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103. Why Mark Hyman Is Driving Us Bananas · Eat More Carbs | A Period Recovery Podcast

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Com This is the Eat more Carbs podcast.
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Hello and welcome. This is the Eat more Carbs
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podcast. It's Jenna here with Riley.
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We're two dietitians that talk every Thursday about sports
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nutrition for the girlies. Yay.
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Welcome back. We're so excited to chat with
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you today and throughout the entire month of March, which is
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National Nutrition Month. Today we're going to be talking
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about our high and low. So sharing a little bit about
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our week, the good and maybe the parts we wish have gone a little
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bit differently. And and we're also going to talk
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about what drives us bananas as dietitians that we saw online
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this week. So Riley, can you kick us off
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this week with your high and low?
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What's going on? Tell me about your week.
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Well, my high and my low this week are a little bit of the
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same story. So I recently shared that I'm
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going through some plantar fasciitis right now.
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This is something that I've never actually navigated before
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and it's it's not enjoyable. But my high has to also do with
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my plantar fasciitis because I shared recently on my Instagram
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that so something that I'm struggling with and I asked for
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and advice and the amount of responses I got with helpful
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tips and just advice. I was overwhelmed by how many
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DMS I bought. So this is just a big shout out
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and thank you to everybody that provided some advice and some
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like expertise in the space because I was again, just
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overwhelmed with the response. And I'm just so thankful for
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like the RBSN community, the Mark Harps community, and just
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everybody who's helping to support like our small business
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and then also my running journey.
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I'm so glad that you have like a good community around you.
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We of our corner of the Internet that is so helpful when things
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like that do pop up. So that makes me really happy.
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How is it feeling? Is it feeling better that you've
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like started to kind of implement some of the things
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that have been suggested? Yeah.
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And I kind of like, knew it was coming.
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Like I should have been taking a little bit better care of like
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my recovery and I should have been like stretching more and
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stuff. It just gets kind of challenging
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to do like stretching and exercises when I'm running with
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Charlie because if I'm doing like band work, like before my
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run, then she's running around the house.
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So I just had to make it more of our priority because I wasn't
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doing that before. So luckily it's like under
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control and it was the very beginning stages of it.
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So I was just really trying to like get ahead of it.
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I mean, we talk about this all the time, like period recovery
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and things, but like prevention is key.
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So just trying to get ahead of it and make sure that it didn't
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really become like a big deal. So that's really what I've been
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focused on right now. Oh my gosh, I have a hard time
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stretching like and exercising as is without a little toddler
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running around. So I can't imagine the
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additional piece that that would add in.
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So yeah, you definitely do have to make it a priority because it
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is important. And it's probably something that
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I should add into like my goals, too, because it is an important
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part of making sure that you stay healthy as a runner.
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Jenna what? About you How's your week going?
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My week is really good. I have so many things that I
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could share for my high, which is great.
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We love that. But I'm going to actually choose
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to share a client win. I've been working with a client
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who has been working towards running 1/2 marathon.
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This is not the first time that they were going to be competing
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in 1/2 marathon, but they ran their half marathon and they let
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me know that it went really well and it was one of the best
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they'd ever felt running because we'd really worked on fueling
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and intra run fueling. She sent me a picture at the end
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at the finish line and it was just so exciting.
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So celebrating her win with her, see another runner that's come
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through RBS sign and like fueling really well and seeing
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the benefit of that during their race is so exciting.
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I had to share that because I'm just really proud of her and all
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of the progress that she's made. That's my high.
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My low is going to be the most Arizona low of all time.
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I have been waiting to share this story with you because I
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wanted to get your live reaction on the podcast.
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If you didn't know, I recently moved into a new home, which is
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great. We're very fortunate and happy
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to be here. The other morning I came out to
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make my coffee and I turned on like the overhead lamp on like
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the oven just so that way I could see like the fill line
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because like it's not bright in the morning quite yet when I'm
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up. So I wanted to see and I grabbed
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the little thing and I'm looking at it and I hold it over the
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oven because that's where the light is.
