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🗓️ 29 September 2025
⏱️ 109 minutes
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In this episode, Dr. Kyle Gillett returns a third time to explore with me the growing issue of Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S), how it affects athletes' performance and overall health, and strategies to mitigate its impacts.
We also touch on the influence of social media on health perceptions, the effectiveness of red light therapy for recovery and sleep, and the recent buzz linking high-mileage running to colon cancer.
CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction and Welcome
02:11 Social Media and Health Information
06:18 Understanding RED-S (Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport)
10:47 Impact of RED-S on Athletes
16:05 Hormonal and Genetic Factors in RED-S
21:16 Cortisol and Its Role in RED-S
49:06 Personal Experiences and Training Insights
57:54 Unsustainable Ironman Training
59:54 Social Media's Impact on Fitness
01:04:03 Exploring Light Therapy
01:21:05 High Mileage Running and Colon Cancer
01:34:43 Alcohol and Its Effects on Health
01:41:04 Parenting and Core Values
01:48:51 Conclusion and Final Thoughts
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| 0:00.0 | all right ladies and gentlemen welcome back to another episode of the podcast for a third time |
| 0:13.9 | returning dr kyle jillett welcome thank you nick always a pleasure i love having you, Nick. Always a pleasure. |
| 0:21.9 | I love having you on. |
| 0:25.9 | There's a lot of topics that I'm very interested in, |
| 0:35.2 | but I don't necessarily have the credentials or all the research or credibility to speak into them. |
| 0:41.4 | And one of the reasons I love bringing you on the show is you have the research. |
| 0:42.4 | You have the credibility. |
| 0:48.4 | You have the credentials to add some validity to the topics that I'm interested in that I'm genuinely curious and interested in. |
| 0:51.0 | So I appreciate all your insight and knowledge and wisdom into all things, health, performance, |
| 0:57.9 | human optimization. |
| 0:59.5 | Certainly. |
| 1:00.1 | Thank you for letting me spam your inbox with various studies and findings. |
| 1:05.2 | So what? |
| 1:05.7 | I know we have a few topics that we want to discuss today. |
| 1:10.5 | What are you genuinely really interested and curious about right now as you pursue, |
| 1:18.4 | you know, your own personal and professional curiosities around health, performance, |
| 1:24.0 | optimization, all the things? |
| 1:26.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:32.3 | There's a variety of things, but I'm always very interested in any cutting edge therapy, including peptides. And I'm also very interested in different health issues that are |
| 1:38.9 | specific to runners or hybrid athletes. As you know, I've been running a lot more personally recently. I've |
| 1:46.3 | done high rocks. I'm going to do some more of them. And I've also recently done things like |
| 1:51.9 | gotten my first colon cancer screening. And I see things like Reds, relative energy deficiency in |
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