Dr. Don WoodResolving Your Trauma-Based Challenges So You Can Unlock Peak Performance

How Marko Cheseto Broke the World Record [part 1]

7 Jul 2024 · 1 min

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Dr. Don Wood narrates a YouTube talk ("How Marko Cheseto Broke the World Record [part 1]") that uses the case of Marco (Marko/Marco spelled variably) Cheseto, a Kenyan double amputee marathon runner, to illustrate how removing metabolic/energetic limits (e.g., mitochondrial energy drain) can improve athletic performance. The chunk covers Marco's background: recruited to University of Alaska, had a suicide attempt after poor acclimation and loss of both lower legs due to prolonged exposure, fitted with prosthetics and running blades, and later plateaued in performance prompting outreach to Dr. Wood.

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Imagine now what happens when we can take an athlete and we can eliminate that energy drain and the mitochondria, they're going to perform better. And so we see it all the time. So I'll give you an example of an athlete and he's on our website. Marco Chisetto. Marco Cicero is a double amputee. Lost both his legs to a suicide attempt. And he's a marathon runner from Kenya. And he lost both his legs because he fell asleep in the snow. Very talented. Got recruited to the University of Alaska. Him and his cousin didn't acclimate very well, tried to take his own life, ended up passing out. Two days later, he was found. They had to amputate his legs below the knee. So for a marathon runner, now he's lost both his legs below the knee. They had to build prosthetics for him to walk on again, and then they built him blades to start training to run marathons. They reached out to me because they said Marco has great potential, but he seems to have plateaued.