With all the evolutionary and biochemical mumbo stripped-away, his essential message is to keep the macronutrient profile as follows:
Less than 150g of carb per day, ideally less than 100g (although any less than 50g and you can end up with bad breath from ketosis, which some people would rather avoid).
* <0.7g to 1.0g depending on exercise level> grams of protein per day, so that your body isn't scavenging from muscle mass to heal itself.
The remainder of your daily calorie needs in saturated fats and oils, especially from things like animal fat (okay not an option in your case), nuts, seeds, avocado, coconut, almond, etc etc etc.
Knowing that protein and carb are both 4 calories per gram, the carb + protein gives me around 800-900 calories per day, so there's a lot of room to manoeuvre there with the fatty foods (9 cals per gram).
The other thing he emphasises that resonates with me is to avoid polyunsaturated fatty acids in favour of saturated or mono-unsaturated. The general idea is that saturated fat oxidizes much less readily so it's less of a cancer/heart disease risk, plus it's a more efficient fuel. Plus plus it's less likely to come from a GM origin. Plus plus plus it's damned tasty :)
Less than 150g of carb per day, ideally less than 100g (although any less than 50g and you can end up with bad breath from ketosis, which some people would rather avoid).
* <0.7g to 1.0g depending on exercise level> grams of protein per day, so that your body isn't scavenging from muscle mass to heal itself.
The remainder of your daily calorie needs in saturated fats and oils, especially from things like animal fat (okay not an option in your case), nuts, seeds, avocado, coconut, almond, etc etc etc.
Knowing that protein and carb are both 4 calories per gram, the carb + protein gives me around 800-900 calories per day, so there's a lot of room to manoeuvre there with the fatty foods (9 cals per gram).
The other thing he emphasises that resonates with me is to avoid polyunsaturated fatty acids in favour of saturated or mono-unsaturated. The general idea is that saturated fat oxidizes much less readily so it's less of a cancer/heart disease risk, plus it's a more efficient fuel. Plus plus it's less likely to come from a GM origin. Plus plus plus it's damned tasty :)
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||your lean mass in pounds|| * ||0.7g to 1.0g depending on exercise level||
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