 57:46 Healthy scepticism
• 1:01:03 Running as the parent sport
• 1:04:07 Michael’s own protocol for implementing Ketone IQ and other products
• 1:07:28 Energy used by the brain
• 1:10:10 Developments in the nutrition space, traumatic brain injury
• 1:15:52 Where to find/follow Michael
• 1:16:30 Closing thoughts
• 1:17:36 Outro

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• Twitter: https://twitter.com/bdm_runner
• Website: michaelbrandt.co
• Strava: https://www.strava.com/athletes/22928004

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Ketone IQ™ by HVMN is a supplement that increases your blood ketone levels. Many people, including myself, find that increasing ketone levels, by using a supplement such as Ketone-IQ, can greatly improve cognitive ability and even physical output for mental performance and exercise.

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