Dr. Naomi Parrella, Chief of Lifestyle Management and Medical Director at Rush University Weight Loss and Lifestyle Medicine Clinics, sits down with Mike Giardina of CrossFit Health to discuss how metabolic flexibility supports injury prevention, recovery, and athletic performance. Dr. Parrella provides some quick strategies to get athletes utilizing the right fuel sources — based on the demands on the body — to optimize performance and recovery.
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Where can I get more practical info for meal plans to create this metabolic flexibility?
If you eat a whole unprocessed food diet that is low in simple and added sugars, you are well positioned to reap the benefit of metabolic flexibility and decreased inflammation. Checking ketones is an interesting task because as your body becomes more adept at utilizing fat, your ketones will level off. This can be misinterpreted as a reversion toward glucose as the main fuel source instead of an increase in fat utilization efficiency. And no matter how good your diet, you cannot build muscle without a stimulus. And the more potent the stimulus, the more profound the muscle gain. This is why you can spot a CrossFitter across a crowded room. This and the nanos.
Mike Does MHS: Metabolic Flexibility To Optimize Performance
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