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The Strength Running Podcast

281. Fasting, Blood Sugar, and Diabetes with Sports Dietitian Meghann Featherstun

The Strength Running Podcast

Jason Fitzgerald

Health & Fitness, 10k, Beginnerrunning, Marathontraining, Fitness, Injuryprevention, Marathon, Halfmarathon, Running, Sports

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Meet Meghann Featherstun - a Registered Dietitian and board certified specialist in sports dietetics. Meghann is also a talented runner, having broken 3 hours in the marathon after starting to run as an adult in 2009.

Throughout our discussion Meghann answers questions from listeners, in addition to many of my own! Some of these include:

  • What’s a normal blood glucose range and why might runners be different from the average population?
  • What impact does training have on your blood glucose over time?
  • How is your blood glucose and other lab work impacted by an event like a marathon?
  • How should diabetics think differently about pre-run/pre-race fueling?
  • What is the impact of carb loading on blood glucose?
  • Is pre-run fasting ever beneficial?

Meghann does an outstanding job of making a complex topic interesting and relatable, and you're bound to learn a lot from her expertise!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Ready, set, go!

0:04.9

This is episode 281 with board-certified specialist in sports diatetics, 257 marathoner,

0:11.8

and register dietician, Megan Featherston.

0:23.6

Welcome to the Strength Rending Podcast.

0:25.5

I'm your host, Coach Jason Fitzgerald, and I'm getting out of my comfort zone in this

0:29.6

episode.

0:30.6

Joining me is sports dietician, Megan Featherston, and we're having a wide-ranging conversation

0:35.7

about blood glucose levels, why and how those are important for runners, how diabetics

0:41.6

should think about glucose as they train, and Megan will also answer, listen our questions.

0:47.1

If you're new here, this show features training conversations, coaching calls, and experts

0:51.9

in the running space to elevate your thinking about the sport.

0:55.9

Because if you better understand the process of improvement, when you recognize knowledge

1:00.2

as a competitive advantage, you'll be a much better runner.

1:03.8

But Strength Rending is not just a podcast, don't miss our growing YouTube channel at youtube.com-slash-strengthrunning,

1:10.7

and you can find me on Instagram at JasonFitts1.

1:13.9

Our home base is StrengthRunning.com.

1:16.7

Since 2010, we've been helping runners around the world, no matter how fast they are, with

1:21.1

our award-winning blog, our free email courses, and our suite of training programs to help

1:26.5

you accomplish your biggest running goals.

1:29.6

You can see all of those programs at StrengthRunning.com-slash-coaching.

1:34.9

We're supported by our newest partner, Prevenex.

1:38.1

I've never partnered with a supplement company until now, and that's because Prevenex is,

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