: Episode 805 – Vinnie chats with Physical Therapist Ray Klepper @dewey_klepper about how fat adaptation both prevents sports injuries and reduces recovery time from them.Â
RAY KLEPPER
- Ray is a physical therapist from Chico, California
- Does a good amount of work with chronic pain that hasn’t been able to be fixed before
- Ray believes that sugar and grains which lead to inflammation are a big issue for injuries
- Ray was big into running and cardio
- It caused stress and inflammation so he is into lifting at the moment
SPORTS INJURIES
- Not only can you make better sports injuries, but you can prevent them through fat adaptation
- When Ray fractured his elbow, he had very little pain because of his low carb diet
- Tissue turnover is much better when you are fat adapted
- If you are not metabolically flexible, it really hurts inflammation
- Chronic pain is nearly always made worse by the SAD diet
- Sugar will kill us unless we do something about it
- Vinnie doesn’t want to sound like an alarmist
- But if it makes our injuries so much worse, imagine what it is doing to the rest of our bodies
- Vinnie doesn’t want to sound like an alarmist
- Ray tries to educate people on a better diet
- Most of his patients have insulin resistance or type 2 diabetes
