So Grandma, thank you for raising my father, for feeding him, for loving him, and providing him with more questions than answers, and oh so many struggles that made him who he is today. And thank you for the lesson that life is short and that I must always appreciate others…you too.

Carbohydrate is the critical substrate for bouts of endurance exercise, especially at higher intensities 1-5. It has been well established that higher carbohydrate intakes are advantageous for these sports, although some data has been collected, most of the...

I was just sent the 2016 paper by Volek et al. investigating self-claimed long-term Keto-Adapted ultra-endurance athletes vs. endurance athletes who eat mow down carbohydrates. The study is super interesting and I am sure all the researchers would agree that there are...

Anyone who has the view that sugar is the devil and insulin is it's minion, don't read this as you probably have already made up your mind and think I am in bed with the soda industry down here in the Jungle. Caring and well meaning Nutritionists or Functional Med...

Everything is sets and reps and we are always practicing something.

Say you have a fasting blood sugar of 85 mg/dL. No human on this planet can think intuitively about this number letter vomit.

85 mg/dL equals 0.85 grams per liter and the average human contains about 5 liters of blood.

What is the most Spartan environment in the US?

Football.

This mind seeks to control everything, and this manifests itself in one’s entire relationship with food. This is not healthy. This is an attempt to control the uncontrollable in a broken food and social environment (ease of availability of hyperpalatable food, constant variety, unending food advertising, and the inattentive consumption of food, etc).

If you are a coach and you work with high-intensity team sports you need to read Carbohydrate Nutrition and Team Sport Performance. If you are an athlete who plays any of the sports below you need to read this paper. The best part is – it’s free.