Yup. Coke in a class bottle is made in Mexico with real sugar as opposed to corn syrup.
Pairs well with a super burrito btw. 
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I’m not sure. But I believe Waxy Maize Starch is pretty much all amylopectin. It is easily available. I have not used it (yet?) though in a sports drink.
In the UK Coca Cola Classic is made with sugar(sucrose) whether you buy it cans, glass or plastic. We do pay a sugar tax of 24p per litre for that privilege.
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@JonGreengrass Still tastes better out of glass though! 
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It’s why McDonald’s gets its Coke products in stainless steel. Most eating establishments with a fountain get thier syrup in plastic.
Yeah, I was worried about these fructose comments since I’ve been buying fructose in bulk to mix with maltodextrin for my home made drink mix. Doing a bit of a dive into pubmed and internet, it sounds like Dr. Pfaffenbach might not have been thinking about how fructose can be broken converted to glucose and lactate during exercise - i.e. fructose is not destined to end up entirely as fat during exercise. There’s a summary the Gatorade Sports Science Institute (YES - I absolutely take it with grains of salt given the source, however it’s replete with references that check out): https://www.gssiweb.org/sports-science-exchange/article/fructose-metabolism-from-a-functional-perspective-implications-for-athletes#articleTopic_6
I’d be interested to hear further thoughts from Dr. Pfaffenbach and other experts on fructose oxidation during exercise, and whether athletes used to habitual fructose consumption may be protected from some of the potential ill effects by upregulation of pathways for fructose conversion to glucose and lactate.
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Agree that this was a great podcast and I really appreciate the Dr’s statements about how protein levels should be set for the day and that amounts for fats usually take care of themselves when eating proteins and using butter and oils for cooking. Also, that once you get an idea of what protein content is in your typical foods, you can pretty easily hit your macros targets on the daily.
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To echo what others have said already the energy was great. I think I’m burned out on all the nutrition and calorie talk lately but appreciate the conversation. Morning vs. evening people discussion was great.
Just listening to this, all the discussion on melatonin seems to be based on oral ingestion - patches for slow release are available pretty widely now and the idea is that you don’t then have the rebound that @Jonathan mentioned. There seems to be a few studies on it but its a lot less well studied than oral ingestion.
I’ve tried them and my anecdotal experience is that it is much better at helping me fall asleep and stay asleep, the ones I have are 4.4mg. I mainly use it for jet lag or otherwise distrupted sleep, so not every night.
Be interested to get anyone elses thoughts…
Also really enjoyed the discussion of circadian rhythm as I have always done a lot better later in the day! Interesting anecdote on that, when I was audaxing I did my main warmup event (600k) for LEL (1540k) and ended up sleeping 10pm-2am - then I got really bad sleepies about 8am and had to get off the bike. So during the main event i switched it up and was sleeping much later, trying to ride overnight and go to bed just before sunrise (UK summer so thats like 5am) and get 3 or 4 hours sleep - didn’t really struggle with sleep deprivation (not more than you’d expect!). I thought it was interesting how big of an effect that had.
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Enjoyed this episode…great information. Found it made me look at my nutrition day prior…. I tend to time restrict fast 3 days a week which obviously impacts the next day training…. but keeps my weight in check… might be better to fast day of training …. Interested in thoughts
as long as you have glycogen from days prior AND don’t diet on the bike, but I’m just a layperson…
I listened to this podcast TWICE, it was that good. The 2nd time was even better than the first, absorbed a lot more!
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Depends on when your training takes place…so if you have first meal at noon, then train next day it may not be affected at all depending on your glycogen stores. Also, he emphasized individuality and if it’s working for you then good, otherwise experiment and see what does.
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Agreed and the third listen is forthcoming. Nice job TR!
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Best podcast in a long time. More like this please.
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No kidding, this one was DEEP.
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Only listened to a handful of podcasts since Chad left, but based on all these comments I better make time for this one.
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Agreed, this is the first podcast I’ve listened to in a long time and I greatly appreciate the guest’s expertise and balance. I sincerely hope the TR staff will look to bring more experts on the show for various topics, as opposed to anecdotal commentary and hot takes.
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i spelled this one out. played it all week. superinterresting, nice build up in conversation between John, Nate and Kyle.
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That’s what we Americans fought back against. Sorry to hear that Sugar Act is still in place 
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