Research Topic
Performance Nutrition
5 articles
The Paleo Diet Argument Sounds Compelling Until You Look at What Paleolithic Athletes Actually Ate
The paleo diet's evolutionary logic is genuinely interesting. Its application to trained athletes — who have carbohydrate demands that hunter-gatherers matched through entirely different food sources — is more complex than the popular framing suggests.
5 min read · 2026-10-06
Fat Adaptation Is Real — But the Research on Keto and Endurance Performance Is Not What You've Been Told
Ketogenic diets produce genuine physiological adaptations in fat oxidation capacity. Whether those adaptations translate to improved endurance performance depends on which part of the effort curve you're measuring.
5 min read · 2026-09-15
It's Not Just When You Eat — It's When Your Circadian Clock Expects You To
Same calories, same macros, different timing — and the outcomes diverge. Chrono-nutrition explains why your circadian clock controls metabolic efficiency.
5 min read · 2026-07-21
Your Pre-Workout Caffeine Isn't Working — And the Reason Is More Interesting Than Tolerance
Caffeine tolerance reduces the ergogenic effect dramatically in habitual users — but the mechanism isn't what most athletes think. The dose, timing window, and cycling strategy determine whether it works at all.
5 min read · 2026-07-14
Alcohol Has 7 Calories Per Gram. That's Not Even the Worst Part for Body Composition.
Alcohol's caloric density is the entry point. The bigger issue for athletes is how ethanol disrupts substrate oxidation, fat storage, and recovery — effects that persist well beyond the BAC returning to zero.
5 min read · 2026-06-16