#50: Dr. Timothy Noakes
The Primal Kitchen Podcast
Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti
4.4 • 717 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2015
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Mark Sisson has a discussion with Dr. Timothy Noakes of South Africa, who is an author and well-known expert in exercise physiology and human performance. As a physician, former longtime marathon runner, and co-founder of the Sports Science Institute of South Africa, Dr. Noakes has spearheaded efforts to advocate a low carb/high fat diet despite opposition in the mainstream medical community.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast, featuring fresh and lively commentary on all things Primal, |
| 0:06.7 | including Q&A sessions with Primal Blueprint founder, Mark Sisson. |
| 0:11.3 | Special guest interviews hosted by Mark Sisson in conversations with Primal Blueprint authors and other health and fitness experts. |
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| 0:44.1 | And now here's your host, Brad Kearns. |
| 0:44.8 | Hi, listeners. |
| 0:50.7 | Host Brad Kearns here with a very special global podcast production where Mark Sisson, |
| 0:55.9 | chilling in Malibu, California, with the help of Brock Armstrong out in Toronto, |
| 1:02.8 | joins up with Dr. Timothy Noakes all the way across the globe where he's based in South Africa for this podcast, first thing in the morning for the Malibu types and late in the day for the |
| 1:08.7 | South African busy schedule of Dr. Noakes, and it's so wonderful that he takes |
| 1:12.5 | the time to talk to us. And if you haven't heard of him, he's considered by many to be the preeminent |
| 1:18.2 | exercise physiologist, human performance expert for endurance sports on the planet. And this started |
| 1:25.4 | with the publication of his masterpiece tome called Lour of Running. |
| 1:30.2 | This was now a couple decades ago it's been out, an 800-page volume that covers anything and |
| 1:36.0 | everything having to do with exercise physiology specifically to endurance performance. |
| 1:41.1 | And the cool thing, especially for Mark, with his long background in the |
| 1:45.1 | endurance scene, is that Dr. Noakes, in recent years, has embraced primal paleo, ancestral health, |
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