Dr. Phil Maffetone & Dr. Mark Cucuzzella: Be Your Own Health Advocate (At Any Age), Minimalist Marathoning, and More on MAF vs. Race Pace

On this show we're joined by two powerhouses, Dr. Phil Maffetone and new to the show Dr. Mark Cucuzzella. You can get more from Mark at naturalrunningcenter.com, healthyrunning.org, and his online running shoe store featuring exclusively minimalist shoes at tworiverstreads.com. On this show we dive into a fully holistic and integrative chat about what it really takes to be your best self with health and performance! Mark Cucuzella shares his incredible journey that's led him to overcome injury and run 2:24 marathons, and at age 49 he's still running sub-2:50 making him one of the best master's marathoner alive. How MAF training helped Mark overcome years of overtraining, and still allowed him to have major success in the marathon How Mark switched from a high carb diet and being insulin resistant to a low carb diet and better health just 5 years ago, and the positive changes he's seen Mark and Phil discuss MAF Method principles, progression and more The very important role of a healthy diet in seeing progress, but why Mark still got results with MAF on a high-carb less healthy diet Comparisons with Lydiard-style training On health markers like HbA1C - Mark says normal and healthy would be 4.5-5.0%, pre-diabetic is 5.7% and diabetic is 6.0% Instead of dissing high cholesterol look to the ratio of triglycerides and HDL Healing without drugs and food as medicine Mark has to manage insulin resistance and poor glucose tolerance and how he does this effectively "A Beautiful Medicine" On taking charge of y our health and well-bieng and problems with mainstream medicine Running Boston in Vibrams and the Harvard research that's being done by Irene Davis Loading rates: lower loading rates equated with less injury issues Discussing minimalist vs maximalist shoes and injury Shoes don't cause injury, the dysfunction does