1. Timothy David Noakes was born on 1949 and is a South African scientist, and an emeritus professor in the Division of Exercise Science and Sports Medicine at the University of Cape Town.
22 Facts About Tim Noakes
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Tim Noakes has run more than 70 marathons and ultramarathons, and is the author of several books on exercise and diet.
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Tim Noakes is known for his work in sports science and for his support of a low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet, as set out in his books The Real Meal Revolution and Lore of Nutrition: Challenging Conventional Dietary Beliefs.
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Tim Noakes attended boarding school at Monterey Preparatory School in Constantia, Cape Town.
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In 1980 Tim Noakes was tasked to start a sports science course at the University of Cape Town.
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Tim Noakes is a researcher on the condition now known as exercise-associated hyponatremia.
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In 1996 Tim Noakes published his theory of the "central governor".
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Tim Noakes served on the selection panel for the International Olympic Committee's Science Prize between 1995 and 2002.
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Tim Noakes discovered that Pugh had the ability to raise his core body temperature before entering the water in anticipation of the cold and coined the phrase 'anticipatory thermo-genesis' to describe it.
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In 2007, Tim Noakes was the expedition doctor for Pugh's one kilometre swim at the Geographic North Pole.
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Tim Noakes believes his father's diet was instrumental in his decline, so following his own diagnosis with diabetes, Tim Noakes changed his diet to a LCHF diet.
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Tim Noakes reversed the carbohydrate-loading advice he had given previously to athletes, and which had featured extensively in his book Lore of Running.
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Tim Noakes has cited the effects of diabetes on his father and his father's life regrets as important motivation for his efforts to promulgate his dietary advice.
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Tim Noakes now describes himself as "cured" as long as he follows this regimen.
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Wim de Villiers, dean of the faculty, accused Tim Noakes of having no real scientific evidence to back up his assertions.
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In February 2014 a registered dietician complained to the Health Professions Council of South Africa that Tim Noakes tweeted to a mother that she should wean her baby onto low-carbohydrate, high-fat foods, which he described as real foods.
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Controversially, on 28 October 2016, the HPSCA incorrectly released a statement announcing that Tim Noakes had been found guilty of misconduct, namely "giving unconventional advice over social media".
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Tim Noakes commented: "Acquitted on all counts, twice, by two different judging panels".
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Tim Noakes co-wrote the 2017 book Lore of Nutrition with journalist Marika Sboros.
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Eduard Grebe, an epidemiologist and infectious disease specialist, has written that Tim Noakes had "a long history of making misleading and false claims", including support for the false claim that MMR vaccines can cause autism and claiming that hydroxychloroquine was an effective treatment for COVID-19.
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In 2011 Tim Noakes was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Tim Noakes has written several books detailing his research in sports science and nutrition.