Hi, my name is Ryan Flaredy and I'm the Senior Director of Performance at Nike.

I trained some of the world's best athletes, like Russell Wilson, Marcus Mariotta, and Serena Williams.

At Nike we believe that greatness is in born, it's trained.

And training is more than just a workout.

Each episode will bring you conversations with leading experts in what we call the five facets of training.

Movement, recovery, sleep, nutrition, and mindset.

Today we focus on diet and our complicated relationship to nutrition.

You're listening to Train, presented by Nike.

What I really have noticed is that when I do like an eight or nine hour time eating window, so I'm fasting for 15 or 16 hours,

and I go for a run, my performance is completely enhanced.

I get to the point where I usually stop and I just keep going another couple of miles.

That's Dr. Ronda Patrick, founder of Found My Fitness Blog and Podcast.

Dr. Patrick is a scientist in nutritional health, the brain, and aging.

Today she and I discuss how our current eating habits can affect our bodies in the lung run.

Before we hear from Ronda, I wanted to tell you about something that happens to me all the time here at Nike.

Every day at the office, my coworkers always ask me tons of questions about training and nutrition.

People stop by my desk and say things like, can I eat this or should I be intermittent fasting?

Even at Nike, where people are so invested in holistic training, even they find it hard to keep up with the latest information.

Just last week, I was walking by my coworker's desk and she had this fish oil that was sitting by her computer.

I was curious, so I asked her a few questions about it.

Like, how come you picked this brand and what are you hoping to get from it?

The way she answered reminds me of what I encounter a lot in this industry. She actually wasn't totally sure.

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