Fueling Your Body – Carb-loaded vs Fat-fueled Talking with a patient of mine recently who is soon to embark on a long backpacking trip reminded me of an important lesson I learned the hard way about how to fuel your…
Fasting for fat loss While many regard fasting as a difficult challenge, it has been a normal part of the human experience for millennia and is a time-honored tradition among virtually all major religions of the world. Part of the…
How to Get Fat-Adapted In the modern day, nearly all adults are glucose-adapted, but not fat-adapted. This scenario is a function of the relatively high carbohydrate intake that is typical in the Standard American Diet. All carbohydrates break down into…
Fat Adaptation and it’s Critical Role in Weight Loss There are basically two fuels that can be utilized by the human body for energy: carbohydrates and fat. The vast majority of people are routinely utilizing carbohydrates as their fuel and…
Metabolic flexibility One of the most important principles for metabolic health is that of metabolic flexibility. Metabolic flexibility is the ability of our bodies to switch between utilizing different nutrient energy sources (carbohydrate and fat) depending on what is available…
