The Paradox of High Carb & Pre-Diabetes in Athletes with Researcher Dr. Andrew Koutnik

Optimal Protein Podcast with Vanessa Spina

Vanessa Spina

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

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🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Why do some athletes on high carb diets develop pre-diabetes? Is a high carb diet truly safe for all athletes? Hi friends! This episode is featuring Andrew Koutnik, PhD, a Research Scientist studying the influence of nutrition and metabolism on health, disease, and performance. We discuss his personal weight loss journey losing over 20% of his body weight and successfully maintaining it, as well as many of his research studies on metabolic health, athletes, low carb, ketosis and performance. Dr. Andrew Koutnik's scientific publications.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Optimal Protein Podcast. I'm Vanessa Spina.
0:05.6	Hello, my friends. Welcome back to the podcast. I'm your host, Vanessa, and I am so excited for today's episode. We have Dr. Andrew Kootenak joining us today. He is a researcher who has been studying the influence of nutrition and metabolism on health, disease, and also athletic performance.
0:23.6	And he has authored so many studies on the connection between lifestyle, exercise, nutrition, and insulin resistance.
0:31.6	And he is a type 1 diabetic himself, who actually was an overweight and obese child, which we talk about
0:40.9	at the beginning of the podcast, what it was like for him, and why he thinks that he became
0:47.1	overweight, what he did to reverse out of that and become so metabolically fit like he is today.
0:53.8	On today's episode, we really do a deep dive into metabolic flexibility, whether or not
0:59.9	you can achieve that through doing low carb approaches.
1:04.2	We talk about the best ways to improve insulin sensitivity and all of the different impacts of low carbohydrate diets on athletic
1:13.7	performance versus carbs. And he has done so much amazing research in this area. So I know that
1:20.2	you're going to get a ton of insight from all of the research that he has done and all of his
1:25.0	amazing experience. So I can't wait to get into today's episode
1:28.7	with Dr. Kootenik and we will jump right in after this quick break. I am so excited to tell you
1:35.6	about this incredible company that I discovered while doing research on the mitochondria. Now,
1:41.1	my dear friend, Dr. Gabriel Lyne, is a huge fan of timeline nutrition,
1:45.8	and she is my muscle health and strength guru. So this is a Swiss-based life science company,
1:51.8	and they did 10 years of research on this compound. They discovered called urolithin-8.
1:58.0	It is a powerful postbiotic that is nearly impossible to get just from your
2:03.4	diet alone. So we all know about atophagy and autophagy of our mitochondria is called mitophagy.
2:09.8	Timeline created a product called mitopure, which is clinically shown to give our cellular energy
2:16.0	generators our mitochondria new power by triggering the body's natural process for removing and rebuilding damaged mitochondria, which is mitophagy.
2:25.3	So you could think of might appear as little Pac-Man in your cells that are gobbling up the damaged mitochondria that can make you feel old and tired and recycling it into pristine
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