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The optimal way to fuel your body
There is so much confusion about diet let’s simplify it
Carbohydrates and sugars are only for replenishing your body’s energy stores in your liver and muscles, which is where glycogen, a form of glucose, is stored. Whereas fats, which are broken down into ketones are the main source we’ve used, throughout evolution, to energise us.
Fat burning has been the optimal fuel for homo sapiens for the last two and a half million years of evolution. When your main source of fuel are fats, your secondary source is carbohydrates, which burns faster and are for explosive energy activities. If you are an athlete, you’ll need more carbs.
We’ve only stopped eating this way very recently, perhaps the last few thousand years, and only in the last hundred have we switched to carbohydrates as our primary source, which has accelerated in the last 50 years by the obsession with low-fat diets. And it’s killing us.
Modern Western diets have increased our carbohydrate intake to obscene levels and reduced our fat intake to dangerously low levels with the myth of saturated fats and cholesterol causing heart disease and strokes. Not only are we getting many diseases, getting fat, and losing our minds with mental disorders, but we are dying much younger than we should be.
