Thanks for tuning into this episode of the Human Performance Outliers podcast with Zach Bitter.

All right, everyone.

Welcome back to another episode of the Human Performance Outliers podcast.

I'm your host, Zach Bitter.

Today, I have a guest interview for you.

So I'm excited to bring this guest in.

His name is Layton Phillips.

I've known Layton for a few years now. And one of the things that I find interesting about

Layton is he had a similar experience as I did when it came to fueling longer endurance sports.

So Layton's background was in swimming when he was younger in the collegiate age.

And then he started playing around with triathlons and eventually ultramarathons,

including the Ultra Trail Mount Blanc later on in his life.

But along the way, just realized that the traditional fueling strategy for endurance athletes

was not working for him personally and began kind of going down

a low carbohydrate path to help him get to the finish line in the best way he could find. So

rather than just tinkering around with different options that were already available,

he eventually parlayed his

own experience, making his own nutrition into a brand called S-Fuel, which is actually the product

that I use today for my training and racing needs on the nutrition front. So I talked to Leighton

about the whole process of fueling as a low carbohydrate athlete.

He has worked closely with guys like Dan Pluse, who's been on this podcast in the past

and is going to be coming back on shortly and has essentially like come up with a formula

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