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And like out of the corner of my eye, I noticed that there's
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something underneath like the grates of the oven.
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And like, as soon as it hit me with what it was, I just like
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started backing away. I was like, oh, no, no, no, no,
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no, no, I cannot do this. I can't do this.
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And Nolan, my husband is, what are you doing?
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What's going on? He's like looking around trying
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to figure out like what I'm freaking out about.
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There is a massive scorpion. I knew it underneath the grates
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like of our stove top. It was so big.
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I have no idea how it got there or why it was like on the
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counter. We lived in Las Vegas for a
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while where scorpions are also very common.
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I never saw one while we lived there.
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While we were at UNLV and then moving here, we lived for about
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a year and a half over in our previous location and I never
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saw one. So truthfully, I kind of was
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letting my guard down and I was like, I'm beginning to question
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the existence of scorpions in the desert.
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And as soon as I did this, we've been in this home for just a
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couple of weeks and there's a massive scorpion in my kitchen.
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Riley, I'm not kidding you. I have to show you a picture.
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The thing is like this big. And then like the rest of the
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day, I was just like, every time I thought of it, I was like a
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little felt like a shiver go up my spine because I was like, how
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did it get in my house? Why was it here?
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And things that I didn't have to deal with not growing up in an
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area where scorpions aren't common.
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So hope I never have to deal with that again.
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The good news about this podcast is that anytime that anything
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goes bad, we can look forward to at least like talking about it
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and sharing and having a laugh with you all.
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But like I definitely have the EBGB's right now, like.
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I have the best low for the podcast and that's what I have
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to look at this as. It's like I got something good
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to share. You're just the lucky 1 I guess.
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So good luck. It's a good sign I'm.
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Gonna go with that let's go with that that makes me feel a little
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better but Speaking of things that kind of get under our skin
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and make us feel not so great I wanna talk a little bit about
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like what drives us bananas you and I have both seen a lot of
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nonsense nutrition online over the past several years but I see
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it really kind of ramping up recently So what have you seen
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this week that has driven you bananas from online nonsense
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nutrition I'm. So excited to get your opinion
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on the first thing that I saw as our running dietitian at RBSN.
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I have something that popped out to me this past weekend and I
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would love your opinion on it because as you shared, Jenna, we
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are both kind of running right now and intrafuel is one of the
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most important things, especially for those longer
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distances. And I have shared that I'm not a
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big gel person, so I I like gummies, I like fruit snacks,
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but I am going to start implementing gels in my longer
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runs to help get enough carbohydrates in.
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So been doing some gel research and I came across a keto energy
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gel and I have to get your opinion on it because I pulled
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up this article on Healthline which obviously is a very
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reputable source. It was giving a list of gels and
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this is the best keto friendly energy gel.
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It's a you can gel which we love that brand, but I need your
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opinion on the keto gel like is that thing because I don't know.
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I saw it and I instantly got mad.
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I'm feeling similarly because that feels contradictory in
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itself because the gel is supposed to be something that
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provides quick usable energy and the keto products typically are
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low to no carbohydrate. So how is that able to do both?
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Because if you've been listening to this podcast where they eat
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more carbs podcast because carbs are a primary source of energy.
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We love carbs. We want to have enough carbs,
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especially as athletes, as female athletes.
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So how can we have something that's supposedly going to give
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us quick usable energy but not have any carbohydrate?
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I also am concerned because if Healthline has an article about
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like what the best keto gel is, does that mean that there are
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more that exist? Like is there a whole line of
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keto gels and where is the energy in these coming from?
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I didn't even think about that because on the article it says
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that there's 19 grams of carbs per serving, so it's even
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listing the carb amount in there.
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Now I'm concerned that there's a lot of keto gels out there. 19
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grams of carbs is not keto to me.
