The search for a science-based secret to managing your energy / Joe De Sena & Josh Clemente
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Every individual responds differently to what they eat. We all know eating a healthy diet is important, but what is happening on a chemical level inside our bodies? Josh Clemente started out as an engineer and welder at SpaceX to explore the outer atmosphere, but what he realized was most important was monitoring what was going on inside our own bodies. This episode is a great deep dive into what helps and hinders your metabolism, key tips and tricks for stabilizing your glucose response and understanding what it takes to train metabolic flexibility. As Josh says, "you have to put in focus, effort and repetition to develop metabolic health- it doesn't just happen." Make it happen Spartans!
LESSONS
- Individuals respond differently to foods
- Measure, monitor and respond to your glucose
- Walk after meals
- Train your body into metabolic flexibility
- Put in the effort to develop metabolic health
- Learn dietary flexibility
- It's not just what you eat, it's how you eat it
- Understand the consequences of your decisions
- Place your actions in context
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LINKS
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TIME STAMPS
0:00 research highlight
0:30 Joe De Sena introduces Josh Clemente
1:30 GoneRogueSnacks.com intro
3:30 Working at SpaceX
5:00 Starting Levels Health
6:15 Continuous glucose monitoring
7:00 Understanding metabolism
8:00 Glucose disfunction
9:15 Individuals response to food
13:00 Real time data to make educated choices
14:00 Exercise after meals for blood sugar response
15:25 Blood sugar responses
16:45 Stored fat
17:30 Metabolic flexibility
19:30 "Bonking" & intermittent fasting
20:30 "fat-adapted"
21:30 Metabolic fitness
22:00 GoneRogueSnacks.com break
24:30 Dietary flexibility
27:00 Glucose excursions
30:00 It's not just what you eat it's how you eat it
31:30 Sleep affects insulin resistance
33:00 Applying control to your decisions
35:00 Listening to your body
37:00 Developing software around glucose monitoring
38:15 Metabolic Fitness Score
40:30 Electrochemical glucose monitoring
42:30 Joe De Sena reviews lessons learned
44:00 GoneRogueSnacks.com close
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CREDITS:
Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Hosts: Joe De Sena
Sefra Alexandra, Johnny Waite & Colonel Nye are out training their metabolism!
Synopsis – Sefra Alexandra | Seed Huntress
Production Assistant - Andrea Hagarty
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| 0:00.0 | I'm looking for a couple of one-size fits all statements based on your research so far. |
| 0:05.4 | Well, there's a few big statements we can make. |
| 0:08.0 | I talked about like exercise post-grandy, just being active using the available energy source. The worst thing we can do is be sedentary and |
| 0:15.3 | fueled up all the time. That's how you end up with these metabolic breakdowns, right? So you're completely |
| 0:20.4 | topped off on energy, but you're not using it you're sleeping sitting on |
| 0:22.8 | the couch working on a desktop make sure you get up and you use your energy the next |
| 0:26.6 | thing is really interesting it would be macro-nut order |
| 0:30.3 | Spartans we are here for Spartan on Podcast. |
| 0:33.6 | I am your host, Joe Descenta, CEO and founder of Spartan Race. |
| 0:37.4 | We are your grit and resiliency partner. |
| 0:40.2 | We rip you off the couch every single week. you a little kick in the ass the motivation and on a day like today |
| 0:45.8 | We're going to give you incredible information our guests worked at space acts an engineer |
| 0:54.4 | Finds out like most of us, he doesn't have much energy, he's not sleeping well, |
| 0:57.6 | he doesn't have all the focus he needs to do his job. |
| 1:01.0 | Starts a company called Levels. |
| 1:03.6 | I don't want to tell you too much, |
| 1:05.1 | but you're going to learn how to sleep better, |
| 1:06.8 | you're going to learn how to eat better, |
| 1:07.8 | you're going to get more focus, more energy. |
| 1:09.4 | This is an amazing podcast that's going to change your life. |
| 1:12.2 | It's already starting to |
| 1:12.8 | change mine. Stay tuned. This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by Gone Rogue High Protein |
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