Superstarch Science How it Benefits Runners with Dr. Krista Austin - The UCAN Story Part 2
Run to the Top Podcast | The Ultimate Guide to Running
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🗓️ 31 July 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
A recent article in Seasons Magazine featured the incredible story of UCAN, a SuperStarch® for athletes that started from a life threatening illness that threatened a baby's survival. Follow this story from its inception as a life-saving nutrient to its evolution as a power drink that Meb Keflezighi, Dathan Rytzenheim, and many top athletes rely on.
We are now in part 2 of this amazing story that has, up to this point, introduced our listeners to Wendy Feldman, Shoba Murali, and Meb Keflezighi whose lives have been intricately intertwined by Team UCAN.
In this episode, we talk with Krista Austin, a sports scientist who has been connected with UCAN from the start. She was Meb's sports scientist back in 2009 and was the one who first worked with him to try UCAN in his training.
She also introduced the product to Olympian Dathan Ritzenhein in 2014.
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| 0:00.0 | On today's run to the top podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | So a lot of what I've tried to do is teach people to use the you can strategically |
| 0:10.0 | so that we can take sugar out of places that are kind of causing us either to go over |
| 0:14.7 | our limits of what we're supposed to have for the day, or it helps us kind of save those grams |
| 0:20.2 | of sugar for what we really want. |
| 0:28.0 | Welcome to the Run to the Top Podcast from Runners Connect, where it's all about learning from the best |
| 0:32.0 | 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 |
| 0:51.0 | Run to the Top Podcast. A recent article in Seasons magazine |
| 0:55.3 | featured the incredible story of You Can, a superstarch for athletes that |
| 0:59.9 | started from a life-threatening illness that threatened a baby's survival. |
| 1:03.7 | Follow this story from its inception as a life-saving nutrients to its evolution as a |
| 1:08.8 | power drink that Mebb Kefleski, Dathan Ritzenheim, and many top athletes rely on. |
| 1:14.6 | We are now in part two of this amazing story that has up to this point |
| 1:19.7 | introduced our listeners to Wendy Feldman, |
| 1:22.6 | show by Morale and Mebb Kefleski, |
| 1:24.9 | whose lives have been intricately intertwined |
| 1:27.4 | by team You Can. |
| 1:29.4 | Our second interview talks with Dr. Krista Austin, |
| 1:32.2 | a sports scientist who has been connected with |
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