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No. Yeah, again, like it just feels
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very contradictory to be like it's keto, but here's your carbs
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because the keto plan low to no carbohydrate.
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For some everybody who's around my body weight, you would need
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about 25 grams of carbohydrates Max to be in ketosis.
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Like that's the Max amount of carbohydrates that I would need
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to consume per day. So I would literally just have
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to eat this gel to be my sole. Carb source.
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And that's it, right? So when Riley and I first met,
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one of the things that I really admired about her is that she
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wanted to try the fads so that way she can understand what
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people are going through. And for one of her research
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times decided to follow the ketogenic diet, which did
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include very low carbohydrates intake.
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And I remember Riley telling me about that experience when we
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were in our internship and sharing that she met her
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carbohydrate intake after. Breakfast, it was just so hard
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and it was such a great experience for me to like
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actually plan out a keto diet the way that the keto diet is
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supposed to be done. And when we look online right
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now, there's so many different interpretations of the keto
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diet, but a lot of the mainstream keto diets right now
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are just a high fat diet, low carb, and some of them are even
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like low to moderate protein or we see some people can make like
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a high protein, high fat diet and you're not truly in ketosis.
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Like to be in ketosis, you need about 85% like it will say 80 to
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85% of your macro nutrients coming from fat, which is
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extremely challenging to do. So you're looking at like 80 to
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85% fat, maybe like 10 to 15% protein and like 5 to 10% Max of
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carbohydrates. If you actually try to do that,
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it is extremely challenging. I'm not a fan of this idea of a
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keto gel. Carbohydrates are what our body
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prefers at high intensity exercise and typically we're
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using a gel for energy during high intensity exercise.
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So it seems a little contradictory.
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I'm wondering if it's just like a marketing thing because if it
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still has 19 grams of carbohydrate, like what are they
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coming from and what are the other components of the gel?
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Is there fat in the gel that would be so uncomfortable.
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I feel like to try to take that like during a run or something
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like that and that's how they're approaching.
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I'm not really sure I. Definitely think it's a big
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marketing ploy, especially right now in the running space.
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There's a lot of talk with like the carnivore diet.
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It's something that's also kind of resurfaced on TikTok.
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So there's a lot of people right now who are doing this like
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carnivore, high fat, high protein, low carbohydrate diet,
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which is just not great for performance and also not great
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for overall health. Too couldn't agree with you more
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Speaking of that we talk a lot about the things that we see in
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like running Facebook groups. We see a lot of things in those
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running Facebook groups that were a part of about following a
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keto diet or reducing carbohydrate to become a better
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runner or a faster runner or something like that which
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baseline drives me bananas. But one of the things that I'm
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choosing to share from what drives me bananas this week was
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something that I saw on the Facebook group and I actually,
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it took a screenshot of it. I'm not going to share the
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person's name or details of it, but I wanted to make sure that I
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got the wording of this correct because I saw it and I was like,
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oh, my goodness. So this person posts a photo of
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an elite race like the US indoor track is going on right now.
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It is a picture of that of the elite female runners.
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And it says, I just watched a replay of insert runner specific
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name from last weekend. And I have been running for
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years. When do I get a body like that?
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Oh. Jenna.
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I oftentimes, like so many people, run to the comment
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sections when I see something like that because I just want to
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know what other people are chiming in.
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And I was incredibly impressed because the comments were very
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different from what I was anticipating they might be.
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And the comments were a lot of about like not comparing
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yourself to others or remembering that these women are
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elite runners because of some genetic components that they
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were born with and that we're never going to look the exact
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same to another runner. Even if we trained and consumed
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the same amount of fuel and did everything exactly the same, our
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bodies still would look different.
