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)
But I'll keep testing and hopefully something will help me get off this annoying plateau.
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I would say I am living proof that one can exercise with virtually no carbs.
And for those who may not remember, I am a 59.5 year-old female with a major family history of "diabetes." To do a century ride in and of itself without tiring (I felt fabulous at the end and could have ridden farther) seems miraculous and to do it without carbohydrates is simply mind-boggling.