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CHAPTER 15 Putting Nutritional Biochemistry into Practice How to Find the Right Eating Pattern for You

Overfat? Try timed protein and pre-meal lemon juice. Undermuscled? Try ginger and sauerkraut. Can’t sleep? Try upping your saturated fat or using cold exposure.

The Leangains Method is formulated for lifters who want to shed fat as fast as possible while maintaining or increasing muscle mass and strength, with a minimum of effort and needless complexity. That is, effort and complexity that cannot be scientifically, logically, or behaviorally justified shall hold no place in the diet, or dominion over the i

It’s a book for the Formula 1 runner seeking health and high performance over a lifetime. All human beings should be able and willing to perform basic maintenance on themselves. Sports medicine has its place, but you have both a right and a responsibility to know what’s going on in your body, take care of as much business as you can, and harvest an

Rule #1: Avoid “white” carbohydrates (or anything that can be white). Rule #2: Eat the same few meals over and over again. Rule #3: Don’t drink calories. Rule #4: Don’t eat fruit. Rule #5: Take one day off per week and go nuts. For the finer points,

Peter rarely eats breakfast and has experimented with many forms of intermittent fasting, ranging from one meal a day (i.e., 23 hours of fasting per day) to more typical 16/8 and 18/6 patterns of eating (i.e., 16 or 18 hours of fasting and only eating in an 8- or 6-hour window).

The most important goal of eating like Grok is to minimize the wildly excessive insulin production caused by the Standard American Diet.

The other fundamental key to a successful diet is the ability to use fat as your body’s preferred fuel. If a dietary regimen does not improve your ability to burn body fat efficiently, it will fail. The key is to switch from being a carbohydrate-­burner to being a fat-burner. You will not achieve this transformation with a high-carbohydrate, low-fa