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Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Zach Bitter

Episode 74: Dr. Mark Cucuzzella

Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Zach Bitter

Zach Bitter

Fitness, Sports, Running, Health & Fitness

4.8622 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2019

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the Human Performance Outliers Podcast with hosts Dr. Shawn Baker and Zach Bitter. For this episode, we welcome Dr. Mark Cucuzzella onto the show. Mark is an Air Force Reserve lieutenant colonel, practices family medicine in Ranson and Martinsburg, West Virginia. He is a professor at the West Virginia University School of Medicine and conducts Healthy Running Medical Education courses. He has run competitively for almost four decades, with more than one hundred marathon and ultramarathon finishes, and he continues to compete as a national-level masters runner with an active streak of thirty straight years under a three-hour marathon. Cucuzzella owns the first minimalist running and walking store, Two Rivers Treads, in his hometown of Shepherdstown, West Virginia. He is the author of, "Run for Your Life."
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Articles and Sites Mark Mentioned:

Eat Lancet blog: http://naturalrunningcenter.com/2019/01/27/eatlancet/

My survey study of 1500 on LC diets: https://insulinresistance.org/index.php/jir/article/view/30

Minnesota Starvation study....what happens when you eat 1500 cals for 24 wks: http://www.epi.umn.edu/cvdepi/video/the-minnesota-semistarvation-experiment

Lipid patterns on LC diets (two attached papers): https://bmjopensem.bmj.com/content/4/1/e000429 and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30544168

LC diets and effect on CAC: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-nutrition/article/lowcarbohydrate-diets-and-prevalence-incidence-and-progression-of-coronary-artery-calcium-in-the-multiethnic-study-of-atherosclerosis-mesa/70E006AD304D0EA065A0509B1EA5BFAF

My butter burning story: http://naturalrunningcenter.com/2017/03/07/burn-fat-health-performance-better-butter-burner/

Resource page from Run For Your Life book website w lots of stuff on running and nutrition: http://runforyourlifebook.com/resources/

Tendinopathy as metabolic disease Maffulli: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/291518067_Hormones_and_tendinopathies_The_current_evidence

Sugar free hospital Salon article: https://www.salon.com/2018/06/03/get-sugary-drinks-out-of-hospitals/

MAF site: https://philmaffetone.com/taking-steps-for-future-health/

Two Rivers Treads Page: www.tworiverstreads.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Human Performance Outliers Podcasts with your host's Dr. Sean Baker and Zach Bitter.

0:07.5

At Human Performance Outliers Podcasts, we dive into a wide range of topics revolving around health, nutrition, and physical fitness.

0:15.7

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0:28.0

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0:33.8

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0:38.6

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0:43.9

Now, on to the next topic.

0:46.6

And then I'm in Phoenix right now.

0:48.2

I think you knew that.

0:49.6

Yeah.

0:50.4

So you're on two hours from me.

0:53.1

Yep.

0:53.5

Yeah.

0:54.2

Yeah. How are things going for you out east at Two Rivers Treads?

0:58.9

Good, good.

0:59.8

Have you heard of our little store before?

1:02.3

Yeah, you know what?

1:03.2

Back in the early days of Ultra with Golden and...

1:06.1

Yeah, no doubt.

1:07.4

You know, it's funny because I feel like I know you a lot better than I probably should

1:13.6

without having met you. And I think a lot of that is to do with kind of both, we both kind of found

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