Dr. Vonda Wright

Lift weights.

And eat.

And eat, yes, absolutely.

And you could have a very slight calorie deficit towards the end of the evening.

As a way of burning calories?

The problem is people think that they can out-exercise a bad diet.

And you can't.

And even then, no.

And we see that endurance athletes who use a lot of high sugary type carbohydrate, like the gels and the sports stuff, they've interrupted their gut microbiome so much that they have sugar alcohols.

Yeah.

Well, it's not even that.

It's the phyla change.

We're seeing a decrease in the diversity, even though they're exercising.

And we see the exercise increases the diversity of the gut microbiome.

It's what they're eating during the training with the heat and hypoxic stress.

Wow.

That is creating the growth of the firmicutes phyla that's associated with obese outcomes.

So that's... It changes the gut, the gut bacteria.

So we have this misconception that if you're an elite athlete and you're burning all these calories, then you're just eating to fuel, right?

But it's not.