A Sports Dietitian Weighs in on GLP-1s and Running

Another Mother Runner

Sarah Bowen Shea

Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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This episode is required listening for anyone curious about how GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic, Trulicity, and Wegovy affect running and the ability to train for races. The guest, sports dietitian and 18x-marathoner Meghann Featherstun of Featherstone Nutrition, talks with hosts Sarah Bowen Shea and Amanda Loudin, about: -how GLP-1 agonists work on various parts of the body; -how to “eat around” these drugs to fuel (+ refuel) runs; -balancing carbs and proteins given reduced appetite; -concerns about runners using these Rx’s for “vanity” weight loss; and, -whether you can train for a marathon while on these drugs. The guest joins around 8:26, but first Amanda tells about learning to curl (yes, as in, the icy Olympic sport!). When you shop our sponsors, you help AMR. We appreciate your—and their—support! Save 15% on any full-price purchase w/ code AMRwinter2025 at topoathletic.com Spring has sprung: Get 20% off Tifosi sunglasses with code AMR2025 at TifosiOptics.com Get 20% off, plus free shipping, on allIQBar products by texting AMR to 64-000 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.6	running, playing pickleball, elliptigoing,
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0:52.3	Music with code AMR 2025 at Tofoseopics.com. Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah Bowen-She-Shea. I'm joined today by Amanda Loudon. Hello, Amanda.
0:58.4	Well, hey, Sarah. How are you? I'm good. I'm good. I hear you had an interesting, should I call it athletic experience the other evening?
1:06.9	I'm going to say surprisingly so. I am no longer going to make fun of this sport in the next Olympics.
1:14.0	We got to try curling on Saturday night.
1:18.1	So I have a woman who belongs to my gym, who belongs to a curling club down in Potomac.
1:26.3	As one does.
1:27.3	As one does. As one does.
1:28.4	And so she was able to block off a three-hour time for anyone who wanted to come from my gym to come and learn how to curl.
1:38.1	Three hours.
1:39.6	That's amazing.
1:40.7	Yes.
1:41.3	So we first, we got lessons and learned you know, learned the techniques and everything else.
1:45.9	And then we actually had scrimmages. It was so much fun. It was so much fun. I was terrible.
1:53.5	Tossing around the term scrimaging.
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