Sock Doc Podcast With Endurance Planet: Ketosis Pros and Cons

Endurance Planet Podcast with Tawnee – Food and Supplements to Ease Anxiety, Ketosis Pros and Cons, and Chronically High Blood Sugar.

• How to help athletes with excess anxiety and unnecessary stress, mentally speaking, especially females?
• Are there supplements, certain macro ratios or specific foods would we advise for athletes dealing with anxiety, worry and high stress?
• Should one avoid IF and sugar? How to find the proper nutrition for one’s cognitive needs?
• Should one get tested to measure for deficiencies and imbalances, which is best to do first: urine organic acids, blood or hormone?
• GABA and nourishing your neurotransmitters.

• Steve shares his balanced approached to diet and nutrition.
• Pros and cons of nutritional ketosis, and understanding the risks of taking it too far.
• Trouble in keto land: Ironman athlete wants to know if going from low-carb/loosely Paleo to fully ketogenic was too much for the body and the cause of his performance decline.
  • Other potential negative impacts from going full keto: an increase in resting HR, drop in HRV, drop in power, slower MAF pace, and increase in racing HR.
• The concept of carb cycling for best results
• Adopting MAF after year of dealing with an injury and also learning to wean off carb dependence.
• When diet, fasted workouts and low carb can go too far, especially for females.
• Achieving healthy body composition and understanding the red flags if your body is getting too lean.
• Could you have signs of an eating disorder and not realize it?
• Abnormally high blood glucose reading despite a lower carb diet, healthy lifestyle and regular exercise?
• What should you do if glucose levels commonly are 105-120 up to 140s upon waking. Could this be a sign of a more serious issue that requires investigation?

Dr. Stephen Gangemi "Sock Doc"

I'm a board-certified chiropractic physician and clinical nutritionist with a passion for true natural health care. I implement dietary & nutritional therapies, exercise & movement practices, and lifestyle changes along with manual therapy techniques to help the body heal and prevent illness and injuries.