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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.

“Trump will be the first anti-science president we have ever had.”

-Michael Lubell

Many people may think I have put out a lot of Carb-PRO posts of late. But these aren’t really Carb-PRO pieces, they are just not ANTI-Carb. I despise the demonification and fear mongering of macronutrients or foods. It’s just not helpful. We must seek first to understand….everything and everyone.

Well yea, if you try to lose 15 pounds in a week by only drinking four tablespoons of mangosteen nectar.

Here is the 1 trillion dollar time bomb.

“Low energy flux, but not energy surplus, predicted future increases in body fat…Furthermore, high energy flux appeared to prevent fat gain.”

-Hume et al 2016

Blake is 55. A loving husband. A caring father. He trains. He eats well. He’s handsome. One of those men you want to put on a postcard or a MultiVitamin bottle. Blake just gets shit done and doesn’t ask for a party every time he does. Yet, this depiction of everything...

I always feel the Holidays coming. They are my favorite time of year. Laughter, gifts for others, and lots of family meals. Yet, people start to avoid me like a telemarketer. I get it. But, let’s have an educated discussion about the effects of the majority of our population shotgunning egg nog for five to six weeks to roll in the New Year. #PARTY

Our diets must focus on food first, but I have found that protein shakes break up the monotony of mostly savory food options for weight loss clients and liquid calories are highly beneficial for athletes who just can’t physically chew all the food they need to meet their needs.

Yet, people tend to think that high quality, well sourced protein supplementation is expensive. It is. For example, both Whey Cool and Pure Paleo by Designs for Health (I mostly recommend these two) are about $2 a serving, but is this more expensive than buying organic responsibly sourced meat?