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So I was really impressed that a lot of the comments were very
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positive about that. But there were also some
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comments in there too, a lot of which were primarily other
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women, other females in the group that we're saying I've
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experienced something similar. I'm just waiting for my runner's
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body and things like that. So I still felt really like sad
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that there's still this idea that when you start running, you
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start to look a certain way. Or if you are a runner, you must
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look a certain way. And that's just not the truth.
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Like you have a body and you run, you're a runner.
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Like there's nothing that says that your body needs to look a
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certain way. I know that we've talked about
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this before, but you were talking with one of the athletes
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you were working with about her fear about walking up to the
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start line and not looking like a runner.
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And you were like, well, what does a runner look like?
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Describe that to me. And when you walk up to the
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start line of any race, like you look around and thankfully
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there's, you know, hundreds of different people there that look
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hundreds of different ways because we are all unique.
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We all have different needs. And that's OK to see that still
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continue being a trend, especially for females that feel
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this pressure to look a certain way when you're a runner.
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It was just so sad to me. So I would say like more so than
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drives me bananas. I just was sad.
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It just drives me bananas that we're still having this
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conversation because this is even bigger than like the
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running community. We see this across all sports
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where athletes feel the pressure to look a certain way or
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something that we see a lot of with our athletes that we work
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with is like the pressure to have like certain quote, UN
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quote look that most athletes have like in a certain sport.
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And I always think about, obviously I go back to soccer a
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lot, but like when you think about some of the best soccer
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players in the world, at least on the men's side, you have like
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Cristiano Ronaldo and then you have Lionel Messi, right?
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And they have completely different body types.
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I can bet you if like Messi grew up playing in the United States,
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like he would have been told like he doesn't have the right
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body type for soccer because he's not super tall, right?
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Or he's not maybe as strong or as athletic with air quotes,
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right? And again, like, I'm not saying
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this at all, but there's often pressure to have a certain body
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type with a sport. And that's just like made-up.
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Like what are you talking about? Like is one of the greatest
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soccer players of all time. So like, why aren't we just all
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try to look like him if we're trying to go for a look, right?
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Like, it just so subjective and it's just causing so much
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stress. And especially with female
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athletes, it causes a lot of underfueling.
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Yes, absolutely. Because we see this idea and we
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get it into our head that we need to adjust our fueling so
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drastically in order to achieve a look that we think is like
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going to make us a better runner.
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But I always want to ask the question, if you think that that
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physique is going to make you a better runner, Like we need to
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like look at the root of that desire and address that.
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Because is it really that you think that it's going to make
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you a better runner? Or is it that you think it's
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going to make you appear to be a better runner?
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Because what are you really after?
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Is it the appearance of being a runner or is it being a better
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runner? Because we need to address
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different things if the desire is different.
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And kind of going back to So what we've talked about South
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many times, like the why behind it, like what's the driving
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thing here? What's going on here?
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And what do we really need to be working through?
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Because those are very different scenarios that we would be need
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to be addressing. Definitely.
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I think you said it perfectly, like it just always goes back.
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To the why 100%, we've kind of covered Facebook and a couple
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other topics of where we find things that drive us bananas
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about. What else have you seen online
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this week that has driven you bananas?
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Well, of course, anything that has to do with demonizing carbs,
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you know, is going to drive me absolutely bananas.
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And recently our dear friend Doctor Mark Hyman posted that
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carbs are non essential. And of course, you know, we
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weren't very upset about that. And just like you had mentioned
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with your Facebook post, like running to the comments to see,
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like, what are people talking about here?
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And I was, you know, obviously I was extremely ticked off about
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this ridiculous Instagram post, but I was so excited to see so
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many people in the comments like being like, carbs are essential,
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carbs are essential, we need them.
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So I was really happy to see that, but obviously just always
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ticked off when I see somebody demonizing carbohydrates.
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Especially like a trusted source, like as a physician to
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continually tell people or fear monger online causes harm,
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whether it be harm around fear of food because people start to
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eliminate certain food groups that are essential.
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Carbohydrates are one of our six essential nutrients.
