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by mistrial9 746 days ago
great going and good on you for your health BUT endurance athletics represents only an important but tiny fraction of the lives of adults. General conversation around health, fitness and tuning is easily derailed by outliers and insufficient context!! office workers with weak backs and wrists end up arguing with 20+ hour a week gym people over some aspect of diet, and then they talk past each other.. no problems with the comment but perspective and context are everything when talking health.

Most people in good health can practice some version of fasting with some common sense. Zero people with good health can train for "olympic triathalons" starting next week.. so a peek (peak?) at the life of a triathlete is interesting and perhaps commendable, but really needs calling out as an outlier in a general discussion.
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wslh 746 days ago
I was clear in my comment and in a reference to a previous comment that people are different. I never recommended that you should follow my way of life but I shared some aspects of my healthy life because I considered that I am not doing any exceptional thing, healthy human-wisely.

> Zero people with good health can train for "olympic triathalons" starting next week..

Completely wrong. There are many paths to train for an olympic triathlon that doesn't start running, biking, and swimming and having the correct mindset, endurance, and physical state. It is like saying that a normal kid cannot learn certain things at elementary school. I am not a professional but an amateur.

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techcode 744 days ago
As mentioned video I saw was newer than the news article. In the video I think doctor was talking about events like https://www.lowcarbusa.org/pioneering-ketogenic-management-f...
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techcode 744 days ago
In another comment I mentioned UK doctors (so folks closer to couch potato than ultra long distance runners) basically saying let's do this.

Photo resembles guy I saw talking in a video about it (video was newer though) - otherwise it's first Google hit for "UK doctors diabetes keto running" and I'm yet to read through the article https://www.diabetes.co.uk/blog/2018/08/gp-type-1-diabetes-r...

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