Rhonda Patrick· PhD
this idea one is of metabolic flexibility and so people may have heard this term before but it essentially refers to the fact that let's say you're in between meals or you're fasting overnight and you wake up in the morning like metabolic flexibility just reflects your ability to you know when glucose is low or glycogen stores are low kind of switch over to using fatty acids or oxidizing fat uh for energy so you can use both fuel sources kind of interchangeably and use them well because you have like the the cellular and metabolic Machinery to do that but what it also means from a kind of performance and athletic perspective is that you're able to use fat as a fuel source at an increasingly higher intensity