Food is your Performance Tool with Kate Save

**Layne Beachley AO** (0:02)
You're tuning in to A Wake Up Call, which is your weekly dose of purpose packed with science-backed tools to beat burnout and boost happiness.

**Tess Brouwer** (0:09)
Hosted by us, Tess Brouwer and seven-time world champion Layne Beachley, we're the founders of Awake Academy. This podcast mixes raw life lessons, expert wisdom and practical tips to help you stop sleepwalking through life and start living it on your terms.

**Layne Beachley AO** (0:25)
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**Tess Brouwer** (0:43)
Welcome back, Dream Team. Today, we are cutting through the noise of fad diets and talking about fuel as a high performance variable. Our guest today sits at a very rare intersection, I must say. She's an accredited practicing dietician and a clinical exercise physiologist and the founder of Be Fit Food. Kate Save doesn't just look at nutrition through the lens of weight loss, she looks at it through metabolic flexibility, cognitive output and physical longevity, which is like the master stroke, right?
From building a million dollar business that shook up Shark Tank to advocating for health leadership in the corporate space, Kate is on a mission to treat food as our most powerful daily performance tool. Whether you're crushing brain fog, optimizing your recovery or building a resilient engine for life, this episode is your blueprint. Kate Save, welcome to A Wake Up Call.

**Kate Save** (1:37)
Thank you for having me.

**Tess Brouwer** (1:38)
All right, Kate, we've got a rapid fire for you. It's this or that. Now, you're an expert, so you've got to keep it short, okay?
Creatine or coffee?

**Kate Save** (1:47)
Creatine. Okay.

**Tess Brouwer** (1:48)
Early morning cardio or a heavy evening lift?

**Kate Save** (1:52)
Heavy evening lift. Really?

**Tess Brouwer** (1:54)
Doesn't that impact your sleep? Okay. Counting macros or trusting the food matrix?

**Kate Save** (2:00)
The food matrix.

**Tess Brouwer** (2:01)
Keto or carb cycling?

**Kate Save** (2:06)
Carb cycling.

**Layne Beachley AO** (2:08)
What does carb cycling mean?

**Kate Save** (2:10)
They're both fad. I don't like either of them.

**Tess Brouwer** (2:13)
Cold plunge or infrared sauna?

**Kate Save** (2:16)
Cold plunge.

**Tess Brouwer** (2:17)
Oh, even for females?

**Kate Save** (2:19)
Yes, I did listen to the other episode. Okay. I like both.

**Tess Brouwer** (2:23)
All right.

**Kate Save** (2:23)
We'll dig into it.

**Tess Brouwer** (2:23)
I'm not allowed to choose both. No, we got one or the other. Whey, isolate or whole food protein?

**Kate Save** (2:29)
Whole food protein.

**Tess Brouwer** (2:30)
Cilium husks or real vegetables?

**Kate Save** (2:32)
Real vegetables.

**Tess Brouwer** (2:33)
Intermittent fasting or four meals a day?

**Kate Save** (2:40)
Intermittent fasting.

**Tess Brouwer** (2:41)
You're shrinking.

**Kate Save** (2:42)
You don't want to choose.

**Tess Brouwer** (2:45)
Snap frozen or fresh meal prep?

**Kate Save** (2:48)
Fresh meal prep. Oh, hang on. Ready-made?

**Tess Brouwer** (2:52)
Ready-made.

**Kate Save** (2:53)
Oh, snap frozen.

**Tess Brouwer** (2:54)
Yeah, you go. GLP-1s for fat loss or pure muscle power?

**Kate Save** (3:01)
GLP-1s for fat loss or pure muscle.

**Tess Brouwer** (3:04)
Or just muscle, building muscle. Building muscle. Yeah, always. Okay. Now, this is our controversial take on this or that.
Carnival diet or vegan, if you had to pick one?

**Kate Save** (3:20)
Vegan.

**Tess Brouwer** (3:22)
Azempic for the last five kilos or azempic for life?

**Kate Save** (3:31)
The last five kilos.

**Tess Brouwer** (3:33)
Stevia and artificial sweeteners or real sugar?

**Kate Save** (3:39)
They're separate. Stevia and artificial are different. I would pick stevia.

**Tess Brouwer** (3:43)
Okay. Yeah, that's a good qu- that's a fair call. All right. Artificial sweeteners or sugar?

**Kate Save** (3:48)
Sugar.

**Tess Brouwer** (3:48)
Yeah, always, right?
I heard this term- oh no, I'm not allowed to go quick. Have you ever heard of the fridge ciggie?

**Kate Save** (3:55)
No, you're breaking the rules. Can I go back and change my answers? No, we'll go book. I'm picking keto because what people think is keto, I would agree with, but they don't know what keto really is.

**Tess Brouwer** (4:06)
Okay. We're going back to keto.

**Layne Beachley AO** (4:08)
All right.

**Tess Brouwer** (4:09)
Seed oils, are they completely overblown?

**Kate Save** (4:14)
They are overblown. I like olive oil.

**Tess Brouwer** (4:16)
No, yeah, we love olive oil too.

**Layne Beachley AO** (4:17)
Canola oil?

**Kate Save** (4:18)
Canola.

**Tess Brouwer** (4:18)
No.

**Layne Beachley AO** (4:19)
No. Sommelier oil?

**Kate Save** (4:21)
No.

**Tess Brouwer** (4:22)