Why Running is Saving Your Life and Carbs are NOT Evil -Dr. Iñigo San Millán

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🗓️ 4 May 2016

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode of Runner’s Connect, I’m speaking with Dr. Inigo San Millan, the Director of Exercise Physiology at the University of Colorado and a professional speaker on the topics of sports medicine, metabolic disorders and other types of health and performance issues.

Today, weare discussing exercise and carbohydrates. Nowadays, so many of our health, weight and performance issues are blamed on carbs. Dr. San Millan assures us, however, that carbohydrates are not to blame for all of our woes.

As a former athlete, having played for six years with Real Madrid soccer and having been a cyclist for two years, Dr. San Millan has the perspective of both a sports medicine expert and an athlete.

Some of the topics that you’ll [...]

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0:00.0	that's another typical mistake people do it like they don't they're not going to
0:03.8	utilize so much energy you know calories you know but it's an education that a lot's a lot of
0:09.4	education piece and and going back to everything related to carbohydrates so there's not one
0:15.7	research yet showing the carbohydrates are bad for performance.
0:19.2	Wow.
0:20.2	Welcome to the Runners Connect Run to the Top Podcast, where it's all about learning from the best and most inspiring minds in the sport.
0:29.0	So together, we can train us smarter, healthier, and faster running community.
0:34.7	Now, here's your host, Tina Muir.
0:38.0	Hello, this is Tina Muir. Thank you so much for joining me for the latest episode of the Runners
0:46.6	Connect, run to the top podcast. I know there's so many different ways you could be spending your time.
0:51.6	So I really appreciate you being here with me today and I am sure you're not going to regret listening to this one.
0:57.0	So before I get on to that last week we talked to David Ali who talked about his two races all the way around the edge of Australia
1:05.7	after never even doing a marathon. It's absolutely incredible story and if you needed some motivation
1:11.9	make sure you go back and check that out.
1:14.0	Now today we're kind of going more into the science.
1:17.0	We're talking to Dr Inigo San Milan,
1:20.0	who is the director of exercise physiology at the University of Colorado
1:25.2	and he's worked with all kinds of different world-class athletes including
1:30.1	one tour of France winner, numerous cyclists, runners, rowers, triathletes, many
1:36.2	different sports, basketball, all kinds of different things. He's done a TED Talk on metabolic
1:42.2	diseases and he's going to talk to us today about carbs and how they might
1:47.2	actually not be to blame you know recently there's been a lot of publicity about how bad they are for you
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