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Legendary Exercise Professor Embraces LCHF! 39
How to Get Pregnant by Avoiding Stress 8
Does Exercise Promote Weight Loss? 24
The world’s best tennis player: a low carber? 24
Four Weeks of Strict LCHF and Ketone Monitoring 39
The Naked Truth (NSFW?) 23
New study: Obesity is Not Caused by Lack of Exercise 17
Even Elite Gymnasts Do Fine Without Carbs 19
The Official Disease of the 2012 London Olympics! 44
Dan Moffet and His 158 Pounds Lost on LCHF 13
Very Low Carb Performance with Peter Attia 28
Low Carb Paleo With Mark Sisson 15
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Four Weeks of Strict LCHF and Ketone Monitoring

March 18 19:28 in About Diet Doctor, Exercise, Ketone Measuring, Low Carb High Fat, Weight Loss

Can ketone measurement help you lose weight and improve performance? That’s the main question I’ll be trying to answer with my four-week experiment.

See Report #1 for diet and experiment design.

Note: This experiment was done six months ago and initially only reported on my Swedish blog. This is a somewhat delayed translation!

Below are graphs of my weight and waistline over this first four-week period, as well as the results of blood and urine ketone measurements.

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After two to three weeks of light nutritional ketosis, I’ve now spent 8 days in “optimal ketosis” – that is, between 1.5 – 3 mmol/L. Want to know what’s happened?

Continue Reading →

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Does Exercise Promote Weight Loss?

February 22 13:17 in Exercise, Weight Loss

Do you want to lose weight? Here’s part 13 of 17 in a series of blog posts on the subject. You can read them all on the How to Lose Weight page.

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13. Exercise

Do you wonder why this weight-loss tip doesn’t show up until number 13 on the list? It’s because few things are so overrated for weight loss as exercise is. Continue Reading →

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40 Game-Changing Experts Changing the Fitness Industry

February 21 18:27 in About Diet Doctor, Exercise, Gary Taubes

This is cool. Here’s a list of 40 experts that are “changing the fitness industry” – and I’m one of them. It gets even better, on the same list are three of the most impressive people I know: Mark Sisson, Gary Taubes and Peter Attia.

40 Game-Changing Experts Shaping The Fitness Industry

As far as I’m aware the list isn’t only about having game-changing six packs. It just seems like it at the top of the list.

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Dan Moffet and His 158 Pounds Lost on LCHF

August 29 2012 9:35 in Exercise, Weight loss stories

I got a Facebook message from Dan Moffet, the man in the pictures above:

Since adopting the LCHF lifestyle I have lost 158 pounds in 30 months. http://danmoffett.blogspot.com/
Thanks DietDoctor

Congratulations Dan! Very impressive.

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Very Low Carb Performance with Peter Attia

August 23 2012 20:46 in Exercise, Low Carb High Fat, Salt

Conventional wisdom says you need to eat lots of carbs to exercise. As you probably know that’s not true. But how low carb can you go — and are there even benefits to performance from eating extremely low carb?

Peter Attia is a medical doctor and an endurance athlete. He’s learned from the world’s biggest experts on keto-adaptation (such as dr Stephen Phinney) and in the last few years he has relentlessly self-experimented.

Here dr Attia shares his insights on very low carb (ketogenic) diets and physical and mental performance.

Peter Attia’s blog: The Eating Academy (highly recommended)

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Low Carb Paleo With Mark Sisson

August 15 2012 22:27 in Exercise, Low Carb High Fat, Paleo Diets

Here’s a man who wants to improve the health and lives of 10 MILLION people! And he might just succeed.

Mark Sisson runs the wildly popular fitness blog Mark’s Daily Apple and is the author of the bestseller The Primal Blueprint among other books. He’s also one of the leaders behind the growing Paleo movement.

Despite running a small fitness / health empire Mark Sisson somehow finds the time to stay in a shape that would be the envy of just about anybody half his age. And he seems to enjoy every minute. How is it possible? In this interview he shares his secrets.

Furthermore, as some debate whether Paleo is low carb or not, Mark Sisson stays calm and sticks to what works. His “Primal Blueprint” is in many ways similar to LCHF.

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Even Elite Gymnasts Do Fine Without Carbs

July 31 2012 21:04 in Exercise

The myth that everybody needs to eat large amounts of carbs to exercise is on the way out. Here’s another nail in the coffin:

A strict ketogenic low carb diet seem to work fine even for elite gymnasts. In a new study they kept their strenght and lost fat mass (even though they were very fit to begin with!) while gaining a non-significant amount of muscle weight.

Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition, 26 July 2012: Ketogenic diet does not affect strength performance in elite artistic gymnasts

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How to Get Pregnant by Avoiding Stress

July 28 2012 15:03 in Exercise, PCOS / Fertility

The first part of my interview with low carb expert dr Michael D. Fox was quite well received. Here’s one comment on YouTube:

I’ve listened to a lot of low carb videos and podcasts and this is one of the best.

Here’s the second and final part of the interview. And the topic is not low carb. There’s another thing that impacts the health and fertility of a lot of people: Stress. What a lot of people believe is healthy – running more and eating less – may actually damage their health. And their chances of getting pregnant.

The doctor’s solution may seem weird. Run less, eat more!

 Watch part one

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New study: Obesity is Not Caused by Lack of Exercise

July 27 2012 12:17 in Exercise, The Obesity Epidemic

Relaxing hunter gatherer

Is the obesity epidemic caused by too much bad food, or is it simply because of lack of exercise? A new study deals a blow to the “Coca Cola spokesperson” argument that obese soda-drinking kids just need to spend more time on their treadmills.

It seems like our slim ancestors perhaps didn’t burn more calories than we do today. So the cause of our obesity epidemic is hardly a sudden epidemic of laziness. Probably it’s got a lot more to do with junk food:

BBC: Hunter gatherer clue to obesity

Here’s the study:

PLoS ONE: Hunter-Gatherer Energetics and Human Obesity

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Legendary Exercise Professor Embraces LCHF!

July 23 2012 19:19 in Exercise

I’ve heard about this story over and over for a while now, but only just now realized how big it is. The legendary Tim Noakes, professor of exercise and sports science in South Africa, is one of the world’s foremost researchers in exercise physiology. He’s also run more than 70 marathons and ultramarathons and is the author of Lore of Running.

He used to believe lot’s of carbs were essential for exercise. Unfortunately he developed pre-diabetes and gained weight over the years (despite all that running!). A couple of years ago he discovered that the science behind LCHF diets were really strong (reading this book) – and tested it himself. After improving his health and weight dramatically he’s now heavily promoting LCHF diets, causing a lot of attention in South Africa.

Listen to this great recent interview on Jimmy Moore’s podcast. Especially interesting are all the anecdotes about athletes doing great on high fat diets:

South African Running Legend Tim Noakes Embraces High-Fat, Low-Carb Living

Apparently Noakes and his team has a bunch of studies planned on LCHF and exercise. Stay tuned!

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