Thu, Oct-01-20, 12:15
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Plan: P:E/DDF
Stats: 225/150/169
BF:45%/28%/25%
Progress: 134%
Location: NC
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More from DietDoctor: https://www.dietdoctor.com/uk-team-...un-with-no-food
UK team completes a 100-mile, five-day run with no food
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Can our stores of body fat alone safely fuel a feat of athletic endurance — a 100-mile run — that lasts five days, with no food ingested the entire time?
The answer seems to be yes — even for those with type 1 diabetes.
That’s what a recent, medically supervised experiment in the UK found. Eight runners, including a famous Olympic medalist, completed what amounts to a marathon a day, over five days, consuming zero calories and running in a completely fasted state for the entire time.
The project, dubbed ZeroFive100, was organized by Dr. Ian Lake, a general practitioner with type 1 diabetes who advocates a low-carb or keto diet for better blood sugar management.
Dr. Lake has been featured in videos and as a health provider on the Diet Doctor site. He is also behind a new website, type1keto.com which helps people with type 1 diabetes do a low-carb or keto diet safely and effectively.
Dr. Lake said he planned the experiment to disprove myths about the need for the body to ingest carbs to be able to function properly. The goal was to help remove obstacles and medical objections to low-carb options being offered to those with type 1 or type 2 diabetes in health care settings.
“I designed a project that would take low carb to the extreme limit so that, if it confirmed what I thought, then it would easily translate into real-world situations,” Dr. Lake said, who cautioned that others should not try this without medical supervision.
“This project required careful planning over several months and no one in the group intends to repeat it,” he said.
Dr. Lake’s seven teammates were all low-carb advocates, including Trudi Deakin, PhD, RD who is also featured in videos and as a low-carb provider on the Diet Doctor site. Other participants included Dr. Ali Ibrahim, a consultant psychiatrist and specialist in pediatric eating disorders, Gayle Gerry a nurse specializing in diabetes, Jon Furniss, an engineer with type 1 diabetes, and Steve Bennett, an entrepreneur.
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