Peter Attia· MD
if you want to be an ultra distance athlete you have to be fat adapted now that doesn't mean you have to be in nutritional ketosis but you must be fat adapted
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if you want to be an ultra distance athlete you have to be fat adapted now that doesn't mean you have to be in nutritional ketosis but you must be fat adapted
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this has always been one of my main arguments for why being fat adapted is very important because if you're consuming that 60 of glucose and that's giving you whatever it's giving you you have to get the balance from fat and you're only going to do that if you're heavily fat adapted