Since I have worked and thrived as a successful health and fitness professional---straight from the hip!
๐ฅ The “Sugar Diet” Campaign Is Crumbling Under Actual Biology
This has to be one of the most ignorant rants I’ve heard—and that’s saying something.
The anti-carb “Sugar Diet” hysteria?
Yeah—it’s already being torn apart by empirical metabolic reality.
Here’s what they won’t say out loud:
Their pseudo-science reminds me just how much they don’t know, and how much I do.
✅ "Being Fed" Isn’t About Eating—It’s About Glycogen
Nutrition 101: To be fed means your glycogen tanks are full.
- The average human stores ~1 lb of glycogen across muscle, liver, and blood.
- This binds 3–4 lbs of water.
- That’s why people lose 3–5 lbs when they cut carbs—it’s not fat. It’s dehydration.
๐ฌ Your Metabolism Is Built Around Glycogen
Let’s break it down:
- .45 × Bodyweight (lbs) × 24 hrs = RMR
- For a 165–170 lb person:
~1,800 kcal/day resting
- 25% activity → ~2,250 kcal/day
➡️ Standard recs:
~65% of calories from carbs = ~365g/day (1,460 kcal)
For athletes?
500g carbs/day (~2,000 kcal) is standard.
That’s not “excess”—that’s fueling the machine.
⚠️ What They Get Dead Wrong
You cannot build or maintain functional lean mass—the kind that stores glycogen, water, blood—without carbohydrates.
Catabolic foods like apples, high-fiber veggies, and lean chicken breast?
- Great for dieting.
- Useless for performance.
- They burn more than they nourish.
TEF (Thermic Effect of Food) matters. Combine fibrous, starchy, and complex carbs right, and you boost metabolism from the inside out. Calories = heat.
Hormones matter even more:
- Insulin, thyroid, and sex hormones all rely on adequate fuel.
- Carbs drive the anabolic cascade—supporting recovery, regeneration, and growth.
๐ช Muscle = Glycogen Warehouse
Muscle isn’t for show—it’s metabolic infrastructure.
- Bigger muscle = More glycogen storage
- More capillary beds = Better nutrient delivery
- More effort = More demand = More carbs needed
And guess who manages the whole process?
Insulin.
Insulin shuttles nutrients into muscle tissue, expanding hypertrophy.
And the more you train, the more carbs you require—not less.
๐งฌ Restriction ≠ Adaptation. It’s Suppression.
There’s a difference between prompting adaptation and starving function.
Modern diet cults glorify ketosis, gluconeogenesis, and restriction—as if suffering equals superiority.
But biologically?
That’s the body running on emergency protocols.
Real metabolic health is about balance, not biochemical warfare.
⚖️ The Body Craves Metabolic Stability—Not Crisis Mode
A thriving system needs:
- Efficient Electron Transport Chain performance
- Cori Cycle + Lactic Acid System recycling during anaerobic stress
- Glycolysis activation in response to muscular effort
- Balanced autophagy vs apoptosis (clean-up vs. rebuild)
- Neurohormonal cascades triggering recovery—not burnout
This is sport-medicine-informed biology, not starvation-mode guesswork.
๐ง ๐️♂️ Orthomolecular Nutrition = Performance Foundation
Balanced macronutrients, guided by orthomolecular principles, have decades of backing.
- Fats in balance, not demonized
- Protein for tissue construction, not over-supplemented
- Carbohydrates for mitochondrial health, performance output, and metabolic longevity
You don’t just survive with balanced macros—you thrive.
๐ฅ Eat More. Store More. Do More. Be More.
Performance isn’t built by restriction—it’s built by precision surplus.
Eating 250–600 calories above base—evenly split across all macros—allows:
- ๐ฅ Greater glycogen capacity
- ๐ Faster recovery
- ๐ฌ Hormonal optimization
- ๐ Enhanced neuroendocrine output
- ๐ Real, repeatable, sustainable gains
This isn’t dirty bulking.
This is intentional adaptation—calibrated to training and recovery demand.
๐ The Final Point
Restrictive protocols are short-term tricks.
If you want long-term resilience, tissue integrity, and neurohormonal power, you must nourish the entire system:
→ Fuel the body
→ Prime the pathways
→ Push the output
→ Adapt and expand
Because the body doesn’t thrive by doing less.
It thrives when you feed it more—and demand greater output
