Episode 262: Fueling Performance With Low Carb & Keto - Matt Carpenter, PhD
Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Zach Bitter
Zach Bitter
4.8 • 622 Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2021
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
Matt is a Sport Science PhD researcher, studying the impact of ketogenic diets and exogenous ketones on exercise performance.
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks for tuning into this episode of the Human Performance Outliers podcast with Zach Bitter. |
| 0:09.8 | Welcome back, everyone. For this episode of the Human Performance Outliers podcast, I am joined by Matt Carpenter to discuss a variety of topics around the ketogenic low-carb diet when it comes to performance. |
| 0:23.2 | Matt is a sports science PhD researcher studying the impact of ketogenic diets and exogenous ketones |
| 0:29.5 | on exercise performance. Matt enrolled at Kingston University in 2014 to complete a bachelor's in |
| 0:36.7 | sports science, achieving first-class honors. |
| 0:39.8 | Following this, he completed his master's in sports and exercise performance, also at Kingston |
| 0:44.8 | University. During his master's degree, he completed a research project entitled acute carbohydrate |
| 0:50.8 | supplementation improves ultra-endurance performance in a keto-adapted individual. |
| 0:57.3 | Matt began his PhD at Kingston University in 2018 in order to further investigate the role of ketogenic and low-carbohyditary interventions on health and exercise performance, |
| 1:07.8 | in addition to addressing the role of acute supplementation in ketogenic |
| 1:12.2 | athletes and the impact this has on substrate metabolism and exercise performance. |
| 1:18.3 | Let's all welcome Matt onto the show and dive right in. |
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