Category Archives for "Fat Adaptation"

The Secrets of Endurance: Embracing Fat Adaptation

If you are an endurance athlete, you know fueling is one of the biggest challenges and that the success or failure in your sport can literally hinge upon getting enough calories. We are told by the ‘experts’ about our limited glycogen reserves and how this limitation dictates the ingestion of copious amounts of carbohydrates to […]

How I Ran My First “Fasted” Marathon – podcast clip with Dr Linda

In this podcast clip, Dr Linda talks about her recent Marathon and shows the advantage of being fat adapted and using Vespa for fueling, we discuss:How Linda did her first “fasted marathon”, and how she went in the race and finished strong without the usual problems..The benefits of eating nutrition-rich foods before a marathon rather […]

Going Beyond Keto and Hammer Nutrition’s OHM

“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”-Oscar WildeThis article is based on  a recent vlog post on Hammer Nutrition’s site. When someone sent it to me and I read it reminded me of the famous Oscar Wilde quote, “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay […]

Does KETO work for High Performance Athletes?

Dr. French’s latest Hammer Nutrition blog post, Demystifying Keto Part ll, Keto for High-Performance Athletes discusses how a Ketogenic Diet applies to serious athletes like you, which provides me the opportunity to take up where this article leaves off, so you can achieve higher health and peak performance.How does Keto and Athletic Performance Work?“What about […]

My Final Hammer Nutrition Demystifying Fat Review: Hidden Details YOU need to Know!

Today’s vlog, the final one in this series . . . and I PROMISE it will be a lot shorter! . . . If you have not seen my first 3 videos you can see them here:Pt 1 – Hammer Drops A Fat Bomb – My Take on Part 1 of Their ArticlePt 2 – […]

Masterclass: The Hard Facts of Mono & Poly Unsaturated Fats YOU need to know!

In part 2 of my vlog  reviewing the Hammer Nutrition Articles, Demystifying Fat Part 1 & Part 2  my focus pocus was on Saturated Fat and the debunking of this stable, clean burning and energy dense fat which actually is a good guy painted as a villain. Make sure to watch or read it because […]

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 […]

The Key To Your Best Performance is Learning To Burn Fat

The publication of the FASTER Study was a watershed moment in both sports physiology and metabolic health. The data from FASTER clearly showed humans are capable of burning a lot more fat and at much higher intensity levels than the science previous to FASTER suggested.Why is this important?FASTER forced researchers to reconsider the long held notion […]

Myth Busting Your Appetite and Hunger Suppressing Diets

When you hear someone talking about how their Diet suppresses hunger, don’t believe them. That is right, do NOT believe them! It does not matter which diet is discussed – Keto, Paleo, Vegan or Plant based, humans have hunger triggers as part of our evolutionary heritage and biological hardwiring and for good reason.   Hunger […]

The First Step To Optimizing Your Fat Metabolism

January is a time of new beginnings and change. And with the past 2 years who isn’t ready for real change? So in today’s vlog, I want to bust the biggest myth of all about OFM, the one that prevents most people from making that fundamental shift to fat as fuel. Instead of the usual 30 […]