Episode 16: Alessandro Ferretti

Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Zach Bitter

Zach Bitter

Sports, Fitness, Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Hybridathlete, Ultra, Endurance, Ultramarathon, Running, Run

4.7 • 615 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2018

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Welcome to the Human Performance Outliers Podcast! Your hosts, Dr. Shawn Baker and Zach Bitter, are here to explore the outer limits of performance with interviews, Q&As, and interesting topics related to nutrition and performance. In episode 16, we speak with Alessandro Ferretti and take a deep dive into sports nutrition. Alessandro has practiced nutritional therapy for over 15 years working as a part of a multi-disciplinary medical team at the Centre for Health and Human Performance in Harley Street, London. Alessandro is currently collaborating with other international researchers on ketogenic applications in health, nutrigenomics, heart rate variability (HRV) and environmental influences on performance.

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0:00.0	Listen is going to be interested in this.
0:17.0	We're going to, hey, I'll shout out.
0:19.0	We're just going to start recording here, and then we'll just kind of, you know, if we can use some of this kind of banner stuff,
0:23.9	we will. And then we'll get into it. I know you've got a limited time. I know you like to get off the, that you're a smart man. You like to get off the electronics by 7 p.m. which I think is probably wise decision for all.
0:19.1	As long as
0:20.3	as long as it's not
0:21.6	kind of work
0:23.3	stimulating so anything
0:24.5	that gets me kind of you know
0:26.0	going as long as as long as it's not kind of work stimulating so anything that gets me kind of you know
0:40.9	going exciting gets new idea and all of that then yeah i tried to mine data from patients and
0:47.1	and athletes at 730 and suddenly you know it was wide away kind of thing.
0:56.8	Yeah, that cuts into the sleep.
0:59.0	Zach, are we going? Are you ready to record and stuff?
1:00.5	Yeah, we're ready to go.
1:02.6	Okay, so hey, I'll say, yeah, thanks for coming on.
1:04.9	So one of the things, I listened to a podcast with you, you did with Dr. Mark Bubbs a little while ago,
1:10.4	and one of the things that was
1:11.7	interesting to me, you know, I thought the whole discussion about long-term ketogenic athletes and
1:17.4	some of the issues with that. But one of the things in particular for me that stood out was the
1:21.7	what you had said early in the podcast that you'd observed a number of high-level elite athletes.
1:26.3	And they had all high blood glucose. And it was kind of interesting because I have a similar situation. I'm a very
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