Dr. Andy Galpin

So what we do with carbohydrates and fat for that person you're describing is we let personal preference drive us a lot, right?

We also will change it just so that you can have some dietary changes.

Like fat tastes delicious.

It's really hard.

It's really bland when you don't get to have a lot of fat in your diet.

So sometimes we'll bring carbohydrate down for a while and let them have more fat if we need to manage calories.

We don't generally see that much for the average person.

We don't see that many consequences performance-wise.

So I don't think most people...

are going to have this huge like, oh my God, I'm not recovering anymore.

If you're doing a normal amount of exercise, I think you're going to be just fine.

I would not support that statement.

I would disagree with that.

This is a great one.

So the term metabolic flexibility has been hijacked.

And the way that it is described now colloquially is not what that phrase ever started to be.

And it's not what that is intended to be.

It's so crazy because metabolic flexibility has got turned into maximizing fat burning.

It's supposed to be metabolic flexibility, which means you have the ability to run the whole gamut.

I get it.