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Optimal Protein Podcast with Vanessa Spina

Exercise Snacks Scientist Dr. Jonathan Little! The Best Snacks, How They Work, Fed vs Fasted Workouts & More

Optimal Protein Podcast with Vanessa Spina

Vanessa Spina

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.5758 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Hi friends! This episode is about Exercise Snacks Scientist Dr. Jonathan Little! The Best Snacks, How They Work, Fed vs Fasted Workouts & More! Dr. Little is a researcher at UBC focusing on understanding how the metabolic disruptions that characterize type 2 diabetes affect cellular inflammation and explore how different exercise and nutritional strategies can be used to reduce inflammation and improve overall cardiometabolic health.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Optimal Protein Podcast. I'm Vanessa Spina.

0:05.5

Hello, my friends. Welcome back to the podcast. I'm your host Vanessa. And I am so excited for

0:11.3

today's episode. We have Dr. Jonathan Little joining us. And we are talking all about exercise

0:17.2

snacks and how we can deplete our glycogen in our muscles and our liver and how this can

0:24.9

help our bodies to be more insulin sensitive and really boost glycemic control he has been

0:31.1

studying this for many many years studying specifically exercise snacks glycogen depletion, mitochondrial biogenesis, high-intensity

0:40.9

interval training.

0:42.3

And we really get into the physiology of how these different pathways work in the body

0:48.4

in terms of glucose transporters and what these exercise snacks can do for us.

0:53.8

We talk specifically about the best ones, the best forms of exercise, whether it comes down

0:59.4

to the type of exercise or the duration and all of these different strategies that we can

1:05.4

utilize as tools in our day to make us more metabolically healthy.

1:10.2

And at the end of the episode, we talk a little bit about keto and metabolic flexibility

1:14.6

and how to really enhance our metabolic flexibility by bringing exercise in and reintroducing

1:21.1

carbohydrates.

1:22.2

It is a really fascinating topic, whether or not you are improving metabolic flexibility by restricting carbohydrates

1:30.3

or if you are just temporarily not producing that insulin from your responses and the best

1:39.3

ways to really improve both insulin sensitivity and metabolic flexibility with these specific strategies.

1:47.4

So I love this episode. I hope that you get a ton of takeaways from it as well.

1:51.8

Please do share them in our Facebook group, which is the Opts on Protein podcast on Facebook.

1:56.7

If you'd like to join us there for more conversation and discussion on these topics.

2:02.5

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