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And if we scared people into that, like that's doing harm as
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well. So from my perspective, that
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post is way more harm than good. And again, we're back to
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nonsense nutrition that unfortunately posts a lot of.
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I am curious though, because that specific post that you're
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talking about has thousands of likes but also thousands of
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comments. And I'm curious of if the
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algorithms show us comments that we would agree with or be more
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likely to agree with. Because mine too showed a lot of
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dietitians and other professionals and they're being
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like, this is incredibly misleading.
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This can be really concerning because carbohydrates are
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essential and all these sorts of things, but there are thousands
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of comments on that post. I couldn't screen all of them
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and I'm curious if there were a lot of them that still were in
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agreeance of this idea that carbohydrates are non essential.
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That is a really good point because something that we talked
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about on this podcast too is like sometimes we're shielded
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from a lot of the like negative talk around food because like
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RBSN is such a food forward place and our feeds are so much
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related to like body positivity and fueling your body
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appropriately that we're sometimes like, not like
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shielded, but we are taken away. I guess you could say like we're
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removed from a lot of like the diet culture and a lot of that
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misinformation. Another thing on the topic of
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the algorithm, incorrect information is more likely to go
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viral because so many people are going to to be like commenting,
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saying this is wrong because that increases engagement.
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So a lot of the time too, I'm wondering like, does he know
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that he's putting out bad information and he's just using
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that as part of his brand to try to stimulate engagement?
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That's a good point, something I hadn't considered, but it could
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totally be just another thing that's almost like marketing
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because like he's marketing his brand.
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He's not marketing that, you know, come and work with him
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specifically. He's about going viral.
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He's about building that brand, increasing engagement, because
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that's probably the goal of the post.
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Yeah, And he a huge following. So he's been successful with
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social media, so he obviously knows what works.
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But then it kind of goes back to like what you mentioned, where
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like this is really doing a lot of harm.
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Like if you're putting out like controversial information that's
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not science back in order to just gain engagement and gain a
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following. It's really, really dangerous,
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especially if a lot of people are relying on you and trusting
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you as a physician. Yeah, as a trusted source of
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information, you would hope that they were going to put out
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information that would do good. It just increases fear of food.
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It increases our likelihood to avoid entire food groups.
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Definitely increase confusion around what types of foods we
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should be using to fuel with. It's just really heartbreaking
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to see. Honestly, that's not even just
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driving me bananas, it just like also breaking my heart a little
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bit. Yeah, absolutely.
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Anybody that goes after carbs, though, you know well, they're.
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Probably not listening to the podcast that of people who are
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giving us a one star. So true.
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Oh my gosh. OK, this last thing that I'm
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going to share I really want to get your opinion on because the
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kind of underlying theme is pregnancy and I am not the
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individual in the room that can share a first hand experience of
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pregnancy. I have never experienced
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pregnancy, but Riley recently gave birth to her baby girl
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Charlie. I'm want your opinion because
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not having the first hand experience, I don't want to step
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in and share. We see a lot of what I eat in a
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day videos on Instagram and online.
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Riley's already just just giving me a reaction if you, if you're
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not watching the video feed, which has kind of transformed
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into from what I eat in a day to what's on my plate in a day,
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which I guess somehow is the same thing, just framed in a
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different way. Potato, tomato.
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I guess there's we're going to call her an influencer who
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recently shared that she's expecting her first child, which
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that's so exciting, but she shared with all of her followers
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what she eats in a day at her specific week of pregnancy.
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I know that from you sharing your pregnancy journey that
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sometimes it's really hard to consume because you might be
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experiencing nausea. That was something that I found
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a little bit concerning because like we're taking an already
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potentially concerning topic of what I eat in a day.
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But then we're expanding that to be almost more concerning
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because like we're talking about somebody who's at a very
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specific point in what they might need.
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Can you like share a little bit about like that?
