In this edition of Grab Bag, Alex Hutchinson and Matt Laye join us as we try an find out the truth behind:
- Over breathing?
- Can we become so efficient that we are burning less energy than a sedentary person?
- Is there a benefit to stretching?
- How does your microbiom affect health?
- Can smiling improve performance?
- Do we have limits to the number of calories we can process?
Links that of stuff we talked about:
- Stronger by Science Podcast
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6934128/
- https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra1907805
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31872558
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed
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Matt Laye is an endurance athlete and PhD in medical physiology and an assistant professor of health and human performance at The College of Idaho. Matt is a coach at Sharman Ultra and a regular contributor to Ultrarunning Magazine,
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Alex Hutchinson is an avid runner and author. We did a series of podcasts on his book, Endure: Mind, Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance
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