Dr. Andy Galpin

It was like, okay, fast endurance or just like endurance for the longterm.

So all of that goes into our calculus of thinking about how we're going to fuel somebody, how we're going to ask them to recover.

To get to the, like to go back a few minutes earlier, Jordy was talking about this with Ned Brockman, like a thousand miles.

He's not giving him fat only.

He's not on an 80% fat.

Like that is his most fat oxidation possible thing you could come up with, a thousand dang miles.

And he's still relying heavily on carbohydrates to get him through.

So I don't know if that actually answers your question, but you can think about like, that's the stuff that we framed against.

Actually, I think the one thing that's kind of interesting here that does get left, the way that we think about metabolic flexibility is more of an innate human skill rather than an exercise performance one, such that I think you all, we all should have the ability to go for six hours and not have any food and still perform cognitively.

You shouldn't be hangry and cranky because you missed lunch, right?

Like that is now you're in the kind of like, you're not super resilient, right?

whether this is a metabolic flexibility issue or not, if that's happening consistently with you, I would say we have some room to grow with metabolic health, likely, right?

You should probably be able to go 24 hours and maintain cognitive function and maintain physical performance.

If you've ever, you've done some fasting, like longer fasting stuff, right?

You should be able to not eat any calories for 24 hours and still exercise, right?

You will not deplete really of very much anything.

If you're the person who is the like, I can't do anything, I skipped lunch or didn't get to breakfast, then I think we have some stuff to do.

But this is more of like you probably are lacking some innate physiological skills that are going to help you in multiple ways.

But past that, the metabolic flexibility thing is, again, not often packaged correctly in my opinion.

There are many things to say about poor understanding of metabolism is how I'll say that.