Tim Noakes
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Sep 15, 2026
Robert CywesGUEST
And I've demonstrated that over and over in my, in my practice.
Robert CywesGUEST
But here-- the last thing I'll tell you is before I did that, the failed experiment for me was I said, "Okay, Tim Noakes," who was my physiology professor, "told me that rising blood sugar triggers insulin." And we know that gluconeogenesis rises blood sugar.
Robert CywesGUEST
So let's put these people on a lean protein diet, a, a protein-spared modified fasting, the Maria Emmerich high protein diet.
Robert CywesGUEST
And they all produced massive amounts of sugar from their protein with gluconeogenesis, high BUN, which is a measure of that breakdown.
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Robert CywesGUEST
And they're also thankful when they start to feel better, because they're eating a little bit of carbohydrate.
Robert CywesGUEST
One final piece of information.
Robert CywesGUEST
Tim Noakes, uh, a guy called Prince, but with Tim Noakes, published a paper in January of this year looking at endurance athletes who are on an ultra low carbohydrate diet and was introducing 15 to 30 grams of carbohydrate, slow carbohydrates that don't spike insulin that raise it, like a banana or something like that, before a workout to raise insulin to allow the sugar to go into the muscles, but not enough to block, um, lipolysis or fat mobilization and ketogenesis.
Robert CywesGUEST
And those athletes performed the best during endurance and also recovered the best, and it's a paper by Prince earlier this year.
Anthony ChaffeeGUEST
If you are eating a certain way or taking in a lot of h-- uh, heavy carbohydrates for your athletic performance, that's gonna have a metabolic toll as well.
Anthony ChaffeeGUEST
And a lot of the athletes that Professor Noakes and others have studied when they have these comparative analysis with ketogenic athletes and carb-fueled athletes, they may have similar performances on, on game day, but the carb-fueled athletes, some of them were pre-diabetic.
Anthony ChaffeeGUEST
They were getting metabolic syndrome.
Anthony ChaffeeGUEST
These were elite athletes, and these people are exercising a lot, and they're pre-diabetic.
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Anthony ChaffeeGUEST
And the carbohydrate athletes, for the three-hour test, they were taking down sugary gels and different sorts of sugar drinks and things like that, whereas the, uh, f-fat adapted athletes that, you know, had a bit of fat or something like that, they did not take in carbohydrates.
Anthony ChaffeeGUEST
And so it was their body replenishing the glycogen, not the carbohydrates that they were eating.
Anthony ChaffeeGUEST
This is a, this is a, a study from Professor Tim Noakes down in South Africa.
Anthony ChaffeeGUEST
And this was an interesting trial because he took high-carb athletes and low-carb athletes, and he switched them around.
Jeff VolekGUEST
And so we're kind of butting up against that with this idea that a low carb diet might actually be beneficial for athletes.
Jeff VolekGUEST
And of course, on this historical line, I've put Tim Noakes there too, because he was really one of the pioneers in advocating for high carbohydrate diets.
Jeff VolekGUEST
But of course, as I think all you know, he's done a complete U-turn on that perspective.
Jeff VolekGUEST
And of course, has caught quite a bit of flack for that.
Jeff VolekGUEST
So you have people like Tim Noakes who, uh, who have, have made the switch, uh, and you have a whole range of other athletes, and many of you are familiar with Sami Inkinen and, uh, his, uh, accomplishments, um, as an Ironman triathlete and his rowing, uh, uh, adventure from California to Hawaii, which is featured in the Serial Killers 2 movie.
Jeff VolekGUEST
And so we're starting to have at least a group of, of scientists who are questioning this, uh, obligate need for carbohydrate, uh, in athletes.
Jeff VolekGUEST
So I'll just give you a few of, of these, uh, anecdotes from individuals that, um, I've had the opportunity to meet and study, uh, in some cases.
Louise PhillipsGUEST
So what about those things that aren't really in the guidelines? And this is when it's really helpful to understand medical ethics.
Louise PhillipsGUEST
And I was taught these principles by Adam Pike, who represented Professor Timothy Noakes when he was up against the South African Medical Board for some very minute nutritional advice he'd given in social media.
Louise PhillipsGUEST
And these are the principles that you'll be judged upon in a court of law if you end up there for negligence.
Louise PhillipsGUEST
And the first principle is beneficence.
speaker_19UNKNOWN
And currently in the last week, I've really...
speaker_19UNKNOWN
I've actually done Tim Noakes' course online as well, so-
Stephen PhinneyGUEST
Mm-hmm
speaker_19UNKNOWN
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Mike FinchHOST
Mm
Ross TuckerHOST
... plus Tim used to give a lecture.
Mike FinchHOST
Tim Noakes, yeah.
Ross TuckerHOST
You probably would've seen Tim Noakes' lecture on heat adaptation.
Mike FinchHOST
Mm.
Ross TuckerHOST
'Cause part of the endurance running evolution is our ability to lose heat.
Jimmy MooreGUEST
Dietdoctor.com is his website in English if you wanna read that.
Jimmy MooreGUEST
Of course, in South Africa, you guys saw him in August, uh, Professor Tim Noakes is doing a really great job out there.
Jimmy MooreGUEST
In fact, they are now organizing their very first low carb conference.
Jimmy MooreGUEST
It's coming in February.
Troy StapletonGUEST
And so this is the model.
Troy StapletonGUEST
Again, Professor Tim Noakes has, has, um, kindly allowed me to use some of his slides.
Troy StapletonGUEST
So we've got these conditions, the atherogenic dyslipidemia, hypertension, obesity, gout, and type two diabetes, and these are the conditions that our local doctors are seeing, and they're treating them.
Troy StapletonGUEST
They're treating the type two diabetes with medications to lower blood glucose.
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speaker_19AUDIENCE
Um, and, um, I seem to recall, I think watching a, um, talk that Tim Noakes gave last time where I think it was in August, where he spoke about, um, artificially sweetening some of the foods that he ate with, um, Splenda, which is, uh, sucralose mixed with maltodextrin and xylitol, um, which I've been trying.
speaker_19AUDIENCE
It works very well.
speaker_19AUDIENCE
Um, but then I was reading through, uh, Dr. Bernstein's book about diabetes and, um, he's, um, talking about maltodextrin and, um, xylitol being, um, uh, you know, carbohydrates in their own right and therefore putting your blood sugar up as well.
Casey RuffHOST
Okay, got it.
Casey RuffHOST
And then I also wanted to ask you about Professor Timothy Noakes.
Casey RuffHOST
Is that kind of more of a household name? Like would most South Africans know who he is?
Kelsey BuchalterGUEST
Most of them.
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