by Dr. Mike | Apr 17, 2015 | Blog
Don’t guess when it comes to something as important as your nutrition. Use science as your ally and build lean mass that lasts! If your goal is to build a big, strong, and lean body, all the training expertise in the world won’t help if you aren’t...
by Dr. Mike | Apr 15, 2015 | Blog
When it comes to optimizing your race performance, the two highest impact areas you need to look at are pre-loading and sustaining. Pre-Loading Don’t worry about carb-loading on the days leading up to the race—despite its popularity, research shows that it doesn’t...
by Dr. Mike | Apr 13, 2015 | Blog
Is it possible to eat beef every day and still have a healthy heart? The idea of beef being part of a clean or heart healthy diet may seem like a strange concept. I wanted to see if this was true and spent 2 years running a clinical trial to see how eating beef daily...
by Dr. Mike | Apr 10, 2015 | Blog
Your body doesn’t just burn calories during exercise, it does it during digestion too. Learn more about the thermic effect. What the heck is the thermic effect of food, how big of an impact does it have, and can I harness it to work for me as I try to build lean...
by Dr. Mike | Apr 8, 2015 | Blog
BCAAs were crucial nutrition for humans long before they were a supplement. Here’s how some popular protein sources stack up in amino content! Branched-chain amino acid supplements are extremely popular for boosting protein synthesis during and after training...
