Brady Holmer

What are the benefits?

I mean,

Being a quote unquote glucose burner or a carb burner, you know, when you use carbohydrates, you kind of produce reactive oxygen species.

And maybe, you know, that may be helpful for limiting those kind of byproducts.

For performance, you know, it can help you not have to fuel as much during exercise.

You know, if your body can use fat, you don't necessarily have to keep replenishing and keep your blood glucose high using exogenous kind of like drinks or gels or something like that.

That's kind of from an athletics or performance perspective.

So I think those are some of the main benefits.

And, you know, not everybody's goal is to become a better fat burner, but there seem to be benefits both for health and longevity to doing so.

No, I don't think so.

And like we just said, because if you get better, more and healthier and more efficient mitochondria,

You're going to become a better fat burner.

And there are multiple ways to improve the health of your mitochondria.

Right.

Just zone two exercise.

Yeah.

So, you know, lactate, obviously pretty important in that mechanism that you just referenced, but muscle contraction in and of itself is just so interesting in that it also causes this glue forward transporters to translocate to the cell membrane where they can suck up more glucose into the muscle.

And so what high intensity interval training does that makes it more potent for doing that is it engages a larger amount of muscle mass.

Like you mentioned, it increases our utilization of glucose in the skeletal muscle.

So it kind of increases the