Episode 351: Exogenous Ketones & Performance - Brian McMahon
Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Zach Bitter
Zach Bitter
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🗓️ 23 May 2023
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Brian McMahon works alongside Professor Kieran Clarke, who has been a critical part of exogenous ketone research and formulation. Together with their team at deltaG they have produced 50+ published studies and are part of 20+ ongoing studies. This includes two very recent studies that explored exogenous ketone relationship with increasing natural levels of EPO, as well as increasing circulating dopamine concentration, improving mental alertness, and improving post exercise inflammation in endurance athletes.
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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 | All right, everybody, welcome back to another episode of the Human Performance Outliers |
| 0:14.0 | podcast. I'm your host, Zach Bitter, and today I have both a guest interview and topic-based |
| 0:19.6 | interview for you. So today's guest is Brian McMahon, |
| 0:23.0 | and today's topic is on exogenous ketones, and this time a little bit more specific towards |
| 0:29.1 | performance, although we do touch on a little bit of the recovery aspect of it as well. So for those |
| 0:33.9 | of you have been listening for a while, you'll know I dove into this topic a few times in the past and just sort of followed the research since exogenous ketones are very much in their infancy in terms of where they've been used in sports performance and recovery. |
| 0:47.7 | And one of the original episodes I did on this topic's topic was with Brianna Stubbs, who is very much in the weeds when it comes to |
| 0:55.9 | the research around exogenous ketones. And that was episode 202, if you're interested in |
| 1:00.9 | going back in either re-listening or listening for the first time and just maybe comparing |
| 1:04.9 | where things are at today versus what they were back then a few years ago when Brianna first |
| 1:09.2 | came on the show. And one of the reasons why I'm diving back into this topic now is because we have had a lot more |
| 1:15.3 | research. Now there's some interesting stuff that would indicate that there's possibly more |
| 1:21.1 | usage, which I'll go over with Brian during this episode, along with just some protocols. |
| 1:25.8 | So one reason I want to do this now is at the |
| 1:29.1 | beginning of the year, I was starting to get really curious with exogenous ketones and started |
| 1:33.1 | playing around with them in my own training and in a race actually as well. And I wanted to kind |
| 1:39.8 | of get an experience for myself to pair with where the research was at and see what I both noticed |
| 1:45.0 | as well as what I didn't notice. And in fact, one of the reasons why I wanted to do it during a |
| 1:49.7 | race was because the races I do are kind of long. And for those of you've been following along |
| 1:54.6 | or do ultramarathons yourselves will recognize like digestion is a huge component of these |
| 1:59.1 | sort of things. So, you know, if something works, even in your long run, it may not be working very well for |
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