Are baseline glucose values higher in endurance athletes? (just day-to-day…not during exercise) I guess I am sorta just hoping this is true so I’m fishing for info. got a CGM and my baseline seems to be ~105-110. I am learning that 70-100 is normal with a preference to 70-90. so I am slightly frea…

If I could expend 1200kcals on a Z2 2hr ride I’d have no trouble whatsoever losing weight :smile:

You’d be surprised. All my Z2 rides are above that and it doesn’t make it any easier. More work comes with more fueling and more hunger IMO.

Yeah, 600 cal/hr is z1 for me, but I didn’t want to be presumptuous about Shisheveudysgj. :wink: Higher wattages do give some headroom for increased weight loss, particularly since it should be more fat (than carbs) burned in zone 1 and 2. Also means the carb fuel burns it faster in the higher zone…

I don’t know. A good friend of mine is a recently retired GP who used to regularly put people on 1000kCal diets to loose weight. It was rarely successful because " the patients showed no will power". He’s a good friend but I’m glad he wasn’t my GP. Granted the newer cohort of GPs coming through pro…

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[image] ArHu74: As someone who has both a medical degree and a degree in dentistry I can safely say MDs are completely clueless about nutrition and even everything in the oral cavity. It’s also not something most MDs care about either. MDs are actually not allowed to know teeth. I learned abo…

Damn you weren’t supposed to find out :grin: but it’s true though. Dentists know a lot more about general medicine and nutrition than MDs know about dentistry and nutrition. When I started dentistry I could start right in year 4 (out of 5) because years 1-3 were done jointly with medicine and since …

[image] ArHu74: When I started dentistry I could start right in year 4 (out of 5) because years 1-3 were done jointly with medicine and since I already was a licensed MD it was assumed I already knew all that… That makes a lot of sense. As a veterinarian I’m a bit jealous…if I could bang out …

I have switched to dentistry full time. I know a lot of other MDs that will say I love my job and patients but if I could choose something I would switch…

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