Athletes
I have noticed you seem to have many Athletes on the Hibernation program, would it would be great if you coould mention some of the Athletes using this program....
Also I was wondering what you would reccomend as further reading for the hibernation diet and liver fuelling?
Thanks
posted by Hibernation Diet Blogger @ 12:41 PM
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Everybody has to recover, and recovery biology depends on optimising your liver capacity prior to bed.
Athletes are told to eat carbs to refuel after exercise, but they are never advised to fuel their livers.
This really is nuts.
The liver glycogen store is critical for all recovery biology,whether you are an athlete or not.
Let us assume that you eat a large pasta meal post exercise.
Pasta is 100% glucose.
Around 90% of this will pass through the liver circulation and be driven into muscle.
There are 2 reasons for this.
1. Exercise induced uptake of glucose which is independent of insulin and remains for up to 48 hours post-exercise.
2. The body is at rest and will therefore release insulin in response to the glucose load.
Both systems are independent and therefore additive, and result in excellent refuelling of muscles and will leave the liver depleted.
Hence poor recovery.
Hence poor fat metabolism during recovery.
I have no idea how many of the athletes we speak to actually do use honey to optimise recovery, but the numbers will now be in the thousands.
Alex Arthur is simply one of the best known.
There is no literature available on fuelling the liver at present.
We are currently writing one.
We have adopted a liver fuelling strategy for sport for some 8 years now.
Only this year Birmingham University have carried out studies using a fructose based formula similar to ours with amazing results (see Peak Performance no 233), although almost every book on sport biology advised avoiding fructose, which is nuts.
3 athletes using our strategy went to the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne (Gregor Tait, James McCallum and Kirsty Balfour).
Between them they won 2 gold, 1 silver and 4 bronze medals.
If you compare that to the per athlete return for the mighty Ozzies I bet we are ahead.
Clearly there is more to it than simply liver fuelling but it is significant.
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