Welcome Readers! Today I have the privilege and honor of sharing a back and forth that I had with Dr. Timothy Noakes of Capetown, South Africa. If you are big into exercise physiology, running/endurance sports or high fat/low carb diets then you probably know of or have heard of Professor Noakes! Dr. Noakes is a brilliant man and when he speaks, I listen. He is a passionate man and has strong feelings but he is also passionate about science and is no stranger to challenging beliefs or conventional wisdom. He is infinitely curious and questions everything. Two hallmarks of a great mind. I hope you all enjoy the interview and are able to take one or two things from it!
Me: Welcome Professor Noakes! I know you have been a man of many hats but could you give us a little background about yourself for the readers?
Professor Noakes: I trained as a medical doctor at the University of Cape Town and during my training I realized that health, sports medicine and exercise physiology really interested me rather more than did the standard medical curriculum. So during my training I was more interested in how medicine related to sport rather than the information I was meant to be learning. I perceived that medicine was spending a lot of money on the management of chronic disease without appearing to be particularly successful. In addition, I realized that athletes were not getting much care from medicine and it seemed to me that the future of medicine lay more in prevention by promoting healthy lifestyles and exercise and, as a consequence, I realized that sports medicine would become increasingly more important.
Well it is summer time and that means people are spending a lot more things like reading and running. Runners like myself probably like to combine the two activities by reading about running or listening to audio books during long runs. This has inspired me to make a list of the books related to running or running nutrition that have inspired me. I have listed my top 5 in no particular order and have also listed 5 honorable mentions! Here they are...
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