How many carbohydrates does an endurance athlete really need—and when does more stop being better?

In this episode, molecular biologist and high-performance coach Claudia Garbutt talks with Aaron Gouw, PhD, co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Carbs Fuel. Aaron explains why fat and carbohydrate are always contributing together, what actually happens when an athlete bonks, why upper-end carbohydrate targets are not universal and how athletes can build a fueling strategy without destroying their gut or budget.

They also explore fasted training, low energy availability, differences between women and men, and what Aaron learned while turning a kitchen experiment into a growing sports-nutrition company.

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• How many carbohydrates athletes need at different intensities and durations
• Why bonking happens and how to train the gut for race-day fueling
• When deliberate restriction becomes harmful underfueling

Aaron Gouw, PhD, is a lifelong endurance athlete and the co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Carbs Fuel. While completing his PhD in Human Bioenergetics, Aaron developed the company's original 50-gram carbohydrate gel after co-founder Gabe Multer challenged him to make endurance fueling simpler, more carbohydrate-dense and more affordable.

Carbs Fuel now offers several gel formats and other sports-nutrition products. This conversation is educational only and does not replace individualized medical or sports-nutrition advice.

Carbs Fuel: https://carbsfuel.com/

Aaron on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gouwaaron

Wired For Success: https://wiredforsuccess.solutions/blog/

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EPISODE SUMMARY

The qualities that help founders move fast, tolerate risk and pursue opportunities can also become liabilities under pressure. In this episode, psychiatrist, researcher and serial entrepreneur Michael A. Freeman joins Claudia to unpack the founder mental-health paradox: what the research really shows, when persistence becomes dangerous and how to catch warning signs before the founder—or the business—hits a wall.

WE TALKED ABOUT

• Why founder strengths can become hidden risks

• When persistence stops being productive

• How to spot and protect against mental-health warning signs

EPISODE NOTES

Michael A. Freeman, M.D. is a psychiatrist, researcher and serial entrepreneur who studies mental health, wellbeing and performance among business builders. He and his colleagues at Econa developed the Entrepreneur Well-being Check, a brief screening tool designed specifically for entrepreneurs. Michael has also served as a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at U.C. San Francisco, founding Chief Medical Officer of United Behavioral Health, President of the Institute for Behavioral Healthcare and a mental-health team member of the White House Task Force on Health Care Reform.

This conversation is educational and is not a substitute for individual medical or mental-health care. If emotional symptoms are affecting your wellbeing, performance or relationships, please seek appropriate professional support.

LINKS

Econa: https://www.econa.net/

FounderScreen resources: https://founderscreen.org/resources

Michael on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelfreemanmd

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What if your underwear could track changes in your reproductive health? Fibra founder Parnian Majd is developing smart textiles designed to collect continuous biological signals through something as ordinary as the clothes we wear.

We explore what Fibra's sensors measure directly, what its AI attempts to infer, and why more data does not automatically mean better health decisions. Parnian also shares how her experience with PCOS shaped the company, what it takes to create an entirely new product category, and why convincing investors can be harder than convincing the women who experience the problem.

• Turning underwear into a reproductive-health wearable

• Measuring the biomarkers other wearables miss

• Building a new category in women's health

Parnian Majd, B.Eng, M.Eng, is a biomedical engineer and the Founder & CEO of Fibra, a women's-health technology company developing smart-textile underwear for continuous reproductive-health monitoring and personalized insights. Her own experience with PCOS helped motivate her to build a wearable focused specifically on reproductive physiology.

• Fibra: https://myfibra.com/

• Parnian Majd on LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/parnian-majd-b-eng-m-eng-84672b16a

• Fibra on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/myfibra/

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/myfibra/

• TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@myfibra

• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MyFibra

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