MCT Oil Revolutionized Endurance Sport

I’ve been an endurance mountain bike racer for 11 years, competing at an Elite level for 8, specializing in Singlespeed Solo ultra-endurance efforts. I have worked closely with a team of Homeopathic Doctors, Acupuncturists and Holistic Nutritionists to help pass along my endurance nutrition experience to numerous athletes I have mentored and coached over the years. My goal is to support and spread the word about natural health food companies, such as JustSHAKE^TM Nutrition, in hopes that more and more athletes question the “carbo-loading norm” and try a different path. This path has allowed me personally to overcome decades of debilitating chronic asthma, additional inflammatory disease, and have propelled me to be able to stand atop podiums, accomplishing athletic fetes I never dreamed imaginable.

You can accomplish any goal you set forth, are you up for it?

Cheers!

Kimmi Runneron March 25, 2021

We grow up being taught the same garbage and I personally want to bring light to the lies: Get it straight: FAT IS GOOD. You could stop reading this article now if you choose, but you’d miss out on some of the, dare I say, enlightenment that is just now finally shaking up the wide world of nutrition.

You read correctly, fat is good. We’re taught growing up that fat is bad, that carbs are good, and if you’re an athlete, you sure as hell better consume massive quantities of these. This is flat-out wrong….information published in the 1970s to assist in the mass-production of a very cheap vegetable that was found to be useful in the production and processing of all sorts of food: corn. Corn starch, corn syrup, flour. You name it, processed corn was likely used to make it. Good fat composition in foods plummeted and trans fats and unusable fake sugars skyrocketed and the end result was cheap-to-mass-produce foods for all of us to consume.

That’s all I’ll dive into on the history lesson. Fast forward to 2020 and athletics as a whole: Athletes are faster, stronger and their time spent as professionals lasts years longer than ever before. Coaching, nutrition and the physiology behind it has been fine-tuned to a science. And finally, we know for a fact that endurance sport requires more burning of fat as fuel than simple glucose. Sound counterintuitive? Let’s dive a little deeper into the science….

How it WORKS?

The human body utilizes and burns glucose as its preferred source of energy at athletic fetes lasting under 8 minutes. When the minutes of effort lengthen, that percentage rate drops at a continuous bell-curve, increasing its utilization of fat as its energy. If you were to go for a 100 meter sprint all out, your body prefers the explosiveness that glucose-burning offers. If you were to go for a 45 minute run, your body would rely on a much higher percentage of fat to burn. Without diving too far down into the rabbit hole, think of this simple analogy:

Your race car that you’d take out to the drag strip would perform best using a high-octane fuel. The semi-truck you’d drive cross country would prefer diesel to steadily burn fuel as you go the long distance.

Why you should care about MCT Oil: Simply-put, Medium Chain Triglyceride oil takes less effort for your body to use as fuel due to their shorter chain length. It’s a highly-absorbable energy source that your body puts to use quickly, and burns slowly.

What this means for endurance performance: Earlier in the article I mention just how quickly into an athletic effort your body begins utilizing fat for fuel. This means our conception of what “endurance” really means must change. Think any athletic effort over a few minutes. Yes, that seems short, but it’s truth. MCT Oil can play a pivotal role for you, whether you’re out competing in a 24 hour mountain bike race (my personal specialty), or your next local 5k Cancer Awareness Fundraiser Run!

How YOU can use it:

By taking in a small amount of MCT oil regularly, and lessening the amount and the frequency of carb intake, you “re-teach” your body how to burn its preferred fuel source: fat The human body was made for this, we just let ourselves succumb to what we were taught growing up and the foods that the world pushes on the masses.

My personal experience in using MCT oil as fuel during my long distance races is as follows. Eight years ago, as I cleaned up my diet off the bike, my body began to reject the normal sugary gels and bars that the athletic nutrition industry makes so readily available. I began getting sick during races, not being able to hold down any simple race fuel. This prompted me to start my research. I began making my own race nutrition, primarily composed of multiple healthy fats, MCT oil being part of my recipe. The results were amazing. Not only did I feel like I needed to eat less during races (as fats are a more sustained, fulfilling fuel), I never had the dreaded “bonk” that racers experience when their bodies get low on glucose. I also experienced more mental clarity, being able to remain more focused in hour 20 on the bike vs hour 1 on the bike. The results have been epic for me.

FAT IS GOOD!

Thankfully the health food industry has taken a stand, and putting down the carbs has become more mainstream. But as a whole, we still have a long way to go. This simply comes from more and more people trying for themselves what MCT oil can do, and then using their personal experiences as their testimony. I personally don’t want to ever settle for what I’m taught. I want it backed up with proof. For me, I will always continue to be my own test-dummy, challenging what’s out there and learning how I can compete optimally. I hope the same for you, and I truly believe you will find the same…

FAT IS GOOD.

MCT Oil Revolutionized Endurance Sport

How it WORKS?

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FAT IS GOOD!

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