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Protein powders before fasted weight training? Here is a more natural and cheaper alternative

The idea that protein powders should be consumed prior to weight training has been around for a while, and is very popular among bodybuilder...

One common outcome of doing glycogen-depleting exercise (e.g., strength training, sprinting) in combination with intermittent fasting is an ...

Let me start this post with a warning about spirits (hard liquor). Taken on an empty stomach, they cause an acute suppression of liver glyco...

One of the biggest problems with modern diets rich in industrial foods is that they promote unnatural hunger patterns. For example, hunger c...

Insulin is often presented as a hormone that is at the core of the diseases of civilization, particularly because of the insulin response el...

The “great blogosphere debate” rages on regarding the effects of carbohydrates and insulin on health. A lot of action has been happening rec...

Often I hear from readers who have changed their diets and lifestyles toward a more evolutionarily sound direction ( ) that their fasting ...

Typically obesity leads to health problems via insulin resistance ( ). Excess calories are stored as fat in fat cells up to a certain poin...

An adult human has about 5 l of blood in circulation. Considering a blood glucose concentration of 100 mg/dl, this translates into a total a...

The notion that exercise reduces blood glucose levels is widespread. That notion is largely incorrect. Exercise appears to have a positive e...

The term “diabetes” is used to describe a wide range of diseases of glucose metabolism; diseases with a wide range of causes. The diseases i...

A great deal of discussion has been going on recently revolving around the so-called “carbohydrate hypothesis of obesity”. I will use the ac...

It is often pointed out, at least anecdotally, that potassium deficiency is common among low carbohydrate dieters. Potassium deficiency can ...

My interview with Jimmy Moore should be up on the day that this post becomes available. (I usually write my posts on weekends and schedule ...

Hormone replacement therapies are prescribed in some cases, for medical reasons. They usually carry some risks. The risks come in part from ...