Episode 423: Is Low Carb Back? New Study Sheds Light
Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Zach Bitter
Zach Bitter
4.7 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
A study on Low Carb Keto diets was recently published by Prins, Noakes, Koutnik, et al. that examined the role of stable blood sugar through very small carbohydrate intake as the main determiner of performance for endurance athletes, as well as some insights into low carbohydrate performance compared to high carbohydrate. I take a look, and share some thoughts.
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| 1:19.2 | All right, everybody. This is going to be one of the shorter episodes that I do solo that I'm going to add more of to the podcast this year. |
| 1:27.1 | For this specific one, I want to dive in a recent study that just came out on low carbohydrate |
| 1:32.7 | endurance. |
| 1:33.7 | So, you know, it's been making the rounds on the internet. |
| 1:36.3 | You're seeing a lot of chatter around kind of whether it means anything, whether it |
| 1:41.5 | proves low carbohydrate diets are applicable for endurance athletes |
| 1:45.7 | on par with high carbohydrate diets and, you know, push back from the other side saying, |
| 1:50.6 | like, this doesn't answer any of those questions. Those are kind of the extreme versions of |
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