Ketosis and Fat Burning Benefits for Runners with Doctors Art Zemach and Mark Cucuzzella
Run to the Top Podcast | The Ultimate Guide to Running
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🗓️ 6 March 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Two medical doctors, who are also avid runners and personally advocate for the fat burning way of eating that creates ketosis, speak to host Stephanie Kay Atwood about fat loss and increased performance as a runner.
We're talking with Dr. Mark Cucuzzella and Art Zemach, who have both interviewed on this podcast before. This is an informative and interesting topic for many of you, presented from professionals who know the subject intimately. Both doctors have used the Low Carb / High Fat concept in their own running and have offered to speak professionally as well as personally to the pros and cons of ketosis as a nutritional concept for runners.
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| 0:00.0 | On today's Run to the Top Podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | People think with these gels and goos that they need that stuff. |
| 0:10.0 | So it's kind of like a little bit of rocket fuel as our it says, you know, 100 calories an hour, |
| 0:15.0 | you're not relying on that, but you know, fat burns a bit in the flame of this little bit of |
| 0:19.6 | carbohydrate drip, so it kind of keeps that fat mobilization going. |
| 0:24.0 | Welcome to the Run to the Top Podcast from Runners Connect, |
| 0:29.0 | where it's all about learning from the best and most inspiring minds in the sport. |
| 0:35.0 | Together, we can train a smarter, healthier, and faster running community. |
| 0:41.0 | Now here's your host, Stephanie Kay Atwood. |
| 0:45.0 | Welcome, this is Stephanie K. Atwood, Boston Marathon Qualifier, coach, and host for the Run to the |
| 0:52.2 | top podcast. Today we have a special episode |
| 0:55.3 | with two medical doctors who are also avid runners and personally |
| 0:59.5 | advocate the fat burning way of eating that creates ketosis and for many people weight loss |
| 1:05.5 | and increased performance as a runner. We'll talk with Dr. Mark Kukazella and |
| 1:10.4 | Art Zemak who have both interviewed on this podcast before. |
| 1:14.4 | This should be a very informative and interesting topic for many of you |
| 1:18.8 | presented from professionals who know the subject well. |
| 1:21.8 | I'll briefly introduce both of our guests, |
| 1:24.7 | then we'll get right into this controversial but growing nutritional and |
| 1:28.5 | performance concept that is helping many runners see improved results in their training and their racing. |
| 1:34.8 | Do you need a crash course to help you train smarter, nail your nutrition and improve your |
| 1:41.9 | strength? Or maybe you want to connect with runners who nail your nutrition and improve your strength, |
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