This is an issue that often comes up in online health discussions, and was the topic of a conversation I had the other …

The evolutionary pressures placed by periods of famine shaped the physiology of most animals, including humans, toward…

This post has been revised and re-published . The original comments are preserved below. Typically this is done with p…

Like most animals, our Paleolithic ancestors had to regularly undergo short periods of low calorie intake. If they were…

Daniel James Shellabarger (better known as Daniel Suelo) is portrayed in the bestselling 2012 nonfiction book by Mark S…

In my previous post I argued that the human body may react to “eating big” as it would to overfeeding, increasing energ…

When you look at the literature on overfeeding, you see a number over and over again – 14 percent. That is approximatel…

In the two last posts I discussed the idea of gaining muscle and losing fat at the same time ( ) ( ). This post outline…

One common outcome of doing glycogen-depleting exercise (e.g., strength training, sprinting) in combination with interm…