About this episode
Welcome to the Human Performance Outliers Podcast with hosts Dr. Shawn Baker and Zach Bitter. For this episode, we welcome Dr. Mark Cucuzzella onto the show. Mark is an Air Force Reserve lieutenant colonel, practices family medicine in Ranson and Martinsburg, West Virginia. He is a professor at the West Virginia University School of Medicine and conducts Healthy Running Medical Education courses. He has run competitively for almost four decades, with more than one hundred marathon and ultramarathon finishes, and he continues to compete as a national-level masters runner with an active streak of thirty straight years under a three-hour marathon. Cucuzzella owns the first minimalist running and walking store, Two Rivers Treads, in his hometown of Shepherdstown, West Virginia. He is the author of, "Run for Your Life." Thank you Fat Snax: https://fatsnax.com/hpo , for sponsoring the show. You can receive a discount when following the above link. @eatfatsnax Instagram handles: @shawnbaker1967 , @zachbitter , @markcucuzzella Twitter handles: @SBakerMD , @zbitter Facebook handles: Shawn Baker , @zach.bitter , Website URLs: zachbitter.com , shawn-baker.com , and drmarksdesk.com If you would like to set up a consult call with either Zach or Shawn, you can schedule with Zach at calendly.com/zbittercoaching and with Shawn at shawn-baker.com/consultation/ . If you would like to contact the show, please send your emails to hpopodcast@gmail.com Articles and Sites Mark Mentioned: Eat Lancet blog: http://naturalrunningcenter.com/2019/01/27/eatlancet/ My survey study of 1500 on LC diets: https://insulinresistance.org/index.php/jir/article/view/30 Minnesota Starvation study....what happens when you eat 1500 cals for 24 wks: http://www.epi.umn.edu/cvdepi/video/the-minnesota-semistarvation-experiment Lipid patterns on LC diets (two attached papers): https://bmjopensem.bmj.com/content/4/1/e000429 and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30544168 LC diets and effect on CAC: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-nutrition/article/lowcarbohydrate-diets-and-prevalence-incidence-and-progression-of-coronary-artery-calcium-in-the-multiethnic-study-of-atherosclerosis-mesa/70E006AD304D0EA065A0509B1EA5BFAF My butter burning story: http://naturalrunningcenter.com/2017/03/07/burn-fat-health-performance-better-butter-burner/ Resource page from Run For Your Life book website w lots of stuff on running and nutrition: http://runforyourlifebook.com/resources/ Tendinopathy as metabolic disease Maffulli: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/291518067_Hormones_and_tendinopathies_The_current_evidence Sugar free hospital Salon article: https://www.salon.com/2018/06/03/get-sugary-drinks-out-of-hospitals/ MAF site: https://philmaffetone.com/taking-steps-for-future-health/ Two Rivers Treads Page: www.tworiverstreads.com