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Andrew Koutnik, Ph.D.

@akoutnik

🔬Scientist of Metabolic Health & Human Performance
🏆Elite Performance Consultant & Diabetes Management Coach
🎙️Co-Host of In-Range with Max Domi

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🚨 Living with Type 1 Diabetes: A Relentless Journey to Thrive Diagnosed with an irreversible chronic disease as a child, I've made it my mission to find solutions—not just to survive, but to THRIVE. Type 1 Diabetes offers no breaks, no days off. Yet, it uniquely empowers you to

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📈What percentage of the US is Obese? ~30%? NO 🔗Most cite NHANES: Obesity (BMI ≥30 kg/m2) = 31% ...if you include "overweight," this number rises to 73%... 🚫 Problem is that these numbers are based on BMI alone. 👨‍🔬However, new analysis of ~250,000 people using more nuanced

📈What percentage of the US is Obese? ~30%? NO

🔗Most cite NHANES: Obesity (BMI ≥30 kg/m2) = 31%
...if you include "overweight," this number rises to 73%...

🚫 Problem is that these numbers are based on BMI alone. 

👨‍🔬However, new analysis of ~250,000 people using more nuanced
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To sum up: We’re not anti Zone 2, pro HIIT only, in any camp per se. We simply just wanted to fact check claims on the internet using currently available experimental evidence and I just don’t see strong evidence that Zone 2 uniquely delivers the metabolic and mitochondrial

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Here are some calculations of Killian’s data. First 5 hours. Intake 2000 cal =8400kJ in 300mins = 28kJ/min =0.8 g/min (49g/hr) from carbs and 0.4g/min (24g/hr) from fat. This would total between 40-50% of the total energy expenditure during this part of the race. Second part of

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Practice what you preach. Type 1 Diabetes (Insulin Optimization, Nutrition, Exercise -> Success) Lower Body Resistance today. Rehabing deadlifts back to 500s.

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I have heard of more (savvy) clinicians doing this rather than just standard administration with reported success. In fact, many speakers at ADA said the same.

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Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes can alter brain health through hyperglycemia. A recent study showed that age- and sex-matched individuals with T1D had more severely impaired executive function than those with T2D. Individuals with T1D are typically diagnosed decades earlier, so high

Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes can alter brain health through hyperglycemia.

A recent study showed that age- and sex-matched individuals with T1D had more severely impaired executive function than those with T2D.

Individuals with T1D are typically diagnosed decades earlier, so high
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It's "Novolin R." Insulin pricing is a real problem. I have known young teenagers to die from insulin rationing. This comment below is pure ignorance.

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More support for the theory that carbohydrates exist in 2 pools (Small and Large Glucose Pools) that are separately regulated and it is the Small Pool in the liver and blood stream (not the large pool in the skeletal muscles), that contributes to human exercise performance

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Bring me to tears...my father mowed yards for virtually nothing and was a janitor for years... ...but gave me and my sister a world of opportunity🙏

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💪Exercise! It doesnt have to be pretty, I am certainly not 😂 ...but Michael Mindrum, MD is right. ✅️Even just increasing your overall movement throughout the day can be revolutionary to daily energy and QOL.

💪Exercise! 
It doesnt have to be pretty, I am certainly not 😂

...but <a href="/MichaelMindrum/">Michael Mindrum, MD</a> is right.

✅️Even just increasing your overall movement throughout the day can be revolutionary to daily energy and QOL.
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🫀Breakthrough Alert: First FDA-Approved Cuffless Continuous Blood Pressure Monitor! Hilo (formerly Aktiia) just made history with the first-ever FDA approval for a cuffless, continuous blood pressure (BP) monitoring device. A decade ago, I used a $20,000 version of this tech

🫀Breakthrough Alert: First FDA-Approved Cuffless Continuous Blood Pressure Monitor!

Hilo (formerly Aktiia) just made history with the first-ever FDA approval for a cuffless, continuous blood pressure (BP) monitoring device. 

A decade ago, I used a $20,000 version of this tech
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🌟"You are the average of the 5 people closest to you."🌟 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Nowhere is this truer than in your FAMILY. 🥗This family’s story illustrates something powerful. Something I have seen myself. They transformed their health by changing their diet TOGETHER. The results? -Mom: