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Bad Boy Running

Ep 308 - Tim Noakes - No More Carbs Vs The Scientific Community

Bad Boy Running

Jody Raynsford & David Hellard

Runner, Sports, Leisure, Fitness, Ultramarathon, Marathon, Health & Fitness, Running Injuries, Running, Hobbies, Ultrarunning

4.7539 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2021

⏱️ 83 minutes

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0:00.0

They're bad, their boys, and occasionally they talk about running.

0:06.6

Yes, it's the Bad Boy Running podcast with your host, Jody Rainsford, and David Heller.

0:13.0

Come back.

0:16.0

Baby, come back.

0:17.6

But a bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye.

0:20.4

I must admit I was a clown to be messing around.

0:24.7

But that doesn't mean that you have to leave town.

0:28.6

Come back.

0:29.0

We've got an actually treat for you today.

0:31.9

I'm sure you've all heard of Tim Nokes and we've wanted to get him on for some time.

0:35.7

But if you don't know about him, he's someone who first discovered that people were drinking too much liquid during Comrade's

0:42.8

ultramarathon and has saved tens hundreds, potentially hundreds of lives since then in his study

0:48.1

of that and awareness of that. He also came up with the idea of the central governor theory, which proposes that it's fatigue of your

0:58.3

emotion and your psychological state that slows you down rather than necessarily your physical

1:02.0

state. And then all hell broke loose when he came through with his views on carbs and a low

1:09.7

carb diet. And it's never stopped really being a crazy world for him

1:14.0

since then. So work for the podcast, Professor Tim Nokes. Yeah, how are things with you? Very well,

1:25.0

thanks. No, life's good. Considering everything, I am retired now,

1:30.7

seven years, so that's kind of made it a little bit easier. I don't have to face the

1:34.2

criticism directly on a day-to-day basis. Does that make it easier or harder to, I guess, get a platform to, you know, engage people?

1:48.4

Well, I have become very active on Twitter and that's really been very, very interesting because I've discovered that's one of the best ways to get new information.

1:57.1

So I wrote recently that it's like going to medical school every day.

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