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

All right, everybody, welcome back to another episode of the Human Performance Outliers podcast.

I am your host, Zach Bitter.

And today I have a solo episode for you where I'm going to dive into a topic that has

gotten some momentum online in the last couple weeks. And it has to do with performance

related to nutrition. So an ongoing conversation that I've had on this podcast that has

also taken place to some degree within the endurance world

is this idea of like a low carbohydrate ketogenic diet versus a more traditional model

of a moderate to high carbohydrate diet and how that impacts performance.

It's interesting because I think it requires a lot of nuance, partly because when we

use the word endurance, we're using that as an umbrella term to cover such a wide range of events.

It almost becomes a question that requires further investigation.

And it's going to be a big difference when we're talking about, say,

endurance at the, like, shorter end of the spectrum versus the longer end of the spectrum.

Or, in other words, like, say, a three-kilometer race versus a effort where you see how far you can run in 24 hours or something like that.

So that's where the conversation has gone a lot of times is like, well, what are we talking

about when we say endurance?

One thing, though, that tends to be a common theme is that as you get into these shorter

endurance events that require a moderate

to higher intensity for that particular event, we see a reduction in performance when someone

implants a low carbohydrate ketogenic diet in a lot of the research to date. So most of this stuff requires further

investigation, or at least it's called for that. And recently a study came out that looked actually

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