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EP 579: Keep Your Gut and Brain Happy

Trail Runner Nation

Trail Runner Nation

Fitness, Sports, Running, Health & Fitness

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

What are the biggest misconceptions that endurance athletes have about nutrition?  Dr. Patrick Davitt, Assistant Professor of Kinesiology and Program Director for Exercise Physiology at the Saint Joseph's University, joins us The Nation to help us understand some important information about nutrition as it relates to endurane sports.  Patrick has practical experience as an avid and accomplished member of our community of trail runners!  Should we taper our nutrition prior to a race?  Can we train our gut similar to our cardiovascular system?

Find out more about Dr. Davitt at CTW Endurance

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If you take anyone in the history of exercise that is ever bonked or failed, and if we dissected

0:08.2

them, we would see they always had energy and they always had a capacity left.

0:13.2

No one has ever gone to zero in anything.

0:29.3

And today we're running with Patrick Davitt and we're going to talk all about nutrition.

0:51.5

Inside tracker is powered by science and you.

0:55.8

If you want to perform your very best, you have to have everything in line and that's

0:59.4

what inside tracker does.

1:01.0

You can put the shoes on, you can get a training plan, but what's inside of you is what makes

1:04.7

the biggest difference.

1:06.2

Inside tracker helps you know what's right for you by analyzing your blood, your DNA and

1:10.6

your habits and then creating a plan to improve what's going on inside where it's hard

1:16.6

to see.

1:17.6

There's a lot of elite runners that are using inside tracker to reach their goals.

1:22.4

You may be behind one of them and trying to figure out why you can't catch them.

1:25.4

It's probably because they know what's going on inside their body.

1:28.6

At inside tracker there are a bunch of different plans, there's one that's right for you.

1:32.8

You go there, you select a plan, they'll schedule a blood draw, they'll come straight

1:37.1

to your office or to your home and then they'll start the analysis period.

1:41.4

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1:43.2

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1:50.8

We just had the opportunity to hang out at Western States Weekend and you know what I

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