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Yeah. I think this applies to almost
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like all of those videos. So we're like, we don't
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understand what is really happening in somebody's life,
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even though social media gives us that.
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That perspective, I was like seven months pregnant before I
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even like shared it publicly. Like people said that they knew
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or whatever, but like nobody knew what I was like actually
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going on in my life. I think a lot of the time we
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tried to mimic a certain lifestyle with only like 60 to
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70% of the information. We have no idea like what this
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person is really going through. And a lot of the times they're
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showing a highlight reel of their life.
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We don't know if they actually ate that right.
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We don't know if they just made that plate and then went to a
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fast food restaurant or like if they doubled that plate or if
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they ate one of the strings of asparagus on that plate.
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I think what happens is it just really sets up like false
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expectations and like unrealistic expectations.
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Definitely a lot of unrealistic expectations.
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I just am curious if like if somebody who was around that
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same week of pregnancy saw that and then compared it to what
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they were currently doing and if they were experiencing cravings
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or if they were experiencing a lot of nausea like and their
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fueling didn't look the same if. Yeah, I mean, everybody's
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pregnancy is different, right? So like some people have no
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symptoms. Like through the 1st trimester,
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I was super sick. I couldn't even look at a
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vegetable. I couldn't look at a piece of
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meat. Like I lived off with Mac and
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cheese, like glasses of milk, blue ices from McDonald's.
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Like that was what was happening, right?
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Like if someone had tried to give me a piece of spinach, I
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probably would have thrown up. I remember like walking down
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stairs and like Robbie had made some like chicken breasts and I
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ran back upstairs and threw up. Me putting that unnecessary
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pressure to like have this beautiful plate of food like
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wasn't going to happen. And that would also have been
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really unfair to me in my journey.
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And I think that's also something to remember.
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We're like, yes, if you can eat a performance plate, if you can
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get your 46 servings of vegetables in, if you can have
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all the components, amazing. But if you can't, like also
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amazing. Just like do whatever you can to
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like give your body like some energy at least.
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Yeah. I think it just highlights like
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how different what we're all experiencing really is.
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And just like you said, like it's amazing if we can get fuel
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on our plate, fueling is feeling.
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I would rather have you fuel with something rather than not
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fuel at all. I don't know why this one really
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got to me, but it did. I think there's so much pressure
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to that are put on women for how their body is going to change
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and like how to navigate that. But then there's also so much
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pressure like postpartum to like look like you never have a baby
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and it's like you literally just made a human.
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Now you're recovering from this very intense process.
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We need to give ourselves some grace.
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We always talk about like there's a dad bod and like, wow,
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it's so attractive, but like we don't have a mom bod.
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Like that's something that's demonized in our society when
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like the woman is who made the baby and is now keeping the baby
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alive if they aren't lactating. Absolutely.
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So just always looking at things when you're online and not
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applying it directly to you. That might be what this
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individual needed during her pregnancy and what worked for
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her. But if your plate looks
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different, no matter what walk of life you're at, like that's
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OK. We don't need to have the exact
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same fueling plan as somebody else because their needs are so
22:51
different from ours. Everything that we see online,
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whether it be we look at a runner and we think that we
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should look that way because we also run, or if we are in the
23:00
middle of pregnancy and we think that we should be feeling the
23:02
same way as someone else who is also in the middle of pregnancy,
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like that's just not the case. Like we're all so different, our
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needs are so different, and what we need in order to fuel
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ourselves is going to be different from everyone else,
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and that is good and it's OK. Exactly.
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Anything else that drives you bananas?
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No, but all of these things drive you bananas.
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I'm sure it's not the last time we're going to talk about it on
23:22
this podcast, but that's why we do it at the beginning of every
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single month to try to just get all of our craziness out and
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then we can chat about other things throughout the rest of
23:30
the month. If you do have questions for
23:32
Riley and I, you can always leave them in the comments of
23:34
this podcast where you can find us on Instagram.
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