021: Steph Lowe - Supercharging Your Athletic Performance With a Ketogenic Diet
The Natural State with Dr. Anthony Gustin
Dr. Anthony Gustin
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🗓️ 28 May 2018
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Whether you're a competitive endurance athlete, biker, CrossFitter, or barely entering the fitness world, you've probably heard that the best way to fuel your body and speed up recovery is by loading up on carbs.
You may have also been told that the source of those carbs doesn't matter, so you can indulge in pasta all you want.
When Steph Lowe was doing long-cross triathlon a few years ago, she was told the same thing, but she refused to go with the flow.
She believed there had to be a better way to increase performance and endurance without relying on sugar and processed foods. And she was right.
After her own experience as an athlete, Steph Lowe became a sports nutritionist and founded The Natural Nutritionist, where she uses a LCHF ketogenic diet to help other athletes improve not only their performance, but also their blood sugar, metabolism, gut health, mental well-being, and much more.
In this episode, she breaks down why athletes are harming their performance by relying on carbs, and how to make the switch to a ketogenic diet for better results.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, hello. Thank you for tuning in to the Keto Answers podcast. I am your |
| 0:09.5 | house doctor, Anthony Gussi, and joining me this week is Steph Low. You might know Steph |
| 0:14.7 | as a natural nutritionist. She's down in Australia doing some awesome things. Her specialty |
| 0:19.2 | is using a low carb, high fat ketogenic type of diet with performance athletes. I don't |
| 0:24.6 | think we've had anyone on the show talking about performance. And it has been one of the |
| 0:28.5 | most requested things of how do you use a ketogenic diet if you're doing endurance racing, |
| 0:32.6 | if you're doing performance based stuff. And the first person, the first guest I wanted |
| 0:36.8 | on when it came to that topic was Steph. So she's been working with athletes years and years |
| 0:41.6 | and years. She is an athlete herself. And the actual advice that she gives in the show |
| 0:46.9 | is just invaluable. So if you're an athlete or if you're looking to start using performance |
| 0:51.2 | in your life with a ketogenic diet, this is the episode I'll listen to tune in and I hope |
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