61. The Life Changing Benefits of the Keto Diet and Being Metabolically Flexible
The Kris Gethin Podcast
Kris Gethin
4.9 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2019
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Knowledge and Mileage, Kris interviews Mark Sisson, a former distance runner, triathlete and IRONMAN competitor. He is also the founder of Primal Nutrition, LLC, and Primal Kitchen, and the author of numerous books, including The Primal Blueprint, which was credited with turbocharging the growth of the primal/paleo movement back in 2009.
Learn about how a keto diet could change your life and your metabolism.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, everybody, welcome to the Knowledge and Mileage Podcast. |
| 0:03.6 | We're here at FitCon, and I have the pleasure to bump into Mark. |
| 0:08.5 | Mark's season yesterday and said, hey, you know what? |
| 0:10.7 | Is there a possibility that we could get you on a podcast? |
| 0:13.1 | Like, yeah, sure. |
| 0:14.3 | Fantastic opportunity. |
| 0:15.6 | So thank you very much for sitting down around this massive, large round table |
| 0:20.3 | and having this discussion with me, Mark. |
| 0:21.8 | It's totally my pleasure. |
| 0:23.0 | So for the viewers and listeners that are out there, can you tell us a little brief background |
| 0:28.9 | about yourself and what you're all about now? |
| 0:32.7 | Yeah, so I was a geeky kid interested in health and fitness and longevity from an early age, like 12, 13 years old. |
| 0:40.1 | I just wanted to read about longevity and health and started jogging to school because it was |
| 0:48.6 | convenient. I could beat the bus home or to and from. And it coincided with this timing of the the aerobic boom the running boom so in the |
| 0:58.3 | late 60s I started accumulating mileage just because I was trying to again beat the bus home from school |
| 1:05.9 | and next thing you know I'm fit enough to go out for the track team and I'm winning the mile and the two |
| 1:09.8 | mile in the same meets and I'm reading that running is good for the track team, and I'm winning the mile and the two mile in the same meets. |
| 1:12.3 | And I'm reading that running is good for you, good for your heart, and you're going to live longer, so that all fit into my plan. |
| 1:17.6 | And I started eating carbohydrates because that was what you were supposed to do to fuel all the miles. |
| 1:24.0 | So I ate a lot of complex carbohydrates. |
| 1:26.0 | I became a fairly good runner. |
| 1:27.8 | I was finished fifth in the U.S. national championships in the marathon in 1980. |
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