Category Archives for "Carb Loading"

Rethinking Nutrition: Reduce Carbs To Improve Performance

In this podcast clip with elite ultrarunner, Bree Lambert Sanders, we discuss the effectiveness of Vespa with other products like gels and energy bars. Key points discussed are:The Important Role of Vespa: Vespa is not a replacement for all external energy  but acts as a metabolic catalyst to tap into your limitless onboard energy stored […]

Is Glucose Monitoring Really The Key To Your Health?

Diabetes and obesity are at epidemic levels. There is no shortage of talk about blood sugar, glucose and the need to regulate them.  Society has finally started to recognize too much sugar and too many carbs are not a good thing. In fact, it is now recognized that our high glucose diets are responsible for […]

GI Distress – Do you REALLY need ALL those external calories?

When you sit down to enjoy a meal (and I mean really ENJOY a meal) whether it’s breakfast, lunch or dinner, are you going to do a lot of exercise? Of course NOT! So then why would you want to cram meal-sized amounts of calories into your digestive system when you’re trying to perform exercise? […]

How Strategic Carbs Optimize Fat Metabolism

In the previous post, (How & Why OFM Actually Enhances Carbohydrate Metabolism), I dove into why optimizing fat metabolism enhances carbohydrate utilization, but guess what! It goes the other way too! Carbs & sugars, used strategically, can actually improve your fat metabolism. Used chronically, however, in the way the conventional sports nutrition world recommends carbs, has […]

How & Why OFM Actually Enhances Carbohydrate Metabolism

Recently there has been a lot of online media coming from the conventional sports nutrition experts in defense of carbs, including a LOT of carbs. . . And guess what! I don’t have a problem with carbs and if you’re fat adapted, you shouldn’t either!The key is to maintain and grow your carb tolerance so […]

Removing the Stress out of Carb Counting | Fat Adaptation

In today’s video I’m going to talk about how to count carbs without going crazy.  OFM (Optimized Fat Metabolism) makes carb counting sustainable and doable for you. With the strictness of the Keto diet, counting every gram of carbohydrate creates stress which is actually counter-productive to what you want to achieve.   So how do we make […]

The best diet for performance and health – Keto or High Carb?

Confused and frustrated with dietary advice to fuel your athletic pursuits? . . . the ‘information age’ is drowning us with binary thinking. The conventional High-Carb camp states you need massive amounts of carbohydrates to perform well, while, on the other end of the spectrum, the Keto camp espouses the health and performance benefits of […]

Are you using this legal PED (Performance Enhancing Drug)?

It seems like not a week goes by without a scandal in sport about Performance Enhancing Drugs (PED’s). It seems like performance enhancing drugs have permeated sport from the high stakes team sports to even small niche sports like ultra-running.   It is a part of this “win at all costs” psyche that will drive […]

Balancing Fat and Carbs to Reach Your Optimum Health and Athletic Potential

OFM (Optimized Fat Metabolism) is a pathway and a conceptual model to get you back to burning fat as your aerobic energy source.  Why is using fat as your energy source?This of course has been a proven life and health strategy, however, recent data from  The FASTER Study has upheld our long held results-based belief […]

OFM: The Alternative to Keto vs Carbs

There is no one size fits all when it comes to reaching your highest performance potential. OFM (optimized fat metabolism)  is an individualized pathway to get you back to burning fat as your aerobic energy source.Why is this important? Because, what OFM athletes experience is not only improved performance but less damage! This results in feeling […]